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Speaker 1: forty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. The news
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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. Well, we really could use a spring
Speaker 1: nor reaster around here, said no one ever yet here
Speaker 1: we are.
Speaker 2: Some periodic heavy rain through late evening and also into
Speaker 2: the overnight. Winds also peaking later on this afternoon into
Speaker 2: the evening hours as well, possibly impacting the evening commute.
Speaker 2: Minor coastal issues during high tide tonight, and also with
Speaker 2: some lingering minor impacts spilling.
Speaker 1: Over into Friday as well. Matt Is CBS News Boston
Speaker 1: Meteorologist Jason Michael rain and wind hitting us today. It
Speaker 1: will get better into the holiday weekend. We'll have details
Speaker 1: coming up meantime with a holiday weekend match doots encouraging
Speaker 1: Memorial Day travelers to plan ahead. The hov Lane on
Speaker 1: the Expressway deployed early today at two o'clock tomorrow. It
Speaker 1: will open even earlier at one pm to help with
Speaker 1: traffic flow out of town. Mass Dot telling people to
Speaker 1: use their real time travel tools and resources and also
Speaker 1: take public transportation as much as possible, they say, to
Speaker 1: help get you to your destination. As a heads up,
Speaker 1: the Registry of Motor Vehicle Service Centers it closed Monday
Speaker 1: for the holiday, and there's adjustments to the t's schedule. Monday,
Speaker 1: all subway and bus services will operate on a Sunday schedule.
Speaker 1: The battle between Harvard and the Trump administration continues when
Speaker 1: it comes to international students. More from WBC's Brook McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Harvard University says the government's action is unlawful after Homeland
Speaker 3: Security Secretary Christy Nome ordered her department to terminate the
Speaker 3: school Student and Exchange Program certification, which means they can
Speaker 3: no longer enroll foreign students, and ones already on campus
Speaker 3: must transfer or lose their legal status. In a letter
Speaker 3: to the school, Nome says they are holding Harvard accountable
Speaker 3: for fostering violence, anti Semitism, and coordinating with the Chinese
Speaker 3: Communist Party on campus. She called enrolling foreign students a privilege,
Speaker 3: not a right. In their response, Harvard says they are
Speaker 3: fully committed to maintaining the school's ability to host international
Speaker 3: students and scholars. Harvard has students from over one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty different countries. The administration has also cut roughly
Speaker 3: three billion dollars in federal funding from the school for
Speaker 3: not complying with its policies. Burke McCarthy WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: It was early embassy staff members shot and killed in Washington,
Speaker 1: d c. And as the investigation continues, Massachusetts Governor Morraheely
Speaker 1: is reacting. The governor says state police n alert, but
Speaker 1: there's no known threat to the commonwealth. The killing happened
Speaker 1: outside an American Jewish Committee event. The governor says this
Speaker 1: was a senseless, hate fueled act of violence and says
Speaker 1: there is no justification for anti Semitism or violence in
Speaker 1: our nation's capital or anywhere else. President Trump set the
Speaker 1: host of the top crystal currency investors out of dinner tonight,
Speaker 1: a president calling it the most exclusive invitation in the world.
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers tells us the event is sparking some
Speaker 1: conflict of interest concerns.
Speaker 4: Whitehouse defended President Trump attending tonight's exclusive Crypto Gala, a
Speaker 4: dinner at his golf in Virginia with the top two
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty holders of the Trump Meme. Coin Press
Speaker 4: Secretary Caroline Levitt was asked whether the White House Counsel's
Speaker 4: off has reviewed the dinner and offered advice on his participation.
Speaker 5: President is abiding by all conflict of interest laws that
Speaker 5: are applicable to the President, and I think everybody the
Speaker 5: American public believe it's absurd for anyone to insinuate that
Speaker 5: this president is profiting off of the presidency.
Speaker 6: Karen Travers ABC News, we are still dealing with this northeaster,
Speaker 6: and depending on where you are, rain is falling at
Speaker 6: a varying degree. We have some heavier rain back through
Speaker 6: parts of central Massachusetts. In fact, some pretty heavy downpours
Speaker 6: north central right now, out toward the Winchington area Gardner
Speaker 6: that kind of comes down across through the state. And
Speaker 6: then there's heavier rain down around Rhode Island. There's been
Speaker 6: some over the Cape and islands. A lot of this
Speaker 6: is pushing off toward the north. So as we go
Speaker 6: through the afternoon, in the latter part of the afternoon,
Speaker 6: in the evening, places where it's maybe not rain quite
Speaker 6: as heavily, I might pick up some heavier rain and
Speaker 6: all that rain got to go somewhere. Sometimes it just
Speaker 6: puddles up in poor drainage areas and low lying areas,
Speaker 6: and that may be quite a problem, certainly on the roadways.
Speaker 6: As we head into this evening.
Speaker 1: We do have a coastal flood advisory that starts at
Speaker 1: six o'clock to night, a wind advisory through this evening
Speaker 1: along the coast. Some of our wind gusts already in
Speaker 1: excess of forty miles an hour. We may see some
Speaker 1: hit fifty miles an hour as we go through the night. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: it's cloudy, it's breezy, it is cool. It'll feel even
Speaker 1: cooler with that breeze. Temperatures in the mid fifties. A
Speaker 1: couple of showers will linger Tomorrow night, blustery with occasional rain.
Speaker 1: Temperatures in the upper forties and then upper fifties. On Saturday,
Speaker 1: we'll have some clouds around, we may have a shower
Speaker 1: or two. Sunday gets better, some sunshine, Temperatures in the sixties.
Speaker 1: Looks like Monday should be okay as well, though not
Speaker 1: terribly warm, only in the sixties. Right now, we're at
Speaker 1: forty six degrees. See in Boston, Logan Airport's been seeing
Speaker 1: delays and cancelations today with the weather woes along the
Speaker 1: eastern part of the country. Here Northeast, especially three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty one delays at Logan. According to the numbers
Speaker 1: from flight Aware, there have been sixty one cancelations, and
Speaker 1: with the long holiday weekend get away upon US, lines
Speaker 1: have been growing at airports security checkpoints nationwide. ABC's Jim
Speaker 1: Ryan tells us the US travel industry is pricing for
Speaker 1: record numbers this weekend.
Speaker 7: As crowded as the airports are on this unofficial start
Speaker 7: to summer, highways are crammed with Memorial Day road trippers.
Speaker 4: It's more flexible. You leave whenever you want.
Speaker 7: Says Zaike SAIDs of Triple A.
Speaker 4: You can pack as much as you want in the car,
Speaker 4: make stops along the way, and for many families it's
Speaker 4: more economical.
Speaker 7: Staying home instead. The price of a typical All American
Speaker 7: barbecue is up about four percent this year from last
Speaker 7: Jim Ryan ABC News.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're flying, this is also the
Speaker 1: first long holiday weekend where travelers need a real ib
Speaker 1: or other identification to board domestic flights. You are now
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