in mind that none of the last four conclaves lasted more than three days. but also keep in mind the last conclave to go more than five days was back in 1831. that one took 50 days. josh elliott, abc news, vatican city. and we will hear again from josh later today on good morning america. and he did mention, of course, boston s cardinal sean o malley in that piece and we re learning that o malley is emerging as an unlikely star in rome and also a top contender for pope that s right. he s usually seen as in his humble robes of his kapuchin order and earned a anymoremake the cappuccino priest. he s traded in that robe this week for the much more festive cardinal red and even ditched the sandals. but also a moment of chaos at the vatican yesterday. just step as way from st. peter s basicila these women took their tops off to protest what they call patriarch ki of the church and protesters set off pink flares chanting no more pope before they were all eventually restrained by officers then carried to a police station. and, of course, you can count on abc news for complete coverage of the conclave with diane sawyer. she s anchoring for us live right there in rome. and one more major development involving the church. the archdiocese of los angeles has reached a nearly $10 million settlement involving four sex abuse victims. 9 case involves ex-priest michael baker who admitted that he did in fact molest kids. it said the church did not do enough to stop him even after he confessed. the sex abuse scandal is one of the many challenges to be faced by the next pope. breaking news from louisiana bayou country. it struck by an oil barge pushed by a tugboat. they were engulfed in flames. all four tugboat crew mes suffered injuries, the most serious the captain who sustained second and third-degree burns. the section of pipeline struck has been shut down so only oil inside of it will burn. to politics now and battle over the budget. president obama makes another trip to capitol hill this afternoon to meet with republicans in the house. yesterday the gop released its plan to balance the budget in ten years and to do it without increasing taxes. president obama was asked about that budget in an exclusive interview with abc s george stephanopoulos. my goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. my goal is how do we grow the economy, put people back to work and if we do that we re going to be bringing in more revenue. if we ve controlled spending and we ve got a smart entitlement package then potentially what you have is balance but it s not balance on the backs of, you know, the poor, the elderly, students who need student loans, families who have disabled kids. that s not the right way to balance our budget. and you can see that full interview coming up later today on good morning america. also the president discussed a major hacking scandal targeting celebrities, but he refused to say if the information posted about the first lady is actually authentic. the fbi and secret service are now investigating a website claiming to have social security number, credit reports and other financial information on celebrities and some political big wigs including vice president joe biden and superstar beyonce. well, after years of debate colorado lawmakers have approved civil unions and the governor is expected to sign it. the legislation grants same-sex couples rights similar to those that come with marriage. the passage is considered a major political shift in a state where voters approved a gay marriage ban seven years ago. and from texas, we now know the next political step being taken by a rising star from the bush family. 36-year-old george p. bush filed papers yesterday to run for land commissioner of texas. it s a little known but actually powerful position in the lone star state. george p. is the son of former florida governor jeb bush and, of course, his grandfather and uncle were both president. well, tests on a rock test on rock samples collected on mars show the planet could have supported primitive life done by curiosity which drilled into the rock, crushed it and tested a tiny sample. nasa scientists say it contains clay minerals that formed in a watery environment favorable for microscopic organisms. all right. time for a check of the weather across the nation. new york, boston and philadelphia could see a leftover shower or too. the pineapple express brings heavy rain and possible flooding to seattle and it s a dry but cool day in florida. temperatures really warm up in the west with phoenix close to 90 in fact, salt lake city and boise are in the 60s. the midwest is still much cooler than normal with chicago struggling to stay above freezing today. meanwhile, it ll be pretty mild here in the northeast. all right. coming up, big news for boeing, its problem plague dreamliner could soon be back in the air. get ready for the return of the twinkie. the iconic treat coming soon to store shelves. sometimes heavily armed commando dolphins on the loose? we ll explain coming up. welcome back, everybody. wall street has squeaked out another record. the dow jones industrial average gained less than 3 points yesterday but that was enough to close at a new record high. it also continued the dow s longest winning streak in two years. eight straight days in an increase. the dreamliner is a little closer to getting back in the air this morning. the faa is giving boeing the green light to test its solutions for the lien s battery problems. all 787 jets have been grounded since mid-january when batteries on the two planes overheated. it s still not known whether dreamliners can start carrying passengers once again. a million more general motors cars may be added to a brake light recall. the lights may not come on when the pedal is pressed on some older chevy malibu and saturn aurares or may come on for no reason at all. gm chased the problem to the wiring connector. the twinkie has a new owner. sold to two investment offers. the sale still needs bankruptcy court approval. the buyers hope to begin restocking shelves by this summer. hostess products have not been available since november. google is admitting to a drive-by privacy breach. the search giant will pay $7 million to settle complaints that it collected personal data at its street view cars mapped it will be? and d.c., google will sponsor a campaign to teach people how to secure their wireless networks. and an institution known for teaching outdoor skills is addings is indoors. boy scouts who want to earn the new video game design merit badge must be able to analyze various games and understand the concept of intellectual property. other unusual merit badges, by the way, include nuclear science, fingerprinting and journalism. good to hear journalism is in there. like to hear that. all things change. i wonder what that badge looks like. next on this wednesday, the massive man hunt for several escaped prisoners. 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[ male announcer ] every time you say no to a cigarette, you celebrate a little win. nicoderm cq, the patch with time release smart control technology. quit one day at a time with nicoderm cq. with time release smart control technology. . there s a live look at the vatican where the cardinals have reconvened for another day of voting. they could cast up to four ballots today until one man gets the needed 77 votes and that, of course, would mean that the white smoke would pore from the top of the sistine chapel. now for a look at road conditions at home. minor flooding could make roads slippery in new england, heavy rain will be a challenge around the seattle area. a great day for air travel. no major airport declares. we don t say that a lot. that s good. that s true. all right, back to the news now. we now have a date for the trial of james holmes, the suspected gunman in the aurora, colorado, movie massacre. he was back in court with a thick beard and with his formerly orange hair now gone. the judge entered a not guilty plea for him after his attorney said they simply were not ready to enter a plea. he also set august 5th to start his trial. a double murder suspect is hospitalized oregon of a day-long standoff with police. the man who is believed to have killed his grandparents was holed up in a motel room yesterday. police had to send in a camera with a a robot with a camera on it to look inside. the suspect was later 230u7bdz with serious self-inflicted cuts brought to a hospital in critical condition. three inmates at a missouri jail are now back in custody after about 14 hours on the run. two of the men are murder suspects and the third is accused of shooting a couple during a break-in. they escaped through the ceiling of the jail on monday night. all of them were found about five miles away yesterday afternoon at a salvage yard where one of them used to work. the tsa is facing more backlash over its decision to allow pocket knives back on planes. american airlines became the third major carrier to urge the administration not to lift that ban and massachusetts congressman ed markey introduced a bipartisan measure called the no knives act opposing the rule change which is scheduled to go into effect come april 25th. and the ukraine is denying reports that it lost track of three military attack dolphins. in addition to finding underwater mines, the dolphins are trained to plant explosives on ships and then kill enemy divers with special weapons attached to their heads. it s not clear if the missing dolphins were armed when they escaped from their handlers during training exit polls. another sinkhole in the news this morning. this one in southern illinois. it opened up in the fairway of a golf course. the 18-foot deep hole swallowered a golfer last friday. the man injured his shoulder but rescued after 20 minutes, a state geology expert says it happened because it dissolved causing the ground to collapse. and now here s a look at some hoop highlights from espn. doug kezirian with your sportscenter update. no team in the nba hotter than the miami heat. nine-game lead in the east entering last night s action. heat looking for their 19th straight win hosting atlanta. ho-hum, alley hoop from dwyane wade to lebron james. 27 assists on 35 made field goals. here s lebron just being lebron. bowling over opponents, showing the athleticism and the court awareness dishing it to wade filling the lane. the break, second half now, d-wade, one of five heat that scored in double figures and led everyone with 23 points and then ray allen spotting up, no one in nba history has made more three-point field goal and miami cruises, 19 straight opening up a road trip. elsewhere, dwight howard returning to orlando for the first time can see off-season as you would imagine some boo birds in the arena. howard, though, laying the smack-down, the big dunk, kobe dunk y was just deferring to him. elbow catching kobe in the face. he would get stitched up, and, of course, he s kobe bryant so he ll return top action. nice feed off steve nash and kobe, well, clearly, you got to guard kobe bryant. wide-open jumper, sticks it. magic also implemented the attack howard plan. howard tied his own nba record with 39 free throws attempted and he finished with 39.6 robins. lakers for the first time this season three games above .500. coming up next, the pulse and the 4,000 calorie burger. that s incredible. you got to see this thing. wow and the 70s hit good times coming back four decades later. say it with me now, dynamite! 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( birds chirping ) exceptionally smooth with a harmonious blend of flavor and aroma. green mountain coffee for your keurig brewer. brew a better day. live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. good wednesday morning at 4:28. thanks for joining us. i saw the fog coming up. more than a little bit. where is the fog, mike? we start with live doppler 7 hd. the fog is thickest in the north bay valley along the coast and as we head around the bay shore. not as widespread as yesterday. it will fade faster. that is why we will have warmer temperatures this afternoon. 68 to 74 around the bay. 74 to possibly 80 inland. the coast will have clouds and upper 50 s to low 60 s. sue? unfortunately, we start off with a fatal accident on the marin and sonoma border near antonio road north 101 a deer in the right lane. traffic is slow in the area. there is no estimated time of getting in cleared. c.h.p. is on the scene investigateing. a fatality on the marin and sonoma border at san antonio. elsewhere, road work out there at 880, in the lanes until 5:00 this morning and southbound 285 between 237 and 280, you can see the road work. the golden gate bridge has socked in fog and it is slow. in vatican city the cardinals are taking a lunch break after sending a black smoke in the past hour indicating no pope has been selected. our reporter is joining us live from rome with the latest developments. marcy? we saw the black smoke an hour ago so that means the cardinals voted twice this morning and still no one has the 77 votes needed to be elected pope. for the second time since the conclave began yesterday, black smoke poured from the small chimney. the world is waiting for white smoke signaling there is a new pope, but well have to wait. well run out when anything happens. we want to expense it. there is nothing we would rather do than be here experiencing history. after the disappointing darkness of the smoke pouring from above the cistene chapel signaling inconclusive vote, the cardinals return this morning with prayers for guidance at the 15 cast another round of ballots . the cardinals have very much on the mind they are human beings and they want to make the best choice possible but they could make a mistake. the bets are out on who could be elected. online gambling say most money is on cardinal scola of italy and then the cardinal from brazil and the americans are not doing too badly. we have taken money on the americans recently, including dolan. what is happening behind the closed doors, the century old method of choosing the next leader, the election of the man who will lead the 1.2 billion catholics, taking another step forward today. like you said the cardinals are breaking for lunch and will be back this afternoon to vote again. we talked about what is happening on the inside, inside the closed doors. what about outside? what can you tell us about the crowds outside the vatican
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[laughter] keep up with out daily blog at comedy central.com/tosh.0, make sure you come see me on the tosh tour 2010, and follow me on twitter, so we can live chat during the shows. finally, the best part about having a job is talking about your co-workers behind their backs. that s why i had my fans tweet me all their office gossip in a new segment called twispers. ryan writes, uh, girl at corporate likes to meet and bang field managers at regional meetings. that had a lot of office jargon in it. it has to be real. devin says the girl in the cubical across from meadowsn t know her snatch shows twice a week. what she don t know won t hurd her. our office skank just that must be a mistake, because the worst-smelling taco at ponchero s still smells delicious. rob has been licking the tops of so day cans in the fridge at trader publishing. got you know, bastard. he got you, rob. and this guy is black, of course. he owes $10,000 in child support. just because that is really racist doesn t mean that twisper isn t accurate. pay up. see you next week. cacao! [applause] [eagle caw] stephen: tonight, a rift in the gop: some deny global warming, others deny climate change. [laughter] then, hollywood takes on gun safety. and yet they ignore how many younglings are cut down by light sabers. [laughter] and my guest, roger hodge, is editor of the oxford american magazine, which has been called the new yorker of the south. the dogs in their cartoons don t go to psychiatrists, they go to shooting ranges. [laughter] ted nugent will attend the state of the union tonight. or as deer call it, the greatest night of their lives. this is the colbert report. captioning sponsored by comedy central [ the colbert report theme music playing] [cheers and applause] come on! [crowd chanting stephen] [cheers and applause] thank you very much. , ladies and gentlemen. thank you for joining us. welcome to the broadcast. [cheers and applause] thank you so much for your love and support. you know i can t do this show without you. this show is for you. this show is to look out for what is coming in your life. [cheers and applause] and, folks, tonight i got your back, folks. as you know, tonight tonight barack-hussein obama gets to give his annual look at me, i m the president speech. lop-a-doopa doo! lop-a-doopa doo! [laughter] all this stuff? it s not even in the constitution. [laughter] obama shouldn t even be up there givinging the speech. 2012 was supposed to be the gop s year: with the economy in shambles, they thought the race was theirs to lose. and they were right. [laughter] and it s not just the presidency. the republicans also lost seats in the senate. lost the popular vote in the house. and briefly lost paul ryan in the mall. [laughter] he was supposed to hold on to his mother s hand! [laughter] they found him busting a union at the build-a-bear workshop. [laughter] but folks, the rnc, the republican national committee, is doing something about it. the rnc is doing a major autopsy on 2012. the rnc is coming up with some type of autopsy of the last election. you ve got to do a full autopsy. stephen: yes, a full autopsy. which is also the republican alternative to obamacare. [laughter] to plot their path back to power, the gop recently held a three-day conference in williamsburg, virginia, which is the perfect location, because the republican platform also re-enacts the 18th century. [laughter] they say they went there for a little self-reflection exactly what men inspired by ayn rand need more time thinking about themselves. [laughter] they also reached out to voters, with a web-survey asking how they can improve their messaging. and a computerized web survey is the perfect way to hear from republicans core constituency of the extremely old. latch laugh the number one suggestion was, hello? hello? how does this thing make toast? [laughter] [cheers and applause] and after that, the gop crunched the numbers and figured out what they need to change about their views toward women, immigration, and tax cuts for the rich. and the answer was i have it nothing. it s a blank sheet of paper. there s nothing on here you see. according to rnc chair reince priebus fun fact, his name is an anagram for penis rice-a-roni [laughter] the gop doesn t need to change on the issues, they just need to be a party that smiles. [laughter] yes, they just need to smile. present the same core message but in a more pleasant manner. i ll show you how it works with one of their misunderstood talking points from the last election. [laughter] if it s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. [laughter] [cheers and applause] so, republicans have got 2014 in the bag. or they would, if not for political strategist and unlanced boil karl rove. [laughter] you see, instead of joining his fellow republicans in learning nothing from the last election, karl has turned on them. karl rove launching an effort called the conservative victory project to keep less-electable conservative republicans from winning primaries. rove announced his new super pac aimed at crushing tea party republicans. our job is to win races by stopping the practice of giving away some of the seats like we did in missouri and indiana this past year. stephen: karl s bogus claim is that tea partiers cost republicans winnable races by backing polarizing candidates, like todd legitimate rape akin, and richard somehow even worse on rape mourdock. [laughter] meanwhile, the manatee with the plan-atee wants the party to get behind the kind of mainstream, electable republicans he s backed like near-winner connie mack, strong runner-up linda mcmahon, so-close-but-didn t-get-it george allen, [laughter] got-his-fine-white-ass-handed-to -him scott brown, and of course that guy. [laughter] what s his name? i just ah blake lively!? i m not [laughter] rove s already got the knives out for two tea party senate hopefuls: iowa congressman and alleged corn-packer, steve king, [laughter] and georgia congressman paul broun, who, despite being a medical doctor, said this: god s word is true. i ve come to understand that. all that stuff i was taught about evolution, embryology, big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. [laughter] stephen: and paul broun knows pits of hell because that is evidently where he s speaking from. [laughter] well, the tea party isn t going to take karl s new stab-you-in-the-back superpac lying down. tea party activist erick erickson says, i dare say any candidate who gets this group s support should be targeted for destruction by the conservative movement. that s right, karl. you cross the tea party and you could end up like the last candidate they targeted for destruction barack obama. [laughter] hmm. think about it. [ laughter ] clearly clearly, the republican party is tearing itself in half. i guess nobody remembers this guy, ronald reagan, the white marco rubio. [laughter] he had a little something called the eleventh commandment. thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow republican. that s all over now and i could mean only one thing. civil war. the president of citizens united declared the civil war has begun. it s full-on gop warfare. it s gop civil war. stephen: yes, gop civil war. of course, the first thing they ll have to fight over is which side gets the confederate flag. [laughter] so, as a conservative, i guess i have to choose sides. karl and i have had some good times, we buried that hooker. [laughter] but deep down, my heart is with the tea party. well, maybe not my heart. what organ produces bile. gall bladder, i guess. i don t know. i believe that republicans can not wuss out here. they need to charge ahead and take even more conservative positions. forget embracing latinos, we need a program to shoot them into space. [laughter] let s give them a pathway to low orbit. gays shouldn t be allowed to marry, or vote. i for one don t want sloppy seconds on their lever-yanking. and i believe all women should have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before they can get a driver s license. [laughter] hey, nobody s happy with their picture anyway. now are these extreme positions? maybe. can we really win the election by giving the voters more of what they didn t want last time? no. unless we smile when we say it! [laughter] [cheers and applause] we ll be right back. [cheers and applause] éxéx back, everybody. [cheers and applause] thanks, folks. nation, as of 8:00 eastern standard time, it appears the manhunt for california fugitive chris dorner is coming to a close. his story is yet another in a long series of tragic gun-related deaths. and so far, nothing has been done to curb our access to these deadly weapons. and hopefully, that nothing will continue. [laughter] but for those frustrated that not enough of nothing is being done, i have good news: it s a bold new initiative in arizona, where sheriff joe arpaio is sending 3,000 volunteers to patrol schools in armed posses, and the training started this weekend. inside this elementary school, teachers and students don t stand a chance against heavily armed gunmen. the kids cower under the tables, try to escape as teachers beg the bad guys for mercy. the volunteer posse members take the gunman down. stephen: wow. [laughter] arizona s got great schools. those are 8th graders, but they re being traumatized at a 12th grade level! [laughter] now, filling our schools with gun-toting guys who have nowhere to be during work hours might give some parents pause, but rest assured, mom and dad, these volunteer posses are getting top notch training. these volunteer officers are running through drills run by hollywood actor steven seagal. [laughter] [cheers and applause] stephen: yes, steven seagal. [cheers and applause] because the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is an even worse actor. [laughter] we know hollywood violence is the real problem, therefore it s also the solution. [laughter] it s like fighting fire with fire. if your house is on fire, call an arsonist, he ll know what to do. [laughter] but for some reason arizona democrat chad campbell called using seagal as an instructor ludicrous. adding, why don t we also have clint eastwood and chuck norris and bruce willis come out and train them too while we re at it? [cheers and applause] well, come on! [cheers and applause] that is stupid. you can t have those guys. they still get work. [laughter] besides, none of these guys have lama seagal s mastery of tactical ops. i ve put hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours into my weapons training. stephen: that s right, millions of hours! [laughter] now a million hours is about 115 years, which sounds crazy, but so does asking steven segal to train your posse. so it works out. [laughter] the seagal posse is such a pre-success that arapaio s already signed on additional star power 1970 s the incredible hulk star lou ferrigno and actor peter lupus of the 1960s tv series mission: impossible. [laughter] of course, lupus is 80 now. so mission impossible is opening the lunchroom milk. [laughter] but folks, many of arpaio s posse members don t even need training. history has proven they ve got extensive experience with police. a six-month cbs5 investigation uncovered a number of posse members with arrests for assault, drug possession, domestic violence, sex crimes against children, disorderly conduct, impersonating an officer, and the list goes on. stephen: wow. drug possession? sex crimes? it takes real dedication to guard a school that you are not allowed within 500 feet of. [cheers and applause] now some people are going to get all worried about having arpaio s violent sex offenders watch their kids. no problem. he can just assemble an armed posse to protect our children from his other armed-volunteer posse. [laughter] i bet we can even get steven seagal to train that posse, too, if someone just shows up with a camera and a sweet roll. [laughter] [cheers and applause] stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is the editor of the oxford american, a magazine that explores southern culture. i believe it comes in print, online, or deep fried. please welcome roger hodge. [cheers and applause] thank you for coming on. [cheers and applause] thank you. stephen: have a seat. you are the editor of the oxford american. here is the magazine right here. it s called the new yorker of south. i ve heard that. stephen: have you heard that. i said it earlier in the show so you might have heard it from me. [laughter] why do you think people call it the new yorker of the south. what is it that the new yorker is high florida lawsuitent. i don t know why. the new yorker comes every week and piles up. and according to some people no one reads it. [ laughter ] stephen: how often do you put out this thing? quarterly. so you have time to read it. stephen: you have to work really hard to let it pile up. [ laughter ] exactly. exactly. stephen: why is it called oxford american ? that sounds english to me. it does, but there s a place in mississippi called oxford, mississippi, and that s where it was founded. stephen: faulkner, right? fawmer in country, right. stephen: are you going for a fawmer in vibe here? does the magazine come with cliff notes because we can arrange that. stephen: too many names. there are a lot of names. the idea was to explore and celebrate and really get lost nm southern culture. stephen: i m a southern boy. you are? stephen: i m from charleston, south carolina. which is north from where we sit [audience boos] stephen: sir, all roads lead north from charleston. where are you from? del rio, texas. stephen: no mean to burst your bubble but texas is a great place, but if you are from the real south [cheers and applause] texas is texas. ask someone from texas they ll tell you from texas. they ll say i m from texas not the south it s true. it s true. stephen: it is true. i accept your apology. texas is unique and most southerners would like to expel texas from the south. i understand why because texas is in some ways the most extremely southern. stephen: it s too big of a weight. it s got too much of the own flavor that isn t the south flavor. for instance, beef barbecue ribs, abomb minimummation. a degree. it has to be the pig. stephen: slow smoked pig. thank god. gotta be the pig. stephen: we re cool with each other. and even better it would be a louisiana pulled pork made into a patty and seared. that s the ultra. stephen: it should be pulled pork and served with a mustard sauce like s.c. like south carolina, right. stephen: we ll fight latter. we ll stab each other. okay. stephen: one of reasons i wanted to have you on the show is because you talk to people not from the south and they think everybody from the south is change change everybody is like [speaking quickly in southern twang] exactly. that s it. stephen: there s smart folk. beautiful, beautiful literature from the south that i have never read. [laughter] not just literature. stephen: what are people missing by thinking the south is a bunch of pig farmers. there are pig farmers but it s also a place of great literature and music. this issue is dedicated to the music of louisiana which is some of the greatest in the union. jazz was born in the south. the blues, had a baby, it s name was rock n roll. it was born and raised in the south. stephen: what was it about the south that was so different that allowed for jazz and blues and rock n roll. there was some pa cuellar institution that made that possible. yes. and out after this tragedy is slavery we have given we have received the gift great culture. because the fusion of
