Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News forty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Change of plans. President
Speaker 2: Trump has withdrawn Representative Elease at stephonics nomination as UN Ambassador.
Speaker 2: CBS is Linda Kenyon explains why.
Speaker 3: In a truth Social post, the President said, quote, it
Speaker 3: is essential that we maintain every Republican seat in Congress,
Speaker 3: adding I have asked Elise as one of my biggest allies,
Speaker 3: to remain in Congress. Idaho Republican Jim Rish heads the
Speaker 3: Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Speaker 1: I have been.
Speaker 4: Notified by the White House she.
Speaker 1: Has been withdrawn.
Speaker 3: Delaware Democrat Chris Coons also serves on the committee.
Speaker 5: It just reflects that the agenda that Republicans are trying
Speaker 5: to move through the House at the behest of Elon
Speaker 5: Musk and Donald Trump, does not have the votes right now.
Speaker 3: It did appear Stephanic would have easily been confirmed by
Speaker 3: the Senate Canyon CBS News The White House.
Speaker 2: Another rally planned this evening in Somerville for a Turkish
Speaker 2: Tufts student detained by federal authorities. The rally is planned
Speaker 2: outside Somerville City Hall for Rumesa os Turk, a doctoral
Speaker 2: student at Tufts who was moved out of Massachusetts by
Speaker 2: the time her lawyer went to court and a judge
Speaker 2: ordered her to be kept in the state. Lawyers say
Speaker 2: oz Turk was detained on Tuesday, shortly after leaving her
Speaker 2: home in Somerville and was moved to an IC detention
Speaker 2: center in Louisiana. Homeland Security says os Turk was detained
Speaker 2: after and her visa revoked after an investigation found that
Speaker 2: she had engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a
Speaker 2: foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A
Speaker 2: DHS spokesperson says glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans
Speaker 2: is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is
Speaker 2: common sense Security continuing the trend and keeping a promise.
Speaker 2: With big cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Speaker 1: The nation's top health agency, says it's eliminating ten thousand
Speaker 1: jobs as part of a major restructuring plan. Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior teased the cuts
Speaker 1: earlier this week.
Speaker 4: We're going to go back to providing gold standard science.
Speaker 2: We're going to keep the money to the scientists and
Speaker 2: to the patients, other than to the administrators bureaucrats.
Speaker 1: Overall, HHS says it's slashing its workforce by a total
Speaker 1: of twenty thousand through ten thousand layoffs and another ten
Speaker 1: thousand workers taking early retirements or buyouts. Most of the
Speaker 1: cuts will be in the public health agencies, the FDA
Speaker 1: and CDC, which will shed roughly six thousand positions. Sagur
Speaker 1: Magani Washington.
Speaker 2: Hearing today before the Senate Commerce and Aviation Subcommittee on
Speaker 2: the NTSB's preliminary findings on the crash involving an American
Speaker 2: Airlines flight in an Army Blackhawk helicopter in January. A
Speaker 2: crash killed sixty seven people, including half a dozen connected
Speaker 2: to the Boston Skating Club in TSB Chair Jennifer Hammandy
Speaker 2: testified and said the agency will be thorough and it's invested.
Speaker 6: I know we're all searching for answers, the right safety solutions,
Speaker 6: but the NTSB is the gold standard for accident investigations
Speaker 6: for a reason. We are thorough and we're fact based.
Speaker 6: We leave no stone unturned and we let the evidence
Speaker 6: guide us.
