it s december 31st. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. good morning. good to be with you. i m amara walker. thank you for spending part of this final day of 2022 with us. we re following breaking news. pope emeritus benedict has died at the age of 95. his health had been faming prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the first time in modern history, pope benedict resigned, which paved the way for pope francis to take control of the catholic church. cnn cnn s deana gallagher has more. a german childhood, he lived in the shadows of hitler s nazi regime, he was referred to as god s rottweiler. years caused accomplishments to go unnoticed. he was the first pope to go green, making the vatican the first country in the world to go with a zero carbon footprint and bringing in electric vehicles including a hybrid popemobile. he was cardinal and pope dur the year whence the catholic church sex scandals came to light. it was too little too late for some, but it wa
. 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 bringing
one! well, those aussies, they know how to do their fireworks. they do. too right, as they say. beautiful. yeah, sydney harbour there with the glow. kind of looks like my neighbor s house. i m sure. here s another plus, down there in australia, they are just kicking off summer, so ga-day. welcome to 2023. do you have any big plans tonight? no. it s 12:01, quick cheers and good night, everybody. us, too. cnn this morning continues now. and good morning. it is saturday, december 31st, here in the u.s. we ve still got a bit of time left in this year, happy new year s eve. thanks for waking up with us. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. glad to be with you, martin. i m amara walker. thank you so much for joining us. we began this morning with breaking news and sad news to end the year. pope emeritus benedict has died. his health had deteriorated over the last several days prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. you re watching cnn news central. i m boris sanchez in washington. we want to talk about the breaking news at a new york border crossing. the fbi is investigating a vehicle explosion there. this is at the rainbow bridge, u.s./canada border crossing. it s get to brynn gingras with the latest details. reporter: the fbi, the atf, the joint terrorism task force, federal authorities on the u.s. side and on the canada side are monitoring the situation trying to figure out what happened. what we know is that there was a car crossing into the u.s. from canada and what has been described as a crash at that crossing there at the rainbow bridge. then, a subsequent explosion is what the fbi is describing. whether or not this was sinister is not clear at this point. as you can imagine, at this point of entry it s going to be an uptick in security across that area. that is what we re seeing currently in response as this is still being investiga