determine a new pope. before it was just 50% plus one. how might that make the process a little bit more difficult this time around? reporter: well, it will make it much more difficult this time around, especially considering there is no front-runner out there that is capable of getting those famous 77 votes which is two-thirds plus one over the 115 cardinal electors, of course. let s just look back at 2005, richard. when joseph ratzinger was the favorite back then. he got 47 votes on the first ballot of the first day. then the second day on the second ballot, he got about 60 votes, which wasn t good enough for an overall majority even then. but then on the fourth ballot on the second day, well, he got the job with a vast majority. so how is that going to affect the conclave this time? well, certainly it will prolong a conclave that was already expected to belong in the first place, richard. we ll enjoy the process and claudio is there to report as this process goes forward. thanks, as always. president obama says authorities are looking into whether private financial information belonging to the first lady was hacked and then later published. it comes as the president prepares to meet with business leaders on cybersecurity. about 100 celebrities and politicians had their personal information posted online on tuesday. all were apparent victims of what s called a docsing attack, posting information on the internet. mr. obama did not say whether the recently posted information is authentic but did confirm an investigation. we should not be surprised that if you ve got hackers who want to dig in and devote a lot of resources, that they can access people s private information. well, the president goes to the hill to visit house republicans today. that s a day after they re releasing their plan. senate democrats unveil their first budget in four years. nbc s danielle leigh joins us from washington with details on that. danielle, good morning to you. does a compromise look like a long shot right now? reporter: richard, good morning. the good news, there s hope. the lines of communication are open this time, but there is this reality, those sticking points on any budget have not changed for republicans or democrats. and as you mentioned, president obama headed back to the capitol today. this time to meet with a tougher audience after meeting with senate democrats yesterday. now house republicans, members of his own party are expressing doubt about how effective he will be at this. also senate democrats releasing their own budget for the first time in about four years, calling for a trillion dollars in new revenues by closing loopholes, but no significant changes to medicare. democrats have rejected the republican plan released yesterday that would have cut the deficit by nearly $5 trillion by repealing president obama s health care law and making changes to those under 54. the one budget we have now to see from the president. the white house says it won t be ready until april 8th, about two months late, richard. danielle leigh watching those budget proposals. we ll see what happens. thank you so much. turning now to a bizarre and gruesome story. new york s so-called cannibal on cop is facing life in prison after his conviction for conspiracy to kidnap, cook and eat women. the jury decided that gilberto valle was not just fantasizing when he talked online about abducteding and eating women. prosecutors said that valle looked up recipes for chloroform and identified actual women to target, proving the plot was real. his lawyer said that valle was being prosecuted for his thoughts, not actions. he ll be sentenced in june. nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer joins us now. halfway through the week. looking forward to the weekend. halfway almost through march, too. spring. i know, spring starts next week. a lot of parts of the country not feeling all that springlike. where the warm air is, especially down in the desert southwest where highs will reach 80s and 90s. total opposite up around the northeast where we do have the rain showers coming to an end. we will see temps in the 50s but 40s by tomorrow and lasting through the weekend and snow showers. light snow showers back through the great lakes. we do have this stream of moisture coming in off the pacific. and that is bringing heavier rain through the seattle area. most of northwestern washington state seeing pockets of heavier rain where we could end up with about two to three, perhaps even up to five inches of rain in extreme northwestern washington state. elsewhere across spokane, less than an inch. and portland down into eugene, about an inch or so. warm air today, vegas, 83. even l.a. topping out around 83. it will be in the 50s today in seattle. that s a look at the weather so we are going to see the nice warm temperatures stick around in the southwest for quite some time, but the rain will also last for quite some time in the pacific northwest. hot, hot, hot, those three words. i d take it. mississippi is taking steps to be the anti-mike bloomberg state. and if you ve taken the azithromax z-pack lately, stick around. stories making news this morning for you. multistate manhunt for a man suspected of killing his grandparents is over. michael boyson was arrested in lincoln city, oregon, after an eight-hour standoff. police say the 26-year-old murdered his grandparents shortly after they threw him a party when he was released from prison last week. signs kentucky senator mitch mcconnell is apparently concerned about a political battle with ashley judd. the minority leader is spending six figures on a new tv ad targeting the actress even before she s entered the race. and 18 months before voters go to the polls. attention, doctors and patients of the popular antibiotic known as zithromax or the z-pack. the fda says the drug can cause rare but deadly heart rhythms in some patients. the man accused of killing 12 and injuring 70 in colorado will stand trial later this summer. a bearded james holmes was back in court tuesday. the archdiocese of l. archgts hasl.a. has agreed to pay $10 million. records show that in 1986, baker confessed to cardinal roger mahoney that he was molesting boys. mahoney sent him for treatment and put him back in ministry where baker molested again. and the mississippi legislature has passed what is being called the anti-bloomberg bill. it bans cities and towns from implementing rules requiring limits to food portion size. it also prevents restaurants from posting calorie counts. take you to sports now. an exciting finish to the iditarod. 53-year-old mitch sevee and his dogs were cheered. he s a former champ and is now the oldest winner of the 1,000-mile race. miami got a nifty fourth quarter fastbreak as dwyane wade makes a pass and gets it back from the dunk against atlanta. the heat s victory extended their win streak to 19 games. now college football. women s college football. with the score tied number two notre dame steals a pass from number three uconn in the closing seconds. then a pass under the basket for a winning layup and the irish win, 6 #1-59. in the nhl, a scary moment as jason zucker of minnesota was blindsided by corey perry of anaheim. zucker was sprawled on the ice for about five minutes before being helped off by trainers. perry was ejected and the ducks beat the wild, 2-1. in the world baseball classic, david wright of the mets had five runs batted in for team usa in a 7-1 win over puerto rico. the americans play again thursday against the dominican republic. and talk about a golf course hazard. a giant sinkhole is roped off after swallowing a golfer in waterloo, illinois, dropping him 18 feet below the fairway. he was rescued, suffered a dislocated shoulder and has no plans to play that course any time soon. while the cardinals vote for a new pope, is it time for the catholic church, that it took another look at women in more prominent roles? plus a modern-day, good old-fashioned counterfeit cash story. and to business this morning, a big step in the right direction for boeing. the faa approving boeing s plan to redesign the 787 dreamliner s fire-prone batteries, putting the plane maker one step closer to getting its 787 back in the air. the fleet was grounded in january. hostess has agreed to sell its twinkies, ho-hos to apollo global management for $410 million. the buyers hope to have the snacks back on shelves by summer. whew! speaking of sweets, is big sugar about to get a bailout? the wall street journal reports the department of agriculture is considering buying 400,000 tons of sugar to stave off a wave of defaults by processors that borrowed $862 million under a government price support program. h&r block saying about 600,000 tax refunds will be delayed due to a form change the company learned about after filing hundreds of thousands of returns. and do you remember this video of a 62-year-old woman man, rather, shooing a shark away from australia beachgoers back in january? well, it turns out he and his wife were on sick leave for stress. the couple worked at the same charity in wales, and their bosses saw the viral video, and they re both now they ve both been fired. now to other stories that caught our eye. in sarasota while catholics are waiting for smoke, one church decided to release their own pink plumes. priests and other churchgoers watched pink smoke rise to symbolize their hopes that the newly elective pope will be supportive of gender equality within the church. one washington state mother will not be sporting mom of the year gear any time soon. the 24-year-old was filmed letting her 22-month-old son smoke from a bong. the boy s father was later arrested as officials found as many as 40 marijuana plants and several guns within that home. detectives in the tampa bay area uncovered an intricate counterfeit money ring raking in tens of thousands in profits. $1 bills were bleached for days until blank and then $100 denominations were printed using computer software. police have recovered $100,000, and they re counting. shark researchers in florida are keeping an eye on their latest find, and you can, too. on march 3rd scientists caught and tagged a great white shark named lydia. lydia is the first great white ever to be tagged south of massachusetts. and you can follow her journey at osearch.com. in louisiana, a massive fire broke out when a tugboat and a barge collided with a gas pipeline in a bayou south of new orleans. four people are injured. one severely. the accident ignited a blaze that burned for hours into the night sky. the barge was carrying oil, but the coast guard says it s unclear if any oil spilled into the water. we ll be right back. good morning and welcome back. we re starting off in the 40s on the west coast. 50s up in seattle where it s very cloudy and we will see a lot of rain showers out that way today and again tomorrow. warm air hiding out in the southwest. 80 in l.a. 87 in vegas. 92 degrees in phoenix. and that warm air lasts into tomorrow as well. that s where the warm air is. next time you ll have to have beach shots with 80s like that just so we can live through those pictures. that would be nice. yeah. you like your jewelry? i do, yes. so does lady gaga. she s recovering from surgery. and she s doing it with style, shall we say. the singer had a 24-carat wheelchair made for her after hip surgery. larry flynt beat her to the bunch. gaga s came equipped with a reclining back and is appropriately called the chariot. that is definitely a gaga sort of thing. actor edward norton and his fiancee have a baby due any day now. thanks to the success of oz the great and powerful, disney is in the early stages of the beast. it s said to have a bit of a dark side and will most likely be 3-d. on monday perez hilton claiming jennifer aniston and fiance justin theroux were secretly getting married in hawaii. now a rep for aniston is saying that story is, quote, all made up, and there are no plans for a wedding in hawaii. though i think that would have been fun if it did happen. the reason for that may have to do with the possibility of a running of running into a naked steven tyler. yes, now that hawaii has passed the steven tyler act for celebrity privacy, the aerosmith front man says, quote, now at least i can go to maui and walk around naked on the back lawn. thank goodness for that. we don t want to see that. this comes from kfor in oklahoma city where a surprise proposal turns the tables. a flash mob was organized to help her propose. after she popped the question, however, he turned around and walked towards his bag only to pull out a ring of his own. the happily reunited couple reunited couple, rather, they plan to wed next month. this time without backup dancers. aww, shucks. i m richard lui, and this is your early today, just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. on the cover of the wall street journal this morning, ryan sees caps on defense spending. a budget proposal that could provide a point of compromise with democrats. and on nbc news.com, egypt branded more dangerous for tourists than yemen which explains how tourists in the once popular destination are spooked by that country s ongoing political unrest. a baby elephant is making his grand debut at a japanese zoo. born in january, this baby boy is the first asian elephant born at the zoo. his proud parents were a gift from sri lanka, part of an ongoing effort to bolster asian elephant populations in japan. the baby will not be named until may, but zoo officials are taking suggestions. love is in the air for pandas in tokyo. it s mating season. zoo officials gave them privacy allowing the couple some alone time in a shared enclosure. giant pandas have a difficult time breeding in an extremely short time frame. zoo officials have their fingers crossed with high hopes for a healthy baby cub. these days who can afford to spend hours at the gym? a new workout program touches or rather torches fat by exercising in a hot clear pod. participants enter a nearly 100-degree case and strap their feet to weighted cords before beginning a basic circuit routine. for the cooldown, you can choose either tummy-toning straps or a detoxifying cellulite-reducing oxygen pod. don t have to do much. sounds pretty cool, high? that s just too high tech for me. it s hard enough to get me to go outside for a run. time efficiency, though. time efficiency. i guess so. time now for a look at what s happening in the day ahead for you. the senate armed services committee holds its first hearing on sexual assault in the military in a decade. this on the heels of a case that raised the ire of committee he member senator claire mccaskill in which a sexual assault conviction was handed down and later overturned by the signature of signature. chuck hagel called for a review of the process allowing commanders to dismiss decisions by military courts. a trial begins in steubenville, ohio, for two high school football players accused of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl during a night of partying last summer. and happy birthday to actress dana delaney. she turns 57 today. here s a look at what s coming up later this morning on the today show. in a today exclusive, the woman at the center of that military assault case we mentioned speaks out about her alleged attacker going free. keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i m richard lui along with dylan dreyer. thanks for watching early today, just your first stop of the today today on your nbc station. have a good wednesday. developing news right now out of rome. no pope today so far as we give you a live look at the sistine chapel where, within the hour, black smoke was seen coming out of that chimney. the wait continues. good morning, it is 4:30. i m jon kelley. and i mlarra garcia-cannon. black smoke poured out of the chimney at the sistine chapel, indicating there is no consensus of who the next pope will be. it also is the end of the morning session. they will be returning to the sistine chapel 8:00 this morning, local time, and will hold one more vote before retiring for the day. if that smoke is white, when they emerge, the bell at st. peter s basilica will ring. within the hour, the new pope will step out on to the balcony. the minute that happens we ll break in with a special report. today in the bay will track everything that is happening in vatican city all morning long. we will take you live to the vatican next hour. stay update online at nbcbayarea.com. as we remain in that holding pattern, let s get a check of the forecast. christina loren is here to tell us what s happening outside. good morning. good morning. well, we hit the 80s yesterday. we will see more on the way as we head into this afternoon. break out your spring, even summer wardrobe today as temperatures will climb from the 50s to 40s into the upper 70s and 80s. san francisco hitting the 70s today. big-time changes just around the corner, though. beware the ides of march. that s all i ll say for now. good morning, mike. we re trying to see just around the corner over here. golden gate bridge, fog advisory
business of electing a new pope. reporter: for the voting cardinals, it was their last contact with the general public until after they elect a new pope. an open mass celebrated in latin that drew thousands into the basilica. later today, the 115 princes of the catholic church will offer more prayers in a private setting before filing into the sistine chapel. there will be no more than one vote held this afternoon or early evening. vatican experts say to look for black smoke from the chapel s chimney, an indication that the cardinals have not yet reached a decision. there is zero chance at electing a pope on one hour. reporter: on monday, they held their last formal meeting to size up the stage of the church and to some extent size up each other. in choosing a leader of the catholic church, they are also choosing their own bus. new york s cardinal timothy dolan said on sirius xm radio, he s ready to get on with the process. even today we began to get into the qualities we d like to see in the new holy father. i m kind of happy they re over because we came here to elect a pope. reporter: part of the process included swearing in 90 staff members from medical to cleaning personnel who will attend to the cardinals during the conclave to an oath of secrecy. if a pope is not chosen today, the cardinals will take two votes wednesday morning and two in the afternoon. then each day through friday with the pause on saturday. only the color of smoke from an otherwise unremarkable chimney pipe will tell us when the work of the cardinals is done. then, only from this papal balcony will we learn his name. reporter: the american cardinals got a rousing sendoff, an ovation as they left the north american college in route to this morning s mass. they were all smiles and appeared relaxed as they got down to business voting for a new pope. and we should note, if there was a vote today we would expect to see smoke if it s going to happen roughly around 3:00 eastern time. lester holt at the vatican for us this morning, thank you very much. father robert baron is an nbc news analyst. both joining us this morning from vatican city. good morning to both of you. good morning, matt. good morning, matt. claudio, let me start with you, articles have talked about the fact there may be a split in factions among these cardinals as they head into the sistine chapel. one describing it as the romans versus the reformers. why don t i begin with you and why don t you break down the romans for me. well, the romans, matt, are made of those who support the roman quarter, it s ran by the italian cardinals and the italians make up 28 cardinals out of 115, and that s the biggest contingency by nation. the next one after that will be the american cardinals. from the united states and there are 11 cardinals. now, they have different views. the italians want to keep things as they are even though many cardinals have criticized the way the vatican has been run by the roman. you may think of it as the government. the italians are known as the old guard, let s call them while the opposite faction is the reformers. led by the americans. those who want to internationalize the vatican. and want to just push forward the mission of evaevangelation. who are the front runners, one is on the italians while the other ones, the reformers are led by none other than two american cardinals. cardinal timothy dolan and cardinal sean o malley. father baron, it seems counterintuitive as the romans, this largely european group might actually be backing a brazilian cardinal. yeah, we heard that early on, they were getting behind him as sort of a front or face for their movement. the word here is that has that balloon has burst. he probably is not going to get the support he require. something i find fascinating, there are some italians and europeans very much backing the reform party. then you hear looking to americans for a variety of reasons. americans can get things done. and also that american cardinal sean o malley comes to mind, have been dealing with the sex abuse crisis for a long time. they have that know how. two weeks ago you asked me about an american candidate, i said chances slim to none. now we re talking about not one but two who are very serious candidates. if sean o malley comes out behind me in a few days as the new pope, he can address that crowd effortlessly in a variety of languages. that struck a number of people here, i ve heard. because americans are known as the people that just know one language. they just know language. sean o malley got up at the congregations, spoke in perfect italian, very much impressed a lot of the europeans. we ll see, that s the most, to me, fascinating development in this whole thing. claudio, to end with you, george weigo said there s zero chance to be elected on the first ballot. what are the people predicting in terms of the length of this conclave? well, matt, if you think of this as a political election, then this will be today s voting will be the primaries. well, the cardinals will be figuring out how many votes the front runners will have. we don t even know whether the ones we mentioned are the front runners. so that will bring down the numbers of possible candidates from 115, of course, all the cardinals to 3 or 4 who have the backing of the majority. so in a way, it s very it s rare and almost impossible that if they vote this afternoon because they may decide not to, we will get black smoke simply because they need 77 votes out of the 115. and they re not going to get it tonight. all right. at the vatican for us this morning, both of you, thank you very much. and we ll bring you the latest developments from the vatican as they occur. but for now, here s savannah. thanks. a major investigation underway this morning to find out how the personal information of u.s. politicians and high-profile celebrities ended up online. pete williams is nbc s justice correspondent. pete, good morning. what s the latest? savannah, good morning to you. those targeted include first lady michelle obama, vice president biden, the fbi director and attorney general. the police chief of los angeles. and several celebrities including mel gibson, ashton kutcher and jay-z. a website using a domain name from the old soviet union have posted their social security numbers and other personal identifying information. also what appear to be their credit reports. some of the information is out of date. the website shows the fbi director living in san francisco, for example. but other information appears to be accurate and all of it is the kind of data that can be bought online from commercially available websites. once someone s social security number and date of birth are known. among other victims are former alaska governor sarah palin and former secretary of state hillary clinton. other celebrities targeted include beyonce, kim kardashian and paris hilton. because so many of the celebrities live in l.a. as does the police chief, the lapd is investigating so are the fbi and the secret service. the existence of the website was first revealed on monday and as of this morning, it s still in operation, but we are not disclosing the website address. there s no indication that any of the information was obtained by computer hacking. instead, those on the site now join the millions of other americans who are victims of identity theft, though there s no sign so far anyone has tried to use this information posted on the site to pose as any of those targeted. pete williams, we showed some of the website images, not revealing the website address as you mentioned. thanks for the report. new york s mayor michael bloomberg is vowing to appeal a state supreme court ruling that strikes down a ban on large sugary drinks. it s a controversial plan he favored that was set to take effect this morning. more on that story. good morning to you. reporter: matt, good morning. starting today, supersized sweet drinks like this one were supposed to be a no-no in new york city. there was a lot of resistance to that ban from regular new yorkers to businesses like starbucks that didn t want to comply. well, now a judge says they don t have to. a sour turn for new york city s crusade against sweet drinks. if we are serious about fighting obesity, we have to be honest about what causes it. reporter: monday, a new york state supreme court judge blocked the city s ban on large sugary drinks. the restrictions would ve prohibited restaurants, movie theaters and other food establishments from selling sweet drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces in an effort to combat obesity. people should be able to put into their body whatever they want. probably possible to educate the public about making healthier choices without actually changing the law. in his ruling, the judge said the ban was quote arbitrary and capricious that the city exceeded its authority and the fact that refills were not restricted would, quote, defeat the purpose of the rule. the judge said this is just riddled with too many loopholes, too confusing, therefore arbitrary and capricious. reporter: the beverage industry says the new law would ve cost them tens of millions of dollars. small restaurant owners also worried about their bottom line from lost sales and the potential for hefty fines. i think it s an outrageous law, it makes absolutely no sense. you can go across the street, we have a liquor store, you can buy as much liquor as you want. reporter: the law is one of mayor bloomberg s controversial health initiatives. he s made headlines for his in your face campaign against obesity, smoking this is what this decision cost me. reporter: and most recently teen pregnancy. now it seems his next battle may be against the court. we believe that the judge s decision was clearly an error and that we will prevail on appeal. reporter: now the mayor had hoped the law would be one final legacy of his last term, but despite his enthusiasm for the measure, it wasn t exactly a popular one. 60% of new yorkers thought it was a bad idea in a poll. all right. mara, thanks very much. let s get to natalie morales with the other top stories of the morning. good morning to you. good morning, savannah, matt, and al. good morning, everyone. the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others in a colorado movie theater appears in court today. 