There were heroic efforts in afghanistan. The land of the free and the home of the brave. I thought he was great. He was one of 50,000 people issued tickets. Whether youre a person of faith or not, you reached out to people to speak for the individual facing themselves. So i think everybody pulls something away from this. To be at this historical moment. She was overwhelmed by the message sent to congress by the pontiff. Come together to lead the way for the entire world. Now, we just spoke with heidi, who met pope frap sis before. This picture was taken in 012. A very special relationship . Talk to pope francis in rome. You heard the pope talking about the importance of environmental issues. Alma . Cheryl, the popes schedule actually called for him to have lawmakers on capitol hill today. But he decided to pass on that. Generally bans photography, but the popes appearance was just too i recall resisble for some. Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas has that story. What could possibly have ha
People are preparing for the historical moment to hear what he has to say in about a half hour. There are a lot of guesses so what he will say. People are excited to hear from him. Every member of congress was allowed to invite one guest so this is a special day for two people who are from the bay area. The first is an 89yearold homeless advocate who lives in morgan hill. And the other is the university of San Francisco chancellor. They were guests of representative zoe lofgren and House Minority leader nancy pelosi invited in to be able to witness up close this very incredible moment. So its certainly going to be a great story for both of them to tell after they can say, we heard pope francis as he made history on capitol hill. Big day for them and big day for everybody. Cbs news will have special coverage. In the meantime, weijia jang, live in washington, thank you. And here in california, people gathered in carmel yesterday to watch tv coverage of the pope declaring sainthood for fa
Worlds most powerful central bank cited low inflation and a weak Global Economy as reasons not to raise Interest Rates. Steve liesman joins us now with more on her speech. So what did she say . She said that she associated herself as among those who believe that the Federal Reserve will raise rates, it will be appropriate to raise Interest Rates this year. The importance of that is last week when sme spoke she said other members of the committee, and wouldnt answer the question when asked about what she actually believes. Now you can count the fed chair as among those who think rates ought to go up sometime later this year, and i think i know what your followup question is. Does this mean they will, and when . If the chair says, its likely to happen. Although she did give the obligatory caveat of depends on the economic data, it could happen later or it could happen earlier. So the question the market is obsessed over is this it will happen next month in october or will it happen in de
The head of what is arguably the worlds most powerful central bank cited low inflation and a weak Global Economy as reasons not to raise Interest Rates. Steve liesman joins us now with more on her speech. So what did she say . She said that she associated herself as among those who believe that the Federal Reserve will raise rates, it will be appropriate to raise Interest Rates this year. The importance of that is last week when sme spoke she said other members of the committee, and wouldnt answer the question when asked about what she actually believes. Now you can count the fed chair as among those who think rates ought to go up sometime later this year, and i think i know what your followup question is. Does this mean they will, and when . If the chair says, its likely to happen. Although she did give the obligatory caveat of depends on the economic data, it could happen later or it could happen earlier. So the question the market is obsessed over is this it will happen next month i
The head of what is arguably the worlds most powerful central bank cited low inflation and a weak Global Economy asba reason not to raise Interest Rates. Steve liesman joins us now with more on her speech. So what did she say . She said that she associated herself as among those who believe that the Federal Reserve will raise rates, it will be appropriate to raise Interest Rates this year. The importance of that is last week when sme spoke she said other members of the committee, and wouldnt answer the question when asked about what she actually believes. Now you can count the fed chair as among those who think rates ought to go up sometime later this year, and i think i know what your followup question is. Does this mean they will, and when . If the chair says, its likely to happen. Although she did give the obligatory caveat of depends on the economic data, it could happen later or it could happen earlier. So the question the market is obsessed over is this it will happen next month