Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News forty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A federal lawsuit filed
Speaker 2: in Boston fighting back against President Trump's moves to close
Speaker 2: the Department of Education. Lawsuit filed by the American Federation
Speaker 2: of Teachers, the Somerville and East Hampton Districts, and other groups,
Speaker 2: is asking a judge to block the administration's plan to
Speaker 2: cut the agency's workforce in half. They say only Congress
Speaker 2: can close the Department for President has told Education Secretary
Speaker 2: Linda mcmahn to take any steps permittable by law to
Speaker 2: shut it down. A federal judge reviewing the Trump administration's
Speaker 2: use of wartime deportation powers has denied a request that
Speaker 2: he lifts his temporary restraining order that blocks further use
Speaker 2: of the seventeen ninety eight law on alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Speaker 3: In this latest order, Judge James Boseburg says the president's
Speaker 3: use of the Alien Enemies Act is unprecedented outside what
Speaker 3: he calls a typical wartime context. The judge says anyone
Speaker 3: subject to the presidential proclamation needs to be given the
Speaker 3: chance to challenge the government's assertions that they're members of
Speaker 3: Trende Arragua. This afternoon, an appeals court above Bosburg will
Speaker 3: hear arguments as the Trump administration pushes to lift the
Speaker 3: judge's temporary restraining order, which now blocks further deportations of
Speaker 3: Venezuelan's under the seventeen ninety eight law.
Speaker 2: Not is ABC Stephen Portnoy. The President says he'll impose
Speaker 2: a twenty five percent tariff on countries that buy oil
Speaker 2: or gas from Venezuela.
Speaker 4: President Trump writs on social media that Venezuela has been
Speaker 4: quote very hostile to the US and accused that country
Speaker 4: of purposely sending tens of thousands of criminals here. Because
Speaker 4: of that, the President says we'll put a twenty five
Speaker 4: percent tariff on all imports from any country that buys
Speaker 4: oil or gas from Venezuela. This will go into effects
Speaker 4: starting April, second part of a big round of tariffs
Speaker 4: expected on that day. China could be impacted by this
Speaker 4: move as a major buyer of crude from Venezuela. Venezuela
Speaker 4: also supplies to the US about three percent of all
Speaker 4: oil and gas brought into the country comes from Venezuela.
Speaker 4: Karen Travers, ABC NEWSLU Whitehouse.
Speaker 2: The death toll grows in Gaza, with another hospital struck.
Speaker 5: The IDF saying it struck Nasser Hospital, Gaza's largest hospital
Speaker 5: that's still operational, that missile strike damaging huge sections of
Speaker 5: the facility. According to an American doctor inside at the
Speaker 5: time of the strike, that I spoke to the IDF
Speaker 5: saying it targeted and killed a senior member of Hamas's
Speaker 5: political team, using the hospital as a base. Hamas saying
Speaker 5: he was there to receive medical treatment. And now since
Speaker 5: the start of this war, the death toll topping fifty
Speaker 5: thousand people, say health officials.
Speaker 2: The horrors in Gaza continue another ABC's Matt Rivers. Meantime,
Speaker 2: activists say one of the Palestinian co directors of the
Speaker 2: Oscar winning documentary film No Other Land was attacked by
Speaker 2: Jewish settlers and arrested this evening. Today's the first day
Speaker 2: for along awaited South Coast commuter rail service. The one
Speaker 2: point one billion dollar project to connect the region to
Speaker 2: downtown Boston's taken decades. For the first time in sixty
Speaker 2: five years, Fall River, Freetown, Middleborough, New Bedford, and Taunton
Speaker 2: will have passenger rail service. The line begins with two branches,
Speaker 2: one in Fall River, the other in New Bedford. They
Speaker 2: link up at a new station in East Taunton. Trips
Speaker 2: will take riders about an hour and a half to
Speaker 2: get from end to end. Still in the rain and
Speaker 2: will be for a while longer. In fact, we've got
Speaker 2: some pretty heavy rains off across parts of central Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: flowing down into parts of Rhode Island and Connecticut. It's
Speaker 2: pushing off to the north and east, so getting a
Speaker 2: little bit heavier stuff even closer to Boston. Now looks
Speaker 2: like we've got some downpours. At least the radar is
Speaker 2: pretty hot out along the Route two corridor out toward Harvard,
Speaker 2: getting into Leminster, Fitchburg, and then back down one to
Speaker 2: ninety towards Stirling and Holden and Worcester, so there's some
Speaker 2: heavier downpours. There's also some not so heavy rain that
Speaker 2: also could impact your commute this afternoon, and this will
Speaker 2: continue to push off to the north and east and
Speaker 2: eventually get out of here, bringing just some partly cloudy
Speaker 2: skies later to night. Temperatures, which have been mainly in
Speaker 2: the thirties and low forties, will pretty much stay there.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll lose a couple degrees tonight, but not much. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: we'll have some sun and clouds. It'll be breezy and milder.
