[ male announcer ] engine light on? come to meineke now for a free code scan read and you ll say.my money. my choice. my meineke. that is early start for this morning. starting point with soledad o brien starts right now. welcome. our starring point this morning, the world welcomes pope francis. he is from the first from the new world. the first jesuit, the first latin american to be elected pontiff. we re live in rome this morning and also in buenos aires to a look at a man who will lead the catholics. one month after a karncarni cruise ship got stuck, another one is stuck as well. we will tell you what passengers are saying right now on their boat. a standoff under way in upstate new york right now. police surrounding the suspect wanted in a t shooting spree that killed four people. we are live on the scene. he s a man who may have led to the down fall of mitt romney s presidential campaign. hear from the bartender who filmed the infamous 47% comment. we ll tell you why he did it. work on the job and work at home, how much time men and women spend working versus doing their chores or raising kids. this new information right surprise you. it s thursday, march 14th. starting point begins right now. okay, everybody. we re team this morning, monsignor is back with us. head of the u.s. conference of catholic secretary of divine worship and bishop david o connell from trenton, new jersey. i guess because we have a lot to talk about this morning with the new pope and, of course, a new era, a new leader for the catholic church to mark the very first day on the throne of st. peter, pope francis will hold a private mass at noon eastern time with the cardinals who elected him. on saturday, the new leader of the world s 1.2 billion catholics is expected to meet with members of the media. then tuesday, it s the installation mass. as many as 200 foreign delegations are expected to atte attend. we re covering this story from all angles. miguel marquez is in rome, dan rivers is in italy, shasta darlington is in buenos aires, and christina plig is in miami beach for us. miguel is coming to us live from rome. hey, miguel. reporter: hello, soledad. i think it s safe to say that romans are pretty darn excited about the new pope today. here s this paper, he came out and said thank you to romans and everybody for coming out last night at the vatican. this is my favorite. it s in latin. even the newspapers here in italy are beautiful. but that moment last night when he went out on that balcony and said hello to the world for the first time as pope was absolutely unforgettable. the anticipation, intense. the crowd, 150,000 strong, jammed into st. peter s square. white smoke billowed and the largest bell in the basilica signaled a new pope. within minutes, the square filled to capacity. and then this is the moment, the moment that tens of thousands of people gathered here in the square had been waiting for. it s electrifying. it s an extraordinary moment. look at this. look at all the cameras snapping a picture of the new pope. reporter: argentine cardinal jorge mario bergoglio becomes pope francis. he asked the crowd to pray for his predecessor pope benedict and then in a dramatic and touching moment he asked for a silent prayer. from the massive crowd, not a word, not a sound. the prayer, he said, was for him, to help him in his ne role. 100,000 people, probably more, and there s silence. i know. i know. i was shocked, too. definitely. it was i think it s just here in the moment, you wanted that one curtain to drop and see who it was. reporter: for his fellow argentines it s a moment not only for their country but the world. he s a very humble person. everybody in argentina knows that. he doesn t use car. he use the metro, the subway. he doesn t like to be called himself monsignor, your excellence. just jorge mario. maximum you can call him is father. reporter: a humble man about to embark on an extraordinary journey. now, that moment, that moment of silence was just incredible and unforgettable. perhaps the most interesting moment of the night is when he left the balcony and came back out almost sheepishly and said thank you for everyone for coming. safe travels home. and get some rest. it was a very sweet and telling moment for a guy who seems h humble and seems to have a good sense of humor. what an incredible experience to be there in person. thanks, miguel. appreciate it. pope francis is already developing a reputation as a pope of firsts. a humble man who is not opposed to turning his back on tradition to do things his way. jim bittermann is live at the vatican for us. good morning. reporter: good morning, soledad. i guess an indication of that is the way the pope this morning went to a church, one of the major basilicas here in rome and said a few prayers to mary. but what was interesting about it is that when he arrived he arrived not in his papal garb, not in papal white but in simple priestley black. he changed later on. but in any case it was another sign of what we ve been talking about all along, his humility. i took a closer look at the new pope in a story last night. translator: begin this journ journey. reporter: his journey began wednesday when cardinal jorge mario bergoglio of argentina was elected to lead the catholic church. he s the first non-european pope since the 8th century and first pope ever from south america. he will called pope francis, in honor of st. francis of assisi. bergoglio was born in 1936 in buenos aires, argentina. the son of an italian i ll grant, a railway worker. he had four brothers and sisters. he studied to brk a chemist before receiving the call to the priesthood. the 76-year-old was ordained a jesuit in december of 1969. and has served as orsh bishop of buenos aires. he was made a cardinal on february 21st, 2001. bergoglio is said to have been the runner-up in a 2005 concl e conclave. and in 2013 he was the oldest of the possible candidate, barely mentioned ad eed as a topic. fellow argentines are looking forward to his new chapter in the catholic church. move forward, hopefully make some good changes. hopefully he will be similar to poep john paul ii in some ways in being very progressive. we ll just have to wait and see. reporter: bergoglio is the 266th bishop of rome, leader of the world s 1.2 billion catholics. but to many, he s known as simply father jorge. so, in fact, there will be a lot of change in style around the vatican. no question about that. in terms of substance, perhaps not so much. many to matters, new pope is pretty much on the same line as benedict xvith, although in some things he may bring out changes but not don t expect him to change on the ordination of women or celibacy for priests. jim bittermann for us this morning, thanks, jim. he s at the vatican. let s get back to bishop david o connell and richard hill gartner. you ve been here for the last couple of weeks. when jim bittermann described how the pope first arrived he said he was wearing priestley black, which i guess is what you re wearing. how unusual would that be for a new pope to come out of the traditional white robe? it s very unusual. a pope once selected, once he accepts the election would appear in anything but the papal white. so it s an interesting kind of move or departure from tradition. how do you read that? now we have several moves and departures. little moments of departure from tradition. what s your interpretation? could be the white didn t fit him too well. could be. comfortable in the black. or we he just fell he was going to dress the way that he has cust customarily dressed. we talked about francis, francis of assisi and he himself was a reformer. message in that. several messages. i think there s two different nods there. certainly the nod to francis of the assisi, father francis, and the great rebuilder of the church, as he had that vision of the lord speaking to him on the cross. but as a jesuit, cardinal bergoglio would have also been intimately close and devoted to francis xavier, a great preacher, missionary, activity, i think that says something about his zeal for preaching the gospel and being in this moment that this church has been describing as the new evangelization. it was interesting i thought when the vatican then had to confirm francis of assisi because there was a point when he wasn t sure he was taking the name of the jesuit and that was the symbol there. you heard a young woman in the piece that jim presented to us saying that he was progressive. she hoped he would be progressive. we know he s a former but might be a reformed but also conservative. what kind of pope do you think he will be from these very early messages that we re getting? of course, we ve only seen him as pope for less than 24 hours. but that doesn t mean we re not going to go out on a limb. define him and put him in a box? yes, sir. i think what we have to look at, and this is jim made the comment that we shouldn t set our expectations too high. we look at his past. we look at his teaching. we look at his preaching. we look at his writings. we see that there s a lot of continuity between pope francis and what has preceded him in the writings of pope benedict and pope john paul before him. he s been consistent. he would be traditional-minded in certainly all the hot button issues. we re going to talk about this for the entire morning. the emotion that surrounded the moment of pope francis is high, of course, in his home country of argentina. shasta darlington is in do you know buenos aires. reporter: good morning, soledad. that s right. the whole atmosphere here really just exploded yesterday because not even argentines expected this. so i m standing right here in front of his arch diocese. there wasn t a whole lot of people wait for the announcement. when it came. everybody came flooding over here to the cathedral. it was as if people had just won a big soccer match. one of the reasons he really hadn t stood out this time around as a contender is because he was such an low-profile person. when he was first appointed archbishop he said he didn t want to live in the official residen residence. instead, he s still living in a third story apartment, cooks his own meals, goes out and buys his newspaper every morning at 5:00 a.m. i was speaking to people who worked there in the apartments and they said he really hated all the ritualists that come with the position he had as archbishop. he didn t like people to kiss his hand. so this is a man who really lives the simple life and i have to say, argentines are just thrilled. this came out of nowhere. there is a bit of controversy around him involving what many people view as his proximity to the dictatorship. they say he didn t do enough to prevent the thousands of disappearances, deaths, and the torture here. on the other hand, he was a champion of the poor. and that s what keeps coming true. he s homeless people i talked to here on the streets said he would always stop and have a word for him, soledad. shasta darlington in buenos aires for us this morning. let s get back to pastor of st. joseph s in miami beach and, of course, miami beach with a large population of argentine-americans. shasta was saying in argentina people are going crazy with joy. how about where you are? reporter: we were all delighted to hear and see what the pope was lebted, number one that he was elected. the whole parish and everyone here in miami beach was excited about the whole idea. not just the argentineans. and then come the second element that he was an argentinean and that flourished everywhere, in every part of the island as well as our parishes. we re delighted to know that the leader from one of the largest centers of catholicism, south america, is able to speak not just spanish but the language of the poor, the language of faith, and the language of new beginnings. much has been made of the first decisions in many ways are firsts. i want to play you a little bit of some of those. listen. francis of assisi and this pope, they are kindred spirits. he is a pope that is going to come in and look at a situation and say get back to basics. this is about the gospel. this is about what we are at our best. pastor came to meet his people and it was beautiful. then he took the microphone again and he didn t follow the book. thank god. we were talking this morning as well and showing up in his black clothes of a priest instead of wearing the white robes of the pope. also, sort of shifting tradition a little bit. where do you think that sort of idea of he s going a different direction could actually end up, i guess, expressing itself in how he leads the church? are you talking to me? yes, sir. do you want me to repeat the question. i m so sorry. yes, no. the choice the choice of the name francis says a lot, as you it speaks about reform because of the history of the church and the status of francis of assisi at the time. he was never ordained a priest. he was only a deacon because he thought he was never worthy of that. however, his influence in the church, in the church s tradition, facing the pope at the times and also bringing christianity back to the holy land was magnificent. so i think the choice of francis speaks about reform, renewal, and the archbishop of miami explained to us yesterday, it s a sign of fresh new, fresh life for all of us in the world, as well as and all of news south florida rejoice with the archbishop on this. so i think the word francis, the choice of the name has a lot to do with his internal desire to serve the church at that level of renewal or refreshing and, of course, new beginnings. father is the pastor at st. joseph s which is in miami beach. thank you, sir. appreciate your time this morning. the name of cardinal jorge mario bergoglio was not really on anybody s short list to be pope but he was on cnn s radar before we saw that white smoke billowing from the sistine chapel. listen. a name we have not heard yet that was offered up to me is cardinal bergoglio. which you may or may not know, john allen reported to us many times that what we believe from the last conclave is that bergoglio was number two to then joseph ratzinger now pope benedict xvi iemeritis. 76 years old. he could be a unifier. that is the case. thanks, soledad. so here we go again. another carnival cruise liner apparently experiencing some problems onboard. this time it s the carnival dream. it is in port right now in st. maartin in the caribbean. passengers have contacted cnn with stories of power outages and overflowing toilets. listen. they said that they were working on the ship and then there was the generators that were having a problem. now there s, you know, human wastes all over the floor and some in the bathrooms. they re overflowing. carnival representative told cnn he was not aware of the problem. several calls since to the cruise line have gone unanswered. we should tell you the u.s. coast guard said there are no reports right now of an incident. new developments out of i think gland this morning. four people under arrest in the british phone hacking askedle that rocked rupert murdoch s publishing empire. they were all jurnists at the sunday mirror. the scandal led to the shut down of murdoch s news of the world newspaper. prosecutors say two high school football stars on trial for raping a 16-year-old girl in steubenville, ohio, treated the alleged victim like a toy. the prosecution said 17-year-old trent mayes and 16-year-old richmond knew the girl was intoxicated and bragged about it to their friends. you will be able to read the text messages that were sent where these boys not only confessed to the sex acts that were performed on my client but they also bragged about their knowledge of how impaired she was. they used the word dead over and over. reporter: trent mayes and richmond deny the rape charge. so president obama meets later today with senate republicans and house democrats a day after he wrangled over budget issues with house republicans. yesterday s meeting the president did receive a standing ovation as he entered a conference room in the capital basement but a nearly 90-minute long meeting left republicans unmoved. last night the president spoke about the talks of the so-called charm offensive that has failed seemingly to change anyone s opinion. over the last several weeks press here in washington has been reporting about obama s charm offensive. well, the truth of the matter is all i ve been doing is just calling up folks and trying to see if we can break through some of the gobblety-gook of our policies here. tweeted a picture from the meeting where several gop house members asked the president whether his motives were purely political. you know, he s the president. he looked tired. he did look exhaustive. he s speaking to his people last night talking about what he s been doing over the last week. he looked exhaustive. there are a lot of republicans as we do say that appreciate the gesture that the gesture itself means something even if he hasn t changed any minds. completely disagree and don t see eye to eye. thanks. police say they have surrounded a suspect wanted in a deadly shooting spree in upstate new york. we ve got details on this story straight ahead. looking for a litter with natural ingredients that helps neutralize odors. discover tidy cats pure nature. uniquely formulated with cedar, pine, and corn. [ sneezes ] you re probably muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec® love the air. on the first day you take it. but that doesn t mean i don t want to make money.stor. i love making money. i try to be smart with my investments. i also try to keep my costs down. what s your plan? ishares. low cost and tax efficient. find out why nine out of ten large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing. risk includes possible loss of principal. welcome back. a developing story to tell you about coming to us from upstate new york. police are believed to have surrounded a man who is wanted in a shooting spree that left four people dead, two other people critically wounded. the standoff is taking place right now in herkimer county. cnn national correspondent deb feyerick is live on the scene for us this morning. reporter: good morning, soledad. right now police are just trying to wait out the suspect. 54-year-old curt myers. hold up a block away from me. this is main street. this is an area where the police station, the fire station, all within walking distance. so he s picked a very public area in which to do this. the standoff began about 15 hours ago, early yesterday afternoon. there are s.w.a.t. teams on scene. tactical units, sharpshooters, as well as heavily armored vehicles here and just monitoring the situation. they re just waiting. it is very cold. it is very snowy. they do believe that curt myer is inside. they don t know whether he s alive or not. earlier reports that they were going to send in tear gas and going to send in robots. but that right now unconfirmed. that was the plan, whether they decided to end up doing that. they have been keeping us a far distance away. the governor saying that everybody should stay back because it is such a fluid situation and nobody knows exactly what this man will do. what he is capable of doing, police know, is that he walked into two different stores. he killed two barber shop, walked to a local car area, jiffy lube and shot two there. one was a veteran officer. once that happened he jumped back in his car. police did not know where he was for a little while. they thought he was a jewelry store. it was abandoned. right now police say that they really just want to wait and see how this all plays out because they don t want to suffer any more loss of life, soledad. deb feyerick watching this for us as it continues to unfold. deb, thank you for that update. a man who reported mitt romney s infamous 47% comment that in part helped derail his presidential campaign finally speaks out. he ll talk about why he made those recordings. that s coming up. 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well, no just the name francis but his history and his work in buenos aires, being an advocate of the poor, being an advocate of those who have been victimized in the most broad context, i think is a great sign of hope. and in many ways, even if he simply continues on the trajectory that pope benedict had started but perhaps ran into some roadblocks in trying to accomplish in moving towards zero tolerance and moving towards more transparency in so many things the church in the united states has taken a lot of lead in that in recent years. and it s a problem that other parts of the world are just coming to understand. and that s a frustration for us in the united states to see that the rest of the world, the church and other parts of the world hasn t quite caught up to where we are. so, joelle, you listed some actions that you would like to see the pope do in order to prove to you that this is an issue that is front and center for him. often as you know these things start off as considerations, words put into speeches and remarks. what before direct action would be a hopeful sign to you as we start hearing the pope s first words and masses and messages? well, we keep hearing a lot about pope francis humility. and i believe that is, if it is truly how he is, it is a great first step. because we have found that in the sex abuse crisis, especially in the united states, there s been a great amount of hubris on the part of many of the bishops and cardinals who believed they were more important than the children that they had promised to protect. but a sense of humility will go a long way because someone who reaches out to the poor and to the vulnerable who also ensure hopefully that the church within the catholic church remain safe and that survivors who are suffering all over the world can begin to heal and get some sense of justice, transparency, and accountability. joelle is the director of s.n.a.p., survivors of abuse network. thanks for your time this morning. got a bunch of other stories to get to as well. president obama nominating a new ambassador to libya. debra jones spent three years as ambassador to kuwait, worked in several middle eastern countries. the post has been vacant of course since christopher stevens was killed in an attack last spl september 11th. new information in the cause of last month s deadly explosion that flat tened a popular kansa city restaurant. he hit a two-inch gas line with a boring machine and an hour later gas vapors inside j.j. s restaurant ignited. one person died, is15 others we injured in the blast. we have a story out of colorado and it may be tough to watch. 