San franciscos archbishop weighs in on this first sunday since the pope announced his resignation. How he and other catholics feel about the churchs future. Thousands rally in San Francisco for Climate Change, what they want the president do . And history is made in nascar. The race that puts Danica Patrick in the front row of the daytona 500. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu channel 2 news at 5 00. Good evening, im ken wayne. Hello everyone im hearth holmes. We begin this sunday with the resignation of Pope Benedict xvi. The pontiff today delivered one of his last sunday blessings from the vatican. Tens of thousands of people packed st. Peters square today to hear the departing pope. Next sunday will be the last time the 85yearold pontiff temperatures will the traditional blessing from his apartment window. The pope announced earlier this month he will retire on february 28th due to failing health. This is a unique and historic moment in the church and bay area catholics are anxiously awaiting a decision on pope as successor. Allie rasmus continue ours coverage interest from st. Marys cathedral in San Francisco. Reporter heather, right now you can see dozens of people still filing out of st. Marys cathedral in San Francisco. Necessity were part of a ceremony to Welcome New Members to the catholic faith, so the people that you seeer are in the process of converting to catholicism. Can you see some of them taking a picture with the archbishop. Today was the first sunday of lent and also the first sunday since Pope Benedict announced his resignation. As the procession made its way through the pews at sunday mass, some parishioners had the question of new leadership on their minds. Pope benedict 16 xvi announce his resignation. They have the general congregations and discussions to discern the qualities the next pope needs to have. I hope the new pope will have those sort of qualities to teach the faith clearly and well. Reporter others hope new leadership will bring new opportunities. People are losing faith. Bring us back. Reporter Kandi Gonzalez admits today was the first time she had been to mass in two years. She was shaken by the allegations of sexual abuse in the catholic church. I was hoping that with the new hope thing thats will change. I think we have to honestly say there is a crisis of faith in the church. A lot of our people dont understand what it is that the church teaches and really believes in. San francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone hopes that it energynize the faithful. This twould have to be someone who is a unifier. Reporter they hope to have a new pope by easter, if not earlier. More details now on the process to choose a new pope of the vatican sets conclave to elect the new pope might start earlier than scheduled. A vatican spokesperson says because the pope has given a firm retirement date of february 28th, that gives cardinals around the world plenty of time to fly to rome for the election. The front uners to replace Pope Benedict include Cardinal Francis arinze of niagara, Cardinal Turkson of ghana and Cardinal Marc ouellet ofand. The coast guard says a ferry was hit by a motorboat. Two people were hospitalized and their conditions are not been released. There were 500 people on the ferry, none were injured. Golden gate transit spokeswoman says the motorboat was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time of the collision. The cause of the accident is under investigation. An investigation is underway in San Francisco after a woman was struck by a muni bus. A spokeswoman for muni says the 72yearold victim was struck by the side of the vehicle. He says she is expected to survive. The bus driver is undergoing drug and alcohol testing, which is standard procedure for accidents. Fire investigators say an Apartment Fire on Treasure Island that killed a little 10 yearold girl yesterday may have been accidental. Flames consumed this two story townhouse on mariner drive at about 12 30 a. M. The family inside managed to escape, except for the girl who became trapped on the second floor. Her father and two firefighters tried to save the child, but couldnt reach her in time. Investigators are still trying to determine the exact cause of this blaze. It was billed as the largest oneday Climate Change rally in history. With 35,000 people expected to participate across the country, San Francisco joined in and that is where ktvus Ken Pritchett is live with what the demonstrators live. Ken. Well, in short the demonstrators want the president from their perspective to do more than just talk about Climate Change. They are demanding action. Climate action now. Reporter organizers say about 5,000 people marched on market street, they marched against fracking in california, against pipelines and big oil in general, but this rally in San Francisco is in support of a much bigger event in washington, d. C. , sponsored bit sierra club and other groups. The message is the same there as here in San Francisco. Aimed at the president. President obama, if you are serious about improving climate Election Missions you need to say no to the xl pipeline. Reporter president obama faces a dilemma billed the pipeline and he angers residents. Dont billed it and he earnings our neighbors to the north. In his state of andon address the president said that he would take executive action to curb Climate Change, if necessary, but was quiet on the keystone