the following is a cnn special report. in london big news in a little package. an heir to the thrown is born. >> her royal highness, the duchess of cambridge, was safely delivered of a son, 4:24 p.m. local time. >> i was thrilled. i can't believe that we finally after all this waiting know that we have a boy. >> the first child of william, himself born a prince. >> may we see your son, your royal highness? >> and kate, the shy commoner from the countryside. >> she's not catherine, she's

kate. >> now the chapter of this royal story, from william and kate's upbringing to their rocky courtship and royal wedding. >> it was the william & kate show. >> now raising an heir, modernizing a monarchy and learning to be, "will and kate plus one." it was the moment the world had been waiting for, the most talked about courtship of the century. after a decade-long romance, kate middleton and prince william finally tie the knot in a fairytale wedding. thousands watched outside the church. middleton family friend john haley was sitting in the front row. >> i was four foot away from everybody, from the queen,

prince charles, all the royal family. it was amazing. >> kind of a pinch yourself moment? >> it was. i was standing there, couldn't believe it. you knew they were coming because the roar just came through the abbey. you could hear it from outside. and then when kate and her dad come in, wow, that just sent tingles all through your body. >> it felt like a wonderful country wedding. >> lady elizabeth anson was sitting just behind her cousin. queen elizabeth. >> a royal wedding that would mark a new area and a new way of doing things, with william and kate breaking tradition almost every step of the way. >> they did everything themselves, whatever canopy they wanted, whatever flower they wanted, all of that was personally chosen by them. i think that's the first time that happened in the royal

family. >> westminster abby is where it all officially began for the duke and duchess of cambridge. billions watched as william and kate maried here, back in 2011. almost immediately after the couple said "i do", the speculation began, when will the next royal baby arrive? >> the one job kate had to do immediately after the wedding was get pregnant. >> author katie nichol had been writing about the royal family for the last decade. >> she had to secure the line of succession. we are always going to be on bump watch. >> but in true, william and kate style, they did it their way, waiting and enjoying being newlyweds before starting a family. >> diana and queen, they were both pregnant within three to six months of being married. >> even their honeymoon was different.

>> what royal newlyweds usually do is go off to balmoral, which is the queen's scottish residence. they decided they'd not go to scotland, they'd go to the islands instead. >> it shows how thoughtful they are, that they do things in their way. you can see their voice and opinion in pretty much all their choices. >> i think this is a very modern royal couple. >> and a royal couple desperate to be normal. william and kate would delay taking on roles as full-time royals and spend the first years of their life in a remote farm house. they live near this beach, right? >> they're a few miles behind us. >> he is the head of tourism. >> their house is not spectacular like people would expect. they're not living in a castle or mansion.

>> remote, incredibly beautiful, secluded and that gives them privacy and that's most important. >> it really couldn't be further from the life that they will be facing and living when they're back in london. >> yes. >> i mean, the pressures, the job and the paparazzi. >> that's why it is a utopia for them. >> kate and william are often seen around town enjoying a pint, browsing the shops or even picking up groceries. in fact, locals call the duchess a pretty savvy shopper, known to make meat pies and homemade gravy for william. >> immediately after their wedding day, what did we see? we saw kate pushing a shopping trolley around the car park at her local supermarket. it doesn't get more ordinary than that. that's their stamp. that's their imprint. >> even on the world stage the couple would at times appear very unroyal, like at this dragon boat race in canada

during their first official overseas visit. >> could you see the look of excitement on her face as she got into the boat and was ready to helm. and also the look of frustration that william had beaten her. >> she truly did look frustrated because she was defeated. >> this is a couple that can't finish a game of tennis because they're so competitive. and then they hug which was significant because you don't see royals cuddling, showing affection. these two are not afraid of breaching protocol and showing the world, you know what? we're really happy together. >> after their first year of marriage while william served as a search and rescue pilot for the air force, kate slowly stepped out for royal engagements on her own, choosing charities to support. graham buttland is the organization's executive director. >> on that first visit, her

approach was just so natural. it's as if she was blind to the disability but could see the child and that of course takes some skill. >> the spotlight was absolutely fixed on her, every engagement she carried out. the world was watching. >> her true test would be her first official speech, one she gave for the charity. >> i feel hugely honored to be here to see this wonderful center. >> there were six, seven satellite vans in our car park. it was going around the world. >> i'm only sorry that william can't be here today. >> i think she did a very good job. it really can't be easy to do that with that much pressure on you. >> bye-bye, thank you. >> but there was perhaps no greater pressure on kate those first years than to produce an heir. >> i think there was a level of surprise that it had taken quite some time. >> and it took no time for bump watch to kick in to high gear.

