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Speaker 1: Friday. You know, I don't like the fact that you're
Speaker 1: gone for seven days, you never call, you never speak
Speaker 1: a word, and then you show up. But we'll welcome
Speaker 1: you nonetheless. Good morning, six o'clock Friday, cloudy sky's forty
Speaker 1: two degrees, occasional drizzle out the door. The News at six,
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Speaker 1: hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being here today,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. Well, this is less than comfortable.
Speaker 3: It'll be rainy this morning, along with some fog than
Speaker 3: wendy this afternoon, with clouds breaking for some sunner hind
Speaker 3: the upper forties.
Speaker 1: WBZ acky weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Decent weekend, though on
Speaker 1: the way. Everett's longtime mayor says he's running for office again.
Speaker 3: Mayor Carla de Maria joint supporters at a ballroom in
Speaker 3: Maldon last night for his campaign kickoff. It was there
Speaker 3: where he was described as defiance in the face of
Speaker 3: calls to step down. Those calls coming from the city council,
Speaker 3: which not only approved a vote of no confidence, in
Speaker 3: the mayor, but demanded that he paid back one hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty thousand dollars in which he was overpaid. That
Speaker 3: finding came from an inspector general's report. De Maria, who
Speaker 3: was first elected in two thousand and eight, has denied
Speaker 3: any wrongdoing in Everett. James Rojas w b Z Boston's Snooz.
Speaker 1: Radio te Maria has been in office in Everett for
Speaker 1: seventeen years. City councilors there will discuss, ironically enough, term
Speaker 1: limits in a meeting coming up on Monday night. The
Speaker 1: federal judge in the deportation decision of alleged Venezuelan gang
Speaker 1: members says the White House could be held in contempt
Speaker 1: of court. Next Judge James Boseburg, says the government's response
Speaker 1: for more details about ignoring a court order to turn
Speaker 1: those flights to Al Salvador around is woefully insufficient. Trump
Speaker 1: administration officials say the deportations are made under a revival
Speaker 1: of the Alien Act of seventeen ninety eight, which allows
Speaker 1: for drastic measures in drastic times of war. But the
Speaker 1: court calls into question the rationale of the Venezuelans invading
Speaker 1: the country and becoming enemies of the nation. Teachers respond
Speaker 1: to President Trump's executive order that begins the process of
Speaker 1: tearing down the Education Department. The American Federation of Teachers
Speaker 1: will speak to the media this morning about the negative
Speaker 1: impact it feels this act will have on the lives
Speaker 1: of students today and tomorrow. The department was created by Congress.
Speaker 1: Only Congress can approve its disintegration. Bruins try to stumble.
Speaker 1: I guess to the finish line a four game losing
Speaker 1: streak now as the Golden Knights take it to them
Speaker 1: late night in Vegas and Madness, the search for a
Speaker 1: perfect bracket falls apart steps the usual batch of upsets
Speaker 1: in the first round of March Madness. Celtics in Utah
Speaker 1: tonight and go for a four game winning streak. The
Speaker 1: days are numbered for Red Sox spring training. They host
Speaker 1: the Pirates at Jet Blue tonight. Pieces of NBA history
Speaker 1: are about to go for big bucks.
Speaker 4: Bitting begins today on Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan's first
Speaker 4: ever game worn NBA jerseys. Jordan's is from his nineteen
Speaker 4: ninety four preseason debut in Chicagoan.
Speaker 1: Fming up Jordan of Chicago.
Speaker 4: Southerby's called jerseys from Jordan's rookie season unicorns, as they're
Speaker 4: rarely seen going on the market. Bryant's is the first
Speaker 4: jersey he wore in nineteen ninety six with the La Lakers,
Speaker 4: which has the number eight on it.
Speaker 1: There's Kobe, He's a young man.
Speaker 4: They're each expected to fetch about ten million dollars apiece.
Speaker 4: Stacy Lynn CBS News.
Speaker 1: Quite an interesting picture on the radar maps this morning.
Speaker 1: Right now, Boston is in a bit of a lull
Speaker 1: between some following some heavy rain overnight and just sup
Speaker 1: to a couple of hours ago. Another batch of rain
Speaker 1: is about to move in and the trailing edge of
Speaker 1: this system features some snowfall out in western Massachusetts this morning.
Speaker 1: This is all to say, this is an unsettled day
Speaker 1: and here in Boston right now it is forty two
Speaker 1: degrees so whatever comes down is going to be rain.
Speaker 1: Here in the city. We are expecting temperatures to stay
Speaker 1: in the forties today. It's going to be a bit windy.
Speaker 1: All of this precipitation will come to an end later
Speaker 1: this morning, early this afternoon, we'll see breaks of sunshine
Speaker 1: on the way. Overnight tonight mainly clear and breezy lows
Speaker 1: back in the thirties, A nice day tomorrow, mix of
Speaker 1: sun and clouds, hies well into the fifties, maybe low sixties.
Speaker 1: A bit of a change as we take it in
Speaker 1: the other direction on Sunday, wrapping up the weekend with
Speaker 1: some chilly air with some sunshine, two highs only in
Speaker 1: the forties. Right now it's forty two clouds and more
Speaker 1: rain on the way. It's six oh six this Friday morning.
Speaker 1: Have you had it with tipping? You're not alone as
Speaker 1: that extra quick question at the checkout counter pushes many
Speaker 1: of us over the edge. Andrew moholland is here.
Speaker 2: Hello, Jeffrey, Good morning, Good morning. Nearly nine to ten
Speaker 2: think tipping culture has gone too far.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you. Does that surprise you? No, it
Speaker 1: really doesn't.
Speaker 2: Everything sign of the times that is way up from
Speaker 2: last year too, and our attitudes toward gratuity have drastically changed.
Speaker 2: More than half of Americans say a tip out of
Speaker 2: I guess a social obligation rather than giving the extra
Speaker 2: money just for good service.
Speaker 1: So you know what, I will argue is even more
Speaker 1: annoying than tipping. The survey questions, how did we do well?
Speaker 1: You know. I ordered a cup of coffee. You poured
Speaker 1: me a cup of coffee and you handed it to me.
Speaker 1: You did great, big thumbs up. Thanks.
Speaker 2: I thought he might have strong opinions on this.
Speaker 1: This is good. Don't you got me started and it's
Speaker 1: just beginning. Are you done?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I don't think so, but I'm going to have to
Speaker 1: put it on pause right now. Thank you. Drew massive
Speaker 1: headaches this morning and all day long at London's Heathrow Airport,
Speaker 1: one of the busiest airports in the world, is completely
Speaker 1: shut down today. This follows a fire at a London
Speaker 1: power station. The airport, which routinely handles about thirteen hundred
Speaker 1: flights a day, forced more than one hundred of those
Speaker 1: flights to be diverted when the power got knocked out,
Speaker 1: including a few flights that had to return to Boston's Logan.
Speaker 1: It's not clear when full power will be restored, but
Speaker 1: officials say the ripple effects of delays will likely take
Speaker 1: days to unwind. Word of warning for international travelers coming
Speaker 1: into the United States. The United Kingdom issues a travel warning,
Speaker 1: a message that harsh consequences could await British passport holders
Speaker 1: who violate America's immigration laws. Official say simply, any traveler
Speaker 1: may be liable to arrest or detention. The warning comes
Speaker 1: a day after officials in Germany update its own travel
Speaker 1: policies after three of its citizens are detained. Here, inspectors
Speaker 1: will need to take another look and to the Tobin,
Speaker 1: the Born and Sagamore bridges here in Massachusetts. They are
Speaker 1: all on a long list NTSB says could be at
Speaker 1: risk of collapse if hit by a ship. This, of course,
Speaker 1: follows last year's tragedy in Baltimore.
Speaker 5: Had they ran the calculation on the Francis Scott Key Bridge,
Speaker 5: the MDTA would have been aware that the bridge was
Speaker 5: almost thirty times greater than the risk threshold ASHTOE sets
Speaker 5: for critical essential bridges.
Speaker 1: Zent tsb's chair Jennifer Hammandy. Almost one year ago, of course,
Speaker 1: a cargo ship lost power and brought the Key Bridge
Speaker 1: down in the middle of the night, killing six about
Speaker 1: seventy bridges across the country. They are now on this
Speaker 1: inspection list for vulnerability. You are now in the loop.
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