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chris cuomo, anderson cooper, live from rome. a new pope.eport. ♪ >>> welcome back, everyone, i'm chris cuomo. i want to welcome our viewers in america and all around the world. we are in rome. over my shoulder, the famous st. peter's square inside, we are waiting for the 115 cardinals who will pick the 266th pope to begin their procession from the pauline chapel into the sistine chapel. of course, that's where the conclave will take place. very expectant here. waiting for the live pictures to take you through it. a lot of detail in the rituals of cot clave. conclave. i'm joins business cnn's jim bittermann. very few people understand it as well as you do. when they make the procession, what do we know? >> the fact that the procession is organized in a strict line. basically, the youngest cardinal goes first. the youngest james harvey, an american, 63, and the oldest giovanni ri, 69. basically, i's a formal way of sending the message out, going into something. progressing towards something, a very serious duty. that's why the procession is s

there are few issues more politically toxic than gun control, as governor cuomo has had to learn ands colorado's governor, john hickenlooper will likely learn soon. a poll found 32% of the folks in colorado, 32%, believe that the new laws that have been signed into law, just recently, two days ago, will reduce crime and make that state safer. 65%, 65% of coloradans say it will not. you know, i know that the politicians, hickenlooper, in the state legislature, these are fairly bright guys and apparently are so smart they are smarter than the people they represent. i'm guessing they'll learn quite differently. and, polls nationwide show that most of america views the political games being played in washington and just a handful of states as raw, pure nonsense. coming up, billionaire mayor michael bloomberg using the big pile of cash of his, to push gun control and make it part of the national conversation. eric pratt of the gun owners of america and, paul helmsy, are here to debate the ad buy, by mayor bloomberg, next. >> lou: turning to gun control now, mayor michael bloomberg announc

chris cuomo in rome. thanks so much.w to steubenville, ohio, stebing back into the national spotlight today. in just a few hours two star football players from steubenville's beloved high school football team go on trial for rape. they're charged with assaulting a 16-year-old girl. a friend of the defendants recorded video of the accuser, she'd been drinking. he could be heard calling her, quote, the dead girl and so raped. prosecutors contend she was too drunk to consent to sex. lawyers for both players deny the allegation. the case is being heard in juvenile court. >>> a third major carrier is now calling on the tsa to overturn its plans to allow small knives on planes starting next month. american airlines joins us airways and a flight attendants union in possessing this plan. a bipartisan effort is under way in the house to stop it. democratic congressman ed markey of massachusetts has introduced the no knives act, which is being co-sponsored by republican michael grimm of new york. >>> trending this morning the boy

chris cuomo, father beck, thanks to you.tell you right now we are watching the sistine chapel chimney. you can see it on the bottom of our screen. watch it any time, all the time on cnn.com. there is a bird on top of it right now. we understand who has been sworn to secrecy. >>> for the second straight day, president obama will spend his afternoon on capitol hill, this time meeting with republicans. reminder to watch cnn's new show "the lead" with jake tapper. it starts monday afternoon at 4:00. i am looking forward to that. [ female announcer ] new york strips. sudden trips. mr. wiggles and curling irons. for the little mishaps you feel, use neosporin to help you heal. it kills germs so you heal four days faster neosporin. also try neosporin eczema essentials. neosporin. oh, hi thehey!ill. are you in town for another meeting? yup, i brought my a-team. business trips add up to family time. this is my family. this is joe. hi joe! hi there! earn a ton of extra points with the double your hhonors promotion and feel the hamptona

chris cuomo, for us in rome. you very much as he looks at me dubiously. >>> want to move on, we have some breaking news into cnn. police, we have learned, are surrounding a hotel. this is in oregon. they are hoping to bring in a man who is accused of killing his own grandparents on first night he got out of prison. casey wian is in los angeles with more. and, casey, what do you know? what is happening now? >> well, the latest, brooke, is that police in lincoln city, oregon, a seaside community, have a motel surrounded there, about 25 law enforcement officers, because inside, barricaded inside one of those rooms they believe is a man by the name of michael boyce, who is wanted for the murders of his grandparents over the weekend. he was released from jail on friday. his grandparents and family threw him a party, he was supposed to spend the night at his grandparents' house. the next day, late the next day, his mother hadn't heard from anybody, went to the grandparents house, was in the house for an hour and then f

