>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. [mass] >> pope francis leads the mass a today after the historic election in the cardinals who elect add man known for humility to lead catholics in a challenging time. >> pope francis had a very busy first day on the job. he appealed to the church to undergo spiritual renewal. in another break from tradition

he delivered in italian, rather than latin. now, live from rome. he is already distinguishing himself. marci? >> that is right. it has been a busy first day for the first ever pope from the americas. today, we are learning even more about him. >> on the first full day, the first sunny day sin the conclave began, glimmers of his character are shining through. >> he is a man who is quiet but charismatic. he is general -- gentle. >> he is committed to the poor. in argentina, he sold off the church mansion choosing to live in a small room downtown, instead. >> he brings the same desire for a simple lifestyle to the papal

court they will be in shock. this may not be a man who wants to wear slick and furs a message he is sending from the modest attire to the stop at a hotel in rome. >> he stopped in the main office, greeted everyone and decided to pay the bill for his room that he had been occupying because he was concerned about giving a good example of what priests and bishops should document. >> setting an example from the first words as pontiff. >> the prayer said today going at the main basilica dedicated to the virgin mary and at mass with the cardinals in the sistine chapel. while the celebrations continue back home in argentina, this was a quiet start to what could be a ground-breaking papacy. >> the crowds will fill the

square again for the big inaugural mass. >> thank you, marci. >> a lot of positive reaction for the 76-year-old. but there are reservations. katie marzullo? >> the pope is the first in many ways, the first pope from south america, the first "francis" and many hope he brings fresh impressions. >> people like what he is about and where he is from. >> this is good for latin america and the whole world. it is a new era. >> he is supporting not only people from his nation but also poor people from around the world. >> one catholic in san jose is keeping his praise for pope francis in check. >> i have a wait-and-see attitude because he has a reputation for being ultra conservative.

that type of pope is not the remedy of what ails the catholic face. >> nancy pelosi, the highest ranking highest democrat in the house could not take her eyes off the event. >> there wasn't a detail about what was happening there, historically, in every way, that i did not have an insatiable appear time. >> being from san francisco, she is particularly happy he picked francis. >> he is everything they will looking for, a good leader, good pass door and good communicator. >> when we found that man, where he came from, his age, what his background was, that was all gravy and we got not only a great man but we got good gravy, too. >> vice president biden will lead the united states delegation on tuesday and house speaker boehner was invited but he cannot go because he is

hosting the irish prime minister at the capitol and because of budget negotiations. >> st. mary's cathedral in san francisco has a special mass of thanksgiving for pope francis at 12:10 on gulf street. the mass will be led bid san francisco's bishop. >> stay with us for complete coverage on the selection of pope francis as the new leader of the roman catholic church with the latest on facebook.com facebook.com/use 7 and on twitter. >> san jose police have arrested a teacher for possess willing -- possessing child pornography at home. he was taken into custody in sea side yesterday. he used to work as a substitute teacher in san jose from 2008 to 2011. officers are working to identify

the children in the photos. >> we have new details on how a registered sex offender ended up on the burst of a high school field trip. amy hollyfield is live in san jose at the high school. how did parents react? >> with concern and questions. it turns out this happened because a teacher was trying to do something nice offering a wheelchair-bound woman and her companion a ride on the school bus. the woman's companion was a registered sex offender. >> i was extremely disappointed and sad and upset this happened, this prepare of our policy by a staff member. >> the superintendent says a registered sex offender should not have been on the school bus full of high school students. he says the man was with a parent of a student. they were with the high school students on a field trip to a college. they did not ride over on the bus but found themselves without a ride home.

>> on the way home, we had a wheelchair bound person with another adult helping her, and they requested a ride on the bus because they did not have a ride to the high school. our staff member allowed that to happen. >> parent contacted the superintendent who sent a letter to parents. >> no good for the kids. hopefully it will not happen again. >> i am surprised. surprised. (inaudible). the superintendent and police have determined the man sat in the front of the bus a few rows away from kids. >> based on our internal investigation and the preliminary investigation of the police department there was no interaction with this adult and our students. he plans to retrain faculty who go on field trips with students.