14-year-old denver girl brutally attacked in her classroom by another 14-year-old girl. the incident was captured on this cellphone video while other students allegedly distracted the teacher, attacked the teen and pushed the victim down on the floor and just wailed on her repeatedly. the victim who does not want to be identified and her mother say the staff of denver s henry world middle school knew about the bully but didn t do anything to stop it. they should like have somebody watch her, make she she doesn t do anything because i asked for help all the time. they treated this situation like every other one they see and it was not the same. horrible. the school has apologized to the victim and her family. the attacker is now on a three-day suspension we re told and could be expelled. charged, you know. as a juvenile. absolutely, right. hate for any kid to do through that. many political experts think that mitt romney s 47% comment was a key turning point in his campaign and now for the first time the man who recorded those comments as come forward. sxwr. i had brought the camera and other people brought cameras for think that he would come back and take pictures. clinton in the past would come back with the staff and take pictures and that was, you know, really my thought. i really had no idea he would say what he said. i thought it would he would say basically the same things he was saying in public. i had no idea it was going to be this big thing that it turned out to be. scott prouty was tending bar last year in south florida. he said he sat on the video for a couple of weeks and struggled with the idea of releasing it. i think he has forever changed what phones will be allowed at events in political fund-raisers. and also thinking carefully that things might be off the record for the people in the room. that, too. staff of people who may not think that off the record means off the record to them. sheryl sandberg has a new book out. we ve been talking about it all week. in the book she encourages women to become leaders in the workforce. she has a message though for men, too. we ll look at my interview with the coo and her controversial new book. we discuss it. the president george h.w. bush was expecting to do a regular photo-op but he got this instead. it was a flash mob, texas students who organized what they called the bush whack boogie. that s ahead. 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[ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. and don t get heartburn in the first place! but that doesn t mean i don t want to make money.stor. i love making money. i try to be smart with my investments. i also try to keep my costs down. what s your plan? ishares. low cost and tax efficient. find out why nine out of ten large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. read and consider it carefully before investing. risk includes possible loss of principal. good morning. welcome back to starting point. i m christine romans. could be another high for wall street. dow coming off a nine-day winning streak. that is something we haven t seen since 1996. because of improving economic data and, of course, the billions the fed is pumping into the economy every month. yesterday s introduction of the new pope igniting a social media frenzy. twitter says 130,000 tweets permitted were posted about the new pope. notable considering it wasn t a prime time event. for a short time every trending topic was pope related and only by 6:30 p.m. eastern mentions of bergoglio on facebook were up by nearly 4 million percent. is he on twiter? i think he is. back up, yeah. tweeted last night. he did. a lot of people are following that. i think the last time we had a pope new pope so it wasn t even twitter. this is a whole new phenomenon for catholics to watch this news. meantime, incredible study this morning. more and more parents are stressed out. a new study from pew research. wait a minute. someone put money into a study. that s ridiculous. more than half of working moms are stressed and dads are right behind them. that sounds low. parents take on new roles. more moms are work ought side the home today with moms saying they spent 21 hours per week at a paying job, up eight hours from the 1960s and more men are taking on household chores and caring for children. women are working more outside the home and men are working more inside the home and both of them are stressed out. the net-net is everyone is freaking out. i found it interesting in that study it showed that both men and women say overall they think they re doing a pretty good job. of course. we give ourselves high points. facebook s coo sheryl sandberg talked a lot about that in her book called lean in and in ore interview making waves, this book is in a book about women in the workplace and leadership. called lean in, number one on amazon best-seller list. no surprise there that happened the first day it went on sale because she has been everywhere talking about the book and she s been dealing with criticism for suggesting as some peopler is perceive it that women are to blame. she goes out of her way to say they re mot in the book. but she talks about this ambition gap with men and women competing for leadership positions in corporate america. men could help change things moving forward. here s what she told me. when you talk about your mentors in the book, it s mostly men. i ve never worked for a woman. i have been really lucky and had great mentors and part of lean in is to help people find the right way to develop the men tors and sponsors and saying to every man out there it should be a badge of honor to mentor a young woman. not something you re afraid someone will assume something bad but a badge of honor that you were willing to spend your time giving benefit of your experience to young women in the workforce. they need it. you can watch more of my interview monday morning on starting point. coming up next, my conversation with cardinal timothy doyle and the archbishop of new york who was in the conclave to elect pope francis. take you live to rome right take you live to rome right after this. and be good for your face? 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and how hard was it to execute the whole thing? right. well, we had gotten the idea because we heard that president bush had never seen a flash mob before. and we as students, we always try to find some sort of way to honor him, to thank him for everything he s done for us, and so that is where the idea of the flash mob came. started working on it last fall. got a group of students together, and really started practicing about a month and a half ago to get everything ready. we had a great support team, our production was through flash mob america. the student, faculty and staff at the bush school were just phenomenal. we had great support and we really enjoyed it. flash mob america. i didn t realize they help with the space and organization. i thought those things just sprung up very naturally. very cora graphed. fun to watch, and fun to watch the president s look as he watched this flash mob happening. this is what he said about it on nbc. it looks like we don t have that tape. it s worth hearing. i ll read it. of all the flash mobs i have ever seen this was the best and jenna says the best? he says, yes, the very best. is this the only one you have ever seen? really, really cute. you guys were in the front row. what was your reaction to his reaction? he was clearly charmed by the whole thing. it was really great. i actually didn t realize i was going to be dancing direct until front of barbara. as soon as we started dancing, she pulled out herridge phone and started recording. i love that. that s awesome. so he actually the president stayed longer, i know he was supposed to come in, what he thought was a photo-op, and he stayed a half an hour longer to hang out with students. i thought that was wonderful for you. what was that experience like? they asked him if he wanted to go back upstairs, he didn t. he wanted to shake hands, pretty fantastic. one of the advantages of going to a school with the name sake of a living former president. he visits the school a lot, right? yeah, as much as he can. you guys are also going to give back. not enough to just do a flash mob. you will give back in another tribute. tell me about that. yeah, last year, we started raising money for habitat for humanity house in honor of the bushes, so the students did all of the fund-raising, cost about $40,000 to build a habitat house. we broke ground the day after the flash mob. where will it be? carlie worked on that. in it s college station, texas. we have this family has been selected and they participate in the construction of the house. that s so great. it should be done in the next couple of months. i love that. love the flash mob and a real tangible changing somebody s life in tribute to somebody who has obviously done a ton of the school. ladies, thank you for being with us. that was hilarious. we watched it yesterday, enjoyed it thoroughly. maybe not as much as the president himself did. but great to watch excellent choreograp choreography, well done as well. thank you. you bet. we ll take a break, still ahead on starting point, pope francis first full day as leader of the catholic church. we ll look at who he is, and what we can expect with the paper acy. we ll take you to rome, to buenos aris. surviving a fall. a skydiver s parachute fails, but the man lives to tell the tale. that ahead. for those nights when it s more than a bad dream, be ready. for the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer. be ready with children s motrin. to book this fabulous hotel. michael, tell us why you used priceline express deals well, you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it. and i got a great deal without bidding. and where s your furry friend? 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i am. for a couple of reasons. every catholic is happy. it s tough for a noncatholic to understand how catholics look to the pope, even those who might be a little disenfranchised from the church. the pope is important to us. we call him our holy father and haven t had one since february 28th. that bothers us. an empty chair at the table. we don t like that whoever it would have been as a catholic, i would have rejoiced. when we hear those words, habemus papam, you want to applaud. tears come to your eye. and this particular one enhances the sense of joy that i feel. you keep pointing out, you and the media have been talking about the first south american pope. you believe there is this athena at play here. even though he is shy and humble as you have already seen, he radiates an interior strength and energy, and it s already clear to me he has a great sense of the power. can i give you a couple? sure. when he came out after getting his white on. comes out from the little dressing room and we all applaud again, he s supposed to go up on the steps to a platform and sit on the white throne, we are to come to him to give him our love and loyalty. as attendants begin to take him by the arm, i am going to stay down here and greet each of my brothers. that s a powerful sign, literally on our level, okay? number two, we heard, we didn t know it because we were locked up. we heard it was pouring down rain, there was a big crowd in the square. he says there met all of the cardinals, and there were about other 100 people. you will be around. we will be with you the rest of the life. i will talk to you afterward. i don t want to keep the folks waiting. let s get out there. powerful symbol, isn t it? you mentioned francis. he said after the cardinal dean says, will you accept? when he said and by what name do you want to be called? he said francis and quickly says after st. francis of asissi, that s a first. no one thought of that. when you think of things, such a beautiful symbol and drama to this, you think who will it be? secondly, what name will he take, when he said francis, you heard the whole college of cardinals went wow. whatever that is italian, i don t know. are you you are in your own with the 115, outside, everyone is speculating, cardinal bergoglio, not in the mainstream. i was fascinated by that, in the college of cardinals, he was a clear candidate. everybody knew of him, he has been archbishop of one of the most diverse, complex, largest archdiocese in the world. and done an amazing pastoral job. there at the last conclave. so the 40% of the college of cardinals in the conclave after blessing john paul ii knew him, respected him. to us, it was no surprise. but are you right, chris, the rest of the world seems to have been startled. so when you look at him now, okay? immediately he will come out, there are all of these beautiful details about what makes him new, new is a very key word for the catholic church right now. a sense for need for renewal. what do you think pope francis can do that will give a sense of renewal to the catholic church? the catholic church is ever ancient, ever new. a beautiful blend. sometimes we look to our church as a grandmother. sometimes we look to her as a young bride. so there has got to be that combination of things immutable and things that are timely. he will do it well. all we can do is look at his track record, okay? and amazingly simple and sincere transparent man. a man who deeply loves the poor. a man who thee logically well grounded in the timeless doctrine of the church, okay? and a man who knows how to govern. we ll begin to see those kinds of things. i think there may be a touch of simplicity, sincerity, openness. i sympatthink he s going to ten the roman coria, which we all said, have you been reporting it well, probably needs some tending too, right? what government doesn t? we look to d.c., we americans are saying there need to be some changes there. i think we ll see some stuff. that s the prospect of him as a reformer, more than on the social, liberal agenda level of what he will do about women, about sell boise, gay meaning? do you think he would move the church on any of those? you think it will not be his best? i don t think he ll do that. he can t as you know, can t really tamper with what s called the deposit of faith, which he gratefully inherits, his job to pass on faithfully to the next generation. he can t change any substance, givens, but, boy, can he ever change the way it s presented, and i think he s shrewd enough. pastor in a huge diocese to say i love the traditional teachings of the church. i m as loyal to them as the day is long, but also recognizing that a lot of them aren t going over. now, i can t change them, i don t want to change them. they come to us from the lord, but we better work on a more tantalizing attractive compelling way to present them. and i think he ll do that brilliantly. i am fascinated. i understand it s secret. what was it like in there for you? i took a picture of you when you put your hand to reflect the oath. don t worry about it, it was on the house. no. you look like he were taking it seriously. staring up at the frescos. who could not? looking around in the sistine chapel. boy. the best known secret process in the world. in there as a cardinal, voting on a man who will be the head, the father. what is it like? i can tell you what it s like. first of all, it s not all fun and games. very intense and emotionally draining, you think about it night and day. this is one of the most important things i ever have to do, to vote for the new successor, so there is a lot of intensity. but yet there is also, chris, balancing that, a remarkable i don t know how to explain this. you know me, a pretty hard boiled guy. people wouldn t call me pius. i think i am holy, but they wouldn t call me devotional or pius. there is a gentleness of the holy spirit. no thunder and lightning, no sledgehammers, no people getting knocked off their horse, but you gradually sense a movement toward a man, and you pray hard, talk a lot to one another, and there is a gradual movement to it that i found just generated a lot of joy and serenity. were you trying to look at anybody s ballots? i may be irish, but i wouldn t stoop to that. walking it up in your hand? to go up and make another oath, you know, and then to put it on this beautiful you put it on the tray and take it so that it goes in, those are those are stunning moments and there is silence, most of the conclave is silent, see. not a caucus, not a convention, almost like a liturgy, an occasion of prayer. you begin and end with prayer, so very quiet. almost like you are at a retreat, where there is a lot of thought and prayer, reflection going on. krard natur . cardinal dolan, thank you for the insight. i will be here until march 19th. is that the mass? can we get a good meal in this town while we re waiting? oh, think so. thank you so much. happy st. patrick s day at home. i can t believe i m missing it. i got a green the green socks? they didn t fit. oh. talking to the cardinal. amazing, amazing interview. and such great insight into all of the happenings. a couple of things i thought were amazing. the story of how he told the pope left the cardinals, you guys going to be around, because i want to talk to the people. that set a tone in the sense of how he ll put people higher arcically maybe. nobody says it as well or as joyfully as dolan. laughing through the entire interview. some of the things he said of the new pope are things that could be said of him. he puts a very good, positive, joyful face on some very difficult teachings, and for some very difficult experiences, and i think that change of tone maybe is the key difference that we re going to see in this particular pontificate. chris, it was interesting i thought when he described, not just who has been chosen as pope, but the idea and the name that was chosen, that was a surprise to the cardinals as well. absolutely. and it s been very fun to hear folks talk about it. and to hear that it s so different than from the political process that you think that there is the silence and this prayer and that there is almost a meditation on who do you choose? and i want to ask you, father, when this happens, what should we be looking for? all of the talk about this new pope what will be like. but you said a positive tone. well, any of the teachings change? are we looking toward reformer in that mode of francis? taking a reformer s name. i think cardinal dolan said it well. the core teachings of what the church teaches and believes will not change. we spoke to pastor darlington from buenos aries, he loves his routine. he would turn down the better housing so he could stay in his third floor important. that s all personally important to him that, of course, will completely change now. not totally. last night, it s reported that he rode on the bus back to the doma santa marta back with the cardinals. had the papal entourage, limousine. he says go ahead. i ll go on the bus with the guys. are ar to what degree can you do that as pope? saw from the very beginning, he didn t wear the traditional vestments when the pope wears when he comes out. didn t have the red cape and stole. and you get little glimpses that he is going to do it the way he thinks it needs to be dub. it will be so interesting to cover him. everything is fascinating with benedict s shoes. it looks like he still had his black suit on underneath. so interesting. beautiful to see him walk into the basilica. such an incredible place with an incredible history. and to see him walk there and to kneel down and pray to the blessed mother as he said he would do last night to really put himself, his papacy, the church in the hands of mary, the mother. very consistent with latin american approach to things. the blessed mother so important in the spirituality of latin america. i hope chris cuomo gets a good meal in rome. he s in rome, it will be fine. i m just kidding. john berman with a look at other stories making news. another carnival cruiseliner apparently experiencing problems this morning. this time the carnival dream in port in st. maarten in caribbean. they were notified of generator issues, but not requested assistance. several passengers have contacted cnn with stories of power outages and overflowing toilets. they said they were working on the ship and then there was the generators were having a problem. and an hour later they said the problem is worse than they expected. there s human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they re overflowing. carnival representative told cnn he wasn t aware of a problem. several calls since to the cruiseline have gone unanswered. it is day two of the rape trial in steubenville, ohio. two high school football stars charged with sexually assaulting a visibly intoxicated 16-year-old girl and according to prosecutors, treating her like a toy. this is a rape case. this doesn t hinge or even revolve around issues of the alleged victims s substantial xwamt. and what that means as a matter of law. the alleged condition at the time of the condition is a critical part of the state s case. other news, texas equ everybodysearch joining the search for terrilynn monnette. they are looking for any sign of the 26-year-old or her car, last seen march 2nd outside a new orleans area bar where she was celebrating her nomination as teacher of the year. i california skydiver talking about this morning about his terrifying fall after both his parachutes failed. craig s main chute got tangled, and his backup chute, also tangled. he began to spin, hit the ground at 30 miles an hour, and get this, just a few feet from iron stakes that hold up grapevines at a local vineyard. i landed parallel to the grapes, one of my last thoughts before i hit was i really hope i don t hit an iron spike, because it will would be messy. i knew it was bad when i was living it, and and when i saw the video, i m like that s a lot worse than i thought. how did i walk away from that? how did i manage to survive? oh! he suffered just a separated shoulder and bumps and bruises. he will take this weekend off, but he will get back to jumping out of airplanes later this month. someone tweeted to me, the old-style chute actually landing at 30 miles per hour was kind of in the design, that s how years and years ago, that was the speed at which you would land. seems horrific. all of the reasons why you should not skydive. that s one of them. when i jumped, a nice easy landing, not 30 miles per hour. no iron spikes. it could be messy. talking about the understatement. can you imagine? seriously. er in again. that would be a sign this is not for me. over. completely, yes. president obama meets with republican senators after he didn t quite charm house members on the hill yesterday. he can make any steps toward peace? one of the senators will who will be in the meeting will be john borasco. teachers accused of putting sleeping pills in student drinks and even duct taping them? 