Speaker 2: Temperatures get into the low fifties. We'll be in the
Speaker 2: upper forties on Wednesday, a couple of showers around, maybe
Speaker 2: even some heavier rain showers or drizzle over the Capan Islands.
Speaker 2: Partly sunny again. Thursday. Temperature is about fifty Right now,
Speaker 2: we're forty two degrees in Boston. A kickoff to the
Speaker 2: country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary and Paul Revere's infamous ride.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Ailes Schaffel with detail.
Speaker 6: Local sign maker and artist Billy Crosby got quite a
Speaker 6: commission to build a larger than life lantern, modeled after
Speaker 6: the ones used to warn that the Red.
Speaker 2: Coats were on the way by sea. They said they
Speaker 2: wanted a lantern. I said, we can make you a lantern,
Speaker 2: and then they said we want a big lantern.
Speaker 6: This thing is ten feet tall and took a month
Speaker 6: to build. With the anniversary of the ride around the corner.
Speaker 6: Crosby says he was honored to have been tapped to
Speaker 6: make this thing, which is now stationed in front of
Speaker 6: the Conquered Museum.
Speaker 2: I wanted to do it as soon as they said it,
Speaker 2: and then we've been doing science at Cocket since nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy seven since I was a KI, so I was
Speaker 2: psyched to be involved in it.
Speaker 6: They threw an elaborate lighting ceremony, complete with bike riders
Speaker 6: carrying a torch from the old North Church to this
Speaker 6: very spot, and they were a little late, so the
Speaker 6: MC had to.
Speaker 2: Vent I'll be coming around the corner when they come. Eventually,
Speaker 2: though the lantern was lit.
Speaker 6: Kyle Shaffele to be busy Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2: Looking for a piece of land in central New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: Let's say something hilly and going downhill fast. Ragged Mountain
Speaker 2: is up for sale, The Union Leader reports. Ragged Mountain
Speaker 2: in Danbury, New Hampshire, is on the market, along with
Speaker 2: up to one thousand surrounding acres. We'll break out that
Speaker 2: old baseball glove and then throw it away where we're going.
Speaker 2: We don't need gloves.
Speaker 1: Baseball was a much different game in the eighteen sixties.
Speaker 2: There's no gloves.
Speaker 1: But when the ball gets hit and it hits the
Speaker 1: ground and it bounces one time and you catch it,
Speaker 1: that's an out. And it was called bound ball, says
Speaker 1: Kevin Doyle, founder of the Fort Myers Vagabond, which just
Speaker 1: played their seventh annual vintage game not far from Thomas
Speaker 1: Edison's winter home. Organizer Lara Wilson is with the Edison
Speaker 1: and Henry Ford Winter Estates.
Speaker 2: Thomas Edison actually threw out a pitch here.
Speaker 1: To every year the Estates host vintage games with lemon
Speaker 1: peel balls. Would bants, no gloves, and of course those
Speaker 1: old time uniforms to play as they did one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty years ago, no radar guns or exit velocity
Speaker 1: readings allowed. Peter King's CBS News Orlando. You are now
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