valery: assistant conductor.ut i was asked to assist and then conduct public performances of famous "war and peace." the met audience knows that because we shared the production, which was shown here that years ago, then in new york and the met. a great, great opera. if there is anything written on a grand scale for any opera, "war and peace" will be there on the first list immediately along with the ring cycle by wagner and maybe sergei prokofiev. the beginning was not by choice. i was simply told i was just going to assist others and then conduct my own performances. i'm very grateful the music boss,or was my first the only boss i had in my life. he told me to prepare yourself for "weaar and peace." i was waving my head. he says, why don't you come and hear how it sounds? that was my first time i conducted the mariinsky orchestra and nobody knew me. assistanthis is my and he will do it. i thought it would conduct two minutes. i conducted the entire opera uninterrupted. strange, unusual, maybe i had some fear hi

clark and valerie tate think there is. but it did require an unconventional approach. >> we started talking about the possibility of dating other people. >> reporter: your wife comes to you and says, "i want to date other people." what goes through your mind? >> i remember hearing it initially being shocked. and then being like, well, that sound interesting to me too. >> reporter: so this is clark's room? >> it is. >> reporter: they agree to continue living together. and maintain joint assets. >> reporter: this is your room? >> this is my room. >> reporter: their relationship wasn't always like this. what was your wedding like? >> it was magical. >> reporter: it was valerie's first time walking down the aisle. it was clark's third. and for the first few years they were living on love. at what point did things start to change? >> i was grieving the loss of my father. i was very close to. i also had some depression around that. and with all of that i started to withdraw. >> jonah. hi. >> reporter: clark and valerie's young m

i visited aware valery gergiev -- where valery gergiev gave me a tour.et's start with you came to the mariinsky theatre because you were in your 20's. what was your first job? valery gergiev: assistant conductor. i was asked to assist. peace.s war and another great composer. which wasproduction shown and we went to new york and i came back 20 times. in new york city at the met, a great opera. a grand scale in any country in the world. -- a french composer and a russian composer. the beginning was not my choice. tos is what you are going first cover the conduct your own performance. i am very grateful. boss it boss, the only had in my life. in separate pair myself. -- prepare myself. i was waving my head. i want to hear how it sounds. that was my first time i conducted. no one knew me. he is my assistant. i thought i would conduct for 2 minutes. i conducted on interrupted. strange and unusual and maybe i had fear. it was at the beginning. there were many fingers. -- singers. they knew there was somebody on the podium unknown. young and experienced but som

that's my response, valerie. and thank you for the song. >> thank you, holy father. >> valerie, thank you so much. holy father, we want to introduce you to another young woman who is also incredibly courageous who has dealt with alexandra vasquez, if you can come up now. >> reporter: 17-year-old alexandra vasquez is next telling pope francis her story. her lifelong struggle to overcome the loss of her father who died when she was just 5. >> and sometimes it gets really hard and sometimes, like, i don't really sleep much. but i just -- i try to think about my dad and how he would want me to be a good person. so i always try to make him proud. i hope that i can make a difference in people's lives. >> go on by the path. god bless you. >> reporter: a smile from alexandra and from valerie. i turn to pope francis, a song for the pope? that's difficult. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: when we come back, the families in los angeles get their moment with the pope. and soon, the bravery of a single mother on dis

i was with valerie at that moment. chicago's cristo ray high school selected to be part of this virtue kwal audience moderated by abc news, valerie selected by us for her courage overcoming a skin disorder called vitiligo. >> i was picked on. i was bullied. because how i looked like. >> reporter: valerie turned to music which gave her confidence. >> music has always been something i was able to use to escape all the bullying and everything that was going around. >> reporter: valerie asking 9 pope what he wants from the youth of america. pope francis telling her but also using what happened inside the chapel as an example. he asked for courage. the pope saying, it was difficult for you to take that first step to sing for me. you were excited. you didn't know what to do. but you were courageous and you took the first step and you sang very beautifully. keep singing. you sing beautifully. that chapel were so amazing, her classmates did not stop cheering afterwards. hugs and so happy to be part of that virtual audience wit