25-year-old james holmes is expected to enter a plea some eight months after that mass shooting. a not guilty plea by reason of insanity is widely expected and could be the only way he could avoid a life sentence or the death penalty. more tension this morning on the korean peninsula where kim jong-un visited north korea s front line troops urging them to be on high alert for possible war. pyongyang is threatening to cancel the agreement that ended the war. whether or not they are capable of launching an attack, the u.s. is vowing to protect the regional allies. three crew members aboard a u.s. navy plane are dead after a crash near spokane, washington. the military plane was on a training mission monday when it crashed into a field. an iowa police officer is a hero this morning after pulling an unconscious teen from his burning car. the 18-year-old had become trapped after crashing into the side of a church. police say he d been doing donuts in the snow. he will be charged with reckless driving once he s released from the hospital. and a little oopsy for a ball girl at spring training down in florida. check out what happens when this hooters girl gets a little too proactive with her job. and that is a fair ball right over the bag. still in play, of course. she realized her mistake soon enough even covered her face there with hermit. the announcer said it is the second time that s happened this spring, but at least she s made one very young fan very happy with that ball. not to mention some of the players i m sure not too bothered by her being there on the sideline either. probably not for her knowledge of baseball. i don t think so. thank you very much. yeah, i know. go ahead. plead the fifth. all right. thank you very much. we ve got a frontal system that s making its way from florida all the way up the eastern seaboard. bringing heavy rain with it. in fact, we ve got flash flood watches in effect for northern new england, northern new york state because of the heavy rain, up to 3 inches of rain plus snow melt. and out in the pacific northwest we ve got a big storm system coming onshore. this is even going to be worse. with this warm front, we are talking about tons of rain. we are looking at anywhere in the next 48 hours 5 to 7 inches of rain in the puget sound area. we ll get to your local forecast in a moment. but first this message. we ll get to your local forecast, but first this message. fly like you ve never been grounded. scream like you ve never been shushed. let go like you have nothing to lose. and hold on to what matters most. it s your vacation. don t just take it. mean it. universal orlando. vacation like you mean it. 7:16 on a tuesday morning. a live look at a beautiful start of the day over san bruno. we have low clouds. your valleys, some are filled with those low clouds like pea soup. the thickest fog is up in the north bay. it should burn off by 9:00 a.m. a warmer day shaping up. 80 on the way to fairfield. 78 in livermore. we ll peak tomorrow and cool you down just in time for the weekend. a court-martial this spring. now a recording is being released by an anti-secrecy group that wants to portray manning as a whistleblower. here s michael isikoff. i m the type of person who likes to know how things work, and as an a analyst i always want to figure out the truth. reporter: that s the voice of bradley manning being heard for the first time explaining his disenchantment with the u.s. military while serving in iraq. we became obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists. reporter: in military court manning admitted he illegally gave wikileaks hundreds of thousands of government documents as well as this 2007 video of a helicopter attack in iraq that mistakenly killed innocent civilians. come on, fire. they dehumanized the individuals they were engages and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as dead . reporter: today there is a recording of manning s courtroom statement provided to the group and made in violation of court rules. in an era where government secrecy is at an all-time high, bradley manning should be commended rather than condemned. reporter: one former state department officials say manning s actions were indefensible. it s nonsense to call bradley manning a political prisoner. he s a member of the military. he was serving in an active war zone. he took it upon himself to compromise hundreds of thousands of documents. reporter: manning s case provoked controversy. free bradley manning! reporter: he s been accused of aiding the enemy which could bring a life sentence. the government is trying to scare the daylights out of other people so they don t engage in the same conduct. reporter: for today, michael isikoff, nbc news, washington. missouri senator clare mchaskill is getting attention for tweeting about her experience with tsa screeners. she said, quote, today in my airport screening test on my hands was positive. got private, more aggressive pat down. omg or oh, my god. hashta very uncomfortable. we don t know what airport it was. but they use the detection claw. we have all had it happen. her test on her hands came back positive. she was taken to the next level. myself having had the secondary pat down, i second h her emotion. very uncomfortable? it is uncomfortable. i don t think there is anything wrong with it. but it s comprehensive. i try to get the secondary. you ask for it every time. she s not insinuating anything was done improperly but it is an uncomfortable feeling. coming up, harvard officials apologizing for secretly looking at the e-mails of employees of the university. but were they well within their rights? and more with valerie harper as she talks about her cancer prognosis and her most famous and beloved character rhoda. first, this is today on nbc. still ahead, jenna bush hager talks to her grandfather george h.w. bush about everything from his health to a flash mob in his honor. and what s al doing in a yankee uniform? after your local news. one clinically-proven claritin every day during your allergy season for continuous relief. 18 days ! 17 days ! i m still claritin clear ! 22 days of continuous relief. live claritin clear. every day. take the claritin clear challenge: get continuous, non-drowsy allergy relief or your money back. go to claritinchallenge.com for details. because every flake is double-toasted. splashed with sweet honey. and covered in rich double-roasted peanuts. mmm. 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[ grunts ] not from my perspective! otherworldly things. but there are some things i ve never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places don t seem so.far away. 7:26. good morning. i m jon kelley. an investigation into a teacher accused of taping the hands and feet of a 2-year-old because the little girl did not want to take a nap. she reportedly showed a picture of the bound child to the girl s mother who also teaches at the preschool. the incident coming to light on march 4th, now being investigated by the state department of social services. there is a parents only meeting at the school to take place tonight. friday, the school will shut down for intense sieve training. right now, let s take a look outside and say good morning to christina loren, who has a phenomenal forecast. bearer of good news all weekend long. you can see, we have some pretty thick low clouds here. they are already burning off. you can actually see the sun through those clouds thinning out, burning off from the top down. that s what fog does. 50 degrees in san jose to start the day. by noon, we re going to climb into the upper 60s. you will be at 60 degrees in antioch breaking for lunch. rounding out the day closer to 80. 80 in fairfield. low 70s for san francisco. unusual to hit the 70s in san francisco. enjoy it while it lasts as we head through the end of the week. things start to change. we re going to cool you off a little bit. 7:27 is rush-hour. traffic tuesday, check the drive. being a traffic tuesday, it is actually not quite so bad as we often see. here is the 101. a little bit of a break here. look at the south bay map. we do have slowing northbound through that entire stretch. that was a little temporary break. we have a crash farther north heading north of the airport. that could cause more distraction as it moves to the shoulder. slow for this stretch of 101 and 280 at the 17 interchange. bottom of your screen northbound. a crash blocks one lane. that s why things are bogging down. that orange in the bottom right corner indicating fog coming out of morgan hill. live look around. low clouds. earlier crashes cause slowing. things are starting to move better, john. back to you. thank you very much. we ll be back in a half hour with another local update. hope to see you then. you look pretty good. you feeling good? i feel like a million bucks. this former president george h.w. bush chatting with his grand daughter jenna bush hager. coming up she ll share more of their conversation and explain why it turned to flash mobs, of all things, when she joins us. think the last time they talked she filled him in on the whole justin bieber thing. this morning it s flash mobs. 7:30 on march 12, 2013. good morning. i m matt lawyer. this morning valerie harper reveals her openness to cancer whether she believes in an after life and her beloved rhoda. when it comes to juggling work and family are women their own worst enemies? that message from a top female executive that s causing a stir. first, administrators at harvard university are under fire and apologizing this morning after it was revealed they searched staff e e-mails during a cheating investigation. ron mott is on the campus in cambridge, massachusetts. good morning. reporter: good morning, matt. when senior officials tried to get to the bottom of who leaked information about how to handle students caught up in the cheating allegations they turned their focus on a number of deans. when none of the deans came forward the university dug deeper. in looking for the person who shared a confidential e-mail about a cheating scandal involving about 70 students, harvard secretly tapped into the e-mail accounts of 16 deans sparking debate about whether the school went too far. i m pretty shocked they were caught doing this. i feel like e-mail should be something that is private. i think it sets a bad precedent for the university to freely and wantonly access e-mail accounts. reporter: harvard said it only searched subject headings and it conducted the search to protect student privacy they worried had been breached. after identifying the dean involved and taking no further action, harvard is apologizing for not telling all the deans about the e-mail probe until confronted by media reports. officials apologized if any resident deans feel our communication at the conclusion of the investigation was insufficient. privacy experts say employers have the right to look at information but should inform employees when when they have taken a peak and why. every employer monitors e pail. unlike harvard that at least has some sort of limitations on what they monitor, most companies have no limitations at all. reporter: still, not everyone on harvard s campus is troubled. my feeling is that my e-mail at harvard belongs to the university. but i don t think you should put anything into an e-mail you don t want anybody to see, period. reporter: efforts to get a senior harvard official on camera for interview weren t successful but the university said its chief concern was student privacy and that the bar is high when determining when to access the e-mail accounts of workers. ron mott at harvard this morning. thank you very much. let s get a check of the weather from mr. roker outside. thanks so much. we have fun friends here. it is going to be nice and warm out west even though it s chilly in the northeast. the jet stream is way up to the north. we are look at temperatures anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees above normal. then you look at the midwest. temperatures much below normal. we are looking at temperatures between 5 to 15 a degrees below normal. along the eastern seaboard, where we should be. look for beautiful weather down through southern florida with temperatures in the 80s. same in southern texas and the southwest. teens and 20s as you make it into the plains with snowshowers there. a lot of wet weather up and down the east coast making for delays later this well, euro figuryour offici rise occurred a few minutes ago. we are seeing a little bit of the sunrise over the bay bridge. thick clouds overhead. they will burn off quickly enough to reduce visibility in the north bay. elsewhere, looking pretty good. ready to hit the upper 70s the warmest day of the year so far. 80 for fairfield. 78 for livermore and 74 in fremont. getting into tomorrow even warmer. we will drop off a touch thursday into friday. the kind of weather you want to make sure you get your weather as soon as you need it. go to the weather channel. this young lady, you actually made me an umbrella. i did. it is an a symmetry scale umbrella by my company. i hand painted your name and the station. thank you very much. it is very nice. here, i will swap. there you go. savannah. thanks. now, to more of our interview with valerie harper. interview with valerie harper. she opens up b about her cancer battle and the impact of her most famous role. on monday when we talked she was dealing with laryngitis but her message was clear. she wanted to speak out to let people know how much she appreciates their well wishes. it has been so warming and so comforting and so, really i feel embraced. it feels awful damn good to be open about it, face it and see what you can do. reporter: valerie harper, alongside husband tony cacciotti has been facing her diagnosis with grace. this came out like a thunderbolt. hit us. she s so damn positive. i have been with her 34 years. she s always been this way. but now it s overwhelming at times. it s really tough because she s my best friend and you don t want me to go. not yet. i don t want to either. despite a difficult and uncertain prognosis, valerie makes sure her time with family including daughter christina is punctuated with laughter. forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. they weren t. that s the past. let it go. i have cancer. it s in my brain in a strange way. what are you going to do about it? you re a spiritual person. do you think about what comes after this life? sure. i see it as a passage. you have to just say, i m willing to embrace it whatever it is. i m going on 74. i want people to be less afraid. i guess that s why i m sharing it. does this look real? oh, come on! reporter: it s a road that included bringing rhoda morgenstern to life on the mary tyler moore show and its spin-off, rhoda. we re fine. joe s fighting with his suit. is rhoda your favorite character? oh, yes. she s been the wind in the sails of my career. valerie had time to reminisce while putting together her memoir i, rhoda which was published prior to her diagnosis. this the mary tyler moore show era seems like a charmed time in your life. it was. i didn t know. you know, i m part of a classic. you just know you re doing a wonderful show. reporter: these days her focus is on her family, her health and the possibilities that lie ahead. it was my regular internist. he said, anyone that s been in oncology for any number of years has seen spontaneous remission. they have. so what i m saying is keep your consciousness, your thoughts open to infinite possibilities. keep yourself open to miracles. i think i speak for everyone that we are praying for a miracle for her. one thing that was so striking about her. she s in such great spirits. our crew came in and when the crews come in we take over the place. she said, hey, you guys are so quiet and polite. be loud, be boisterous! i don t want a fun roeral atmosphere here. she said talking about it she feels freer and she wants people to be less afraid. that s a gift. it s a passage. that s an interesting way of looking at it. she s given us so much, so many laughs over the years as well. we all appreciate and love her. i read her book and thought, she s got life figured out. we 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it s weird. weirder than i really am. thanks. reporter: writing was an outlet for admiration, documenting an unlikely friendship. october 10, 2006. dear bill, this note is to let you know i so appreciated your words about our relationship, about our friendship. it was from your heart. i hope you know i feel the same way. the politics between now and two years from now might put pressure on our friendship, but it is my view that it will survive. in any event, i have enjoyed working with you. reporter: his favorite subject has been the same since 1945. let s see, bar, 42 years ago this minute i was a nervous wreck. you, too, maybe. anyway, here we are 42 years later and i m a very happy guy. the luckiest in the world actually. i have a skinny, miles walking wife. we have lots of oh friends, no real enemies though there are some who aren t root ohhing hard for us. we have quiet faith that gives us strength. so when we count our blessings we have to count on a long, long time. reporter: his essays have even inspired students of texas a & m s bush school, some of whom he s never met. april 23, 2003. i cannot single out the one greatest challenge in my life. i have had a lot of challenges. my advice to young people might be as follows. don t get down when life takes a bad turn. out of adversity comes challenge and often success. when things go well, always give credit to others. give someone else a hand. when a friend is hurting, show that friend you care. reporter: it s no secret that at 88 my grandfather has faced health issues. but he s stronger and back at the school he loves. [ cheers ] reporter: where students are honoring him with a different, more modern use of words a flash mob. what did you think of the flash mob, gamps? of all the flash mobs i have ever seen, this was the best. the best? was it the only one? yes. you look good. are you feeling good? i feel like a million bucks. i really do. reporter: letters documenting history, and a lifetime of loving relationships that, like him, will be cherished always. remember the old song, i ll be there ready when you are, but i ll be there ready when you are. there is so much excitement ahead, so many grandkids to watch grow. if you need me, i m here. love pop. devotedly, dad. love g.b. devotedly, gampy. your friend, george. love, potus 41. all the best, george bush. we should mention all the proceeds from all the best go back to the bush school at texas a & m university. matt? le you made it through. barely. you have a lot going on right now. it is a lost art, the art of writing letters. your grandfather is one of the best at it. it s a privilege to listen to some of those. really, to have them, too. they re so we cherish them, of course. as he s getting older he still writes which i think is great. it was so fun to be with him. he had never seen a flash mob, let s be honest. that was classic. i think he was afraid they were going to literally flash. afraid? or excited. one or the other. jenna, thank you. we have more of president bush s letters and thoughts from family and friends on our website at today.com. coming up, can you really have it all? the mixed messages from some very successful women that have a lot of people talking this morning. first, a look at these messages. do we have a mower? no. a trimmer? no. we got nothing. we just bought our first house, we re on a budget. we re not ready for spring. well let s get you ready. very nice. you see these various colors. we got workshops every saturday. yes, maybe a little bit over here. this spring, take on more lawn for less. not bad for our first spring. more saving. more doing. that s the power of the home depot. get three bags of earthgro mulch, a special buy at just $10. love your passat! um. listen, gary. . . . . . . maybe i ll get one. 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care to elaborate? i got a chance to try out for the yankees for spring training. it was a dream come true. i got helped on my uniform by reggie jackson. i played catch with lee mozilli and i took batting practice with goose gositch. worked out next to derek jeter. just like that. it s like an al roker dream sequence. it was crazy. our producer j.k. long produced this. we ll show you how bad i was. when are we going to see that a? i think week after next. cool. we ll look forward to it. meanwhile natalie morales has the top headlines of the morning. good morning. al, you cut a dashing figure in the pinstripes. good morning. in the news, five american service members were killed last night when their helicopter crashed in southern afghanistan. nato said there were no initial reports of hostile activity in the area when the black hawk went down outside kandahar city. the crash along with the killing of two american soldiers made monday the deadliest day for american forces in afghanistan so far this year. catholic cardinals are beginning their conclave today to elect a new pope. kier simmons is in vatican city with with some of the rituals of the secret, sacred process. good morning. reporter: good morning. this conclave is said to be one of the hardest fought in recent history. we may know little about what s going on in there. the cardinals swearing an oath of secrecy. for more than a thousand years, new popes have been introduced to the world. now in this historic city, history will be made again. an election steeped in tradition inside the walls of the vatican. 115 cardinals will take part in the votes and even now few are predicting which candidate will receive the two-thirds majority needed to be elected pope. the voting takes place within the sistine chapel, beneath michelangelo s famous frescos. the doors are locked. the officials involved have been sworn to secrecy. the aim is no leaks in the age of twitter. no tv, no newspaper, no mail. not even snail is allowed. in other words it s total isolation. reporter: voting inside the chapel takes place twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon. this morning experts believe cardinals from italy, south america and the u.s. may get early support. then the ballots are burned in a stove at the back. finally, white smoke and the bells of the basilica ring a pope has been chosen. after an hour of prayer and preparation the new pontiff walks from the sistine chapel to appear on the basilica balcony, beginning a new era for the church. today the cardinals are moving to my right here. it s basic accommodations designed to encourage them e not to take too long. thank you. new york city will appeal a state judge s last-minute ruling monday that blocked a ban on large sugary drinks. it would have placed a 16-ounce limit on sodas and other high sugar drinks sold in restaurants, theaters and arenas in a move to combat obesity. the judge called it arbitrary and capricious snrks. now for a look at what s trending today. here s one way to entertain a crowd. a stunt man flipped over a speeding lamborghini at a weekend racing festival in australia. up and over down under. if puddle jumping is your thing, look before you leap in new sneakers. oh! well, the jumper s buddy bet him a dollar he couldn t make it across the puddle. that s not a puddle. that s a pool. here s what happened when two younger members of the california conservation corps tried to teach their older boss how to get down. i think the boss showed them a thing or two there. pretty good moves. 8:06. let s go back outside once again to matt. thank you, natalie. that was cute. boss kicking it old school. nice. no question about it. it s ugly. we have friends making it nice from memphis, right? 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[ female announcer ] nothing gets you going quite like 8 grams of whole grains in quaker chewy bars. today is going to be epic. quaker up. back now at 8:12 with a new wrinkle in the debate over whether women can truly have it all. in the tug-of-war over work and family, successful top executives are sending mixed messages about how women should balance their lives. i think we re stalled and we need to acknowledge that we are stalled so that we can change it. reporter: facebook s chief operating officer sheryl sandberg, author of lean in told 60 minutes that women have to try harder. you start leaning back. they say, oh, i m busy. i want to have a child. i couldn t possibly take on any more. or i m still learning on my current job. i have never had a man say that stuff to me. reporter: during the same weekend that interview aired, erin callan, a former chief financial officer for lehman brothers, reflected in a new york times editorial she wished she hadn t invested so heavily in her career, writing, until recently i thought my focus on my career was the most powerful ingredient in my success. but i m beginning to realize i sold myself short. i was talented, intelligent and energetic. it didn t have to be so extreme. well, i have been a mom now for four and a half months and a ceo for seven months. reporter: yahoo! ceo marissa mayer made news revealing she was pregnant just as she was named ceo. but yahoo! and mayer have come under fire for announcing last month the end of the company s work from home policy. economist sylvia hewlitt from the center for talent education. and parade magazine contributor and dr. varma from nyu landgone medical center. good morning. i expect three different perspectives on this and i hope so. let s take it past the traditional can women have it all debate which we have had and had and probably will never resolve. sandberg is getting criticism because some women think she s saying the fault of women, as she says it, being stalled in the workplace lies with women. what was your initial reaction to that? well, i think leaning in, grabbing hold of ambition is a great idea. you can t do it all on your own. employers have to lean in, too. we find in our big new study that sponsorship is a game-changer. if companies create pathways to sponsorship for women they are 20% more likely to get that next job. they are 30% more likely to hang onto their ambition which is important. okay, but let me be devil s advocate. do men need sponsorship, too? they do. men have twice as many sponsors as women. this is the senior champion who taps you on the shoulder to give you fabulous opportunities so you can strut your stuff. now, sandberg herself had an amazing set of sponsors starting with larry summers, who was the treasury secretary. jump in here. she s saying women don t have the traditional groundwork laid for them like men do. i find her message to be incredibly powering. she s saying it is a complex issue but here s what you can do to make a difference for yourself. dr. varma, i think she raises provocative issues. in that interview she says when you ask women what accounts for your success they often say, well, hard work and my luck and people helping me. they can t say, it s my core skill. she herself had difficulty in that interview attributing her success to her own innate abilities. are we hard-wired differently? yes. you know, the nature versus nurture question is particularly interesting. biologically women are driven b to form communities. estrogen and oxytocin is higher in women than men. men have six times more testosterone which drives them to competitive, risk-taking behaviors. for women forming communities is about survival. and competitiveness flies in the face of that. let s take that as a jumping off point. so women aren t biologically like men. should we try to make them socially like men? why not use the attributes they have to their advantage, sylvia? one reason companies need to get into the game and lean in, too, is there is all kind of research showing that gender smarts and gender-styled leadership is incredibly important for innovation and growth. in other words, when group think goes on with a whole bunch of white guys who are all somewhat homogeneous, you don t get creative solutions. diversity is a powerful force. and there is a lot new data that says gender decision making creates new opportunity. and the role of men. sheryl pointedly talks about how you need to choose wisely in a partner. you need someone who is going to at least be willing to do his half of the laundry. you mean the spouse. absolutely. you need someone to approach you as an equal at home and on the job. which brings me to the work/life balance issue. a lot of women, whether they stay at home or work, will confess to feeling guilty about the choices they made. to that end, we see the op-ed in the new york times from erin callan. she was successful about saying in retrospect she got it wrong. she put everything in work to the exclusion of her home life. sandberg says there is work and life, there s no balance. marissa mayer says i don t believe in balance, not in the classic way. doctor? it s not about balance but it s about flexibility, adaptability and knowing when to use the community side of you and the competitive side of you. the goal is often not about making friends. if you are at the negotiating table you re not getting a person to like you. you don t need them to like you. at that moment. you can be friends with them before and after the negotiation. being flexible is one of our greatest skills and has to do with resiliency and longevity in the career. we just need to start utilizing all of those skills. that s the takeaway. you know, success does give you more choices. it s something she brings up. women are delaying childbearing these days, and clearly if you are earning more and more senior, you are able to dictate your terms more completely to the workplace, particularly if you have some fabulous champion in your corner, allowing you to actually go home at 5:30 and get online which she does. she does go back to work. everyone s been grabbing onto whether she goes back to work. after family dinner she s back t at her computer. we all have long days. we are very familiar with it. i think the message is women can lean in, employers can lean in and hopefully, it results in balance. meet in the middle. great to get your perspectives. thank you so much. and coming up next, another woman who seems to have it all. matt goes one-on-one with the one and only snooki after this. a trimmer? 