All right, happy Monday, although we start with some bad news at the beginning of the program today as we speak

We are watching a massive fire that has broken out at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

Watching just a couple hours ago. Maybe it hour and a half ago the spire of

This great cathedral literally collapsing

um, and

What we're hearing this we were in the middle of a renovation project

We know that for sure because we saw the scaffolding surrounding the spire and clearly those some work being done

We're told that everybody that was inside of the cathedral at the time has been evacuated as soon as it began

Um, I mean the pictures you just it's so out of control this there's no hope

That this cathedral is going to be saved. It's 870 years old

It was a

Notre Dame which means quote our lady was built in 1160 completed by 1260. They've been modified

on a number of occasions throughout the centuries and

Its cathedral is the archdiocese of Paris

Visited by more than 12 million people every year and you know watching the enormous plumes of smoke

Billowing into the city skyline

Firefighters clearly are doing everything possible that they can do

The almost immediately thereafter they thought it was related to the renovation work

I have heard there are some French politicians and no one was just on Fox

Suggesting it might be something else, but it's way too early to go there until we have any type of confirmation

But certainly you know, we want to get to the bottom of whatever the truth is and we'll wait watch and see

But um apparently they've been a series. I guess of fires and some other churches around

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