Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: fifty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Holiday getaway. Busy highways
Speaker 1: are always part of our equation.
Speaker 2: It makes me warranty, makes me warrant tea back room.
Speaker 1: H huh, sure does. By the way, besides back roads,
Speaker 1: another good way to avoid traffic is in a helicopter. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: wbz's Kristin k is high above the traffic in the
Speaker 1: Needham Bank copter. What do you see, Kristen.
Speaker 3: Well, then we do have a bunch of backups out there,
Speaker 3: one of them being out on the mass Pike of
Speaker 3: Sturbridge and Charlton.
Speaker 2: We've got a disabled vehicle to sitting westbound near the
Speaker 2: Tarlton Service.
Speaker 3: Plauds and making a mess of things there.
Speaker 1: We've also got delays heading toward the Cape. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot more on that throughout the afternoon with
Speaker 1: traffic on the three is reporting live over the Memorial
Speaker 1: Day exodus. Kristin Eck in the naed of Bank Copper.
Speaker 1: All right, if you're going somewhere, just pack the patients.
Speaker 1: Maybe a couple extra doses of it. The State of
Speaker 1: New Hampshire has reached the settlement in the wrongful death
Speaker 1: lawsuit filed by the mother of Harmony Montgomery. The state
Speaker 1: will pay more than two million dollars to Crystal Surry,
Speaker 1: who filed the suit against the Division for Children, Youth
Speaker 1: and Families last year. She argues that they failed to
Speaker 1: act on numerous reports of concerning behavior from Harmony's father,
Speaker 1: who eventually was convicted of murdering Harmony. Adam Montgomery, was
Speaker 1: awarded custody of Harmony in twenty sixteen. Police believe she
Speaker 1: was killed soon after that. A federal judge has filed
Speaker 1: a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from banning international
Speaker 1: students at Harvard University. WBC's Mike Macklin tells us one
Speaker 1: local lawmaker is furious at the president.
Speaker 3: So wrongheaded everything that the White House is doing. I
Speaker 3: just stand in opposition to all that trap. I gotta
Speaker 3: tell you, this president and this administration is dragging this
Speaker 3: country down down every single day in the eyes of
Speaker 3: the world and the eyes of its own citizens and emotional.
Speaker 2: Massachusetts Congressman Stephen inch hammered President Donald Trump for the
Speaker 2: decision to bar international students from enrolling at Harvard.
Speaker 3: The people he has assembled in his administration are a
Speaker 3: goddamn disgrace.
Speaker 1: Disgrace.
Speaker 3: It will take years, maybe decades to repair the damage
Speaker 3: that Donald Trump and that group of morons and buffoons
Speaker 3: is doing to this country each and every day.
Speaker 1: It's just disgraceful.
Speaker 2: For now, are federal judge has blocked Trump's move against
Speaker 2: foreign students at Harvard in South Boston Mike maclum w's
Speaker 2: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: The Department of Homeland Security accuses the school of creating
Speaker 1: an unsafe campus environment for Jewish students by allowing anti
Speaker 1: American pro terrorist agitators on the Harvard campus. President Trump
Speaker 1: commented earlier today on the situation, they.
Speaker 3: Have fifty two billion dollars and this country's paying billions
Speaker 3: and millions of dollars, and then give student loans and
Speaker 3: have to pay back the loans.
Speaker 1: So Harvard's going to have to change his ways. When
Speaker 1: asked about international students coming to American colleges, the President said,
Speaker 1: we don't want troublemakers here. Boston Mayor Michelle Will and
Speaker 1: the school superintendent, Mary Skipper announcing today that Min's Attorney
Speaker 1: Natasha Tidwell will lead an independent review of safety policies
Speaker 1: and performance under contracts with Transdev, the company that contracts
Speaker 1: with BPS to provide transportation services. Tidwell is a former
Speaker 1: federal prosecutor and police officer who specializes in external investigations.
Speaker 1: The decision to initiate a review follows the death of
Speaker 1: Lens Joseph, a kindergartner struck and killed by a school
Speaker 1: bus last month. In case you haven't had enough rain,
Speaker 1: we got a little more for you. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of precipitation stretching across Vermont, New Hampshire and off toward
Speaker 1: the nord Heren coast of Massachusetts. This is Amesbury, Salisbury,
Speaker 1: Newburyport getting it on. A little bit of rain, a
Speaker 1: little bit back toward Merrimac as well. And we are
Speaker 1: seeing some of this rain push across New Hampshire also
Speaker 1: from on a line here from Manchester down to Hampstead.
Speaker 1: Last out Havel had some rain earlier. Looks like they're
Speaker 1: out of the woods at least right now. There's much
Speaker 1: more rain back across the western part of Massachusetts, western Connecticut,
Speaker 1: and eastern New York State. Some of this has been
Speaker 1: putting down some rain along I eighty four and along
Speaker 1: the mass Turnpike. So if that's the way you're heading,
Speaker 1: make sure you have the wipers on because you'll need them.
Speaker 1: And this will push off to the north and to
Speaker 1: the east, so everybody may get under a shower or
Speaker 1: even some occasional rain as we head into the early evening.
Speaker 1: It's not an exceptional amount of rain. It's not like
Speaker 1: yesterday for sure, but nonetheless more rain, which is probably
Speaker 1: not what you wanted to hear. As we go later
Speaker 1: into the night, just clouds hanging around. Forty nine clouds
Speaker 1: with breaks of sun tomorrow. I did say sun, just
Speaker 1: want to make sure you hurt me. A shower or
Speaker 1: two is possible tomorrow, though temperature is near sixty. Probably
Speaker 1: dry from that point on times of clouds and sunshine
Speaker 1: on Sunday, temperatures in the low sixties, upper sixties on
Speaker 1: Monday for Memorial Day, more sun than clouds for us.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 1: Right now it is fifty six degrees in Boston. Well,
Speaker 1: a few bands are down and dozens more are still
Speaker 1: to go. Wbz's Drumo Holland is at Boston calling all right.
Speaker 2: Boston Calling Day one. The music rolls on here. Just
Speaker 2: the three guys eating at a table, enjoying some music.
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 2: What's your name?
Speaker 1: I'm man. Where you're from? I'm from run the Mass
Speaker 1: Who are you here to see today? Luke Holmbs, Luke
Speaker 1: Combs A lot of that tonight. Where are you from?
Speaker 1: I'm from Attleborough?
Speaker 3: Addlebor?
Speaker 1: Who are you here to see? Everybody?
Speaker 2: You like? The whole list? All right? And what are
Speaker 2: you eating over there?
Speaker 1: Pulled pork mac and cheese.
Speaker 3: Excellent food.
Speaker 2: Good for you too.
Speaker 1: Absolutely what do you have? Some Chinese food? I had
Speaker 1: no idea, but it's good.
Speaker 2: And you're my friend.
Speaker 3: Who are you here to see?
Speaker 1: I agree?
Speaker 2: The whole lineup, book screen.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for Wilderado on next.
Speaker 2: A lot of people like them. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 2: figure it all out here as the day goes along.
Speaker 2: From Boston, calling Drew maholland WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: And by the way, just as a heads up, TLC
Speaker 1: had a medical emergency and they will not be performing.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker WBZ, Boston's news radio