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[ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. welcome back, everybody. today, back to capitol hill. the third day president obama is reaching out. two meetings today with senate republicans and house democrats. last night the president talked to supporters about the outreach. over the last several weeks, the president in washington has been reporting about obama s charm offensive. the truth, all i m doing is calling up folks and trying to see if we can break through some of the some of the gobbledegook of our politics here. we have republican senator of wyoming, john borrasso. nice to see you. thank you for being back us with. nice to be here today. it was interesting to listen to speaker boehner s assessment. he sort of said this and this, which were completely contradictory. a little bit of what the speaker said. republicans want to balance the budget, the president doesn t. the republicans want to solve the long-term debt problem, the president doesn t. we want to unlock energy resources to put more americans back to work, the president doesn t. having said that, today was a good start. and i hope that these kinds of discussions can continue. it s so funny. i was watching that, i literally laughed out loud, he watched all the ways it was pretty terrible and far, far apart, but, you know, a good start. my question, are you hopeful out of this? considering the long list that the speaker has laid out, which seems not very hopeful? well, i welcome the president. i think we ll have a frank and candid discussion about the key issues facing our country. jobs, the economy, debt, and the spending and we need to get solutions. i wish the president had started this four years ago instead of recently. we need to get solutions and need to get the country moving ahead, and i welcome opportunities to work in a bipartisan way to get the country moving. hey, senator, chris frates of national journal here. republicans on the hill tell me meetings that everyone should be watching are the meetings that the president is having with moderate senators. your colleagues, and i wonder, how hopeful are you that your moderate colleagues could get some kind of deal that could drive a piece of legislation through the senate and over to the house? well, at a time of divided government, that s when you have the best opportunities to really accomplish the big things, and we need to accomplish the big jobs now of making sure that medicare and social security are there, just not for people today, but for the next generation. people have paid into the programs and for every $1 people have paid in, getting $3 out in benefits in terms of medicare so we have to reform the programs and the best way to do that is at a time of divided government. the president has to lead his party to agreeing to the changes that have to be made in an effort to save these programs long term. yesterday it was a senator patty murray who released democrats budget version. ending some of the breaks by closing loopholes, cuts in domestic and defense spending. new spending on infrastructure and we have a graphic of what the budget has, some elements in it. $975 billion revenue increase. $975 defense spending cuts. interest savings as well. $100 billion for road, bridge repair and working training. what do you make in broad strokes? another trillion drarz of tax increases on the heels of the president s health care law, a trillion in tax increases. take a look at that american taxpayers are saying that and right now money is being wasted in washington. and the other problem with patty murray s budge the, it never gets to balance. and paul ryan s budge net ten years, a fundamental difference with the kind of debt we as a nation continue to have. i was traveling around wyoming. we go to schools and students know we continue to borrow a lot of money every day just to stay ahead and a lot of the we re borrowing from china. paul ryan s budget balances in ten years because of the big chunk in the middle is killing obama care, which people have said i think recentasonably is going to happen. sure, it balances, but it s not going to happen. paul ryan s budget balances and spending increases every year under paul ryan s budget, it just doesn t increase as fast as the democrat s budget. the federal reserve came out with a report that talks about the impact of the health care law on the economy and on jobs. and it is hurting jobs. this is the federal reserve in their monthly report. talking about the bad impact of the health care law, because of the consequences within the law so businesses, due to the uncertainty, aren t hiring. when they do hire, they are hiring part-time workers instead of full-time workers and that s why we re still at almost 8% unemployment in this country. can i ask you a quick question before i let you go? you are a featured speaker at cpac. two big noninvites are chris christie and bob mcdonnell. what do you make of the omissions? i m not on the committee. i know. but what do you make of it? i am delighted to be invited. this is the next generation, a youthful crowd, and i m looking forward to visiting with them on the issues of health occasicare. very devastating for young americans as they start suffering the consequences and expenses of the president s health care law. i recognize you are not the guy that makes the invitation list. i m curious, those are two big names and quite remarkable not on the list. what do you think personally? well, i m not going to decide on who gets invited and who doesn t. i welcome all conservative ideas and a lot of ideas to come up with the best solutions to move our country ahead. nice to have you, sir. we appreciate your time. thank you, soledad. this just in to cnn. we re learning the shooting suspect, we ve been telling the story all morning. the shooting suspect accused of killing four people and critically wounding four others, is he now dead. federal officers telling officers they got into at ban donned building in herkemeier, new york. kurt meyers was killed and an fbi canine dog also killed. he allegedly set fire to his home before he went on a shooting spree. we ll continue to monitor this story. many questions remain, even with the death of the suspect here. we ll take a break, back right after this. you know we re kinda like twins. 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(music throughout) why turbo? trust us. it s just better to be in front. the sonata turbo. from hyundai. welcome back, everybody. history unfolding as pope francis gets to work as the new leader of the world s 1.2 billion catholics. he will hold a private mass at the sistine chapel at noon eastern time. along with cardinal who s elected him. and on saturday, he will meet for the first time with world media. and on tuesday, the installation mass. as many as 200 foreign delegations expected to be on hand. the emotions surrounding the announcement of pope francis, filling over from vatican city all around the world, including, of course, his home country of argentina. shasta darlington joins us with reaction. good morning. reporter: good morning, soledad. that s right. it really did take argentina and buenos aries by surprise. no one was hanging out in front cathedral behind me. there were no expectations it could possibly be bergoglio. hundreds of thousands came out to celebrate. people were jumping up and down, singing, shaking flags. a lot of excitement about this also, because this is somebody who people here view as a real champion of the poor. not only helped the poor, but lived that life. he is lived in a small apartment right up here, in fact, on the third floor. instead of the official archbish archbishop s residence, cooked his own meals, took the bus and also greeted the homeless on the way to buy his newspaper. a real man of the poor, soledad. shasta darlington for us. thank you, shasta. so interesting to see the reaction. a big step in the sense of the orlando world versus the new world. one of the things not pointed out. he wasn t ordained a priest since 1969. he was a deacon first. he felt like he wasn t ready to be a priest i understood. part of the jesuit formation would have been a longer period of time. he wasn t ordained until long after the second vatican council concluded. he has always been in the church after vatican two. even those who aren t catholics, but badly read in catholic doctrine. what is the significance of vatican two? it called for renewal of the church on every level. the most obvious changes would have been in some of the structure of governance that led to a new code of canon law. changes in the mass and way we pray is probably the most over either sign. the conversation was different. the traditions, the perceived rigidity of the church. gave way when pope john xxiii announced the council. the opening of the windows, letting in the fresh air. this is the first kind of for ray into the modern world into adopting the church and giving the church some sense of that. that s the vatican council spirit that people talk about. and as mondsignor indicated, he lived in the post vatican era. a very different mind-set as well. we ll get to john with an update of other stories. new information just in to cnn about the shooting spree in a small town in upstate new york. the suspect, kurt meyeyers is d. we are live on the scene. reporter: good morning, john. good morning, soledad. police and fbi and s.w.a.t. teams made entry at about 8:00 this morning. kurt myers didn t pick the building randomly. just down the road from me. he was waiting in ambush as teams made into the beiuilding. sent in a canine dog, and he opened fire, killing that dog. agents returned their own fire, killing kurt myers. entry was made and over in a couple of moments, we are told that the suspect, the man who killed four people and who now we believe was waiting in ambush for a police officer, that he is now dead. and so this, again, over, a lot of tension was here in herkemier county. they had not spoken to him in more than 15 hours. when there was an exchange of fire yesterday, they thought he was wounded, but he wasn t. he was laying in wait. police got him first, john. wow, deborah ferrick, our thanks to you. tsa administrator john pistol is expecting to defend his decision to allow small knives on planes. earlier this week, he said sticking with the plan to take affect next month to reduce waiting time at airport security checkpoints. three major car yores have come out against the machine along with unions representing pilots and flight attendants. a live look now. no live look, this morning or today at the gaylord resort in national harbor, maryland, the start of the annual cpac convention. senators marco rubeio, rand paul, and rick perry, tim scott. sarah palin, donald trump, nfrp ra wayne la pierre, all set to appear. some people who will not appear? chris christie and bob mcdonnell of virginia. and caught up with a corruption scandal at a veteran s charity. jennifer carroll stepped down days after answering investig e investigatinvestigat investigator s questions. carroll not among the 57 people charged with racketeering and money laundering. allegations of physical abuse at this california preschool. a form every teacheer teacher at taping a girl s ankles and wrists. that s insane. the teacher apparently took a picture of this and showed it to coworkers. one of them was the child s mother. who contacted authorities. also in california, a daycare teacher is being accused of drugging toddlers with over the counter sleep aides. a coworker saw her put pills in little white cups. apparents were outraged when they up found out. i would never imagine anybody doing anything to this to a kid. what do you think about somebody doing this to a kid? sickening. sick to my stomach. i work for a daycare too. it s hard. wow. the teacher caught before any of the one or two year old has a chance to take the sleeping aides. she is behind bars, charged with felony endangerment. who gives a 1-year-old sleeping pills? sleeping aids, whatever you want to call them? they can t even take pills at that age. that s insane. so insane. that s the crazy moment. the teachers, they are dealing with youngsters and they are lively and wiry. clearly the wrong field if you can t handle. absolutely terrifying to hear as a parent. oh, my gosh. the crazy segment today. up next, a secret among many parents. a version of this, right? giving their kids medication they may not need in the hopes of making them smarter or more focused. more about this disturbing practice, right after this short break. looking for a litter with natural ingredients that helps neutralize odors. discover tidy cats pure nature. uniquely formulated with cedar, pine, and corn. mr. wiggles and curling irons. for the little mishaps you feel, use neosporin to help you heal. it kills germs so you heal four days faster neosporin. also try neosporin eczema essentials. welcome back. have you ever given your child prescription meds to sharpen them up, give them an edge at school? it sounds bizarre, but there is a name. called neuroenhancement. not only is itly you leg ly yoit wrong. we are joined by senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. this is not so unusual? a group of pediatric doctors say that parents are asking us to prescribe drugs for adhd. the parents want them more focused so they can go from getting bs to getting as. so this group of neurologists says it has to stop and published a position paper. part of the proof they used to show this is happening, they said, look, let s take a look at adhd diagnoses, they have gone up 21% over a period of time, but prescriptions for medicine have gone up 46%. so you don t have to be a mathematician to figure out why we have so many kids taking adhd drugs when they don t have adhd. it stops here. they are reaching out to parents to say don t ask for them, and to doctors saying don t prescribe them. some believe their child hasn t been diagnosed or they are exhibiting the traits. doesn t matter if you have adhd, if you are acting as if you have adhd, wouldn t the medicine be a good thing? no. you either have adhd or you don t have adhd. just because when your child my child does this. sits around doing homework. writing, stares off to the sky. that doesn t mean she has adhd. she isn t focusing at that particular time. i won t drug my child because she is staring off into space a few minutes, or because she got a b instead of an a. these drugs have side effects. not like giving your children a piece of candy. side effects can include things like they can get irritable, insomnia, use appetite. some kids lose a lot of weight. i have seen this first hand. and a relatively small number, get heart arrhythmias. don t want to give a child a drug unless they have the disease, and you don t want to convince your doctor they have it sometimes, unfortunately, that works. you have to make sure the doctor does a thoughtful job of assessing whether or not they have it. children taking powerful drugs. elizabeth cohen, thank you. first lady michelle obama gracing the cover of vowi vogur the building second time. more on that, next. featuring the lexus gs and is performance lines. because control is the ultimate expression of power. get great values on your favorite lexus models, during the command performance sales event. this is the pursuit of perfection. 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[ crows ] now where s the snooze button? welcome back, everybody. a couple of stories we re following. the motor city facing bumpy road the next couple of years. a state of emergency in detroit. an attorney from washington will take over as emergency manager. snyder s announcement expected to come this afternoon. probably not the way that students expected to spend their spring break. police in miramar beach, florida, arrested 32 students at a house party. underaged drinking. the house was trashed and along with on a night behind bars, it could affect some students scholarship. in chains. a rarity. usually everybody turns their head and let s it go. pretty aggressive arrest. the first lady, michelle obama, absolutely everywhere these days from late night talk shows to academy awards, and come april, on news stands everywhere, becoming the first lady to grace vogue twice. we got a first peek at the glamorous photos and story. vogue, the bible of fashion, it can get political too. it has featured first lady after first lady, never before as soledad mentioned, has vogue ever featured an american first lady twice on its cover, until now. second term, second cover. first lady michelle obama in vogue again. something so ground breakingly modern about the obamas, first black president and first lady, and vogue is crazy about them. the editor in chief, a massive obama fund-raiser, so it s her friend, the first lady, appearing on vogue s april cover. wearing a sleeveless dress by reid crackoff. there she is in michael kors. but jonathan vnmeter spoke to both of them. the first lady and the president. them as a couple, their marriage, their children, how they live in the white house, how they deal with the bubble. reporter: what struck him? he are so sweet with each other, a lot of affection. if there is any married couple to whom the phrase, they finish each other s sentences applies, it s them. reporter: of their marriage, the president said i think it would be a mistake that my wife when i walk in the door, hey, money, how was your day, let me give you a neck rub. it s much more. we re a team. of his clothes, she jokes this is the man who still boasts about this khaki pair of pants i ve had since i was 20. and i m like you don t want to brag about that. she very effortlessly tells a story that leads to a punchline that can crack you up. and i love that sometimes she and i weren t finished laughing and he was done and ready to move on. the president. and she would sort of look at me and keep laughing with me, like i just love that spirit in her that that jovial spirit that really surprised me. reporter: just a phenomenal photo shoot for the april issue. the president and first lady by the way, also pushed back on the notion that they are anti social in washington. the first lady said, you know when you get a minute, you want that extra energy to go to your 14 and 11-year-old. sasha and malia actually want to spend less time with them these days. you know that age, right, when that happens. and the president said, who knows? maybe you will see us out in the clubs. a little inside, behind the scenes, great stuff i got from the writer. he said when he got to the white house, one of the staffers said to him, you know, this part of the white house has never been so completely taken over by a photo shoot. but that s the way vogue works. and because you love music, soledad. the music playing in the background for the photo shoot was the black eyed peas. where is the love? where is the love? i like the cover shot. probably because her arms are just famous and fabulous. but the gown is so beautiful. the michael kors gown. she chose that, to pair a sweater with a ball girl. end point back in a moment. thank you, alina. on a walk, walk, walk. love to walk. yeah, we found that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it. and i decided i would never, ever leave it anywhere. because that wonderful, bouncy, roll-around thing. had made you play. and that. had made you smile. [ announcer ] beneful. play. it s good for you. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain. and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. just in to cnn from the pentagon. a commander warning of new risks of attack between rising tensions between nato and karzai. it could become a catalyst for some to lash out against our forces and karzai may also issue orders that put our forces at risk. the isaf telling cnn, the e-mail, not a formal threat advisory, which in and itself is kind of remarkable, what he s saying private until this e-mail is worry some. that from barbara starr at the pentagon. time to get to end point. so much to talk about with this being the first full day of pope francis. what do we see today? not the rundown of events. what do we see today in terms of him framing what the rest of his tenure will be? i think he s taking this in stride. doing what he needs to do, but he wants to reveal himself, little by little, to the world and let them see he s an authentic person. what you see is what you get. he is not young. he is 76 years old, which means realistically. two years younger than pope benedict when he was elected. realistically, you could be back again. a precedent set of stepping down when you physically don t feel able to move on. is that good for the church or bad for the church? could be. it might set up the possibility of
