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Leading into the city have been shut down. parking bans have been put into effect. spectators have had to pass through metal detecta aors and screenings. sknroining me is the former director of the secret service. when you look at the kind of security measures needed to be put in place for an event like this. you're talking 1 million to 2 million people that need to be secured for their own sake, as well as for that of the pope, how much planning goes into that? how daunting a task is it? >> it's a massive undertaking, obviously. and the day that the vatican accepted the invitation to come to ...

This is a national special security event which does place the secret service in charge. this is the sixth one that i have personally been involved in. and you come together and you iron out any issues that you have, but on game day you just get the job done, and this has gone very, very well. there have been no problems at all. >> may i ask how you plan to get everybody out safely? >> slowly because you're talking about a lot of people. and it's going to take a couple days for the city to fully recover in terms of opening up all the streets and so forth, but i have no reason to believe that i...

Wonderful piece. he kind of things that maybe he could be a martyr if it doesn't hurt too much. he doesn't like physical pain. he's actually spoken about the possibility of his own martyrdom and he speaks of it fearlessly. >> fearfully? >> fearlessly. he speaks of it as something that he is peaceful. he knows he's doing the wilf god, what he's supposed to do, and if that is interrupted abruptly by someone of some agent of this earth, he knows he's already got a place in the next world. >> that's interesting. well, the preparation has been extraordinary. john, our colleague, kate snow spoke wit...

>> and that is just sort of a sliver of the security, too, isn't it? >> reporter: yeah. well, there are -- in all 37-miles of fences and barricades lining all of the locations that the pope will be visit throughout the next couple of days. there are 43 loaded sand trucks and we have one across the street from office. those are all over the city. and other security precautions including -- well, a lot of stuff we can't tell you about but this is a national special security event, designated be the department of homeland security, the u.s. secret service is in charge. the fbi happening intellige...

They have called this a national security exercise, the largest security event in the history of the largest city in america, and that's saying something because this city has hosted all kinds of mainly events -- major events over the many years but this is the biggest security event in the history of new york city. listen. well, they have killed the mike. my guess is the guy who kept talking, they pulled the plug on him. i don't know that for sure, but it would certainly stand to reason. i mention there on west drive, which begins at west 72nd street right on central park west, right at the e...