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to earth cam, thousands of revellers are expecting a soggy countdown. we'll go live to the big apple later in the show. gillian: first to our top story this hour, the world is now mourning of loss of a historical religious figure. the vatican is announcing death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. and charles has more on his long lasting legacy. >> what a story he had. pope benedict xvi had an impact on catholics across the world in a position he never imagined himself in. for decades cardinal joseph ratsinger had been a key advisor to pope john paul ii, as a staunch conservative. and too...

You're looking at live pictures outside st. peter's square. >> march 2013, st. peter's square. >> the crowd is pretty sizable. they actually just shut off another street. tens of thousands waited and wondered who would be the next leader of the catholic church. >> we can officially say at cnn this is black smoke. >> inside the conclave, votes for jorge bergoglio, just as there had been in 2005. >> in the last conclave he was saying no, no, no, no not me. ratsinger's your guy. so he changed. >> he changed he understood that if he is elected, he must accept because the situation is a very

Joseph ratsinger." >> but why in she knows him well enough that he baptised both of her kid. >> i will respond to something that he said to a little girl when she asked did you want to be pope? he said you have to be crazy, you have to be totally crazy to want to be a pope. >> perhaps cardinal bergoglio didn't want the pomp or didn't feel ready for the papacy. perhaps he simply felt his place was here, leading priests in the work that mattered most to him, ministering to those in need. >> he wanted his priests to be in the hospitals, in the old people's homes, in the shantytow shantytowns, in ...

Vatican -- pope john paul ii has died. >> the most popular hope in modern history, gone. >> all the cardinals go into the sistine chapel and start what is the most important moment of their careers as cardinals. >> that moment to elect a new pope, but this time something was different. >> remember the conclave's a secret affair. you're not supposed to know who got what. but a cardinal who had taken part in that 2005 conclave later that year published a diary, which gave a very detailed account of the voting and the numbers. >> some say it was no accident the diary came out, to show there was s...