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions ifill: white smoke spewed from the vatican chimney today and the newly elected pope francis, greeted tens of thousands from the papal balcony. he s the first leader of the world s catholics to hail from the americas. good evening, i m gwen ifill. woodruff: and i m judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the 76-year old argentine pontiff and what his selection means for the church. ifill: then, as the budget battles rage on in washington, we examine the quest for bipartisan solutions. woodruff: in the first of two stories about toxic drinking water in the united states, miles o brien reports on the company and the regulators charged with the clean-up. reporter: did you ever think you would ever have to deal with chromium 6 or p.g.&e. again? absolutely not. absolutely not. in front of god and the world, they said they were going to clean it up. ifill: and we close with stories of sexual assault in the military recounted today at a senate hearing. during my tour on the u.s.s. frank cable, i was raped by a superior non-commissioned officer. i was ordered by my command not to report this crime. ifill: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ifill: catholic cardinals proclaed a new leader of the church today: an argentine archbishop who will now be known as pope francis. it was a departure from centuries-old traditions, and it brought an outpouring of celebration in vatican city. a great wave of cheering broke as the much-anticipated white smoke rose from the chimney above the sistine chapel, by the tens of thousands, the faithful braved a chilly rain in st. peter s square. the bells of st. peter s confirmed the news the crowds had been anxiously awaiting for hours. after just five rounds of voting, a new pontiff had been elected, just one day after the conclave began its closed sistine chapel meeting. as word spread, even more pilgrims and tourists descended on the vatican, filling the square to capacity and packing into nearby streets to witness the historic moment. ( translated ): i cannot explain it. this is tremendous. this is the first time i am in rome and to have an argentinan pope, it s tremendous. ( translated ): we are very happy as argentinians, i think he is a very well prepared person and we need to pray for the holy spirit and jesus christ to give him the strength to lead the catholic church. ifill: italian military bands and the swiss guard also marched through the square. but the new pope s identity wasn t officially revealed until more than an hour later, when he finally emerged from the velvet curtained balcony of st. peter s basilica. the chosen one: cardinal jorge bergoglio of argentina the first pontiff from the first pontiff from the americas and the first non-european in more than a millennium. the 76-year-old chose the name pope francis the first. he delivered his first public address to the cheering crowd. brother cardinals had to go almost to the end of the earth to find him. but here we are. ifill: the new pope has spent most of his career in argentina, where he oversaw churches and priests across the country. now he ll lead the 1.2 billion members of the roman catholic church, all while addressing a number of difficult issues plaguing the church, from priest sex abuse scandals to allegations of corruption. pope francis succeeds benedict the sixteenth who stepped down last month. he was the first pontiff to resign in 600 years. pope francis the pope will be installed formally on tuesday. vice president joe biden will lead the historic delegation. we get more now from michael sean winters of the national catholic reporter. the first obvious question is, who is he? some of us are all scrambling. i think he was a surprise choice in part because of his age. what we ve learned is he s a very simple and humble man who, when he became the archbishop of buenos aires chose not to live in in big mansion but got a small apartment. he takes public transportation and did away with the limousine. he s obviously conservative and i think you ll see none of the candidates were what we in america would consider doctrinal liberals. most importantly he s from latin america and for the last 50 years the issue the latin american bishops have been dealing with is what is the preferential option for the poor mean and trying to wrestle with that on theologically but also practically. is it going to be just words or is it really going to galvanize the church to care for the poor. pelley: was it also important the pope come from an area of the world where there is growth? population growth in the church? i think so. i think this gets to the heart of the gospel which is good news for the poor and i think sometimes in america and in western europe we re simply too affluent to hear it anymore in the way it was intend tpwhud africa, latin america there are desperately poor people for them it is still good news. ifill: but he has no roman experience. that is work inside the vatican. he didn t come from that experience. does that put him in a disadvantage at all? this is the danger is obviously he although he s been on several congregations as a cardinal so he mig know his way around he s never worked in rome and the danger is that the old guard will say, you know, we re not going to tell you where the bathroom is unless you do what we want. so we ll see. but he s a very strong leader in buenos aires, has a reputation as a decisive man and i suspect has a mandate from the cardinals to clean up some of the messes that are there. pelley: one of the things he said when he came out in the square today was or on the balcony was that he would be the new bishop of rome. he specifically talked about the city of rome. what was that about? again, this is our hope and at this point it s all speculation. on there s been so much centralization in the catholic church in rome over the last 150 years. and i think bishops trying to do their best don t want to be considered just branch managers. the bishop of rome is the pope, but that doesn t mean you re the bishop of the entire world. and too many pontiffs have acted in that way. and have been not giving local bishop it is authority and decision-making power that i think that they want and we re hopefully he will pursue that kind of decentralization of authority. ifill: even though pope francis wasn t the front-runner, if there is such a thing, since we don t know what goes on inside that conclave, he s still considered or it s been reported he was the runner-up in 2005 to pope benedict. it s hard to interpret that. one wonders you know, those were 40 votes he supposedly got in 2005 who were not voting for joseph ratzinger and that may indicate a certain amount of change. i just want to caution i think a lot of americans think when they think of reform and change they think we re going to have women priests. that was not a realistic expectation given the cardinals who were in there. i think what they mean by reform touched other issues, partly reorganization of the curia, its relationships with local bishops and, again, are we going to focus a little bitless maybe on the traditional latin mass and a little bit more on caring for the poor. ifill: so this is not a pope or a papacy we re going to see any kind of change when it comes to things like abortion or of course not. ifill: gay marriage. of course not. ifill: or adoption or any social issues that get us so worked up, especially in the united states? no, and these are not issues in the latin american church. when 50% of your people are living below the poverty line, shame on you if you re worried about other issues like that. you ve got to be very hand on worried about feeding your people so they don t go to bet hungry at night. ifill: he was quoted as saying not too long ago if the church remains closed in on itself, self-referential, it gets old. does that harken some sort of change that s imminent? you know, my worry is that the church does sometimes become very self-referential and when they talk about the new e advantagelyization they reduce it to teaching bishops how to use twitter and it has to mean more than that. it s curious he chose the name francis. francis faced a very corrupt church and very degenerate culture in his day and he changed it by kiss ago leper. ifill: we re talking about st. francis of aceasesy. yes. and that s how the church reforms, by becoming the gospel church. ifill: we have to go back to this processndow he came to be pope. was there anybody besides americans were there anyone besides americans who thought an american would be pope? it was evidently a strong candidacy for cardinal o malley. it was being pushed by an african cardinal. ifill: the boston archbishop. and a couple latin american cardinals who were big fans of cardinal o malley. we ll find out in the next couple of weeks, estimations and guesses about what the vote totals were. but i think that was a real there was a real buzz there. that was not just the media. ifill: michael sean winte of national catholic reporter, thank you so much. thank you. woodruff: for more on what pope francis selection means for the future of the catholic church. ray suarez picks up the story. suarez: and for that we re joined by chester gillis, a dean and professor of theology at georgetown university. he has written extensively on the history of the papacy and catholicism. and sister simone campbell is the executive director of network, a progressive catholic organization which promotes social justice. well the new pope joked that the fellow cardinals went to the ends of the earth to find him. he is th first pope from the global south. in his context, sister, what does it mean to be socially progressive and doctrinally conservative? i think in the argentine context especially in the global south it means to be keenly aware of the suffering of people at the margins of society. he has spoken very strongly against the income disparities, against the concentration of wealth in the north, first world countries, against the consequences, the adverse consequences of globalization and globalized greed for people who are poor. and then he is apparently very conservative on some of the social issues. but that s very consistent with this whole idea that it s lifting up people out of poverty is the key. that s where jesus went, that s where jesus was. so i think he lives it s interesting he picked the name francis, because that francis was the most radical to reject the riches of his time and to embrace the whole concept of voluntary poverty, care for those at the margins. it s a significant step, i think. suarez: dean, he comes from a background of supervising priests rather than being a theologian or intellectual of the church. what practical aspect what practical application does that have in his new job? well, that means he s a pastoral person, which is probably a good thing for the church. he s also a jesuit and jesuits are intellectuals, all of them virtually, and a very powerful order in the church. so i think he has both sides. he has the pastolside and jesuits are contemplatives in action. so there s a contemplation side and spiritual side but it is the activity side that has to manifest itself in culture and society and it has to be on the side of the poor as has been said. that s part of his orientation. he supervised priests so he knows how to run an organization. he knows how to manage people. he knows the pressures of that job. but they haven t he hasn t let that go to his head. suarez: at the election of the last pope, benedict xvi, it was observed because of his age that th electrs were anticipating a short papacy and, in fact, that s what they got. but pope francis i is 76 years old, sister. did they just do it again? well, i think they did just do it again. but i think this is also an important step because in our fast-paced globalized world i think maybe the electors have some insights that a very long papacy like with john paul had a lot of positives but there was a lot of anguish at the end of the papacy, a lot of things went undone. because we always need a variety skills a a variety of gifts to make a difference and i think that s what they re choosing. some new gifts but not for too long. suarez: there s been stories of financial mismanagement, decline of the church in the west and, of course, the ongoing unfolding, consistent revelation of the sexual abuse scandals. what s job one after the installation? i think job one is to put a management team in place, so to speak, to make some changes probably, even in the curia, and put people in whom he trusts and who will make some changes in those structures and may even more transparency in the roman structure. you know, who would want this job? we wonder. we re saying my goodness, it s not an easy task. he s coming in at a very difficult time. this is not coming in when things are smooth so he can make a big difference in a short period of time potentially. and part of that would be by what kind of management structure and with whom he surrounds himself to manage the affairs of the vatican. suarez: but that s a tough thing when you re coming in from the outside, isn t it? it is extremely difficult coming from the outside. but the thing that he brings, it appears, is a sense of mility, a sense of humor which is wonderful and the capacity to welcome in everyone to the center. and i think it s that capacity to welcome people in that will allow him to form a management team that can do something different. he comes from a democratic country which is is led by a woman so he is used to having other voices to deal with. so i think the fact that he understands democracy, knows the value of various voices, has worked with strong women will allow us, then, to create a good team that is diverse and that is pastoral as well as administratively sound. suarez: his home, latin america, is also the home of a third of the world s catholics. but it s also a place that s seen a lot of decline in the church, a lot of move to protestant churches, to a more exuberant form of worship. great inroad in the church. evangelism is being talked about a lot. that is spreading the faith, he s been living that struggle, hasn t he? yes, and the evangelism has been an evangelism to cathics. ironically. evangelism has been trying to convert people to catholicism. in this case it s the bring people back to catholicism as you suggested and latin america there s a great migration to evangelical protestantism that s problematic. in europe there s just a decline in religious interest and people just drop out. so to evangelize in both contexts is a very important element of the church and someone who can carry that message but also has a certain credibility about his own character and humility i think will help in that. but it s a struggle. it s not going to be easy. this is not going to turn aund on a dime. suarez: sister, what are your hopes now? we re approaching the installation of a new pope, the seating and anointing of a new pope and easter. well, i live in hope and i think this peace of evangelization is very important because it s also that the people will evangelize our leaders. our leaders between church need to hear from ordinary people and that, i believe, pope francis i has already been touched by them. but he will now need to be touched by the whole world and when you touch the pain of the world as real there is a a solidarity, an engagement with the gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth and let s pray for a moment of blossoming. suarez: it must be a shocking thing to go to rome and then find out you re really never going to live in your home again. you re not going home. when you re elected, that s it. somebody brings your belongings from your home country and you are and you never have the same identity. you will be known as francis for the rest of your life and the first thing the cardinals do is pledge obedience to him. these were his colleagues and his peers a few hours ago and now he s the holy father, as he s referred to the in rome all the time. the holy father. it has to be an astonishing change to him. i m sure he contemplated it to some degree but i m sure it s humbling, i hope it s humbling and probably a little bit frightening saying i hope i can do this. i hope i have the courage to do this, the insight, the spirituality and the stamina to do the job. pelley: dean gillis, sister simone, good to talk to you both. ifill: still to come on the newshour : the search for bipartisanship; danger in your drinking water and sexual assault in the military. but first, with the other news of the day. here s hari sreenivasan. sreenivasan: the u.s. house voted today to block the obama administration from granting state waivers to work requirements under welfare. republicans charged the president is trying to gut the 1996 welfare reform law. last summer, the white house said it would grant waivers, if states can meet welfare-to-work goals by other means. so far, no state has applied for a waiver. the house bill is not expected to pass the democratic- controlled senate. a juvenile court in steubenville, ohio today opened a rape trial that s drawn international attention. the two defendants are high school football players, ages 16 and 17. they re accused of raping a 16- year-old girl last august. social media postings have fueled claims that other students should have been charged and that police under- played the incident to protect the football team. the police have denied it. in china, authorities near shanghai pulled hundreds more dead pigs from a river that provides drinking water to the city. in all, they ve found more than 6,600 pig carcasses in the water since friday. officials say the dead animals mayave been dumped swine farms upstream. the shanghai city government said it is monitoring water quality, and that so far, there is no sign of contamination. on wall street, stocks managed small gains in another relatively calm day of trading. the dow jones industrial average gained five points to close at 14,455. the nasdaq rose more than two points to close at 3,245. those are some of the day s major stories. now, back to judy. woodruff: amid a backdrop of budget negotiations, president obama kept up his bipartisan outreach today. newshour congressional correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. reporter: the president s meeting with house republicans at the capitol was his first with them, on their turf, since january 2009, a week after his first inauguration. in an interview that aired on abc this morning, he sounded a note of optimism. right now, what i m trying to do is create an atmosphere where democrats and republicans can go ahead, get together, and try to get something done. reporter: but at the same time, the president said a sweeping, long-term deficit deal could be impossible, given republican opposition to higher taxes. ultimately, it may be that the differences are just too wide. if their position is, we can t do any revenue, or, we can only do revenue if we gut medicare or gut social security or gut medicaid, if that s the position, then we re probably not going to be able to get a deal. reporter: after the president left, house speaker john boehner replied that it s mr. obama who s the obstacle to getting a deal. we have a spending problem. we have to attack the spending. and the president understands, yeah we ve got some long term spending that we need to deal with. but he s going to hold hostage the fact that he wants to raise taxes on the american people again. that s not going to get us very far. reporter: some republicans, such as house budget chair paul ryan, on msnbc today, also questioned whether the meetings with lawmakers are just for show. the question is, is he going was the so-called charm offensive a temporary, you know, poll-driven political calculation, or was it a sincere conversion to try and bring people together and start communicating? reporter: other republicans expressed more optimism about the talks and about the larger process of compromise. there are going to be places we are going to disagree, and he recognizes that we recognize it, but that doesn t mean that we can t find places where as he would say where there is overlap and try to do those things and so it was encouraging, i was glad to have him come. reporter: for now, house republicans are going ahead with ryan s budget proposal, unveiled yesterday, to balance the federal ledger by 2023, relying heavily on spending cuts and entitlement reforms. democrats in the senate are pushing their own plan, a 50-50 mix of spending cuts and higher tax revenues. neither plan is given much chance of being enacted into law. woodruff: with the president putting renewed emphasis on bipartisanship, we take a broad look at whether that has been a successful strategy in politics and policy. joining us are michael beschloss, our regular presidential historian and marc hetherington, a political science professor at vanderbilt university and the author of two books on polarization and trust in u.s. politics. welcome to you both. so we just heard some republicans, michael beschloss, questioning whether the president is sincere in this and we know separately that a senior official at the white house was telling a reporter that they thought that he put that the outreach was just joke because they didn t expect it to produce results. so the first question i want to get out of the way with both of you is has it made a difference historically whether presidents, political leaders, were sincere in an effort? oh, certainly. and they re usually sincere, particularly eager to be conciliatory when there s one or both houses of congress in the hands of the other party as is the case now but the last 25 years or so have been different in american history in the intensity of the combat between the two parties and the aversion to compromise and i think you re seeing is the suspicion of the opposite party. look what happened to charlie crist in florida. they embraced, that killed his political career and he s now a democrat. woodruff: to so the intensity has gotten worse. what about that, mark heatherring to be? is that how you see it? that we re dealing with a much more strongly felt version of what s been here before? i think michael is right, especially compared with 25, 30 years ago. think about the reagan presidency and he was facing a house of representatives that was strongly democratic at that point but there were a lot of moderates in the democratic party back in that day and age. there were no moderates on either side of the aisle for a president to reach out to. in this case a democratic president reaching out to republican moderates. if there were then this would probably be a more successl effort. it s worth doing. i think it s one of those things where we live in these this media environment where all we hear is our side of things so getting the two sides together is certainly helpful process but whether it is able to overcome the polarization that we have these days, that s another story. woodruff: mark hetherington, i a question i often hear from people is is this a partisanship born out of ideological differences, strongly-held views that are opposite ends at the spectrum of belief or is it something rucral that s due to the way the parties are organized? well, i think it s a little bit of both. back in 1950s and 60s there was a lot of overlap in washington. there were conservative southern democrats, northern northeastern liberal republicans. and these days those things have changed. you can t really find moderates and liberals in the republican party or conservatives and too many moderates in the democratic party. so part of it is really ideological. we all agree on the ends that we want. we want peace, we want prosperity. but the means that the parties have in mind about how to accomplish those end, they re quite a lot different. so bringing the parties together these days is very, very difficult. woodruff: michael beschloss, what about this question of whether it s borne out of ideology, strongly different views, or is it the structure of the way our politics i don t think it has much to do with ideology at all. you look at this intense conflict, and most people who are in congress now will say it s worse than they ve ever seen it. you look at the kind of people who want to be the leaders of their partyinongess, it s not a gerald ford of the old days, someone who could make deals with the other side and is friendly with people from the other party. it s someone who can be the most intense partisan leader. that s also different. and you d think that this all came from there being issue differences like over the bank of the united states with andrew jackson or the runup to world war two, stay out or go in. franklin park zoo, 1940, nothing remotely close to that in terms of magnitude yet the intensity of the conflict is perhaps greater than most times in history. woodruff: yet if you were to sit a partisan republican and a partisan democrat the down here at this desk they would say we have very different views on taxes, on the role of government. i would say they certainly do. but you look out in the historical context, does that rise to the intensity of the conflict over slavery, for instance, in 1860? i don t think so. woodruff: mark hetherington, how do you see that? maybe