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let me see it. president obama sent us lorenzo s social security card. lorenzo is officially a human, a citizen of the united states. she s li he is like a person. how is he supposed to write his signature? now he can run for president or be an olympic. an olympic. how are you feeling? great. a little bit tired from the baby, but overall i feel awesome. he s 6 months old. how is he doing? he s amazing. alert of things. i feel he has a personality now. he s funny and he just likes to have a good time, just like his mom. you get so much attention for what you do on reality tv. mm-hmm. you and i were talking and i think you will get as much attention about the weight loss as anything you have done. i hope so. 42 pounds since your pregnancy, since giving birth. you lost the first 20 in the first two months and it came off quickly. yeah. talk to me b about how you lost the rest? the first 20 came from breastfeeding. that was awesome. then i had to wait until i could work out which was 6 weeks. i went straight to the gym, worked with a trainer. one of oh my good friends anthony. he basically just kicked my butt into shape and gave me express meals. you cut yourself down to 1300 calories a day. yeah. you are someone who admitted in the past you like to eat junk. yeah. and you also like to drink. yeah. where do you stand on the drinking now in terms of trying to lose weight? it s hard to drink while taking care of a baby so i don t drink at all really. when i do, i get drunk off three sips so it s good. let me clear it up. was this about getting your body back in shape or was it about the fact that you can t go to a club at night and do shots of whatever and wake up and take care of lorenzo? both. i knew i couldn t party because i m a parent. i have to take care of someone else. so the partying is done basically. i have nights where i go out with my girls for wine, but that s it. it was more about being in shape and being a fit mom. do you miss that side of life that you were famous for for so long? not really. i have been partying forever, since college. i m so over it. i m so into my family now. let s talk about your body image. you wrote this recently. i can t believe i will read it. but i still have the mommy pooch. pouch. i think it said pooch. i want my upper legs to be more toned. my boob,s are messed up. they look good in a bra. i look forward to getting work done after i m done having children. do you have a healthy body image now? i m very healthy. i eat good, work out and i have big muscles. i m doing good. doing it the healthy way. eventually i want my boobs back. when you have babies they just flop everywhere. i need to fix those. once would have been okay saying it. best of luck with everything coming up and with lorenzo and marriage pending marriage and all that stuff. definitely soon. nicole, good to see you. thanks. nicole will chat with hoda and kathie lee later on. we ll be right back after your local news. good morning to you. 8:26. i m laura garcia-cannon. bagging the bags. bay area cities are planning to move forward with plans to ban plastic bags. redwood city council voting last night to approve that ban. it will take six months to take effect, so businesses actually have a time to use some of the plastic bag stuff they have. palo alto and its existing ban for restaurants, it will charge $0.10 per bag. keep them handy. check with mike. how are we looking out there? we re looking trying to look. driving along this area, thicker fog north through oakland, 580 and 880. this is right by the coliseum. we can t see further north like we typically see. the high street highrise. san mateo bridge disappears. there s a bird that landed on the camera. he moved his wing, or she. drive to the peninsula side where we see the fog, kicking in here towards the bay bridge. i thought we had other maps. slowing in the south bay through highway 87, laura, back to you. thank you for joining us. another local news update in half an hour or so. hope you have a great morning. from inside the ben know i m sorry, the pauline chapel. they will make their way into the sistine chapel where the con claif will be held in a few minutes in a procession that is as much a part as this tradition. a public mass held with all the cardinals. this will be one of the last times we will see them now before they are locked away in the sistine chapel to begin the actual voting process. this is a shot of the americans earlier today. there will be likely one vote this afternoon. we will know when that occurs as we all keep our eyes trained on the chimney above the sistine chapel. we will look for black or white smoke. black would indicate an inconclusive vote. white would, of course, indicate that they have selected a pope, not likely during the first vote. i m with nbc analyst now george weigel and father robert baron. george, let me begin with you. the significance of what we re about to see, this is not a photo op walk in. no, it s not, lester. when the catholic church does anything serious, it does it in the context of its liturgy or worship. this procession is a liturgical procession. it summons up the idea of the church as a people on pilgrimage, people gone from someplace to someplace. in this case, from the chapel to the sistine chapel. this is cardinal giovani batista rae. he s going to lead a prayer. the cardinals will process from the pauline chapel, one of the hidden gems of the vatican. two of michael angelo s last paintings, one of saint peter and one of st. paul. they will process through the apostolic palace to the sistine chapel which is world famous and seen by millions of pilgrims every year. this is a simply stunning ct. father baron, anyone who s taken a tour of the vatican, this is not something they would have seen, this chapel? no. it s part of the catholic genius, the catholic imagination that these beautiful physical things can speak to us in the spiritual worlds. you re seeing the best of the catholic imagination on display in the processions, the artwork, the architecture. they re asking them to be with the church today as it begins this urgent task of selecting a new bishop of rome, a new supreme pontiff. here we see the cardinals making their way from the chapel, and that leads us to the question in everyone s mind, which one among them will of course become the next pope. there are those we referred to, father baron, as front-runners. how do we know? and let s talk about who they might be. well, to some degree it s always educated guesswork. we know from talking to people here who had contact with the cardinals themselves. so it s highly speculative, but i know cardinal george of chicago who s my boss, and at this time the news media really got it right. the names that they re talking about or the names we re talking about. angelo scola, the archbishop of milan, italy. cardinal scola is a man much in the mold of the past two popes. he s a professor, become a bishop, become a pope. he s an intellectual, academic. he s the patriarch of venice, now the archbishop of milan. i think people expect he ll get the largest number of votes tomorrow. when pope benedict xvi announced he was stepping down, the thought of an american pope was largely dismissed. not so much in the last couple of days. cardinal sean o malley, arch bishop of boston, that name keeps coming up. good reason? i think so. cardinal o malley has a lot of support as i understand it from latin america. he s fluent in spanish and portuguese as well as italian. he spent a lot of time in latin america. he s known there and is appreciated by senior churchmen in latin america who feel, not without some reason, that they ve been a bit ignored over the last eight years. father baron, you noted earlier that he has had to deal with the sex abuse crisis, cleaning up the mess in boston. every single one of his episcopal assignments, fall river, florida, in the virgin islands and finally in boston. in every case he had to deal with the sex abuse crisis so many people hearsay, well, there s someone who knows how to handle this problem. that s only one reason why he s attractive to some of the cardinals. we re also going to be seeing cardinal timothy dolan of new york who openly scoffed at the idea that he could ever be selected as pope. there s a lot of talk here in rome, a lot of italians mentioning his name. it s the single surprising thing about this period. two weeks ago i was asked on the today show, any chance for an american pope? i said, well, slim to none, even though i m a great fan of timothy dolan. what s happened these last days is not just one, but two americans have emerged. of course, timothy dolan, probably more than anyone else, is the face of a new evangelization. if anyone can present the catholic view in a win some way has a crowd pleasing quality. a man of increasing intellectual substance too. people in america and around the world have begun to see that. i ran into a man yesterday in another part of rome who said he worked for one of these voting cardinals, wouldn t tell me which one, and that voting cardinal told him he thinks it s going to be a north american. we mentioned two americans. george, there is marc ouellet from canada. cardinal marc ouellet is a native of quebec. he was the archbishop of quebec city. he taught in latin america in a seminary in colombia for five years. he, too, like cardinal scola, is a man in the image, the intellectual image of john paul ii and benedict xvi. they come out of the same theological school, if you will. they re all friends. cardinal ouellet has done a striking job confronting aggressive secularism in what used to be the intensely catholic province of quebec, and that will commend him to some voters. what are we watching here? we re here in the sistine chapel. the cardinals are making a bow before the altar before the christ of the last judgment, and then they ll go to those tables where each of them has an assigned place and where they will do the voting over the next few days. one should not under estimate, lester, i don t think, the impact of the room on the process. it s not only one of the greatest spaces on the planet, it is a summary of the story of the bible from the creation to the last judgment, and it s very hard to sit in there and think simply in political or interest terms. you have the christ of the last judgment looking down on you and you re thinking, i d better be quite serious about this so that when i say as i cast that ballot i call to witness christ the lord who will be my judge, that i am voting for him whom i think should be sovereign pontiff. let s try to get a sense of the impact as we watch and listen for a bit. father barp, as we watch this, it s clear the impact of the weight and responsibility on their shoulders, the moment is at hand, but let s talk about the last 12 days and the conversations formally in these congregations and the conversations that may have taken place over coffee, breakfast, living rooms. right. what s the what s the conversation like? well, i think they re trying to find out what s going on in different parts of the church. someone in north america might be asking a latin american what s it like in mexico? someone might be talking to an asian bishop about what s going on there. they re trying to get a sense of finding out what s going on there and take the measure of one another. maybe they don t know each other that well but they ll talk to someone who does know them better. there s all of that going on i think. both formally and informally, many of them gave formal addresses. a lot of the politics, you want, is happening in more informal conversations trying to get a feel for each other, take the measure of one another. and to be clear, this is not a place for discussion. the discussions are over? right. this is the beginning of the process simply to cast ballots? what i ve heard from those who have been involved in conclaves is how liturgical this moment is, the procession, the singing, the prayers. it s not a time for button holing. it s time for this prayerful preparation for this momentous event for voting for a pope. i say this with all respect, but as you look at these group of cardinals, these are old men. i think the average age is 72 of the voting cardinals. they re confronted with so many challenges of the modern era. right. i do think after the resignation of pope benedict, i d be surprised if they voted for someone significantly beyond 70 but, again, that s a guess. who knows. but i think they ll probably be looking for someone, you know, who would be physically vigorous. i want to bring folks up to speed who may just be joining us. you re looking at the 115 voting cardinals, the princes of the catholic church who are now proceeding into the sistine chapel bowing to the altar, taking their seats, and before long this picture will be cut off. we will all be closed away from this process as they vote for the next leader in the roman catholic church, the next pope. i want to bring in now liz lev, an nbc analyst who s quite familiar with many of those paintings and things you see on the walls and within the vatican art world. tell us about the cysistine chapel. many of us have taken the tour. what is it that we re not noticing that the cardinals can appreciate? i think first and foremost how many conclaves that space has seen, how many tears of popes, how many momentous eras of the church and the whole way the sistine chapel was painted mostly with michael angelo s work mostly to make them see that they stand between two points of time. they stand between the beginning of everything with the most powerful images, the creation of man. the man comes into being and then they all walk up and they face the end, the ultimate challenge in zblumt offers a dose of humility at a time that i m sure they could all use it. it does. it also gives a sense of perspective to what they re doing. it s more than just right here, right now, that s a part, but it s also part of a much, much larger picture. that room is 500 years old. father barron, as we watch the cardinals make their way in there, let s just talk a little bit about what s going to take place there. there will be perhaps one vote. they don t have to take a vote today. right. likely there will be one vote this evening. again, most likely it will be an inconclusive vote. it would be very surprising if a pope were elected on the first ballot. there will be a spiritual talk the cardinals will hear before they commence the voting. then a long process each comes forward to take the oath. it s a very solemn, a very peripheral, sober moment and probably one vote will result from this evening. and they will draw lots as to a couple of representatives, two or three, to actually help with the vote collection and counting process? that s right. this changes every day. they ll choose different scrutineers every day. this, again, is the litany of the saints that you hear. the ordination of deacons, bishops, it s very powerful, very moving moment calling more on the community of faith. it s the saints in another dimensional system were also involved in this process in a mysterious way. the amazing thing they re depicted in that painting. there they are, the same people they re singing to are all standing around christ and mary. they re the men and women who have already blazed the trail to heaven. nbc s anne thompson is on st. peter s square right now. ann, you were inside the chapel a few days ago as they were installing many of the things they will need for this vote. tell us what your impression was, what you saw. reporter: well, lester, they had to do some prep work to get the sistine chapel ready, and while it is one of the most gorgeous spaces in the world with this incredible artistic achievement 68 feet in the air, the frescos of mikele angelo, i can tell you that they put in a temporary floor because the floor itself is uneven and they didn t want the cardinals whose average age is 71 to trip or fall on the floor. and then those tables that they sit at, i know they look very ornate, but they re really just pieces of plywood with saw horses and then they have some fabric velcroed to them. now the cardinals sit with the chapel divided by a grate. they will sit in one area taking their ballots up to a table that stands before the last judgment, the fresco by michael angelo. then the ballots are burned on the other side of the grate. there are two stoves there. the first stove has been there since 1939. that s the stove where the ballots are burned. it s shaped like a bullet. then there s a new modern stove that was put in there in 2005, and that s where they put the chemicals in to turn the smoke black or white depending on the outcome of the ballot. in 2005, lester, you ll remember we couldn t tell what color the smoke was so it caused a little bit of consternation. they hope to have that problem solved this time around. yeah. i dealt with a little post traumatic stress after the last time recalling the first smoke and it was gray. it was ambiguous. when we finally saw the white smoke, father barron, even then we weren t quite sure until the bells. it s part of the charm, isn t it, fascination of this, in our age of instant communication and iphones that we have our eyes fixed to a chimney giving rise to a smoke signal. part of the fun is the ambiguity. almost every time there s ambiguity. what do we expect to take place now? i believe the singing now will commence. they re calling upon the holy spirit to be with them, guide them, direct them. first the saints and now the holy spirit. father barron, what are we seeing now? i believe this is the address to the cardinals now. spiritual exhortation. can you give us a sense what s being said here? just a prayer asking the lord to be with them and blessing christ and asking the lord to be with the cardinals as they prepare to vote. we should note as we are all watching this, i look over my shoulder and there is a crowd now slowly filing in on a rainy day in st. peter s square watching this all play out on big tv monitors. this is part of the oath? no, this is not yet the oath. this is still part of the prayer. john paul ii was known most importantly for the conclave in which we need to outline the next step of the procedure, which i imagine will be the oath. you ve lived in rome for a long time. i know eight years ago when we heard the idea of an american pope could scarcely be talked about. it s being talked about a lot here now. isn t that amazing? strangely i say strangely, among italians. i find it exciting. everywhere i m going, i m sitting having coffee. what about an american pope? what about an american pope? why is that such an exciting prospect for italians? first of all, i think the americans enjoy they see a great many of americans here. in rome, we re hearing this mostly from romans, you ll find that romans enjoy the company of americans. they see americans as people who get things done and cheerful, people who radiate a sense of joyful efficiency. what a great hope, i think. father barron, is that a surprise to you, that conversation? think about how the world has changed in eight years and how americans are viewed. yeah, as i say, i m very surprised by it. two weeks ago most of us would not see it as a possibility. it s the american efficiency. cardinal dolan made quite a splash here last year and he gave a wonderful talk to the members, including the pope. they say he was very well received. i think, too, with cardinal sean o malley, a member of the franc franciscan family, padre pio, his simplicity. but the americans upset the apple cart a bit earlier in this process in the congregations when they opted to have a daily briefing and they got their hand slapped on that. would some see that, though, in a positive light. hey, these guys are willing to change and do things in a different way? i think so. i think there was a little bit of a backlash to the backlash. some people felt it was a slapping of the hand that wasn t called for, that those were very helpful interventions that they made. i think that might contribute to some of the interest people have in the americans. we re looking inside the sistine chapel. minutes before the cardinals are secluded away to begin the process of selecting the next pope. and this is the formal oath they re taking now. it s actually written on the they read it on the left-hand side. they put their hand on the right-hand side. each one will recite that? yes, each one. cardinal dolan said of the congregation, we sure pray a lot. they surround this event with prayer, which i think is a wonderful feature. they re vowing to obey the next pope. i think we see prayer in more than one way here. there s prayer through the art and prayer through the music. when you talk about surrounding yourself with prayer, that chant of litany, the paintings around them, and then the actual vocal prayers, it s a space that s really designed for that and i think that s what makes it perfect for the conclave. all of them wondering, like all of us, how long will this take? as we ve heard from a number of experts, including those with us here, likely an inconclusive vote tonight if there is a vote taken at some point this evening here. last time eight years ago it took two days. that was a fast conclave. but that was also one people will point out in which in which pope benedict was a likely candidate. he was a front-runner, certainly, and that s what people say now, there really isn t a front-runner in the same sense. so it could spell a longer conclave. and is there is it easy to divide this group in half in terms of reformers versus those who want to remain? they ll speak of those two camps. i m not sure you could say divided in half. i m not sure the group is divided ideologically. they re all chosen by pope john paul ii and benedict xvi. i think there is something at play in the two forces. we want to pause briefly as some stations leave us along the network, others will join us here in a moment. you re watching nbc news coverage at the beginning of the papal conclave. this is lester holt outside the vatican as we watch inside the sistine chapel. the 115 voting cardinals of the roman catholic church now each taking the oath before being secluded within the chapel, the sistine chapel, to begin the voting process to choose the next pope. it s a rainy day here in rome. many romans have stopped what they re doing to watch this process. standing on st. peter s square watching what you re seeing on big tvs that have been placed out for the crowd. each cardinal placing his hand on the bible swearing the oath that they will obey the next pope. joined once again by george weigel, an nbc vatican analyst along with father robert barron. george, this is the last time we re going to see them? it is, lester, because once that door is closed, interestingly enough by an american, cardinal james harvey, a junior cardinal deacon, they are on their own. and tonight after what we assume will be an inconclusive first ballot, they ll return to the vatican guest house, the saint martha s house where they ll have dinner together, and then tomorrow morning when they return to the sistine chapel to continue the balloting process, as cardinal kristoff schonborn comes up, they will go back by bus. some will want to walk, but it s not terribly pleasant walking weather right now. cardinal george of chicago behind. we should note we saw one of the cardinals as they made their way into the room being assisted and there are a number of people working, attending to the cardinals, medical staff to other assistants who swore their own oath yesterday to secrecy. they will not it s my understanding not be actually in the voting process but they will have access to the cardinals before and after. that s right. that s the cardinal of naples and behind him is cardinal walter casper of germany who made it into this electorate by five days. he turned 80 five days after benedict xvi renounced the chair of peter so he made it under the wire by five days. the old jest voter. he s the oldest voter.es jes he s the oldest voter.t jest he s the oldest voter.jest v he s the oldest voter.est vo he s the oldest voter.st vot he s the oldest voter.t vote he s the oldest voter. voter he s the oldest voter. is there significance to the order that they are taking the vote, george? there are three groups of cardinals, lester. the most senior are called cardinal bishops, although all of them are bishops. then the greatest number of cardinals, the residential diocesan bishops are called cardinal priests and they are the titular pastors. we saw last sunday that many of them went out to the parishes to celebrate mass. the cardinals that live in rome are called cardinal deacons. so the oath swearing takes place by order of precedence within those three groups of cardinals. so the last cardinal to take the oath will be cardinal harvey from milwaukee who works here. he s the most junior of the cardinals. will this be the order that they vote in. yes? the ballot. the ballot says i elect as supreme pontiff and then there s a blank line and you write the name. how do they discourage their handwriting to keep that process as secret as possible? they re told to make it legible but disguise your handwriting which seems a tad incongruous. some of them certainly know each other. they ve spent the last several days in the congregation formally talking over the matters of the church but in some cases truly getting to know each other. i think that s right. they took that time to vett one another. they said, we re not in a hurry. yeah. i think they wanted some extra time. this is for many of these men, lester, the most significant decision they ll make in their lives perhaps after the decision to enter the seminary and become a priest. it takes a certain seriousness to live through this moment, and i think you see that in the faces here. bring in anne thompson who is down on st. peter s square watching this along with crowds on the big screen tv. you ve had a lot of access to the american cardinals the last couple of weeks, and how would you describe their spirits and how they have enjoyed, to some extent, the process? reporter: the reception of the american cardinals here in rome. i mean, on sunday i went to both the mass of cardinal dolan and cardinal o malley, and they reminded me of campaign rallies. the last days of new hampshire before presidential primaries. the eye tall yn peopitalian peo in the church were so excited that these men were saying mass. if cardinal dolan s church, which is a very plain church on the outskirts of rome, all the parishioners stayed after mass. he talked to everyone, shook every hand, kissed every baby, took pictures with nuns. they were very enthusiastic. the same with shaun o malley. the italians really seem to be taken by his very humble presence and they are very intrigued by this man who three times in his career in the american church has been asked to go in and clean up diocese that have been impacted by clergy sex abuse. and i think between that and his robes and his sandals and his very humble presence that he gives, the italian people have really taken to him. lester? father barron, the last time we saw this process play out it had fallen to the death of a pope. john paul ii s legacy, spirit hung heavy in the room. different circumstances. to what extent does pope benedict have an impact on this process, if any? i think he certainly does to the fact that 67 of these men will vote and he appointed them. also this unprecedented moment that we have, that there is now a pope emeritus that is still alive and present. it s hard to imagine it wouldn t have some impact even though he, i think, will very happily move into retirement and does not want to influence this in any direct way, of course, but i can t help but think his presence is felt. the other major difference you alluded to, john paul died in the city that was filled with millions of people that came for the funeral. there was a huge spiritual uplift that preceded the conclave, something very different this time with the resignation of a pope. that s go the to affect at least the mood of the conclave. the u.s. bishop of carteau of sudan. i think the tallest. a man of good humor in very difficult circumstances. george, you had said earlier zero chance of selecting a pope today. so how do the votes tend to go in these first elections? it s traditional in papal n conclav conclaves, that cardinals will pay tribute to friends who will not otherwise get votes, thanking them for their service to the church. there s some serious voting here too. in 2005 conclave the first vote showed that cardinal ratzinger was ahead of the field by 36 lengths. this was like sec kre tretariat belmont. we know where this is going. we know where this is going. that will not happen this time because it s a very different field of contenders, if you will. and as father barron was saying, a very different moment. these men are acutely aware that in a church which lives by tradition, this has never happened before. there have been papal abdications before, but they were under wholly different circumstances than this. and let s be clear, this is not just a role as spiritual head of this church, this is a managerial position of a very, very large organization, and the managerial style of pope benedict has been under some question as you re well aware this last couple of weeks. are they looking at each other through the eyes of a manager at this point? i think that s one of the considerations. number one is someone that can evangelize, that can have that winsome presentation of the catholic gospel, but i think they are looking for somebody with managerial skill. we talk about priest, prophet and king. sanctifier, teacher, governor and ruler. a lot of cardinals have been talking about that governing role has to come to the fore. i think that s very much on their minds. in some ways the expectations of a pope are unrealistic. you have to be an evangelist, a ceo, a manager. when we cut to this picture, i keep thinking one among them is going to become the next pope, and then my next thought is which among them wants to be pope. well, lester, if you want to be pope, you re almost automatically disqualified, not for reasons of lack of humility. marc ouellet of quebec. not for lack of humility but lack of prudence, perhaps even sanity. no one should want this job for the reasons that father barron just indicated. i think in recent days here there s been a consensus emerging that you can t expect the pope to do it all and, therefore, you have to try to find that charismatic, evangelical pastor father barron was talking about with the shrewdness to hire a chief operating officer to make the vatican work for him and for the church. if you re just joining us we re watching the 115 voting cardinals as they take their solemn oath before they start the process here shortly to begin electing the next pope. we see the third in line there, that appears to be cardinal sean o malley. 