leland vitter, joining us live from rome this afternoon. thank you.nd catholic institutions in the bay area are sharing in the excitement of a new leader of the church. ktvu's cara lui is live at st. mary's live in morago where students are learning more about the first pope from the emamericas -- from the americas. >> reporter: good afternoon. many told us that pope francis is the first pope from latin america and that could signal progress. it's been about 24 hours since the world found out that pope francis will be the next leader of the catholic church. he will deal with issues including gay marriage. many students we talked to sat st. mary's says the choice gives them hope. >> i feel really proud of him, of anyone pope. but just the fact there was the first latin-american pope, that means something. that means hope. that means change. that's like the first of everything. >> it's just like really flies to see that there's -- nice to see that there's a diversity. >> we talk about how we want to make all of these changes, gay marriage, birth control

leland vitter, joining us live from rome this afternoon. thank you.nd catholic institutions in the bay area are sharing in the excitement of a new leader of the church. ktvu's cara lui is live at st. mary's live in morago where students are learning more about the first pope from the emamericas -- from the americas. >> reporter: good afternoon. many told us that pope francis is the first pope from latin america and that could signal progress. it's been about 24 hours since the world found out that pope francis will be the next leader of the catholic church. he will deal with issues including gay marriage. many students we talked to sat st. mary's says the choice gives them hope. >> i feel really proud of him, of anyone pope. but just the fact there was the first latin-american pope, that means something. that means hope. that means change. that's like the first of everything. >> it's just like really flies to see that there's -- nice to see that there's a diversity. >> we talk about how we want to make all of these changes, gay marriage, birth control

leland vitter is live in jerusalem with the latest.ood morning. >> good morning patty ann a beautiful day for the president to arrive. he is going to head to jerusalem and the west bank. he has his work cut out for him. maybe head to go a friendly country. not a lot of love lost between the israel lie prime minister and president obama to hz a notoriously icy even fridge i had relationship. after the smiles and photo opes will be the conversation of iran, iran, iran. they will try to express some kind of promise where they won't allow iran to get nuclear weapons. he will try to push the israeli as little bit on the issue of the palestinian peace process which will all but end. palestinians aren't very excited about it. look at the posters they put of the picture of president obama that has been spray painted over with graffiti. this is seen as a charm offensive to not only talk to the leaders but talking directly to the israeli people. one of the local headlines say welcome mr. president, under it it says awaiting the speech. the speec