but he can see where the alter is for the this afternoon's mass. it is empty now, but up a million people are expected today. if the stage is too far away you can watch the mass on the jumbotron that is positioned around the parkway. this has been such a meaningful weekend to sue many people. when the pope came down the parkway in the popemobile, people roared. you could see a wave of flashes from cameras. people had been waiting for hours. some had seen him briefly when he walked into the basilica, but they stuck around all day long to see him come by in the popemobile. he was passing in a matter of moments, but it was these moments people were waiting for. >> i'm very emotional because it's like i pray to god, i am very happy very emotional in my hair and my mind, i love you. >> a lot of emotion last night after being here in the presence of pope francis and many will be back again today for when the pope celebrates mass along the parkway. from all the way down here, you might not see him in person, but, again, the faithful can watch on the jumbot

when the papal mass starts. look at the breakdown of your sunday forecast coming up. >> brittney, thanks. >>> the security measures for the papal visit are working. >> they are expecting over a million people to attend mass. monique, security personnel, are they gearing up for what they expect will be masses of people, much more than yesterday, i suspect? >> reporter: good morning. the line just started forming. this is the prediction, more than a million people will walk through the magna tommers today. look at the dozens of people being screened and some of them we have seen with blankets, because it's chilly out here now as the sun is beginning to rise. we have seen folks coming through, entire families with two to three children, and we have seen folks coming through with several bags with gifts they purchased, with things like food and drinks to help them cope throughout the day. just a short time ago we spoke to this family from harrisburg. >> we packed up the car last night and drove here and stayed at a

the papal mass at 4:00 p.m. we are waiting and ready for pope francis answer arrival. >> great to hear that. the pope went off script during his first event of the day, he addressed his church sex abuse scandal during his remarks at the saint charles borromeo seminary. erin o'hern is live and joys us there. >> reporter: the pope's papacy has been focused on how the cath t -- catholic church can confront issues of the modern world and how does the church move forward. he talked about how the church needs to reconnect with families. but he touched on a dark time for the church. he did not shy away from talking about sexual abuse scandal that rocked the catholic church. he addressed it out of the gate. he started off his speech by condemning sexual abuse, the people who had the responsibility to protect the youth caused them great pain, he wanted the victims to be treated with justice and the guilty to be punished. >> i commit to a careful oversight to insure that youth are protected and that all responsible will be

about 15 minutes to go before the historic mass begins there. vice president joe biden expected to be among those attending today, along with of course cardinal wuerl and monsignor rossi, they are expected to accompany the pope to the chapel for private prayer before the mass gets underway. >> vice president biden has been following this pope in many ways. he was there for the installation of pope francis. in fact devout catholics are given the opportunity to kiss the ring upon meeting the pope. vice president biden declined to do that. but he has spoken very, very eloquently and forcefully about his catholic faith, and especially how that has served him in light of the loss of his son beau biden. >> very meaningful to him. and this time is so meaningful to so many of this area's catholics, 6 00,000 in the washington area alone. 1.2 billion catholics around the world. and he is the head of the church, here in washington, on his first trip to the united states, a 3-day visitor here to the u.s. this is one of the highlights of his visit, this mass

they are in charge for the number of items for the massive mass. e ciboriums, they had to provide 1,500 of them because they are trying to give communion to as many as possible, and we asked how many people will you have communion for, and he said as many as possible. >> it's like a beehive, everybody has a job to do and everybody is doing it together. >>> before the pontiff returns home to rome, he will celebrate mass with more than a million people. >> it has been a energetic and emotional visit. katy zachry, live now. >> reporter: take a look behind me. this was the main stage for the festival of families, and overnight it has been transformed into an altar. crews, they have time because pope francis won't conduct mass here until around 4:00 p.m., and the mass is the final event of this week's world meeting of families celebration, and it will be conducted, i'm told, mostly in spanish. it's the last scheduled public event the pope has in the country, more than 1 million people expected to line the parkway between here and city hall, and we have a

. >> we now move in the portion of the mass with the... with the response. >> this is universal church of the prayers, prayers of the faithful. the it is special petition given to the faithful by their god for their needs. >> my brothers and sisters... you will notice they will be in different languaging, representing the community have of faith in the diocese, the archdiocese. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> to seek holiness of life. to reach out to those in need. we pray to the lord. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> by all here for this holy masses specially that they may have the loving inter session of our mother marry. to meet the challenges of our day and to embrace the redeeming cross of her song. we pray to the lord. >> ♪ >> that they may rise to our father, in heaven, as they are offered with the the body and blood of his son, in this eucharist. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> turning to mass there are several processions, the the presidentry procession, procession in communion, procession out of the chu

