and healthy new years eve. we are continuing to follow the breaking news out of the vatican. pope benedict the 16th has died at the age of 95. the vatican says the retired pope passed away early this morning. his funeral will be held on january 5th in st. peters square. presided over by pope francis. that is the man who became leader of the catholic church after benedict resigned from the role in 2013. msnbc looks back on his life and legacy. it was a resignation that shocked the catholic church. pope benedict, less than eight years after his election, he became the first pope and seven centuries to voluntarily retire. he said that he lacked the strength of mind and body to do the job. he felt like he was being prevented from being the pope in a way that he felt the pope should be present for the people of god. he was born joseph rat singer in wartime germany. in the deeply catholic weijia bavaria. he and his brother george people became priests. both eventually landed
Water. The small town marks the spot where the Mississippi River empties into the gulf of mexico. Locals call it the end of the world. Everybody knows everybodys business pretty much, good and bad, and some people like it and some people dont. I tend to like it. Many people in venice make their money trawling for shrimp. Its hard, dangerous work. The sea can either be friend or foe. Its rough, and the people there are rough. Its not a genteel community. Theres friction there. Theres friction there between the pleasure fishermen and the workaday fishermen that do it for a living. In july of 2000, a storm battered the louisiana coast while the fishing boats were still at sea. All the boats somehow made it back safely, all except one. Captain raymond leiker, otherwise known as tinky, and his deckhand alvin latham were missing along with their shrimp boat named the bandit. The coast guard was notified. They searched the area in the gulf where tinky had made his last radio transmission but
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