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The mission has changed because we can no longer sustain the rescue effort. The florida sinkhole that swallowed up one life is threatening a neighborhood. Wait until you see what authorities are doing to the houses just minutes from now. Its the first sunday without a pope. Now the cardinals are descending on the vatican to lec the next holy father. Accused murderer jodi arias expected on the stand last monday. Last weeks display of sobs and cries may have swayed the jury but our body language expert said it was all an act. Good morning, everyone. Im Brianna Keilar in for randi kaye. Its march 3rd. Were glad youre with us. Happening outside, demolition crews about to tear down a house sitting on a killer sinkhole, its about 50 feet deep and 30 feet wide. The ground is so unstable, wrecking crews will have to demolish from a distance. They wont take their equipment past the sidewalk. It has become so dangerous search crews have been forced to give up the search for jeff bushs body. He was in his bed when the hole opened up and collapsed beneath him. Theres fears it could spread to neighboring houses. At least two families left. Well take you to the ground outside the house in a few minutes. Most of the people chased out by a brush fire in Daytona Beach are back home this morning. Firefighters there say they have it about 75 contained. At one appoint about 300 families had to leave and leave quick because the fire was moving so fast. Winds and low humidity have been feeding the fire, those are the same conditions that are expected today. The crew aboard International Space station is getting ready to lock down the dragon cargo vehicle. You can see it there. They use the stations robotic arm to reach out and grand prix early this morning. They will dock around 9 30 eastern. Well be looking at that obviously. You may recall there were glitches when the dragon launched. Thats why its been delayed. This is an unmanned capsule, caring 1200 pounds of supplies for the station crew and their experiments so they are certainly anxious thinkstious to get it. To washington, lawmakers expected back this week. They have some Unfinished Business to handle. Dealing with those forced spending cuts in effect isnt the only big thing on their plate. Cnns Congressional Correspondent dana bash with more. Reporter the House Speaker walked out of an unproductive meeting about spending cuts going on now and instead focused on the next looming crisis. The end of this month march 27th funding for the government runs out. Im hopeful we wont have to deal with the threat of a Government Shutdown while were dealing with the sequester at the same time. The house will act next week and i hope the senate will follow suit. Reporter john boehner and House Republicans plan to pass a bill next week to keep the government funded through september 30th, the end of the fiscal year. Along with that deal with some of the pain with forced cuts going into effect now, just the military giving leeway in its new budget. It is going to help update the categories which will reduce some of the damage. But that does not necessarily mean crisis averted. Why . Congressional democrats are skeptical about helping the military and not other americans hit by spending cuts like children in head start programs. We need to have programs in there that meet compelling human need, housing, education, health care. We also need transportation. Senator who heads it at work while most colleagues are home this weekend expressed frustration congress is gone. Im here, ready to go. Im waiting for the photo opp at the white house to come here and give me direction. They tried to put faces on forced spending cuts. Now that congress has left, someone is going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They are going to have less pay. The janitors, security guards, they just got a pay cut and they have got to figure out how to manage it. We checked on that. It turns out the president was not exactly right. The senate sergeantatarms told cnn Neither Capitol Police nor janitors will see salaries slashed only limited overtime. The only announced effect so far at the capital is some entrances will close. A small inconvenience to lawmakers and their aides. When it comes to a shutdown at the end of the month, the president was optimistic this was not going to happen. Im told Senate Democrats took that as a signal they should find a way to bridge real differences with House Republicans on budget priorities. Dana bash, cnn, capitol hill. We wan to take you for selma, alabama where the issue of Voting Rights is taking stage again. Forty years after the march for Voting RightsVice President joe biden heads there to commemorate the historic march and draw attention to the case before the Supreme Court. So lets catch up with victor blackwell. Hes there in selma. Victor, i understand you spoke with one of the attorneys who argued this case before the Supreme Court. What did he have to say . I did. Special counsel to the naacp Legal Defense fund. He was arguing alongside the u. S. Solicitor general. He will say