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His first highly anticipated trip to the u.s. the pontiff will then come here to new york city on thursday. the city's police department carrying out its biggest security effort to protect the pope. what is in store in new york's mayor bill de blasio joins us now. great to have you in studio, mr. mayor. >> great to be here, alisyn. >> how on earth do you prepare for a visit of this magnitude? >> they call it new york's finest for a reason. the nypd is up to it because we've had world leaders in for decades and decades. we have the large est leaders, 0 world leaders and his holiness. that combi...

Themselves in and destroying airplanes. the same is true of guns. they can be used to protect 200 people on the planes and they can be used to kill them. no single security effort is going to solve or make us perfectly safe. you're not ever going to have airline travel be 100% secure. two pilots all the in the cockpit, none of them is going to be perfect. >> peter, the ceo of lufthansa said all the security procedures you have in place, in the end it is the pilot or co-pilot who's at the controls of this aircraft and no matter what all the security precautions are, somebody has to fly the plan...

Eating crow? why a top security effort says he will have the last laugh. after this.

Technology, but more importantly, it relies on good professional police and investigation work. >> that's really what it is because we always get prepped, we set up we talk about what could happen and is it really just the human intelligence what people do putting one and one together to make two? that's really what prevents things from happening? >> in my opinion, that's where it starts. you've got to have a good system in place where you're selecting intelligence. the best way to stop a threat is not just putting up an arrangement of security and metal detectors. yes, you need all those phys...

Enforcement agencies taking unprecedented security effort in preparation for the big game. nbc's ron mott is in times square for us. so ron, the false alarms, the investigation to all that, is that wrapped up? everything all clear on that front? >> reporter: all wrapped up, all clear on that front. and right now everybody is about having fun down here on what they have billed super bowl boulevard in times square. 13 blocks long, all sorts of activities and tens of thousands of people down here. some big-name stars down here, as well. and you can see behind me, got a lot of folks representing t...