and it's something that your governor andrew cuomo has taken a lead on in terms of trying to pass newergulations. but as a result of that, we've seen a decently sizable drop of his approval ratingment back in december, 74% approval. now in march stands at 55%. a lot of the losses coming from republicans and independents were a little turned off by how aggressive governor cuomo was in terms of new gun regulations. is this a warning sign to democrats if they pushed for these types of regulations, they could see some sorts of drops. looked like it hurt governor cuomo in new york. >> i don't know, i'll let other people be the political pundits. i can tell you what i think is right. we respect people's second amendments under the constitution. i want my rights to be respected today by the supreme court. i think we can respect second amendment rights. i think if you own a gun to protect yourself in your home, you shouldn't have any problem from your government. i don't think people defending their homes with guns is the problem. but i do think we need universal background checks. we should ha

governor cuomo is the one it does not have his facts straight. wayne lapierre spoke the truth.ave the facts straight. chicago in the syracuse report ranks dead last. ninetieth, 90th in the country . the mayor talking about gun violence. is the murder capital of america. prosecuting federal gun crimes. the city with the nation's toughest gun laws is not enforcing laws on the books. the second worst gun law enforcer is los angeles. los angeles comes in 809th. the third worst, new york city. why is the mayor sitting in washington d.c. talking nonsense with the president of the united states. why shouldn't you be talking with eric holder about what they're doing. eighty-eight. these of the same people playing politics and exploiting tragedy, folks. the city with the mayor who is now spending millions of his own money trying to restrict the second amendment of every citizen in this country watches his city as it fails in prosecuting federal gun crimes. you know who else is in prosecuting felons and fugitives? the obama administration. this is the administration of the president is s

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too much theatrics with cuomo.e a straight shooter, a tough talker, and that's what people want. >> he runs closest -- hadly, i'll give you the last word on this. he runs closest to hillary clinton for president in 2016. i know that's a long way away but that's sometimes how you gauge that. he loses to her by eight points, which is frankly half of what the others lose to her by. what do you think of christie? >> i think it's okay for republicans to be a little gun-shy about a popular governor from a blue state because that was what mitt romney was essentially, right? and that didn't work out. >> christie didn't invent christie care, health care. >> that's true. >> and he's a tax cutter. he is a spending cutter. he's pro life. i mean, he's got pretty steady -- >> he's more of a conservative. that's right. so he's a good option. but you're right to point out we're in 2013 right now. 2016's a long way away. >> hang on. we're going to have you all back later on. here's another one. venezuelan anti-american communist hu

and i agree with all of the cuomos.hat when i became a cardinal, chris' mother came to me, so i will certainly never contradict a cuomo. i would say this. there is not so much a front-runner or nonfront-runner, simply a question of identifying someone who fulfills the characteristics we are all looking for. >> which is what? what are the top five things that a pope should have? >> isn't soledad great. >> you can give me three if you want. >> no, i'll give you five. first of all, soledad, the person who is chosen has to be someone who loves to pray, leads public prayer with great enthusiasm and devotion and prays privately and continually. that's number one. >> okay. >> number two, soledad, we look for a cardinal who will become the pope and is one who can repeat the message of the gospel, attractively and completely, and with great fur for. >> a good communicator. >> number three. it has to be someone who can lead the faithful in the great issues of our day, and i identify them for you. >> okay. >> justice, compassion,

this is so warped that for cuomo can't get his arms around the fracking issue.e regulations or whatever law they need. so they build in the money to bring them more money. that they are handing over the nbc. this is a huge screaming cry, this does benefit the rich. this is a great understand. freddie you know i run a talk show in the basement call "don't bother escaping." i bring in the shuffle, the goggles. >> dana: you work hard. >> greg: i don't get a tax break. >> andrea: but this says you have to have a live studio audience. >> greg: they're only alive for a while. [ laughter ] >> andrea: i was going say the voices in your head. that was better. >> eric: two years ago, g.e., 2010, didn't pay any taxes. they hardly pay -- on a percentage it's insane how little taxes they pay. new york won't make any money on this deal. >> andrea: they might dole out money. dozen ossafetys do this. they pay no taxes, they owe, they owe less than the credit they're getting. they are making money off the back of the taxpayers. they make an energy they like. we like green energy