so, but hopefully we ve come a long way since the 1860s and slavery. i hope we have. i would hope so, too. the fact of the matter i there used to be a situation in washington where the parties had different wings. a moderate wing and a liberal wing. so the party leaders who tended to come from the political middle had to bring the various parts of the caucuses together. now the split is in the caucuses are in, say, between for the republicans between the conservative and the very conservative. there s very little centrist incentive to move the parties in that direction in congress and, you know, at this point i think republicans realize, boy, if we make a grandarga with the president he s going to get credit for it, it s not going to be us. so the incentives in the process will have to change to see anything different happening. and they fear they might get primaried, which is a relatively recent verb but it s something that s very much on their mind in a way that wasn t so much before. the way you raise money is to exaggerate conflict. the way you get on not the newshour but most peeve too + ef is to hype up your differences with the other side. so there are a lot of rewards for a member of congress who wants to be combative and a penalty if he wants to or she wants to compromise. woodruff: let me ask both of you to put this question in some context. given where we are today, what s the likelihood that the two sides this time are going to be able to come together and work something out. mark hetherington? well, i m i m a little bit pessimistic at this point. we know that the woodruff: only a little bit? (laughter) well, i m more than a little bit pessimistic. we know the sides are drawn the way they are. it used to be there is a time when therwereess parsan people in the public at large. so ronald reagan could go out to the public and say hey, look, i have this idea. let s put pressure on your members of congress to come around to that. but that won t happen these days. both partisans in washington and partisans in the electorate, they don t like the other side. and that make compromise very difficult to come by. woodruff: how do you see it, michael? the last 12 years we had the first attack of the continental united states by someone else since the war of 1812. not much bipartisanship after that catastrophe. the worst economic cataclysm since the great depression, not too much bipartisanship after that, either so. my view is if they didn t knock it off after events like this, it is rather bleak. woodruff: so maybe we need to have a discussion on whether it matters that there s bipartisanship or not. whether we re better off if they don t agree. maybe they re telling us something. a lot to say. woodruff: michael beschloss, mike hetherington. thank you. thanks, judy. thanks for having us. ifill: now, newshour science correspondent miles o brien begins a two-part look at america s drinking water, and the regulatory system that is supposed to guarantee its safety. his report is the result of a partnership with the center for public integrity. it begins in the small desert town that made erin brockovich a household name. come on, you want some water. come on, drink some drink. reporter: clean water is something most of us take for granted. but not roberta walker. she, her dogs, and her family drink spring water that is either bottled or trucked in. because where she lives, people can t drink the well water. welcome to hinkley, california. this was bought out, this home on the right, this is all boarded up. reporter: roberta drove me around town what s left of it. there was a home here on the corner and that of course is gone. reporter: it is a ghost town? ya, ya. reporter: the steady decline of hinkley is rooted here at a natural gas pipeline pumping station owned by the giant california utility pacific gas and electric. in the 1950s and 60s, p.g.&.e. admits it dumped 26 tons of coolant made of chromium 6 into unlined retaining ponds here. the chemical is toxic and causes cancer. it leached into the soil and contaminated the aquifer the drinking water in hinkley. the hollywood version of the story is writ large in the movie erin brockovich, released in 2000. julia roberts won an academy award for her portrayal of the crusading legal assistant who forced p.g.&e. into a $333 million settlement with the residents of hinkley in 1996. but for roberta, there was no hollywood ending. so your house was right about here? um, yes. reporter: p.g.& e. did buy and raze her old home, as they did for many others here. so she built this place on the outskirts of town out of harms way, or so she thought. so far, p.g.& e. has spent $700 million trying to clean up the stubborn mess. but the plume of chromium 6 tainted water persists. sheryl bilbrey is in charge of p.g.&e. s remediation effort. why is it taking so long? it s a very complex project. we are highly regulated. there are a lot of interested parties. the other thing is it s very important to us that we geit right. reporter: recent testing shows there is still chromium 6 in the groundwater in roberta walkers neighborhood. it is less than it was in the bad old days, but roberta is still girding to move once again, this time away from hinkley. did you ever think you would ever have to deal with chromium 6 or p.g.e. again. absolutely not, absolutely not. in front of god and the world they said they were going to clean it up. reporter: and? and they didn t. it was just it s a shocker. reporter: for the real life erin brockovich it was also an unwelcome surprise. i thought it was being cleaned up. the state thought it was being cleaned up. the community thought it was being cleaned up. so here it is ten years later, i m not paying attention because i thought it s all being handled. reporter: brockovich is now an environmental activist on a larger stage, curating a crowd- sourced map of reported cancer clusters, which she says are largely linked to chromium contaminated water nationwide. there s more and more amounting evidence or what chromium 6 does to the human health, what it does to the environment, what it does to the air. every community that i deal with that has been exposed to chromium 6, they have the same health symptoms, they have the same problems. reporter: in 2010, a nonprofit advocacy organization, the environmental working group, tested tap water in 35 u.s. cities 31 of them were contaminated with chromium 6. utility testing records how about 70 million americans are drinking this tainted water. with evidence mounting that chromium 6 may be more dangerous than once thought, the environmental protection agency decided to revisit the drinking water standard for the chemical. the standard 100 parts per billion was set 20 years ago. it is 5,000 times greater than the california e.p.a. s public health goal for chromium 6 in drinking water: .02 parts per billion. ann mason is a senior director with the american chemistry council, which represents the chemical industry. the people in t unid states are drinking water that meets the e.p.a. safe drinking water level. reporter: would you say categorically, it s okay? everybody is safe? i would say if the drinking water meets the safe drinking water level that e.p.a. has set that level and that s the rule of the land as we see it right now. reporter: there is a lot of research that links chromium 6 in drinking water to cancer. in 2008, the national institutes of health weighed in with an eye-openg rodent study. it uncovered clear evidence that high doses of chromium 6 in drinking water cause cancer in rats and mice. heather white is executive director of the environmental working group. we think that science is clear. there s been a lot more research that we ve seen of the last decade that shows that there is a big cause for concern about drinking hexavalent chromium whether it would be stomach cancer, whether it be liver damage, whether it be toxicity. reporter: after the erin brockovich movie in 2000, california lawmakers decided life should imitate art. they chartered a so-called blue ribbon panel of scientists to help set a chromium 6 drinking water standard for the state. one of the scientists on the panel was this man, dennis paustenbach. the newshour and the center for public integrity learned the company he ran, chemrisk, had been hired by pacific gas and electric during the lawsuit. at the time, the most compelling scientific study that linked chromium 6 in drinking water to cancer came from china in 1987. it studied villagers in liaoning province who lived near a chromium ore smelter and drank tainted water for years. the lead author a dr. zhang jiandong. found they had increased rates of stomach cancer. acting on behalf of its client p.g.&e., chemrisk paid zhang to redo his study. paustenbach offered this explanation before the california senate. after he saw the questions that we raised about the analysis, he went back and examined and said, of course not, it can t be true. my original conclusions don t make sense. reporter: the revised study reversed the original conclusion that chromium 6 was the likely cause of the villagers developing cancer. scientists at the california environmental protection agency were skeptical and took a look at the underlying data themselves. allan hirsch is with cal/e.p.a. reporter: the original study itself, was it good science? well, our analysis which we completed in 2008 agreed with the original 1987 paper. we found that the rates of stomach cancer in these five villages were significantly higher than stomach cancer rates in the overall province. reporter: the california epa set its public health goal of .02 parts per billion in 2011. the next step, changing the drinking water standards, has not happened. there s been a fair amount of study about hexavalent chromium over the years. is that scientific jury in? i don t think so. there are a lot of scientists that are still debating that question. i think that s why the process has taken so long from what i ve read both at e.p.a. and at the state level. so, i think they re still trying to figure out exactly what is the right answer there. reporter: back in hinkley, i got tour of the massive p.g.& e. cleanup project. kevin sullivan is the engineer in charge. they have buried a concrete barrier and are pumping ethanol into the ground, which converts chromium 6 into a more benign form of chemical called chromium 3. they have also planted acres of alfalfa that is irrigated with the tainted water. the rich organic soil also makes the conversion. so that is now chromium 3 in your hand. exactly. reporter: there is so much alfalfa, the utility now owns a thriving dairy farm. but since the ethanol injections began, a new problem seems to have surfaced. residents have started reporting elevated levels of arsenic and manganese in their wells. p.g.&e. says its occurs naturally and has always been there. nevertheless, when sullivan appears at community meetings here. there is dirty water on the table and angry accusations in the air. the community is in an uproar right now. we are not just being poisoned by chromium. we got high arsenic levels, manganese. all this can lead you to believe that p.g.e. really don t give a crap about anyone of you. i don t want to live here. i don t want my family here. i have no choice. no one will buy my home. who wants to move into this? reporter: but sullivan insists they are making progress. we have cleaned up like 54 acres. now i know that i know if it is not yours, what have you done for me lately, but 54 acres is a lot of progress. we have a long way to go but these are positive signs that we have been able to achieve in the last few years. reporter: it will be anopther 40 years ifill: in part two of his report on friday miles takes a closer look at the environmental protection agency s system for regulating toxic chemicals in the environment. online, we go behind-the-scenes in hinkley and you can also check out chromium levels in the water of 31 u.s. cities. woodruff: we ll be back shortly with a look at sexual assault cases in the u.s. military. but first: this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. ifill: for those stations not taking a pledge break, we take a second look at a story about art and activism. jeffrey brown recently visited the first north american exhibit for chinese artist ai weiwei at the smithsonian institution s hirshhorn museum in washington, d.c. reporter: antique wooden stools from the qing dynasty, re-purposed into a sculpture called grapes. a video documenting changes along a major street in beijing; an ancient vase, creatively altered or debased. you decide with a modern day logo. these are works by the chinese artist ai wei wei. a prankster who can make a tea house literally out of tea leaves. and represents the real surveillance camera that watches him at his home in china as a marble sculpture. he s also a visionary who helped design the bird s nest stadium for the beijing olympics. and whose use of social media is shifting the boundaries of art and activism and a dissident pressing for human rights, who took a picture and tweeted it even as he was being arrested in 2009. and then spent 81 days in prison, was beaten and made the x-ray image of the damage he suffered into an art work, brain inflation. reporter: ai lives and works in beijing and is not allowed by the government to travel outside china. he spoke recently to a camera crew hired by the newshour to pose our questions. reporter: born in 1957, ai is the son of a renowned poet. the father and his family, including the young wei wei, were sent to be re-educated in a 1981, lived in the u.s. for 12 years. his new york photographs for me, ai wei wei has been one of the most important artists that has emerged from this new wave of chinese art from the 90s and the 2000s. reporter: kerry brougher is chief curator at the hirshhorn. you can see the history of china reflected in much of the work. you can see conflicts with western culture and eastern culture and you can see critiques of the chinese government or of other governments as well. power in general. reporter: often you can see a provocation, as in one of ai s most famous works, dropping a han dynasty urn. three photographs showing exactly that the destruction of a 2,000-year-old cultural relic. one of the things i think he s saying is, sometimes, it s necessary to destroy the old before you can move forward with the new. and also, by destroying something that s important, it suddenly makes you have to think about the value of things. what are they worth? who say s they re valuable? reporter: ai returned to china in 1993 and became part of the country s cultural elite, eventually tapped by the government to collaborate with a swiss architectural firm to design the 2008 olympics stadium. photos are on the floors and but he grew critical of the communist party s attempt to control the event. his biggest confrontation with the authorities soon followed, after the earthquake in sichuan province and more than 5,000 children were killed in poorly constructed schools that collapsed, leading to accusations of official corruption and a coverup. ai photographed the destruction and started an online campaign to collect the names, ages and other data for each victim. that became a wall-sized display and an audio recording called remembrance. he also transformed tragedy into art: collecting some 38 tons of twisted steel rebar from the destruction, straightening and and, picking up one particularly poignant image from the rubble. he created a long, serpentine work constructed of children s backpacks. the documentary film ai wei wei: never sorry captured some of his attempts to gain information on what had happened. filmmaker alison klayman spent three years watching ai wei wei up close in his work as artist and activist. to him, what is the definition of an artist? it s someone who is interested in communication, who is interested in engagement, who has to be talking about the things that are relevant to the world around him or her. reporter: indeed, communication and new technology the internet and social media became a passion for ai. beginning in 2006 and lasting three years, he wrote a blog about art, life and politics before it was shut down by the verent. he now spends hours a day online and remains very active on twitter, though it is blocked within china. reporter: ai wei wei continues to make museum-ready objects, such as cube light, a huge chandelier that refers to the traditions of both chinese lanterns and western minimalist art. he also continues to speak his mind. reporter: after his release from prison in 2011, ai was charged with tax evasion and hit with a multi-million dollar fine, which his backers see as further punishment for his activism. woodruff: online you can see more of our interview with ai wei wei. he said he ll never be optimistic about china s new leadership. we also have more from our interviews about the artist and you can view a slide show of images from the exhibit. woodruff: finally tonight, we return to the issue of sexual assaults in the military. earlier today, victims testified before congress about what they went through and the changes they think need to be made in the armed forces. women in combat zones are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by the enemy. but, of the nearly 4,000 reports of sexual assault in the military last year, only 191 defendants were convicted at courts martial. and, because very few victims actually come forward, the real number of cases is estimated at 19,000. those numbers from the pentagon have fixed new attention on the problem with stories in the new york times and rolling stone magazine on rape survivors and the oscar-nominated documentary the invisible war , filled with testimonials from military veterans who were sexually assaulted. i reported it two different times to my squad leader, and he told me there was nothing i could do about it because i didn t have any proof. they took me before my lieenancommder,e sa do you think this is funny, and i said what do you mean? and he s like, is this all a joke to you? i was like what do you mean? and he goes, you re the third girl to report rape this week are you guys like all in cahoots, do you think this is a game? woodruff: today, a senate armed services sub-committee took up the issue, starting with anu bhagwati of the service women s action network. during my five years as a marine officer i experienced daily discrimination and sexual harassment. i was exposed to a culture rife with sexism, rape jokes, pornography, and widespread commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls both in the united states and overseas. woodruff: from there, the panel heard first-hand accounts from victims, both women and men. brigette mccoy is a former army specialist. i m a gulf war era service disabled veteran. i was raped during military service and during my first assignment. that was 1988, i was 18 years old, it was two weeks before my 19th birthday. woodruff: former navy petty officer brian lewis also appeared said to be the first male victim of military rape to testify before congress. during my tour on the u.s.s. frank cable, i was raped by a superior non commissioned officer. i was ordered by my command not to report this crime. woodruff: rebekah havrilla, a former army sergeant, said she did not report her rape initially and then. approximately a year after separating from active duty, i was on orders for job training. and during that time i ran into my rapist at a post store. he recognized me and told me he was stationed on same installation. i was so retraumatized that i removed myself from training and i sought out assistance from chaplain who told me among other things that the rape was god s will and god was trying to get my attention so that i would go back to church. six months later, perp had taken photographs during my rape, at that point i felt it would always haunt me unless i did somhing aboutt. i went to c.i.d. and a full investigation was completed. it was the most humiliating thing i have experienced. i had to relive the entire event for four hours and explain what was going on in each of the pictures. woodruff: senator kirsten gillibrand chairing the subcommittee got a mixed response, when she ked if an outside prosecutor would help in reporting crimes, by moving the process outside the chain of command. an independent prosecutor would have made a world of difference. it would have gotten reporting outside chain of command and not enabled my commanding officer to sweep this under the rug. had i actually gone through with a full investigation while serving, i would have had to live with the men who were abusive toward me. that s not anything i would have ever wanted to go through. independent prosecutor aside. the challenge is partially changing the culture within the military with how women are viewed. woodruff: later, defense department officials acknowledged the military culture must change. major general gary patton directs the sexual assault prevention and response office. underpinning all efforts is need for culture change. where sexist behavior are not tolerated, condoned. i believe we will know change when prevention of sexual assault is as scrutinized as friendly fire. we will know when they produce same reaction as hearing racist slur. we are not there yet. woodruff: the new defense secretary chuck hagel promised stronger leadership on the issue, at his confirmation hearing last month. it s not good enough just to say zero tolerance. the whole chain of command needs to be accountable for this all the way down to the bottom. woodruff: hagel has already ordered a review of an air force general s decision to overturn a sexual assault conviction against an officer who served in italy. ifill: again, the major developments of the day: cardinal jorge bergoglio of argentina was elected pope the first leader of the world s catholics to hail from the americas. he took the name francis. vatican officials announced the new pontiff will be formally installed next tuesday. vice president biden will lead the u.s. delegation. woodruff: online, we give you three rules for getting the most from your social security benefits. hari sreenivasan explains. sreenivasan: the system for determining your eligibility is not very user-friendly. larry kotlikoff offers some general rules to help maximize your benefit check without the headache on making sense. why does china have its own plus, on monday s newshour, we discussed what happens to your digital assets after death. in a live chat tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. gwen? 