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Speaker 1: Gordy and Sunny in Boston. It's eleven o'clock, good Monday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm Laurie Kirby. Here's what's happening. Let's start in Rome.
Speaker 1: Coach Francis is awake, alert and in good spirits right
Speaker 1: now in a Roman hospital, despite being in critical condition
Speaker 1: at last check, with early signs of kidney failure. But
Speaker 1: how do we get to this point for the eighty
Speaker 1: eight year old Pontiff ABC Sony Salzman speaking on the
Speaker 1: Start Here podcast with a look.
Speaker 3: What we noticed That the Pope has been hospitalized since
Speaker 3: February fourteenth, following difficulties breathing. He was diagnosed with double
Speaker 3: pneumonia on Tuesday, which basically means he has pneumonia in
Speaker 3: both lungs according to the Vatican, and on Saturday, the
Speaker 3: Vatican said he was in critical condition after a respiratory crisis.
Speaker 3: So as of Sunday he remained in critic condition, but
Speaker 3: the Vatican said he was no longer in an acute
Speaker 3: crisis or respiratory crisis.
Speaker 1: Catholics from all over the planet and right here in
Speaker 1: our backyard are praying for the pontiff's recovery and of
Speaker 1: course his native Argentina Logan Hall was CBS News Boston has.
Speaker 4: More prishoners at Cathedral of the Holy Cross coming together
Speaker 4: to pray for Pope Francis.
Speaker 2: We pray for him every day, but obviously especially since.
Speaker 4: He is so sick. Inside the cathedral, there are newspapers
Speaker 4: and articles showcasing what this pope has done.
Speaker 5: He's done a great job for the church, and hopefully he.
Speaker 2: Continuce to Father.
Speaker 4: Tom Reese is a Jesuit priest and the senior analyst
Speaker 4: at Religion News Service. He says Pope Francis will go
Speaker 4: down as an historic figure.
Speaker 5: He projected a pastoral, loving, compassionate vision.
Speaker 1: Pope Francis was elected Pope in twenty thirteen. We are
Speaker 1: anticipating an update on his condition from the Vaticans sometime today.
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Speaker 1: Two local sanctuary cities are now suing the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Chelsea and Somerville are suing the federal government for trying
Speaker 1: to force them to take part in the mass deportation efforts.
Speaker 1: Both cities argue the president's threat of taking away federal
Speaker 1: funding for not complying and threatening to prosecute them for
Speaker 1: not complying with immigration orders is a violation of their
Speaker 1: constitutional rights, and they want a judge to block him
Speaker 1: and those executive orders on immigration and rule that they
Speaker 1: are indeed unconstitutional. We've seen so many lawsuits. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the lawyers for federal workers. They're now taking legal
Speaker 1: action against billionaire and presidential pal and advisor Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: arguing that must call for workers to basically respond in
Speaker 1: an email listing five things they actually accomplished on the
Speaker 1: job last week or be fired is a violation of
Speaker 1: the law. ABC's even Portinoy reports even members of the
Speaker 1: Trump White House are pushing back.
Speaker 2: The email has sparked widespread confusion and angst to cross
Speaker 2: the federal government, with several agency heads contradicting Elon Musk
Speaker 2: telling workers not to comply with the directive. Musk, on
Speaker 2: his ex account says those who don't take the email
Speaker 2: seriously will quote soon be furthering their career elsewhere.
Speaker 1: The NBI, State Department, Homeland Security, and the Pentagon all
Speaker 1: told their employees don't respond to the email. The deadline
Speaker 1: to do so is tonight at midnight, So nice out.
Speaker 1: We're looking at a high right now of forty two
Speaker 1: in Brockton. The city of Brockton looking fine with some
Speaker 1: brighter sunshine than Boston. Boston kind of has a haze
Speaker 1: out there today, but it's still nicehy today forty six
Speaker 1: in Boston, and then tonight low thirty seven on the
Speaker 1: warmer side, and even the lowest side will be above freezing.
Speaker 1: No rain, maybe a couple of shours later tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: how about this nearing fifty tomorrow, fifty one on when
Speaker 1: with a lot of sun Thursday in the fifties with
Speaker 1: a little bit of rain. How about that. City and
Speaker 1: neighborhood leaders in Boston are planning a meeting this week.
Speaker 1: They want to address a spike in petty crimes in
Speaker 1: a very popular downtown area. Wbz's Jim McKay fills us.
Speaker 6: In Boston has made many strides since we crawled out
Speaker 6: of the doldrums of the pandemic, but total crime has
Speaker 6: increases around the common feel.
Speaker 1: Like in the last part of two years. Thinks have changed.
Speaker 6: Leslie says she takes the tea during the morning, but
Speaker 6: when she works late, she dials up in uber I
Speaker 6: don't feel fit on time.
Speaker 2: She's not the only one, very dangerous.
Speaker 6: Marissa works over at Tough's medical center, she says, the
Speaker 6: younger people, that's who she's concerned.
Speaker 2: About, especially for the Kisettajuaca.
Speaker 6: The meeting with neighborhood and city leaders on Thursday will
Speaker 6: be wide ranging, cutting down the rates of shoplifting and
Speaker 6: other petty crimes.
Speaker 2: The overall goal.
Speaker 4: So we could do a little bit better.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 6: On the Common Jim mcka WVZ, Boston's news.
Speaker 1: Radio and again. While federal workers are ordered back to
Speaker 1: work in person, a Massachusetts coalition is urging for remote
Speaker 1: meanings to be extended forever now. The emergency rules adopted
Speaker 1: during the height of the COVID pandemic, allowing local governing
Speaker 1: boards and the state legislature and Beacon Hill to do
Speaker 1: business remotely is going to expire at the end of
Speaker 1: marsh It's already been extended before. It remains to be
Speaker 1: seen what happens here. As the tech industry faces a
Speaker 1: wave of layoffs and tear of threats, Apple is making
Speaker 1: a big investment.
Speaker 5: Tim Cook was at the White House last weekend, while
Speaker 5: the Apple CEO was silent after his meeting with President Trump,
Speaker 5: Trump was not.
Speaker 3: He's investing hundreds of billions of dollars.
Speaker 5: I hope he's announced that Cook had not, But today
Speaker 5: Apple confirms that it'll spend half a trillion dollars and
Speaker 5: hire twenty thousand people over the next four years as
Speaker 5: it builds out its research and development and manufacturing within
Speaker 5: the United States. Jim Ryan ABCS.
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