from manhattan, valerie castro, cbs 2 news. >> thank you very much, valerie. >>> the straphangers campaign has released its annual state they say they put together the report using recent data from the mta as well as information and comments from riders and transit experts. so the best line in the city found to be the number 7. the report found the 7 train to be the best in the system for frequency of service and subway car cleanliness. at the bottom of the list, the b and the 5 lines. among the points against them, delays and breakdowns. >> what the findings show if you are on one of the top lines like the 7, hands down you get more for your metrocard money than if you are riding the 5 or the b. >> the mta responding to the report says evaluation of this does not represent customer perspective. >>> let's check in with the weather. it would be rated highly today. vanessa murdoch is in for lonnie quinn. the summer won't stop which is nice. we'll be in the 70s, the mid- 70s and that's where we should have been today. instead, we were nearing 90. live outside right now, it's a stunner of a da

valerie. >> reporter: kristine, police sources say the man believed to be the father is being held and questioned that the hour at the police precinct. it happened in the white brick building behind me, and police are on the scene trying to sort out how and why it happened. >> reporter: a heart breaking scene as the body of a newborn infant is brought out of the apartment building and loaded into the medical examiner's van. the baby girl was likely born inside of 57th floor apartment and may have been thrown from a window monday afternoon. >> i don't want the baby. i will toss it out the window. that's ridiculous. discovered the baby in the courtyard below, and the baby's umbilical cord was attacked. detectives gathered evidence and questioned a man believed to be the child's father who was in the apartment when it took place. tiffany martinez says the man is her close friend. >> he's a good guy, and every time i see him, he's with his son. >> reporter: the man and his girlfriend also have a 3-year- old son together. >> from what i have seen, they always look like a happy family. >> re

valerie? >> reporter: maurice, right now, regular service has resumed, but there's still delays at this hour, and behind me, you see one of the overturned train cars still on the tracks, and crews are working to remove it, but it's night. heavy equipment brought in for the big job, remove a 16-car derailed train near the tracks in hicksville it meant heavy l.i.r.r. >> it makes for a very long day. >> i want to go home after a long day at work. >> reporter: the mta officials say the freight train belonging to the new york and atlantic roadway derailed, sending two train cars with construction debris tumbling over. >> from that point when the derailment occurred, we had a suspension of service on both branches for about 40-45 minutes. >> reporter: people living nearby describe the rumbling noise. >> i was going down the stairs, and next thing you know, i was like is this an earthquake? and it was the train tracks. >> reporter: the mta says the cleanup will take hours, and the cars have to be cle

valerie? >> reporter: dana, a family friend said the family went upstate over the weekend, and they were returning home when the horrible accident happened. the crumpled suv carry several members of the family was surrounded by debris on new york route 17 on exit 112 on labor day following the accident. the couple died in the crash that involved only their vehicle. they recently celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary in june, and a third family member who has not been identified also killed. maurice was well phone for his work following 9/11. a family friend said the news is absolutely devastating. >> today also happens to be the day the hebrew day in the hebrew calendar that 9/11 occurred, and to die on that day, it's a sad, tragic thing. >> reporter: his family friend spoke to the son injure in the crash and said he only remembers the car flipped four times. we are told other family members have suffered minor injuries, and state police are investigating, but the cause of the crash is unc

reporting live from new cassel, valerie castro, cbs 2 news. >>> police in new jersey are looking at this video to see if a high school football player should face charges. he smashed another player on the head with the player's own helmet. tony aiello with the story new at 11. >> reporter: the linden high school football tigers took the practice field minus a senior starter, number 1. fritz was suspended after a friday night lowlight. he was seen tangling with number 73. he ends up with hoffman's helmet in his hands, and he swings and strikes hoffman on the head before tossing the helmet away. linden parents, shocked at the bad behavior by one of their players. >> he should know better than to do that. >> there's no place for that on the field, not at all. >> reporter: hoffman is a junior, and the victim needed 10 stitches to close his head wound. many are praising hoffman for