>> every time she wore a dress that was a little flowy, every time she put her clutch in front of her waist, i mean, the examples upon examples of all of the speculation. she wouldn't eat peanut paste so she was pregnant. >> i was there in copenhagen and there was a discussion amongst reporters there, well, why isn't she eating peanut paste? it was just relentless. >> when kate did get pregnant, she couldn't hide it. the duchess was admitted to the hospital with acute morning sickness. the palace had no choice but to announce the pregnancy, though she wasn't even 12 weeks pregnant at the time. >> it was a surprise. it wasn't just the announcement of a pregnant nanty, it was that she was sick. >> that's right, a pregnancy in jeopardy. >> it affected kate particularly

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♪ a fairy tale wedding, a much-anticipated baby. this was the story of charles and diana. june 21st, 1982 the couple welcomed prince william arthur louie.

>> may we see your son? >> the world just rejoiced and i think it was great that they emerged from the hospital and were showing themselves to be modern royals. >> from the start william's life was one contrast after another. a future king of a thousand-year-old monarchy raised in an entirely new way. lana marks was princess diana's close friend and confidante. >> william was raised very differently than the previous generations of royals in that though he did have official royal nannies, diana fulfilled much of that role herself, in taking the boys everywhere, collecting them from school, taking them on vacation. >> being raised as an ordinary boy, rather than a prince. >> diana really did break that mold. prince charles, the way he was raised very different.

>> yes. charles was raised by govern ness and he didn't see his parents for some time. >> from the moment he was born, prince william was in the spotlight. every time he left the protective grounds of kensington palace, cameras followed. >> i remember william's first ever day of his preprep school in north london. >> ken was a bodyguard for diana and her sons for more than seven years. >> diana said to him, now when we get to school, there will be lots of photographers. and he said, you know, i don't like togrofers in this very williamesque way. we arrived at the school and there were 120, 130 photographers waiting for william's first day at school.

she was trying to say, look, you have to live with this. you are going to get this for the rest of your life. >> for william, it would be a life long struggle, walking the line between a desire for privacy and the very public duties of growing up royal. and it would only get worse. william was just a boy when his parents' rocky relationship spiralled into a global scandal. >> william became sort of the fixer. he loved both of his parents, tried to -- you know, he wanted everybody to be happy together. >> christopher anderson wrote the book "william and kate, a royal love story." >> here's this young boy when his mother locks himself in the bathroom when she's sobbing and 7-year-old william is slipping

tissues under the door saying, "ahate to see you sad, mummy." >> as william got older, diana made sure he was prepared for all the scrutiny he would face. >> william was old enough to read the newspapers but the headmasters kept them from william to protect him. then william moved to eaton. you couldn't hide the newspapers. he was interested. he wasn't just a son. over time, he became a confidant to diana. so he took an awful lot on. >> it is announced from buckingham palace that with regret the prince and princess of wales decided to separate. >> by august of 1996, williams's parents finally divorced. yet even in the midst of living in this fish bowl of tragedy, scandal and speculation, there were many moments of normalcy. >> they would sit watching tv and munch potato chips. she would take them to mcdonald's. she would do regular things with

the boys. she would hug them and kiss them and show them affection. >> as a teen william was coming into his own, learning who live in the public eye and living out the lessons his mother and father taught him. >> this is a woman who insisted on taking her children out of the palace into hospitals and hospices to meet the homeless to do the work that a royal should do. i think charles deserves credit as well because he was always been very pro active. >> and just as the dust settled on the divorce, an unspeakable tragedy. >> the french government has informed all of us that princess diana has died. >> a high-speed pursuit by the paparazzi and a fatal crash in a paris tunnel that killed princess diana, taking william's

mother from him at the age of 15. >> he's at that quite difficult transition stage, an adolescent, a boy going into manhood and not to have his mother there, the person who he could always count on, who he absolutely adored i think is a loss that he will feel forever. >> after the very public funeral, william withdrew. and not long after the palace and the press forged an unspoken agreement, giving both william and harry space and privacy. the world got quick glimpses, though all carefully choreographed by the palace. so william grew up and quietly began dating. >> he began dating some of the more beautiful titled ladies. he tried an online romance with britney spears at one point that never really got off the ground. >> but playful young romances

aside, william knew that finding a mate would be serious business. he'd have to find a woman willing to put up with the relentless scrutiny. and to do that, he would once again have to break from royal tradition. >> she's not an aristocrat, she not somebody who has grown up in a castle or a palace. she was one of the very few girls from a work class background. >> when we come back, the making of the woman who would be queen.

