sharpshooters on rooftops. around the corner from the studio police sed up eight foot tall fences like this one, all along fifth avenue. to prepare for the pope s motorcade and prayer service at st. patrick s. shop owners will not be pleased. a live look outside our building. rockefeller center area, our building part of rock rock rock feeler street. there s no cross-traffic in this area. they removed garbage cans and sealed manhole covers along the route the pope will travel, and in addition, coming up sixth avenue, tow truck after tow truck no parked cars allowed anywhere in the parts of manhattan, they re towing every single car and i bet they make a pretty penny, which will be fantastic for them. lauren green with the news live at st. patrick s cathedral which
has undergone a $170 million makeover and it is spectacular. my gosh, it s spectacular. used to be game. never knew it was white. itself is gleaming but also here we are more than three hours away from pope francis showing up here at the steps of st. pat stat patrick s for very vespers. and thousands have been lining up for hours. home to m shops, all closed today. instead the faithful are here, the 40,000 lucky lottery winners going through security checkpoints. that brings up the tight security. a leon onypds fine issues,tsa, fbi, secret service, the vatican swiss guard. they re making sure everybody who is here should be here. everybody is going to be challenged. you can have a uniform in a marked auto, but if you come up
and lifting them up. lauren green, live outside st. patrick s cathedral in new york city. thank you. matt malone an editor in chief of a magazine and part of the st. patrick s. what do you expect tonight? a moment of quiet prayer. the first thing that the pope usually does when he is not arrive neglect capitol city of a country, he joins the priests, the religious, the people in prayer, and that s essentially what he will do at st. patrick s tonight. of all the things that jumped off the general or the blue skies in washington, was the way he lights up around children. it s astounding. as energized as people are to see him, he is energized by seeing people himself an extra vert help moved out of the papal palace and into a modest hotel on the vatican grounds. so that he could be around
a checkpoint you have to identify yourself. they have checked us all here as well. the media are kind of corralled in one area, and they will not let us go anywhere. what do we expect to see tonight? one thing we ll hear tonight, an incredible vantage point. pope francis will enter through the doors across from the tv risers and will say prayer with a thousand priests, and about 1400 other guests invited. they re mostly religious, lay people that have been invited here. they will all celebrate a vespers service and also a 500 guests lining up the stairs in front of st. patrick s, special guests. school children from catholic schools in new york and also workers on the other side. i m sure pope francis will want to say hello to the workers. he is all about the common folks