. >> the most poignant moment, when valerie, a 17-year-old who struggled with a rare skin disorder andas been bullied over it broke down and pope francis put her on the spot. >> may i ask to sing a song for me? be courageous. >> valerie has found peace through music. >> thank you very much. >> the primetime special airs in advance of the pope's first visit to the u.s. later this month. he asked plans stop in philadelphia and washington, dc and new york where today, the pope got support from america contestants. >> i'm proud of him. yeah. seeing how global he's gotten and how global we as a society are getting, very cool. it's. >> wonderful. i think it's closing the gap between religion and society and kind of embracing people and he's been a role model for that. >> the 52 miss america contestants gathered in times square for a "gma" appearance where they faced questions about contest secrets. >> used to keep your swim suit bottoms in place. >> true. >> early morning, miss america contestants. >> we were behind the scenes with the ladies before dawn. >> crowning. >> as they took plenty

she goes to the white house and finds valerie jarrett in the room, the oval office with obama.he starts to try to ask him to, would you please look into this, and he behaves like he doesn't know what she's talking about. finally, she loses it and says, what i want you to do is call off your f-'ing dogs, barack. >> wow. you don't talk like that to the president in the oval office. >> you certainly don't. >> but you reveal in this book that obama personally approved the fbi investigation of hillary's e-mails and that valerie jarrett initiated six investigations into her tenure as secretary of state, and she leaked to the press the information about the clinton foundation. >> that's right. >> so when you put two and two together, they're trying to take her down. >> and the clintons know it. that's why these two families, they're almost like mafia families, are at each other's throats. you know, you have a scene of kind of intrigue, backstabbing and deception at the highest levels of the democratic party. >> and obama, you describe in the book, will not support her run for the pres

outside of the grand hyatt in midtown manhattan, valerie castro, cbs 2 news. >>> an emotional plea for justice in the case of a police officer accused in a deadly wrongway crash. linden, new jersey, police officer abad left court on crutches. he drove his honda civic the wrong way in march and crashed into a tractor trailer two of his passengers, fellow officers joseph rodriguez and frank viggiano were killed. his blood alcohol level was 3 times the legal limit. >> he has to pay. my family is destroy the and ruin -- destroyed and ruined. >> he's as upset as you would expect someone to be. >> he was charged with vehicular homicide, released after posting $25,000 bail. >>> a 7-year-old girl is the victim of gun violence in the bronx, but the bullet only grazed her in the back of her survivor. she was walking with her family last night, and she's better now, but she was shaken up. >> i was running, and my sister was behind me, and i said "i skipped you" and then i knew there was a bullet coming. >> i heard the shot fired, and my daughter ran to me saying i've been hit. >> her father says

valerie castro is in the south beach section of staten island. >> reporter: the rain here caused a lot of damage this afternoon. you can see this classic cadillac that was caught in the flooding. the water reaching halfway up the door. beyond that you can see the city's department of environmental protection is on- scene, pumping out the last of the water. >> every time it rains, it becomes like a native american. >> reporter: john's home has flooded again. it was still in disrepair from super storm sandy when the wednesday afternoon. the house along with four of his plastic cars took the brunt of the flooding in the south beach section of staten island. >> in ten minutes it flooded the whole block. here, this is what happens of >> reporter: you can see one unlucky driver found himself waiting on the roof of his own car when it stalled out in a newly formed river. >> i had mixed emotions. is he okay? how is he going to get out? >> reporter: neighbors say the catch basins on the street aren't doing enough and they're not alone. several people posting video to social media today showing

came crashing down in a staten island neighborhood it knocked out power lines and crushed cars, and valerie castro reports. >> there was a big crack, and then you just heard it fall. >> reporter: michael boyland was outside when two large branches for this oak tree came crashing down, and chopper 2 was overhead shortly after the break. >> one branch was on top of the wires, and then the other one was hanging this way. >> reporter: he took these pictures of the aftermath showing the branch that crushed an suv and two cars completely covered up by trees, and we saw this street light taken out by the tree, now balancing on top of the van. >> i don't know, it's a mess. >> reporter: the branches took out several utility lines leaving 200 con edison cars without power. crews worked well into the night to repair the damage. it appears the tree was falling from the inside out. >> that's what happened, it wasn't a windy day or rainy day, it just split. >> reporter: city work crews say what is left of the tree is very unstable. a private contractor will return in the morning to take down the rest of

