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Children who first witnessed the apparitions and the pope is taking that theme of war and suffering of the 20th century, saying we're still in a period of war and that this is a moment to pray for peace, peace for tearing down walls he said, and for overcoming barriers, for crossing frontiers and peace to stop the wars which are tearing our world apart, he said. as you can imagine, george, 600,000 people here, security is very tight. this is a religious day obviously, but certainly portugal has put out all efforts to make sure it will be a secure, reinstated border patrols on boarders, closed ...

Placed it in the crown of the statue of our lady of fatima and kind of increased the interest in this place and in the figure of the virgin mary and her apparitions here, hannah. >> interesting the mass itself is happening on a saturday, delia. how long is the pontiff in town and, presumably, he has quite a security detail around him while he's on this visit. >> that's right. now, this is a very quick trip. this is a religious trip. so, you know, let's say two weeks ago we were in egypt. very high security. a lot of security concern for that trip. when you're on a religious pilgrimage, the sec...

Deep. a mix of tour buses and cement trucks. when we were coming in with our crew this morning about 3:30 a.m. eastern time. in almost every block ringing in the capitol, cars, trucks buses deep. that is almost one of many defensive measures they have in place. there is all kinds of other measures and other measures we wouldn't want to talk about anyway. steve: sure. ainsley: ed henry live for us. in your point, brian, when why were come in. we had to walk a long way. steve: we did. ainsley: if somebody did try to get through with a van or a truck, they want enough time to stop him before he c...

Nypd is doing all the mailboxes on every block. they're already locked. the metal railings. bigger protection are these cement barriers that will be put out overnight. as we talked about, the sanitation trucks that are filled with sand. those will be blocking off every single street. they've never been on every single street before. that's to make sure a trump could not drive down and get through it like we saw that happened in nice. and also the critical response unit we talked about, that was formed about a year ago in response to international terrorism threats. they've got about 500 member...

Already under way. these metal fences will be along the entire two and a half mile parade route. these cement barriers overnight will be moved into the streets to block them off. for the first time, they are closing down 42nd and 57th street which they have never done before. one other thing that will make this year different than other years is the critical response unit. they had just been trained last year. this year they are all fully trained. they are going to have the entire team, 500 people out there. they have long guns, thicker vests, smartphones with instant messaging. they have take...