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Gordy and Sunny in Boston. It's eleven o'clock, good Monday morning. I'm Laurie Kirby. Here's what's happening. Let's start in Rome. Coach Francis is awake, alert and in good spirits right now in a Roman hospital, despite being in critical condition at last check, with early signs of kidney failure. But how do we get to this point for the eighty eight year old Pontiff ABC Sony Salzman speaking on the Start Here podcast with a look.
What we noticed That the Pope has been hospitalized since February fourteenth, following difficulties breathing. He was diagnosed with double pneumonia on Tuesday, which basically means he has pneumonia in both lungs according to the Vatican, and on Saturday, the Vatican said he was in critical condition after a respiratory crisis. So as of Sunday he remained in critic condition, but the Vatican said he was no longer in an acute crisis or respiratory crisis.
Catholics from all over the planet and right here in our backyard are praying for the pontiff's recovery and of course his native Argentina Logan Hall was CBS News Boston has.
More prishoners at Cathedral of the Holy Cross coming together to pray for Pope Francis.
We pray for him every day, but obviously especially since.
He is so sick. Inside the cathedral, there are newspapers and articles showcasing what this pope has done.
He's done a great job for the church, and hopefully he.
Continuce to Father.
Tom Reese is a Jesuit priest and the senior analyst at Religion News Service. He says Pope Francis will go down as an historic figure.
He projected a pastoral, loving, compassionate vision.
Pope Francis was elected Pope in twenty thirteen. We are anticipating an update on his condition from the Vaticans sometime today. We are your breaking news station, both here and streaming on the new iHeartRadio app, and we do have breaking news. Two local sanctuary cities are now suing the Trump administration. Chelsea and Somerville are suing the federal government for trying to force them to take part in the mass deportation efforts.
Both cities argue the president's threat of taking away federal funding for not complying and threatening to prosecute them for not complying with immigration orders is a violation of their constitutional rights, and they want a judge to block him and those executive orders on immigration and rule that they are indeed unconstitutional. We've seen so many lawsuits. Let's talk
about the lawyers for federal workers. They're now taking legal action against billionaire and presidential pal and advisor Elon Musk, arguing that must call for workers to basically respond in an email listing five things they actually accomplished on the job last week or be fired is a violation of the law. ABC's even Portinoy reports even members of the Trump White House are pushing back.
The email has sparked widespread confusion and angst to cross the federal government, with several agency heads contradicting Elon Musk telling workers not to comply with the directive. Musk, on his ex account says those who don't take the email seriously will quote soon be furthering their career elsewhere.
The NBI, State Department, Homeland Security, and the Pentagon all told their employees don't respond to the email. The deadline to do so is tonight at midnight, So nice out. We're looking at a high right now of forty two in Brockton. The city of Brockton looking fine with some
brighter sunshine than Boston. Boston kind of has a haze out there today, but it's still nicehy today forty six in Boston, and then tonight low thirty seven on the warmer side, and even the lowest side will be above freezing. No rain, maybe a couple of shours later tomorrow. But how about this nearing fifty tomorrow, fifty one on when with a lot of sun Thursday in the fifties with a little bit of rain. How about that. City and neighborhood leaders in Boston are planning a meeting this week.
They want to address a spike in petty crimes in a very popular downtown area. Wbz's Jim McKay fills us.
In Boston has made many strides since we crawled out of the doldrums of the pandemic, but total crime has increases around the common feel.
Like in the last part of two years. Thinks have changed.
Leslie says she takes the tea during the morning, but when she works late, she dials up in uber I don't feel fit on time.
She's not the only one, very dangerous.
Marissa works over at Tough's medical center, she says, the younger people, that's who she's concerned.
About, especially for the Kisettajuaca.
The meeting with neighborhood and city leaders on Thursday will be wide ranging, cutting down the rates of shoplifting and other petty crimes.
The overall goal.
So we could do a little bit better.
I love that.
I love that.
On the Common Jim mcka WVZ, Boston's news.
Radio and again. While federal workers are ordered back to work in person, a Massachusetts coalition is urging for remote meanings to be extended forever now. The emergency rules adopted during the height of the COVID pandemic, allowing local governing boards and the state legislature and Beacon Hill to do business remotely is going to expire at the end of marsh It's already been extended before. It remains to be
seen what happens here. As the tech industry faces a wave of layoffs and tear of threats, Apple is making a big investment.
Tim Cook was at the White House last weekend, while the Apple CEO was silent after his meeting with President Trump, Trump was not.
He's investing hundreds of billions of dollars.
I hope he's announced that Cook had not, But today Apple confirms that it'll spend half a trillion dollars and hire twenty thousand people over the next four years as it builds out its research and development and manufacturing within the United States. Jim Ryan ABCS.
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