started the process by beatifying him. many native americans see serra as something else entirely. 50 different tribes are reportedly fighting serra s canonization. why would they do it? serra was a priest who opened the first spanish missions, nine of them in california, starting in the mid-1700s. the missions converted generations of native americans into catholics but according to the tribes they say in that process there was stripping of culture, there was brutalization of indians, and that was often physical, also emotional, cultural. one of the people making that case is professor deborah miranda. we re going to talk to the professor in a second. but right now we want to take you to the live event here, the pope is coming. he s going to pass right by us. as we were mentioning earlier, i wasn t joking, everyone that the pope passes is blessed by the pontiff because we are all in the shadow of peter because peter was the rock of the church. he was the first head of the church. he w
500-l, a little longer, taller than the fiat 500. and here s a fact that may soon change. fiat reports it s the slowest selling model so fiat has to love the attention and jokes and whatnot that has surrounded this car that took the pope from andrus on into washington. the italian automaker tweeted after the poef s arrival, his holiness knows how to make an entrance. so let s talk about this unlikely pope-mobile. i have peter valdez who writes for cnn money and religion commentator father edward beck. so great to have both of you. listen, we ve all been watching the pope, whichever car he may be in, is the pope-mobile. but i think it s interesting, peter, just beginning with you because you cover cars. to see him in this fiat, we know he was in a kia in south korea a focus in the vatican. this is not a man rolling around
it s certainly a big day as jim schutto pointed out. catholic university speaks to the name, people in the study of the faith will be here in attendance for pope francis. a very big deal obviously for catholics. and a small point of solace to go to what jim was saying the pope can t engage as much as he would like. if you are brought by faith to be in the presence of pope francis on the street, you are all being blessed as he goes along if you choose to believe in your faith because you are in the shadow of peter. so he doesn t have to stop and bless you specifically. you are being blessed. and that should be some solace for people whose faith brings them here. what brings us here this being the first mass of someone very rielevant in the world regardles what you choose to believe in. there s the motorcade on the screen. there is the pope. pope francis waving as they go by. those people de facto being
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they ve expanded it to 1.4 million cars total. which cars, specifically, peter? all right. well, they had already recalled the chevrolet coballot and the nearly identical pontiac g-5, they re recalling the chevy hhr, pontiac solstice, saturn sky and saturn ion in addition to those other cars. how many issues had gm had in recent years? i mean, gm these days, all auto manufacturers, and i don t want to single out gm, many automotive manufacturers have had a number of recalls. toyota has had a number of recalls over the years, so has chrysler. these days, especially, auto makers are really sensitive to wanting to jump on issues as quickly as possible. now, this issue dates back some years and they re finally getting on top of it. but auto makers are much more sensitive these days the about jumping on recalls, because there are serious penalties. an auto maker can be fined about $35 million for failing to recall a car in a timely fashion