. >> with the relic, you know, his blood was spilled on that piazza.lood was here at talter. i just found that overpowering. >> reporter: the proudest people in the crowd were john paul's fellow poles waving their color. pope benedict xvi remembered his predecessor as a rock, restoring christianity as a religion of hope. yet the priesthood still reels from the sex abuse scandal critics accuse john paul for ignore. for father robert gaul and the priests who call themselves the john paul generation, the pope was an inspiration. >> he was almost like he could see beyond this world when he was celebrating mass and one could perceive that. >> reporter: after mass, throngs of pilgrims filed by john paul's casket. a final show of gratitude to a man already a saint to so many. now, the pope still needs one more miracle before he can be canonized a saint. today the faithful are still filing past his coffin and the vatican says it will keep the basilica open until the last person has prayed. lester? >> anne, thank you. >>> there's much more as "nightly news" con

in those next moment, quaku lead the way into the second-floor piazza where they kill francois. gustav swings the final acts that kills francois existing years of patronizing treatment. you can see red shirts about 20 miles from new orleans that says in french here lies francois killed by insurgent slaves in 1811. on want to pause here to ask the question that i imagine many of you are asking. as soon as i started researching this was a question i realized without answering, the project would not mean half as much. that question is did the slave ever have a chance? our interpretation of this event takes on a different guise depending on whether we believe they did have a chance or didn't. if they didn't we should respect them and we should celebrate their willingness to fight for freedom. we should also look and say they were a bit crazy. how could they have imagined they could have beaten the american military on the sugar fields in 1811. we have to say they were brave men but not remarkably sophisticated men. this revolt had no chance is different than our evaluation of the sl

it's very lively, it's like an italian piazza. >> reporter: his map showing biking trails and escape routes in case of disaster. >> this is a fire road that leads to a place where there is danger of forest fire and it could be an evacuation road for people in the area. >> reporter: this weekend, the company mailed out 12,000 free copies of the map books to mill valley residents. >> this is a marshland that was built over and this is the area called enchanted knolls over there. >> i think that it really brings the community together. i grew up in mill virginia so it's great, because i didn't explore all the trails myself. >> reporter: the company supports itself by selling advertising. >> what we think is since maps on the internet are free and there's so many applications, free. >> reporter: he plans to map san rafael next with other cities to follow. a bold dream you might say is all over the map. joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >> okay, with that story of course there's an addendum here. the map maker hasn't completely ignored the modern world. you can find online versions of hi

internet rumor that raffaele bendandi, a wacky seismologist, predicted back in 1915 that this city of piazzasbig one. actually he never said that, ever. >> i think that it was something that went on the internet and got rebounded around and people are superstitious. need something to believe in. >> reporter: this roman panic, a social media wildfire and a viral lie. authorities forced to fight back online and off. "there are no geodynamic conditions for this to happen in rome," this level-headed egghead told local tv, and as the day wore on, nothing. romans claimed they were never scared anyway. >> how can you believe a thing like that? >> reporter: now the eternal city is, um, still here. still, eh, eternal. nick watt, abc news, better safe than sorry, in london. >> well, of course out interviewing a lot of people out in rome and one bar owner was getting interviewed. take a look at this. the pittsburgh steelers. >> a little slice of americana over there. steeler nation. the steeler nation's everywhere. some the most rabid fans on the planet and even overseas. >> find that logo in a lot of r