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travel quarters and sleeping quarter quarters, and not so for the pope? >> no, it is a regular chartered flight from the airline they rent, and whatever country is hosting the pope, and they use an airline from that country. and i'm intrigued they are not using a cuban air looline from e to the u.s. >> maybe we are not at that unrestricted phase where a cuban airline can fly here. >> and when he is here, as you mentioned, he will be flying american airline. >> and is that something that the vatican just checks the lowest prices? >> well, it does not hurt that the name is american. >> and the pilots and everything, they are all locals and they don't bring in their own special staff? >> well, a few other undercover people, but they use their own
sticks are going to be allowed near the pope, and if you are thinking of going anywhere, leave that at home, and in new york, it is illegal to operate a drone while the pope is here. very unique. postal service is going to be interrupted in some places while the pope is here, and in washington, the gridlock is expected to be so significant that federal employees have been requested to take a snow day and work from home while the pope is here. interestingly, and father beck, if you could weigh in on this that the security detail provide here with all of the agencies led by the secret service, and the fbi, and integrally planning with months in advance, the pope bring brings a significant detail from the swiss guard and the vatican, and walk me through a little bit of that set-up? >> well, a security security -- secret security agent from the u.s. told me that there is never
on that runway. you know, very little talk, deb, of any specific threats, and the only talk is that there is no specific threats, but anything in the chatter of your sources? >> yes, this is interesting no credible threat the. and all of the directors have come out to say it publicly, but what there is an implied threat. you have somebody of such high value, as father beckett said, look, isis want ts to fly the fg over the vatican, and clearly, he is a target. a high value target in their eyes. but it is not just sort of this larger threat that you have to look at, but you have to look at the lone wolf and the person who is mentally unstable, and walking in, because they want to be near the pope and then decide to do something. everyone is going to be screened, but it is unknown that everybody is concerned about. ashleigh, you talked about will
first lady and president obama of course, but also sasha and malia and the bidens and dozens of church official, and escort the pope to the motorcade and then they separate for the rest of the day. tomorrow at the white house is when this big welcoming ceremony will happen on the south lawn and not here, but on the other side, because there is a lot of space because there are going to be between 14,000 and 15,000 specially invited guests which include a lot of members of congress and the president's cabinet, and the marine corps band is going to be there to greet the pope when he arrive there, and what kind of music do you play for the pope? yes sh, the anthem for the vati, and yes there is a national anthem for the vatican, and time spent there, and what all eyes are e focused on there is the meet i meeting of the bilateral meeting between the president and the pope. and with all of the dignitaries and the church officials around,
a higher threat than this visit which is remarkable when you think of who has visited. isis said that they would like to raise the isis flag over the vatican, and so can you manimag isis on u.s. territory taking out the head of catholicism, christiani christianity? it would be a big gain for them in one fell swoop, and that is a big danger, there and that is why the security detail is unprecede unprecedented, and if they were to strike in a lone wolf crazy man, that is the fear people have. >> and let me interrupt you, and we are watching the runway alongside the viewers here, and again, i want to welcome the viewers in the united states and around the world with the alitalia plane with the pope aboard ready to take off in a moment, and our correspondent rosa flores is aboard the plane. rosa, can you speak to me? >> hi, yes. yes, i can.