bucklebury berkshire, gentle rolling hills, quaint country pubs.

it's the place kate middleton calls home. >> wherever you go, it's just fabulous around here. there's two pubs in the village and there's a church and that's all. >> john haley owns one of those pubs. what is the community like? would you say people keep to themselves or is it tight-knit and kind of everybody knows everybody's business? >> it's a good mix. no, nobody know's everybody's business but they do look after each other. >> he's known the middletons for 16 years. >> they're part of the community and they mix well because they've been here for many, many years. they're just like any other family. they're a great family. >> carol goldsmith and michael middleton met while working for a british airline. they married in 1980. the oldest of three children, kate was born in 1982. >> i heard she was as normal as normal can be. she came from a normal

upbringing like you or i. >> just normal working class family. >> kate was baptized at this church. she was a brownie in the local scout group and loved being in school plays. such an ordinary childhood for a woman in line to one day be queen. >> i think they were a family that always did things together. they enjoyed nice holidays, they drove nice cars, but it wasn't always the case. they came from pretty modest upbringing, pretty modest start in life. it was really because of carol's desire to improve their position and to build that family business. >> they sold supplies for children's parties and soon spun it into an online internet empire worth millions. >> it was carol who saw that this business really had legs to grow. and of course when that happened and there was money in the bank, they decided to invest in their

children's education. >> as the middletons saw success, they sent their kids to private school. kate was 13 when she came here to downhouse, arriving confident, happy. but that would soon change. >> she went at the age of 13, rather than 11 and most of the girls started at 11. so they were already -- >> they already had their circles. >> they did. >> and i think it was very difficult for her to find her feet there. >> and she was one of the very few girls from a working class background attending that school. >> carol middleton wasted no time. she immediately switched kate to a nearby boarding school. >> marlborough was a big school. >> ali baines went to school with kate. >> boarding schools if they're not happy are miserable. there's very few in between. >> for kate it was a tough

start. >> you have to forget the glossy, finessed image of the duchess of cambridge you see on the television and remember that particularly as a young woman she was quite shy, she was quite introvert compared to pippa who was outgoing and gregarious and socialable. kate was much quieter. she was a different character. and it took some drawing out of her shell. >> carol middleton once again stepped in. >> her mother actually set out to transform her. she combed out her kind of lush, chestnut hair, got her wearing make-up for the first time. so when she reappeared in school, it was a new person. >> it was here at marlborough where kate really came out of her shell, popular, athletic and a serious student. but she also had a bit of a wild side. according to one friend she was known to moon the boys from her dorm window, earning the nickname kate middlebum. >> it was great fun and she was

a very pretty girl. >> yet kate didn't date much and despite her denials, many who knew her then insist she set her sights much higher than her prep school classmates. >> her friends said, yes, she always had this picture over her bed in her dormitory, it was a picture of william in fishing gear. she did have her sights set on him like a lot of young women her age. >> winter 2000 kate would come close to meeting her prince. after her graduation from marlborough, both kate and william traveled to chile with the same youth volunteer group, but they just missed each other. malcolm sutherland was their expedition leader. >> i think it's incredible for a start the fact that william and kate didn't know each other, this is kate sitting in front. >> for both it was hard work. they helped build buildings,

teach english and even clean toilets in the same small town in chile. >> kate's tough. she's a sporty, fit lady. she knew what she was about. she knew how to look after herself. >> while case missed william that winter, chris anderson says carol middleton made sure that wouldn't happen again. >> originally kate wanted to go to edinburgh university. when it was announced by the palace that william would be attending st. andrews university, enrollment among woman in st. andrews jumped overnight by over 40%. >> so many believed that kate was among one of those women, thanks to her mother's gentle nudge. >> in kate's case, did she nudge her toward a relationship with the future king of england? yes and why not? because by putting her in proximity to william, magic happened. >> when we come back, william falls in love at a lingerie