Speaker 2: The FAA acted upon an NTSB recommendation and banned non
Speaker 2: essential helicopter travel around Reagan National earlier this month. Last night,
Speaker 2: as the TD Garden a tribute to those killed in
Speaker 2: that crash, the skating world descending on Boston for the
Speaker 2: World Figure Skating Championships. The Championships featured a tribute to
Speaker 2: all twenty eight members of the skating community who were
Speaker 2: killed in that collision. Partly cloudy skies as we head
Speaker 2: into the evening, temperatures the low thirties in some of
Speaker 2: the Northwest suburbs, thirty eight in Boston. A couple of
Speaker 2: spot showers around in a few places. Later tonight could
Speaker 2: be a snowflake mixed in the coldest spots. Breezy with
Speaker 2: some sunshine around Tomorrow, We'll make a run into the
Speaker 2: upper fifties. Clouds move in tomorrow late in the day,
Speaker 2: and we'll have some rain moving in here after midnight
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night with a low near forty, and then Saturday,
Speaker 2: a few showers around. Rather cloudy. Day will be in
Speaker 2: the low forties in Boston, though warming up a little
Speaker 2: bit in lower fifties at least over the South Coast
Speaker 2: Cape Islands. Sunday some rain possible in the morning, most
Speaker 2: of that north of Boston. Otherwise, clouds in Chile high
Speaker 2: forty four. We're at forty seven degrees right now in Boston.
Speaker 2: Mayor Michelle Wo making some new comments today about her
Speaker 2: appearance on The Daily Show.
Speaker 7: She was a New Yorker.
Speaker 4: They're just jealous, Mary, Michelle Wu, using humor to casually
Speaker 4: brush aside the Daily Show host Ronnie Chang's repeated references
Speaker 4: to Boston as a racist city. During her recent appearance
Speaker 4: on the show, broadcast out of New York City, Chang
Speaker 4: asking Wo how traditionally Irish Boston could elect a young
Speaker 4: woman of Asian descent as its mayor.
Speaker 7: We recognize how much work there is still to do.
Speaker 7: Certainly Boston has made a lot of strides, and I
Speaker 7: was very proud in that setting and any setting to
Speaker 7: go and defend our city and represent who we are today,
Speaker 7: how we have learned from our history, and how we
Speaker 7: are still planning to continue with the progress there.
Speaker 4: Woo quick to defend Boston on the program, just as
Speaker 4: she did recently when she appeared before a hostile Republican
Speaker 4: led congressional committee in Washington. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: In mere moments, the Boston Red Sox get their twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five campaign underway, taking on the Rangers this afternoon
Speaker 2: in Texas. Meantime, from Brockton to the Bronx. The Brockton
Speaker 2: Rocks announcing this week on Facebook that their catcher John
Speaker 2: Christino was signed by the Yankees. The twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: Frontier League home run leader and catcher of the Year
Speaker 2: posted on Instagram. Since I was a kid, I've had
Speaker 2: the same dream that that was to be a Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball player. He thanked Bose who helped make this
Speaker 2: possible and says, without your endless support, none of this
Speaker 2: could have happened. You might think about old people when
Speaker 2: you think about heart disease. Now a warning for young
Speaker 2: people about the risk factor.
Speaker 5: Many teenagers could already be setting themselves up for heart
Speaker 5: problems later in life. A study by the American Heart
Speaker 5: Association found the time between age eighteen and one's mid
Speaker 5: twenties are crucial to heart health. Many teenagers are developing obesity,
Speaker 5: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type two diabetes, and
Speaker 5: it's important to address those risk factors at a young age.
Speaker 2: The CBS is Michael George just over two weeks until
Speaker 2: CBS Morning's co host Gail King and five other women
Speaker 2: get to fly into space.
Speaker 8: The eleven minute Blue Origin flight will take off April
Speaker 8: fourteenth at nine to thirty am Eastern. Former passenger William
Speaker 8: Shatner told Gail to embrace the moment.
Speaker 2: The g forces that are going to be on you.
Speaker 2: You're gonna feel like I'm gonna die, but You're not
Speaker 2: going to die. Then you are scaring them fish right now.
Speaker 8: The all women crew will include pop star Katie Perry,
Speaker 8: former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bo, civil rights activist Amanda Win,
Speaker 8: film producer Carrie Anne Flynn, and journalist Lauren Sanchez, the
Speaker 8: fiance of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Michael Wallace CBS News.
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