68 years old so on the younger side. about the right age, yeah. and right behind cardinal o malley is the former long-time secretary to pope john paul ii and now the arch bishop of krakow, poland. and here now, cardinal o malley. he has a rich, resonant voice. we re told he s gifted in many languages. that would certainly be an asset. he can speak in five or six languages. in the congregations that they ve had over the last over the last week, do they make speeches? how does one view a cardinal he doesn t know and gets a sense of that person s capabilities? the interventions, as they re called, are limited to about five minutes so it s not a long opportunity, but you can pack a lot into five minutes. a man can talk about, for example, as cardinal o brien, formerly archbishop of baltimore did, talk about the challenges that the church faces from jihadist islam around the world. others talked about what kind of a pope they think is necessary at this moment in history, and, of course, everybody is taking the measure of each other in the course of those streams or strings of interventions. when the vote is taken, are there any admonitions at that point? anymore discussion or any more said? the process is complicated, actually, and quite clear. each cardinal casts an individual ballot. when all 115 are cast, those votes are brought to a table that will be set up tomorrow or later this afternoon in front of that altar where three counters, called scrutineers, who are chosen by lot, first count the ballots to make sure they ve got the right number, 115. then the first cardinal counter or scrutineer opens the ballot, notes down the name, passes it to the second one, who notes the name, passes it to the third one who notes the name and announces in public, and everyone else in the room, of course, has got a personal score card that they re keeping as well. one vote today. win or lose, it will probably occur, what, roughly 3:00 eastern time we would see smoke. and then moving forward into the subsequent days, tomorrow, two votes in the morning, one right after the other, and then as needed, two more in the afternoon. that s right. this is cardinal daniel dinardo, gal galveston, houston, texas. cardinal scherer of san paulo, brazil. and he s another of the cardinals who has been spoken about a lot this week as a front-runner. i hate to use the term front-runner because it implies there s a political contest as we tend to know it, but there are some names that have been spoken about more than others. between the morning and afternoon balloting period the cardinals return to the saint martha house for lunch, for a rest, and for what you can assume will be some very serious conversations. different clusters of cardinals try to figure out what happened. so there are conversations outside the vote? absolutely. without a doubt. there will be conversations tonight when they go back to the saint martha house after the first vote. sorry. no, you ll get some indications from the first vote. it will be inconclusive. you ll get some indication. for the first time they ll see, oh, there s someone who actually got some votes. so i think it s a telling moment even though it will almost certainly be inconclusive. but you will see look at this cardinal, maybe we should come around to this side. maybe someone we didn t talk about surprisingly got some votes. so i think it will clarify things a bit, this first vote. cardinal coming up is cardinal donald whirl, the archbishop of washington, and another native of pittsburgh which is well represented among the college. i have to wonder how many of them are going through the same process the rest of us are, wondering who the front-runners truly are. this is cardinal nitche of warsaw. i think, lester, this has been a quite striking experience for these cardinals. the last time this happened it was pretty clear fairly soon in the general congregation what was called a consensus of esteem was building around cardinal ratzinger and the first vote in which he got repeatedly almost an absolute majority sealed the deal, if you will, made it clear which way this was going. do you think there s some unity, though, in the direction that they all want to go in terms of the type of quality that they feel the church needs most at this point in its history? i think there s a consensus that a pastor with some charisma is what is needed put a face on the catholic church. this is cardinal thomas collins of toronto will be the next man to swear the oath. there s also real concern that the vatican machinery needs to be fixed. george, we re just going to pause here for a moment to allow other stations to join our coverage. you re watching coverage of the papal conclave about to start on nbc. lester holt in rome. you re watching nbc live coverage of the election of the pope. these are the 115 voting cardinals who are inside the sistine chapel now each taking the oath, putting their hand on the bible, and taking the oath before they begin the process of electing the next leader of the roman catholic church, the next pope. and we re waiting for this is cardinal dolan of new york. jovial, charismatic, some of the words used to describe cardinal dolan. we noted earlier, kind of discounted himself, his own candidacy. let s quickly go to anne thompson on saint peter square. anne? lester, i m sorry. i can t hear you. what kind of reaction was you know, we ve been lester, there was actually a cheer that went up here in the square when cardinal dolan took his oath. i guess if there was a popular vote here in st. peter s square, you have to give it to timothy dolan, the archbishop of new york. there are actually several groups of americans who are here in the square. we ve seen an american flag, we ve seen a texas a&m flag, but throughout this process i m just struck by how people are drawn here to st. peter s square, to come and participate. it is pouring rain and yet they still come, they still stand in front of these jumbotrons and very respectfully watch this process happen. but, again, the only one we ve heard a cheer for is timothy dolan. lester? quite a scene out there on st. peter s square. steady rain falling here over vatican city in rome. the people, as we ve seen, standing out there watching it on the big screen tvs. all of us have been stopped somewhere along the way by when is the smoke. when is the vote? there s the radar. looks like more rain coming our way. we re hoping, as they did last time, they will have a light trained on the chimney so we ll be able to see the smoke should it be later in the evening. there s the picture, st. peter s square, as folks stand in the rain watching the tv and later they ll be watching that chimney pipe watching for smoke which we expect will be black signifying an inconclusive vote. little more than 30 cardinals left to go to take the oath. at some point, as i understand it, fair barother barron, will s done. it s over. the conclave kicks in and all the speculation ends and there they are, these 115 men. that s what s so fascinating about this moments. a lot of them have not done it. more than half were not here, were not present? there were a certain number that were in the conclave 2005 this time. that s another difference because in 2005 only two members of the conclave had ever done the drill before. cardinal ratzinger and cardinal william down, the former arch bishop of washington, everybody was a rookie. there are a lot of veterans of this process here on this occasion. and we re joined by liz lev. nice to have you here as we continue our coverage of the cardinals about to begin the election of the next pope. and, liz, it s such a magnificent backdrop. if you ve been fortunate enough to take a tour, you are ssee it lit by television lights. it took ten years to clean that chapel. when we visit it we see it as perfectly cleaned but it s in more of a shadowy image except for a sunny image. to see it with the lights on, with the images that really pop out at you that tell the story in such a powerful way. it is a stunning chapel. nothing like it in the world. 20 more cardinals will make their way to swear the oath and the process will continue on with the outside our view, certainly, with the election of the next pope. the third cardinal in line here woops. the third cardinal in line is cardinal raymond park, one of the two wisconsin natives. swiss cardinal crock who runs the pontifical council for promoting christianity. we should note the combinations have improved over the next couple of conclaves. it used to be a spartan number of people between the votes. it s a guest house. it s not very plush but it s better than living in jury rigged rooms with cots which used to be the arrangement in the apostolic palace. they would cut it up into little cubicles. if you got the one without a bath one without a bathroom. the conclaves of 1978, that was not that long ago. as we heard, no phones, no faxes, no e-mail. they will be cut off from the rest of the world. clearly they live in a world of social media which wasn t really much of a big deal eight years ago. they know what s been said about the church, the challenges. they ve discussed them themselves. now they re in the sistine chapel and they are truly on their own. father barron, i talked to you about this the other day, but i think it s important to stress. this is the leader of more than 1 billion catholics that will be chosen here. what s the significance for the rest of the world, the non-catholic world, what s taking place here? well, i think the pope yes, indeed, is the leader of catholics. there s something that s so powerful about the pope being the symbolic figure and the spiritual figure. i think the world is galvanized by the papacy. that s why the whole world is watching now. i think he does have a resonance far beyond the catholic church. the catholic church does have a universal aspiration to preach to all the nations so he has an evangelical call to preach to all the nations. it does have an impact around the world, absolutely. and, liz, as we noted, you re an american who s lived in rome for a very long time. i was speaking to folks on the streets here yesterday, and they said, we don t have a government. we don t have a pope. we should note, this is a very difficult time right now in italy. they had political elections here. yes. which were inconclusive. there is no ruling government right now. is the election of a pope a welcome dits straktion or was it another reminder of the sense of waiting in this country? i m feeling like we re pinning our hopes on this pontificate. we re hoping this will get resolved and the rest will fall into place. let s get our church settled and the rest of the world will be settled. italy has been ordered that way for many years. it wouldn t be bad if we followed it a little bit more, no? one of my memories of being here eight years ago is when we did see the white smoke and when we confirmed it was white smoke was to watch this city respond and by the thousands people pouring into st. peter s square. running into saint pett. pet square. cardinal edward o brien, former archbishop of baltimore, a new york native now working here in rome. pair paratrooper chaplain in vietnam. to what extent there are 11 cardinals from the united states, to what extent do they have a conversation among just the 11 of them about the direction they want to go. they ve been meeting in the evening to survey the terrain to see if they can come to an understanding. this is cardinal harvey, native of milwaukee. last of the cardinals to swear the oath. the american cardinals keenly aware of the growing disconnect between the curia. what will happen next? the sermon prescribed to be prepared will be prepared by an elderly cardinal, one of the over 80-year-old men. a great patristic scholar, a great student of saint a gust thyme. this is the papal master of ceremonies. there you go. everybody out. saying it without tremendous authority, i must say, but the words nonetheless. and in this case who is he speaking to? who s everybody? the attendants, the other assistant masters of ceremonies, other members of the papal household, some security people, plain clothes and otherwise. they re all leaving now. and it will be cardinal harvey, as the soon i don t remember cardinal deacon, who will close the door from the inside. actually, no, on this occasion it will be i think monseigneur morini. during the voting, cardinal harvey is the door chief. and that staff we saw leaving, they were all sworn to secrecy yesterday, i believe. the secrecy thing, lester, bears a bit of comment. it s not being precious. it s a matter of trying to insulate this process from external pressures. the history of the papacy is filled with governmental interference, interferences in italian nobility, etc. it s the church s own process so that a conscientious and prudent decision can be reached. and an acknowledgment of modern technology to the extent this room was swept for bugs, for listening devices. a bigger crowd than i originally thought. yeah. that s a hot ticket if you can get in for that part of the proceedings. a privilege to be kicked out of the sistine chapel. and, liz, we know it was a short procession from the pauline chapel to the sistine. the pauline chapel is no, the pauline chapel is up by the pope s apartment. they go from this magnificent work from mikele angelo where you have the death of saint peter and convergence of st. paul. the room between the two was usually used for royal visitors. the doorway that he will close into that hallway. quite a shot. closed from the inside, and now their process what will take place now out of the camera view, george? there will be a sermon preached by this elderly cardinal i mentioned a moment ago. then he will be invited out, as will monseigneur morini and they will be on their own, 115 men. they ll take that first ballot, i would think in perhaps 40 to 45 minutes, perhaps an hour, depending on how long the sermon is, and then we should see some smoke within an hour of the beginning of that. and here again, first ballot can occur on the first day, it does not have to take place. we would expect it would. four ballots. they ll do two in the morning, they would do two later in the day and this process does have some pauses built in. after three full days, i guess this would be saturday, they would take a pause to pray and to reflect and then to select a pope, 2/3 plus one for an election. 77 in this case. tall order given the lineup, if you will? i think it s going to be difficult for anyone to get to 77 quickly. i don t think this is going to be a simple or easy process. the longest conclave in the 20th century was five days in 1922. it s not inconceivable that this could top that record. we look at the crowds on a rainy day here in st. peter s square who have been watching all of this play out on big tv screens that were set up on either side of the square. a lot of americans in this crowd. we ve been down there. a lot of tourists, people on spring break who had made their plans months ago to be in rome and it just happened to coincide with the drama of the resignation and a conclave and many of them hoping they will be in this place when we see white smoke, perhaps as early as today, not likely, but certainly in the days ahead. it s an amazing bit of pageantry that we ve watched, tradition, and pomp, but at the end of the day it s all about electing a leader. it all comes down to galloway and fisherman. buried in the vatican hill. it s amazing that that s why we re here, to choose a successor of that fisherman. and we will be here throughout this process. we ll be watching carefully, that chimney, when there is smoke. we ll come on the air and tell you what it says. for now, from vatican city, i m lester holt, nbc news. willie is texts me during the bach. christina said the same thing. dude, if you re watching, do your homework before the show. it s like sportscenter. i don t interrupt. come on, man. you have a pavlovian reaction. i filibustered so long we have to save threading. bring her out. do we have two seconds? two seconds. okay. come on out. this is threading. hair removal. shashi. i walk around. what is threading? it s a natural way of hair removal to remove the hair from the root. rest your head here. we ll go to break while you do it. rest, willie. get him good. why would i do this instead of plucking? it s a natural way of hair removal. oh, dear god! it s a pinch. i get the message. we ll be right back. ow! good job, willie. we ll be right back with more of savannah s conversation with valerie harper. ockringing ] [ female announcer ] if you have rheumatoid arthritis, can you start the day the way you want? can orencia help? 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[ male announcer ] liquid gold diggers love liquid gold. this morning in today s kitchen, salads as easy as one, two, three. at 12, hailey thomas has already met her celebrity eyele dolls, chefs like tom colicchio and alice waters. she wants to inspire kids to eat healthy and is traveling the country with a for kids, by kids menu. good morning. you re quite a little slacker. no, no. you re doing a great job. how long have you been cooking? since i was really 5. wow. it s been a long time. you have great recipes kids can make starting with a quinoa and shrimp salad. the ingredients are simple. i will have you you cooked the quinoa already. it takes 20 minutes. then we have corn, black beans. these are great flavor combinations. you know, really bright with some onion, tomatoes. then add just a pinch of salt. mix it up for me and incorporate it while i go over here and work on the shrimp. this is something you made that was prepared for the first lady s first kids state dinner. yes. that was very exciting to have the first lady enjoy my food. all right. so once that s incorporated we ll add it to the plate. for this shrimp here, i m going to add some garlic and some sea salt. shrimp cooks quickly, right? really quickly. i paired it with shrimp because i love seafood so much. get that in there. smells terrific. so you re going to cook that up. it cooks for a few minutes. this is a finished version. yes. so add this to our plate. there we go. all plated up. that looks lovely. i love the other idea. you have salad kabobs. yes. this is on the kids menu. it s really simple and delicious, too. i d say we should get some kabobs together. start with cheese smells great, hailey. isn t it terrific? wow. you know your stuff. lettuce. it has a great honey mustard sauce. so a little dipping thing. this is really terrific. the whole point of the menu is to have it fun, fresh, flavorful, sophisticated and interactive. your friends can make it. hailey, thank you so much. you have to do a cookbook. thank you. she will. i m sure. we ll be back in a moment. first, this is today on nbc. 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(male announcer) break the monotony. visit spam.com. coming up tomorrow, jill martin s must have list. she must have some of this. this is really good. you impressed us all. superstar. right. up next, kathie lee and hoda, jillian michaels with tips to keep you fit for life. after your local news and weather. 9:56. i m marla tellez. free on all counts this morning. an east bay man who served 14 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is speaking out. nbc bay area will be the first local station to talk to johnny williams this morning. williams was convicted of attempting to rape a 9-year-old girl back in 1998. but this month a judge overturned his conviction after dna testing spearheaded by northern california innocence project out of santa clara university proved he did not commit the crime. we will have an interview with williams later on nbc news at 5:00. let s go ahead and take a look at this gorgeous forecast with christina loren. thanks, marla. we have a good looking day shaping up. the warmest of the year so far. that warm-up continues. we ll peak tomorrow. yes, near the 80 degree mark just about everywhere, bypass that mark, could touch on mid-80s in lawrimore for wednesday. as we head through monday, things will clear off. still have showers. 78 in livermore, 74 los gatos, 71 san francisco. getting into the weekend temps cool just a touch. nice and comfortable for your outdoor plans. good morning, mike. we ll have a great day once that fog burns off. still have low clouds in many spots. that s not the reason for the slowing you re looking for right here. turn the camera south of the coliseum, looking at the southbound site. typically the lighter noncommute side. southbound jams up past 98 sounds like maybe closer to davis street in san leandro. we do have a crash there. there s a slow drive before the coliseum past davis. north side slowing, looks like that s where it is. a distraction in the fast lane. looking at the fog also orange drifting around. lighter volume of traffic there. peninsula, smooth for 101. thanks, mike. we ll be back again at 10:26. we ll see you in about 30. announcer: from nbc news, this is today, with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. it is booze-day tuesday, everyby, i bet you didn t know that, it is march 12th. march is marching on and this is a big surprise came in the news. a big day for drinking and drinks, isn t it? yeah, here in new york it is. you think this is a big national story? we re hoping so. because we re trend-setters. as you guys know, mayor bloomberg was tire of having those big jumbo drinks full of sugar in movie theaters and bodegas, he wanted to put a ban on sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces. it was supposed to go into effect tuesday. lo and behold, look what was on the cover of the new york post. it got struck down and everyone seems joyful. that guy is. he runs a pizza place, i think. he s filling up his cup. i wonder if he s happy about that picture? probably. here is the judge who struck it down. because he likes his big drinks. anyway we re not making any judgments. no, we are not. the judge said that mayor bloomberg s plan was quote arbitrary and capricious, that the city extended its authority and the fact that refills were not restricted would quote defeat the purpose of the rule. i think he has a point. we were talking about that. what makes a person not be able to go back and get another one and another one. people are lazy. you re so good at math. you can get this and say you really wanted to get this. right? you could get two of those. you could get what, hold it up. people are lazy. and they don t want to buy two or three. can you imagine drinking that? that s, that s kind of gross. is it diet? no, it s not diet. when you think about how many calories are in that you know what? this is one of those instances where i think you got to say good for mayor bloomberg, he s trying to come up with something. because we have a huge, huge problem in our country of obesity, which leads to all kinds of other health problems like diabetes and everything else. but i don t think you can legislate either morality in a sense or people s behavior. people are going to drink what they want to drink. and eat what they want to eat, hoda-woman. if you ban things, i m sure there are fewer smokers because there are fewer places to smoke. ? we asked a friend who does smoke. and said listen, if it were banned completely in new york, and you can t smoke anywhere, what would happen. and she said, i would quit. and then she said, no, i would quit the job. but she said no, i would quit smoking, i have to because i need my job. the mayor is going to appeal that. so he has another shot at it we ll see what happens. speaking of drinking, it s booze-day tuesday. we have these drinks. what is hudson common, you guys? it s a liquor. it s a restaurant, and this has been sponsored by them or inspired by them, which is an inside joke. it s got a lot of a blend of liquors, vodka, champagne anyway. thank god i don t like this stuff. can you imagine if i liked even more stuff? you like enough stuff. i like enough stuff. so the view made an announcement, a couple of announcements yesterday, one that elizabeth hasselbeck is staying. i m really glad, i happen to know elizabeth really well and happen to adore her. she is one of the best people you know her, hoda? i don t know her as well as you know her. she s a doll. another announcement is that joy behar is leaving the view. she was announced her top ten reasons to leave the view. here s one of them. i have my top ten reasons for leaving the view. would you like to hear them? okay! number one number ten, i mean, number ten. abc won t let me drink on the air like hoda and kathie lee. yeah. there you go. what other reasons do you need? we want to wish everybody the best and i have known joy behar for so many years, and it goes back do when i first came to new york 31 years ago and worked at a different network and worked at a different morning show. she was the receptionist for the executive producer at that show. at the time. and literally, was doing stand-up at night. so what whether you agree or disagree with her politically or you like her or dislike what she does on the air she worked hard. she has worked really hard and we wish her all the best and i m glad that elizabeth is going to stay. i think the dissenting views are important and we have to learn to live on the same planet with one another, hoda. look at you and me. oil and water. i predict a blow-out on friday. yeah. i m going on record and making a prediction for friday that you and i are going to have a major blow-out. it could happen any day. you know what could happen today? what. a landmark. today? on what? on facebook. we are so close to reaching half a million. we ve not that close. we ve been saying it for months. people aren t liking us. they are liking us. they aren t liking us on the facebook page. maybe it s because we haven t begged. we ve been begging, shaking a can. in is no longer working. i don t like the foam thumb. no one is interested. so i m going to get down that s right. please like us on facebook! please! please like us! it would really mean a lot to koda-bub. she s very insecure and see thinks people don t like her and i know some of you don t like her. but please, like us on facebook. i know three people who do like us and like you and me and are standing right over there. cameron, holly, and holly s daughter caroline are high school friends of mine. we all went to high school and they re just here visiting. we ve got three likes. only attractive friends. they are every friend of yours is like really attractive. thank you. not all their husbands and boyfriends, but all your friends. all right we had 497 and 47 likes so far. hoda, you re terrible at math. that s very close do half a million. we ve had 490-something thousand for four months. because you think you re too big, you re too important to beg. people like begging. yes, they do. they do. it makes them feel powerful. if we hit half a million you ll beg for a million? i ll beg you for forgiveness. how about that? you need to do that anyway. sheryl sandberg has opened up quite a can of worms. here s the thing, she s the coo of facebook. she s 43 years old and she s talking about a lot of things we ve been talking about for a long time. especially in light of melissa mayer, who is the head of yahoo. so this is why i didn t want to do this in the first place. why? because i think we ve made, i don t know why this is a big thing now. we ve been discussing these issues forever. she s saying all of these young women are graduating college and the number of ceos and people running companies are so small and she s saying you guys have do lean in and don t opt out before you have a chance to get it or not get it. some people are opting out because they ve had a chance to try. they opt out because they might have kids and they make all of these decisions. where men go ahead and say, i ll do it they might not be as qualified but they jump in the deep end. do you think men lie more than women on their resumés? yes, they do. i think women feel more afraid of getting caught. i think guys have more confidence. i learned a lesson yesterday. i was with a friend and he was telling me that he was, driving anywhere a school and he saw this woman standing in the middle of the street. and he was very concerned about her. because she was erratic and she was, you could tell she was very upset. and he thought maybe she needed help. he goes to her, rolls down the window. she starts screaming, screaming at him. you told me to meet me here. it was some guy she met, she was supposed to meet some guy on online. he realizes he can t help her, he s trying to roll up the window. she smacks the car, leaves a huge hand print on the window. why am i telling you this? i don t know. i tuned out, but what what happened? what happened to the lady. lying, that s why. she lied about what she looked like online, so when the guy showed up, he kept going. ha does that have to do about sandberg and coos? this is a woman who is not leaning in. that s a wrap, that s good, that s a nice story. hoda, there s a lesson to be learned from this. is that joanne? 