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training kicked in really fast and that s a point well taken, and i appreciate lee you showing that clip because it illustrates an important distinction that we need to make. we don t want to send the message to america that bullying is normative; that bullying is normal, and that clip illustrated that the school is sending that message, and there is a difference, an important distinction between the school sort of embodying and sending the message to the kids that bullying is just a part of growing up and believing that bullying in our school is normative because it simply isn t. the data shows bullying is going down and that is not a popular thing to say these days. bullying is a very important social problem that we need to fix, but it is not an epidemic and it s not on the rise and neither is cyber bullying and the top scholars in the country and in social science and psychology that saying that, so that s an important distinction so thank you both so much. and there is that and there s a balance between i mean when i hear that bullying is going down i mean all of us should rejoice because that to me is indicative of the fact of the work in communities across the country are starting to pay off, but it s going to be hard in this ark and we are in this area and people are coming forward, kids are coming forward . suicides that would have been kept forward or not reporting and we re learning thanks to rapid fire and thanks to social networking or facebook and this is a sued all of this the the volume of bullying is going to rise in proportion with i think the actual drop in occurrences so to balance that and be aware of that i think is important. i totally agree, and that s really to rosylyn s point about this being a very, very important moment and we need to did it right. just on the subject of suicide the surgeon general came out this week and there was a usa today story and suicide and especially among veterans right now and suicide is complex and we cannot send the message there is a lot of fear out there right now that bullying leads to suicide and suicide is complex and 90% of people who take their lives have mental health problems and there are rarely a single factor and that is something your film has been criticized for. sure. and some of the kids had other factors involved besides bullying and i think we have to be really careful. we need to talk about suicide. it s a public health problem. it s out there. but there are people that silence the confidence about suicide conservation about suicide and is dangerous as well. we have a question. i do research in this area. i want to thank you both of you and your film and bringing vast awareness to this. one of my concerns is the national discourse unfolds we want to get tough on bullying and the more severe the consequences are, high stakes consequence and it is anti-bullying laws and et cetera it is more likely children are actually not going to speak up, and it causes this sweeping under the rug and i just think this needs to be addressed and i wanted to thank you for your comment about connecting the false assumption that bullying is always linked to suicide. that s something that was talked about at the federal summit that we need to separate these two issues out to some extent and one of the things well, i will just ask i guess my question is sorry. so much to share i thought something that was interesting and i am trying to remember what i wanted to say i wanted to say our approaches are converging in opposite ways and students feel safe to get the bullying addressed but the policies are punitive and high stakes and we know that zero tolerance is not the case and makes things work and gives a one week vacation. you can leave school for a week, have fun and when you come back you get to do what you did before. thank you. thanks. one thing i always thought disciplining kids you is you have to get create and i have have systems in place and one thing i have always done with administrators if you want to make the bully feel like they re being held responsible then take away their appearance of social power. what that means is in every school that i ever been to there is always a place where that kids have places they hang out; right? so if you have a kid that is aggressive or bullying someone they have a place they hang out. do not let that person hang out there. you can get into the most ridiculous conversations with the kid no, you don t get to sit on the senior bench this year. no you don t. you re 18 and i know you re about to have a petition and a protest and i m not going to let you sit on the senior position and especially if the child has high social power and they sit where people can see them. it s their place. some are waiting to get on that bench since freshman year, so if they do something inappropriate and don t allow them to participate as a member of the community. that is way worse than a two day suspension and everyone sees. you don t need to blanket it out and no, you don t get to sit on the bench and being creative that way is helpful and another thing i learned from the principal and i was stuck and working with boys and boys are complex and interesting. really complex. i know it doesn t look like it and they really are, so one of the things that boys are really good boy aggressors are great at is when they have when they go to the principal s office be disciplined when they walk out they are usually good bulls bullyings, are good at making sure everything that happened in the office is a joke, so what do you do with that? how do you discipline that? i was talking to people in illinois about it and military guy and sit foot six and scary and i need help and i don t want to do that as a principal. i m not in the army anymore and so when they walk out of my office i know that they re doing this and i don t know what to do besides be really scary. that was amazing the principal came forward amongst the peers and said i don t know what i am doing and in this situation i need help and another principal said when i am in the office who i am disciplining how you connect yourself when you walk out of my office very much deals with you ho i deal with this entire problem . that s a great idea and i am sharing that with you. we have three more minutes left and i have one more person. briefly please. we have a lot of research in bullying prevention and social emotional learning programs and castle if we are looking at long-term prevention of this issue i would like that more part of the conversation as well and thank you for the work in bringing awareness. [inaudible] great. thank you. we have one more person that wants to say something before addressing the issue of suicide and mental health issues i believe. again we only have about three minutes. i will make it quick. my point is as a child of a mother that killed himself while at school when we toss out these statistics and goodness only 90% are mental health ill. let s extrapolate the number and 10% died directly from peer abuse, something cause and effect, and if we recognize we currently have the highest suicide rate with the military, cause and effect. we don t dishonor their memories by saying they re mentally ill and making all these excuses. as a mother my child wasn t mentally ill but harassed to the point he broke and that is the part i read both your book. they re excellent. lee, as i said earlier after michael died i emailed you and the greatest grief imaginable trying to just i never heard of any of this, and you emailed me back, and i am here to tell you that children who are killing themselves i know their parents. these kids are not mentally ill. they are breaking under ho rendous set of circumstances and yes we can discuss resiliency and all these other things, but we have to have room in the conversation for our very sensitive kids as well. thank you so much. [applause] all right. one final thought from each of you and we have to wrap it up and i want to talk about your project and with the schools. i want us to think about as the day we have been challenging ourselves what we can do to make a contribution, one of the things to think about is the way in which i m trying to address the problem of sensitivity and there are some kids of different thresholds and definitions and everyone has the right to their emotional truth and we need kids to learn more social skills and resiliency and all of these things that i am doing and never would have done it and hit me in the last year or two. i was going to do a chapter i am and kids on the spectrum of autism andace perers and targeted or initiated into perpetrating, which i dealt with last week, are perpetrators and aggressors, so i wanted to work on that so i m working with kids and with aspergers and autism and one thing that struck me is we need to be able on the flip side, so i m now writing to kids when you are the one that has more of a thick skin, whatever you want to call it, how do you interact with kids who are more sensitive? just how do you do that? how do you recognize the signs when you re around somebody that does calibrate and has a different definition and what bothers them and what doesn t and if we can do that and i m asking autistic kids and asperger s kids and normal kids and what are the things that trigger these things and what can we do and i want you to know what i am doing right now and i am working with boys and i finished the porn section and honest i m doing all of it and why do girls send naked pictures and this week we re creating concrete strategies and scenarios so they can picture what to do when they are up either way against these dynamics and if we work together this way and really name it. sometimes kids with aspergers can do things that are off putting. i sat with a kid in a class that put his leg over class during the over the head during class and 17 years old and it s off putting. we can own it and now what do we do about it? it s not distracting to everybody fine but how do we do it in a way we re honest with everyone in the room and reaching out to each other appropriately. you have a project and working on a thing, a whole school based project. yeah, well anyways thank you guys. this is really a great conversation. just a little bit about where we re going. bully the movie is backed by a team, the bully project, and we have been bringing the film and educating, training professional development largely thriewr our partnership with them and provides that to school districts and classrooms across the country for free, so educators can sign up, and if they agree to do the training and to take it seriously and embed it with the kids and the adults in the community we provide them with oftentimes busing, but often free tickets so they can see the film outside of school and make it an event and that is our project 1 million kids . we re doing it in a big way here in the bay area thanks to the leadership in this community. yep and oakland and all over. it s just awesome and in cleveland and right now we have 13,000 students across the basin in salt lake city are seeing it, and does have impact and the impact is largely i would say it creates a sense of agreement. the biggest thing that bully does or the big service the film has is gives everyone a unified collective science of agreement to which they roll up the sleeves and get busy creating change and has been really exciting. i building we already i believe kroshed the threshold of 140,000 students nationwide and we are working to get to the million and the idea is a million is a tipping point . a million kids in america. that s like one in ten basically in public schools. that gets embedded so over time every september schools are starting with that method to have that agreement, and along the way we re also trying to deliver youth action and educate ideas and teach the schools and districts about social emotional learning because after they see the film they want to know what do we do next? how do we impact that? and that s what i am up to and it s great to be here. thanks so much for coming here. we appreciate it. [applause] good afternoon everyone. i am rachel smith falls and a senior vice president here of futures without violence i wanted to thank you all for being here and formally welcome to futures without violence. as many of you know of the former name had that for close to 30 years and when we moved to this building we changed our name to futures without violence and for many reasons and it really does reflect the work that we do in the mission. we are here to create futures without violence and we believe it s possibility when we stand in solidity with people like yourself and i want to thank you for being here. you are one of the first groups to hold a all day conference in this space. we are open to suggestions if you have ideas or using the space for your own organizations. we are up and running in this part of the conference center and in a year and a half we will open the rest of the building and has a public exhibition that deals with the topics you re talking about today and bullying and education and creating the future we want for our families and children and if you for coming today. i think you are taking a short break and reconvening in this room at 2:15 o clock and please come back in 2014 when we open to the public. before we start the panel i want to do the thank you s and i recognize when we re done everyone will leave and i wanted to exz press this. so this was a concept. i think about two and a half months ago and anne marie and brian and we were in my office talking about what we could do and what we could do to help and it went from that to this because of anne marie conroy so i want to give a big round of applause to anne marie. as everybody in the room knows she s a force of nature and that s all i have to say and to futures without violence and for this beautiful facility. we got support from the school district and various people and terrific from the mayor s office and of course the mayor and the bully project. we couldn t be more grateful. from the san francisco police department from greg sir to denise flair erty and cheryl jennings and the girl friday and kept us moving all day and to the communications that we got the word out through the media and laura who kept us moving today and financial support. if you read about the justice department in the paper you know we can t pay for anything. when people come to my office quite literally i can t give them coffee. people think the government is high flying and i am here to tell you it s not true. there was support for this event and we couldn t be more grateful to the people that made this possible and the rosenberg foundation and they are here, the san francisco foundation and dr. sander herself and a round of applause, the california endowment and others provided tremendous financial support so thank you very much for that. [applause] . we really do appreciate it and the cohost and mary lee and tom torque son and who you met this morning and our next panel is planning for student safety opportunity and success and planning for action around the bay. our moderator is jill tucker an education reporter at the san francisco kron cell. i told jill it s hard to find bios online for reporters. they can stay out of google. she s award winning reporter and covered california schools for 14 years and knows a lot about this subject and was honored by the california teacher association and received the highest award about the growing number of homeless students in the school system. she is a san francisco native and was in the peace corps and tout in west africa and please welcome jill tucker. [applause] thank you. she just dated me with that 9090 peace corps thing. okay. i want to say how great it is to be here. i have been looking at everyone s name tags and awed by the wide variety of people and i want you to in rolodex. email me. there are great stories i have been hearing today. we have amazing and large panel and it is an honor to moderate for them. real quickly you will have to take my word. i have read their full bios which are three pages here. i m not going to read all of that but you have to my word these are award winning policy makers and leaders in our community. we will start with jeff rosen. [applause] he s the district attorney of santa clara county and the recognized leader in criminal justice reform. he oversees the largest prosecutor s office north of los angeles and prosecute about 40,000 cases each year, so he is on the ground. he sees it all. he is however a green bay packer fan but we will forgive him because they lost. you should be very happy. you won. next to him is richard carranza and the superintendent of san francisco unified, just started in the summer of july. prior to that he was the deputy superintendent of innovation and social justice. [applause] next to richard is nancy o malley, district attorney for alameda county. she was appointed in 2009 and elected in 2010 and has an amazing background dealing dealing with violence against women and domestic violence, elder abuse, child abuse and threat management. she s a wonderful addition to our panel so thank you nancy. [applause] next to nancy is tony smith who i loved his biobest of all and started he s an oakland resident and parent of students in oakland public schools. he was became the superintendent in 2009. he s a local boy including university of california berkeley background where he was captain of the football team and he did not include this in the biobut i know it and he wrote his under graduate thesis on emily dickon son so he s kind of a renaissance dude and he s 6-foot something. next to him is [applause] and next to him is george gaston and elect to the district attorney of the city and county of san francisco in 2011 after winning more than 62% of the vote which in san francisco is very enviable and focused on reducing violent crime, protecting vulnerable victims and respecting with high school truancy and rel haven t to the conversation today. last is cheryl young and the chief executive director of gate path and oversees a large nonprofit in san mateo county and focus on turning disabilities into possibilities and she s a wonderful addition to the panel and it s an area that school districts have to deal with in terms of special needs and what we re talking about affects these children if not more than the other children so thank you cheryl. [applause] so we have a large panel and they can all tell you i sent them an email yesterday said you will have a brief time to say what you do, what your organization is doing, address the needs of the kids suffering or facing bullying and i told them they have two to three minutes, not 23 minutes and i m going to hold them to it so jeff let s start with you. sure. thank you. i think one thing that a perspective that prosecutors can to this discussion is first of all the reason people become prosecutors generally they don t like it when other people are taken advantage of. it really offends the very core for a prosecutor. you know i often joke i don t even like when people cut in line but i recognize there is not necessarily a remedy to that, but so bullying is something that almost everybody has had an experience in their life of being bullied, and i think one perspective as prosecutors is if we don t address this today s bullies and if we don t address it are tomorrow s batters, and today s victims of bullying becomes tomorrow s victims. that is painting with a very broad brush, but it s something that encourages us to take action. i think in my prosecutors office there is hard and soft power. the hard power in a
protecting himself and chief second if i have sister. we re staying put, guys. we have a turnaround plan. david: netflix, who would have guessed back in september trading $54 a share, a few month later it would be up to about $200 a share and another 5% pop today. david, you re absolutely right. what an amazing store netflix has been. another headline for netflix, that they are now connected with facebook. so all of the users of netflix can use that on their facebook. they connect with friend and it is up over 100% this year. 2013. liz: we already talked about the blackberry. it goes without saying we re waiting to hear who the supper is. somebody announced a order for blackberry 10s, a mill of them. who might that be. one million blackberry 10 smartphones. their largest order ever. liz: at&t, radioshack, who knows, right? [closing bell rings] they said the shipments start immediately, a strong partner they know of. david: you hear the bells ringing. a little muted to what is happening in st. peter s square. people roaring their it helped push the airline index higher by more than 2%. liz: dow jones transports hitting a new all-time high again following in the dow s footsteps. both up today sees hit new highs simultaneously, that triggers what is known as the dow theory. it is a buy signal set to confirm the markets upward trend and we say should bode well for future returns. david: always boding wells. looks good but who knows. meanwhile retail sales, you may have seen this as soon as you woke up. it was spectacular gain of 1.1% in february, much bigger than anybody thought. biggest feign in five months. that has to do with the price of gas. if you take gas out of the equation it, was only .1 of 1% better than expected. it pushed best buy, nike, coles, all rallying 2.5%. kohl s. we have a segment whether the retail pop is believed and to invest in later this hour. we have breaking news from peter barnes in washington. peter. we have news that the fed will announce releasing its policy statements when we have the fomc meetings at 2:00 eastern sharp going forward. now this is a change from the timing of the fed has used in the past for releasing its fomc statements after its meetings eight times a year on interest rates and quantitative easing and what have you. in the past on non-press conference days we ve gotten these release as bit early and gotten a chance to read them. usually we phoned in the announcement, you know, 2:15, 2:30 eastern time. and on press conference days we ve done it around 12:15 eastern time or so. now the fed is saying it will have a firm rerelease time of fomc policy statements, 2:00 p.m. eastern. we do this in the treasury press room. we have a bell we ring. it is largely informal, not exact to a specific time. now the fed wants to do it at a specific time, 2:00 p.m. eastern for all fomc meeting statements going forward. back to you. david: they re just jealous what is happening in rome. they have want a little attention put back on the fed. they think they re the most important people in the world. thank you very much. peter barnes, good to see you. liz: thank you, peter. let s get to today s action. todd horowitz in the pits of the cme and our market panel, peter kenny, and george antopolus. i want to start with todd at the cme. give us a sense whether it is now business as usual for whether the records continue to excite or concern? you tell me emotion there. hi, liz, hi david. what is going on right now, we re getting very narrow ranges again. the market is pricing to perfection. this