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Drive the pope downtown on a major north-south route like fifth or sixth, and i think they're using the fdr drive, divided highway along the east river because they can go faster. it's easier to defend. there's no lights, no intersections, and fewer rooftops to worry about. >> reporter: yeah, i think that's why. brian, we have these canyons, these avenues here in manhattan, and it's a security challenge, obviously in the best of times. but when you have the pontiff here, it makes it very difficult to ensure the safety with all of these open areas, so that's probably why they have taken this un...

Rob m ron mott is on the streets of the city. where are you and what's your vantage point? >> reporter: hey, oh, sorry, brian, i didn't hear you. i was distracted by the people behind me. we are at central park south. these folks weren't part of the 80,000 ones who got tickets to be inside the park today, but they got a really good view as the pontiff comes out of the park. let me show you, brian. this is where he will come out with the motorcade, right out of central park this way. he will then turn east on central park south, be at fifth avenue, which runs north to south. it tonight will run...

Side, this is manhattan over here. this is fdr drive, the east side of manhattan. roosevelt island in the middle and outer boreughs here. rather than taking the avenues, which is come -- this is msg, it's hard to see from being so close, but msg is just down here somewhere. can anybody find it for me? 34th street. i could have just straight down the avenue, but instead they came over here, no doubt, in case anybody was wanting to do him some harm. you don't have to follow me. you can stay over there. >> father, this mass is going to begin pretty quickly, and the message is similar tonight to t...

Substantial racism problem. and then you get these maniacs on the street who are calling for the killing of police officers. where was the mayor when that was happening? might have helped two and three and four, five days ago if the mayor had condemned the fact that these people in the streets were calling for the death of police officers. i mean, we're talking about hundreds of people doing it. and it also would have been very helpful if he hadn't allowed them to take the brooklyn bridge, the fdr drive. when i was a mayor you didn't get to take the brooklyn bridge or the fdr drive. if you're ...

Substantial racism problem. and then you get these maniacs on the street who are calling for the killing of police officers. where was the mayor when that was happening? might have helped two and three and four, five days ago if the mayor had condemned the fact that these people in the streets were calling for the death of police officers. i mean, we're talking about hundreds of people doing it. and it also would have been very helpful if he hadn't allowed them to take the brooklyn bridge, the fdr drive. when i was a mayor you didn't get to take the brooklyn bridge or the fdr drive. if you're ...