Its knees. Nightly news begins right now. Pope francis in america, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We are back in new york tonight virtually outside our 30 rock studios and witnessing the massive crowds lining fifth avenue right now outside st. Patricks cathedral, awaiting the arrival of pope francis. They are about to see him. The motorcade now turning on to fifth avenue. We expect him to get into the pope mobile very shortly and make a short parade down fifth avenue to st. Patricks cathedral. There is the scene taking place. All this under a ring of security unlike anything that even new york city has seen. Theyre coming into view right now is the fiat that has become famous during this trip, or one of the fiats the pope has been taking. He will emerge from the vehicle and we expect him to get into the pope mobile which was prepositioned here. He will parade several blocks to st. Patricks cathedral where he will take place in a vesper service. About 500 peopl
Prevent things from happening so you dont have to. They put the fencing up. Do you remember the test, how many miles . It was 39 miles of fencing. 39 miles. Around the city to protect the pope. And so if you can screen people and make sure that nobody is bringing anything in that could in any way possibly harm the pope, then your job is easier once youre here with this pope flanked by these trucks and cars and all of the security personnel. Theyre taking absolutely no chances, no chances. How careful they are. Were on the other side of the security barrier. Were right across from st. Patricks cathedral and we were not allowed to bring anything noo here that could be used as a projectile. We couldnt bring any round fruit, oranges or apples to eat while were waiting on the pope. Anything thats projectile. But they did let us bring our iphones in. You know, i want to bring david ushery, he was in d. C. For the popes arrival there. And his procession. And with the pope mobile. David tell u
Dari we should say the one little thing we know is theres a relation between you and the monsignor . These are your grandnieces. Yes. Im very proud of them. Dari this is a wonderful opportunity. Steve how special for you to introduce them to the pope. I could tell them that we have some beautiful flowers. We have yellow, white and red are the colors of the flowers that you will give to the holy father to welcome. How are you going to say it . Dari how do you how will you greet the pope . My mom told me to say to the pope welcome to new york, your holiness. Steve sounds good to me. Your mom did a good job. And shes going to say it in italian. Dari would you like to do a practice session . Wonderful. Thank you. Okay. [speaking italian] dari thats beautiful. Steve if you can do it on live tv, you can do it in person. Dari piece of cake after that. Monsignor, theyre absolutely lovely lovely. Theyre wonderful. They deserve it. This is a great honor, something theyll remember. This was an op
Hes got so much energy, how does he do it, you know . I mean, hes shaking hands, taking selfies, saying mass, different languages no, he really was he inspired so many people while he was here. Hes home now. All right, so the president ial campaign, carly fiorina, look at what happened to her. Just missed her, by the way. Curtain came down crashing on her. It just missed her. Seemed like it fell all around her. Right. Shes okay. Anyway, a snafu from the campaign be trail. By the way, anybody see the, what do you call it, the eclipse last night . A little bit of it. Was it decent . I just saw before it eclipsed. In other words, you missed it. [laughter] hey, im not going to miss the Powerball Jackpot. Its at 300 million right now. Thats tomorrow no, wednesday i realize one statistics that said Something Like 52 of people think theyre going to win the lottery someday. Somebody has to win it, greg. I understand, but it aint gonna be us. The odds are really against you in a huge way. Oh, y
You have in congress. A collective group at the lowest approval rate of any time in history. He was being spoken to and in a sense lectured to by pope francis, here in washington, d. C. , he was greeted by president obama, he is being said goodbye to by secretary of state john kerry. And despite the Approval Rating for that congress, he still took the humble route, asking them to pray for him. We are watching the crowd ascend the staircase as what is informerly dubbed shepherd one. Its not really known that way. Its a chartered debt from air italia. And this is an American Airlines jet. They have the call letters ab 3,000 but inside nothing really special about it. He has a row to himself, but that looks like a plane that you and i might board on any given day. As we listen in, the crowds are still cheering him on from the moment he stepped on u. S. Soil. And the door is closing on this leg of his journey and up next new york city and then on to philadelphia, for now we send things to