Of the cathedral. The popes plane is scheduled to depart santiago, cuba, for washington at about 12 30 this afternoon. Pope francis celebrated mass in cubas holiest shrine earlier this morning. President raul castro received the holy father at the basilica of the virgin of charity of pauvre. It was the latest in a series of carefully worded critiques during his fourday trip there. Later today, president obama will greet the pope as he arrives on american soil for the first time. Youre looking at the two leaders meeting at the vatican in march of last year. The president will greet the pope at the airport today and then there will be a special ceremony at the white house tomorrow morning. And heres the popes schedule this week. He arrives in washington around 4 00 this afternoon. Tomorrow afternoon pope francis will celebrate mass in d. C. On thursday hell address a joint session of congress before traveling to new york city. On friday the pope will address the u. N. General assembly, v
Its a new era for United States in cuba, many trying to migrate are stalking an American Country and one month since the attacks in paris. Well look at how people are reflecting on those who died leaders are gathering for an International Conference to end the civil war in libya. Since the arab springs, libya has been split in two with dozens of warring factions, and now thousands of fighter are taking advantage of the chaos. Secretary of state john kerry is chairing the meeting in rome, calling for a ceasefire, backing a unity government. Zeina khodr said that they had 72 hours left to sign a deal. Rome is where a united voice was expressed to bring about a government of National Accord in libya, it was in rome where some of libyas rival factions showed support for the International Communitys plan. They are expected to sign the deal on wednesday, but there is opposition to the plan. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry addressed those concerns. Theres some inside and outside of libya.
We are united against this threat. Isil is the face of evil. Reporter addressing the g20 nations in turkey, president obama stood by his longterm strategy for defeating isis, saying more american troops on the ground would be a mistake. We have the right strategy and were going to see it through. Reporter some questioned the president s strategy today when isis released a new threat, this time against washington, d. C. This new propaganda video praised the paris attack and promised more. Frances president isnt backing down in the face of increased threats. Francois hollande is stepping up international raids, targeting known islamists and hes threatening to strip suspected terrorists of their citizenship, even if they were born in his own country. That was nbc 10s Jim Rosenfield reporting. He is live in paris. Well check in with him in just a minute. For the First Time Since the attacks in paris, French School children returned to class today. At one Elementary School in paris, the sch
To get across Port Authority bridges and tunnels. Those who use easy pass have to dish out an additional 0. 75. That means 12. 50 during peak hours, 10. 50 in offpeak and cash drivers have to pay 15. Its a series of five toll hikes that took effect on sunday. Were to a point where they should be voted out of office. Truckers also forking over more. A 5axle rig paying 105. A 6axle rolling out 126 bucks. Theres a lot of people up there using a lot of money for services that are not going back to us. The hikes will be used for replacing suspension ropes in the George Washington bridge, raising the bayonne bridge. The effect on trucking down effect on others who dont even use the Port Authority crossings. Those costs will get accumulated by the Trucking Companies or the truckers who incur them and then theyll go into their prices. Reporter Port Authority officials tell us they dont anticipate any additional hikes in the near future. Reporting live, Janelle Burrell cbs2. Traffic and weather
After that. There were a couple of people and we pretty much closed after that. We would let them out but not in. The utility reported more than 6,600 customers were affected by the outages. Most of those in the east bay. Though the heavy stuff moved out earlier today there is still rainfalling in parts of the area rain rain falling throughout parts of the bay area. From oakland to concord, well come in closer here out toward walnut creek, concord and martinez. We have heavier rainfall rates in this area out toward pacheco boulevard with more intense rainfall. These will be a different story in just a few minutes. Pushing the map to the south closer to walnut creek, alamo. And this cell closing in on san ramon will continue to move the maps around and not as much coverage. Basically they split in half in this portion of the region. Nothing too extreme but still moderate downpours stretching out toward san mateo and san leandro. More activity developing out here just out toward the coas