Speaker 1: This is WBC Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: It's forty degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good Thursday morning.
Speaker 2: I'm Madison Rogers, and we start this hour with some
Speaker 2: breaking news from Washington. The Trump administration just has just
Speaker 2: announced mass layoffs and a major transformation at the Department
Speaker 2: of Health and Human Services. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 2: Junior says he wants to reorganize the department and create
Speaker 2: a new division called the Administration for a Healthy America.
Speaker 3: We have two goals. The first is obvious, to save
Speaker 3: the tax parent money by making our department more efficient,
Speaker 3: and the second is to radically improve our quality of service.
Speaker 3: I want to promise you now that we're going to
Speaker 3: do more with less. No American is going to be
Speaker 3: left behind.
Speaker 4: He says.
Speaker 2: Ten thousand full time employees will lose their jobs, and
Speaker 2: the agency's twenty eight divisions it will be consolidated. HHS
Speaker 2: oversees major agencies like the CDC, the FDA, and NIH.
Speaker 2: It also regulates drugs, food safety, and medical research. Now
Speaker 2: to Harvard, where hundreds of professors have signed on to
Speaker 2: a letter calling for the college to push back against
Speaker 2: the Trump administration. More on that with wbz's James Rojas.
Speaker 4: The letter, that's been signed by over six hundred faculty
Speaker 4: calls for a mounted opposition to the Trump administration and
Speaker 4: its crackdown on higher education. It sites Columbia University's concessions
Speaker 4: to the federal government after it was accused of mishandling
Speaker 4: protests and campus anti semitism. Four hundred million dollars in
Speaker 4: federal funding were also threatened. The letter says the ongoing
Speaker 4: attacks on American universities threatened Bedrock principles of a democratic society,
Speaker 4: including rights of free expression, association, and inquiry at Harvard
Speaker 4: James Rojas, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: A federal judge in Boston has just ordered the government
Speaker 2: to excit plain why a toughs PhD student is in
Speaker 2: ICE attention. Yesterday in Somerville, thousands of people rallied in protests,
Speaker 2: and wbz's I'm a Friedman was there.
Speaker 1: The Palestinian Youth Movement held an emergency rally in Powderhouse
Speaker 1: Square Park demanding ICE. Rally's Tough's doctoral student Romesa as Turk.
Speaker 1: I want to be very clear about something that we
Speaker 1: need to call what happened to Romesa. What it is
Speaker 1: state sanctioned political kidnapping. She was taken into custody by
Speaker 1: plain clothes, ice agents and masks near where she lives
Speaker 1: in Somerville.
Speaker 4: I have to shout up, this is my community. I
Speaker 4: live here. I can't see my neighbor abducted and say nothing.
Speaker 1: Lawyer say the Turkish national was maintaining a valid F
Speaker 1: one visa status. DHS said she is being held in
Speaker 1: Louisiana and that she was engaged in activities supporting Hamas.
Speaker 1: Tufts University president says her student visa has been terminated.
Speaker 1: The Palestinian Youth Group is planning another rally at Somerville
Speaker 1: City Hall to demand that city council not put any
Speaker 1: tax dollars towards apartheid and genocide and gaza in Somerville.
Speaker 1: I'm a Friedman w's Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And again the government is now facing a Friday deadline
Speaker 2: to explain that detention, and looking at the four day forecast,
Speaker 2: it stays mostly sunny and breezy out there this afternoon,
Speaker 2: getting into the upper forties this afternoon. Right now, it
Speaker 2: is around forty in Boston. Tonight turns out partly cloudy
Speaker 2: and brisk, with a shower in spots late even a
Speaker 2: snowshower mixing in north and west of one twenty eight
Speaker 2: in those communities. Well to the north and west, it'll
Speaker 2: get down into the low mid thirties. It's around thirty
Speaker 2: eight for the low in Boston. Sun to start your Friday.
Speaker 2: Then more clouds building fifty seven for the high. Warmer
Speaker 2: out there. Saturday. We will have a few showers around
Speaker 2: and it'll only get up to forty three or so
Speaker 2: in Boston, warmer toward the Cape. Sunday again comps in
Speaker 2: the low forties, with a bit of rain possible, mainly
Speaker 2: in the morning and also mainly north of town. Right now,
Speaker 2: again it's forty, mostly sunny and breezy in Boston at
Speaker 2: eleven oh five, just about five hours the Red Sox
Speaker 2: will begin their twenty twenty five MLB season, and wbz's
Speaker 2: Drew mholland tells us Hope Springs Eternal.
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball's official opening day, you gotta love it.
Speaker 5: Red Sox in Texas first pitch with the Rangers four
Speaker 5: h five today and one of the chances we get
Speaker 5: back to this again, Red.
Speaker 6: Sox fans have wonder here to Boston Red Sox are
Speaker 6: world champions.
Speaker 5: It still gives you goosebumps, doesn't It? So much depends
Speaker 5: on starting pitching. We all know that pitching and defense,
Speaker 5: and today we get our first look at the new ace.
Speaker 5: Garrett Crochet, big guy, six y six, strong arm. He
Speaker 5: gets the ball and tries to put the socks in
Speaker 5: the win column. Drew mohulland WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: State lawmakers are considering some big changes when it comes
Speaker 2: to sports betting. Here's wbz's Jim McKay.
Speaker 6: The bet Tour Health Bill, little wordplay from legislators calls
Speaker 6: for limits on how much and how often gamblers can
Speaker 6: make online bets, bands on all prop bets, and restrictions
Speaker 6: on the ads that run during sporting events. At the
Speaker 6: risk of killing this golden goose that has delivered more
Speaker 6: than thirteen billion dollars in business since sports betting went
Speaker 6: live in Massachusetts back in twenty twenty three, Addiction specialists
Speaker 6: say it's a much needed move. If approved, this would
Speaker 6: make betting on sports in Massachusetts the most heavily regulated
Speaker 6: in the country. Jim McKay wb ZY, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Top defense officials are facing more scrutiny after mistakenly including
Speaker 2: a journalist in a group chat about strikes in Yemen
Speaker 2: earlier this month. An update now from CBS's Michael Wallace.
Speaker 7: The German news magazine Der Spiegel found the private information
Speaker 7: of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national Security Advisor Mike Waltz,
Speaker 7: and Director of National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard in hacked data
Speaker 7: that were dumped online. They found password details, mobile phone numbers,
Speaker 7: and email addresses. Hegseth's email address and some of his
Speaker 7: passwords were found in more than twenty data leaks.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of calls for Hegseth to resign
Speaker 2: or be fired, including from both Massachusetts senators. President True
Speaker 2: Trump is calling the situation hoax and a witch hunt,
Speaker 2: though the White House has said that the screenshots do
Speaker 2: appear to be real. Source of say Chris Poppus has
Speaker 2: his eyes on a Senate seat. That is, according to Axios,
Speaker 2: the New Hampshire Democratic rep has been telling colleagues that
Speaker 2: he plans to announce a run for Jeene Shaheen's seat.
Speaker 2: This comes after the Democratic senator announced she would not
Speaker 2: be seeking reelection in twenty twenty six. There have also
Speaker 2: been reports of a potential run on the Democratic side
Speaker 2: by fellow New Hampshire Rep. Maggie Goodland.
Speaker 1: You're now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day,
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Speaker 2: I'm Madison Rodgers, WBZ, Boston's news radio