pipeline. If he approved this pipeline, it would go counter to his efforts around Climate Change. Supervisor john avalos is calling for the San Francisco to divest from Oil Companies and its says the momentum is with Climate Change movement, the evidence was billed as the largest ally ever today on the issue. Reporter with this rally comes shortly after the state of the Union Address in which the president talked about Climate Change, but the protesters say that todays rally was time for president s day weekend hoping to get the president s attention. In San Francisco, Ken Pritchett. Ktvu channel 2 news. The recent earth flybyes of an meteor and asteroidam at same time of the United Nations meeting on the impact of such events. Members of the committee on are meeting this week at un headquarters in vienna of the committee is discussion the impact of near earth objects, and had a better track and monitor asteroids to avoid serious damage if one hits earth. Well, a pretty nice weekend. Were wrapping up across the entire bay area. Lots of sunshine for today, but as advertised temperatures cooled off on average about 48 degrees from yesterdays warm readings. Right now well look at current numbers of you can see some 60s still out towards fairchild, antioch and livermore. Here is the wide are perspective on live stormtrack 2, you notice no rain clouds yet, but im tracking a weather system in the pacific and this will be a factor as we head into tomorrow. Basically in the form of some clouds and by tuesday, were talking about some more raindrops pushing back into the region. As far as first thing tomorrow morning it will be dry for monday. Some cloud cover, some high clouds and some areas of fog developing first thing. And some mid30s once again. So you definitely want to bundle up towards santa rosa, napa and San Francisco starting out the day at 42 degreesm here we are now with the clear skies. Well take this into the overnight hours and tomorrow morning, lower cloud and some higher clouds at 7 00. The high clouds will continue to filter into the region tomorrow afternoon. Notice no rain activity by monday afternoon, but that will be changing into tuesdays a cold weather system moves in, in fact, a cold weather storm. Coming up in your weather, how much rainfall you can expect in your neighborhood and how low snow levels will be here in our local hills . Thank you, mark. Its president s day holiday will be a white one in the sierras. Coming up in a few minutes at a5 30 well take you to where skiers and snowboarders are already enjoying the snow. The man accused of killing a 13yearold suisun city girl is scheduled to be arraigned this weekend. Jones is charged with the kidnap, rape and murder of genelle conwayallen. Jones is due to appear in court on thursday. He is being held without bail and prosecutors say if found guilty jones could be eligible for the death penalty. Authorities this petaluma are looking for a person who fired a gun into the air early this morning. Police say they received reports of shot fires at 12 50 a. M. Investigators say a witness saw a passenger in a black lexus sedan with 24 chrome rim tires fire three shots into the air. The car was last seen getting on northbound 101 and anyone with information asked to call Petaluma PoliceFred Hutchins nascar driver Danica Patrick became the first woman in history to win the pole position for next sundays daytona 500. During todays qualifying race patrick posted a lap of more than 196 Miles Per Hour. She will start in the front row in the daytona 500 alongside jeff gordon. Ktvus joe fonzi has more on her time trial coming up in our Early Edition of sportswrap. Still to come, the push by bay area educators to get one group in particular excited about college. Also, the controversial on line game inspired by exlapd officer and accused killer christopher dorner. New developments in the Murder Investigation involving olympic star Oscar Pistorius. We hear from his agent for the First Time Since the athletes girlfriend was killed. Tender sirloin and a succulent lobster tail. For an incredible 16. 99. Share the love this valentines, with sizzlers steak lobster. We have new information on a deadly shooting outside of a high school in watsonville over weekend. Authorities have identified the victim as 18yearold marco ortega of watsonville. They say ortega was shot by two men in ought parking lot outside of the high school. The victim was taken to the hospital. Police say he was able to give officers some information before he died. Investigators say they believe the shooting is gangrelated, but have not released any official motive. Also in Watsonville Police say a man fought off an attacker who was attempted to rape his teenaged daughter into the motel laundry room. Police say the father walked into the laundry room and found the man assaulting his daughter. The girl was not hurt. The father suffer a knee injury and police say the attacker got way. Authorities in Fresno County say a convicted rapist and son of a Highway Patrol ceasant chief has been arrested after fleeing carbohydrate allegedly with the help of his father. Police say 20yearold Spencer Scarber was on the run in mexico for two months. Scarber was arrested thursday evening in acapulco. Prosecutors say scarber fled the country during his rape trial just three days before a jury found him guilty. Scarbers father and two other family members were arrested for lagly helping