behind me the mass continues. the canonization mass started about 4:15. it is expected to go for another about 15, 20 minutes. maybe longer. suzanne kennedy is inside. she has been a part of the mass and listening to every step of the way. very exciting in there. there have been cheers as though there was a football game played in there. suzanne? suzanne: people were thrilled when the poem came through here not once but twice. in the pope mobile. we are an hour and a half into this mass. if you take a look behind me, we are in the portion of the mass communion is being given. portion completed in the first 20 minutes. that was the canonization. we heard in the homily a call to action if you will by the holy father. not to allow our hearts to go numb, to go forth and offer everyone the life of jesus christ. we want to take you back a few hours to show you a huge crowd has been gathering here throughout the day to be close to the holy father. people waited in long security lines. and endured the heat. everyone saying just how much they love his holiness. th

the chances are you're dry for the papal parade and mass. hia as we roll through the day, in the 60s by 10:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m., 75. we'll get a high of 76 around 3:00 p.m. back to 74 at 4:00 p.m. 68 by 7:00 p.m. dry and breezy and sunny breaks, there could be times during the day we could have more sunshine than i'm indicating with the icons. as you dress for the event a jacket is required, it's cool and breeziy, but not all that bad. for the afternoon mass you could opt between short and long sleeves. this evening, you could add the jacket back if you're in philadelphia after 6:00 p.m. or so, as the sun will be dropping so will the numbers. low 70s, allentown and trenton. milled 70s in millville. high 70s around 74 degrees down the shore. we have the supermoon/lunar eclipse that begins at 9:07. the total eclipse begins at 10:11. there could be areas where the clouds are breaking, you could see the red color on the moon and the lunar eclipse. sunny and breeze, and dry for the all the festivities. monday, warm and muggy, feeling like summer with

. >> well, right now we're about to start the celebration of the mass. obviously the pope has gotten out of the pope mobile. he'll be presumably putting on his vestments for mass. i think one thing that's really important, i know some of the late night shows have had a little fun with it. but a really important part of the mass is the chair that the holy father is going to use. i think it was made here locally by prisoners and other people certainly at certain places. but the chair represents the teaching authority of the successor of st. peter. so it's really important when you have a cathedralro aund the country, every local bishop has a cathedral. it's named for the chair, cathe cathedra. the pope will enter the mass and everyone will settle down. >> father, also with us is jason berry who's lead religion writer for ground truth project. for people who aren't catholic like me, and maybe people who are of other faiths or not religious, help us understand the greater meaning of all of this. >> well, the mass is a celebration of the sacrifice of jesus's l

be here with us for mass. theor members of the church in our country. i think it's really the height of his visit in a sense for us. it's such a blessing to be here today to really be able to share that with so many people through television. >> the taking of communion today. everyone in this outdoors, but nonetheless everyone here will receive the body of christ, the bread of heaven. but the wine only for the bishops and those actually involved. i'm told strictly for time reasons. >> well, sure. only a priest has to drink the precious blood at a mass. obviously a lot of places in our country people receive both. but they don't have to receive both. the real presence is in either one. but the priest who offers the sacrifice has to drink, but the lay people do not have to. although obviously most places in the country today we celebrate what we call both species. but today the impossible to do that r reverently and safely. >> we can't see the pope mobile behind some trees. there you go. it's come into camera view n

how was the mass? it was all some. ockdown for the last couple of days, maybe three days. and almost no cars, no traffic. the benjamin frankly bridge was shutdown. not the trains and -- not to trains and pedestrians, but cars. and i am watching behind and you they are beginning to take down the barriers, can you talk about how they are taking all of this security down as you watch. >> reporter: well, it's all happening very, very quickly as soon as the mass was over, we started to see the crowd thin, and, yes, they are removing the barricades as i mentioned it's all happening very, very quickly. and you talked about the security and the city being shutdown, well, they closed schools beginning wednesday of the week, and the city was all but paralyzed over the last couple of days, i it was a wash with eight-foot taught met the mesh fences, to get in to this area where i am standing now which is inside the security perimeter. you had to go through airport style screening with tsa agents and bomb-sniffing dogs and the lines

the mass starting at 4:00 p.m. we'll be in the mid 6 # -- 70s. jackets early, and this evening, but the rest of the time you're okay. there's a chance of a pop-up shower during the afternoon and evening hours that's tomorrow and not today that's timing pretty well for us, isn't it? cloudy and breezy, high of 76 comfortable overall on the parkway. tomorrow, how about summer-like activity, warm and muggy, 83 is the high. tuesday, 80 is the high. some models are indicating that a front will trigger afternoon and evening rain that could be significant, we could use it, so that's good. 74 wednesday, showers here and there, hopefully dry are to the union and after that 60s. >> katherine scott is live on the parkway, katherine i hope you're being a great host to the city of philadelphia and meeting lots of people from out of town. >> reporter: i'm trying to. there's a lot of people here, hard to meet all of them. some people are praying some people are singing they are having conversation some people are sleeping they never left last night they have sle

