Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio wa defining local news.
Speaker 2: Fifty four degrees in Boston right now at Copley Square,
Speaker 2: partly cloudy over the marathon finish line. It is eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock on Marathon Monday. Good to be with you. I'm
Speaker 2: Nicole Davis and here's what's happening. Just a short time ago,
Speaker 2: the fastest wheelchair racers in the world rolled across the
Speaker 2: Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street. American Susanna Scaroni
Speaker 2: from Oregon winning the women's wheelchair race with the time
Speaker 2: of one hour, thirty five minutes and twenty seconds. The
Speaker 2: silver bullet Marcel Hoogos, Switzerland, winning on the men's side
Speaker 2: with the time of one hour, twenty one minutes and
Speaker 2: thirty four seconds. The elite men and women runners are
Speaker 2: making their way down the course and coming up in
Speaker 2: just about fifteen minutes, the final wave of non professional
Speaker 2: runners start their trek, their twenty six point two mile
Speaker 2: run from Hopkinton to Copley Square. Wbz's James Rojas is
Speaker 2: in Hopkinton at the star arding line.
Speaker 1: You cannot ask for better weather or a better start
Speaker 1: to one of the most famous races in the world.
Speaker 3: If people say, what's your biggest concern going into a race,
Speaker 3: and it's always the weather because it's the unknown factor.
Speaker 3: Even weather forecasts are week's out, aren't necessarily, you know, accurate.
Speaker 1: Fortunately for the thousands of participants and for race director
Speaker 1: Dave mcgilvery, these are near perfect Boston Marathon conditions.
Speaker 3: Won't be too warm, won't be too cold, almost ideal conditions.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's perfect.
Speaker 3: It seems like we locked out, which makes a huge
Speaker 3: difference for everybody. So I'm sure that run I feel
Speaker 3: appreciate it today.
Speaker 1: Bright smiles all matching the bright sun this Patriot's Day
Speaker 1: at the star line. James Rojas w b Z, Boston's
Speaker 1: News Radio.
Speaker 2: We have our roving reporters all over the marathon course,
Speaker 2: right at the finish line as well Chris Foma calling
Speaker 2: the winners. Stay with us right here on WBZ News Radio,
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Speaker 2: you throughout the day. I mean time in eleven o
Speaker 2: two world and locally are reacting to the death of
Speaker 2: Pope Francis. The Vatican announcing the eighty eight year olds
Speaker 2: passing early this morning. Senator Ed Markey spoke with us
Speaker 2: here at WBZ News Radio about the Pope and his legacy.
Speaker 4: He lived the sermon on the mouth, plus it out
Speaker 4: the poor, blessed out the sick, blessed are the immigrants,
Speaker 4: blessed are those in prison, and he called upon all
Speaker 4: of us to ensure that we did God's work to
Speaker 4: protect everyone.
Speaker 2: Governor Morrihally says she is joining her fellow Catholics in mourning.
Speaker 2: Vice President J. D. Vance also offering his condolences. He
Speaker 2: actually was in Italy meeting with the Pope just hours
Speaker 2: before he passed. Cardinals are set to meet tomorrow to
Speaker 2: start making funeral plans, and then there will be a
Speaker 2: period of mourning before a conclave to choose the Pope's successor,
Speaker 2: and the White House says it strongly stands behind Defense
Speaker 2: Secretary Pete Hegseth. He faces renewed calls to resign as
Speaker 2: reports come in that he sent details about military plans
Speaker 2: in a second signal group chat. As comes, of course,
Speaker 2: after Hegseth and several other prominent officials mistakenly included a
Speaker 2: journalist in a signal chat about military strikes in Yemen.
Speaker 5: This was a family and friends, a chatterer that Hexeth
Speaker 5: created during the confirmation process continued to use and pretty
Speaker 5: much around the same time that he was sharing that
Speaker 5: information on that other NSC group. Here he is sharing
Speaker 5: this information with people who are family members, and questions
Speaker 5: have been asked about the propriety of sharing that information
Speaker 5: with family members, including his wife who used to be
Speaker 5: a Fox producer, And that raises the question about who
Speaker 5: is he sharing with this information and wore these individuals
Speaker 5: cleared now?
Speaker 2: Does ABC's Louis Martinez New York Times reporting this morning,
Speaker 2: the information shared in the second chat includes details similar
Speaker 2: to those in the first chat, and right now, looking
Speaker 2: at the forecast, could not be better for those runners
Speaker 2: out there, most of us seeing temperatures now in the
Speaker 2: low fifties. We have a very light breeze coming off
Speaker 2: the water right now, about five six seven miles an hour,
Speaker 2: so just enough to get them a little bit of
Speaker 2: arees on their face to keep them cool, but it's
Speaker 2: not really going to be pushing them back too much
Speaker 2: as they make their way toward Copley's Square later on today,
Speaker 2: we'll have a high in the mid fifties in Boston,
Speaker 2: mid sixties Inland and then later on tonight we'll see
Speaker 2: some showers popping by after midnight. Low in the upper
Speaker 2: forties tomorrow, very warm and very gusty out there. Some
Speaker 2: sun returns after some showers in the morning, and we've
Speaker 2: got a high in the mid to upper seventies our
Speaker 2: temperatures out there. Right now along the marathon route, we're
Speaker 2: at fifty four degrees in Wellesley, seeing fifty two in Ashland,
Speaker 2: in brookline fifty three, and right now in Boston at
Speaker 2: Copley's Square right by the finish line at eleven oh six,
Speaker 2: it is partly cloudy and fifty four degrees. Checking in
Speaker 2: on our current race leaders in the Boston Marathon right now.
Speaker 2: When it comes to the men's elite group, they are
Speaker 2: making their way through Newton and there's a bit of
Speaker 2: a fight at the front of the pack which is
Speaker 2: starting to break up a little bit. Patrick Tiernan of
Speaker 2: Australia and Connor manson the United States continuing to fight,
Speaker 2: but they are starting to lose a little bit of ground.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to the female professional runners, they
Speaker 2: are out there doing their thing in Wellesley. The pack
Speaker 2: kind of coming into a bit of a line at
Speaker 2: this point and leading that line is Sharon Loketti. She
Speaker 2: is from Kenya. So we're keeping an eye on those
Speaker 2: packs as they make their way along the marathon race
Speaker 2: toward Copley Square.
Speaker 6: All right, it is a very busy tea stop pretty
Speaker 6: much all along the green line, the orange line, everywhere.
Speaker 6: I'm here with some marathon goers.
Speaker 1: I take it.
Speaker 4: Hm, yes we are.
Speaker 1: Who are you going to support?
Speaker 2: Just all the runners? We don't have anyone in particular.
Speaker 2: Where you from. I'm from Ohio.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, first marathon?
Speaker 1: No? Last year?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Last year? Okay?
Speaker 4: Cool?
Speaker 1: What is your sign?
Speaker 6: Say?
Speaker 2: It says you're running better than the government?
Speaker 1: Very creative, very nice. You excited. I am very excited.
Speaker 4: It's my second.
Speaker 6: Marathon, second marathon. All right, beautiful day for it. Best
Speaker 6: weather you've had so far. Last year was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Last year was really nice.
Speaker 5: It was a good temp for sure.
Speaker 6: Have a fun day. From the t stop at Boyleston.
Speaker 6: True Moohall and WZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: You are now in the leap. For news updates throughout
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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis, WBZ and Boston's News Radio.