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. time for sara breaks out of the city. she headed down 0 one of my favorite cities, she went to new orleans. hoda s home sweet home, a perfect setting for a mark twain voyage. an overnight cruise up the mississippi river. i left a good job in the city and hitched a ride on the 418-foot-long american queen. like any other cruise, there s a pool, gym and wireless internet. but this boat also has a paddle wheel and a caliope. what s the appeal of a steam boat. are you kidding? aside from the wheel that we re a floating mansion of our world. we re all about the slower and easier lifestyle and pace. you think of mark twain when you think of steam boats and the river. is there, do you guys try to play to that? we do. we certainly know where our roots are and where we came from. up to 436 passengers can sleep on the american queen. as they board, i join t steam boat syncopaters to welcome everyone. the boat cruises up and down the mississippi with stops in new orleans, memphis, st. louis, and even st. paul, minnesota. down in the engine room, ada teaches me how steam keeps everything rolling along. i ll go first. [ bell ringing ] that s ahead. this is forward, that s good. leave it where it is. and now he wants full, so pull it all the way out. that s it? no. there you go. after a passenger safety check, it s time to signal our departure. it s full steam ahead as we say good-bye to new orleans, and the big wheel keeps on turning. left a good job in the city working for the man every night and day and i never lost one minute of sleeping worrying about the way things might have been big wheel keep on turning proud mary keep on burning rolling rolling rolling on the river rolling rolling rolling on the river woo woo woo woo woo woo we cruise along at about seven miles per hour while passengers wine and dine and relax and take in a show before bed time. at the crack of dawn, we approach the historic oak alley plantation and i help the deck hands dock at their first stop of the journey. grab here. what we do is pull on the line. they re pushing, we re pulling. these ropes are weighted down with a small steel ball to keep the boat from floating away. i m towing the line, chains couldn t handle it. let s see you throw it. okay. while i apologized, the passengers are free to explore or just enjoy the view of the mighty mississippi. some new friends from oak alley join me to wish everyone bon voyage. and then, almost as quickly as she came, the proud american queen just keeps flowing down the river. nice. that looks like so much fun. it was a blast and the food is one of the perks. fried chicken and champagne is what the culinary director swears by. nothing is better than champagne. please mayor bloomberg don t say we can t have any fried chicken any more. we have a lot of stuff coming up. the perfect pair of jeans to fit your body type important! we need more money they say stop and smell the flowers and lose it and dance with me all together now! hey, baby, when i m lookin at you i know this fact is true there s beauty in the world hey, baby, when i m lookin at you there s beauty in the world [ clapping ] [ ding! ] losing your chex mix too easily? time to deploy the boring-potato chip decoy bag. then no one will want to steal the deliciousness. 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you ve written books, done things, what makes this book special for people? gosh, this is really my simplest, most accessible and affordable approach. because after becoming a mom, i realized how unrealistic it was to be cooking every meal and buying all organic and going to the gym five times a week. it changes your perspective. but there is a way to do it. how? simple strategies like okay, these foods never, these foods 20% of the time. 80% of the time, make the better choice, these foods boost metabolism. free foods, which are the healthier stuff like the veggies. all the carrots you want. pretty much. and kale, all day long. but it s about how these people find the balance of all right. here s the eating schedule, four times a day every four hours, just really simple strategies and common-sense stuff that clears up all the misinformation it deals with diet dilemmas like cravings, hunger, plateaus, emotional support. i feel so bad about those chicken legs we had. i feel terrible. they were so darn good. you re going to show us some exercises in a minute with sara. how has motherhood changed you? whoa? how has let s just how hasn t it? it changes you in every way. i have to say, it is the most challenging thing that i ve ever done. and i struggle every day to kind of find my footing with it. but it s also the most amazing thing you could ever do. so will you show us a few moves we ll get sara, the young one to do it. so, all right i designed these moves, you can do them any place, any time, anywhere. so these are a little workout that i m going to be doing, i m going on a speaking tour this summer. where are you going? across the country. 40-some cities? yes, across the country, across canada, i m on a tour bus with the whole family. you think you re tired now. i know. this is the kind of stuff we re going to be doing. we start with jumping lungs, intensity, cardiovascular. if you have knee problems, you do regular lungs, don t jump. all the way down. we re going into crab kicks. this is fine. you see how she s working multiple muscle groups at the same time? shoulders, triceps, tush, legs. trying to sell a book here, she s happy. stand up, buddy. wow, that was fun. what i like to do is i like to do 30-second intervals of repetition. so you don t get do exhausted that you get bored. and you can max out your absolute best performance. this is called the surfer get up. jumping into a plank and popping up like a surfer on a surfboard. jillian, we wish you all the best. everything you need for your next road trip. but first, these messages. good girl, sara! oh hey bernice. do i know you? 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i love it. isn t that adorable. a tag-along teddy. why is it called tag-along teddy? that s what they re calling it. you have to go with that. it look like a monkey to me. this is called the scrub that you can do laundry on the road. it s filled with hot water we these two set up. you take the bag, you add some water to it, and a little bit of soap, the clothes, a little bit of soap. and it seals up. it s got a built in washboard inside the bag. what are you talking about? you put the clothes in here and you roll it up just like this and that seals it up. why don t you just wash it in the sink. first of all, if you re backpacking or camping. it comes out clean? what about rinsing it? you do the same process with clean water and you rinse it out. i don t think these ladies do laundry. and you could also call room service. there you go! this is an app for your phone called i-exit. this shows you the road of all the exits ahead of you for hundreds of miles. you can click on each exit. and see what s available at each exit. you can set filters. for example if you want mcdonald s at the playground or a pet-friendly hotel. that will show you the exits. this is called drive safely. this actually, it will do your text messages and it will read them back to you. so whoops? i need that. it reads it to you so you don t here you go. you have to trust me on that. how is the today show segment going? not good at the moment. but drive safely. it s a free app, it s for android and blackberry. and when you get some place, you re going to want to use your bike to get around. a terrific fold-up bike. it has only two steps involved. the handlebars come up. this part swings around and you re set to go. and it locks right in. and you re good to go. and we re fixed. things that will sell out fast at your next bake sale. careful, steve! time for today s kitchen. and time to jazz up your kitchen with some new deserts. instead of the same old rice crispies. susan westmoreland. we are having a good housekeeping day today. let s get started with cake mixes this is cake mix made to mix filling these about two-thirds full. a clever idea. easy to carry. you can put them in a muffin continue to carry. then our next thing is we ll go to this with not much time. we re going to pipe this around. how long do you bake these guys? 20 minutes at 350. and you they don t burn? you can put them in muffin cups. and we can do it the easy way and do that. so they re really fun. and i have to show you this one. it s fashion black and white. isn t that cool? this is adorable. that s adorable. then this is my favorite. rice crispy treats with peanut butter in them. push, push. where s jillian michaels when we need her? you do that. and then you can look at the ones over there that are already cut. you want this shamrock? here you go. and over here, we also took where s the peanut butter portion of it? in and on top. and then wow, that s a bite. wow. the cake mix with the cookies on a stick. so cake mix without the water in it. piped into cookies and you frost, put it on a stick. if try this, sara. all right. those are good. that s a wrap. we have an update, guys on our facebook page. okay. before we started the show, we were at 497,000 and some change. not that you guys are change. but now we are well above 500,000. 503, sara? tomorrow morning we ll tell you how high we ve gotten. because i begged! klg went on her knees, and not sure what she ll do tomorrow. it ain t the first time. tomorrow actress jennifer esposito. and jennifer gourder with paint tricks. and weight loss. enjoy your tuesday booze-day, everybody. tomorrow it is wednesday wines-day. i ll keep talking until they say stop. bye! good morning. thanks for being with us. i m marla tellez. i m jon kelley. good morning, everybody. we have breaking news in morgan hill where we ve just learned police arresting a teacher at a daycare facility accused of drugging children s drinks. 59-year-old debra worked at the academy, in charge of one and two years old. they noticed her putting unknown substance in drinking cuts. when confronted, she add milted it s a sleeping aid. she s facing child endangerment charges and held at the santa clara county jail. school officials are shocked by allegations of child abuse by a daycare employee there. they are investigating claims that a toddler was tied up with tape for refusing to take a nap. really hard to believe here. this morning administrators at center point christian preschool spoke about that incident and how they are working to address it. nbc christie smith joins us live with the details. good morning. reporter: good morning. this has been an emotional morning with a lot of parents telling us they don t know what to think. they are waiting for answers. some of the parents pulled their students out of the school all together after a teacher was accused of tying a young student up with tape as a form of discipline just because she wouldn t take a nap. a pastor we spoke with said he s horrified and they are trying to fix this. i want to know why the teacher do this. parents at center point christian preschool dropped their kids off with a lot of
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town, new orleans. i m good with this list. the list. one that caught me off-guard, second one, south padre island. that one hadn t heard of it. off the beaten path. they get their freak on i heard of that place. where did you go, which one? myrtle beach. did you have a good time? what happens in myrtle beach is still in myrtle beach. spring break, good college times. all the baby oil and valtrex. joking, joking, kids, have fun. have safe fun. safe. safety first. here is kind of switching gears here, talking about something that everybody talks about but nobody really talks about. how long does it take a woman to reveal her true self to man she is dating. talking about makeup here. apparently 80% of women wait an entire month before they let their boyfriend see them without any makeup on. that is just the beginning of the study. 60% say they sleep with their makeup on. extreme lengths. a third of the women ask say they wake up secretly before the boyfriend wakes up when they wake up they look flawless in bed, like they just walk off a photo shoot. 70%, wait two months. 60%, three months. 30% say they never let their boyfriend see them without makeup. 68% say they feel naked without their makeup on. what? from a man s perspective, look. if you are naturally pretty, great. all men have experience where the person you maybe saw in the morning was not the same person that you saw in the club. you are like, oh, i went home with beyonce and like woke up this morning on world news now day two of the papal conclave is about to begin. all eyes are on vatican city waiting for the decision of the 115 men who will choose the new leader of the world s 1.2 billion catholics. it is wednesday, march 13th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m diana perez. and i m rob nelson. day one of the conclave ended with a plume of black smoke. signaling to the world that the cardinals failed to elect a pope. it was only their first try. the cardinals are getting an early start today and the world will be watching. we will have the latest on the conclave in a moment. first a look at the other stories we are following this half-hour president obama s charm offensive continues with a reach across the aisle. he is about to meet with republicans to try to hammer out a deal on the budget. in an exclusive interview he revealed to abc news just how he plans to get that done. he really is charming. he is trying. his strut has changed in the second he is like, what, i am the man. he has a lot on his plate to get done. let s hope. his charm offensive. i like that. i like the fact that he is bringing it out. we knew he had it. and a little too stiff for me. the first time around. charm the easy part. governance the hard part. let s get something done, mr. president. let s not even get into that part. huge discovery for mars rover. scientists say the planet could have supported life. we ll tell you what the rover found. coming up in the skinny could be a status change in lady gaga s relationship. what her best friend is saying about the singer s future romantic plans. huh? i would be nervous being gaga s husband. she seems like a wild child. rein her in. sure he is a secure dude. that could be tough. little tough. she comes home. all that, whatever, yeah. first, let s talk about the cardinals. after dinner and an evening of rest the cardinals returned to the sistine chapel for another attempt at electing the pope. there is a live look at vatican city for you. on the first ballot, no one got the needed 77 votes. abc s marci gonzalez is in vatican city where the drama began to unfold yesterday. reporter: the universal sign there is no new pope. black smoke pouring from the chimney of sistine chapel ending the first day of the conclave. a momentous day highlighted by a solemn procession, all 115 cardinal electors taking an oath vowing to faithfully follow the rules of the papal election and entering the sistine chapel. extra ominous. reporter: with those words meaning everyone out. the doors locked. the cardinals left alone to pray and cast the first round of ballots in secrecy. while no pope was elected yet the first vote experts say is already having an impact. as the cardinals shared dinner at their isolated temporary home within the vatican walls. they re encouraged to discuss among themselves. they will have the vote getters from the very first vote and talk about now where do we go. reporter: narrowing the field as the world watches this chimney for the first sight of white smoke waiting for the next leader of the roman catholic church. we definitely want to experience it. there is nothing else we would rather do. we would rather be here experiencing history. well i come twice a day to see the smoke. i have the schedule. and you know, i will either go home ecstatic or i will just go home and hope for the best. reporter: the cardinals will return to the sistine chapel later today. from here on out there could be four rounds of voting each day until one man gets 2/3 of the votes and is named the new pope. rob and diana. vatican insiders say even the cardinals who have received the most attention in recent days may not have made it past the first vote. we have been told repeatedly the chances that the pope will be from the u.s. is quite a long shot. but one expert tells abc s diane sawyer that certain italians are still rooting for an american. you were telling me earlier today that the cab drivers, if the cab drivers in rome had a vote tonight it wouldn t even be close it would be american because there is no question who the cab drivers in rome are in favor of. it is americans. the americans have money. and the americans have tourist who come to rome. and they will be taking their cabs. the cab drivers are rooting for cardinal o malley or cardinal dolan. when the new pope is chosen you can be among the first to know. the website popealarm.com is promising to send an e-mail or text to anyone who signs up. there, once again, evidence that we are in a completely different era. this time around when it comes to this pope election. you have to wonder too, after they take that vote obviously no one expects them to get it on the first try. the black smoke yesterday was not a surprise. i wonder, haven t heard this yet, what goes on in between the votes. are they sitting down politicking, or taking each other off to the side to build factions. i wonder what those conversations are like. are they praying, isolating themselves and praying for god to give them the sign? it is hard to know. even before they went in there was little speak of what happened once they re inside except for the fact that we were told you are not allowed to politic for yourself. you are not allowed to talk directly to the person you think will be the next pope. interesting to see what is happening on the sidelines. david letterman had a great line, he said when you see black smoke they haven t picked. if you see white smoke they picked. if you see blue smoke they are cooking ribs. i thought that was a great line from letterman. from david letterman. letterman, we love you. back to politics here at home and the battle over the budget. president obama makes a rare trip to capitol hill this afternoon to meet with republicans in the house. yesterday the gop released its plan to balance the budget in ten years and do it without tax increases. the president addressed that budget plan when he sat down for an exclusive interview with abc s george stephanopoulos. my goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. my goal is how do we grow the economy, put people back to work and if we do that we are going to be bringing in more revenue. if we have controlled spending and we have a smart entitlement package potentially what you have is balance, but it is not balance on the backs of, you know, the poor, the elderly, students who need student loans, families who have disabled kids. that s not the right way to balance our budget. the white house says the math in the gop budget plan simply doesn t add up and it would hurt the middle-class. you can see the full exclusive interview a little later today coming up on good morning america. a new piece of gun control legislation faces an uphill fight in congress despite taking the first step. a senate committee yesterday approved a bill requiring nearly universal federal background checks for gun buyers including those at gun shows. it passed without any republican votes and its future is unclear in the full senate. tomorrow the same committee votes on a measure to ban assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines. not guilty plea entered for aurora, colorado theater attack suspect james holmes. his trial set for early august. holmes was back in court yesterday sitting silently in a red jumpsuit with a thick brown beard, different hair color there. that not guilty plea was entered by the judge after holmes attorneys said they weren t ready to enter one. he said it could be changed to not guilty by reason of insanity later on. holmes faces death or life in prison if convicted for the massacre last summer that left 12 people dead. the tsa is facing opposition over its decision to allow pocketknives back on airplanes. american airlines became the third major carrier to urge the administration not to lift the ban. yesterday, massachusetts congressman ed markey introduced a bipartisan measure, the no knives act designed to prevent that change. it makes absolutely no sense to allow passengers to carry knives like this into the passenger cabins of planes anywhere in our country. flight attendants, air marshalls and pilots are opposed to the relaxed rule scheduled to go into effect april 25th. moving on now to a story out of mississippi. that state s so-called anti-bloomberg bill. bloomberg as in new york city mayor michael bloomberg who plans to limit super sized sugary drinks. the plan put on hold monday by the court. while mississippi lawmakers have approved a bill that bars calorie counts from being posted as well as caps on portion sizes. the governor is expected to sign it. by the way, mississippi has the highest obesity rate in the entire country. oh, mississippi. mm. and a florida worker has extra spending money because he decided to do the right thing. a 3-carat diamond dropped out of an engagement ring at a pet smart in vero beach when she came tune have her dogs groomed. the store manager found the $30,000 gem and gave it back to the very grateful customer. the woman and husband gave the manager a $500 reward. he said it never occurred to him to keep the diamond. we heard a lot of stories like this lately. the homeless gentleman who found the diamond ring in his cup. this story. good people in the world. we love stories like this. there are more better angels in the world than we think or expect. that s right. or give credit for. that s 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and nasa announced now that they do have evidence that there may have once been life on mars. well scientists studied rock samples from a 3 billion-year-old lake bed and say it was once filled with pure water. abc s brandi hitt has more. good morning, rob, and diana. scientists say this is huge. it didn t take curiosity long to find concrete evidence that life could have been supported on mars and this little rover is not done searching. only 7 months after its celebrated landing on mars, the curiosity rover has now answered a key question. yes, mars could have hosted life. this was an ancient environment with the right elements and slightly salty liquid water. all of the prerequisites to support life. probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet you would have been able to drink it. reporter: nasa made the startling discovery thanks to chemical analysis of a powder curiosity recovered by drilling a hole into a rock. it struck pay dirt. finding half a dozen key elements. photos taken by the rover also show a lake bed, scientists say was filled with sediment derived by streams. the place that was, that was wet, for relatively long period of time enough for all these chemical reactions to occur. reporter: how valuable has the little rover been to nasa? this has been huge. reporter: scott hubbard was nasa s first mars program director. he says the next step is to build a robot that can bring samples back to earth for testing. until then scientists are excited to see what curiosity discovers next. i would die a happy man if curiosity gives us that indisputable fingerprint of life. complex carbon compound, boy, that would be the cherry on top of the cake. reporter: nasa says curiosity will perform more drilling in may and with this kind of progress, he believes people could be on mars by 2033. rob and diana. all the money we spent on that thing. good to see thank you, brandi. for all right money we spent good to see results back. interesting 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front-runners in the past. that could make him a real contender to drive the popemobile. abc s david wright actually tracked him down. reporter: with pope benedict s historic abdication to the moments they closed the doors of the sistine chapel, father antonio hoffmeister had a front row seat to history. the driver s seat. you have had quite the busy week. reporter: his job to chauffeur three brazilian cardinals including the front-runner odilo scherer. of sao paulo. [ indiscernible ] reporter: you might be dropping them off but not picking them up? yes, yes. reporter: a lot of responsibility for the young priest. in the wrong traffic can you imagine that, yes? reporter: traffic that is now even worse as the pilgrims and the tourists start to arrive. any normal day is just chaos. yes. reporter: not like you can swear with the cardinal in the back seat? no, no, no. reporter: best behavior. yeah, i better behave with three cardinals. reporter: father antonio is here in rome doing a master s degree in church history. kind of living it. seeing all the guys. i probably shake hand with the next