but now the big mass exodus has gun. people are walking on the outer limits of the street there. ere. there are people from all over the world, different countries. don't speak the same language, and people are turning and offering fees everyone. i guess that's what the entire week is all about. live on the parkway, nora muchanic back to you guys. >> absolutely, thank you, nora. >>> and we talk a little about moving all of these folks back to their homes. many from other cities in the u.s. and other countries as well and somehow they have to get back from this place to where they came from. and john rawlins is talking about the exodus of the masses. >> hi, monica. the next big challenge for transit is the return. and you see it behind me, it is starting out here. simply put, all the people who piled into the city in an eight-hour period want to head hope asap. there are back-ups and large staging areas. and video from earlier today, actually before the mass was mid-way through and thousands of people were lining up. interesting division, you mentioned it earlier, some upset about

people making it for the 4:00 mass. the bridge for the philadelphia side jessie with nbc10 news. >> let's remind you of the other closures especially if you're going get close. brittney is a utility person for us. >> well, the traffic box is in affect until tomorrow morning, but going over the ben franklin bridge once gain the foot traffic and you're seeing bicycles and it's going to be closed to cars until monday morning. that's the summary there. you can bring bags with you but again foot traffic and bikes allowed only. no cars. to point out city avenue, we have seen closures. so portions of the city avenue closer to 76 have reopened and again the entire area right at city average has been shut down to the afternoon. closer look at market frank ford lime service that it closes at 7:00 p.m. tonight. it's going to be running as normal and we will have more details on what to expect about the city coming up again. tracey. >> okay. we want to take you live to the pictures where the event is beginning. we're getting that li

leon: the mass itself has now really begun. we were watching up until the moment at the top of the hour essentially was the canonization portion of the mass which has been completed. we will keep our ears tuned to that. in the meantime, pope francis started his day with a visit to the white house where there were so many people there that president obama joked his lawn isn't normally so packed. abc7's jeff goldberg was out there among the crowd. jeff: it was an amazing scene at the white house. picture perfect day where thousands of people packed the south lawn of the white house eager to hear the message for the man known as the people's pope. more than 11,000 people packed the lawn of the white house which was a dismay of pomp and circumstance, military salute, national anthem for the vatican and the united states. the moment of seeing pope francis and president obama stand shoulder to shoulder on stage. some people rivered here as early as 2:00 in the morning. everyone we spoke with said the work and the waiting to get here

the mass is little less than an hour and 20 minutes. on about to be on city avenue, as soon as we lay eyes on pope francis, we'll bring that to you. >>> and welcome back monica malpass and rick williams. a live look at the parkway, looking at the hundreds of thousands of people getting close to a million as we wait for the papal mass and the papal parade and we hear that the pontiff is on his way having left the seminary just moments ago. >> we hear that he may make a special stop at st. joe's university, a jesuit school one of only 28 in the united states, the thought is he may stop by there, lets go live to trish hartman and find out the latest. >> reporter: hi there monica, big crowds here outside of st. joseph's university after the school confirms they expect the pope to make a visit to the campus, the crowded expect him to come down city avenue and then to turn down cardinal avenue, they have lined the streets here waiting to get a glimpse of the pontiff as he passes by and then expected to enter the campus, if we can turn around,

take a look at the official mass book, for this morning's mass, and, on the third page, of this booklet, written in very small, and suitably humble print for our pope it simply says the celebrant of today's mass is, his holiness pope francis. imagine being inside with 2,000 people and knowing that just moment away the pope is about to be here and celebrate mass. i talk to a couple invitation only guests who are inside mass worshiping this morning, talk to john brady, his wife megan, they are about to celebrate their 20th anniversary are, 20th wedding anniversary. meetings here all week all about the family. i said to mr. brady and his wife, jean, what are your thoughts as you where to attend mass about to be celebrated with the pope. without blinking a eye, i went to catholic grade school, i just wish sister mary isabela could see me now. that is the feeling of a lot have of us here, all of the iphones snapping, selfies being taken, priests in procession going in the cathedral basilica as you saw in the live picture taking their own pictures as they go in. this is just so exciting. if f

and then bringing it up to the modern mass. es within the church regarding the mass. those who prefer the tradition, those who prefer the modern elements. and that is the fine line that pope francis himself is walking in all of the discussions within the catholic church. updating some of the traditions, updating some of the practices but maintaining the route because that is essential to the catholic identity. >> and there are, john, different strands of catholicism. you have jesuits and, of course, francescans here. >> and at least one jesuit in the room because it's pope francis. >> a jesuit, of course, who chose the name pope francis. >> yes. >> after the francescans. >> we often talk about the unity and we have all of -- the technical term is unique identities of different outfits within the church and among religious orders and then, of course, there's the geographic spread of the church. 1.2 million catholics and catholicism in subsaharan territory is different than that is northern europe and yet with all of that the word