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we'll see. >> andrew cuomo is the only candidate in the mix here, he couldn't be selected unless sheme from the same state. so he has a different calculation from the rest of them. the other issue too, is that none of these candidates is going to have experience running from president. he is he going to do the primary portion of it. he hasn't been on the issues that democrats care about it. he has been proactive on issues like guns. i think it is worthwhile to have a pro bust primary. if hillary clinton were to lose they would be setting themselves up to run in 2020. thank you both for joining me tonight. coming up. the strange tale of how the cia trapped osama bin laden's son in law and has him awaiting a court appearance in new york. and tonight's rewrite. switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidenc

the law approved by both chambers, signed by governor andrew cuomo in under 24 hours back on the 15thnuary. now, less than two months later, 50 of new york's 62 counties have passed or proposed resolutions in opposition to the law. joining us now is the president of the new york pistol and rifle association, tom king. tom, good to have you here. lawsuits, demonstrations, the fact is new york has a new law. what are the odds that you and your association and other gun own orers in the state -- owners in the state are going to be able to roll this back? >> well, i don't think that there's much of a chance of rolling it back legislatively. the numbers against us in the assembly are just way too great. the only chance that we have is really through a court action. lou: and what are -- what do you judge the likelihood to be? the courts, you know, have been pretty decidedly clear in two supreme court challenges that gun rights will prevail but that states and other jurisdictions have the ability to regulate guns. >> well, i think we're going to be successful in this case in the lawsuit that

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cnn's chris cuomo is in rome with the latest. chris, i just can't get over the reception that timothy dolan is getting in italy. >> reporter: you're dead on right because there are no official rankings and there is no real way to know who is a favorite. we're all just hearing things. but judging by the mass yesterday, he was mobbed. and it wasn't just media. we were at the mass and we heard locals saying he has a face like a pope. i don't know what that means, but it sounds good. the cardinal himself has been dealing with this prospect very humorously and dismissively. yesterday he gave a comment that, hey, i'm ready to go home. take a listen to the reason that the cardinal offered for why. >> i'm ready to go home. i ran out of socks. >> reporter: so that's really funny. and we were there with him yesterday and i said you need sock, my mother will send a care package. and he said green socks because st. patrick's day is coming up. no red. and he has a great balance of humor and also seriousness. this is his first conclave, and he

what making them different, they hole up signs that say governor cuomo don't franc new york, they are influence legislation. neil: how would that be different if some of you, and your hea lawyer colleagues wento protesting the same thing, you are not registered, you are speaking on behalf of fellow lawyers. >> neil, i think if we were to get together as a group and raise and spend more than 5,000-dollars, to stop fracking or whatever it may be, we would need to register as lobbyists. neil: groups can spend that aim and more going to washington, d.c. every year for annual right to life march, they would be considered lobbyist. >> this particular group is getting moneying it to particularly influence len legislation, and governor cuomo. under new york statute, because they do that, they meet requirement. neil: i understand, you focus on new york to that point they would be considered lobbyists. >> to that point everyone who contacts their legislator and writes them a litter, and trying to influence them. >> not. >> would you feel the same if all of these actors, singers, use the term lo

anderson cooper and chris cuomo begin special coverage at 11:00 a.m. eastern. cnn newsroom with carol costello begins right now. >>> happening now, cardinals vote and the world watches this chimney on the sistine chapel. so far, black smoke revealing all three votes have failed to elect a new pope. >>> as mary richards best friend, rhoda kept america laughing. >> i'm going crazy with hunger. >> eat something. >> i can't i have to lose ten pounds by 8:30. >> loved her. actress valerie harper opens up to piers morgan about her terminal cancer diagnosis, and what life is like now with weeks to live. >>> this sinkhole swallowed a man in the middle of his golf game. trapped in a pile of mud 18 feet below ground. >>> and a tax season snafu causes refund delays of more than a month. find out if your refund is one of them. live in the cnn newsroom. >>> good morning. thank you for being with us. i'm carol costello. we begin this morning at the vatican, where billowing black smoke reveals the catholic church is in search of a leader. cardinals have voted three times now