valerie castro, cbs 2 news. >>> probation and community service. that's the punishment for several football players accused in the sayreville high school football scandal in new jersey. six of the seven students involved were given probation and 50 hours of community service. the seventh player is awaiting trial. the group was accused of sexually assaulting younger teammates last fall, and the scandal forced the district to cancel the season last year. this season will be going on as scheduled. >>> a street dispute in the bronx ends in tragedy. jose lucero was with a group of people when men approached them and said they damaged their car. he said they should call 911 to set it will, and a fight broke out. he was punch in the head and died. >>> a terrifying train ride for a family on staten island last night. first they thought the train was hit by a bullets, and then a frustrating call to 911 only made it worse. tony aiello with the shattered glass scare. >> reporter: it went from a routine ride to sudden transit trouble on the staten island railw

valerie castro with the story new at 6:00 tonight. >> reporter: in stony brook, homeowner groups on the hunt for illegal student housing point to the power lines that are still down at this home from a storm several weeks ago. they say it's a property where the town forced the evictions of more than a dozen college students living there. despite new dormitories, thousands of stony brook students still live off campus leading to illegal apartments in the surrounding single family home neighborhoods. now the town is searching for those illegal apartments by counting the cars parked out front. >> there could be as many as possibly six, eight, or ten cars at the residence. >> reporter: brookhaven town officials are proposing homeowners be allowed one car per one bedroom plus one extra. if approved by the town board, investigators will check a suspected property's building permits. >> compare it to what we're seeing on the street, attempt to bring the property in to compliance. >> reporter: activist homeowner groups welcome the town's proposal, arguing many properties clearly have more cars

cbs's valerie castro just arrived on the scene in university heights. >> reporter: dana, this is still a very active investigation here on west 183rd street. this happened after two this afternoon in the white brick building that you can see hyped me. you can see the nypd is still here on the scene with detectives as well as the office of the medical examiner. we are told the wife of the building superintendent discovered the baby on the ground in the courtyard, again, just after 2:00 this afternoon. police sources tell us the baby was thrown or dropped from the seventh floor window. a man believed to be the father was in the apartment at the time. we're told he has been taken to the 52nd precinct to be questioned. a woman believed to be the mother has been taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. police have not said if the child was dead or alive when this happened. again, this baby was a newborn baby boy. police on the scene trying to sort out exactly why this happened and how this happened. we will remain here on the scene to gather more details and bring you information as it bec

cbs 2's valerie castro with the story. >> reporter: couple from calgary, canada, is all smiles. they completed the walk down the aisle for divorce court. >> good for them. >> i think it's weird. i hate selfies. >> reporter: the facebook post had thousands of likes in just days. shannon and chris neumann explained their cheerful faces and divorce. they released the following statement: >> my first impression, it was cute. >> reporter: this attorney says it sheds a positive light on a usually negative event for the couples. >> it shows these people were able to get through their divorce with a great degree of friendliness and humor. >> reporter: she thinks it's best to leave the kids out of it. >> it affects not only the couple but the entire family. >> the divorce selfie is about the couple, not so much the kids. >> do we really care as a society about whether people get divorced or not? >> reporter: the canadian couple probably didn't realize it would get worldwide attention, and the post has since been removed from public view on facebook. reporting in midtown, manhattan, valer

petersburg where valery gergiev gave me a tour of the plinssk --mariinsky campus.ere is my conversation with him at the opera house. let's start when you came to the mariinsky because you were in your 20s, what was your first job? >> assistant conductor. i was asked to assist and then conduct public performances of famous war and peace, sergei, another composure. we share production which was shown here 15 years ago, then brought it to new york. i conducted roughly 20 times in new york city a. great, great opera. if there is anything written on a grand scale, war and peace will be there immediately. together in the ring cycle, with the trojans of hector barrios, the french composure, and the russian composure. it's a grand open ravment so the beginning was not my choice. i simply was told this is what you're going to first assist, cover, then conduct your own performances. of course, i am very grateful the director then was uri, the only boss i had in my life, and he told me, prepare yourself war and peace, and there was one moment when he turned, i was sitting and