the u.s. and his first mass here. this is the most important part of the mass. . >> translator: thanks. he said the blessing and gave the cows to the di sisciples saying, take this, all of you, drink from it for this is the kc chalice poured out for you and many for forgiveness of their sins. do this in memory of me. the mystery of faith. ♪ ♪ >> translator: therefore, oh lord, as we celebrate the memorial of the saving passion of your son, his wondrous resurrection and assention into heaven and as we look forward to his second coming we offer you in thanksgiving his holy and living sacrifice. look we pray on the -- of your church and recognizing the sacrificial victim by his death you willed to reconcile us to your death grant that we who are nourished by the body and the blood of your son and filled with his holy spirit may become one body, one spirit in christ. make eternal offering to you so we may obtain inheritance with your elect especially with the most blessed virgin mary mother of god, his blessed joseph, her spouse with your blessed apostles and gloriou

listen carefully for that at the beginning of mass as pope francis enters. there's something else i want you to look at. the chair the pope will be sitting on, that was built in westchester by fausto hernandez, hector rojas and -- they're day labors in port chester in westchester county. they made the chair, also, the altar. very, very simple. let's go to david ushery standing outside right now. david, what do you see outside the garden? >> we see what we believe to be the first vehicles of the security detail. we're looking east down 33rd street. so it's one that checkey heard. the roar of the crowd that kind of indicates where he is. we see some people waving at the corner of 7 and 33rd, so we're waiting because we see a number of these vehicles, so we expect he'll have to take a right here, then head west. you can sense the anticipation and quite frankly, it's among the press corps. i'm seeing some of those vehicles that we associate with the motorcade, so we're waiting now. police, they've lined up vehicles so they'll pass us in between us and where the p

for the masses.re were so many people here. >> there were. again, almost 860,000 people on the parkway. of course, looking at video there was heavy security today and lot of people had to go flew magnetometers to get to this particular papal mass. in fact chris o'connell spoke to some people who said, you know, even though they had to wait long time, it was worth it. chris. >> reporter: yeah, iain, with and estimated 860,000 people coming to town, possibly more, mayor nutter just told us, there are bound to be some hiccups. yes, among the prayers of all the joy, there was a little frustration. they came from every continent, from all corners of the world. getting inside the papal mass on the parkway may have been the hardest trip of them all. some waiting in security lines for up to four hours to get inside. >> everybody move over. single file against the fence. >> reporter: many of them never made it. they never saw the pope. >> took us three hours to move block and a half and then they said they we

as we start the mass. of sun breaking through at times, breezy conditions and likely dry the way things are working out now. if you're heading to the airport later on, we have all green aircraft. the only place reporting rain is atlanta, hopefully this holds this afternoon. one final note we have a supermoon with the total lunar eclipse. it maybe cloudy. if you happen to see stars break out and camp the moon, it will be cool. but -- and you catch that moon, it will be cool, matt. >> you let me know, i'll be in bed. >>> service for the papal visit run from the waterfront to midnight. the tickets must be purchased in advance. ac rail line will take you into 0th street station, if you use that services you are advised to pch the tickets online. >> 6:53 we'll have more of the papal coverage in just a moment. leaving you with a live picture this is eakens oval we've seen workers all night getting the stage set up and ready for the papal mass. we'll be right back. why are you here? why are any of us here? window

this is the canonization mass junipero serra. the basilica of the national shrine and you'll see that on c-span and also c-span.org. shortly after that public event on the white house south lawn and the president, the first lady there standing on the balcony, they went inside, exchanged gifts and after that brief meeting the president and the pope walked across the west colonade for a meeting in the oval office and here's a look. >> the president and the pope accompanied there by the priest behind them is a monsignor mark miles who is the official interpreter for pope francis. they went into a meeting in the oval office which lasted 30 minutes, 40 minutes or so, and not sure exactly what they talked about in this meeting but here's a headline from "the washington post" and some of the comments from pope francis and from the president. headline in the "post" says, "pope francis wades into u.s. politics." he made it clear wednesday that he does not intend to sidestep the deeply divisive issues in the country and he fully employs his

but when the mass begins and particularly in kind of the high points of the mass, they'll turn on a dimend being reverent and being deeply entered into the experience. i don't know how many other settings, anderson, where you can have more than a million people who can shift from wild enthusiasm to deep reverence as quickly, and without anyone telling them to do it. it just wells up spontaneously. it's a remarkable thing to see. >> one of the things that i noticed on this trip is, as we've said, that it's not just the catholics who are feeling this connection to pope francis. i think there's something to do with the moment that we're in as a society in america, as a world society, kind of looking for a direction, looking for a moral compass and something to look up to. i think francis has filled that for many people. >> with five minutes left to go, for our viewers -- because we don't want to interrupt this mass. it will begin with hal ha lieu ya from cristasoberga. >> that's probably as good as my latin. then we go right into the penitential act where we ask for forgiveness of our sins.