chris cuomo spoke to the cardinal about what it was like to take part in electing the pope. >>> and someba history to share with you. the miami heat earlier today tied the houston roberts' 2008 record for second longest winning streak. 22 straight wins and the heat pick up that win right where it started the winning streak in february -- toronto. the heat beat the raptors 105-83. >>> nfl wide receiver dante stall cart is being treated for severe burns at a miami hospital. he and a female companion were hurt after a hot air balloon they were riding in crashed into a power line yesterday. stallworth's agent says the accident should hurt his ability to play football. >>> for more entertaining sports news, check out bleacherreport.com. >>> march madness is spreading across the country, beginning with right here. today is selection sunday. in just a few hours we'll know which 68 teams will be competing in this year's ncaa tournament. joining me from kansas city to talk more about the so-called big dance is bleacherreport's c.j. moore. good to see you! >> thanks for having me on. >> the miami

as governor andrew cuomo attempts to take away the second amendment rights of new yorkers, a group oferiffs are fighting back, putnam county sheriff donald smith who says these gun laws are not only unconstitutional they would give the criminals an advantage over law abiding citizens. joining us now putnam county sheriff donald smith. thank you for all that you're doing, you were the head of the sheriff's association. >> i was the immediate past president and i was the president at our annual meeting in albany in january. >> tucker: and you wrote governor cuomo a letter and he apparently doesn't like guns the at all. you look at what they were planning to do and discussed doing and restricting seven bullets in a gun. pretty frightening for a lot of people watching around the country. >> well, sean, this so-called new york safe act is really a misnomer. it certainly doesn't make the citizens of new york any safer, in fact, quite the contrary, it makes them less safe. as you know, there's more than 330 million guns in the country right now and the drug dealer, the gang member, the felon

>> this way andrew cuomo doesn't look like he is completely irrational number one. invite all sorts of taking suits. if you ban it there might be strong indication and people say you banned my rights to develop the minerals under my land. that is taking under the constitution. melissa: right. >> you allow fracking. melissa: but don't really allow it? >> right. in fact jerry brown in the first year in office did fire the top two people from the state's oil and gas division because they have effectively put a moratorium in. melissa: john sing ton. no one knows more than you do. thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. >>> time for today's fuel gauge report. natural gas orders up 20% in the past three months, posting their fourth straight quarterly rise. oil futures hit a six-week high at 97.13 a barrel. for the quarter crude climbed 5.9%. chevron is cutting compensation of its ceo and several top executives. stock awards will be sliced by 11% in and bonus by at least 10%. the company says the cuts reflect operating incidents that took place in 2012. among them a maj

the day new york governor andrew cuomo took what was supposed to be a temporary hike of taxes on butade them perm innocent locking in place an 8.8% top rate that could have new york's most productive residents taking eyes, and it's could take a hike, but will. i was thinking of that, will burr, it's another 9% on the top rate, close to 40%, half writeoffs saying nothing of the other taxes. you're paying 50% in taxes right out the gate. what's the deal? >> well, it's disappointing in that the business community, and the temporary increase part of the overall -- neil: must have known it was not temporary. >> well, no, we believed it would be, and went along with it as part of the overall reform, and he did make some good reforms, but this one is quite different. as far as i can see, this is paired with the $350 check being dulled out to sort of upper middle class people, and then -- neil: robbing peter to pay paul. >> yeah. neil: you think you were snickered? >> a direct money transfer from people in one income bracket to people in another income bracket. neil: so here you were trying

