to compete in today's rat race society of materialism that the pope has spoken so often of and thomas mertinnce you start looking into it as an individual who reached across to other faiths and i think he was speaking in the context to use the cuba, the united states and cuba brokered incidentally by pope francis to end reaching across to old enemies and the need for the united states and for everyone around the world to do that but i think it could be seen as a metaphor for the bipartisanship and need for politicians to lead. you know, and once you look at it in the context of what is happening all around us in washington no one needs to be reminded of the acromony that characterizes politics today and look to six days from now if i have my math right, october first when the government threatens to be shut down over lack of agreement by funding. >> patrick you saw the cardinal a second ago. >> watching the pope's plane pull up to the special jet way at jfk airport and said he would be greeted by brooklyn bishop and you may not know that brooklyn and queens sorry brooklyn falls in the roman

. >> the pope also mentioned monk thomas mertin. he was a poet and champion of nonviolence. senator cory booker there. stay with us for live coverage of the pope's events all day long on air, online, and on the go. if you're not at home or in the office, you can watch any time, anywhere. just download the nbc 4 new york app. >>> new this morning, investigators are searching for the cause of a deadly fire in brooklyn. a 10-year-old boy was killed when flames tore through his bedroom. the fire broke out just before 10:00 last night in east new york. three siblings in the room were able to escape. officials say both parents were home at the time of the fire. >>> today china's president could announce an environmental breakthrough when he meets with president obama. xi jinping was welcomed to the white house last night, and that's where he and the president will hold summit talks. xi plans to announce that china will begin a program in 2017, a cap and trade program, and that move should set pollution limits for that country. the u.s. has long pressed china to help fight global w