and then they go into the mass. ill see is the postulateor of the call the man in charge of gathering all the information will read out part of the biography of junipero serra. then they will do that wonderful litany of saints which we also hear at the conclave when a pope is elected singing and invoking the blessing of the saints and then we have the canonization announced by the pope. >> the pope is inside for a few minutes. we're going to take a short break. we'll be right back. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. everyone needs protein every day. there are more than 20,000 different proteins in the human body. they fuel our energy support our metabolism amplify our performance and reco

he will then lead the mass outside of the basilica. interesting now that the ceremony that has become more ceremonial, there's a big difference in the way the people in the audience are responding to him. now you see people crossing themselves and being much more quiet than the exuberant welcome when he first walked in the basilica. >> it's reverential, antonio. people are thinking about what's about to happen, thinking about -- i think the pe hopes they're thinking about jesus and thinking about their faith in god, they're reflecting on this moment. the first time that a latin-american saint will be canonized here on the shores. >> many things contribute to that, not the least of which is the solemnity of the basilica itself. this for the priests, religious nuns and seminarians that are there feels more like what they're used to happening at a place like that. the music contradicts as well. >> who are the people in the pro session here with him? are all the ones with the white hats all bishops? >> in fact, these ones you see right now

the mass has ended. >> god bless you you all. e or in your office or wherever you may find us right now. these are images that are indelible for all of us right now. pope francis has just done that. in his closing words when he was about to say good-bye to philadelphia, he recalled the -- probably the most famous line he's ever had and that was when he was named the pope and he walked out in front of vatican city and said, "pray for me." and today he said, "pray for me. don't forget." lauren green is still with me, peter johnson jr. as well. we're going to watch the holy father move leave as he heads to his plane that leaves in two hours. he said, i leave you with a question, in your own home, do you shout or speak in love and tenderness? bear in mind, the meeting here in philadelphia was all about families and it felt as if the past 36 hours, frankly, this man was more comfortable talking about family life and listening to the troubles and the challenges of families in a way that was so comfortable. it was almost his first langua

the investments for mass that -- the vestment for mass, cardinal wuerl will put them on. it's an alb, a white robe to remind us of the baptism. the priests and the byships wear it at the mass. they are all wearing white as the outer garment. the outer vestment. they will all wear a scarf that goes around the net as a simple of the office in the -- symbol of the office in the church. they are all priests. white is the color today worn on the feast day when we honor father serra who will be canonized a saint. it's a color worn to celebrate feasts in honor of the saints that lived holy lives but didn't necessarily die as a martyr. if it's martyr the color of the day is red to remember the blood we shed in witness to their faith. they will wear the outer garment. it's white for the color of the day in honor of the saint, father serra. leon: so you give us a sense of what is going on? are they heading to do the vesting to change? father tom: the bishop, priests, deacons who participate in mass vested earlier and they are in their places. pope francis and cardinal wuerl will ves

the lives of the people who are attending mass. want to present the gifts of our lives, of the things we do for others. >> reporter: her mother claire who will be helping the chance avenue lifetime after being a faithful servant of the catholic church her entire life. >> i am so thrilled. i feel like i've been flying in the air. i don't feel like i'm down here. >> there's still a shrowd of secrecy surrounding the details of the mass. >> we do not know any detail at this point. we're still in the dark. >> the iz seem i familiar al fine example of people who practice their faith sincerely devoutly and regularly as well. so to me as pastor that's a wonderful gift to have people like that. >> reporter: they like so many around the world embraced pope francis' humility and loving spirit with open arms. >> i like he's such an advocate for the poor. he's such a loving man. >> if they can ask him to do one thing it would be this. >> bless us all. bless the country. >> reporter: the entire izzy family will be bringing up the gusts during th

brookland station, exit only before the mass, entrance only after the mass. it's going to relieve some of the stress there at brookland because it is the smallest station in the metro system. metrobus running on a regular weekday schedule. you have to expect delays here today because of all the closures. as far as mark goes, they're adding trains there. camden lines adding trains for capacity reasons. a train that normally runs only on fridays is running today and tomorrow as well, train 871. more coming up. >> reporter: i'm mollet green reporting live from the east portico outside the basilica. we are here and all set up and ready to go to talk about this historic mass coming up in just a few moments. >>> and is the new panda cub trying to upstage the pope? no way. the update we have with some suspicious timing. very cute. . >>> later today pope francis will cannonize a new saint into the catholic church. here's a live picture of the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception in northeast washington. the pope will arrive at the basilica aro

