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Fifty four degrees in Boston right now at Copley Square, partly cloudy over the marathon finish line. It is eleven o'clock on Marathon Monday. Good to be with you. I'm Nicole Davis and here's what's happening. Just a short time ago, the fastest wheelchair racers in the world rolled across the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street. American Susanna Scaroni from Oregon winning the women's wheelchair race with the time
of one hour, thirty five minutes and twenty seconds. The silver bullet Marcel Hoogos, Switzerland, winning on the men's side with the time of one hour, twenty one minutes and thirty four seconds. The elite men and women runners are making their way down the course and coming up in just about fifteen minutes, the final wave of non professional runners start their trek, their twenty six point two mile run from Hopkinton to Copley Square. Wbz's James Rojas is in Hopkinton at the star arding line.
You cannot ask for better weather or a better start to one of the most famous races in the world.
If people say, what's your biggest concern going into a race, and it's always the weather because it's the unknown factor. Even weather forecasts are week's out, aren't necessarily, you know, accurate.
Fortunately for the thousands of participants and for race director Dave mcgilvery, these are near perfect Boston Marathon conditions.
Won't be too warm, won't be too cold, almost ideal conditions.
Right now, it's perfect.
It seems like we locked out, which makes a huge difference for everybody. So I'm sure that run I feel appreciate it today.
Bright smiles all matching the bright sun this Patriot's Day at the star line. James Rojas w b Z, Boston's News Radio.
We have our roving reporters all over the marathon course, right at the finish line as well Chris Foma calling the winners. Stay with us right here on WBZ News Radio, stream us on the iHeartRadio app. We've got coverage for you throughout the day. I mean time in eleven o two world and locally are reacting to the death of Pope Francis. The Vatican announcing the eighty eight year olds passing early this morning. Senator Ed Markey spoke with us here at WBZ News Radio about the Pope and his legacy.
He lived the sermon on the mouth, plus it out the poor, blessed out the sick, blessed are the immigrants, blessed are those in prison, and he called upon all of us to ensure that we did God's work to protect everyone.
Governor Morrihally says she is joining her fellow Catholics in mourning. Vice President J. D. Vance also offering his condolences. He actually was in Italy meeting with the Pope just hours before he passed. Cardinals are set to meet tomorrow to start making funeral plans, and then there will be a period of mourning before a conclave to choose the Pope's successor, and the White House says it strongly stands behind Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth. He faces renewed calls to resign as reports come in that he sent details about military plans in a second signal group chat. As comes, of course, after Hegseth and several other prominent officials mistakenly included a journalist in a signal chat about military strikes in Yemen.
This was a family and friends, a chatterer that Hexeth created during the confirmation process continued to use and pretty much around the same time that he was sharing that
information on that other NSC group. Here he is sharing this information with people who are family members, and questions have been asked about the propriety of sharing that information with family members, including his wife who used to be a Fox producer, And that raises the question about who is he sharing with this information and wore these individuals cleared now?
Does ABC's Louis Martinez New York Times reporting this morning, the information shared in the second chat includes details similar to those in the first chat, and right now, looking at the forecast, could not be better for those runners out there, most of us seeing temperatures now in the
low fifties. We have a very light breeze coming off the water right now, about five six seven miles an hour, so just enough to get them a little bit of arees on their face to keep them cool, but it's not really going to be pushing them back too much as they make their way toward Copley's Square later on today, we'll have a high in the mid fifties in Boston, mid sixties Inland and then later on tonight we'll see some showers popping by after midnight. Low in the upper
forties tomorrow, very warm and very gusty out there. Some sun returns after some showers in the morning, and we've got a high in the mid to upper seventies our temperatures out there. Right now along the marathon route, we're at fifty four degrees in Wellesley, seeing fifty two in Ashland, in brookline fifty three, and right now in Boston at Copley's Square right by the finish line at eleven oh six,
it is partly cloudy and fifty four degrees. Checking in on our current race leaders in the Boston Marathon right now. When it comes to the men's elite group, they are making their way through Newton and there's a bit of a fight at the front of the pack which is starting to break up a little bit. Patrick Tiernan of Australia and Connor manson the United States continuing to fight, but they are starting to lose a little bit of ground. And when it comes to the female professional runners, they
are out there doing their thing in Wellesley. The pack kind of coming into a bit of a line at this point and leading that line is Sharon Loketti. She is from Kenya. So we're keeping an eye on those packs as they make their way along the marathon race toward Copley Square.
All right, it is a very busy tea stop pretty much all along the green line, the orange line, everywhere. I'm here with some marathon goers.
I take it.
Hm, yes we are.
Who are you going to support?
Just all the runners? We don't have anyone in particular. Where you from. I'm from Ohio.
Oh wow, first marathon?
No? Last year?
Oh?
Last year? Okay?
Cool?
What is your sign?
Say?
It says you're running better than the government?
Very creative, very nice. You excited. I am very excited.
It's my second.
Marathon, second marathon. All right, beautiful day for it. Best weather you've had so far. Last year was pretty good.
Last year was really nice.
It was a good temp for sure.
Have a fun day. From the t stop at Boyleston. True Moohall and WZ Boston's News Radio.
You are now in the leap. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, WBZ and Boston's News Radio.