anchor: hundreds of letters written by pope john paul ii have emerged.covered by the bbc, the letters were hidden in the national library of poland. our religious affairs correspondent reports there is no evidence or suggestion that he broke his vow of celibacy. reporter: this is the story of the pope's letters with his closest female friend. pope john paul ii was writing to a married woman, professor tymieniecka. >> when you have a strong man and attractive woman in a very intense relationship that is cultivated and which engages mind at a high level of intensity, there's danger everywhere. reporter: the letters have been hidden away. pope john paul let their friendship grow, writing god gave you to me, made you my vocation. the future pope invited to join him and others on country walks, skiing holidays and camping trips. she invited the then cardinal to stay with her family in new england in 1976. after the trip, the man was struggling to make terms of his friendship. one from 1976 says, my dear, i have received all three letters. you write about bein

this comes at the same time of a fascinating revelation about pope john paul ii. private letters reveal a close friendship with a woman that mark phillips has the story. >> reporter: he was then a young polish cardinal. she was a polish-american writer and married. yet when karol wojtyla, the man who would become pope john paul ii begin to collaborate with anna-teresa tymieniecka on a translation, something more than a book happened. they wrote to each other for the rest of their lives. his letters re-created in a bbc documentary. their relationship would test the cardinal's vow of celibacy. you write about being torn apart, cardinal wojtyla wrote, but i can find no answer to these words. particularly the word "i belong to you." malina malinovsky, brokered the sale of the letters. i believe she fell in love with him. they didn't just write. they spent private times at her prompt in vermont. skiing in poland. in the old communist days when he was in krakov, she had her letters hand delivered so the party officials couldn't use priest. it's good you sent your letter

this comes at the same time of a fascinating revelation about pope john paul ii. friendship with h woman that lasted for decades. mark phillips has the story. >> reporter: he was then a young polish cardinal. she was a polish-american writer and married. yet when karol wojtyla, the man who would become pope john paul ii begin to collaborate with anna-teresa tymieniecka on a translation, something more than a book happened. they wrote to each otheror the rest of their lives. s letters re-created in a bbc documentary. their relationship would test the cardinal's vow of celibacy. you write about being torn apart, cardinal wojtyla wrote, but i can find no answer to these words. particularly the word "i belong to you." malina malinovsky, brokered the sale of the letters. i believe she fell in love with him. they didn't just write. they spent private times at her prompt in vermrmt. skiing in poland. in the old communist days when letters hand delivered so the party officials couldn't use scandal to undermine the popular priest. it's good you sent your letters by hands,

reporter's question about a new documentary detailing a three- decade-long friendship between pope john paul ii and a polish- american woman. she was a philosopher named anna teresa timenyeska who died in 2014, nine years after the pope passed away. their correspondence is now the subject of a new program that will be broadcast on most pbs stations on april 5. here is an excerpt. >> i'm edward stourton, a british journalist, and i knew from researching my biography of john paul ii that anna teresa tyemienecka had collaborated with karol wojtyla, as he was known before he became pope, on one of his books, "the acting person." she died two years ago, and she might have taken the full story of their long relationship to the grave, but in 2008, a new york based expert in rare manuscripts received an unusual phone call. >> i was asked to get on a plane and go to new hampshire to look at some letters from pope john paul ii. the first thing that comes to mind, it's got to be wrong, it's fake, it can't be right. then, all of a sudden you walk in and you see the items and there's no doubt that they a

day visit in juarez across the border >>> new personal letters reveal an intimate bond between pope john paul ii and a woman. >> pope john paul had a close relationship with a married woman for over 30 years starting in 1973. but there's no suggestion he broke his vow of sell baacy with anna teresa -- the two spent holidays together and went on country walks. only the pope's letters have been released. hearse are still being kept private. >>> seems like a good cause. a couple asking for donations to help wounded warriors. why did it get them arrested? >>> and why long island neighbors are concerned about what could be coming out of compost piles. >>> and a tourist is attacked as someone tries to sell him a we'll be right back. >>> police say the couple in a store security picture shopped for potential victims they >> police say that a married couple impersonated a veterans charity at a supermarket last month. >> investigators were tipped off by the real agency. >> a sticker reads help hospitalized veterans. but the pair was doing anything but. >> it's probably one of the lower things i've see