the campus of st. joseph's university making an unscheduled stop before mass on eakins oval. in front of the campus chapel the pope said hello to students and university dignitaries and then blessed this sculpture with holy water bringing more cheers from the crowd. with the hundreds of students and alumni it was an emotional experience. >> we just want to say thank you to everyone and thank you to the pope for coming to st. joes. the the hawk will never die, right, guys. >> reporter: sculpture was dedicated just last week called synagoguea in our time, an inter faith bronze statue celebrating the relationship between catholic and jewish faith. student body president natalie roche, shook the the pontiff's hand and received a gift. perhaps best gift of all the word they exchange. >> i said thank you for your love and happiness. she said i pray for you, you pray for me. >> reporter: pope francis was the first jesuit pope and with st. joes being a jesuit university rumors were swirling he might come visit the campus. students said they were thrilled when they actually did. >> to

the papal mass scheduled for 4:00 p.m. led to last for about two hours to wrap up around 6:15 and much to the delight of the hundreds of thousands of people who are already lining the parkway, we're hearing that the pope will make one final lap in his popemobile starting at logan square and down the parkway ahead of that papal mass. that's really exciting and the more information i get about that, i'll be sure to pass on to you all. >> before we let you go, i know you talked to father gill who is in charge of this mass, which means in charge of getting communion to the mass of people. tell us about that. >> father gill was frank with us. he said they've been preparing for the world meeting of families and this celebration as this mass culminates the world meeting of families, so they've been preparing for it for three years. so they've had a lot of time to figure out logistics and he said that the -- the pope will be assisted by 500 priests in terms of handing out communion. he said 500 priests will be fanned out throughout

the mass expected to take about 2 1/2 hours. the pope will deliver a homily in spanish and this canonization ceremony is the final event in what has been a very busy day, and where he's doing it, the shrine, the largest church in the united states, also the tallest states, also the tallest habitable building. pope john paul ii is there. so very important to the catholic church and, of course, this canonization ceremony with junipero serra at the center of it. the first saint canonized on u.s. soil, a very important moment here for catholics. >> and right now you can just see everybody just overwhelmed seeing the pope in person. this is a wonderful moment for them. you can see the pope is trying to make eye contact with a few individuals, waving to people, of course, giving the sign of the cross and this is a special moment for these believers. the chance to see the pope in person on their territory, right? >> yeah, absolutely. earlier today during his parade around the ellipse and washington, d.c. at several times he stopped, sec

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part of that reason, from where they had to park their cars in camden to get to the mass, in fact it's almost five miles to get there. so, it will be a half hour or so, we are being told, until we see the people spilling out of there. it's a joyous atmosphere, they are trying to take it in. this bridge will be closed, they are saying, up until maybe noon tomorrow. they will let the people hang out and enjoy the atmosphere. that is what they will be here for is to get all of that, the worship and praying. we will keep you posted on this side. they are beginning to slowly come off the bridge into new jersey. channel 7 eyewitness news. >> all right, thank you so much. >>> as we get the last look at all of these people just hundreds of thousands of them out there. that will do it for us from philadelphia. quite a week. no matter what you believe, this man is making quite an impact and impression challenging all of us whether we are religious or not to make the place of the world a better place to live. we should all have that kind of impact, we should all be so lucky to have that kind of i

i was able to talk to some of the folks who made the trip in for the mass today to hear what it meant to them. >> well, i think we're definitely going to take especially the father's message home with us to our family and kind of apply a lot of the things that he talked about, you know. he asked in the homily, do we shout or do we talk to each other with love? and i think just spreading love in our family and then hopefully our children will take that out into the world. the message of love is so important, and i think that if everyone here, the millions of people, can just remember that daily, it will really change the face of the united states and hopefully the world. >> reporter: and that is what's going to be happening now. now folks are heading home. folks are packing up their stuff. they're getting their families together. they're going on to wherever they came here from. but they are going to be taking back with them both the memories and also the message that they learned here this weekend in philadelphia. live in center city, i'm lauren make, nbc 10 news. >> reporter: lauren,

people are already leaving the mass early, trying to beat the crush at metro.e's what one woman told us as she was racing to the metro. so the mass is still going on but you wanted to get a head start? >> yes, on traffic. i'm from california. so not knowing the rail system, so it doesn't get dark on me, i need to get going. >> reporter: to give you an idea how many people they are expecting to come through here, on the way to the pope's mass, 14,000 people used this metro station. and on a typical weekday, 6,700 people. they've already experienced double the normal volume. all those people will likely leave at the same time. what metro has in place here in addition to security, they will have buses here, and they encourage people to take alternate routes, take these shuttle buses to the fort totten metro where they can change trains more easily. that's the very latest at the brookland metro station. mark segraves, news4. >>> that right now is the issue with metro. roads near the basilica are scheduled to be reopening there at 8:00 tonight. then we'll start seei

