Speaker 1: Oh, Boston, you are so much better than this. But
Speaker 1: here we are stuck in the clouds and the fog again,
Speaker 1: and it's still pretty chilly. As we get started today
Speaker 1: it is just forty four degrees. But it's Friday. Six
Speaker 1: o'clock in the News at six is brought to us
Speaker 1: by your new England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel
Speaker 1: drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. As we break on through
Speaker 1: to the other side, gradually diminishing winds with lots of
Speaker 1: clouds and a coupled of showers today and temperatures mid
Speaker 1: fifty slowly improving weather throughout the Memorial Day weekend. That
Speaker 1: is WBZ YACKI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. By Sunday, hopefully
Speaker 1: we can forget all about this. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: where we should be. There are still about fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: customers without electricity in Massachusetts this morning, mostly west of Worcester,
Speaker 1: and just a few delays on the board at Logan
Speaker 1: Airport after hundreds of flights were affected by this storm yesterday.
Speaker 1: Spring semester is over for most students at Harvard, and
Speaker 1: now foreign students face a future filled with doubts.
Speaker 2: Privilege, not a right for universities to enroll foreign students.
Speaker 2: Those are the words of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome
Speaker 2: in a letter to Harvard University. She's ordered her department
Speaker 2: to terminate the school's student exchange certification. According to Nome,
Speaker 2: Harvard will no longer be able to enroll foreign students,
Speaker 2: and ones already at the school must transfer or lose
Speaker 2: their legal status. Her letter goes on to say that
Speaker 2: Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by allowing anti
Speaker 2: American and pro terrorist agitators on campus. This comes after
Speaker 2: Harvard loss roughly three billion dollars in funding from the
Speaker 2: federal government for not complying with the administration's policies. In response,
Speaker 2: Harvard says the government's actions are unlawful and that they
Speaker 2: are fully committed to maintaining the school's ability to host
Speaker 2: international students. Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: By the way, the White House is also giving Harvard
Speaker 1: seventy two hours to update its files on foreign students
Speaker 1: in any attempt if it wants to get its international
Speaker 1: certification back. Harvard's commencement sem he is still to come
Speaker 1: next week, along with MIT. It is no holiday in
Speaker 1: fact for college graduation season. Here in Massachusetts Framingham State,
Speaker 1: the class of twenty five walks tomorrow morning at the
Speaker 1: DCU Center in Worcester. Governor Heely is the keynote at
Speaker 1: the Mount Holio College ceremony on Sunday, and UMass Boston's
Speaker 1: class of twenty five also graduates next week as well.
Speaker 1: Let's Play two. Red Sox and Orioles will play a
Speaker 1: day night doubleheader, weather permitting, at Fenway Park. First pitch
Speaker 1: is expected at one thirty five this afternoon. Meantime, Red
Speaker 1: Sox relief pitcher Liam Hendrix says online death threats posted
Speaker 1: against him and his wife are disgusting and vile. The
Speaker 1: thirty six year old reliever has been through the fires
Speaker 1: of cancer and has resumed his career after successful treatment
Speaker 1: of non Hodgkins lymphoma, though he's had a rough go
Speaker 1: of it out of the Red Sox bullpen this year.
Speaker 1: Red Sox front office says it's got Hendricks back and
Speaker 1: reiterates its policy on its fan code of conduct. The
Speaker 1: team says it's not above involving law enforcements if necessary
Speaker 1: as well. Look at the radar this morning indicates that
Speaker 1: the last we think of the rain is pulling through
Speaker 1: the area, but it doesn't look that way. If you
Speaker 1: take a good look outside and a quick one at that,
Speaker 1: you'll still see the breeze is whipping up a frenzy
Speaker 1: around thirty mile per hour gusts, and it's still cold
Speaker 1: forty four degrees here in Boston. And yeah, it's probably
Speaker 1: still raining where you are as well, But it's overall
Speaker 1: going to be a damp day with some improvement on
Speaker 1: the way, some brighter skies a little bit later on. Today.
Speaker 1: It's going to be remaining breezy, but the winds will
Speaker 1: be dying down and temperatures will take a leap forward
Speaker 1: into the mid to upper fifties this afternoon. So the
Speaker 1: Red Sox are expected to play a double header at
Speaker 1: Fenway Park. If you're going to the first game, and
Speaker 1: even the night game, you might want to think about
Speaker 1: bundling up. It's going to continue to be windy with
Speaker 1: clouds for the most part and maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: showers overnight. Tonight lows back into the forties, and he
Speaker 1: left over rain will finally begin to start pulling away tomorrow.