is ho hum. we escaped another record high. as far as traders are concerned they re looking for every opportunity to take the chance to sell here. each sell is met by buyers. we pushed the market to new highs again. as far as the overall action here it is very subdued now. ho hum, a new high. we ll see what goes on tomorrow. david: here is the overall question though, todd, just to put a fine point on it. are you taking a greater risk now when you buy a stock thinking it will go higher instead of holding onto cash waiting for a dip? i think now you have to observe the market and stay out. i don t think you want to put in new money here becauue i think we re much closer to a temporary top. i think there s a lot more risk to the downside. even if we get high we re talking about 1565 on the s&p, at some point here the come in like a bull in march will go out like a bear. at some point we re going to get some profit-taking, we re going to get some selling, the price for perfection, you can see the range is getting narrow. i don t think i want to be a committer of new money here. i want to stay in cash or short the market if that is the type of trader or look to a dip to buy. the dip buyers and late people to the party, retail is starting to chase market a little higher here. liz: there is pent-up demand. there is institutional buying going on and money behind that institutional buying. couldn t this thing have a long tail? i don t think so. i think that for now, i think you re getting the late institutions in. i think you re getting late retail money in. i think the tape is showing that. the daily action, the daily swings, the ranges, i think we re seeing we re much closer to a top than we are to a selloff. liz: okay. good to see you, todd. we ll be watching that along with the vix because that times gives us a sense of what might be happening next. six 1/2 years lows. liz: can you believe it? we ll see you in a few minutes. thanks, todd. let s bring in the market panel with peter and george. george, pick up where todd left off, the question of whether there is downside risk now. you do see a pullback. you paint a scenario of a pullback ten to 15%. paint it out for us. what do you see happening over the next couple weeks with the markets? well, thank you, david. hello, liz. what we expect to see is a continuation of the bull market that we ve been experiencing but we well have a pullback. we believe that the dow jones industrial average will climb from 14,500 up to 15,but we expect 15,000. but we expect a 10% pullback as todd mentioned on the dow jones industrial average as well as s&p and nasdaq. we absolutely agree with todd. this is market high and there could well be a 10% correction in the market. that is a healthy, robust correction that happens in every great bull market. liz: it does, peter, but todd is very sure we re at the tail end of this. that it is getting to be a tired bull market. do you agree with that assessment of it? in the very, very short term, liz, i do. we re up ten 10% year-to-date on the dow. that is awful lot in two and a half 1/2 months. would a pullback be healthy and welcome and opportunity to put cash in the equity space? absolutely. i don t think anybody in the market for that period of time would not want to welcome that opportunity. we ve had another record high and seven in a row. there is not a great deal of institutional sponsorship at these prices. i do however think it is a soft floor. it is being provided for by very, very healthy and sustainable economic trend in terms of employment, retail sales, things of that nature. any kind of a pullback which i believe we ll get, 4 to 5% would be very welcome opportunity because the longer term trend is definitely higher. david: george, let me talk about a specific talk, what we talk about a lot here, apple because of a incredible change of fortunes in the stock and in the company itself. you think apple is a pick. i m wondering if you buy in now, or if in fact you wait for this pullback that you see coming? pause even if there s a pullback is apple going to be beaten down much further? david, that s a great question. it could get beaten down a little further, absolutely. we re very bullish on apple. we have been for several years. the greatest mantra in investing buy low, sell high. so you want to buy low and hopefully this is the low entry point. we expect apple to hit a three-year price target that is in april of 2016 of $900 a share. we called that perfectly in 08 with apple and we rid it up and rode it up as it rode up higher. david: let me ask you short term, george. in in fact you think apple will be hit along with other stocks with the ten and 15% hit, why not wait a little bit to buy apple? it has a little room to grow at the bottom. you could do that. of hedge your investment now short term and couple that over self months with the remainder of your position so you buy it over the next quarter or two quarters. that way you could be dollar-cost averaging on the entire purchase of apple. therefore buying low if it does go lower. liz: let me get to peter kenny. you re an equity guy. we know you like equities. what else going forward as we see this may or may not last. there may be an interim correction. where do people who have a little bit of dry powder, couple thousand dollars they want to salt throughout the market, where should they be putting it? look for trades that have been confirmed repeatedly over last three, four, five quarters, housing financials. these are two, if you believe in the thesis we have a major leg up in the market which was confirmed by the transports and the dow earlier today, if you re a believer in this thesis, i m a believer in it, are two pill lars pillars for any move higher and expansion in the economy domestically. housing, financials without a doubt. energy as the third. liz: okay. large cap technology for the dividend but those three i think you ve got to have exposure sure to with dry powder right now. liz: let me tell the viewers. things working past five months, at least follow that trend for now, correct. yes. david: wow! that is amazing we could see doubling of money they made in housing an financials. george, we were talking a little bit about the consumer sector, retail sector specifically. you think it is good time to buy into mickey d s or mcdonald s now? or again, like we talked about apple, should we wait until it comes down? you want to buy mcdonald s. you want to buy coca-cola. you want to buy large cap blue chip names. right now mcdonald s is trading under $100 a share and coca-cola is trading at about 38. david: mcdonald s at 100, george, mcdonald s at 100. it seems a little pricey right now at 100. should i wait for it to come down into the 80s for example? you could. you could do the same strategy as i mentioned earlier. david: dollar-cost averaging? absolutely. mcdonald s has been up over 1,000% since 1977. again for a long term portion of your portfolio. you want to invest now for the next, one, three, five, ten years. this is a great time to enter into some of these large cap blue chip names as economy is recovering and reinvest the dividend that mcdonald s pays you on a quarterly base. same with coca-cola. and you will do well over the long run with blue chip names. david: inflation adjusted looks like a new record. inflation adjusted what happened in 2007, this would have to be 15,900. that is about 1500 points where it is now to the inflation adjusted high. i m just saying it. we have to put a little inflation adjustment here. it still has room to grow is what i m saying. liz: thank you very much, peter and george. david: thank you very much. retail numbers had a surprise, big surprise to the upside. much of that was due to the high price you re paying at the pump. is this burst of retail spending for real or is it a blip that will fall with personal income? liz: consumers, they are more careful how to spend their money, seeking out reviews before spending money. things like booking trips, going to restaurants. well, that has in extraordinarily way helped trip advisor and its stock is soaring. coming up the ceo talks about the company s continued growth actually attracting 200 million visits a month, a number advertisers love to hear. david: and blaze pizzas, a new custom pizza franchise that is attracting really big-time investors. wait until you hear exactly who is investing and when this fast-growing company will be growing public when the ceo and cofounder joins us right here . 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we have the marketing services managing director of global research and he is retail expert in all things. good to see you, bill. good to see you. david: were you as shocked to hear that number as i was? i was shocked given the fact personal income dropped by 3.6% in january. david: we ll talk about that for a second. as soon as you heard the 1.1%, i wasn t prepared how low it would go after you took out the rise in gasoline of the did you think that would happen? it is relatively flat. one. numbers we look at is visits to online retail sites. we ve seen visits to online retail sites increase 12% first two months of the year, which is a positive sign. there is little bit of a caveat. what we ve seen in past when visits and economy good, retail online retail sites go up. when the economy is bad, visits to online retail sites go up. people are looking for a deal. the population is going online looking for the best possible price. david: that is interesting. i think of jcpenney. peoppe are looking at a deal at exactly the time ron johnson, the new ceo, well he is not new anymore, but the way he changed jcpenney by ending special discounts of the his timing couldn t have been worse, right in terms of his plan for the way jcpenney was turned around. now going back to doing deals, going away from all-time low price i think will be advantageous for jcpenney because it is true. look at search term data. this is the best proxy we have. looking how people are searching. they re looking for percent off, sale, deal, discount is really overwhelming compared to recent years. david: i know you don t pick stocks. a lot of folks out there who do getting an idea which retail stocks to purchase. what you re saying that companies that focus on the curious consumer if you will, the one that goes looking for the best deal, it is that group you want to target? that is one. other ones which is really interesting. we have ex-per i don t know marketing services index where we look at consumer sentiment on the economy. our number we can cross tabby demographics. we looked at 18 to 34 years olds versus 65 plus. there is the 16 point gap. 18 to 34-year-olds are indexing 100. that is really important number. they feel about the economy as 18 to 34-year-old s pre1995 and recession. david: even though how tough it is for college gratz to get a job? they re positive to the economy. david: that kind of flies in the face of reality which you mentioned. we have personal income down 3.6% in february. that s a huge drop. that is much less money in your pocket. presumably that would change your buying patterns but it hasn t. presumably it would. probably if you average over the entire pop like it does but you look at specific demographics. they may reduce spending my increase because they feel more optimistic about the economy. david: people affected least by drop in personal income are younger folks, who by the way are the most fickle. hardest to choose which company really appeals to their tastes. they are the most fickle. they re also the different, most difficult to reach. these are multichannel users. that is one thing we do at experion market services we look at multichannel marketing strategy. they are reaching customers through five different channels, through the web, search, mobile, print, tv. getting to these people is becoming more and more difficult to do and focusing on mobile will be one of the keys. david: that is why i say one thing absolute, this group you re talking about that is optimistic, the group you want to reach, are tied to their mobiles. they, forget about newspapers entirely. forget about magazine ads, et cetera. you want to focus on the mobile ads if you want to get them. you want to focus on mobile and realize these consumers are always on. they have the phone with them all the time and it is powerful. streaming more and more powerful. tablets and phones are becoming slightly larger and consumers take the phones into stores and get best possible research. david: bill, soon to be colleague with gary kaminsky. yes. david: thanks. liz, over to you. liz: millions of people are looking to trip advisor to post hotels and attractions, actually more than 200 million a month the up next the ceo is telling us about the site s very impressive growth. the stock is up over 65% in the past year. how is it attracting advertisers? log on to facebook for us would you do that? facebook.com/afterthebell. click on the like button. let us know if you click on trip advisors reviews before booking a trip. we ll be right back. . the husqvarna all-wheel-drive mower is here. engineered with a unique drive system and dual transmission. all-wheel traction. all-wheel power. all done. only from husqvarna. challenge the impossle. liz: time for a quick speed read, some of the day s other headlines, five stories, one minute. first up the carlisle group is lowering the minimum investment needed to get into its new buyout fund. the private equity firm will now allow people to invest as little as $50,000 in order to widen its customer base. discover will begin offering home equity loans starting in the second half of this year. the company says 80% of its customers are homeowners and it is looking to benefit from rising home prices. data firm idc saying devices running google android software will rise to 49% of the market share in 2013. apple s share is expected to slip to 46%. get ready for march mad dples. survey madness. survey found one-third of workers spend three hours watch the basketball championship during work hours. 7% says i take time off work to watch. ringling brothers teaming up with marvel entertainment. they will create live arena shows featuring marvel super heroes. they are expected to begin 2014. stay tuned for that, that is speed read. [buzzer] david: bingo. investors giving trip advisors positive review with the stock hitting new all-time high, up 85% since the spin-off from expedia in late 2011. push higher comes as the company announces it is the first travel site to reach 100 million reviews and opinions. more than 50% increase year-over-year. with us the trip advisor ceo and president. actually, steve coffer. nice to see you. thank you for being here. a pleasure. liz: okay. let s get ride to it. 100 million reviews. i don t know the harlem shake , the happy dance, what were you doing when you hit that? well it is really a big thank you goes out there to all of these contributors, the millions that have really helped us over the years build up such a compelling corporate content. all these reviews, opinions, candid sfot toes, that is what makes the site come alive all around the world. david: is expedia sad you re doing so well? i d say expedia is doing quite well too. david: it is. it is. everybody can do well in the market. even competitors can do well. do they think if they incorporate what you do in their model it would have been better for them? again, i think it s worked out extremely well for both companies. we lived a very happy life within the expedia family and i d say proof is in the pudding. both companies have done quite well since spinnout. liz: steve, do you find people are using your website more through mobile devices? this is a big question we ask anybody who has a social media site or through mobile devices or laptops, desktop, et cettra? desktop is still the predominant usage but mobile is growing quite fast. we see tablet usage and tablet from a user perspective looks very similar to a desktop. liz: right. mobile for trip advisor is a fantastic opportunity to develop a great product for someone already at their destination and already in a new city or national park or wherever. liz: you going to the mobile monetizaton and making money off the mobile devices and seeing people click on the ads. have you having success with that where facebook struggled a little bit? it is a little bit different for us. we don t think mobile is replacing our desktop usage but rather being additive. folks already in a city in the destination they re traveling to weren t lugging around their computers and laptops to continue their research. now they re able to walk down the street, open up the trip advisor app which is downloaded 45 million times or so and get great travel information literally while they re walking down the street. what is the best restaurant near to where i am pretty much anywhere in the world. david: steve, we just had retail expert talk about the spectacular numbers we had in february. even if you take out gasoline, when you still think of personal income going down and people still paying out more money for things like trips, it is surprising however this retail expert said it focused on the younger crowd, the younger dome mows. that s where the people are most on mystic and most willing to spend more money. the older folks keep their money pretty close to their pockets. are you finding the same in the trip world? well, i don t have the demographic breakdown like that but we just completed a study of both travelers on the site as well as folks in the hospitality industry and both sides of the equation said they expect to either spend more or in the case of the hospitality industry, make more in the coming year. so sentiment and optimism is definitely up from where it was before. liz: okay. i m looking at, an international footprint that we re really interested hearing about because that s where you can really have potential opportunity. which areas is it emerging markets? is it asia? where are you growing the most quickly? i would say it s over seven, about 75% of the traffic to trip advisor branded sites now comes from folks who live outside of the usa. and you re right, asia is markets for us.est growing asia, south america, because of our existing strength in the u.s. and western europe. david: steve kaufer, it has been a great run, steve. trip advisor ceo and president. congratulations and thanks for coming on. good to see you. thanks so much. appreciate it. liz: you could do one now and make it 101 million. david: perhaps. we ll see. we ll see. unbelievable run. liz: have you heard about the pizza chain blaze? 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he ditched the burrito bowl for pizza and celebrities are fired up about it too. in fact they re throwing their money into the pizza bowl here. joining me is the cofounder and ceo of blaze pizza. and if rick s name sounds familiar, because founded wet sell s pretzels i go to on occasion. this isn t your first trip around the block, but certainly with pizza and the name blaze and how it is going along this could be a real opportunity. how does it work? what makes you guys different? hi, liz, thanks for having me. liz: sure. we re real excited about it. what we do is take an assembly line format, we applied it to the pizza category in a very hip and fun environment, a fast casual environment. what the customers do, they come in the store. they go down the line. they choose from 40 different toppings from several different sauces. we have up to 40 different meats and cheeses and different vegetables they can put on pizzas from traditional toppings like pepperoni and olives and mushrooms to more innovative toppings like petso and artichokes. when you get to the register the pizza goes into the oven. bakes in two minutes. by the time you get your drink the pizza is up. liz: that is customization on a terrific level. can i ask, i m big on whole wheat chris, could do you offer that as well? we offer traditional crust and gluten-free crust. liz: that is so l.a. this will be a franchising opportunity. tell me how the first couple stores are trending. what are the sales? how does it look? the first two stores are in california. we have four more under construction here in southern california. basically we re doing 14 lunches and dinners. we re getting lines out the door and out to the curb. sales are extremely strong and we re real excited about it. liz: okay. we re excited in particular since we re a business network about the investment opportunity. while it isn t public yet you have some pretty heavy hitting names behind it who are investing. maria shiver, for example, the former newscaster and former woof of governor of california. tom werner, owner of red sox and tom davis, a big producer as well. i hear paul wachter, maria shriver s financial advisor advises lebron james that lebron may throw money in here. is that true? it is true. lebron and his manager, maverick carter formed a company and they invested pretty substantially in the company as well. we re excited to have them on the team. liz: i would think. is there a little guy opportunity here? simply owning a franchise and how people go about doing that? that is our model today to build a franchise network. much like panera bread built out 40 franchises across the country we re looking to do that as well. we re looking for strong multiunit operators in different markets. liz: i like the two minute thing. it is really fast but appears to be very healthy. here s another business type of question which i m sure you ve pondered. the high cost of commodities in some cases. now they have come down in many cases. look at wheat, you look at corn, it really smacked down chipolte a couple quarters ago. this is not an easy business when you re in the food industry. that is something you know from the pretzels but do you bake that into sort of your business model? why do you think you will be able to compete in that area when it is very tough at this point with very heavily fluctuating commodity prices? the good things is we have very strong unit economics right now. so i think we have quite a bit of room to absorb some commodity increases. and in the industry, even when prices go up, eventually you do have to pass them on but right now i think we ve got quite a bit of room to absorb, to absorb that. liz: give us your address in los angeles. where are the two locations? we re in pasadena, california on colorado boulevard and we re at uci just off the uci campus in irvine. liz: irvine. that s a good idea. the plan to be near college students who love pizza. be careful when you come to new york. it is home of mom-and-pop pizza chains, right? that s true. but i think new yorkers are familiar with artesian pizza. that is what we are. it is a $15 pizza for $6.85. liz: rick, we love entrepreneurs on this network. thanks for joining. thanks for having me. liz: come back when you go public because you know you might, right? blaze pizza, david. i want to go there. david: i do. you have to watch out for the pizza joints here in new york. they re pretty territorial. taylor swift, she is one of the top earners in music but her image is not bringing in the big bucks for another industry. find out which one later this hour. a cardinal from argentina has been chosen as the new pope. the first time we have a pope from the americas. will choosing a man from the new world breathe new life into the church? 