pope francis and fidel castro met shortly after the mass. the pope is said to have gone directly there. the family was in attendance. the meeting took about half an hour or so. gifts were exchanged. a little insight, fidel castro supposedly asked for books in the past, so pope francis brought him books. of course there has been a warm relationship between raul castro and the pope mainly because of the role the pope has had in trying to create a rapprochement between cuba and the united states, and in return the cuban authorities have allowed this place to become the testing ground for colombian peace negotiations. so the vatican has been working more with this administration here and in this address this morning, first homily and then the blessing at the end of the mass, he made clear that service is supposed to be unselfish and that power must relent to people and that the whole point of living basically is to be merciful to others, and that's certainly resonated with the people here who are so desperate for so much. now the rest of the day

just as the mass was closing archbishop charles chaput made the a joke that philadelphia might considerame change. >> this is city that would change its name to francisville today. (laughter). (applause). >> reporter: then his mass en ended pope francis paused to give blessings to the young and the disable living the words he himself had just spoken. with the pope in philadelphia, pat chiarocchi, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> with a visit like this a major part of it all has been the amazing security measures that have been put in place. >> that's right. if you were in center city today like we were and our cameras were, you would have seen all of the security measures that have been put in place. those who were entering the secure perimeter passed through airport style security checkpoints complete with metal detectors and for most people it really was smooth sailing and the lines weren't that long. >> they're not that bad. we don't mind waiting. i think there's a higher purpose than when you have that higher purpose you dope mind waiting hours upon hours. right now it's not bad at all. >

this is not the frontier mass. this is the contemporary mass. probably in some of the older catholics are familiar but younger generation would not be. >> i grew up as an alter boy we had latin mass all the time growing up. joining us with us now is also senior vatican analyst george weigl. >> what occurs to me is that we might try to link this to remarkable events earlier today. we saw the pope at the u.n. as a voice attempting to bring moral reasoning to politics. we saw him as a healer at ground zero at the memorial to victims of 9/11. now we are seeing him in the role that ties all of that together. he is a catholic priest. what the church does at holy mass, what the church does at the eucharist is what makes sense of everything else. without this we are simply another nongovernmental organization. pope has said that. he doesn't want the church to simply be another ngo. >> what is happening here at madison square garden makes sense of the whole business, the service, outreach, dialogue with other world religions. it all comes out of this cele

. >> one is the benjamin franklin parkway for a massive clean up a after the parade and mass, we'll have live team coverage. >> the eagles won, fans are breathing easy after aevaluating the jets for an 0-3 start. >> reporter: satellite shows you there will be sunshine early and clouds will probably move in, overall we're going clouds and sunny breaks while there's a slight chance of a sprinkle or shower, most of that like yesterday is tracking well to the west. not a wet one. 66 degrees in philadelphia. 63 in millville. 64 in allentown. fierl -- fairly dmrvel -- comfortable with lights winds. a lot of kids getting back on the school bus this morning it should be decent weather for that. winds turn out of the south, 63 by 8:00 a.m. noon, 78. 3:00 p.m. we'll get a high of 83 degrees, plus the humidity will start coming back, it will feel mug character and later tonight showers and tomorrow the chance of steadier rain arriving eventually. i'll have that coming up, karen. >> reporter: it's nice to talk about roads and bridges, looking live at the schuylkill expressway. it has reopened, it re

the papal mass begins at 4:00 p.m. last night at the concert, the pope joked what time is the mass again? it is at 4:00 p.m. we'll be broadcasting it live. the stage is set and the people are here we are waiting rl -- forlgt -- for the pontiff himself. >> we'll continue with day number two of pope francis visit to philadelphia in just a moment. ♪ royal caribbean's wow sale is back. buy one get one half off. plus free upgrades and up to $200 onboard spending money. it all ends september 30th, so call 1-800-royal-caribbean or your travel agent today. williams are in the house, or more accurately if their parkway studio. what's the view from there, guys? >> well, jim, good morning, and the view like last night is quite a bit of people on the parkway from our vantage point. unlike last night we're seeing more than yesterday. i know there was a concern about crowd side last evening. perhaps a bit disappointing from what city officials were expecting. at this hour we're seeing more people than we saw last night even when the

the actual mass means setting for the a prayer to god. the insense is a symbol of.something sacred will occur there. >> and father dan; there significant to where he puts the insense? >> yes, in this case, the alter, that's where the mass will take place, later on they may before the gospel before it is red, special insense, the gospel of the holy family, part of the world meeting of family, again, special blessing, little bit, you know, unusual, because they would just bless the alter. at this point this image, special blessing, this image goes forward, it has that special blessing of the pope after the mass. >> ♪ >> wheat white catholic, one every his assistants, always at his papal masses, one of the two always company him for all of his liturgy. that man will know he can actually what the pope wants, doesn't want, how he wants to do it. >> he says mass every day, doesn't he? >> he does, in his little chapel, answer invites special guests all the time, vicinal, though. >> do all priests say a mass every day. >> typically most priests say mass every day. these are