scarber get away. A new videogame has eking herred on the internet and allowed gamers to live out alleged killer Christopher Christopher dorners land stand. The goal of the game is to gun down Police Officers in and around the cabin. For some families the idea of sending a young one to college is a given, but for others it takes a little encouragement. Ktvus an rubin tells us how Cal State University officials tried to light a fire under some families by going to church. Reporter at oaklands bastist church, todays sermon was special, preaching the importance of a colleague education. A message that resonated with this 13yearold. I want to go to college. I want to pursue my dreams. Reporter the hope that other young people will do the same during what is known as supersunday. It pairs representatives from the california State University with africanamerican churches not to just reach students, but to reach them while they are young. Its never too early to start, because it gets harder and harder. We get them motivated and say they have the opportunity. Too many people get discouraged and believe that college isnt for them. Reporter cal state east bay president addresses the congregation saying its important to include parents, grandparents and siblings in the discussion the Church Officials agree. This thing with the schools coming here, this is all a part of a master plan to cultivate leadership in our community. Reporter they spent the afternoon handing out information about classes and Financial Aid and in this 17yearold can already envision the advantage he will have as a college graduate. When you go to work, you have competition and if you have a further degree than somebody you might beat them out for a job. Reporter supersunday began eight years ago at 24 churches. Its now expand to include close to 100 churches throughout state. Oakland, ann rubin, ktvu channel 2 news. Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius canceled all of his future races during to his murder case in the death of his model girlfriend. Pistorius brother and sister went to visit the double amputee athlete of the so called blade runner is accused in the valentine shooting of Reeva Steenkamp inside his apartment. His agent says its a terrible situation and standing by pistorius, who denies the murder. Its a tragic circumstances and events that has unfolded, and we can only give oscar our support at this point in time. Today pet roaria police found a bloody cricket bat inside the runers home and say he might have used it to break down the door of the bathroom where steenkamp was hiding or she may have used it in self defense. Investigators claim they have a rock solid case against him. Meantime steenkamps family says her body has arrived in the hometown of Port Elizabeth and a private funeral is planned for tuesday. The airing of her South African reality show is approximating controversy among those who feel its inappropriate. Steenkamp and pistorius were dating since november, but there were rumors among neighbors that steenkamp was killed offer her friend hp with a rugby player. Robbie rogerses seen hire scoring against mexico in 2011 said he stayed in closet because of fears his career would be hurt by revealing his sexual orientation. In his website announcement friday rogers hinted he will be retiring from soccer. Rogers was a midfielder for the u. S. National team, recently he has been playing in england. Social media generally praised rogers for his courage in coming out. President obama teed off with tiger woods today. The white house said the two got together at an exclusive golf club on floridas treasure coast. There is no Media Coverage of todays event. This is video from a previous outing. President obama is spending a long Holiday Weekend at resort while first Lady Michelle and their two daughter goes skiing. Libya celebrates two years since the end of the gaddafi regime and why the nations new president says there is still more to be done and a promise he made to militants today. A possible shift in power in syria, the Key Facilities being attacked by rebels that could give them an advantage against the government. I pushed him away and that is when he slapped john. Plus a toddler slapped by a stranger on a plane. But it didnt stop there. Well hear more from the boys mother about this attack. Celebrations in libya on this the second anniversary are you of the start of the uprising that toppled long time dictator moammar gadhafi. Today the president said libyans must resolve their differents to rebuild the nation. Since 2011 the country has been wracked by lawlessness and economic he woes. The libyan leader promised that islamic law would be the main source of legislation. In syria rebel forces are focusing their latest assaults on three strategic airports. As nick paton reports that they offer up stark images how fast they fear the assad regime my react. Reporter around aleapo they can see the Key International airport, a hub for cargo planes and artery for what is left of the regime in syria north. Its mainly surrounded by islamist fighters better armed carrying the weapons they took from the army bridged that fled their advance. The battle of the airports, rebels say began tuesday. To aleppos east, kweiris airport, north is menneg, besieged for week and southeast is nairab, also encircled by rebels. The aim, to deny the regime place as to land fighter jets and supplies in the north. That