Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Thirty six degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock, good Monday morning.
Speaker 2: It's March twenty fourth. I'm Sherry Small. The lane rain
Speaker 2: rather letting up just a little bit in the city. Now,
Speaker 2: just light rain coming down in Boston. All right, let's
Speaker 2: get you caught up. Here's what's happening. It's a moment
Speaker 2: decades into making, as the ribbon is cut on the
Speaker 2: Commuter Rail South Coast Rail Extension. WBC's James Rojas reports
Speaker 2: from South Station.
Speaker 3: After the completion of six new stations, the commuter Rail
Speaker 3: is officially transporting passengers to and from communities of Fall
Speaker 3: River and New Bedford. These two riders were on the
Speaker 3: first train to South Station this morning.
Speaker 4: It was beautiful. I didn't fill a bump. It was
Speaker 4: just lovely to get on. I lift two blocks away
Speaker 4: from the station.
Speaker 3: The good job. William is among the first commuters going
Speaker 3: down to River. He calls this a huge accomplishment, but
Speaker 3: that this should only be the beginning.
Speaker 5: This is a great starter. Train service is better than
Speaker 5: no train service, but we need to build phase two.
Speaker 5: We need to get the people of Stoughton and Easton
Speaker 5: on board with actually having trains in their communities because
Speaker 5: it can help them. That's what I think we should
Speaker 5: do for the future.
Speaker 3: At South Station, James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio, ratcheting up the pressure. Tonight, Everett City councilors are
Speaker 2: set to vote on whether or not to launch more
Speaker 2: investigations into longtime mayor Carlo D. Maria. According to The Globe,
Speaker 2: councilors will debate on whether to ask the State Ethics
Speaker 2: Commission for a deeper investigation into the mayor's use of
Speaker 2: city funds and potential conflicts of interest involving a law
Speaker 2: firm and pr agency Nadi. Maria allegedly hired the firms
Speaker 2: on the city's dime. After an Inspector General's investigation found
Speaker 2: alleged wrongdoing, and the council order the mayor to return
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in what it says
Speaker 2: was bonus payments made to the mayor all Right. Last week,
Speaker 2: he launched his re election campaign for a seventh term. Tonight,
Speaker 2: counselors are also expected to discuss the possibility of implementing
Speaker 2: term limits for elected officials. A Federal Appeals Court will
Speaker 2: hear arguments in President Trump's plan to use wartime authority
Speaker 2: to deport alleged gang members without a hearing.
Speaker 1: A three judge panel of the d C Circuit Appeals
Speaker 1: Court well Way, the administrations pushed to overturn Judge James
Speaker 1: Boseberg's order restraining the president's use of the Alien Enemies Act.
Speaker 1: The appeals panel includes appointees of two Republican presidents, including Trump,
Speaker 1: as well as no Obama nominee. The administration argues the
Speaker 1: men who've been subject to the use of the Enemy's
Speaker 1: Law have been thoroughly vetted as members of Trendy Aragua,
Speaker 1: but attorneys and relatives say several of those who have
Speaker 1: been said to a Salvador in prison are not members
Speaker 1: of the gang.
Speaker 2: ABC Stephen Portnoy reporting, all right, coming up one of
Speaker 2: my land, two if by C and one really big celebration. Now,
Speaker 2: let's check the ACU weather forecast. Cloudy with rain much
Speaker 2: of the time today when it ends, it's going to
Speaker 2: start to end from west to east across the area.
Speaker 2: This evening. It's another breezy day. Highs in the mid
Speaker 2: to high forties tonight, turning out to be just partly cloudy,
Speaker 2: a low of thirty nine, and then tomorrow we're dry,
Speaker 2: a mix of sun and clouds that breeze hanging on,
Speaker 2: but we'll bump over the fifties with a high of
Speaker 2: fifty three and then a shower or two. Back on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: early steadier rain towards the Capean Islands. Otherwise just mostly
Speaker 2: cloudy and a high of forty five. We will bump
Speaker 2: up over fifty come Thursday. In the city. We're just
Speaker 2: seeing some light rain right now, thirty six degrees. It's
Speaker 2: eleven ozh five. Back to News Conquered goes big as
Speaker 2: it looks to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 2: at the start of the American Revolution.