this comes at the same time of a fascinating revelation about pope john paul ii. private letter rez veal a close friendship with a woman that lasting for decades. mark phillips has the story. >> reporter: he was then a young polish cardinal. she was a polish american writer and married. yet, when karol wojtyla, the man who would become pope john paul anna teresa tymieniecka on a translation, something more than a book happened. they wrote to each other for the rest of their lives, his letters recreated in a bbc documentary. their relationship would test the cardinal's vow of celibacy. particularly, he says, the words, "i belong to you." malina malinovsky brokered the sale of the letters to the polish national archive. >> i do believe she completely fell in love with him during the first phase of their relationship. >> reporter: they didn't just write. they spent private times together at her property in vermont, skiing in poland. in the old communist days when she was in krakov, she had her letters hand delivered to him so party officials couldn't use the this pop

yet, when karol wojtyla, the man who would become pope john paul ii, began to collaborate with anna teresa tymieniecka on a translation, something more than a book happened. they wrote to each other for the rest of their lives, his letters recreated in a bbc documentary. their relationship would test the cardinal's vow of celibacy. particularly, he says, the words, "i belong to you." malina malinovsky brokered the polish national archive.e. >> i do believe she completely fell in love with him during the first phase of their relationship. >> reporter: they didn't just write. they spent private times together at her property in vermont, skiing inin poland. in the old communist days when she was in krakov, she had her letters hand delivered to him so party officials couldn't use the whf of scandal to undermine this popular priest. even when he became pope,he didn't stop. >> "i am thinking about you. and in my thoughts i come to pomfret-- her rouse in vermont-- every day." when he died, friends say, but the vatican won't confirm, she was at his bedside. the pope' lettersre now public. letters

in the bbc they did a great job about pope john paul ii and this wom woman. tes with that woman in 1993. she talks about her influence as a philosopher on pope john paul ii. she talks about how he came to visit her in her home, how they camped out. i asked her, was she in love with the pope? she said, well that's an absurd idea. how could i be in love with a middle aged clergyman? but indeed, it was a kind of loving relationship between two mortals. it's very clear from the correspondence. and now, a day later, we see pope john paul ii's successor trip, fall over somebody, and say, hey, wait a minute, you were rude. well that's a really humanizing experience. >> the humanization of the holy father. it's fascinating you point to your book his holiness. carl bernstein we'll look out for it. thank you so much. >> good to be with you. >>> coming up next, to politics, and a bomb sthel in south carolina. nikki hayley, we now know who she is endorsing. she will endorse marco rubio just days before the critical gop primary in that state. we'll take you live to south c

this comes at the same time of a fascinating revelation about pope john paul ii. friendship with a woman that lasted for decades. mark phillips has the story. >> reporter: he was then a young polish cardinal. she was a polish-american writer and married. yet when karol wojtyla, the man who would become pope john paul ii begin to collaborate with anna-teresa tymieniecka on a translation, something more than a book happened. they wrote to each other for the rest of their lives. his letters re-created in a bbc documentary. their relationship would test the cardinal's vow of celibacy. you write about being torn apart, cardinal wojtyla wrote, but i can find no answer to these words. particularly the word "i belong to you." malina malinovsky, brokered the sale of the letters. i believe she fell in love with him. they didn't just write. they spent private times at her prompt in vermont. skiing in poland. in the old communist days when letters hand delivered so the party officials couldn't use scandal to undermine the popular priest. it's good you sent your letters by han

pope john paul ii. pope francis. how about the 50th anniversary. >> capturing the emotions. the history. that history of madison square garden. able to be here. photograph on the world's greatest stage. the world's most famous arena. the world arena of history that no other arena can match. >> presidential nominations. sporting events. concerts. >> i love george. one of my friends. ben: really an up close look. >> i think that they are really enjoying it. >> thank you very much, duke. over the weekend we froze. now we are about to unfreeze. here is what we have on the averages. we job it down to 14 at one point. advisory. that goes up until about midnight. some minor snow and ice accumulation. some snow showers being picked up. it is just the white stuff. we will see more of it come to us a little later on. 7 degrees in bridgeport. waiting for that moisture to come into the area. the colder air is already in place. we need that moisture to work its way in. we will start to see the snow showers in the late morning, early afternoon hours. minor accumulation before it starts tu

