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Speaker 2: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 3: News, Waning sunshine, bitter cold. It is sixteen in Boston
Speaker 3: right now, where we start off in our nation's capital,
Speaker 3: where President Donald Trump has already signed dozens of executive
Speaker 3: arders less than twenty four hours after taking the oath
Speaker 3: of office. President Trump has withdrawn the country from the
Speaker 3: Paris Climate Accord and made moves to withdraw from the
Speaker 3: World Health Organization as well. He has also declared a
Speaker 3: national emergency at the southern border and pardon more than
Speaker 3: twelve hundred people whose storm he was capital on January sixth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. ABC's Mary Bruce has more.
Speaker 2: The full, complete and unconditional pardons include the former leader
Speaker 2: of the far right group the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio,
Speaker 2: sentenced to twenty two years for sedition. Trump also commuting
Speaker 2: the sentences of fourteen others charged with sedition, including Stuart Rhodes,
Speaker 2: founder of the Oathkeeper's Militia, sentenced to eighteen years.
Speaker 3: About a dozen of the people to receive pardons are
Speaker 3: from Massachusetts, and in another executive order, President Trump targets
Speaker 3: birthright citizenship. ABC Stephen Portnoy has moremed what exactly that means.
Speaker 4: This order says that even if a woman is legally
Speaker 4: in the United States here on for example, the visa
Speaker 4: waiver program, a tourist visa, a student visa, if she's
Speaker 4: pregnant and gives birth here in this country, the baby
Speaker 4: that's born here in the US will not be granted
Speaker 4: an American passport or citizenship unless the father of the
Speaker 4: child happens to be an American citizen or a Green cardholder,
Speaker 4: a lawful permanent resident.
Speaker 3: The ACLU has already filed a lawsuit to block the order.
Speaker 3: President Trump is pledged to conduct the largest mass deportation
Speaker 3: in US history. Massachusetts Republicans are now renewing a push
Speaker 3: to fortify the power of federalized agents to detain suspects.
Speaker 3: It comes as Democrats and Beacon Hill push a bill
Speaker 3: to formerly make Massachusetts a sanctuary state. They would like
Speaker 3: to forbid state belief sheriffs and local law enforcement from
Speaker 3: detaining people on those ice detainers. Senate Minority Leader Bruce
Speaker 3: tar tells The Eagle Tribune their counter move is not
Speaker 3: meant to help the Trump administration round up undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 3: The purpose, he says is to allow eyes to hold
Speaker 3: criminal suspects or convicts in this country illegally for up
Speaker 3: to twelve hours. And one other GOP bill. There are
Speaker 3: two empowers. Actually, one empowers local and state judges to
Speaker 3: honor the ice detainers. The second bill, filed by local
Speaker 3: GOP lawmakers, would force judges to do so, so it
Speaker 3: would not be an obfer. President Trump signs an executive
Speaker 3: order on gender identity. From now on, in the eyes
Speaker 3: of the federal government, there are only two sexes, male
Speaker 3: and female. But that's not the only hard stance the
Speaker 3: new president has taken on gender identity. Yeah, this to
Speaker 3: say at the Liberty Ball with.
Speaker 1: A Party of common sense, you know, we don't want
Speaker 1: to have men playing in women's sports. We don't want
Speaker 1: to have transgender operations for everyone.
Speaker 3: Trump spoke at the second of three inauguration balls he
Speaker 3: was scheduled to attend.
Speaker 5: I'm Tammy Trhillo.
Speaker 3: Looking at the long haul forecast. There is no letup
Speaker 3: in the deep freeze. In fact, the warmest temp I
Speaker 3: can see this week will be Friday, when it hits
Speaker 3: thirty two. That is it. And if you're on the
Speaker 3: cape or the islands, you can have a little bit
Speaker 3: of snow after midnight, it's going to be quite cold.
Speaker 3: We're going to see some clouds move in this afternoon.
Speaker 3: HI in Boston today twenty one to twenty five. Massachusetts
Speaker 3: is finding and recording more cases of bird flu. WBZ
Speaker 3: Sherry Small.
Speaker 6: Reports U mass Amherst confirmed Monday the two geese found
Speaker 6: dead on campus have tested positive for bird flu. This
Speaker 6: follows a weekend announcement out of Plymouth saying that bird
Speaker 6: flu is suspected in the deaths of more than sixty
Speaker 6: Canada geese, swans, and other birds found at Billington c
Speaker 6: in recent weeks. State public health and environmental health officials
Speaker 6: are saying that highly pathogenic avian flu rarely infects humans,
Speaker 6: but they are still warning the public to avoid handling
Speaker 6: any birds or other animals that are dead or appear
Speaker 6: to be sick and at Amherst, the school is warning
Speaker 6: people to be careful around animals and avoid touching the
Speaker 6: geese around the campus pond, Sherry Small WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: The largest teachers union in Massachusetts makes a move to
Speaker 3: legalize teachers strikes. The MTA is calling for a mandatory
Speaker 3: base salary of seventy thousand dollars for teachers as well,
Speaker 3: and fifty five grand for classroom aids. The union is
Speaker 3: filing a new bill as well that would add up
Speaker 3: to twenty six weeks of paid lead. They believe this
Speaker 3: will attract and retain good teachers. Teachers in more than
Speaker 3: a half a dozen districts have gone on strike recently
Speaker 3: looking for better wages and paid family leave. Workers at
Speaker 3: a popular big box store could soon go on strike.
Speaker 3: ABC's Michelle Franzen has that story.
Speaker 5: Costco employees are preparing for a possible walkout. Teamsters union
Speaker 5: members Sunday voting to authorize a strike. More than eighty
Speaker 5: five percent of the workers are in favor of hitting
Speaker 5: the picket lines that issue wages and benefits. A job
Speaker 5: action could happen after January thirty first, Michelle Franzen, ABC News.
Speaker 3: And it appears as though the new president is already
Speaker 3: redecorating the Oval Office.
Speaker 7: Photos taken by the Wall Street Journal show the Oval
Speaker 7: Office now includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and of
Speaker 7: fresh painting of Andrew Jackson, just like four years ago.
Speaker 7: A painting of George Washington now hangs over the fireplace.
Speaker 7: A bust of Winston Churchill is back where it was
Speaker 7: during the first Trump presidency on a table near the fireplace.
Speaker 7: There's a new silver eagle over the mantle, and the
Speaker 7: valet button for President Trump to order up diet cokes
Speaker 7: is in place again on his desk and ready to go.
Speaker 7: Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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