store. shoppers were in the store sunday when someone got on the loudspeaker and said, quote, attention walmart shoppers. will all the black people please leave the store. thank you. five minutes passed before management made an announcement apologizing for the remarks. shoppers, of course, say they were appalled by it. walmart is cooperating with investigators to find out exactly who was behind this. inches and the sex abuse scandal shaking the catholic church in ireland, the netherlands and germany, is focusing more attention squarely on the vatican and the pope. some 18 dioceses in germany have been implicated in the scandal including munich where pope benedict served as archbishop. the vatican denies the pope was involved in any wrongdoing. they plan to issue a letter to the people of ireland addressing the scandals this week. nbc's stephanie gosk is in rome with the very latest. stephan stephanie, obviously, some people are upset that ireland is the focus in this letter but not what's happening in the news in germany. >> reporter: that's right,