house and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. well to a special splet edition of today on this very important wednesday morning. i m matt lauer here at the white house. savannah is back at studio 1a. i have to tell you it s excited to be here. we re on the south lawn. quiet around here until 6:00 this morning and then we opened up the gates to the public and all those people who have been waiting at the ellipse overnight and they sprinted, a mad dash into this area to try to get to the front of the fencing to get a glimpse of the pope. he s expected to get here at around 9:00. he ll be welcomed again by the president, along with thousands of invited guests. thousands more, by the way, just beyond the white house gates hoping to get a glimpse of the honored guest, and we expect him to speak, the pope, that is, briefly in english this morning, but his major speech will come tomorrow. that will happen on capitol hill, savannah. mean
from south carolina. proud, sure themselves, but tested in battle. there were destined for the high country central vietnam. last week, some of them came home. their lives were the price of victory and the battle of your drain valley. cbs news marlee schaefer was there. this is where it all began. camp onial forces october 19 11 p.m. the first mortar round fell. at the beginning it was simply another guerrilla attack that was withstood by brave americans and mortar yard strikers. then, decisions are made almost by accident s that turned the for notnto the campaign only the highlands, but for perhaps all of vietnam. the battle of ia drang valley, introduced by morley safer with a special commentary by walter cronkite. walter: good evening. just six days ago, the american people resulted by an announcement, the average weekly date of the dead and wounded in the vietnam war exceeded the korean war. 240 americans were killed and 470 were wounded. the american people did not kno
his remarks for the first time will be in english, only brief remarks before the two men meet together in private. they have shared concerns publicly about things like climate change and income inequality, but behind the smiles there are some real issues of substance like the topic of religious freedom. there will be midday prayers said at st. matthews cathedral and the pope will head to the basilica where he will canonize junipero serra, the man who brought christianity to california, the first time a canonization will take place on u.s. soil. matt, what s struck me so far this morning is just the energy among the people we met here. we met one man who isn t even catholic who said to me i m here because this pope is different. he speaks to all of us, and as the father of young children i can tell you never wake a sleeping baby. we met another family who brought their 1-month-old. we got up at 4:30 in the morning because we wanted our son to be blessed. matt. parents with the
mark. reporter: frank, for hours, people have been meeting inside that board of supervisors room. this is the first public meeting since the deputy shot and killed 13-year-old andy lopez and it comes at a time when the sonoma county d.a. here is facing mounting pressure from the public to bring murder charges on that deputy. standing room only, many interested in what their community leaders have to say about the killing of 13-year- old andy lopez. feelings of outrage, feelings of grief. i can t imagine losing a child and certainly not imagine losing a child in this particular way. as a mother, i want to wrap my arms around the lopez family and tell you how [ pause ] sorry. reporter: when sonoma county sheriff deputy eric gelhaus erick gelhaus shot and killed andy lopez, the public fired back with peaceful public protests and memorials. the deputy says lopez aimed the gun in his direction. the gun in the end was just a toy. now many are demanding the district at
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