show. >> he suddenly realized his friend was actually very hot. z

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fall 2001, william arrived as a freshman at the university of st. andrews in scotland. it was far from home and again breaking the royal mold. most royals went to cambridge or oxford. >> i really didn't want to be in control my entire life. i hate losing control. i think it's very important to see what you want to do and go for it. >> and at st. andrews, william would get protection from the press. >> he agreed to give a number of televised interviews during his school years at st. andrews. >> deep down i'm pretty normal. >> but apart from those occasions, he was supposed to be left in peace. >> i met him as soon as i arrived and incredibly quickly this group of friends formed. >> jules knight became one of his closest friends. >> there were no heirs and graces, if you like.

to me he's another guy, a down to earth, normal, normal guy. >> one of the first girls their circle of friends, the equal down to earth and normal, kate middleton. >> i got to know her early on. she was a delightful girl, very charming. >> maybe a bit shy when meeting the future king of england. >> i was very shy and scuttled off. >> not long william invited a number of girls to his dorm room. she did this awkward curtsy and he reacted by simply spilling his drink on himself. he did this to make people at ease and from then on they became friends. >> this is where they lived. they quickly became friends bonding over love of art history and enjoying early morning swims in the local pool. another connection? and a shared sense of humor.

>> she has a great sense of humor. it was great fun. we had a really good laugh. >> but it want all fun for william. >> he had all the same stresses and pressures as every student does. >> charles warren was one of his professors. >> he was panicking about approaching deadlines and struggling with some of it, like most of our students do. >> and actually he did seem a bit low and unhappy. and i remember distinctly i'm not sure if he's enjoying this much. you're a long way from london. it's in the middle of nowhere really. and to think, oh, my god, i've got to spend the next four years here is pretty intense. >> william and kate attended art history lectures in this building. the first year was a tough one for william, struggling with the pressures of his work and being far from family. he almost quit. >> he went home after the first semester and he had a wobble. he said to his father, i don't know if it's for me.

>> friends say it was kate who helped convince william to stay. and as soon as he returned from christmas break, everything changed. >> the turning point really came when william watched kate in that now infamous charity fashion show. >> it was march 2002, the annual st. andrews charity fashion show. and on the catwalk, kate. >> i remember that specific night very well. >> jules knight was watching the show that night with william. >> she wasn't what you call a kind of risque girl. she was a pretty safe bet. and here she was not wearing that much, looking amazing. i think everyone did think, wow. >> but that was the moment when he suddenly realized that his friend was actually very hot and he rather quite liked her. >> and the next fall when william and kate moved into this

flat together with a couple of friends, their friendship turned romantic. >> it just sort of blossomed from there really. we just saw more of each other and hung out a bit more and did stuff. so, yeah. >> and he liked my cooking. >> cooking was all right. it got better. >> living with a girlfriend is almost unheard of for the rail family. it was controversial. >> they didn't want mistakes for the past, they didn't want history repeating itself. this was an opportunity for them to get to know each other. >> and to get to know each other, the prince knew he had to keep his relationship a secret. >> they had a policy of never holding hands, never being publicly affectionate with each other. if they were invited to dinner parties, they often arrived separately. >> by the end of their second year, they were in love. william had found the normalcy he craved in kate.

>> she's not an aristocrat, she's not somebody who has grown up in a castle or palace. she's sort of pretty normal really. >> kate brought william home to spend weekends with her parents in bucklebury. >> he loves going for dinner around the house and loves being part of something which is actually standard. >> and behind the walls of st. andrews, william could live like an ordinary student. >> i'd do my own shopping. i'd take away and rent videos, go to cinema, basically anything i wanted to really i can go to. >> i remember we walked out of the pub called ma bell's, which is where we went a lot. and we were quite drunk. and i think i saw a pellet gun on the floor, someone had discarded this sort of toy gun. so i picked it up and i start waving it around and he grabbed it out of my jacket pocket and he was like holding it in the

air and suddenly, even in my drunk state i was like this is probably not a good idea. >> if william was wild, jules says kate was always in control. and by the spring of 2004, william was ready to introduce his girl friend to the world. >> if you take somebody to cloisters skiing, which is the place that your family had been going for the the last many years, it's a pretty clear sign that he's saying to everybody this is the girl in my life. >> coming up, the perfect romance abruptly ends. >> prince charles says you can't keep stringing this girl along. if you're not ready to ask her to marry you, break it off.

