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. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it s december 31st. yes, it s the last day of the year. happy new year s eve to you, martin. happy new year s eve to you as well, amara. thank you. we are, of course, following breaking news this morning. pope benedict emeritus has died. pope francis had been asking for prayers. for the firstet time in modern history he resigned in 2013, citing advanced age, which paved the way for pope francis to head the church. cnn s delia gallagher with more. reporter: in many respects, benedict xvi was the pope who got a bad rap. nearly 24 years as pope john paul ii eternal enforcer and the german chancellor lived in the shadows of hitler s regime, referred as god s rottweiler. years of anything tev publicity caused many of his accomplishments to go unnoticed. he was the first pope to go green, making the vatican the first country in the world with a zero carbon footprint, putting solar panels on its rooftops, and bri ....
many americans could wake up this saturday morning to find desperately needed relief payments already in their bank accounts. the first batch of payments were processed friday, the same day that the american rescue plan was signed into law. now president bill bjoe biden a team plan to travel the country spreading awareness. here is jeff zeleny. help is here and we will not stop working for you. reporter: president biden celebrating his first legislative success, hailing the rescue plan as a triumph of to lift the nation from crisis. together with you, we re showing that it is possible to get big important things done. reporter: it was a rose garden victory lap. with biden soaking in his first official event there as president. to tout a law now part of his legacy. it changes the paradigm, for the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this nation first. not hyperbole, it is a fact. reporter: but he made clear that the law that will touch ....
Is that there isn t much change happening. that is in fact not the case. change in terms of women s positions has been already happening, despite our conversations about potential female successor. and is because of north korean women themselves, not because of what s happening at the top. and that has been driven by their own creativity. driven by necessity of the fam famine from 1990. the women are the breadwinners, they re the ones, and i saw them in north korea, i was doing my shopping at the market every week, it was all women selling those products, who were running the place. in my conversation with pyongyang female millennials, many of our friends ultimately dismissed marriage and motherhood in favor of careers ....
In holding back, you know, last time around he tried to kind of out-do every other social conservative and be, you know, tougher and more aggressive and more out there than anybody else and he wound up basically humiliating himself. nobody bought the idea mitt romney is this far right conservative. he was the guy who supported an individual mandate, he d been the governor of a blue state, he s not going to win a contest with michele bachmann and ron paul when it comes to who s the most conservative, so what romney s trying to do is hold back for as long as he can and be palatable to enough conservatives without alienating general election voters. josh greene, senior political editor for the atlantic, thank you for being with me tonight. coming up, a 21st century fam famine, tragedy in somalia continues. but first, matt damon takes on ....