pope. reporter: he especially likes cardinal timothy dolan of new york. he says cardinals in his minivan haven t really been talking papal politics. what are they talking about? they talk about soccer. reporter: as he dropped them off one last time. father antonio put in a request in case his cardinal wins i hope to be the pope mobile driver. reporter: you never know. david wright, abc news, rome. what a cool job. if you ask me he is the one we should be asking who will be the next pope? him, the people who wash the clothes, the people who have to deal with the cardinals on a daily basis. they know him better than anybody else. always the behind the scenes folks who know the real deal and secrets, anything, tv, movie, politics, whatever, the driver. they should be in the voting. check with those folks. they always know the real deal. must be a lot of pressure to drive the cardinal or potential pope. be on your best behavior all the time. you have a hard time being on your best behavior in the commercial break. i know. the pope mobile. don t touch me any more. announcer: this is abc s world news now, informing insomniacs for two decades. this morning on world news this morning on world news now a new day in vatican city brings hope of a decision. the cardinals prepare to enter day two of the conclave as the world continues to watch. it s wednesday, march 13th. announcer: from abc news this is world news now. good morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. and i m diana perez. all eyes will be on the vatican today again beginning in a few hours. crowds have gathered to watch for the white smoke that will signal the final decision has been made. we will have much more on day two of the conclave in just a moment. one of the issues the new pope will have to deal with of course is the sex abuse scandal. this morning, word of a multimillion dollar settlement with several victims of an abusive priest. also this half hour, a growing movement inside of the catholic church. we ll introduce you to some women who say they have just as much right to the priesthood as men do. update to the celebrity hacking story we told you about yesterday, the break-in may now have hit the first family of the united states. interesting stuff there. kind of scary for everybody. that s true. first the message from the black smoke pouring from the sistine chapel was clear. the first ballot had not yielded a new pope. so the cardinals headed to a nearby hotel for a pasta dinner and an evening of rest before trying again today. thousands of catholic faithful waited in st. peter s square until they saw the smoke signal. it will be returning later today for more hours of waiting. the cardinals could cast up to four ballots today. this is what it looked like yesterday as the doors to the sistine chapel closed for the first vote. the conclave proceeds in silence with no formal debate. behind the doors. the cardinals remain sequestered inside the vatican walls no phones, no newspapers, no tv, no tweeting, no outside contact with the world whatsoever. uh-huh. joining us now to talk more about the conclave, father matt malone, editor-in-chief of america the catholic review. that s right. thank you, father, once again for joining us. you were with us yesterday. i think what is most fascinating for people watching this what is happening inside of the conclave. can you kind of let us give us an idea of what is happening? what do they know? who do they talk to? sure, well, as you indicated they re in virtual seclusion right now. since no one received 2/3 of the votes in balloting. the cardinals will celebrate mass, this morning, at 8:15 rome time in the chapel, and then they will meet in the sistine chapel this morning at 9:30 rome time. after reciting some prayers they will vote again. and so there can be as you indicated two votes each morning. the thing that is interesting they now know a great deal more than we than we do. because they were there yesterday. they have been through one round of voting. and while they don t know where each individual cardinal stands, they know where the general trend is. so they have seen the poll as it were of where the voters are. they know what the possibilities are. so the conversations that they re now having among themselves are likely to be something like, you know, who is really a possible candidate who here has some kind of critical mass and who does not. father, they don t understand necessarily know how the cardinal next to them voted but have a sense from the aggregate vote who is trending and now who are the actual numerical front-runners in this thing is that correct? that is exactly right. let me ask you this what is it like in between the votes? are there private conversations? are there factions that develop? practically speaking how does this play out in terms of getting to the ultimate decision? well there are certain ancient protocols in place here. it is all about having a conversation indirectly. and so in other word, you don t approach a possible candidate directly and ask them about what they might do or not do. you tend to approach their friends, the people who work with that person. and ask them, how might this person be? as a possible candidate. and also, obviously you, don t propose yourself as a possible candidate. these are you know this custom of indirect communication has arisen over the centuries as a means of guarding against ambition. those are the kinds of conversations now happening in groups of two or three. probably not more than that. so, now, father, what you are basically saying the front-runner knows who they are, obviously, the front-runners know who they are. are these people now more isolated than they were before? are they alone in prayer? since you said you can t approach the person, obviously you think is going to be the next pope, that person can t approach anybody else about when they become pope, if they do, is this person now more isolated than before? it may very well be people that some people who want to talk about his candidacy are not going to approach him directly and talking to other persons. an talking to other persons. the person is no more physically isolated than he was before. he hasn t gone off in any special room or participating in special prayers. but he certainly is well aware of the fact that he has a significant number of votes. yes, or no, about five seconds left. you do expect a decision most like ly by the end of the workweek, still fair to say? yes. probably not today. but anything is possible. thank you, father malone, appreciate that. thank you for joining us for a second day. look forward to insight as the week progresses. of course, the big topic of conversation is who the next pope may actually ultimately be. bookmakers have italian cardinal angelo scola and as the favorite and followed by cardinal odilo scherer of brazil. the ireland site patty power estimates $1 million has been spent on pope-related bets. check out who has the growing support. we have taken a lot of money on the americans. timothy dolan cut from 100 to 1 to 20 to 1 on the strength of money placed on him. that would be a terrible result for us the we are praying he doesn t get in. you can also bet on the papal name of the next pope, length of the conclave and the next pope s age and also where his first foreign visit will take place. bets are being taken until the next pope is introduced. sex abuse by priests will be one of the top challenges faced by the new pope. in los angeles, the arch diocese will pay $10 million to settle four sex abuse cases, involving former priest michael baker who told cardinal mahoney nearly 30 years ago that he had molested children. the suits claim that the church didn t do enough to stop that abuse. obviously, whoever takes over the church in the coming days this is still a massive scandal. and there is still incredible fallout from this. and you have to believe no matter who gets the job that is at the very top of the agenda to begin cleaning up or continue cleaning up the image of the church and taking the right legal steps to do right by the victims. right. the image of the church as far as that goes, finances of the church, talking about an institution so widespread and really isn t doing well financially. but as far as the sex abuse goes, unfortunately in this day and age because of social media we know so much more about what is happening in the underlinings of the church than we did 100 years ago. who says it wasn t happening as prolifically then as now. why have no idea. the climate has changed. another settlement out of l.a. the public school district reached a settlement in a extremely disturbing sex abuse scandal. 3rd grade teacher mark burnt accused of blindfolding students and feeding them semen. 60 students will receive $500,000 each. many parents settled to avoid putting kids through the trial. some families refused to settle saying the money is not nearly enough. one of our forensic psychologists has told us that the long-term mental health care treatment over the lifetime of the kids will be in the range of approximately $576,000 life term. so the amounts they re putting on the table are unacceptable from our point of view. nearly 200 claims were filed. burnt taught at that elementary school for 32 years. a day-long standoff along the oregon coast ended with a double murder suspect hospitalized. it took place at a motel where a man suspected of killing his grandparents was holed up in a room. police sent a robot with a camera to look inside. the suspect was found with serious self-inflicted cuts and he was air lifted to a hospital and is listed in critical condition. in ohio today, the well-publicized trial of two high school football players set to get under way. trent mays and malik richmond are accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a booze fueled party last summer. a key piece of evidence is a picture that shows the two boys carrying the alleged victim. they say that picture was staged. now their attorney claims the boys are innocent. that case has so divided that community. that is a very, very hot trial and sad. no matter what truth. no matter what the outcome or truth is. travel across europe snarled after a sudden dump of late-season snow. the frankfurt airport in germany, europe s third largest had to be shut down for snow removal. who doesn t hate a sudden dump? thousand of school children had to stay home. tens of thousand of homes were without electricity. in france the army was called in to clear the snow and help rescue motorists who got stranded there in their cars. can you tell my days are numbered? yes, friday. as for your weather here at home on hump day. heavy rain in seattle. much drier day on the east coast for new york and boston. they could see leftover showers. florida dry and cool. temperatures in the southwest, 25 degrees warmer than usual. salt lake city, boise in the 60s. mild in the northeast in the 50s. but in the midwest, still colder than normal with chicago at 32. and here is the most important story of the morning, seriously, ready, brace yourself now. headline right here twinkies are alive. that s right. thank you, jesus. the iconic snack is being revived now that two investment firms bought what is left of hostess. for $410 million. by the way the only bid at the auction for hostess. twinkies are coming back, so are ho-ho s say what? ho-ho s ding-dongs and other hostess cakes. i didn t realize they should be back on the shelves this summer. i didn t, put all that together. twinkies, ho-hos, ding-dongs. uh-huh. those jokes write themselves, don t they? those are nasty. with a little moderation, i can dig a twinkie. stop it! everything in moderation, now, rob. there you go. don t hurt yourself out there. it s a nasty world. coming up next, a computer hacking scare for actually the first lady of the united states. scary stuff. this is an interesting story. it is. first, the women who want to be priests. they say they have as much claim as men do. the vatican says it is not going to happen. you re watching world news now. hold us down nobody can hold us down announcer: world news now weather brought to you by united health care. that s a good thing, but it doesn t cover 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armband. rob losing his mind. as we have been telling you the cardinals return to the sistine chapel for a second day today to continue voting. all the cardinals, of course, are men as you have seen. as are all of the roman catholic priests. however, there is a growing number of women saying they should have the very same right. kabc s christina salvo has that story. reporter: in her eyes what calls jane valla to the priesthood is no different than what calls a man. in the name of god reporter: but because she is a woman, the vatican says she is not allowed to be a priest. the reason according to the church, jesus never chose a woman to be an apostle. it is a woman s right s issue. reporter: jennifer o malley, one of the most recent women to defy church law and calls herself a woman priest. it is time to say that my call its as equal, and as a woman, as a human being i have got to break the law. reporter: the women priest movement began in 2002 with seven women ordained in apostolic succession, the same ceremony used for ordaining men, performed by a male bishop whose identity is kept secret to prevent his excommunication. reporter: since then the movement has grown to nearly 150 women priests worldwide with california leading the way. it is not just about ordaining women, it is about broader justice issues, issues of inclusiveness. it is about issues of sexuality. reporter: the archdiocese of los angeles wouldn t talk to us about the story, saying it doesn t comment on anything outside the archdiocese. but the women s movement has not been ignored by the vatican. in 2010 it labeled the ordination of women a grave crime. the same label it has given to pedophilia. but it went a step further, excommunicating any woman who seeks ordination. none to my knowledge, not one single priest has been convicted or admitted child sex abouse has been excommunicated. reporter: while they feel their voices may fall on deaf ears at the vatican, these women take comfort knowing they can t be silenced. that came up too, when, when benedict resigned here, three hot button issues, will the next pope change the you know the tone of where the church, stand, gay rights, abortion and women priests. three hot button issues you wonder if the pope will tackle any of those or maybe perhaps none at all. cardinal dolan was here talking to diane sawyer, talking whether or not something like that can be expected from the new pope. he said the core val use the church will not be changed with the new pope. some things they re going to address. that is probably not something that will change. not on the list. using religion to defend discrimination seems odd. not my call. coming up, computer hackers may have struck the most famous address in the nation s capital. that s right. we will hear from the president on the hacking scandal that may be affecting everyone from hillary clinton to beyonce. you are watching world news now. you are watching world news now. announcer: world news now we told you yesterday about a number of high-profile celebrities and politicians who may have fallen victim to a computer hacker. now 1600 pennsylvania have now may also have been a target. abc s pierre thomas has the latest. reporter: this sinister looking website is posting what hackers claim is the social security number and credit report of the first lady. the fbi and secret service are investigating. in an exclusive interview with abc s george stephanopoulos, president obama would not say if the information is authentic but confirmed authorities are trying to find out what happened. we should not be surprised that if you have got hackers who want to dig in and devote a lot of resources that they can access people s private information. it is a big problem. right into the white house? again, i am not confirming that s what happened. you have websites out there right now that sell people s credit cards that have been stolen. reporter: michelle obama not the only victim. those targeted are curious mix of powerful and famous, vice president biden, former secretary of state hillary clinton. beyonce, kim kardashian, the fbi director, and l.a. s police chief. equifax, credit reporting agency, confirmed, fraudulent access occurred involving four high-profile people. they declined to identify them. law enforcement officials are trying to determine how much of the information on the website is authentic and how it may have been obtained. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. this is what is very important about this story. we don t know for sure if it actually has if these people have been hacked. we don t know if they have the information they claim to have or all one big hoax. equifax confirmed four people but then there was some information that, has not been validated actually proven false. this all may not be totally legitimate. so we, it is still early. and the fbi have some digging to do on this. that s right. these are some high-profile targets. all 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[ woman ] that s my tide, what s yours? i started doing this show summer of 2010. so 2 years and 8 months, couple hundred shows under my belt, ten acres of live tv a week, 16 co-anchors later, literally, 1-6. now it is my turn to kind of pack it up and head off the overnight shift. well the responses to that announcement have been overwhelming on our facebook page. rob said yesterday the sad news he is leaving us on the overnight to head to the daylight hours. congratulations to you one more time. thank you. we thought we would share a few of the 1,000 postings. rob, there is no doubt you will be missed. have you found the ten nice ones. this is going to be good. all right. i am going to get started. mary martinez says, rob you will be missed. you so deserve this promotion the you are so intelligent, kind and funny. mary, thank you. sweet. melinda thornberry said, bummed. happy for rob. maybe now he will actually sleep. miss you already. thank you. kristen lopez said depression setting in rob. i know things have changed throughout the years, but there was one thing that we could count on, that was you. that is very cool. thank you, kristen. cheryl jones williams said, congratulations rob. i will totally miss waking up in the early a.m. and seeing you on world news now. hmm. kalie savage said i keep thinking about this and kind of want to cry. rob might be why i haven t shaken my baby in the middle of the night. let s pause there. not only is he entertaining insomniacs. saving lives of small children out there. don t shake your baby monday. i am going to start checking police reports next week. don t let me find you in there. it is going to be all right. kaylie savage. don t shake your baby. very sweet though. i am going to brutalize some names. robert cleggett. said, no, no, no, don t leave, man. early morning won t be the same. melissa spires said there goes my mornings. lewis forman, congratulations. what is willis going to do without you? willis is enjoying retirement. don t worry about that. he may be back here for the last show on friday. we ll see. that s right. angie partigianoni said i ll be watching for you on other abc shows. you will be missed. you deserve a promotion. thank you. lecia campbell said, rob i hate to see you go. i look forward to your real down to earth humor. there you have it. one of the best parts of the show really has been the loyalty and the support from the fans. i will miss that the most. i will say more friday. i was overwhelmed by the response yesterday. thank you guys very, very much. let s have two more good shows together. two more. together. two more. this morning on world news now the world waits. as the sunrises on another day in vatican city, the cardinals prepare to enter a second day of voting to decide to who among them will become the next pope. it is wednesday, march 13th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. and i m diana perez. all eyes will be on the vatican once again today watching for that tell-tale white smoke which will announce a new pope. you can feel the anticipation kind of building here. oh, yeah. the cardinals will have an early breakfast and then get to work in a few hours from now. we will have the latest on the conclave in a moment. first, a look at some of the other stories we ll follow for you this morning. a trial date is set for accused colorado movie theater gunman james holmes. looking different than the last time we saw him, holmes plea was entered as some of his victims spoke out. also this morning, an important warning about a medication many people ask for by name. it is the z-pak. now comes word that for some people take it could be fatal. that stuff is really popular i ve had bronchitis a few times, taken the z-pak. walk into the doctor s office. don t need to go to the doctor s office. go to one of the minute clinics one of the pharmacies and say, i will take a z-pak. just look that. find out later things have a downside. here we go on that. later this half hour, keeping control of teenagers, of course, is no easy feat for anybody. but for men of the cloth there is added pressure. a new reality tv show reveals how the experience can really, let s say, test their faith. another reality show. another controversy. this one is though, it is going to touch a bunch of nerves. oh, yeah. oh, yeah. yikes. but before all of that, the world s catholics could learn who their new leader could be as soon as today. a live look at the sistine chapel where the cardinals are regrouping to make another try. josh elliott reports on yesterday s inconclusive conclave. reporter: as the rains fell, the crowds packed st. peter s square looking skyward for the result of the first papal vote. and then the dense black smoke rose indicating there was no consensus yet. just hours before, the 115 voting cardinals, entered perhaps sneaking in some last conversations before heading to the conclave. some such as boston s cardinal sean o malley took the time to sit alone in prayer. one by one the cardinals walked down the aisle before taking individual oaths to obey the rules of the conclave which demand the utmost secrecy. if they ever break their silence, they risk excommunication. cardinal dolan thought to be a considerable contender gave a final radio dispatch from rome before heading into conclave himself. a unique special morning, i never thought i would be doing what i am about to do. reporter: the last word from him for a while. everyone out and with that the doors closed. the work of choosing a pope would truly begin. there is a sanctity in the air, they try to see who does it belong to among the 115 cardinals who is the person who is holy? that s the toughest judgment of all. reporter: then when the world sees white, inside the sistine chapel, the dean of cardinals will ask the newly elected pope if he accepts the result. if he does, he is from that moment the new pope and chooses the name he will then be called. next he walks to the nearby room of tears, so-called because some newly elected popes have in the past cried there as they absorb the enormity of the moment. he then dons his new robes, puts the papal ring on his finger and is led down the hall of blessings to the central window of st. peter s basilica where he is introduced to the masses with a simple latin phrase we have a pope. the world s wait continues. if history is any indication of how long this might take, keep in mind that none of the last four conclaves lasted more than three days. keep in mind, the last conclave to go more than five days was back in 1831, that one took 50 days. josh elliott, abc news, vatican city. the countdown is on. as that conclave went on inside though, outside a moment of chaos. just steps away from st. peter s basilica. these women took off their tops to protest what they call patriarchy in the church. the protesters sent off pink flares chanting no more pope before they were restrained by officers and carried to a police station. also thousands of pilgrims who have packed the square to show support for the church. many waited for hours to get a seat to get a glimpse of the cardinals one of whom will be the next pope. they gathered to watch as the black smoke poured from the sistine chapel and to wait for yet another day. hundreds of thousands of people are descending on rome. this is a big deal. a lot of people want to be a part of history. and not only are they looking for the cardinals going in to catch a glimpse of the next pope they want to be there when the pope is announced. hopefully it will not take 50 days. by all accounts, we should have a new pope by the end of the week. three days, wednesday, thursday, maybe start the show friday morning we will have or be on the vur the verge of quickly a new pope. if history is any indication. this will move quickly. holy week is coming up. they want to move fairly fast. they want some one in place. one person in particular who is there you were excited to tell the public about. tell the people. inform the masses, rob. this may be my favorite detail ever. apparently, dennis rodman, yes, nba bad boy, weird boy, whatever you want to call him. he is prepared to be in st. peter s square today in a make shift pope-mobile as he campaigns for the cardinal from ghana to become the next pope. so we had him in north korea now in vatican city. dennis rodman. he is a busy man. when he s not busy politicking for the united states, he s politicking for a black pope. that s okay. he is a busy man. in the midst of sea of faithful, devout folks, i can t see of all people, dennis rodman cruising in a pope mobile with the tattoos. and the colored hair. you can t see it? you cannot picture that? really? when i think pope i don t think dennis rodman. when you think north korea, rob, when you think, when you think our political show with george stephanopoulos. you don t think dennis rodman. but it has happened. man, dennis. uh-huh. okay. moving on to this now. the sex abuse scandal is one of the many challenges faced by the next pope. pope. the arch diocese of los angeles reached a nearly $10 million settlement involving four victims. the cases involving ex-priest, michael baker, who admitted to church higher-ups he did molest children. the suit claimed the church did not do enough to stop baker even after he confessed. and speaking of settlements and staying in los angeles, the l.a. school district reached a settlement themselves. in the sex abuse scandal at an elementary school. third grade teacher mark burnt accused of spoon-feeding student semen under the pretense of a tasting game. about 60 children will receive about $500,000 each. many parents settled to avoid putting their kids through a trial. but there are 60 other families who chose not to settle in this case. from one disturbing story to another. now that aurora, colorado, movie theater massacre suspect james holmes had a not guilty plea entered for him. his trial is set to begin august 5th. holmes was in court yesterday in a red jumpsuit with a beard now and with his formerly orange hair now brown. one victim says he was disappointed though that he did not hear holmes plead guilty from out of his own mouth. it is enough just to come here and it s hard emotionally like the days leading up to it, it is difficult. i only can imagine what the other victims feel like too. you know, it s hard. like people don t understand like we live with this every single day. the judge said holmes could change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity later if he chooses to. if convicted for the attack in july of last year, holmes faces the death penalty or life in prison. new york city police officer dubbed the cannibal cop has been convicted in a grisly plot to kidnap, kill and eat women including his wife. defense attorney gilberto valley says it was a twisted fantasy and he never intended to harm any one. prosecutors say valley s conversations on a cannibal imp website said he was taking concrete steps to carry out the crimes he could get life in prison. a baby shot on the chicago street while her dad was changing her diaper died. 6-month-old janelle watkins the latest victim of gang violence intensifying across the city. she was shot five times when someone ambushed her father as he changed her in the passenger seat of his van. her dad also shot several times is a known gang member with a long criminal history. in much lighter news, right now, golf courses are known for holes, but not many like this one. that 18-foot deep hole swallowed a golfer when it first opened up last friday in southern illinois. the man injured his shoulder but was rescued after 20 minutes. a