Speaker 4: Our greatest icons are sometimes humble when you get close.
Speaker 6: The Canada's literally a home depot, stayless trash barrel.
Speaker 4: The anniversary of Paul Revere's is in just a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks, and a local organization in Concord had this
Speaker 4: lantern commission to kick off the Revolutionary season.
Speaker 5: So this is a slightly simplified version of the original
Speaker 5: Paul Revere lantern.
Speaker 4: Billy Crosby is the artist behind this enormous replica ten
Speaker 4: foot tall mock up of the one used by Paul
Speaker 4: Revere his famous one if by Land.
Speaker 7: Two and by Sea gambit got our attention for a month.
Speaker 4: The torch inside is a light bulb arrat, and it
Speaker 4: was lit in a ceremony in front of the Conquered
Speaker 4: Museum with hundreds there. A fourth generation Concordian, Bill says
Speaker 4: he was psyched to give back to the town in
Speaker 4: this way. Thousands are expected to flood Conquered as the
Speaker 4: two to fiftieth anniversary draws near. Kyle Schaffeld to b
Speaker 4: BUZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Finally for college basketball fans, a taste of some actual madness. Here,
Speaker 2: CBS is Michael Tuscano.
Speaker 6: The final call from TBS Sports as the University of
Speaker 6: Maryland knocks out Colorado State University seventy two to seventy one.
Speaker 4: To the freshman between who's driving floods on the right
Speaker 4: side of a buzzer.
Speaker 6: Peedo Pirpins freshman and Maryland native Derek Queen spoke about
Speaker 6: putting up his first game winner. Oh, a little bit nervous,
Speaker 6: but knew I knew we was new for one and
Speaker 6: I had had to meet this, Maryland faces the University
Speaker 6: of Florida in the Sweet sixteen. The Gators knocked out
Speaker 6: the reigning national champs, the Yukon Huskies, seventy seven to
Speaker 6: seventy five Michael Toscano CBS News.
Speaker 2: And the bracket is set for the men's Frozen Four.
Speaker 2: Looking a lot like a Hockey East tournament. Here's WBC
Speaker 2: S Jared Brosnan to explain.
Speaker 7: The NCAA men's hockey tournament is much smaller than the
Speaker 7: men's basketball tournament. Just sixteen teams get a chance to
Speaker 7: play in the Frozen Four, but half of those schools
Speaker 7: are from right here in New England. On Thursday, in Ohio,
Speaker 7: Boston University will face Ohio State. Meantime, in North Dakota,
Speaker 7: U mass Amherst will play Minnesota. Then on Friday, in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 7: it's the Battle over Connecticut, Yukon versus Quinnipiac. Later that night,
Speaker 7: Hockey East champions Maine University will take on penn State. Finally,
Speaker 7: we head to Manchester, New Hampshire, where top seed Boston
Speaker 7: College will face AHA Conference champions Bentley. Then the Providence
Speaker 7: Friars will play the reigning national champions Denver University Jare Brosnan,
Speaker 7: WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: In the women's tournament, the University of Wisconsin, led by
Speaker 2: Division IE player of the Year in Milton native KC O'Brien,
Speaker 2: beat Ohio State to win the national championship. That happened yesterday.
Speaker 2: The by failed Community Art Center in Newbury plans to
Speaker 2: remove the pride flags. The Eagle Tribune reporting that the
Speaker 2: center's president, Dave Hill, bought the flags because he wanted
Speaker 2: to represent the arts. Bill got a letter from the
Speaker 2: town's legal council saying that the flag's violated town policy
Speaker 2: that only allows the US flag, Massachusetts flag, Town of
Speaker 2: Newberry flag, and the pow Mia flag to fly at
Speaker 2: town owned buildings. You are now in the loop for
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