good morning, valerie. we're honored to have you with us this morning. >> good morning.k you for putting the spotlight on this really important issue. >> it's interesting. in this we see the president very candidly admit to a lot of the stupid stuff he does as a child, how he didn't know his father. why was this topic so important to him? >> well, as he has said, look, we have 5% of the world's population, 25% of the world's prisoners. we spend $80 billion a year on prisons. those are the statistics. what the president wanted to do by going to el reno is put a spotlight on the people. and the effect that our current criminal justice system is having on the lives of not just the people who are incarcerated but their families. and this film does an outstanding job of telling that story. so we have to break the cycle of poverty. we have to raise our children in ways where they see an opportunity to grow up and be viable citizens and be a part of a community that's self-sufficient and responsible and abiding by the law. and i think this film shows how that is impossible with

valerie castro, cbs 2 news. >>> this just in, a drone encounter at the u.s. open. investigators say a drone crashed in louis armstrong stadium before 8:30 tonight. you can season what's left of the aircraft in this photo near the stands and surrounded by police officers. spectators also posted their photos on social media. the crash happened just as a match between flavia pennetta and monica niculescu was about to end. no one was hurt. >>> dining danger, two cars crashed into a wendy's restaurant in paramus, new jersey, and it's not the first time customers had to dodge a car there while eating. cbs 2's tony aiello joins us live from outside the route 4. tony? >> reporter: deja vu on the menu for this fast food outlet hit by one car in june, lit by two cars tonight, not -- hit by two cars tonight, not the kind of double wendy's usually likes to serve up. workers examine a support beam put up to shore up the damaged restaurant after a minivan and car crashed into the wendy's near the paramus road exit on route 4. >> i was just hoping i could get the cars out without

valerie 17 from chicago who has struggled with a rare skin disorder her whole life. she sought music to survive the bullying, and after the tears in front of the pope, an unexpected request from pope francis and that request in english. >> valerie, i would like to have you singing. may i ask of you to sing a song for me? be courageous. [ applause ] [ singing "by you, mary" in spanish ] >> thank you very much. so kind of you. >> reporter: tackling issues, immigration, abortion, education. we have never seen anything quite like it from a pope but this pope after all is already breaking the mold. david muir, abc news at the vatican. >> certainly is breaking the mold and see much more of the pope's conversation in an abc news "20/20" special. that's this friday night starting at 10:00 eastern, 9:00 central. >> looking forward to it. >>> when we come back, flight diverted. overnight a wild scene on a plane ending with a half a dozen arrests. >>> and the surprising young age that experts are now saying you should talk to your kids about alcohol. havoc on our clothes, ruini

cbs 2's valerie castro with the story now new at 11. >> talk to me! stay awake. don't fall asleep! >> reporter: this dramatic youtube video shows the life saving efforts an nypd transit officer used when a 19-year-old man collapsed on the platform in brooklyn. the officer performs cpr on him. first administering chest compressions and then mouth-to- mouth until he hears him gurgle and gasp for air. >> relief! after i heard the gurgle, i was like thank you, just stay with me. >> it was heart wrenching when i finally saw it, and i cried through the entire segment of it. >> reporter: his mother credits the officer for saving her son's life. >> to me and my family, he is our guardian angel. >> reporter: the family was finally able to meet the officer in person on wednesday at the same train station where the incident took place. >> i was speechless. there is not any words or word that i could say to really tell how i feel, how a mother feels snowing someone saved their child's life. >> i really don't want the attention, but i appreciate it, but i mean, i just did my job as a first resp

. >>> valerie castro with more on why a tree problem in the area is getting worse. >> you can see the leaves are turning brown. >> reporter: ralph pedea says the troubling signs are everywhere. he is the city arborist for yonkerses and says the recent droughts are devastating the area trees, and it could make them dangerous. >> this year is pretty bad. the heat, the light intensity, and the lack of water, they are ganging up on the trees. >>> the death and decay has led to several tree failures. on sunday morning this man was driving in the bronx when a tree branch broke loose. >> the tree just fell on top of my car while i was driving. there was no way to avoid it. >> reporter: on friday on bryant park. >> it fell right there, and it came straight down. >> tree limbs snapped, hurting five people. >> all of a sudden, we saw a tree coming down. >> reporter: that same day a plumber opening the doors of this white work van was crushed by a falling tree and condition. pedea noticed the trees on the westside highway look very bad. its leaves. but pedea said this tree, like so many others i

