this morning on "world news now," pope francis takes new york. >> the pontiff copies his whirlwind tour of the u.s., building momentum off that historic speech in the capitol. the crowds of the faithful overjoyed and the mass of security effort to keep him safe. we're live with the very latest. stampede tragedy. hundreds of faithful muslims crushed to death in saudi arabia on one of the holiest days of the year about the staggering is death toll as investigators determine how it could have been prevented. fighting fraud. the new way credit card companies are trying to stop thieves from swiping your information. hi-tech methods and what you need to know. and faux francis. the major fakeout on streets of new york just hours before the pope's arrival the premature sighting that had security officials praying for it to be over. it's friday, september 25th.

from abc news, this is "world news now." >> you fall for that. >> who did that? >> you know. >> that's not nice. >> a couple of jokesters out there and a lot of people are willing to fall for anything. but cute story. we'll get to that, of course, in the next few moments. of course, we're going to start this half hour with pope francis right here in new york city with a jam-packed day ahead of him. >> the pope will arrive in the big apple, he has arrived just as millions of others do every year by playing into jfk airport. on the tarmac, he greeted several catholic school children among hundreds of others. he took a short ride in the popemobile waving to thousands on the sidewalk of fifth avenue. he arrived at st. patrick's cathedral where he was greeted by new york's top lawmakers. >> once he was inside, francis made his way down the aisle. he stopped to meet a 17-year-old girl in a wheelchair.

she suffers from spina bifida. >> afterwards she called meeting the pope an incredible experience. francis is the second pope she's met. she also met pope benedict seven years ago. marcy gonzales joins us live with more details and what to look for in the day ahead. what an assignment. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it was absolutely incredible being out there seeing the pope in person. the nypd calls this the biggest security operation they have ever had. keeping the pope safe here on his second stop on his first trip ever to the united states. a true new york welcome for pope francis. thousands of people lining fifth avenueton catch a glimpse. >> i feel that he's all about love and understanding and tolerance. >> reporter: the humble leader of the catholic church and

champion for the poor making his way up one of the world's ritziest streets to this manhattan landmark. >> papa francesco, welcome to st. patrick's cathedral. >> reporter: inside the stunning cathedral, fresh off a $200 million renovation, the pontiff sharing a message about gratitude. >> translator: gratitude and hard work, these are two pillars of the spiritual life. >> reporter: after the address to congress touching on divisive issues including the death penalty and abclimate change. >> god bless america. >> reporter: simple prayers as pope francis brought his characteristicic warmth to the big apple. >> once you entered those famous doors on fifth avenue, you became an official new yorker.

>> reporter: yeah, that new official new york erg resting up now for yet another very busy day today. kendis and reena, back to you. >> marci, we know he starts off his morning with an address at the u.n. generally assembly. what what else is planned for his first full day here. >> aeld hold a service at the 9/11 memorial, visit a catholic school in harlem and come to central park and lead a procession in his open air popemobile and cap off the day by celebrating mass with 20,000 people at madison square garden. back to you. >> all right, and that station, penn station is going to remain open during that so quite a security detail there. abc's marci gonzales here in new york for us. thank you, marci. >> reena, and i, we went across town to see where the pope is staying right now, hoping to meet people outside. but not so much luck. >> yeah, right now, we did get a glimpse of the massive security

operation that's taken over the city. take a look. >> 6,000 extra police officers brought in, nypd working alongside u.s. screws service. they've blocked off this entire area. the pope asleep just a block down here. is is as close as they'll let us get. there's surveillance video watching the hour everyone waiting till the pope wakes up in a few hours. excuse me. wondering if you've seen a black fiat anywhere around here? >> not at the time, ma'am. >> we tried. >> good try. >> they are so tight-lippeded. they won't say anything. they're clearly doing their job. that officer had a sense of humor. >> there was while we were out there, a group of ladies who left the residence just a few moments after we got there. and they had served the pope a meal. they mentioned that there were 14 people at the meal with the pope last night. they say it was a pleasure serving him dinner.

they didn't specify exactly what he ate. they plan to be back for breakfast and breakfast is expected to be more elaborate than what we've heard in some of the reports. more than just granola and oatmeal and bananas. >> i hope there's a new york bagel in there. >> you would have to think. >> we can't let the pope go without a bagel from new york. >> he'll have pizza later on in the day. >> look forward to that. two of the 6,000 police officers assigned to protecting the pope in new york couldn't be more suited for the job. >> reporting for duty, officers hope and francis. showing off their badges em blaisened with their fitting last names. pope and francis posed outside st. patrick's cathedral hours before the pope arrived. >> what a great image. i have to a being out there tonight seeing the u.s. secret service and nypd, there is never been a moment when taxpayer dollars should go towards buying these folks a beer next week. we should all agree that taxpayer money should help.