the hymns being sung. patrick how different is this mass compare to the typical mass? >> the pope is there.ople. which leads to really interesting logistics for this next part of the mass. as we have been talking about, we moved from the liturgy of the word readings of the bible are given and the pope reflects on them and we are into the eucharist, the consecration of bread and wine and they are handed out to everyone who is there. the pome pope will consecrate more than 25,000 small waifers of unleavened bread that will be distributed by over 200 people to the 25,000 who are there. ideally the bread and the wine would be offered. it would require a lot of wine. they will use nine lighter, a full case of wine to give to the priests and bishops there. what we are seeing is people bringing the gifts up to the pope which will be placed on the altar. >> howe are they chosen to be able to go up to the altar and have their blessing from the pope? >> we don't know. if a parish there is a people who have taken on a special role in the church. we don't know who these individuals are. >> 25,000 waife

i wanted to be part of the mass like everybody else. on my facebook page i talked about the fact that police were so helpful and so kind. they were that way to me. not just that, on my facebook page people were commenting some of the police officers were escorting toddlers quicker to the port-a potty. we all felt the love. pope francis was talking about family, it felt like a big family here. the crews were working through the night and opening the roadways goodwill keeps on coming. >> the pope touched on clergy sex abuse, he met with five abuse victims yesterday and talked about the subject with hundreds of seminarians priests and bishops at saint charles seminary. he holds in his heart the suffering of child sex abuse victims and ordered a careful oversight process to insure that young people are protected and all responsible will be held accountable. >> oh, my god. >>> before leaving philadelphia the pope who is a jets with -- t made a surprise visit to st. joe's university which is a jesuit campus. during the stop he blessed the clup

that's what many took away from the papal mass on the parkway yesterday.it was the final public event for pope francis in philadelphia and in the u.s. the holy father took the altar with about 800,000 people attending the mass. the excitement and energy there was cal pabl. >> his word is very inspiring. >> i've seen people from other religions. >> to be at a mass led by the holy father is amazing. >> others we spoke to told us the mass felt very intimate even though it dro so many. it meant long lines at the security check points. for some the wait lasted for hours. two to three hours. early estimates in put the crowd at around 860,000. that meant pilgrims had to tap into the virtue of patience. >> the line was like three hours to get in. we waited three hours here. >> we walked up, yes. today we were all the way down spring garden. >> some families stuck in the back of the lines gave up and left early. those who made it through got a blessing, received communion and prayed together. the papal visit was historic for philadelphia and keeping everyone safe w

over here, this is the altar where he will say mass. the archdiocese could have had anybody built these pieces. but the cardinal have some very specific ideas. >> from the beginning, he said part of his mission as the successor to st. peter is to go out to those at the side of the road. >> reporter: those at the side of the road know they are loved. >> you could have had professional do this, but he gave us the honor. >> i'm feeling great. it's a happiness you cannot describe. >> reporter: workers are following plans given to them by the archdiocese but the work is all theirs. a sewing group is even doing the mass linens. >> the message is, don't forget the poor. if you forget the poor, then you're not with christ. now with jesus. being heard before he ever utters a word in her town. lou young, cbs 2 news. >> out to the side of the room. -- out to the side of the road. so consistent with the pope's message. 20,000 people inside. >>> tony aiello is among them. tell us where you are as you set the scene for us. >> reporter: we are up on wh

i was fortunate to be invited to the mass. he made the chalice that was used at the holy mass. and there he was, holding it up for the world to see. the chalice was made of melted silver jewelry that was donated. - emotional and unforgettable and all of the work and friendship cultivating in that moment and we stood and applauded for a long time to show our appreciation for the holy father. almost as soon as the pope walked past me a guard whisked us to a private room and there was the holy father, i ask he pray for my loved ones and i i was handed a set of roseary beads. we saw him one more time in the backseat of a fiat and a bit of a smile was visible as i stood and took the photo. the gift of the chalice and he gave me a gift. the pictures captured by the pope's official photographer. i can't thank him enough for capturing that moment so i can simply savor it. greg: i'm curious, any interest in converting? joining the church? robert: i was raised proteant. rosanna: it is great that people of all faiths were moved with having the pontiff here. greg: make it official and join

we met a few of them among the lucky to get a few of those passes. and some are coming for an actual mass by the pope, this is his first trip to the u.s. even as a layperson he has never been to the u.s. >> we saw people that caught the train into washington yesterday and today to be a part of this ceremony but right now we continue to look at the pontiff in his popemobile, his jeep wrangler popemobile, he is clearly here at the catholic university for this papal mass and canonization ceremony, the first canonization ceremony to ever take place on u.s. soil. >> he is getting out of the popemobile, made in the united states, so he would have security but side access. where he could reach out and hug children or reach out and shake hands, he wanted access. that is it for now, we'll have more live reports from the basilica in washington, d.c. >> a word about who you are seeing there in add it's to pope francis, a gentlemen in the red cap, cardinal whorl representing washington, d.c., and the others are archbishops, and they are the hosts for this leg of the trip and a word of what you are se