chris cuomo, anderson cooper, vatican analyst and there are thousands there in vatican city.hris -- good to have you back, john, on cnn international the weather was so bad we lost him three times. let's start with the disappointment when the black smoke rose this morning. what's the feeling? no one knows what's going on and the black smoke not really a surprise. >> we don't know. there's such heavy expectations for what the world wants to see from the catholic church. we weren't surprised because we have john allen and we knew that it's very unusual, but this vote is the one that brought us benedict in the last conclave. that's why we're watching especially right now because we believe they're about three quarters of the way through their first vote. so if there's any smoke right now, it would have to be white because they only burn ballots after two unsuccessful votes. that's why we're a bit on edge here. >> you look at the crowd in st. peter's square, not a huge crowd by standards we've seen in the past or even yesterday, but remember it is pouring with rain here. it is re

let's get right to chris cuomo live for us at the vatican.idn't know is there are common folk actually attending that mass this morning. you said 6500? >> that's exactly right, zoraida. there are about 6500 seats and people waited in long lines this morning over there in st. pet peter's square to get in to this mass. and it's an important reminder. because not only do we have about 150 cardinals. only those 80 and younger can vote, but they would be reminded that these are the people they need to serve. remember the next pope is in that room, the 266th pope. obviously the cardinals are using this mass. it has a name in latin, pro eligendo dell romano pontifice. maybe my mother winced right now. but that's latin. maybe she'll be okay with it. this is a mass of the pope and this is what begins the process of the conclave for the cardinals. the conclave goes back to the 1200s. it's a secret process. but it's watched the world over, certainly the 1.2 billion catholics who are waiting their new leader. but it all has to begin with the mass. the ho

chris cuomo, father beck. good to see you both. thank you. >>> to the war in afghanistan now. it has happened again, two american troops killed today by a person wearing afghan national security forces uniform. an unspecified number of nato and afghan troops were also killed in this attack. this also happened as our brand new defense secretary, chuck hagel, was just leaving the country after a three-day visit. barbara star joins us live now from the pentagon. do you have anything more developing on this story, barbara? >> we do, indeed, ashleigh. a very grim reminder of the war's toll, two u.s. troops killed in wardak province and now we're indicating as many as ten americans wounded in this attack. the perpetrator said to be a man wearing a uniform of afghan security forces. and like in so many of these attacks what we don't know is was he a legitimate member of the afghan forces or just wearing, perhaps, a stolen uniform? all of that under investigation. but the fact that the toll is so large, officials say they believe this person has an automatic weapon with him. this happ

let's bring in chris cuomo, anderson cooper and john allen with perspective on the waiting game. the crowds that remain, even with the rain, this inclement weather and on top of it all the center of attention a seagull stealing the thunder. >> the crowd is pretty sizable. they've actually just shut off another street. the seagull, i don't know if this is good or bad, but i can confirm there are two seagulls. there's one with a light beak and one with a dark beak. here's what we know, within the next 45 minutes or so this second vote of the afternoon session will be wrapping up. it will be tallied and there will be smoke. black or white, we'll have to see. for some context, john, five ballots not usually the lucky number for a pope. tell us about it. >> no. there actually hasn't been a pope elected on the fifth ballot for the last century. as we were talking earlier today, if you take this is the tenth conclave of the last 110 years. if you take the first nine, the average number of ballots it took to produce a pope was seven and a half. so if this conclave goes on into tomorrow,

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>> this is a miss for new york governor andrew cuomo who wants to extend the temporary tax increase on high income earners in the state after promising to let it expire. for the second time extending that temporary tax increase. do you think voters would learn after a while they're being played here? apparently not. out in california governor jerry brown sold californians on a temporary tax increase for high income earners in his state. i guess the blue state liberals never learn. >> paul: bret? >> briefly a hit for pope francis off to a fantastic start and i think this is obviously true for catholics and even as a non-catholic you see a pope getting out and mingling with people and showing love and humility to the people assemblying by the hundreds of thousands in rome to see him. next week, he's going to go and wash the feet of inmates in a prison for young offenders and this is the right way it seems to me to conduct the papacy and wish him continued success. >> paul: thank you all. and remember, if you have your own hit or miss, send it to us at jer@foxnews.com and follow us on twi