♪ at st. andrews prince william lived happily and privately. but as graduation arrived, the agreement that kept the press at bay was gone. >> the protection that they had enjoyed had finished, and it was open season as far as everyone was concerned from then on. >> open season on william and

now on his girlfriend, kate. >> well, i think when they left st. andrews, that was the real testing point for kate. could she cope with the fact of the photographers outside her flat every single day? >> the pressure was relentless, and a terrifying reminder of what had happened to princess diana. >> the accident that's happening isn't happening in the streets of paris, it's happening in the streets of london and it's happening to kate. >> with the press following her every move and william forced to be away doing his military training, kate was left wondering what was next. >> they had this period of time when they were basically together but nothing was happening and everyone was going, oh, are they going to get married or not going to get married? make your mind up. >> william seemed to have a lot on his mind, including what was fair to kate. >> at one point he said i was born into this, she wasn't. does she deserve this kind of treatment?

should i be subjecting her to this? >> but kate, she was ready. >> she really demanded that he commit, as they say. and william wasn't ready for it. he went to his father, prince charles. prince charles said you can't keep stringing this girl along. if you're not ready, break it off. >> publicly and painfully, william decided to break it off so kate went back to bucklebury. >> she did what she always does, a difficult situation which is go home and be looked after by her family. it was very carol who said you can have your weekend of mourning and your tears and then you're going to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and go and show him what he's missing. that's exactly what kate did. >> do you think he saw something that he hadn't seen before? >> we certainly saw something we hadn't seen before. we saw kate in plunging necklines and mini dresses, kate showing confidence and

radiating. >> i remember having lunch with her when they split up. it was kind of evident she was being very forthright, i'm getting on with my life, fine, cool. it hasn't worked out, that's behind me, let's move on. she was very calm and level headed and strong about it and i think he thought oh, my god. >> he became unglued. he started drinking too much. he went out with his buddies to clubs. he was obviously adrift emotionally. it didn't help him to have him see pictures of kate having the time of her life. >> i think at the time i wasn't very happy about it, but it made me a stronger person. i find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realized or i think can you get quite consumed by a relationship when you're younger. you know, i really valued that time for me as well, although i didn't think it at the time.

>> if the breakup made kate stronger, it made william certain. he never wanted to be without her again. back together and vacationing, kate and william made a deal. >> william had a military program and training to complete. he knew he had to do that before he got married. the pledge was if you wait, there will be a ring at the end of the day. >> quietly, the palace began planning. >> you could see how much work was being done behind the scene. she was being trained, she was being groomed and prepared for a far more important role, which is queen in waiting. >> there was also the matter of kate getting to know her future in-laws. >> the palace and the queen were acutely aware of mistakes made with diana, that she felt isolated and ostracized and they

were determined that wouldn't happen with kate. >> and that would take a special effort, beginning with charles. >> kate said she was nervous about meeting charles for the first time but charles went out of his way to make her feel welcome. >> after ten years of secretcy, it was finally time for william to pop the question. >> we had a little time of private time away together. and i decided it was the right time really. we had been talking about marriage for a while so it wasn't a massively big surprise but i took her out somewhere nice in kenya and proposed. >> it was truly romantic. >> it was. >> and that long promised ring? >> i'd been carrying it around for about three weeks before that. i literally would not let it go. i knew if it disappeared i would be a lot in trouble, it was my mother's engagement ring.

she's not around to share in the fun and excitement. this was my way of keeping her close to it all. >> charles and diana had a really difficult start. diana stole the limelight without really wanting to. when i went to canada and north america with the couple on tour, yes, people were chanting for kate but they were also chanting for william. so right from the outset the dynamic was very, very different. >> more that they equals, that they saw each other as equals. >> i think that's exactly the word. they were equals, they started out as equals and it wasn't just the kate show, it was the william and kate show. >> and they took that show on the road.

from a spectacular wedding, to wind-swept engelcy, to their first overseas tour. coming up next, a royal baby announcement quickly overshadowed by tragedy. >> to have the trauma and the tragedy of a suicide over what should have been the happiest announcement of their lives i think must have been truly awful. uh, i don't know what's happening.