valerie coleman graduated in june from ucla with a masters in urban planning. did under grad work ten years ago at uc santa cruz. she ohs $10,000 for under graduate students and $80,000 from graduate school. >> i'm nervous. i have to get a job to pay back the loans. >> reporter: she rejected two job offers in affordable housing because they do not pay enough to reduce her debt. erica sandberg is a consumer finance expert in the bay area. >> it's becoming a problem that more and more people are dealing with because they aren't -- are taking out loans and not getting the jobs they're expecting to get. >> some companies are claiming to lower rates and consolidate debt. >> there will be people trying to take advantage of vulnerable, scared, stressed out borrowers. >> reporter: valerie knows to avoid them. >> i'm terrified of them. i don't want to get into a worse situation than i have. >> reporter: the attorney general suggests anyone with a federal student loan apply for a free loan consolidation program through the department of education. anyone with a private l

that meet read a little bit more from valerie jarrett's father.i got to go to an event at martha's vineyard that celebrated dunbar graduates. they had five graduates from the 19 servers -- from the 1930's on stage, including valerie jarrett's dad. sporting his bowtie and sue told the audience, we were told that you can do it, and when you leave here, you can compete. that is the most important thing, and we believed it. when you get out, you can compete with anybody. john king and harold nelson spoke of their families involvement in the school. then there was the school unity rector. all the people i knew went to dunbar. that is what it was, a community. harold nelson got a big laugh from the audience when he added my mother kept saying that you are going to be somebody. the other part of being somebody is that you will never embarrass me. [laughter] alison: this really struck me as something that i take for granted in my life, and i'm sure most people my age take for granted in our lives. adlai cromwell said the gift of dunbar was, the teachers p

valerie coleman graduated in june from ucla with a masters in urban planning.years ago at uc santa cruz. she ohs $10,000 for under graduate students and $80,000 from graduate school. >> i'm nervous. i have to get a job to pay back the loans. >> reporter: she rejected two job offers in affordable housing because they do not pay enough to reduce her debt. erica sandberg is a consumer finance expert in the bay area. >> it's becoming a problem that more and more people are dealing with because they aren't -- are taking out loans and not getting the jobs they're expecting to get. >> some companies are claiming to lower rates and consolidate debt. >> there will be people trying to take advantage of vulnerable, scared, stressed out borrowers. >> reporter: valerie knows to avoid them. >> i'm terrified of them. i don't want to get into a worse situation than i have. >> reporter: the attorney general suggests anyone with a federal student loan apply for a free loan consolidation program through the department of education. anyone with a private loan should go back to len

. ♪ ♪ >> valery cantado y con mÁs confianza y tranquilidad.que era vÍctima de acoso escolar y que la mÚsica se habÍa convertido en su forma de escape. >> desde chiquita me empezaron a salir las manchas en el ojo. cuando tenÍa cuatro aÑos. y desde ese momento era diferente a las demÁs. hasta que cuando tenÍa 10 aÑos, cuando ya los adolescentes saben mÁs, me impactÓ mucho. >> luego preguntÓ al papa que esperaba de los jÓvenes de estados unidos. >> me dijo que siempre caminan con buena compaÑÍa. que nunca caminan solo. porque si no se van a perder. >> el papa francisco le dijo que ella tenÍa que seguir cantando. marÍa: otros estudiantes tuvieron la oportunidad de dirigirse hacia el papa francisco. quÉ privilegio para esa niÑa. jorge: y sobre todo que es algo que el papa francisco le pide. marÍa: hasta pronto. nos vamos. tania: ven, palomita, ven. [grita] fiorella: "me piace questa citta". hay muchos lugares que se parecen a italia, ¿cierto? gianna: cierto. lo que mÁs me gusta es que tenemos un parque cerca de aquÍ. fiorella: mm. eso es "molto" bu

