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Thank you for talking to us. and obviously there is a lot of excitement here. let s go to wolf in washington. thanks very much, anderson. we re following the breaking news. the world s 1.2 billion roman catholics have a new pope. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. just a few minutes ago argentina s cardinal jorge mario bergoglio now pope francis stepped through the red curtains on a vatican balcony to deliver his first blessing. translator: let us pray for the whole world because let us have a big brotherhood. i wish that this journey for the church that we are going to start today and my cardinals ....
We talked with some americans here, you can hear a cheer going up in some parts of the crowd. it really is an incredibly festive atmosphere. people, as i said, from all around the world, i just talked to a woman who lived in new york but is from hungary, originally. everyone wants to be here. and you see people on their cell phones, they re talking to their loved ones around the world, or encouraging their friends or relatives elsewhere in rome to try to get here as quickly as possible. now that the rain has let up, that will encourage even more people to be here. but it is i can tell you all eyes are on the balcony. nobody wants to miss that moment where the announcement is made, habemus papam, we have a pope. and the pope will emerge out on the stage in his garments. and give his first words as pope, an extraordinary moment. those are the words. ....
Future and how wille get there? and whoever steps out on the balcony will be very instrumental in that direction. what do we know about the different uniforms coming up right now? we saw the swiss guard. who are all the others? what you saw in front of the swiss guard was a band. remember, the pope was once the head of not only a spiritual leader, but a temporal monarch that governs the papal states. there is a papal band. there still are papal knights who are in back of the pope, with a secular rumor and so on. papal nobility, and what you re watching, different representatives of these groups. centuries old traditions set on these singular highly ceremonial moments in the life of the vatican come out in full force. let s get back to anderson, who is with the crowd. anderson? there are people on set from ....
Mostly, yeah, mostly talking to other americans, so they re saying o malley or do you think there could be an american pope? i sure hope so. it would be really nice to see an american come out on to the balcony. it would be a pretty awesome feeling. yeah. do you speak latin at all? do you know what he ll be saying? i have no idea what he ll say. but you know habemus papam, we have a pope. that s the one you got to know. so glad you re here. thank you for talking to me. thank you. have fun. we obviously there are people from all around the world here in this crowd at this moment. those two young men literally draped in american flags. you see people carrying flags from countries all around the world. and a lot of italians pouring in here at second. the crowds are growing just in the last two minutes that i ve been here, this area around me has filled up. becky anderson is also here in the crowd. we are just 10, 20, 30 minutes ....
The date, 3/13/13. and in and of itself a little portentous. and now we wait to see because as we have heard from people consistently here in rome and all around the world, by the way, people are gathering, st. patrick s cathedral in new york city, other churches and big capitals in countries, people are gathering to see around the world who this new pope will be. voices from all over the world have been outspoken about how they re expecting change. this is a big moment, nurnl for the catholic church to be in a position where people will measure who the new pope is. more by what he does, than at any time certainly in my lifetime. there is still mystery here to see who will be. we re watching the balcony at st. peter s. this is a famous scene. people represented from all over the world. we re waiting now for cardinal jean-louis tauran. he will come out and say the words we want to hear, habemus ....