Morning Run with Amy and TJ.

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Good morning, everyone. It's Monday, April 21st.

Welcome to Morning Run. I'm Amy Robach.

And I'm T.J. Holmes. And on the run this morning. Breaking and shocking news this morning.

Pope Francis has died just a day after the faithful and the world saw him frail but

still triumphant as he gave the traditional Easter blessing and greeted crowds. We do have everything

you need to know about this fast-moving, breaking story as information has been coming into us for

the past several hours. We'll give you the very latest as we know it.

Also on this busy morning run, that Easter truce between Russia and Ukraine did not last very long.

And more states reporting measles cases. Plus, the Pentagon needs a new cell phone policy.

Also on the run this morning, Supreme Court justices were up late Friday. Trump probably wishes they'd gone to bed early. And turns out

that White House list of demands to Harvard wasn't actually ever supposed to be sent to Harvard. Oops.

And the most famous marathon in the world gets underway this morning.

Plus, Wendy's is trying to make up with Katie.

We'll let you know how that's going.

But first, we do begin this morning run with that sad and breaking news.

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88.

The Vatican said he died at 7.35 a.m. local time. That's about 2.35 a.m. on the east coast here in the U.S. So this happened while most of us were sleeping and a lot of people waking up to the news this morning.

Francis, as they put it, returned to the house of the father. Vatican saying his entire life was

dedicated to the service of the Lord and his

church. That dedication was on full display over the past several days. It certainly wasn't. Perhaps

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