valerie 17 from chicago who has struggled with a rare skin disorder her whole life saw the music to survive bullying and after the tears in front of the pope, an unexpected request from pope francis. that request in english. >> tilled like to have you sing. may i ask of you to sing a song for me? >> reporter: we were all unsure if she would sing. >> be courageous. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] >> thank you very much. very kind of you. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: the pope talking to single mothers, to students, even surprise agamerican nun tackling issues, immigration, abortion, education. we have never seen anything quite like it from a pope, but this pope, after all, is already break the mold. pope francis has never used a computer, owned a cell phone but is he on twitter. tweets are approved by the pope himself. he has 22 million followers. his messages retweeted eight times the rate of president obama retweeted. >> do you have a message for america before your visit, a parting message? he said i'm praying for all of you, the people of the united states and i ask you to p

>> hi, valerie! >> so people are trying to get in last-minute trips. >> yeah. so time for road trip, labor day, more people are driving than flying. so we've outfit it had car with some great little items for you. >> so what have we got? >> keep it organized. parents' number one pet peeve, how do we do it. look at this great organizer back here. >> i can't, i'm driving. >> kathie lee, keep your eyes on the road. inside here it's insulated. it has eight pockets, cup holders, you can put books in there, it attaches to the seat belt and it also has a top to it where you can do your -- >> love it. >> ellie and carolyn seem to be well behaved and having fun. >> and you can grab and go as well. that's the nice thing about. >> it often they like to watch movies or something and there's a great thing you've moved to my headrest. >> i have. that is an ipad mount. it takes the place of dvd players which are passe the days and it has a velcro strap and you can put the ipad either horizon or vertical so a nice choice for movies. are you too busy coloring? what do you think

[ music ] >> pam. >> impressive. >> valerie is a high school senior in chicago.old the pope music comforts her as she struggles with being accepted. pope francis will visit the u.s. for the first time in three weeks. he will be visiting washington, d.c., new york, and philadelphia. >> very sweet. >>> coming up next in our 7:00 hour, it has been a rough day again already on wall street as stocks take another big dip. the opening bell. we will keep an eye on the numbers. >> plus we will tell you about a lawsuit about to be filed in the shooting death of kate steinle. the three agencies her parents will be suing. >>> attorneys for the family of kate steinle announce they plan to sue the local and federal agencies they plan to file suit against and we talk about some of the challenges. >> a health alert has been issued for students at uc berkeley this morning. the reason people on campus might not be the only ones exposed to a new case of measles. mornings on 2 continues. >>> good

conversation with americans, a historic first for american television, the pope hearing from others like valerie, 17 from chicago who struggled with a rare skin disorder. >> music has always been something i was able to use to escape. all the bullying. >> reporter: after her tears, an unexpected request from the pope. and that request in english. >> i would like to have you sing. may i ask of you to sing a song for me? >> reporter: we were all unsure she would sing. >> be courageous. [ applause ] [ singing in foreign language ] [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. very kind of you. >> reporter: the pope also hearing stories from students dealing with immigration issues. >> they informed me that i wasn't able to attend the university of my dreams, because i wasn't a united states citizen. >> reporter: and then a surprise, publicly praising an american nun and saying of all nuns here in the u.s., i love you very much. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: we have never seen anything quite like it from the pope. but this pope, after all, is already breaking the mold. pope francis is the first

unclear if those cameras captured any images of the reporting in the belmont section of the bronx, valerie castro, cbs 2 news. on the funeral plans for new jersey high school football player. services will be held on friday for 17-year-old evan murray. the warren hills high school quarterback died after being injured in a game friday night. the funeral take place at 11 a.m. at faith discovery church in washington township. visitation will be held the day before on wednesday from noon to 9 p.m. at the church as well. murray's cause of death has not yet been determined. >>> a staten island teen on vacation with college friends has died while kayaking on a lake. his family talked to cbs 2's matt kozar about how they're coping after this accident. >> we were very close. he was like a second brother. >> reporter: gabby still cannot believe her cousin is gone. 21-year-old daniel holnsteiner died while kayaking with 10 friends on a lake in new zealand. he went to the university of buffalo but had been studying abroad in australia. >> the wind apparently swept the kayak and it swamped and tipped o