state geology expert said the sinkhole happened because limestone dissolved causing the ground to collapse. it makes that hole a lot tougher needless to say. makes a hole in one easier. makes the hole a lot easier if you ask me with the way i hit a golf ball. i m a putt-putt guy. better chance of hitting a golf ball if i kick it. about right. a great moment, it happened back in january, vanderbilt university in nashville. superstar singer billy joel was there taking questions from some students. right, a freshman, got to ask his own question. he is from long island, new york just like joel is well he asked if he could come on stage and if they could perform new york state of mind together. billy joel said sure. check it out. i m in a new york state of mind i ve seen all the movie stars and fancy cars and their limousines mm. love that song. when they were done joel told the crowd that he s got chops. he called it probably the greatest moment of his life so far. i guess so. that s pretty cool. piano man himself. i like that. coming up, under the category of what will they think of next. the new reality show reveals the dynamics of preachers and their daughters why it has bun group calling 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in with a cold or flu who say doc, give me a z-pak. all the time. reporter: the warning from the fda for some patients, the z-pak or azithromycin can cause changes in the electrical activity of the heart which can be fatal. it applies to people with arrhythmias and people with low blood levels, potassium and magnesium. for these people, the risk of sudden death is 1 in 4,000. pfizer tells abc news they re updating the labels with the fda warning listing conditions. many patients may not know they have those conditions. and all too often people ask for z-pak when they start to feel sick. have you ever asked for z-pak? yes. reporter: what is its reputation? knocks it out that fast. reporter: z-pak is safe for most people. to reduce your risk know your family s heart history and your own. best advice don t request antibiotics. they only work for some infections. we want to be the heroes and make people happy and make people feel better, so we wish it was the answer. it really isn t. reporter: antibiotics won t make you feel better if you have a cold or the flu. dr. richard besser, abc news, new york. a lot of good advice. another reality show, believe it or not, sparks major controversy. this one involves preachers trying to keep their teenage daughters out of trouble. rein them in. you are watching world news now. uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. announcer: world news now continues after this from our abc stations. the only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacherman uh. classic. love that song. all right. thank you, dusty. all right, the preacher s daughters is a controversial new reality show that aired last night featuring the daughters of men of the cloth. uh-huh. the show focuses on the lives of these young women and the challenges of coming into adulthood. but it really has one group calling for a boycott. neal karlinsky sat down with the stars of the show. reporter: if you think following the humdrum life of church going families wouldn t hit the mark for reality show, your faith in television is about to be tested. preachers daughters, lifetime, new and jarringly lustful look at three teenage girls and pastor parents struggles to rein them in. i want to start dating. reporter: from a mom s sermon to her daughter and friends. i want to define what i mean by having sex. reporter: to a preacher s daughter who thinks a career in porn might be a good idea. god, please, don t ever let my daughter become a porn star. reporter: the show is already getting high marks from some critics. others believe it walks a tightrope between poor taste and religious righteousness. we met one of the show s stars, her father is a pastor and she is a teenage mom. trying to get her life back on track. you had a drunk driving violation, found out you were pregnant, lost your license for a year in one weekend. you were how old? 17. hanging out with the wrong people. doing drugs, drinking. reporter: now a group called one million moms is calling for a boycott. saying in a statement to publicize some one s struggles for a buck and belittle pastor s daughters in the process is despicable. lifetime isn t commenting. networks never go into a show hoping that people protest against it. but they certainly don t mind if it helps them with their marketing effort. reporter: and in reality tv, the only sin is not being talked about. neal karlinsky, abc news, oceana, california. very nice last line, mr. karlinsky. here is the deal the people signed up for this. i understand protesters and why they re upset. preachers and daughters signed up to be in this reality tv show. and they, that s what they re asking for. preaching it. let me tell you something. i don t want you to go out there and get in no trouble. amen! keep your dreams. thank you, baby jesus. by jesus.you, lord! thank you, lord! thank you, lord! 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myrtle beach. did you have a good time? what happens in myrtle beach is still in myrtle beach. spring break, good college times. all the baby oil and valtrex. joking, joking, kids, have fun. have safe fun. safe. safety first. here is kind of switching gears here, talking about something that everybody talks about but nobody really talks about. how long does it take a woman to reveal her true self to man she is dating. talking about makeup here. apparently 80% of women wait an entire month before they let their boyfriend see them without any makeup on. that is just the beginning of the study. 60% say they sleep with their makeup on. extreme lengths. a third of the women ask say they wake up secretly before the boyfriend wakes up when they wake up they look flawless in bed, like they just walk off a photo shoot. 70%, wait two months. 60%, three months. 3% of women say they never let their boyfriend see them without makeup on. 68% say they feel naked without their makeup on. what? from a man s perspective, look. if you are naturally pretty, great. all men have experience where the person you maybe saw in the morning was not the same person that you saw in the club. you are like, oh, i went home with beyonce and like woke up with this morning on world news now day two of the papal conclave is about to begin. all eyes are on vatican city waiting for the decision of the 115 men who will choose the new leader of the world s 1.2 billion catholics. it is wednesday, march 13th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning. i m diana perez. and i m rob nelson. day one of the conclave ended with a plume of black smoke. signaling to the world that the cardinals failed to elect a pope. it was only their first try. the cardinals are getting an early start today and the world will be watching. we will have the latest on the conclave in a moment. first a look at the other stories we are following this half-hour president obama s charm offensive continues with a reach across the aisle. he is about to meet with republicans to try to hammer out a deal on the budget. in an exclusive interview he revealed to abc news just how he plans to get that done. he really is charming. he is trying. his strut has changed in the second he is like, what, i am the man. he has a lot on his plate to get done. let s hope. his charm offensive. i like that. i like the fact that he is bringing it out. we knew he had it. and a little too stiff for me. the first time around. charm the easy part. governance the hard part. let s get something done, mr. president. let s not even get into that part. huge discovery for mars rover. scientists say the planet could have supported life. we ll tell you what the rover found. coming up in the skinny could be a status change in lady gaga s relationship. what her best friend is saying about the singer s future romantic plans. huh? i would be nervous being gaga s husband. she seems like a wild child. rein her in. sure he is a secure dude. that could be tough. little tough. she comes home. all that, whatever, yeah. first, let s talk about the cardinals. after dinner and an evening of rest the cardinals returned to the sistine chapel for another attempt at electing the pope. there is a live look at vatican city for you. on the first ballot, no one got the needed 77 votes. abc s marci gonzalez is in vatican city where the drama began to unfold yesterday. reporter: the universal sign there is no new pope. black smoke pouring from the chimney of sistine chapel ending the first day of the conclave. a momentous day highlighted by a solemn procession, all 115 cardinal electors taking an oath vowing to faithfully follow the rules of the papal election and entering the sistine chapel. extra ominous. reporter: with those words meaning everyone out. the doors locked. the cardinals left alone to pray and cast the first round of ballots in secrecy. while no pope was elected yet the first vote experts say is already having an impact. as the cardinals shared dinner at their isolated temporary home within the vatican walls. they re encouraged to discuss among themselves. they will have the vote getters from the very first vote and talk about now where do we go. reporter: narrowing the field as the world watches this chimney for the first sight of white smoke waiting for the next leader of the roman catholic church. we definitely want to experience it. there is nothing else we would rather do. we would rather be here experiencing history. well i come twice a day to see the smoke. i have the schedule. and you know, i will either go home ecstatic or i will just go home and hope for the best. reporter: the cardinals will return to the sistine chapel later today. from here on out there could be four rounds of voting each day until one man gets 2/3 of the votes and is named the new pope. rob and diana. vatican insiders say even the cardinals who have received the most attention in recent days may not have made it past the first vote. we have been told repeatedly the chances that the pope will be from the u.s. is quite a long shot. but one expert tells abc s diane sawyer that certain italians are still rooting for an american. you were telling me earlier today that the cab drivers, if the cab drivers in rome had a vote tonight it wouldn t even be close it would be american because there is no question who the cab drivers in rome are in favor of. it is americans. the americans have money. and the americans have tourist who come to rome. and they will be taking their cabs. the cab drivers are rooting for cardinal o malley or cardinal dolan. when the new pope is chosen you can be among the first to know. the website popealarm.com is promising to send an e-mail or text to anyone who signs up. there, once again, evidence that we are in a completely different era. this time around when it comes to this pope election. you have to wonder too, after they take that vote obviously no one expects them to get it on the first try. the black smoke yesterday was not a surprise. i wonder, haven t heard this yet, what goes on in between the votes. are they sitting down politicking, or taking each other off to the side to build factions. i wonder what those conversations are like. are they praying, isolating themselves and praying for god to give them the sign? it is hard to know. even before they went in there was little speak of what happened once they re inside except for the fact that we were told you are not allowed to politic for yourself. you are not allowed to talk directly to the person you think will be the next pope. interesting to see what is happening on the sidelines. david letterman had a great line, he said when you see black smoke they haven t picked. if you see white smoke they picked. if you see blue smoke they are cooking ribs. i thought that was a great line from david letterman. letterman, we love you. back to politics here at home and the battle over the budget. president obama makes a rare trip to capitol hill this afternoon to meet with republicans in the house. yesterday the gop released its plan to balance the budget in ten years and do it without tax increases. the president addressed that budget plan when he sat down for an exclusive interview with abc s george stephanopoulos. my goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. my goal is how do we grow the economy, put people back to work and if we do that we are going to be bringing in more revenue. if we have controlled spending and we have a smart entitlement package potentially what you have is balance, but it is not balance on the backs of, you know, the poor, the elderly, students who need student loans, families who have disabled kids. that s not the right way to balance our budget. the white house says the math in the gop budget plan simply doesn t add up and it would hurt the middle-class. you can see the full exclusive interview a little later today coming up on good morning america. a new piece of gun control legislation faces an uphill fight in congress despite taking the first step. a senate committee yesterday approved a bill requiring nearly universal federal background checks for gun buyers including those at gun shows. it passed without any republican votes and its future is unclear in the full senate. tomorrow the same committee votes on a measure to ban assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines. a not guilty plea has been entered for aurora, colorado, theater attack suspect james holmes. his trial set for early august. holmes was back in court yesterday sitting silently in a red jumpsuit with a thick brown beard, different hair color there. that not guilty plea was entered by the judge after holmes attorneys said they weren t ready to enter one. he said it could be changed to not guilty by reason of insanity later on. holmes faces death or life in prison if convicted for the massacre last summer that left 12 people dead. the tsa is facing opposition over its decision to allow pocketknives back on airplanes. american airlines became the third major carrier to urge the administration not to lift the ban. yesterday, massachusetts congressman ed markey introduced a bipartisan measure, the no knives act designed to prevent that change. it makes absolutely no sense to allow passengers to carry knives like this into the passenger cabins of planes anywhere in our country. flight attendants, air marshalls and pilots are opposed to the relaxed rule scheduled to go into effect april 25th. moving on now to a story out of mississippi. that state s so-called anti-bloomberg bill. bloomberg as in new york city mayor michael bloomberg who plans to limit super sized sugary drinks. the plan put on hold monday by the court. while mississippi lawmakers have approved a bill that bars calorie counts from being posted as well as caps on portion sizes. the governor is expected to sign it. by the way, mississippi has the highest obesity rate in the entire country. oh, mississippi. mm. and a florida worker has extra spending money because he decided to do the right thing. a 3-carat diamond dropped out of a woman s engagement ring at a petsmart in vero beach . the papal conclave, choosing the new pope. i m josh elliot here in vatican city. as you can see just behind me, a massive crowd has gathered in st. peter s square to see the smoke pouring from that temporary chimany affixed. we cannot tell at this point if that smoke is black or white. if they have failed to reach a two-thirds majority consensus or if we do, in fact, have history s 266th pope. we are joined by john, author of the vatican and cokie roberts. i want to ask you if this is, in fact, white smoke we re seeing, it would suggest a rather quick consensus had been reached. what might that suggest to you on who we ll see who will walk out on the scarlet-draped you re right, it is difficult to tell. is this black or white? suddenly it looks whiter than it did a few seconds ago. very surprising to everyone if this is white smoke at this early point in the conclave. it would indicate that probably one of the three or four frontrunners actually gained enough traction in the initial ballots to go over the top quite early. and i think what we re talking about here is cardinal scola of mila milan. again, we should repeat, it is hard to tell if the smoke is, in fact, white or black. it is a rather gray color right now. cokie, reminiscent, of course, of both the conclaves of 2005 and 1978 when it did confuse a world s media here in st. peter s square. again, we should also point out, we re not hearing the bells peel. but, i tell you, with the crowds here gathered with their umbrellas, with their umbrellas up, st. peter s square has turned into a giant kaleidoscope as we all turn to look at these giant video screens up here in the square itself. yes. always just a moment when these elections are taking place, particularly when suspenseful like this. it looks more black than white to me. we are not hearing the bells, but, of course, we didn t hear the bells for a while in 2005. so, it s hard to know whether we could be having a moment here. but i suspect we don t have a pope yet. again, we should point out, also in 1978 when the smoke actually had been spewing for white at night, it did appear, perhaps, that it was black. so, the crowd s in st. peter s square started gathering their things before they heard the bells calling everybody back to greet the new pope. you say you believe we don t have a pope and we should now mention that there is no more smoke pouring from inside and now we see more smoke and, again, it does appear a dark gray. so, john, if we assume that this is black. if we assume that no consensus has been reached. reading your blog today, a very important moment could then happen if we see the cardinals then make their way back to santa marta house for lunch and the first real discussions that could be had today. right. i think last night the first ballot gave the lay of the land. we saw probably as many as 15 cardinals getting votes, at least that s what i have been told has happened in the past. this morning, i think what we re seeing is a narrowing down of the candidates. i think all of the cardinals want to get to the finish line here. so, you know, i don t think they re going to be holding out for candidates who they feel do not have a real chance. so, we could see the field narrow down to the top three or four or five candidates. that will be discussed over lunch. and these luncheons and what happens after lunch are very important. again, another round of real politicking. it it would appear set to begin as we can now conclude that is, in fact, black smoke pouring from the temporary chimney affixed the sistine chapel as the conclave will now continue as the cardinal electors seek consensus. a two-thirds majority and the 266th pope in history. we ll have much more coming up for the east coast viewers on good morning america set to begin about 15 minutes from now and, again, stay here with abc news all day long as we continue to watch that chimney here outside vatican city. i m josh elliot. thanks for joining us. this has been an abc news special report. probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you would be able to drink it. a powder that curiosity recovered by drilling a hole into a rock. finding half a dozen key elements. photos taken by the rover also show a lake bed, scientists say was filled with sediment derived by streams. the place that was, that was wet, for relatively long period of time enough for all these chemical reactions to occur. reporter: how valuable has the little rover been to nasa? this has been huge. reporter: scott hubbard was nasa s first mars program director. he says the next step is to build a robot that can bring samples back to earth for testing. until then scientists are excited to see what curiosity discovers next. i would die a happy man if curiosity gives us that indisputable fingerprint of life. complex carbon compound, boy, that would be the cherry on top of the cake. reporter: nasa says curiosity will perform more drilling in may and with this kind of progress, he believes people could be on mars by 2033. rob and diana. all the money we spent on that thing. good to see thank you, brandi. for all right money we spent good to see results back. interesting findings. the people you hate, send them to the moon. send them to mars now. boom, gone. there i am. there you are. my favorite planet. your favorite planet you told me more than once. working dayside next week will be a different planet, for sure. better get used to it. whoo. uh-uh. when we come back, tiger woods ex-wife is moving on. the skinny is coming up next. you are watching world news now. announcer: world news now continues after this from our abc stations. skinny so skinny i have had enough of being short. doing the skinny a little differently today. diana is 5 10. i am not. just a chance to look even. so we are taking it to extremes. nice to feel tall. all right. i was way down there like gary coleman. now, i am not. there you go. excellent start. here we go. here it is. let s get to the skinny here. you already have the job. this is what is going on with lady gaga. i will get off my knees now. there you go. according to her best friend, d.j. starlight, gaga could be getting married this summer to her boyfriend. you may know this guy, vampires diary star, taylor kinny. starred in you and i in 2011. the video there, the guy we are talking about. according to friend, she told me he is the one. you know that instantly when you see them together. gaga could be a married woman this summer. see if it is true i don t know what i was expecting. he is hotter than i was expecting. i never heard of him or seen him before. me neither. so he gets your seal of approval? well, yeah. excellent. okay. wow. moving on. so, for all of you bachelor and bachelorette fans we have more news from our friend sean lowe, the latest bachelor who is now engaged to his boo, catherine. official boo. officially. saw them on good morning america. he revealed something that is huge in the world of abc and everybody who watches all of abc shows. apparently he is the next contestant on dancing with the stars. oh, shocking. take a listen. i would imagine you get to get a little training for the first dance? exactly. that s why i signed up. preparation. when we have our big day, hopefully i will make her proud. and make a fool of myself on the dance floor. speaking of the big day. you did the proposal on the air. found your woman, partner on the air. now you are doing dancing with the stars and will have the wedding on tv. we thought it was only fitting. our relationship was created, developed on tv. why not have the wedding on tv? only fitting of course. abc will cover the wedding. by the way, his dance partner is petra. very nice. true love. bachelorette and the bachelor now doing dancing with the stars and the wedding. the wedding, too. we ll be there to carry for it you live, not live. today s password is tool. tiger woods ex-wife back in the news. elin, she has found new love. she is dating this man chris klein who is her neighbor in the very upscale north palm beach oceanfront community of seminole landing. sounds like this dpud is landing a little bit of seminole. they got together a mining, coal executive, worth a ton of money. she is only 33 and he is 55. they have been spotted together. he has been married twice before. has four kids from his previous wives. so, very interesting there. but, getting back in the game. wow, good for her. she deserves to move on. tiger moved on quickly. she fell in love. tiger is playing well, always getting it back in the hole. everyone is having a good time. time. it s happening now. people are switching to finish. . and it s spreading all across america. quantum with new power gel delivers amazing clean and shine, even in the hardest water, which cascade just can t do. so take the finish shine challenge and get up to 30% off! given way to sleeping. tossing and turning have where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep, and lunesta eszopiclone can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. do not take lunesta if you are allergic to anything in it. when taking lunesta, don t drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported. lunesta should not be taken together with alcohol. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risks. allergic reactions such as tongue or throat swelling occur rarely and may be fatal. side effects may include unpleasant taste, headache, dizziness and morning drowsiness. ask your doctor if lunesta is right for you. then find out how to get lunesta for as low as $15 at lunesta.com there s a land of restful sleep, we can help you go there, on the wings of lunesta. all right, with everyone speculating who will be the next pope we found a priest who is not looking to be the next driver sorry, not looking to be the next pope, but instead to drive the pope. there we go. he has driven a couple papal front-runners in the past. that could make him a real contender to drive the popemobile. abc s david wright actually tracked him down. reporter: with pope benedict s historic abdication to the moments they closed the doors of the sistine chapel, father antonio hoffmeister had a front row seat to history. the driver s seat. you have had quite the busy week. reporter: his job to chauffeur three brazilian cardinals including the front-runner odilo scherer. of sao paulo. [ indiscernible ] reporter: you might be dropping them off but not picking them up? yes, yes. reporter: a lot of responsibility for the young priest. in the wrong traffic can you imagine that, yes? reporter: traffic that is now even worse as the pilgrims and the tourists start to arrive. any normal day is just chaos. yes. reporter: not like you can swear with the cardinal in the back seat? no, no, no. reporter: best behavior. yeah, i better behave with three cardinals. reporter: father antonio is here in rome doing a master s degree in church history. kind of living it. seeing all the guys. i probably shake hand with the next pope. reporter: he especially likes cardinal timothy dolan of new york. he says cardinals in his minivan haven t really been talking papal politics. what are they talking about? they talk about soccer. reporter: as he dropped them off one last time. father antonio put in a request in case his cardinal wins i hope to be the pope mobile driver. reporter: you never know. david wright, abc news, rome. what a cool job. if you ask me he is the one we should be asking who will be the next pope? him, the people who wash the clothes, the people who have to deal with the cardinals on a daily basis. they know him better than anybody else. always the behind the scenes folks who know the real deal and secrets, anything, tv, movie, politics, whatever, the driver. they should be in the voting. check with those folks. they always know the real deal. must be a lot of pressure to drive the cardinal or potential pope. be on your best behavior all the time. you have a hard time being on your best behavior in the commercial break. i know. the pope mobile. don t touch me any more. announcer: this is abc s world news now, informing insomniacs for two decades. all right. this morning, it s round two at the vatican. the papal conclave is under way with the world awaiting and watching that chimney black smoke after the first vote but will there be white spoke sometime today? a fire are collision on a louisiana bayou. fears of a major oil leak. the coast guard rushing to the scene. we have the latest. financial focus. the president reveals his plan for achieving balance in the budget. it is an abc news exclusive. later on in the pulse, will it be dynamite. the groundbreaking good times is coming back. good wednesday morning, everybody. it is a new day of anticipation for the world s catholics. church leaders try again to select a brand-new pope. the cardinals will sell bait mass together this morning. there s a live look at vatican city before heading to the sistine chapel. once inside, the men could cast up to four ballots until one of them gets the necessary 77 votes and then that white smoke will, of course, pour from the chimney. we begin with abc s josh elliott. he is at the vatican. reporter: as the rains fell, the crowds packed st. peter s square looking skyward for the result of the first papal vote. and then the dense black smoke rose indicating there was no consensus yet. just hours before, the 115 voting cardinals entered perhaps sneaking in some last-minute conversations before heading to the conclave. some such as boston s cardinal sean o malley took the time to sit alone in prayer. extra omnes. reporter: everyone out and with that the doors closed. the work of choosing a pope