Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Nineteen degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 2: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening across the country. Several states
Speaker 2: are filing lawsuits against President Trump over his executive order
Speaker 2: to end birthright citizenship, including the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. More
Speaker 2: from ABC's Alex Stone.
Speaker 1: The first line of the Fourteenth Amendment states somebody born
Speaker 1: in the United States is a US citizen, and for
Speaker 1: that reason. Eighteen states are now suing, arguing President Trump's
Speaker 1: executive order is clearly unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. California
Speaker 1: Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Speaker 2: I have one message for President Trump.
Speaker 3: I'll see you in court.
Speaker 1: He and other attorney's general are asking a court for
Speaker 1: an immediate injunction to prevent the executive order from going
Speaker 1: into effect.
Speaker 2: Alex Stone, EBC News. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell says
Speaker 2: birthright citizenship in our country is a guarantee of a
Speaker 2: quality or out of a collective fight against depression, slavery
Speaker 2: and its devastating harms. Interviews so on hold that the
Speaker 2: Mexican border, those waiting at the border to talk with
Speaker 2: Customs and Border Protection have no way to schedule a meeting.
Speaker 4: Under the Biden administration, of phone app called CBP one
Speaker 4: allowed asylum seekers to make appointments with Customs and Border
Speaker 4: Protection to begin the legal immigration process. The app has gone.
Speaker 2: Dead as of right now. We're in Lingmore.
Speaker 4: Pastor Carlos Navarro works with immigrants in Brownsville, Texas. He's
Speaker 4: adapting to a new reality under President Trump.
Speaker 2: Because we've seen the movie before. I think we can
Speaker 2: handle it. We're ready to do it.
Speaker 4: Jim Ryan, ABC News Dallas.
Speaker 2: One day after the forty seventh president was inaugurated, his
Speaker 2: Secretary of State was sworn in, Marco Rubio, taking the
Speaker 2: oath of office.
Speaker 3: As Rubio gets down to work at the State Department,
Speaker 3: many around the world are still reeling from Trump's first
Speaker 3: actions in office, like withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
Speaker 5: We hope the United States will reconside there.
Speaker 3: And Trump suspended US foreign assistance programs until their review.
Speaker 2: It's a transformational moment the United States, I think is now,
Speaker 2: as President Trump pointed out last night, and I believe
Speaker 2: deeply we are headed into a new era that I
Speaker 2: think will make the world a safer place.
Speaker 3: Any Israelis are hopeful. Who knows, maybe he will be
Speaker 3: the one who will bring peace to the Middle East,
Speaker 3: not because he likes peace, but because he is a bully,
Speaker 3: and maybe in this area that's what we need.
Speaker 2: That was CBS's Cammie McCormick reporting. Assistant US Attorney Leah
Speaker 2: Foley has been promoted to US Attorney for the District
Speaker 2: of Massachusetts. Fully has served Massachusetts since two thousand and six,
Speaker 2: starting her career as Assistant US Attorney for Washington d C.
Speaker 2: Folly has also served as Deputy Chief of the Narcotics
Speaker 2: and Money Laundering Unit and the lead attorney for Boston's
Speaker 2: Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force. She was appointed
Speaker 2: by Acting Attorney General James McHenry, fully calling the position
Speaker 2: the honor of a lifetime. Still have the chiles in
Speaker 2: the air and we will continue to deal with that.
Speaker 2: Tonight twelve in Boston for the low two to six
Speaker 2: and many of the coldest inland suburbs that will be
Speaker 2: in the upper teens over the Capean Islands. It is
Speaker 2: there where we could get in on a few snowflakes
Speaker 2: as we head deep into the evening around midnight or
Speaker 2: so and keep your right of the sky, otherwise we'll
Speaker 2: start to clear out in many other spots, and those
Speaker 2: real field temperatures are going to get us below zero
Speaker 2: in some places. Mostly sunny, still cold Tomorrow twenty two
Speaker 2: for the high and then partly to mostly cloudy Tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: Temperatures range from about eight in the coldest suburbs sixteen
Speaker 2: near the shore clouds with some sun. On Thursday, a
Speaker 2: little breezy, temperatures get into the low thirties. Same deal
Speaker 2: for Friday. Right now, we're at nineteen degrees in Boston.
Speaker 2: Thousands of outfits have been donated to natal intensive carry
Speaker 2: units in Massachusetts thanks to a local mother who knows
Speaker 2: about the nick Q. CBS News Boston's Breonna Pitts, how's
Speaker 2: that story?
Speaker 5: This is little baby Ava, she's been in the nick
Speaker 5: qu at Mount Auburn Hospital for a few weeks now,
Speaker 5: and that onesie she's wearing, it's from Megan who knows
Speaker 5: the nick Q all too well.
Speaker 6: And know exactly how I felt. And I felt like
Speaker 6: it was for me, yep, more than it was for
Speaker 6: the baby, and now than it was for anybody else.
Speaker 3: It was for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, Meghan is talking about the birth of her daughter, Caroline,
Speaker 5: who was born prematurely at Selshore Hospital at thirty four weeks.
Speaker 5: She weighed just three pounds, and like most families, Meghan
Speaker 5: and her husband found themselves completely unprepared, without even one
Speaker 5: outfit that would fit their tiny daughter. That is until
Speaker 5: nic Q nurse went above.
Speaker 6: And beyond and come to find out the nurse that
Speaker 6: was caring for her had actually purchased it with her
Speaker 6: own money. Seeing her in clothes made it like humanized
Speaker 6: her in some ways for me, and it was really
Speaker 6: really healing.
Speaker 2: Megan Block started Caroline's closet an Amazon wish list with
Speaker 2: premie sized gowns and one sees cover to more. Heales
Speaker 2: filing a bill to modernized public higher education campuses in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: The Healey Administration says they transformative to two and a half
Speaker 2: billion dollar bill represents the largest proposed investments in capital
Speaker 2: improvements for the UMass system, state universities, and community colleges
Speaker 2: in decades. Called the Bright Act, it is aimed at
Speaker 2: modernizing campuses all across the system. Lots of young ballet
Speaker 2: dancers try to make their mark dancing in my Some
Speaker 2: might call it the American Idol of Ballet dancing. Hundreds
Speaker 2: of young dancers from across the Northeast spending the past
Speaker 2: few days in Massachusetts auditioning for prestigious scholarships at a
Speaker 2: Youth America Grand Prix. The ballet dancers, ages nine to nineteen,
Speaker 2: had just a few moments to impress judges. Organizers say
Speaker 2: about twelve hundred dancers will be chosen from the thirty
Speaker 2: two auditions that were held in the US and fourteen
Speaker 2: locations worldwide. They'll compete in the finals this April in Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 2: The competition one of the places where future ballet stars
Speaker 2: are scouted out to perform in elite ballet companies around
Speaker 2: the world. What's Old is new again? A new president
Speaker 2: and a new look for 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 a
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 cokex
Speaker 7: is in place again on his desk and ready to go.
Speaker 7: Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio