His wife and a group of kids who will give him flowers. There will be a series of small meetings, an exchange of gifts before pope francis holds a town hall meeting with about 400 staffers. The final session will be in front of the general assembly. This is the fifth pope to visit the u. N. The holy father will address the United Nations in spanish. He feels much at ease with it. The mastery of the language would have an impact on how he would deliver his speech. Reporter also spanish is one of the six official languages of the u. N. Coming up on Eyewitness News at 5 00, more on all the details that extraordinary mass thats going the take place at Madison Square garden and again security. Today mayor bill de blasio laid it all out. Well have more at 5 00, live on the upper east side, kimberly richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. The popes visit is a big security challenge and a logistical nightmare for planners. At one point, 83 blocks in this week. In all it adds up to 10. 3 miles c
Daycare center a few yards away. This woman has her child reregistered to start soon. She did not start yet actually but its scary. Reporter the scene has wrapped up or is wrapping up here. We expect a statement from the Bergen County prosecutor in the near future this evening. But we have been able to confirm that youths f m Rockland County came down here and had an encounter with somebody who lived in the apartments above it. Were not sure exactly why, but were hearing that it possibly was a drug deal. But there will be more coming out on that tonight. Live in edgewater, im brian ompson. Tonight were hearing from the sis r of the 12yearold girl struck and killed by an suv in elmont today. She was crossing busy elmont road outside a crosswalk and against the traffic light when she was struck. Witnesses said she was thrown into the air in front of her were devastated. Lost my little brother in 2002 from a drunk driver. And now gabbys gone. The driver is not facing criminal charges. Whe
Fear. A shout out, she says, came as a surprise. There was already so much excitement in the room because of the announcement that when he said my name, it really you know, i didnt realize it and i was clapping with everybody else. And i didnt realize what they were clapping for. Nbcs Kristin Welker is in las vegas where the president will speak in a few hours. What are we expecting to hear from the president today . Reporter well, joy, president obama will be here at Del Sol High School essentially to rally support for the sweeping action that he announced last night, which could spare as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from being deported. Now, of course, this location has significance. As you pointed out, this is the same exact place that president obama unveiled his blueprint for Immigration Reform back in january of 2013. And nevada is the state that has the largest population of undocumented immigrants. 7. 6 of the population here is undocumented. So, a lot of support h
House on the offensive. The Defense Department put out a statement indicating secretary hagel decided not to attend todays events because he did not want to distract from an event that is that was held to honor mr. Carter, his service to the country and the new opportunity thats before him. That was a decision secretary hagel made. Jim is live at the pentagon. What is the reaction there to what mr. Carter brings to the table . Krystal, officials here are looking forward to having Ashton Carter come back here to the pentagon. The president said today that he expects Ashton Carter will hit the ground running. By the time that hes confirmed by the senate, and thats pretty much an understatement. After all, he left the Defense Department as deputy secretary of defense only a year ago. Theres not much catching up. He has he knows pretty much everything about how this place runs, about the budget process, about the military he runs because that was his job. He was pretty much general manager
wrongdoing? it s really up to nypd commission erbil bratton. all of that happens internally in the nypd. right now they re just charging they re investigating, looking into whether he should be charged or not. if they decide to move forward, he ll be subjected to an internal trial and the department advocate will say whether they should discipline him or even fire him. but they don t have the power to do that themselves. they turn to the commissioner to make that call. we know this weekend we re expecting a march in d.c. led by al sharpton. what are we expecting in terms of crowd size? i know this is an attempt to bring together the upset over what happened in ferguson with what s going on in new york and to come up with sort of a common agenda here. what sort of things are they going to be looking for and what kind of a crowd size are we expecting? i think it could be pretty large because we ve seen so many people turning out and continuing to turn out in cities