. >> reporter: a 1987 performance for pope john paul ii changed his life. >> being so close to the papal gathering that they're going to have right there and being ae to simulcast is going to be powerful. >> reporter: and the pope's higgy anticipated mass begins in about an hour. one key theme d during his homily is expected to be the suffering of migrants. stay with nbc c 6. we'll be back at 6:00 p.m. with much more on this historic papal visit to mexico. laura rodriguez, nbc 6 news. >> that mass is expectee to start at the top of the hour. laura will be tweeting from behind the scenes in el paso. look for another live report as during our 6:00 newscast. >>> today, on the campaign trail a big endorsement for marco rubio. south carolina governor nikki haley throwing her support behind the florida senator. it's a move gop presidential disappointing. also in theepublican race there are two eye-popping polls for trump. he has a giant lead in nevada and a big lead in south carolina, but the national picture is very contradictory. nbc 6 is everywhere. we go live to o o nati's capital where st

i went to rome and saw pope john paul ii -- but this pope is just so magnificent. ((margarita hernadez // visiting the pope in mexico: to me personally it's a journey of faith. and he is the highest authority in the catholic church -- and especially in this jubilee year. we just love to see him. )) ((michael stevens)) around 50 people from st. anne's are going on the pilgrimage. they're headed to el paso tonight and expected to arrive in the early morning arrive in the early morning hours. tomorrow is the when they are expected to see the pope. ((michelle mortensen)) pope his mexico visit on february 20th. ((michelle mortensen)) > people in florida... rocked by severe storms this morning... the possible touchdown... behind. vegas... it definitely dosn't feel like winter! how long the spring- around... and when you'll have to be dealing with some wind... sherry has more on that in your most accurate weather now./// < > the northeast was hit with a big winter storm..that also caused tornadoes in the south. it dumped ice and snow in the northern part of the country..

pope francis repeatedly spoke out following the footsteps of his predecessors, pope benedict and pope john paul ii. >> robbin: and just getting started. bad behavior on a bridge. care devil drivers -- dare devil drivers causing a traffic nightmare. >> a dramatic rescue caught on camera. first responders rushing to save a man floating in the freezing river. it is a beautiful sight out there! we're talking about our sunday sunset. now the sunset officially at 6:17 tonight so in a few more minutes. as we go into e week ahead, what about rain chances? they're on the way. all the details are coming up. >> reporter: i'll tell you how much i love my coworkers. i'm donovan campbell and hear about the heat winning games without dwayne wade and chris bosh. and another mile stone for the panthers' star jagar. we skate to 7 sports. >> robbin: cameras catchihi the driver doing the stunts in broad daylight on the golden gate brbdge. >> jeff: and the police on the hunt after it was all caught on a reckless driver bringing traffic to a standstill on the bay bridge. donuts being done across several lanes. witne

. >> calvin: and let's be clear, too, that the visits by pope john paul ii back in 199 and the then pope benedict xvi in 2012 and then, of course, last year pope francis in cuba as well, will it more space there but there have only been two churches built in cuba, one the russian orthodox churcthat is being built in cuba and as well there's anotheratholic church that is still under construction right now, so there has been a little bit of growth for the church in cuba but not a whole lot. but those papal visits have certainly paid off for some people. >> laurie: the cuban people, and for catholics in general the meaning of today as you look live is hopefully reconciliation on a large scale, on a world and global scale as well as for everyday catholics lives. our coverage will continue with hatzel vela. look for another report to wrap up this visit at 6:00 and also tonight at 11:00. >> calvin: in other news today another big story in fort lauderdale. police have made an arrest after a baby was taken along with her mother's car from a laundromat last week and the suspect is only 16 years o

pope john paul set to meet on friday, the first meeting of those churches since they split more than 1,000 years ago. hatzel vela will be there for the historic look for reports from hatzel on thursday. >>> previously migrants had been flown to el salvador and bused to mexico but yesterday's group included 41 pregnant women and four children, therefore the government decided to take them straight to mexico where they will be able to cross into texas. >>> we've had some nice weather this week. granted we were lacking that full sunshine yesterday. temperatures were pretty calm and comfortable. it's a reinforcing shot of cool weather that moved through. it is 58 degrees in ft. lauderdale. 60 right now in miami and 66 in key west. a west northwest wind anywhere between 10 and 16 miles per hour will continue to provide for that cool air affectiti all the way down here to south florida. currently 58 degreeses in pembroke pines. 59 in kendall. 64 inarathon. the winds very strong spspds anywhere between 7 to 10 miles per hour and wind gusts even stronger down by the keys. we do have very chi