what were expecting the Vice President to talk about today during a keynote address at a brunch before he crosses the Edmund Pettus bridge that the Voting Rights of 1965 should be continued as its been reauthorized without being dismantled as the county in alabama is trying to take out one part of it. They are trying to have the Supreme Court overturn section 5 of the Voting Rights act, which gives the federal government the opportunity to negate or overturn elements of voting laws in certain states. Alabama is one of them. Here is what he said about a comment made by Justice Scalia calling that section racial entitlement. From the perspective of a civil rights lawyer and american, it completely denies our history. The Voting Rights act is a remedy for more than a century of persist endiscrimination. Its discrimination that stood in the face of the constitution. Its an answer to promises that went unkept for over 100 years. Voting rights captures whats bess in america, the idea we should all be able to participate in democracy. The argument from that attorney from sheldon county, alabama was that the discrimination of the 60s, that was supposed to be overturned by the Voting Rights act, those problems have been solved. The Vice President said a few days at a brunch at his home, the naval observatory in d. C. , he was unaware that we would have to refight so many fights, this being one of them. Brianna. I wonder what that lawyer thinks about the expectation for how the court may vote. When you listen to the oral arguments, any way you cut it, victor, were expecting this to be a 54 decision. Voting rights advocates are hanging hopes on Justice Anthony kennedy. He said some things they may find alarming indicating he may ultimately side against them. Did this lawyer have a sense of how he thought the court may go . I think the comment specifically when kennedy asked do people in the south face a higher level of discrimination, africanamericans, than people matt north. This attorney said the problem here is that this is institutionalized in some of these states. All arent in the south. There are districts in other parts of the country. He believes that ultimately the Voting Rights act will be upheld. It was just reauthorized in 2006 by a vote of 980 in the senate to continue to 2031. Again, this attorney believes when this is done, when the opinion comes from the court, the majority will be to uphold that reauthorization. What about the critics who argue, victor, that the provision isnt needed anymore because Race Relations have improved . Obviously they are hoping the opposite. That is one element. I read portions of this 93page brief that was filed with the court on behalf of shelby county. Another thing they said this is a high cost of federalism. They say this is giving the federal government too much oversight over these states, one of them alabama, mississippi another, other states in the south. They say those two elements primarily are the reason this should not be upheld. Another element is that in 2006 when this was reauthorized, congress did not offer any type of measurement, any barometer on which they would measure if there were still the levels of discrimination and how to measure needs to be reauthorized moving forward. This is going to be a very important case to watch. Victor blackwell, well be checking in with you throughout the day in selma. Thank you for that report. If you waking up with us today, this is a momentous day at the vatican, there is no pope. There is no sunday public mass being held by the pontiff. Instead you have cardinals returning to the vatican for what will be one of the worlds most secret meetings. Their mission find a successor to Pope Benedict xvi who resigned last week. The next pope will lead the worlds 1. 2 billion roman catholics. Cnn National CorrespondentSusan Candiotti is outside new york citys famed st. Patricks cathedral. What are you hearing from people there, susan . Certainly theres a lot of anticipation this morning from outside here at st. Patricks. Arguably the most famous Catholic Church in the united states. As everyone is waiting to see when the Selection Process will begin. Of course, one of the 115 cardinals who will be part of that Selection Process is the head of the archdiocese in new york, Cardinal Timothy dolan. We talked to a few people as they were going into mass about what changes they would like to see in the Catholic Church. One man told us he thinks it will be a good idea to allow priests to marry. I think its difficult for them not to be. I think the population is getting old. I think if they were allowed to live a slightly more normal lifestyle it would be better. What about female ordained priests. I think that would be a great thing. Why is that . I think that would lead to a greater population of really talented priests of. Another man told us hes very concerned about the ongoing scandal that is rocking the Catholic Church involving sexual abuse being committed by pleases and what to do about that. Here is how he addressed that in terms of how the next pope will be selected. Listen. The report that benedict