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Speaker 2: Pretty clear out there, very cold, but not as cold
Speaker 2: as yesterday, with a hide thirty two and our warm
Speaker 2: spot right now is twenty five degrees in downtown Boston.
Speaker 2: On Laurie Kirby. Patriots at Jerrell Pepper's leading guilty to
Speaker 2: cocaine possession this morning. The cases continue without a finding
Speaker 2: for four months, but Peppers still faces several other charges
Speaker 2: stemming from allegations he assaulted a woman in his Brain
Speaker 2: Tree apartment. The trial was supposed to get under way yesterday,
Speaker 2: but then there was a water main break at Quinsy
Speaker 2: District Court, delaying it until today. Opening statements are now underway.
Speaker 2: President Trump's immigration crackdown is already starting to materialize. The
Speaker 2: Pentagon is sending hundreds of troops to the southern border.
Speaker 2: Federal prosecutors have been told to investigate cities and towns
Speaker 2: that get in the way of the Trump administration's agenda.
Speaker 2: The state of Massachusetts has plans of its own, and
Speaker 2: WBCs J willetts.
Speaker 3: That Governor Healy says Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state
Speaker 3: and will not intervene with a nationwide immigration upheaval. That
Speaker 3: does not mean, however, that Commonwealth officials are lending a
Speaker 3: hand to ICE. In fact, state police are ordered to
Speaker 3: only assist with criminal enforcement. At the local level, police
Speaker 3: departments are obligated by state law to not do the
Speaker 3: job of federal immigration agents for them. In Worsir, the
Speaker 3: state's second largest city, public school officials have instructed bus
Speaker 3: drivers not to drop off students where they see ICE
Speaker 3: agents hanging around. Meantime, federal prosecutors are under direct orders
Speaker 3: to investigate any agency that steps in the way of ICE.
Speaker 3: Jwill Let WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Memal On Capitol Hill, the US House passes a bill
Speaker 2: of further the president's immigration agenda. ABC's Rachel Scott.
Speaker 4: And Immigrant Detention Bill is now headed to the President's desk.
Speaker 4: The Lake and Riley Act passing with some bipartisan support,
Speaker 4: marking the first piece of legislation President Donald Trump could
Speaker 4: sign into law. The bill, named for the twenty two
Speaker 4: year old Georgia nursing student killed by an undocumented migrant,
Speaker 4: requires ICE to detain undocumented migrants accused of theft and
Speaker 4: violent crimes. The bill would be costly to enforce, ICE
Speaker 4: estimates it would cost close to twenty seven billion dollars
Speaker 4: in the first year alone.
Speaker 2: Forty six House Democrats joined Republicans to push the bill
Speaker 2: over the finish line. President Trump promised this week to
Speaker 2: reinstate more than eight thousand troops who refused to get
Speaker 2: the COVID vaccine and were kicked out of the military.
Speaker 2: But a federal judge has just ruled that Boston Medical
Speaker 2: Center at every right to fire anito neo natal nurse
Speaker 2: who refused to get the COVID shot. Alison Sears, cited
Speaker 2: her faith as the reason for not getting the COVID
Speaker 2: nineteen vaccine and for refusing to wear a face mask.
Speaker 2: In the ruling, the judge determined that the hospital had
Speaker 2: no way to safely accommodate her, given that she was
Speaker 2: working and caring for premature and extremely ill and vulnerable newborns.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're seeing twenties. We're headed for thirty two
Speaker 2: for our high to day. We're seeing some nice sunshine,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a breeze out there. If you're
Speaker 2: on the cape, you might see some snowflakes falling. And
Speaker 2: then tonight nineteen in Boston, twelve to sixteen Inland. Tonight
Speaker 2: warmer on the Cape and islands. Friday, here we come
Speaker 2: some more clouds thirty two, even colder Saturday, but clear,
Speaker 2: more sun than anything. And Sunday we will feel so
Speaker 2: much warmer with a high of thirty eight. So these
Speaker 2: frigid temperatures could mean trouble for your car battery. Wbz's
Speaker 2: Jim McKay has more.
Speaker 5: When you talk to people in the know at local
Speaker 5: auto body shops, this cold weather usually exposed as a
Speaker 5: problem you were already putting on the back burner.
Speaker 3: Average battery last four to five years.
Speaker 5: Stephen Donovan works with General Otto Supply in Marshfield. He
Speaker 5: says this time of year most people find out they
Speaker 5: should have replaced their battery years ago.
Speaker 1: Anything over four years and it's not starting. You know
Speaker 1: it's time to replace the battery.
Speaker 5: There are some in case of emergency tricks you can
Speaker 5: have up your sleeve, a battery booster pack for instance.
Speaker 1: It's just like you would jump in a car.
Speaker 5: Just got to make sure you're keeping.
Speaker 1: Up with it. Like your phone, you gotta keep them shying.
Speaker 5: A modern, more efficient way of jumping your car.
Speaker 1: You can move it anywhere, which is nice. You don't
Speaker 1: have to back the car in and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 5: In the end, regular service in battery checks when it's
Speaker 5: not below zero is your best bet in Marshfield. Jim
Speaker 5: mckawb Z Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, if you ever go to Mount Washington, you know
Speaker 2: it's much colder the higher up you go. How about
Speaker 2: working there, because these folks, the weather observers who do
Speaker 2: work on the top of Mount Washington are reporting it
Speaker 2: was twelve below zero yesterday and the blistering when it
Speaker 2: reached forty below. Luckily, they're working in a bunker that
Speaker 2: can sustain incredible cold weather and three hundred mile for
Speaker 2: our winds. Several hundred miles south, many Americans are still
Speaker 2: recovering from a rare winter storm along the Gulf Coast.
Speaker 2: CBS is Katie Weiss is more from New Orleans.
Speaker 6: The Big Easy is slowly returning back to normal after
Speaker 6: record snowfall and historic winter weather of that barrel through
Speaker 6: gave the city quite a bit of a challenge in
Speaker 6: terms of transportations. We've been seeing snowplows for the first
Speaker 6: time in the Big Easy coming through, clearing the roads
Speaker 6: that were hammered by this storm and covered in thick
Speaker 6: sheets of ice. We also spoke with some local businesses
Speaker 6: that are slowly getting back open.
Speaker 2: Several people died in connection with that winter's storm, and
Speaker 2: of course it read Taffock on air travel all the
Speaker 2: way up and down the East Coast, including Logan Airport
Speaker 2: in Britain. Instruments from a legendary rocker hit the auction block.
Speaker 7: Many of his peers consider Jeff Beck the greatest guitarist
Speaker 7: of all time. Two years after his death, his collection
Speaker 7: of guitars, amps, pedals and personal artwork has raised eleven
Speaker 7: million dollars, more than eight times the pre sale estimates,
Speaker 7: with bids from forty countries. The nineteen fifty four Gibbson
Speaker 7: Les Paul guitar, which featured on the cover of Beck's
Speaker 7: nineteen seventy five album Blow by Blow, fetch one point
Speaker 7: three million dollars. Some of the proceeds are going to
Speaker 7: a local wildlife shelter supported by Beck, his wife, and
Speaker 7: his close friend Johnny Depp. Vicky Barker, CBS News.
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