they are doing major work out there. >> i love that you signify next week. >> that's when the pope will leave. >> by the way, more from the pope's visit coming up in this half hour including the family that drove all the way from argentina to see him. pope francis has offered a prayer for the muslims killed in a stampede in saudi arabia. the king promising a speedy investigation into how more than 700 pill games died. high temperatures and fatigue may have played a role. >> reporter: they were muslim faithful from around the world, crushed to death, just outside islam's holiest city of mecca. more than 700 lost their lives, making it the deadliest tragedy there in 25 years. in the aftermath, lifeless bodies lining the streets covered in white sheets. and another 800 were injured, including two americans, among the more than 2 million who make the annual pilgrimage. witnesses say the stampede began when two huge waves of pilgrims converged in the valley of mina,

at one of the sites that all pilgrims have to file through in a single day. one man saying people were climbing over one another, just to breathe. this comes less than two weeks after another disaster. a crane collapsed that left over 100 dead. stampedes in mecca are all too common. the biggest in 1990, when more than 1,400 people were trampled. the last major one, in 2006, when 360 were killed. saudi arabia's top health official says the stampede was likely caused by pilgrims who ignored instructions from the authorities. but the criticism is growing over the country's repeated inability to safely control large crowds. alex mark quart, abc news, beirut. >> back here in this country, ntsb investigators are on their way to seattle following a deadly accident. for foreign students died when their charter bus was hit by an amphibious tour vehicle on a busy bridge. 15 victims are still in critical condition this morning with a couple still in surgery.

more than 30 are in the hospital with less serious injuries. witnesses say the duck boat veered out of control and be slammed into the side of the charter bus. the dalai lama is getting a checkup at the mayo clinic in minnesota. the exiled spiritual of tibet is 80 years old. his secretary says he's not ill but undergoing a yearly medical evaluation. he has made regular visits to the mayo clinic in past years. we've been hearing a lot about the extensive security measures in place for mope francis. every minute he's here is planned with military style precision. >> imagine the shock and surprise when police found out the pope had arrived. well ahead of schedule right here in new york city. cruising around in the back of a convertible. turns out it was actually a new wax figure of the pontiff heading to madame tussaud's museum in times square. >> i love the security it has with the sunglasses and such. the faux francis trigger aid police investigation actually

and caused plenty of traffic tie-ups. museum officials claim they apologized to police and no charges have been filed so far. can you imagine that scene. >> you know, you are not going to miss a good opportunity in new york for a selfie. apparently they stopped and dozens of people were able to take selfies with what looks like a very real pope. >> by the way, the museum says it's artists spent four months to get every detail right. i think they did a good job. >> i would definitely have paraded him around hours before if i had worked that hard. >> absolutely. he's now in the museum. i already saw folks taking selfies with the faux francis. >> that's good to know if you can't get a selfie here, go to the museum. coming up, more live coverage of pope francis' visit. >> we'll have more highlights from last night. plus incredible stories of the faithful making hair way to see the pope. some of those journeys across thousands of miles. and the simple mistake that

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welcome back. pope francis here in new york city for the first time in his life. he made his way to an evening prayer service at st. patrick's cathedral. during the service, he thanked

nuns for their work. today pope francis participates in events all across manhattan. stops include the united nations, the 9/11 memorial, central park and madison square garden. >> busy day ahead. and top lawmakers on capitol hill are working behind the scenes to avert a government shutdown next week. the senate yesterday failed to pass a bill which would have stripped planned parenthood of hits taxpayer funding while keeping the government running through december 11th. republican leaders have repeatedly propsesed there won't be a shutdown. themakers of a popular birth control device were grilled id about the safety during a hearing. the device called e sure is implanted into the fallopian tubes. women complained it caused severe pain, stomach upset. the device maker bayer says it stands by the product and its safety record from every year some 38 young children die after being left in hot cars.