requested to be prepared on various allegations and reported scandals is a report that he has chosen to make available to his successor but not to the voting cardinal electors, which to me is a bit of a disappointment. I think people empowered to vote and make a decision in choosing the next leader should have all available information. So two very thoughtful questions and answers from some catholics attending mass this day. Brianna. Susan candiotti in new york. Thank you for that report. Now searchers outside of tampa have given up on finding a man who disappeared when a sinkhole opened under his bed. Now wrecking crews begin a very careful demolition of the house and Jackie Callaway from our affiliate wfts tv is there. Jackie, what can you tell us . [ inaudible ] were having an auto problem with jackie with our affiliate wfts. Shes our eyes on the ground so well be back to her moemt earl. Back to the pope. The pope is not like running for president. Its unusual to see a campaign for cardinal. Its tabu. Not only that, it could hurt your chances of getting elected. Well talk about it. [ construction sounds ] [ watch ticking ] [ engine revs ] come in. Got the coffee. That was fast. Were outta here. 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See lioutdoors, or in. Ight. Transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. So you see everything the way its meant to be seen. Maybe even a little better. Visit your eyecare professional today to ask about our newest lenses, transitions vantage and transitions xtractive lenses. Experience life well lit. Ask which transitions adaptive lens is best for you. Today is the first sunday without a pope and the vatican could be popeless for a while longer. Some cardinals who were supposed to vote arent even in the vatican yet. Look at this. It seems some people are campaigning for their favorite cardinal. Posters around rome are urging cardinals to vote for peter turkson, from ghana. If elected he would be the first black pope. These posters could cause him problem. Joining me in new york, father beck, a cnn contributor, host of sunday mass. Father, when you are a potential candidate for pope, this isnt exactly like running for senior class president. Its a big tabu to campaign. Even if hes not involved, do you think this could hurt turksons chances . Weve all heard the famous adage, the cardinal that goes in a pope comes out a cardinal. That isnt always true since paul vi was a frontrunner as was Pope Benedict. They both went in and it was expected they would become pope and they did. However, it is tab yours to campaign for ones self. He gave an interview to telegraph in the uk and speculated on a question from the journalist, what would it be like. He said it would change my life. It would be hard. People didnt like the fact he speculated about it. Nothing to do with the posters. Some of the controversy around it could hurt him. The interview, thats interesting, more than the posters would hurt him. Are there other no nos for someone who might be next pope. Cardinals try not to go on the record with any statement about faith or morals that seem to contradict or too far left because those come back to haunt them. They should stay away from economy communities controversial. Tomorrow, father, cardinals are supposed to start meeting. Ultimately they have to set a date for the conclave. Do we have a sense of when that will happen . The general conclave begins tomorrow. Its expected they will last about a week. At least thats common wisdom, which would put conclave beginning a week from monday on the 11th. Well see. That means that a pope could be elected and maybe we have the installation mass by the 17th of march, which would be good, because the following sunday is palm sunday. I dont think you would want to have the installation for the pope on palm sunday for holy week so they are hoping to have it done by the 17th. That would be a little strange. Give us a sense of the color of this process. There is a lot. Theres a lot of ritual. One of the things we all know because it wasnt that long ago was the smoke that comes out of the vatican. It changes black to white. This is interesting because its not always reliable you say. Not only reliable but hasnt always been the case. The first time that ballots were burned was opinion 17, it wasnt until 1914 that smoke was indicator. Used to be bells would ring and cannons would sound and that would indicate a pope was elected. We cant always tell what color it is. Look gray, use black cartridges and they forget to put it in. It hasnt been a reliable indicator. Its so important. You hope they get it right because theres goes to be so many eyes, whether its the faithful or tourists or journalists covering this trained on that smoke waiting to see. Really appreciate it, father beck, thanks for being with us. My pleasure. Thank you. If youre going to get stuck in an elevator, might as well get stuck with these guys. Up next, cast of modern family has a not so scripted moment. They reported it all for our benefit. Im up next, but now im singing the heartburn blues. Hold on, prilosec isnt for