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is it time for an african? is it time for someone outside of europe? in fact it wasn t, it was a german. pope benedict xvi was mentioned in the remarks made from the balcony, the loggia thanking pope benedict for his work and love and dedication. this is really a new chapter in the church having a latin american pope, a argentinian, known for his humility and simple lifestyle. he doesn t live in an archbissop palace in buenos aires. he has his own apartment and takes public transportation and cooks for himself. his address was very simple. the crowds gathered in the rain and cold in st. peter s square to pray for him in his job to be shepherds for all the others. he gave his blessing, which was to the rome and to the world. that is a traditional blessing that s given and at christmas and at easter and when there is a new pope. it was a big surprise for people given it was a fairly quick conclave. a lot of people assumed it would be angelo scola of milan. and it s not. it is the first latin american pope. that is a very big deal for the latin americans worldwide who have opinion hoping for this. of course again the real faithful will tell you it doesn t matter who it is. it is who the holy spirit chose and that is very important. even though pope francis is 76 years orlando, he is not a young pope there will be new energy in the church because it is in some way reaching out to a part of the world in a special way to bring them closer into the fold and represent them and of course he does bridge both old worlds and new because though he is from latin america, he is from an immigrant family coming from milan or coming from the turin area in italy. really a perfect package of different biographical features and certainly someone who is seen as a great conciliator. someone who is seen as a person who can mach wall the middle ground in very trying times for the church, david and liz. david: 600 million latin americans, 70% of whom are roman catholic and they now have one of their own in the vatican. pope francis i of that name. good to see you, amy. thank you very much. liz: thanks, amy. thanks. liz: she got to witness the majesty of it all. david: what a place to be. tailor swift from the divine to maybe the ridiculous. taylor swift s album featuring her face on the cover and getting strong sales. something else featured on the singer s cover is not doing so well. find out what that is as we go off the desk in three minutes. my mother de the best toffee in the world. it s delicious. so now we ve turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen i m janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. never really thought i would make money doing what i love. 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fire near martin luther king, jr. way. fire crews were able to keep the flames confined to the driveway there. they had to wait for pg&e though to shut off the gas supply before putting out the fire. the man accused of killing three members of a daly city family was allegedly drunk at the time of saturday s crash. the d.a. says the man s blood alcohol level was more than 2 times the legal limit. kpix 5 s juliette goodrich shows us this is not the first time he has been in trouble for drinking and driving. reporter: his blood alcohol level was .18 twice the legal limit two hours after the fatal accident. this isn t the first time he has been arrested for drinking and driving. this is the man accused of killing a daly city mother and her two sons. do i have bail? reporter: 28-year-old denis pereria demacedo speaks portugese and requested an interpreter. we learned today he has been drunk behind the wheel before. in 2011, he was convicted of dui in santa clara. deputy d.a. joseph cannon says he was still on probation at the time of this weekend s fatal crash. his blood alcohol level .18. that was from a blood sample taken over two hours after the time of driving. realistically his level was higher at the time of driving. reporter: demacedo reportedly spent the afternoon drinking with friends before he got while behind the wheel. mr. demacedo was drinking at a pizza store in daly city for several hours and eating with a large group of people. he left the restaurant sometime after that around 8:00 in the evening. reporter: the d.a. s office said he first hit an unoccupied car and raced away in excess of 60 miles per hour. minutes later he crashed into a car pulling out of the driveway on eastmoor boulevard killing 50-year-old josepha and her two sons a 23-year-old and a 15- year-old. a girlfriend of one of the sons survived and is in the hospital in serious condition. we have charged him with three counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for each of the three victims. he has also been charged with felony dui for that fourth victim with a great bodily injury allegation which makes it a more serious offense. reporter: despite being on probation for that 2011 dui, he did have a valid driver s license. the d.a. s office says his fatal mistake this time around was getting behind the wheel after he had been drinking. in redwood city, juliette goodrich, kpix 5. demacedo is expected back in court on thursday to be formally charged. new at 5:00 a modular home falls off its trailer causing a driver to lose control and crash with the truck. it happened on highway 92 near skyline boulevard just after 1:00 this afternoon. chp closed the highway in both directions for almost three hours while they towed away both vehicles. no one was hurt. thick, black smoke poured from the sistine chapel signalling the cardinals did not elect a pope on their first try. we saw the smoke a little before noon our time. the vatican had made it clear that it did not expect a winner on the first ballot. the papal conclave started with a gathering at the vatican s pauline chapel before they filed off to the sistine chapel. then they took an oath of secrecy. [ speaking latin ] the master of ceremonies gave the command extra omnes, latin for everybody out! and the doors to the chapel were closed. the cardinals pray and vote in silence. we have a live look at vatican city now with the cardinals spending the night. just about 300 yards away from the sistine chapel at the vatican santa marta hotel. they return to hear mass in the morning and then to voting. they are divided about the problems in the church and who can fix the issues following the abdication of pope benedict. cardinals can choose the status quo or make a change. kpix 5 s ann notarangelo with the papal politics happening behind closed doors [ pause ] [ pause ] ann spoke with a local priest, father mike, who by the way predicts we re going to know who the next pope is thursday morning. obviously some problems with her report. we ll try to get though that later. but father mike thinks this is going to be the new pope is going to be archbishop angelo scola from italy, but father mike does admit he doesn t have a great track record picking popes. who does? this morning, san francisco s archbishop salvatore cordileone hosted a special mass at st. mary s cathedral in honor of the start of the conclave. dozens of catholics attended excited about the historic moment. i m so excited. i mean, it s such a wonderful time to be a catholic. it s exciting to have somebody new and fresh and to see which direction they are going to go to. a new cbs news poll says some catholics are looking for a change and some are looking for a younger pope. for more on the pope election, head to our website, cbssf.com. i need somebody to help me. the truth to come out. labeled a sexual predator for a crime he never committed. an innocent man s victory in clearing his name. it s become the go-to antibiotic to fight infections. now a big warning is attached to the z-pak. the potentially deadly heart of condition it s linked to. it is not sunny everywhere. here s a live look outside at ocean beach where it was mainly cloudy for much of the day today. temperatures there running about 20 degrees cooler than what we have inland. but let s talk about tomorrow. we will see the warmest weather since early november. find out how warm we re going to get coming up. they are required for protection. but what if car seat restraints become deadly restraints? how one couple is trying to change the way car seats are made after their twins became trapped in a burning vehicle. of the san francisco symphony, .. and [ music ] they want their voices and music heard. today members of the san francisco symphony donned l.a. dodger hats and performed at city hall in protest. musicians are on the verge of a strike. they are fighting against the possible pay freeze and benefits cuts. they are in contract talks with the symphony and a federal mediator. if the two sides cannot reach an agreement, the strike will begin next week. a bay area man who spent 14 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is now planning his future as a free man. johnny williams was convicted of trying to rape a 9-year-old girl who wrongly identified him as her attacker. he was freed in january after new dna evidence proved his innocence. williams, who is from oakland, says he is not wasting any time on bitterness. i go with the flow. and right now the flow is positive. i want to do all positive things. no negativity. i keep all the negativity away from me. we ll hear more from him at 6:00 but williams is looking forward to visits with his family. he says i also wants to go back to he says he also wants to go back to school and travel in europe. a family s car seats almost kill their twin daughters. the new invention they have created to make for a quick escape in case of an emergency. mobile5 is live in palo alto. how silicon valley is going hollywood and the traffic mess is holding up parts of the south bay. he had lunch with senate democrats today.. working to s. president obama spent the day on capitol hill to bridge the budget divide. he had lunch with senate democrats today working to break the gridlock that s keeping lawmakers from getting much done. congressman paul ryan is moving forward with his house republican budget one that would do away with obamacare. we want to prevent this law which we really do believe will do great damage to families in the healthcare system of america. it is an absolute hoax to say on the one hand that you re balancing your budget and on the other hand that you re eliminating obamacare. senate democrats argue the republicans plan will hurt the middle class so they are going to deliver their own budget plan tomorrow. on wall street today the dow barely eked out its 8th straight gain logging its longest winning streak though in two years. a 3-point game out the dow at 14,450. the nasdaq was down 5.5 and the s&p 500 lost 3.75. a family s car seats almost killed their twin daughters after their car caught fire. now the minnesota couple is calling on car seat makers to put a quick release feature on children s car seats. kpix 5 s consumerwatch reporter julie watts explains the life- saving device does exist. it s simply not on the market. reporter: every time amy and kent put their 14-month-old twins in the car they remember the time the straps almost became deadly constraints. i looked back and saw flames. i just jumped out of the car to get to the girls in the back. and everything was in flames. reporter: amy could onlily partially unbuckle one of the girls before her jeans caught fire and she had to jump out. her husband kent then struggled to unbuckle both girls as the flames spread through the car. there were no other options. we were get to going out. reporter: and they did just seconds before the car exploded. it was amazing to see them out of the burning car. [ crying ] reporter: amazingly no one was hurt and that s when amy began searching the internet when she found a quick release for the harness. this frees the harness and the belts slide through the belt holders instantly and completely releasing the child from the seat. reporter: but to her shock the quick release straps aren t on the market and she is writing to car seat manufacturers demanding change. it was horrifying and to just be outside and to watch my husband with those two girls in that burning car, it was awful and there needs to be a change. reporter: now, the quick release straps were invented by a georgia dentist following a similar incident in 2009. the car seat manufacturers tell him they are not interested in installing them because quick release straps aren t required by law. he says they would cost about $3 to $5 per seat and the manufacturers we contacted have not returned our request for comment. not even an option. reporter: not yet. thank you. okay. you know her, you love her. tv s judge judy is being sued. tmz reports it has to do with some expensive dishes she apparentlily bought from one of her producers. the judge paid $50,000. sound like a lot? but the producer s ex-wife claims they are worth half a million dollars. the woman accuses the ex and the judge of plotting to keep the pricy tableware out of her divorce settlement. judge judy called the suit frivolous and then threw them out. [ laughter ] i would not want to go up against her. i think that would be probably worse than it is on tv. $500,000 for dishes? what are they made of? pure gold? can you imagine if you dropped one?! you would feel terrible! the judge judy show, here we come! it s going to be the warmest in the bay area since early november coming up tomorrow. some of you may hit 80 degrees. outside off to the east, all you see is sunshine and inland well into the 70s even today but right along the coastline, you are lagging behind temperature-wise and you just broke through the clouds right now. there s a look at ocean beach in the background. look at the temperature spread. 73 santa rosa, 75 in livermore. 55 in san francisco. so a 20-degree difference. that s a little taste of summer right there. and tomorrow the winds turning offshore, it will be much, much warmer at the coast. speaking of warm, look at the overnight lows, everybody in the 40s or 50s. oakland down to 48. vallejo 47 in the morning. nothing on the radar. we re into another long dry spell and we ll stay mainly drive on kpix 5 hi-def doppler for a while. active storm track but that big bubble of high pressure is taking that moisture who is every shoving it up to the form the. hello, seattle and portland, getting the rainfall. the moisture is being shoved up to the north. we ll be dry for the next week. tomorrow the front is over top of us giving that offshore wind and temperatures up near 80 degrees for some of you in the south bay and inland. it will move by the end of the week down to the south allowing a light onshore flow to return. it s not going to bring back rainfall but will drop the temperatures down about 5 to 10 degrees so a zonal flow moving west to east means wheel stay dry but just not going to be as warm. you want the warm stuff, you have to get outside tomorrow. speaking of tomorrow, warmest weather since early november, we ll stay warm inland through the weekend but near the coast and near the bay, we are looking at morning cloud cover returning at the end of the week. how about 79 tomorrow for livermore? 80 for san jose. low 80s for campbell, los gatos, los altos 81. redwood city 76. san ramon upper 70s. along the coastline you will be in the upper 60s warmer than today but 10 degrees cooler than inland. look at these highs through the weekend. mid-70s inland, low to mid-70s near the bay, cooler at the coast and zero rainfall for the next 7 days. kpix 5 s roberta gonzales is in the oakland hills tonight to tell us about a big comet appearing. reporter: yes. we did bring mobile weather here to this grassy knoll across from the oakland zoo. the current conditions, it was 71 degrees when we arrived. it s down to 69. winds under 10. if you were to look in that direction, you would see a very hazy san jose. and that direction is due west towards the skyline of san francisco and that s where all eyes will be tonight as we have the first of three comes visible in north america in 2013. it s name is pan-starrs and it will be visible toward the western horizon tonight about 7:49. let s say about 40 minutes after twilight. you have to get up above that huge deck of fog at the coast. so come on over to a grassy knoll hilltop like this in oakland to see pan-starrs visible tonight in the western horizon. reporting for mobile weather, roberta gonzales, kpix 5. palo alto is about to have a starring role in a new hbo series and if you drive around, you re sure to notice. ken bastida is live with mobile5 to explain. hey, ken. reporter: we can drive it around a lot. we re down here on university and in just a few minutes, the police will be putting up barricades because later this evening, they will be shooting an hbo pilot down here about silicon valley. this is being done by mike judge, the director, the creator of beavis and butt head, king of the hill, and the title is silicon valley about six programmers trying to create software that will earn them big bucks. that s not a comedy. that s what people do down here all the time. richard marty a local here in palo alto showed up early to get a good seat for tonight s filming. what do you expect to see? you have a prime location on the corner. i thought you were one of the movie stars from across the street. reporter: i have been accused of that before but not today. what do you expect to see this afternoon? i hope to see a little action here in this corner. i m hoping to see looks like they cleared some cars out of there so there might be some action there. i don t know. reporter: you have a prime location for it. you re kind of incognito with the hat on here. that s good. okay. channel 5 s my favorite. reporter: we love that guy. they don t love the fact that traffic is being blown out of here tonight although most of the merchants will stay open if they normally are open in the evenings. this has been going on at page mill road, el camino real, middlefield a rolling closure of streets to shoot this thing. motorist are encouraged to stay out of the area. they should be done about 8:30. reporting live from palo alto, i m ken kennel. we have more news on kpix 5 right after this. the z-pak. and now, the f- d-a is warning patients and doctors about it. it s one of the most popular antibiotics out there: z-pak. now the fda is warning patients and doctors about it. cbs reporter marlie hall with how the drug can cause a potentially deadly heart problem. reporter: there is new concern about the common antibiotic z-pak. the food and drug administration is warning the drug could cause an irregular heart rhythm in some patients that could potentially be deadly. it s important for those who already have cardiovascular problems. reporter: there are generic investigation. the warning follows a study last may that said there are higher number of cardiovascular deaths compared to other antibiotics. more than 40 million americans received this prescription. it s used for pneumonia and tonsilitis and others. doctors should be aware of the risk factors before prescribing the drug to patients. such as a prior heart attack or angina or chest pain. also, people who are known to have abnormalities in their heart rhythm. reporter: but the agency also noted that other antibiotics in the same class have the potential for the same problem. so doctors need to consider all the risks. marlie hall for cbs news, new york. now, the fda has updated the warnings and the precautions sections of the antibiotics labels to include that heart rhythm risk. now for a look at what s ahead on the cbs evening news. scott pelley is in rome for the papal conclave. scott. reporter: hi, allen and liz. great to be with you in the bay area. well, the black smoke from the sistine chapel tonight signaled no pope elected so far. but for the very first time, the world was able to watch live today as the secret conclave began. we ll have this historic day and those remarkable pictures plus a look at the future of the church all tonight on the cbs evening news at 5:30, right after kpix 5 news. c [ teen ] times are good, aren t they, kids? 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[ male announcer ] call to get u-verse tv starting at $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. getting a new roof used to mean sending the old one to a landfill. but not any more. w old shingles will no new at 6:00 tonight, getting a new roof used to mean sending the old one to the landfill. not anymore. how old shingles will get a second life. and another hit for the america s cup. why the boatload of money that was supposed to come with the race appears to be sinking. those stories and more tonight at 6:00. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com pelley: tonight, pelley: tonight, a sign from above. black smoke signals no pope elected, but the world watches live as the secret conclave begins. allen pizzey is in st. peter s square. mark phillips reports on the battle for the future of the church. james holmes appears before cameras for the first time since the days of the movie massacre. barry petersen reports the judge has made a decision on holmes plea. dr. jon lapook on a potentially fatal side effect from an antibiotic taken by tens of millions of americans. and texans lift up st. peter s with song. a hometown choir finds itself on the stage of history. captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs by cbs this i this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley reporting tonight from vatican city. reporting tonight from vat pelley: good evening from st. peter s square. after more than a week of consultations in private, the cardinals of the roman catholic church got down to voting far new pope today in private. they sought divine inspiration at morning mass at st. peter s basilica and later they marched in procession to the sistine chapel. the world watched live as the cardinals swore an oath to vote their conscience, then they locked the massive doors and surrounded by some of the greatest works of art in the world, they cast their first ballot. the crowd in st. peter s square waited for hours for smoke from the sistine chapel. for an instant it appeared white but then billowed unmistakably black signaling that no cardinal received the two-thirds vote needed. allen pizzey picks up our coverage. reporte