cardinal electors are voting right now. at 7:00 a.m. eastern we are expecting to see more smoke, black or white, marking the end of the morning voting session. and if necessary, the cardinals will return for afternoon voting that is beginning at 11:00 a.m. eastern. then at 12:30 this afternoon, all eyes will be back on the sistine chapel chimney awaiting yet another smoke signal from the cardinals. so let s get right to cnn s chris cuomo anchoring all of our live coverage from rome. good morning to you. hi, zoraida. yes, we re waiting for the pope to come here. the crowds are gathering. if you look at st. peter s square, obviously no action from the chimney, but you see more and more people are starting to come in there. tourists, sure, but this is a big tradition. you take a look you ll see flags from all different countries. we ve been hearing different languages there, different signs in different languages. so people are coming in as john allen just explained to me. even if it s
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lee. jon: i m jon scott. all eyes are on the vatican where a new round of voting is expected this hour. earlier this morning, black smoke came billowing from the chimney of the sistine chapel meaning no new pope just yet. the cardinals began voting yesterday to choose a successor benedict xvi. he became the first pope to resign in 600 years. we ll know if they made a decision when the white smoke actually comes out of that chimney. lauren green is joining us live from rome with the latest. lauren? reporter: hey, jon. thank you very much. you know the as soon as we can see any kind of smoke would be about an hour and a half. it would have to be white. it would mean that the cardinals have not needed to vote a fourth time because they have chosen the successor to pope benedict xvi. that would be the first time. there are 115 cardinal electors in the sistine chapel working on that next vote but there are many more cardinals who are over the age of eighty also here in
solidified his status as the front-runner going into that conclave. now, this time, the dynamic is not the same. cardinal angelo sodano is already over 80. he s 85, so he s not going to be in the sistine chapel. for that reason alone, probably, he would be a radical long-shot to be elected pope. but in addition, he s sort of identified with the old guard in the vatican, and as we were talking earlier, there is kind of a strong antiestablishment mood among these cardinal electors that indicates many of them would like to see a change. and so, i don t think anyone believes that sodano is in a position to propel himself forward as a candidate. however, this is sort of a last opportunity for the ruling regime in the vatican, so to speak, to be able to make its case as to why continuity, rather than discontinuity, would be the wisest course for these 115 cardinals to imbrace. father beck also joining us, cnn contributor, passionist priest. they believe these men, that the holy spirit will
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