to earth cam, thousands of revellers are expecting a soggy countdown. we ll go live to the big apple later in the show. gillian: first to our top story this hour, the world is now mourning of loss of a historical religious figure. the vatican is announcing death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. and charles has more on his long lasting legacy. what a story he had. pope benedict xvi had an impact on catholics across the world in a position he never imagined himself in. for decades cardinal joseph ratsinger had been a key advisor to pope john paul ii, as a staunch conservative. and took the cardinals just two days to give the job to a german, scholarly man who didn t appear to want it. as pope benedict xvi, he rattled relativism, what might be true for someone, might not be true for someone else. and he will be remembered not only for his birthday celebration in the white house, a stop at ground zero and a mass in yankee stadium, but also, by the way in which he addressed the ca
i was honored to serve him. alicia: right now, we can take a live picture. we have a live feed coming out of st. peter s basilica at the vatican right now. pope francis excuse me the exteriors leading the vespers service there. as we look at that, how he didn t really seek this position. he was more of an academic, a professor, someone truly dedicated to catholic teachings, but it s also been said that those who do not seek leadership are the best ones for it. your thoughts on that? i think it s a great point. actually, he tried to resign multiple times in his previous job and pope john paul didn t let him. and all of a sudden pope john paul passed away and the papacy was handed to benedict. he was gracious. i remember the first night he was satisfying his first mass and i work with young people and he said young people, the world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort, you were made for greatness and you could see young people respond to that great call.
here it was structures. trying to be able to breakthrough structures and helping people to be empathetic and understand that everybody deserves a voice. you mentioned st. louis. i do want to get your reaction to a big story coming out of st. louis. the governor of missouri pardoned mark and patricia mccloskey, famously photographed pointing guns at protesters during june of 2020 in those demonstrations in st. louis. you were among the marchers who encounters the mccloskeys that day. he called you the marxist liberal activist leading the mob through our neighborhood. what is your reaction to this pardon? it is absolutely unbelievable. there are other people that should there are pardons that we have been asking for, pardons that actually should happen in missouri and that was not one. that was not one. they stood there. they pointed their guns totally
but this is a huge huge. gaping difference. it s a huge gaping difference. this does not happen by accident. all right. talk to me what else you re seeing in these two states. look, this i think tells the story. let s look at massachusetts. we see that cases are getting worse here. when they get worse among adults or say teens and adults, they get worse among children as well. what we can see here is that back in late june or early july, cases per 100,000 weekly was just eight and nine. once we get to the mid-july period, look here, look how much it jumped up to 42 among 10 plus, up to 35 among 0 to 9, 9-year-olds. and look at these changes. big changes but the change among the youngest kids is lower than the change among older people. that s exactly right. this is a very vaccinated state and what we see here is children who should be getting less sick, at least according to the science, when the population is highly vaccinated as it is in massachusetts, kids are gettin
of course, this is not the first time that a new york governor has been embroiled in controversy. laura jarrett has this story for us. laura, there s a bit of a pattern here. yeah. that s right, brianna. cuomo now joining a list of new york politicians accused of mistreating women in the past. but let s start with the latest allegations against cuomo from the state attorney general s office. a disturbing portrait of a toxic work environment, a pattern of sexual harassment over the course of years and a campaign of silence from his staff. the governor has denied touching anyone inappropriately, but has suggested some of his behavior may have been miscon trued and said he has no intention of stepping down. a man now on an island as the new york state assembly set to meet with lawyers monday to discuss the impeachment process for him. the cultural and political climate for cuomo different than it was for david patterson, new york s first black governor faced crumbling support after repo