you would think with all the publicity those cases get, it would stop. >> no, there are two more cases this week. one involving a former judge. steve oh sun samny has the story. georgia, this morning, temperatures were only in the 60s, and it was a cloudy day, but police still arrested kimberly bandoh, a lawyer and former judge who they say left her two young children in her car, while she was inside the courthouse handling a case. her kids are 2 and 3 years old and were in the car for less than 30 minutes. >> probably the children would have been okay, but i don't think the law gives that level of discretion to our police officers. >> reporter: authorities across the country are responding to the shockingly high number of children dying in hot cars. an estimated 660 since 1998 and 23 so far this year. an 8-month-old old boy was found dead in the back seat of a car at a walmart parking lot in macedonia ohio. >> okay, what's going on there? >> there was a baby left in a

car. that somebody didn't know about. >> reporter: police say it was an accident, telling us the baby's father left him in the car and then the grandmother drove that car to work. >> the former judge arrested here is charged with leaving her children unattended in a vehicle and she's out on bond. steve osunsami, abc news, atlanta. coming up, the credit card companies are hopping to chip away at fraud but are retailers ready? either way, your cards will still work after next week's deadline. >> ahead in our next half hour, everyone has got a different story what went on during this high school football game. you're watching "world news now." "world ne

well, you and i have travel the extensively abroad. we know the u.s. lags hinds other major countries in credit card security. but that is apparently about to change. >> because next week, retailers will either have to read the chips in cards or be responsible for fraud. >> more on how it works from abc's gio benitez. >> it's the new technology that aims to stop thieves cold. and in just a few days this hi-tech chip in your credit cards could lead to a lot less fraud. here's the problem right now. watch as this fast food attendant swipes a customer's

card once and then a second time using a small device. watch again from the register to the skimmer. it looks like this. small enough to fit in a thieve's pocket and could even be installed at gas station pumps. police say this criminal couple was caught on camera desperately searching for their skimming device. the possibility solution, that chip. the electronic transactions association tells us it can't be duplicated by criminals like magnetic strips creating unique codes for every purchase. no more swiping. you put your card in and keep it there till the code is captured. >> when you have a chip card and go to a reader, you're no longer using the magnetic stripe. you're insirting your card and a one-time code is used to authorize the transaction. so your credit card information is no longer shared. >> now starting october 1st, the trade association says if businesses downtown have technology in place to read that

chip, they will be entirely liable for any fraud. but many of us don't even have a chip on our cards yet. so what do you do? >> if consumers don't receive their cards by october 1st, merchants cannot refuse your payment. it's your bank's responsibility to send you an issue you a new card. >> but the chip alone won't make your card entirely safe. thieves can still copy credit card numbers and use those numbers on line. gio benitez, abc news, new york. one of the biggest fears i've always had is skimming especially at gatt stations. apparently they have another two years to make the switch. >> it's so easy. we've done many stories on this and how easy crooks can do this sort of stuff. it's good to see the the technology is finally catching up in this country. a family goes an extra mile. 13,000 of them to see the pope. >> the mix is up next.

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of it is time for "the mix." it is a pope themed mix on this friday. talking about the world meeting of families. you know, it's taking place in philadelphia. the people will be there, of course. expect up to 1 million people to be there. in that group, will be this family. okay. so it's a family of four kids, mom and dad. well, they actually drove 13,000 miles from argentina. >> in that scooby-doo bus? >> in their vw. that's a fuel efficient vw because it was one from 19 0, not one of the country ones. anyway, this family drove all the way, 194 days, some 12 border crossings. and then they get 30 miles outside philadelphia and you know what happened? >> what. >> that scooby-doo bus broke down. >> no. >> 30 miles outside their goal

and it broke down. they made it eventually. >> we hope they get to see the pope. you know who else is benefiting from the pope's visit? fiat, the black fiat the pope's been riding in. there it is. this is the 500 l. it didn't sell well. it's a two-door 500. apparently people believe it's going to be selling a lot better. they're going to be donating that one to charity. >> i'm sure it will go. >> poke polka i'm type. pope polka. ♪ ♪

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this morning on "world news now," pope francis in the big apple. the pontiff is just around the corner here. this is as close as security will allow us to get, some 6,000 extra police officers standing by prepared. as the pontiff begins what will be a whirlwind 39 hours in new york. >> and during those 39 hours, he plans a parade in central park. he will be speaking at the united nations and, of course, he's going to visit the 9/11 memorial on this friday, september 25th. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we didn't really take the popemobile. we took a cabmobile. >> we took a popemobile. by trickery, we are suddenly here. >> that's the quickest trip across town. >> miraculous things happen when the pope's in town.