Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. We continue to follow
Speaker 1: developing news out of Tallahassee, Florida, where a mass shooting
Speaker 1: took place today at Florida State.
Speaker 2: CBS News special report. Several people have been shot after
Speaker 2: at least one suspect open fire at Florida State University.
Speaker 2: Ryan Cedar Grin says everyone at the student union building
Speaker 2: was rushing to get out.
Speaker 3: I didn't hear any gunshots. My first instinct was something's
Speaker 3: not right here, and we need to go shelter somewhere
Speaker 3: because everyone immediately running is not normal.
Speaker 2: Michael Price's daughter is a student at the university.
Speaker 4: We are concerned for our daughter, but at least we're
Speaker 4: talking to our daughter and know that she is safe.
Speaker 4: Our hearts and prayers and minds are to anyone who's
Speaker 4: possibly had a chiwel or relative who's.
Speaker 2: Been in At list six people have been injured. CBS's
Speaker 2: Nana Schechter says this is still an active crime scene.
Speaker 2: The FBI is there on scene assisting multiple agencies, multiple
Speaker 2: ambulances lined up. CBS News special report. I'm Linda Kenya.
Speaker 1: We'll continue to follow developments out of Tallahassee, Florida and
Speaker 1: bring them to you here on WBZ and always streaming
Speaker 1: on the Guyheart Radio appe. The Supreme Courts now says
Speaker 1: it will weigh in next month on President Trump's executive
Speaker 1: order ending birthright citizenship. For now, the Court's keeping a
Speaker 1: hold on that order, which aims to end automatic citizenship
Speaker 1: for children born in the US regardless of their parents'
Speaker 1: immigration status. Three district courts around the country have temporarily
Speaker 1: blocked the order after states and immigrants' rights groups had
Speaker 1: sued Harvard in the crosshairs. The Trump administration says it
Speaker 1: wants to know more about the protest activities of foreign
Speaker 1: students at the university.
Speaker 5: The Homeland Security Secretary accuses Harvard of bending the knee
Speaker 5: to anti Semitism. Christy Nolmes says the Universe Steve must
Speaker 5: now provide her with detailed records on the quote illegal
Speaker 5: and violent activities of its student visa holders. If the
Speaker 5: school refuses, NOME says it risks losing the government certification
Speaker 5: that allows it to host foreign students. Earlier this week,
Speaker 5: Harvard rejected the administration's demands for sweeping policy changes and
Speaker 5: moved The White House answered by canceling more than two
Speaker 5: billion dollars in grants.
Speaker 1: Oh ABC. Stephen Portenoy, a Harvard spokesperson, says they are
Speaker 1: aware of the Department of Homeland Securities letter regarding grant
Speaker 1: cancelations and scrutiny of foreign student visas, and they say,
Speaker 1: like the freezing of grants and also contracts reports of
Speaker 1: the revocation of Harvard's five oh one C three tax
Speaker 1: exempt status, Harvard will not surrender its independence or relinquish
Speaker 1: its constitutional rights. A scare on Boylston Street this morning,
Speaker 1: a Boston police officer discharges a firearm near the Public
Speaker 1: Library and just days before the Boston Marathon. Ale say
Speaker 1: it began with a call to remove disruptive people from
Speaker 1: outside the library. CBS News Boston's Beth Grumano spoke with
Speaker 1: some who saw what happened.
Speaker 6: Gunshot rings out just as crews were laying down the
Speaker 6: Boston Marathon finish line and Copley Square, startling onlookers.
Speaker 3: We weren't starting at that time, and we sort of
Speaker 3: I kept focus on looking at the finish line, thinking
Speaker 3: maybe that was a shop, maybe it was something that
Speaker 3: fell off a truck.
Speaker 6: Boston police confirm a firearm was discharged to gain control
Speaker 6: of what they described as a vicious dog. The animal
Speaker 6: with a man and woman outside the Boston Public Library.
Speaker 1: There were no reports of any injuries. We'll have a
Speaker 1: pretty decent night, though it will be a little chilly,
Speaker 1: thirty two and some of the coldest suburbs about forty
Speaker 1: two downtown with clear to partly cloudy skies. Not bad Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: some sunshine mixing with some clouds. Temperatures into the sixties
Speaker 1: in fact, mid sixties and some of the warmest spots,
Speaker 1: probably only the mid fifties over the Cape and Islands.
Speaker 1: Partly the mostly cloudy Tomorrow night, then Saturday, a few
Speaker 1: clouds around. There'll be some sunshine too, and it will
Speaker 1: be much warmer. Temperatures get into the mid even upper
Speaker 1: seventies around the area, though cooler over the Cape and Islands.
Speaker 1: Watch out on Saturday for an afternoon or evening shower
Speaker 1: or two. Sunday's okay, some sunshine. It'll be windy for Easter,
Speaker 1: with highs in the low sixties. Right now fifty nine
Speaker 1: degrees in Boston. Well, it used to be TikTok stars
Speaker 1: were mostly on the younger side, but not all of them.
Speaker 1: A Wooster area man proving it's never too late to
Speaker 1: let your star shine.
Speaker 3: Picture this someone is dancing to Chapel Roone on TikTok.
Speaker 3: The video has five million views and the dancer is
Speaker 3: sixty years old. The doctor's telling me I need a
Speaker 3: hip replacement ten years ago. Kevin full Janeti is his name,
Speaker 3: but to his half million followers, he's unbothered. keV.
Speaker 6: No one thought I was gonna make it, and I
Speaker 6: made it.
Speaker 3: He was born and raised just outside of Worcester and Paston,
Speaker 3: mass but his life hasn't always been this glamorous.
Speaker 5: I had spent ten years living a life of debauchery.
Speaker 3: I was Patty it so to help him stay sober,
Speaker 3: he needed a new creative outlet.
Speaker 2: I was the guy at the wedding that was over dancing.
Speaker 5: It looked like it.
Speaker 3: Sorry about that. Now every day he posts a fifteen
Speaker 3: second video of himself dancing, either in his kitchen, on
Speaker 3: the side of the road, really anywhere. In the movie
Speaker 3: strikes and gen Z is eating it up. I'm here
Speaker 3: to tell you that I've made it. Hell Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: with TikTok stuff. His new goal is to be the
Speaker 3: commencement speaker at UMass. Matt Sheer WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: See more of this on our TikTok at WZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: One of the most divisive household arguments are found right
Speaker 1: next to the trash can. Yeah. Wz's Kyle Shaffle get
Speaker 1: into the bottom of it.
Speaker 7: It's a source of fierce disputes, finger pointing, and marital turbulence.
Speaker 7: That's right, they're recycling. I set out for the gigantic
Speaker 7: Casella plant in Charles Hown to do some paper, plastic
Speaker 7: and metal myth busting. One of the biggest questions how
Speaker 7: clean does everything really need to be? We ask people,
Speaker 7: rinse it, let it dry, and then throw it in
Speaker 7: with your mixed recycle balls. Jeff Wills is the VP
Speaker 7: of communications here. They only chuck a tiny percentage of
Speaker 7: the hundreds of tons of recycling they get for being
Speaker 7: too dirty. Other things they see often pose a way
Speaker 7: bigger problem.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest issue that we face our lithium
Speaker 1: ion batteries.
Speaker 7: That's because the machines here crush everything. The batteries can explode.
Speaker 7: Can seller goes through two hundred and fifty thousand tons
Speaker 7: of junk here a year of telling it off as
Speaker 7: useful commodities. Kyle Shaffle, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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