Speaker 1: This is WBS Boston's news radio, redefining local news sixty
Speaker 1: five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Things are relatively calm outside
Speaker 1: this afternoon. Heavy rainbow this morning anything but calm. Flooding
Speaker 1: on nine ninety three and local roads across the South
Speaker 1: Shore caused closures as well as heavy backups. Some computers
Speaker 1: even caught in the water.
Speaker 2: The drivers of those flooded cars sat inside of their
Speaker 2: vehicles for hours waiting for the water to recede and
Speaker 2: for tow trucks to arrive, and.
Speaker 3: The nearby Volkswagen dealership had several cars sitting in floodwaters.
Speaker 2: There is flooding being reported all around.
Speaker 4: Quincy's just had.
Speaker 5: A few people passing by, all holding umbrellas.
Speaker 3: Officials telling people all over the map don't try to
Speaker 3: drive through flooded out roads. Your car cannot do what
Speaker 3: you think it can in most cases, you don't want
Speaker 3: to total your car or worse.
Speaker 1: Flood watch for the eastern part of the state is
Speaker 1: just to come to an end. Wheather is expected to
Speaker 1: improve over the coming days and the weekend. Just a
Speaker 1: little leftover rain here now south of Boston and over
Speaker 1: the Cape and Islands will catch you up on traffic
Speaker 1: and weather together in a couple of minutes. The White
Speaker 1: House is slamming a New Hampshire judges ruling blocking President
Speaker 1: Trump's executive order against birthright citizenship.
Speaker 6: The White House is calling this decision quote an obvious
Speaker 6: and unlawful attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court's clear order
Speaker 6: against universal relief. Spokesers and Harrison Fields as in a statement,
Speaker 6: the Administration will be quote fighting vigorously against attempts by
Speaker 6: district court judges to try to impede the President's policies.
Speaker 6: The judge in New Hampshire Thursday certified a challenge by
Speaker 6: the American Civil Liberties Union filed on behalf of pregnant
Speaker 6: immigrants to immigrant parents and their infants. Karen Travers, ABC News,
Speaker 6: the White House.
Speaker 1: Place Study and activists Smuckmood Khalil is seeking twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars in damages from the Trump administration weeks after being
Speaker 1: freed from immigration detention. His lawyers claim he was falsely imprisoned,
Speaker 1: maliciously prosecuted, and smeared as anti Semitic. Khalil was detained
Speaker 1: for over three months after being arrested by ICE agents
Speaker 1: in March while he was a student at Columbia. The
Speaker 1: administration accused him of pro terrorist activity. Khalil says he
Speaker 1: suffered harsh conditions and jail and continues to fear for
Speaker 1: his safety. Much of the t's busiest line getting ready
Speaker 1: to shut down tonight. Wbz's Madison Rodgers with more.
Speaker 2: Crews need to do maintenance work along the Red Line,
Speaker 2: so writers going through the downtown stretch will be stuck
Speaker 2: on the shuttles. The closure start today thirty tonight and
Speaker 2: goes through the end of service Sunday from Jfkumass in
Speaker 2: Dorchester to Kendall Mit in Cambridge. The tee morning riders
Speaker 2: to allow for ample extra time trying to ease the pain.
Speaker 2: Shuttle buses will be free, and so will the commuter
Speaker 2: rail from brain Treated South Station and from North Station
Speaker 2: to Porter. Blue Cross is also announcing some free blue
Speaker 2: Bike rides with a twenty dollars credit. We have the
Speaker 2: code and more information on our website wbzewsradio dot com
Speaker 2: Madison Rogers Way, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell says her Office has reached
Speaker 1: the settlement with a Delaware based student loaned company. Settlement
Speaker 1: with Earnest Operations LLC resolves allegations the companies lending practices
Speaker 1: violated various consumer protection and fair lending laws. Under the
Speaker 1: settlement terms, Ernest will pay two and a half million
Speaker 1: dollars to the Commonwealth and implement extensive changes to its
Speaker 1: business practices, including taking steps to mitigate risks of unfair
Speaker 1: lending and insure compliance with stan federal laws. We've got
Speaker 1: most of the rain out of here. Capean Islands still
Speaker 1: picking up some showers, most of it's on the outer cape,
Speaker 1: and it's like ned Tucket's got the rain right now.
Speaker 1: Some earlier precipitation over the vineyards slid off, though there
Speaker 1: could be some more shortly, and there could be some
Speaker 1: showers for some of us as we head through the
Speaker 1: evening tonight, just some scattered leftover showers with some scattered
Speaker 1: leftover clouds. Stemperatures in the mid sixties. Tomorrow we're better.
Speaker 1: We have clouds breaking for some sun in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: It'll be humid, temperatures not seventy six in Boston, low
Speaker 1: eighties well Inland, and we could fire off a thundershower
Speaker 1: well inland as well, partly cloudy, muggy. Tomorrow night a
Speaker 1: low sixty six, and then the weekend's looking pretty good.
Speaker 1: It'll be humid, clouds, some sun, Temperatures mid seventies or
Speaker 1: so near the coast, mid eighties or so inland. Right
Speaker 1: now sixty five degrees in Boston. A familiar but rare
Speaker 1: foe slithering into Addleborough. Wbz's Jared Broston with the tails.
Speaker 3: Officials in Addleborough or warning residents about what they believe
Speaker 3: is a copperhead snake after two dogs were bitten by
Speaker 3: the ten Mile River.
Speaker 4: People often confuse milk snakes with copperheads. Milksnakes are a
Speaker 4: lot more common.
Speaker 3: That's Jacob Wolf at the Blue Hills Trail Side Museum
Speaker 3: here in Milton, which has a copperheaded snake that they
Speaker 3: take care of. He says the pattern is what typically
Speaker 3: confuses people, as they can look similar, but unlike milk snakes,
Speaker 3: copperheads are venomous.
Speaker 4: Definitely steer clear, don't try to poke it or anything.
Speaker 4: You know, they mostly are wary of people, so they're
Speaker 4: not going to be going after people.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: They eat a lot of small.
Speaker 3: But for the animal enthusiasts out there, beware of getting close.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can take a picture from Afar, but
Speaker 4: just you know, keep your distance.
Speaker 3: From Blue Hills. I'm Jared Brosnan WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get this straight. Don't poke the bear
Speaker 1: and don't poke the snake. Good advice. It's the most
Speaker 1: anyone has ever paid for a handbag. ABC Cherry Preston
Speaker 1: has more on a record breaking sale of the original
Speaker 1: Birken bag.
Speaker 5: In nineteen eighty four, London born star Jane Burkin was
Speaker 5: sitting on a plane next to the head of fashion
Speaker 5: house Hermez, when she accidentally spilled some things from her purse.
Speaker 5: She asked why Burkin didn't make a bigger bag, So
Speaker 5: they grabbed an air sickness bag and began sketching a
Speaker 5: design for what would become the original Birkin bag. More
Speaker 5: than forty years later, that original bag sold at auction
Speaker 5: in Paris for eight point two million dollars. The commercialized
Speaker 5: version of the original bag has become one of the
Speaker 5: world's most exclusive luxury items, with a year's long waiting list.
Speaker 1: Cherry Preston, ABC News call it beaber fever. The Hollywood
Speaker 1: record says Justin Bieber is about to drop a new
Speaker 1: album slated to come out tomorrow, would be his first
Speaker 1: since Justice in twenty twenty one. The pop star reportedly
Speaker 1: has been spending time in Iceland to record, and he
Speaker 1: also posted several photos today which appear to be a
Speaker 1: track list. You are now in the loop. For news
Speaker 1: updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News Radio on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio