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Speaker 2: News, mostly sunny in sixty two degrees in Boston at
Speaker 2: four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Suzanne Sausville. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. Former First Lady of Massachusetts, Kitty Ducaucus
Speaker 2: has died. She was eighty eight years old. Wbz's Emma
Speaker 2: Friedman has more.
Speaker 3: Kitty Ducaucus was born in Cambridge in nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 3: After marrying her husband, former Massachusetts Governor Michael Ducaucus in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty three, she was pushed into the spotlight, and
Speaker 3: she stood by her husband when he became the Democratic
Speaker 3: nominee for president in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 4: My husband is on the side of women, children, and
Speaker 4: working families of this great nation.
Speaker 3: On the campaign trail, she spoke at the former governor's
Speaker 3: campaign rally in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Women in our country will finally we have equal rights
Speaker 4: and equal pay and equal opportune today.
Speaker 3: As the First Lady of Massachusetts, she promoted gender advances
Speaker 3: in local government and advocated for mental health, immigrants and refugees.
Speaker 3: She was proud of her Jewish heritage and served on
Speaker 3: the US Holocaust Memorial Council. In two thousand and seven,
Speaker 3: the Kitty Doucaucus Treatment Center for Women was established to
Speaker 3: honor her work. I'm a freedman. W b Z, Boston's
Speaker 3: news radio.
Speaker 2: Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft settled into Boston. Today. Wbz's
Speaker 2: Mike Maclin explains.
Speaker 5: Josh Kraft called for fiscal accountability at city Hall, something
Speaker 5: he says is missing in the administration of incumbent Mayor
Speaker 5: Michelle Woom.
Speaker 6: And with your help, we will reinstitute fiscal discipline to
Speaker 6: city Hall, to the city budget to be more responsible
Speaker 6: for your hard earned tax dollars.
Speaker 5: Speaking to supporters that has newly opened campaign headquarters at
Speaker 5: Roxbury's Nubian Square, Kraft promised he'd cut spending before raising
Speaker 5: residential property taxes.
Speaker 6: We have to look at our own backyard n find
Speaker 6: money in the budget, which is there four point six
Speaker 6: billion dollar budget, or you can cut this administration says
Speaker 6: there's not a penny to cut. I find that hard
Speaker 6: to believe.
Speaker 5: Prahft's first priority gathering the necessary signatures to get his
Speaker 5: name on the ballot in Roxbury. Mike mclum WBZ Boston's
Speaker 5: news radio.
Speaker 2: The New Hampshire Attorney General's office settles a lawsuit over
Speaker 2: alleged abuse at the state's youth detention center. Michael Gilpatrick
Speaker 2: accused ten staffers at the center in Manchester of sexual
Speaker 2: and physical abuse between nineteen ninety seven and two thousand,
Speaker 2: including repeated rapes. Four of those staffers have faced criminal charges,
Speaker 2: with one of them convicted last year. More than thirteen
Speaker 2: hundred former residents of the detention center have filed lawsuits
Speaker 2: alleging some form of abuse. Gilpatrick's have been the second
Speaker 2: to go to trial, but instead the case was settled
Speaker 2: for ten million dollars. Jurors awarded thirty eight million dollars
Speaker 2: to the plaintiff in another case last May, though the
Speaker 2: verdict remains in dispute. The forecast a shower in spots
Speaker 2: early tonight, then becoming clear, windy and cool, with a
Speaker 2: low of twenty nine. Mostly sunny Tomorrow, but cool and
Speaker 2: windy again, with highs just in the mid forties On Monday,
Speaker 2: cloudy with periods of rain, perhaps mixed with snow for
Speaker 2: a time to the north and west of the city,
Speaker 2: highs in the mid forties. On Tuesday, a mix of
Speaker 2: sun and clouds and breezy again, with a high of
Speaker 2: fifty three. Right now in Boston we have mostly sunny
Speaker 2: skies and sixty two degrees. Several Tesla facilities have been
Speaker 2: targeted by acts of vandalism in recent weeks. ABC's Morgan
Speaker 2: Norwood has more all of.
Speaker 7: It, adding to Tesla's troubles, shares plunging nearly forty percent
Speaker 7: this year, a major cyber truck recalled just this week,
Speaker 7: and a growing movement of activists, including a group calling
Speaker 7: itself Tesla Takedown Well. They're now planning nationwide demonstrations at
Speaker 7: showrooms next week. The bottom line, Tesla under pressure in
Speaker 7: the streets and in the markets.
Speaker 2: One of those Tesla takedown protests happened today in Boston
Speaker 2: at the Tesla showroom on Boylston Street. Demonstrators are calling
Speaker 2: on people to sell their Tesla's, dump their stock, and
Speaker 2: join the picket lines against Elon Musk. American auto dealers
Speaker 2: are facing uncertainty of mid President Trump's trade wars. A
Speaker 2: twenty five percent tariff on imported cars and parts is
Speaker 2: set to take effect on April second. CBS's Carter Evans
Speaker 2: with more even after twenty years selling cars. General manager
Speaker 2: Brandon Wishingrad can't find a way to predict how tariffs
Speaker 2: would impact prices at his family's niece On dealership. If
Speaker 2: a customer comes in now and says, how long are
Speaker 2: the prices.
Speaker 1: Going to be steady on these cars? What would you
Speaker 1: tell them? It's tough to say. We know just as
Speaker 1: much as anybody else does. The one thing he can
Speaker 1: do is keep inventory. He stopped up for three months,
Speaker 1: so all of the cars on this lot right now
Speaker 1: are safe from tariffs. Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 2: President Trump's reciprocal tariffs are also expected to go into
Speaker 2: effect on April second. NASA is looking for high school
Speaker 2: students to help with astronaut meal planning.
Speaker 1: Culinary class students from ten high schools will visit the
Speaker 1: Johnson Space Center in Houston next month to present meals
Speaker 1: they prepared for astronauts in outer space. Among the finalists
Speaker 1: Marilynd's North Point High School, where students had to meet
Speaker 1: strict requirements. Class instructor chef Christopher Willis flow sodium, hardly
Speaker 1: any sugar because of the nutritional guidelines that NASA had
Speaker 1: to approve. Culinary student for Tria oddly mentions her entry
Speaker 1: healthat while student Mia Johnson is offering outer space Enchilatties.
Speaker 7: Chicken Lepers, Tony, and Jeez, This Is Color in their
Speaker 7: refinals begin April seventeenth.
Speaker 1: Stephan Kauffman, CBS News.
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