down today at andrews air base. president obama was there to greet him in person along with the first lady and their daughters sasha and malia obama also their grandmother, the first lady's mother was there in person. the whole family was there along with the honor guard and lots of vatican officials and lots of american officials and a few very excited, a few hundred very excited people who got special tickets to be there from what effectively is the vatican's embassy in washington where the pope will be spending the night tonight. the few hundred people at andrews were shouting for him, francisco, francisco. they shouted for him several different chants in spanish welcoming him to the united states. this pope's first language, of course, is spanish. but then the crowd at andrews today, this is very sober occasion, this very statesman-like occasion. then there's this crowd. at one point, the crowd got to the point of the american football style chants.