vehicle, gets out, slams the church gate open and then destroys the flowers surrounding a statue of pope john paul ii. wait, there is still more. exclusive video shows protus on the move again in his street sweeper. nypd officers are close behind. he blows right through a red light. officers finally pull him over. he stepped out of the driver's seat and into handcuffs. we've learned it's his ninth arrest, hauled in just eight days ago for stealing money at a charity box. no one answered the door at his home. the faithful here want an apology. know, anywhere. >> reporter: protus is facing several charges tonight, including hate crime. >>> several dozen east orange police officers called out sick to work today. was it a mysterious illness or something else? >> reporter: remember, we're talking about east orange police officers, yet we're here in bloomfield in front of a doctor's office. that's because more than 20 officers who were scheduled to be at work today are here at this doctor's office getting a doctor's note after calling out sick. the apartment is filled with many of their personal vehicle

this comes at the same time of a fascinating revelation about pope john paul ii. private letters reveal a close friendship with a woman that lasting for decades. mark phillips has the story. ep >> reporter: he was then a young she was a polish american writer and married. yet, when karol wojtyla, the man an who would become pope john paul ii, began to collaborate with anna-teresa tymieniecka on a translation, something more than a book happened. they wrote to each other for the rest of their lives, his letters recreated in a bbc documentary. their relationship would test the cardinal's vow of celibacy. particularly, he says, the words, "i belong to you." malina malinovsky brokered the sale of the letters to the polish national archive. >> i do believe she completely iv fell in love with him during the first phase of their relationship. t >> reporter: they didn't just write. d they spent private times together, at her property in vermont, skiing in poland. in the old communist days when letters hand delivered to him, ov so party officials couldn't use the whiff of

vehicle, gets out, slams the church gate open and then destroys the flowers surrounding a statue of pope john paul ii. wait, there is still more. exclusive video shows protus on the move again in his street sweeper. nypd officers are close behind. he blows right through a red light. officers finally pull him over. he stepped out of the driver's seat and into handcuffs. we've learned it's his ninth arrest, hauled in just eight days ago for stealing money at a charity box. no one answered the door at his home. the faithful here want an apology.

the pope pull filled a dream started by pope john paul ii. he met russian orthodox patriarch this afternoon. they signed a joint declaration and exchanged gifts. this is the first meeting between the two and in an official start to more friendly relationships since eastern churches split with rome in the year 1054, 962 years ago. >> wow. >> i think it's time to come together. it's been long enough. >> especially when you put it in that perspective. >> yeah. seaworld is launching one of its biggest celebrations tomorrow. >> the park's annual bands, brew and barbecue festival starts saturday and in addition to food and beer, look for a concert by smash mouth on saturday and gladys knight on sunday. the concerts are included with the festival runs on weekends through march 6th. >> it also marks the first full weekend at universal's mardi gras celebration. it features authentic food and bands from the big easy, complete with parades and walkers and beads. diana ross takes the stage tomorrow night. >> get out of town. >> that's what it says. >> ma

say the 38- year-old returned to the church 40 minutes later and threw flowers at a statue of pope john paul ii. >>> almost every driver can relate to the frustration of finding a parking spot. a new app is hoping to ease the stress, but will it help or create more parking wars? cbs2's jessica schneider reports. >> reporter: how many times did you circle the block before you found this spot? >> like 10 times. >> yeah. >> reporter: those days of circling the lot for a spot might be over. an app puts parking on par with an exact science. >> it connects people looking their spots. >> reporter: 32-year-old founder robin gerver got the habits. >> he puts a piece of paper on his car and a frowning face if he's not leaving that day and a smiley face if he is leaving that day. and people actually know to look out for his car. so i thought there's got to be an app for this. >> reporter: rather than wait for a parking spot to open up, which is rare, you can find it on your phone. it will show you within a 20 block radius if a spot is open or not. the dots tell you which driver is ready to leave. it wo