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The balcony of st. peter's. marks a joyous celebration, the resurrection of jesus christ on the third day of his crucifixion. during today's mass he expressed concern for the refugee crisis, the recent bombings and coptic churches in egypt but he offered this message of hope during ma mass. >> in this land of pain and tragedy, with the faith in the risen chris christ, we have thee of looking beyond and saying there isn't a wall, there is a horizon. there is life, there is joy. there is the cross with his ambivalence. look ahead. >> in the holy land of jerusalem, thousands visited built on the ...

>> peter alexander, thank you. and as peter was talking we have that magnificent live picture of the east room, kind of a cross section of the east room off the cross hallway meaning the grand fireplace is on our left, peter's right. you see members of not only the traveling press corps with the nato general secretary, but recognizable members of the white house press corps. in front of the two lecterns prior to the two leaders walking in. peter alexander, we'll be checking back in with you. and let's go to where the news and a lot of the attention was focused throughout the day because of the...

On the vatican hill at st. peter's. and around that place where his bones are is built st. peter's bacilica. >> had constan teen built a church in the vatican, he certainly thought peter was buried there, and this is why he initiated this large building project, to commemorate peter. >> but did peter live, preach and eventually die in the eternal city? to try and discover the truth, professor tom and dr. george are carbon dating a relic believed to be from peter. >> george, the results for the st. peter tooth is about to come off the ams. we should see the result any second now. it's coming ou...

Peter's. and around that place where his bones are is built st. peter's bacilica. >> had constan teen built a church in the vatican, he certainly thought peter was buried there, and this is why he initiated this large building project, to commemorate peter. >> but did peter live, preach and eventually die in the eternal city? to try and discover the truth, professor tom and dr. george are carbon dating a relic believed to be from peter. >> george, the results for the st. peter tooth is about to come off the ams. we should see the result any second now. it's coming out at 250 to 340 a.d., so, i...

>> just two of them. >> there's a latin inscription that says two teeth of the apostle peter. >> the two teeth are incredibly precious to the church, but the authorities have agreed to allow tom and george to carry out certain tests. >> we can use radio carbon. secondly, we can use genetic techniques that will hopefully help us to determine the ancestry of that particular individual. >> can modern science now corroborate the christian tradition that peter traveled to rome? >> the sampling of the tooth was