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♪ engaged, married and two

years later pregnant. and yet the royal family could not escape the worst of news in what should have been the best of times. the joy of the pregnancy was quickly eclipsed by tragedy. a nurse at this hospital killed herself after accidentally putting through a prank called that revealed private details of kate's condition. kate was said to be devastated. >> of course she was still seriously ill, very hormonal, still hoping desperately that she was going to hold on to this pregnancy. to have the trauma and the tragedy of a suicide over what should have been the happiest announcement of their lives i think must have been truly awful. >> so kate left the hospital and soon returned perhaps not surprisingly, to the comfort of home, in bucklebury. >> christmas of that year, how

was it different? >> they decided that they would spend christmas with her family so she could be relaxed and put her feet up. it's something that really doesn't happen when you're in royal residence. >> but even christmas had its complications. when you're part of the world's most famous family, what do you get the royal who has everything? >> well, the answer to that question is something small, preferably hand made and if can you inject a bit of humor into it, all the better. she had taken up jam making, it was something she really enjoyed doing. so she would jar up her jam and she gave pots of preserves to family members, which i think went down very, very well. >> back home in engelcs, more domestic police, though william has never claimed any of the credit. >> i would say i'm getting better cooking. kate would say i'm getting a lot

worse. >> i didn't give you enough chance to practice. >> that's true. i get quite lazy about cooking. when i come up from work and stuff, it's the last thing i want to do is start cooking. but when i was trying to impress kate, i was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners. i'd burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would take control of the situation and she was there all the time. >> as the pregnancy progressed, kate readied the apartment and kept an ambitious schedule. >> i remember thinking she should be in bed but she was in four-inch stiletto heels. giving a speech and meeting people from the art room. >> finally she was in labor and then a prince was born. >> the duchess of cambridge was safely delivered of a son, 4:24

local time. >> this is how brilliant a royal kate is. there are women throughout british royal family history that have panicked about not being able to deliver a boy. and here we are, kate did it first time. >> a simple note posted outside the palace for a child who would someday ascend the thrown. >> this is the first time since 1894 that the reigning british monarch has three direct heirs to the thrown living. given that she's the second longest reigning british monarch in history, served 61 years, it will be exciting for her to see the future mapped out before her. >> john haley expects he'll soon see kate back at the old inn just as usual. >> i can't wait to see her push the baby past the public. wow, i should be there. >> in fact, kate may break from royal tradition and take the baby home to bucklebury very early on. >> is that any concern to the palace that she would do that? >> no, i think everyone has a

wonderful attitude towards the fact that catherine comes from an incredibly close family. and it means for her family to be included in everything and in her life is of paramount importance to her and therefore to prince william. >> most believe kate and william will hire a nanny to help but unlike royals in the past will also remain very involved in every stage of the child's life. >> i imagine that kate will want a very hands-on role. i imagine that she'll want to be very involved with whatever the nanny is doing. i don't think she's going to see the royal nursery as a domain that's not hers. it very much will be hers and william's and i think they'll look at their own families. diana was very hands on, carol and michael were very hands on with kate and they want to bring that into their own family dynamic. >> a family dynamic likely to give their son the most normal childhood possible. and yet there is no getting

around the simple fact that this baby boy is in line for the thrown. >> as the queen's cousin, what does this baby do you think mean to the queen herself? >> oh, an enormous amount. she's going to see there is a continuity there and i think it must be such a relief after you've worked so hard at something. >> a continuity for the monarchy and yet if history is any indication, kate and william will keep doing things their own way. >> i think you'll see them push royal boundaries, break royal mold and forge their own way forward for the future. >> is the monarchy evolving? >> i think the monarchy is changing now and preparing itself for the future. the royal family is built on tradition and heritage and continuity. it's the greatest in the world. but in order to move forward, it has to modernize, it has to change and this baby is going to

be so important because it will be the future. ♪ plane problems. passengers hospitalized after a jet liner lands nose first on a new york runway. the pope arriving in brazil, greeted by protest, a bomb scare and problems for the catholic church. first, royal baby fever goes global. what is the name? when will we see him? >> oh, they had a baby? >> did you miss something? >> who knew? >> we had bets by wearing red and blue. we didn't know. no, we knew. it's a boy. >> good morning, welcome to "early start." i'm