>> that is my pledge, our district will not allow this to happen and violate the trust of our families. >> san jose police say it doesn't look like the plan committed any crimes but it was school policy broken and that is what the superintendent is worried about. >> the former congressman joined surfers near half moon bay in a protest today over an access road that was closed down to a popular surfing spot. abc7 news reporter, cornell bernard, joins us. the sheriff showed up? >> surfers expected some kind of confrontation with the sheriff deputies when they showed up today when they entered this beach road, the surfers, over this now controversial closed gate. you may be surprised what happened next. >> proof of protesting surfers quietly climbed over a closed gate which said "private

property, no trespassing" and led by an 85-year-old former congressman who demands this road to the beach be on to the public. >> it is illegal to sell. you cannot put a gate to a public access to a beach in california. the people of california have the right to go down this easement since god knows when. in 47 i went down. this act is days after a lawsuit was filed by surfers again the owners of the brought who bought the beach in 2008 and put up a gate and hired security guards. we did not see any guards. surfers say the road is the only way to access the beach. >> this is the only possible access. both ends are blocked by big rock head lands and it is addition. >> san mateo sheriff deputies watched the surfers enter the property but did not cite or stop anyone. >> we are not stopping access to this. they have every right to walk

there. it is in civil litigation. until that is resolveed everyone has access. >> a lawsuit was filed. the attorney who represented the property owner says the beach welcomes the lawsuit. we are anxious to have a court decide the rights and obligations of the parties. the beach access road is private. a group of surfers beg to differ they are still down at the beach right now checking out the waves . this gentleman used the words in the 1940's when he was a stanford student coming down here with his friends to...hang out and drink beer. >> cornell, thank you. >> it has happened again, another crippleed carnival cruise ship leaves passengers with overflowing toilets and other problems. >> and t.s.a. battles airlines and workers over a decision to

allow small knives on

>> passengers from the carnival cruise ship "dream" will head to the airport after the caribbean vacation was brought to a stop. here are pictures from earlier. carnival said they are making arrangements to fly more than 3

hurricane sandy 600 passengers home from san martin but did not say when. the power is out and the toilets are overflowing. >> the elevators and the toilets have been shut down for several hours. last evening, when they did that the toilets were overflowing in the common area on the main floors. >> carnival is denying that saying there were interruptions but describes them as "brief." >> the head of the t.s.a. will testify before congress on the controversial new rule to allow small 9 on planes. the t.s.a. administrator has been battled with worker whose think small knives should not be allowed. he says he is more worried about explosives and they do not pose a catastrophic testify and will tell before the house of representatives homeland security committee this afternoon. >> mike nicco, our meteorologist, is ahead with the

forecast. >> we talked how we would have thicker clouds but they will not stop the remain watching trend. here is a picture as we look from mount tamalpais at the cloud cover that is hanging around the coast. you will miss out on the warming trend but we will all get rain. that is the forecast coming up. >> plus a major recall for a honda, the problems that could cause some vehicles to break on their

>> daly city, dublin, los gatos, and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> honda is recalling 180,000 cars in the united states because of brake problems saying the issue is with the vehicle's electronics stability control system. it can cause a car to break when the driver is not pressing the pedal and includes 225 honda pilots and the 2005 acura is on the list and the 2006 acura, the luxury division of honda. honda will contact customers with details on how to schedule a repair. >> it is still cloudy but, mike, that is not keeping the temperatures from reaching warm