Speaker 1: There will be a cool breeze as temperatures will advance
Speaker 1: into the lower set sixties. Even better on Sunday, as
Speaker 1: we start to really turn a corner, we'll start to
Speaker 1: see some sunshine return for the latter part of the
Speaker 1: holiday weekend. Sunday and Monday looks like we could see
Speaker 1: temperatures out or above seventy degrees, so finally we'll get
Speaker 1: there eventually. It's forty four and still looking pretty miserable
Speaker 1: here in Boston on this Friday morning. It's six oh six,
Speaker 1: so let's try this again. Drenching down pores put many
Speaker 1: of our holiday weekend travel plans on hold, so it's
Speaker 1: take two today.
Speaker 3: They're shipping out of Boston this weekend, so we're over
Speaker 3: to Watkins Glen, Western New York race car territory, and
Speaker 3: he's fixing to get on the track. I do a
Speaker 3: lot of racing, I mean tracks up and down the
Speaker 3: East Coast. Is it true that Rubbin's racing? Rubb is racing, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but the only thing rubbing their wheels yesterday was water
Speaker 3: puddles galore in that nor'eastern Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh it's bad.
Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, the wind and everything else.
Speaker 1: What's horrible.
Speaker 3: Sorry, that's been a long time so Today's the day
Speaker 3: to get out of the day to get out, yes,
Speaker 3: and out of town. They're going with better road conditions
Speaker 3: today to travel and for him need for speed.
Speaker 1: Two days to seven hour races and.
Speaker 3: We have a blast Chrisvama, WBZ, Boston's news radio and
Speaker 3: in the air.
Speaker 5: The TSA expects to screen about eighteen million people at
Speaker 5: checkpoints during the Memorial Day weekend. Pushed last Sunday actually
Speaker 5: was the busiest day of the travel year so far.
Speaker 5: At airports, TSA screened over two point nine million people,
Speaker 5: just shy of a top ten.
Speaker 1: Days, CBS News correspondent Chris Vancleeve. Again. At the height
Speaker 1: of this storm, more than four hundred and fifty flights
Speaker 1: were impacted at Logan and this morning it looks like
Speaker 1: pretty much a normal day at least for now. Slightly
Speaker 1: more than a dozen delays and cancelations on the board.
Speaker 1: A torched Porsche steals the show at the federal sex
Speaker 1: trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Diddy. Comb's fellow rapper,
Speaker 1: Kid Cutty, testifies that a Molotov cocktail that led his
Speaker 1: Porsche nine to eleven on fire while he was away
Speaker 1: from home. He believes as the work of Combs. Kid
Speaker 1: Cutty real name Scott Misscutty says Holmes threatened to do
Speaker 1: damage to his car if he did not break up
Speaker 1: with colmb's longtime girlfriend, Cassie Ventura cut He admits there
Speaker 1: were no witnesses, and Colmbs denies these charges. Court is
Speaker 1: closed for the holiday weekend. Testimony in Manhattan is expected
Speaker 1: to resume on Tuesday. The weather is iffy, but the
Speaker 1: Boston Calling Music Festival says green light means go.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The great Luke Colmbs is how tonight finishes. Megan Marony,
Speaker 4: Sheryl crow, T Paine and TLC also on the bill.
Speaker 4: For regulars attending Boston Calling, it just never gets sold
Speaker 4: you already, Yeah, absolutely, one big thing. You're gonna want
Speaker 4: to download the Boston Calling app. It'll help you get
Speaker 4: around the Harvard Athletic Complex, get you to where you
Speaker 4: want to be. It is very user friendly. I was
Speaker 4: just here messing around with it, and Boston Calling co
Speaker 4: founder Mike Snow says, even though it's not exactly feeling
Speaker 4: like the heat of summer right now in the city,
Speaker 4: he's proud that this festival has become a summer staple.
Speaker 2: We like to kick off the summer with everybody before
Speaker 2: everybody kind of leaves right.
Speaker 4: The kids are still in school, colleges, some in, somehow,
Speaker 4: it's party time. From Boston Calling Drew Mahull and WBZ,
Speaker 4: Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio.