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
criticism on both sides of both zelenskyy and putin for not being i don t want to put words in your mouth, invested in or entirely serious about a peace settlement, as an end to this war. i hate to criticize zelenskyy. i understand why ukrainian people and zelenskyy do not want to enter peace talks, they don t trust putin, they have good reason not to trust him. i think that zelenskyy would like to fight until the end and i think eventually if we gave zelenskyy the weapons he need, ukraine would eventually win. i m just worried if it goes on for years and years, there will be nothing left in ukraine. and simply arming ukraine to the teeth until the point that russia is force today withdraw because the continuing missile assaults on ukraine are doing devastating damage and think about what s going to happen as the winter rolls on with these missile attacks. gillian: while the u.s. continues to cut checks for the ukrainians, one of our, you
the financial markets as well as we look at the united states dealing with teetering on a recession. in a previous life i worked at bear sterns it went down in a similar fashion. it was but it was also a culture of risk taking at bear sterns they made a lot of money. but in the end they made really bad big bets they couldn t pay up on so there you have it. all right winter rolls in, it is cold outside. skip a dell remaking outside space with a he shed she shed competition. that s coming up next.
winter season. we were 80% of their economy. i don t want to support the taliban but we can t let millions of people starve to death because mr. secretary of state doesn t want to talk about and it the president was so evidently in the white house you are not allowed to bring up the word afghanistan. that s why these other people are going to hang, be shot at point blank range and these children are going to starve to death as winter rolls in. ainsley: you know, lawrence, this is how change happens. and you were talking about that. you look at this man, and you have the utmost respect for him. yes, he had to leave the military, he lost his pension, he lost his family. not only are you losing millions of dollars, you are losing your three sons, they had to move away i m sure he sees them. he and his exwife are amicable. it changed his life forever. this is what change is all about. is he a hero. he stood up. good things are in store for him. he said he might write a book. i hope he ru
that wouldn t be today. we re talking late tonight and through the day on wednesday. that will be the worst of it. and ending on thursday. it s going to set up interestingly. we will get snow. but the warm air takes over. we ll get rain. a mess of a forecast. take a look here. we put the clock in motion on tuesday afternoon. you see the torrential rain coming in across the south. and the moisture heads out. and marries with the cold air. the result will be a lot of snow. four to six inches for d.c. any time of the year: new york won t be into it as far as. less an an inch. maybe not even that. the rain will win over here into the day on late wednesday and heading into thursday. here it is. four to six inches in d.c. three to five in philly. before we switch over. back it rainfall. winter rolls on here. it s a short week. but we missed the storm on