temperatures. >> still warm air mass over us with the cloud cover dissipate ing and the flight arrival delays are over and dense fog advisory is over. now, live doppler 7 hd shows temperatures -- afternoons i am having trouble getting this loaded -- there is a lot of cloud cover and it will show that visibility is improved quite a bit since this morning. we will zoom down do show you the low visibility at 6 miles at half moon bay and 9 at sfo and everyone else is okay. from south beach to the south you can see the filtered sun with temperatures running 57 in san francisco to 58 in san jose and mill valley, and we have 59 in oakland, check out palo alto at 61 and walnut creek at 70 degrees. as we look from emeryville toward san francisco you can see the thicker clouds along the

coast, in the upper 50's in santa rosa and napa and hayward and low-to-mid 60's hayward and livermore. here is what will happen with the forecast. thick are high clouds but warmer-than-average and not so warm as yesterday. partly cloudy and mild all the way through the weekend with rain looking more likely next week so sierra snow, also. here is san jose, this morning, you can see the high clouds and sunshine and the temperature is 72 today, five degrees warmer-than-average and same in redwood city and san francisco and 70 in oakland and 74 in livermore. that is seven or eight degrees warmer-than-average. 72 in san jose, and check out los gatos, about 76 degrees today. 70 from redwood city south, 69 in san mateo and 63 in millbrae and upper 50's along the coast where the clouds are stubborn to 60 in daly city and mid-to-upper 60's downtown south san francisco and sausalito,

low-to-mid 70's through the north bay valley and 10- to 15-degrees cooler at the beaches and around 67 or 68 or 69, and upper 60's near the east bay shore. low-to-mid 70's in the east bay valley and brentwood is a warmer spot at 75 degrees. around the state we had a record high in tahoe: 69 degrees. cooler today but impressively warm at 63. upper 70's in sack membership to, and record high in fresno of 86 and palm springs: 97 degrees. march 13. it is well ahead of schedule. we have mid-40's inland land and up to 50 around the bay and to the coast it is filtered sun. tuesday morning, next tuesday morning, folks, at 8:00, the storm system is headed further south and by the evening hours

we will have light rain developing in the north bay and the heavy rain looks like it will fall in the overnight hours and through wednesday's morning commute and you can see the lighter green. that was the heavier precipitation and that will fall the form of snow in the sharia. we have possibly .5" to an inch of rain. possibly. again. that is a week away. tomorrow, another delightful day with fog in the morning giving way to hazy sunshine. saturday and sunday are breezy and above average. tuesday, the temperatures are back to average because of increase in cloud cover and only a 50-degree high for wednesday. abc7 news has another great weather source if you on live doppler 7 hd on twitter with the latest bay area conditions. and you can get "spare the air" alert, power outage information and weather tweets from your favorite weather team at live doppler 7 hd. >> good to know, thank you. >> physicists are confident they

have discovered what is nicknamed the "god" particle. scientists. have been using the largest atom smasher to search for the particle and a look shows they found it. the particle explains why matter has mass and is considered a missing cornerstone of physics. from physics to math, right? >> absolutely. first, you have a tweet of the name behind that particle. >> different than what we came up with? >> it will be tweeted for you. this is a special day for fans, a big celebration in honor

>> today on "katie" detoxifying your life. how to live all green these days and how it began when an actress was a child. >> i was hospitalized, any cold i got went straight to pneumonia and it is probably why i became an actress i spent so much time alone, i fantasizeed how to be someone else. i wanted to be a superior super hero. >> and a doctor talking about work on childhood allergies today at 3:00 on "katie" right here on abc7 news. >> coming up at 4:00, the trouble a british man got into after his heroic effort to keep a shark away from beachgoers. and california's school cheech is throwing his weight behind a plan to suspend standardized

testing for some students. >> today is march 14 or pi day, the ratio between the roundness and diameter of a circle. san francisco start add tradition of celebrating march 14, pi, 24 years ago and today they will celebrate it outside the new home at pier 15 for the exploritorium. >> abc7 news is the tv partner of the exploritorium with the new location opening april 17. we will bring you access and the first look at the new exploritorium right here on abc7 news news. >> that does it for us. 3 days og

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