Meeting with president obama in the oval office. The cheering fans greeted the pontiff as he drove through the streets of washington waving. And then he delivered an address to Roman Catholic bishops. He wrapped up that day celebrating mass in spanish in front of a crowd of 25,000 where he cannonnized a new saint. Speaking in spanish, the pope can ionized Jetblue Jetblue who was Junipero Serra. And it was acknowledgement of the latinos role in the american church. Ktvu is in washington, d. C. This week covering the popes visit and attended this weeks mass. I know im supposed to ask yeses ask questions after your report. I watched the mass. It was a beautiful service. What was it like for you . Reporter it was really breath taking, and almost everyone that we spoke to got tears in their eyes when they spoke about pope francis and what he means not just to catholics, but to everyone. Right now he is actually inside the basilica which is behind me and he is meeting with a group of indians
About five points. Looking here it is actually interesting to see where we are. The dow going negative earlier. China suggesting it could add more stimulus and metal stocks, but Energy Stocks are following as oil is falling. Lets take a look at the s p year to date. We are looking for a loss for the year right now at least. We are down by about two and one third percent with eight trading days left. The index has finished higher in the past three years but we are at least for now on track to break that. Alix we typically see what people call a santa claus rally into the end of the year. At looks like right now we are not on track for that. Your denny research coming out with that us saying that a yearend rally for the s p is actually in doubt. We do have eight trading days left this year and the s p has only done that in the last eight days of the year just five times since the year 1928. In that time, the last eight days of the s p were positive, and it was negative 72 times, 83 . Let
That was not the case. The fact that the secretaries back in his event today seems to indicate that he is still very much a potent force working with and on the side of the Health Care Task force. We are going to detail that event. First john roberts to tee it all up for us here and we will have a little bit more for you on wall street reaction today to some promising developments and a mixed reaction to those developments. First to john at the white house. Hey, john. You will notice the president is having a lot more advanced that was open to the public in recent weeks. The strategy now the white house is putting the president together with people whose needs really need addressing during this coronavirus crisis. The president takes questions that there at those events. In addition to the people that you mention who will be at this, governor bill lee of tennessee who has recently taken some steps to reopen will be there as well. What the house will do and what the president will do in