Speaker 1: This is w b Z Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News twenty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock and
Speaker 2: good Saturday afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers. Here's what's happening as
Speaker 2: the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown unfolds. Governor Heally now describes
Speaker 2: a number of ice arrests in and around Boston this week.
Speaker 2: As Routine Believes's Mike Maclin spoke with the.
Speaker 3: Governor, these are efforts to apprehend people who've been charged
Speaker 3: with serious crimes in our communities.
Speaker 1: And Governor Borre Healey reacting to the arrest of several
Speaker 1: undocumented immigrants with criminal histories in Boston in recent days
Speaker 1: as President Trump vows a crackdown on illegal immigrants who
Speaker 1: break the law.
Speaker 3: You know, I think most people understand that whether you're
Speaker 3: here lawfully or unlawfully, if you commit crimes, you can
Speaker 3: and should be held accountable. And that's what we saw
Speaker 3: the other day in Massachusetts. These are this is the
Speaker 3: normal course of work by federal authorities, and it's happening
Speaker 3: around the country.
Speaker 1: It's really assuring immigrants who are here legally and who
Speaker 1: do not engage in criminal conduct that their rights are protected.
Speaker 1: Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Today, the Senate has confirmed Christy Nome as the head
Speaker 2: of Homeland Security, the now former South Dakota Governor Will Helm,
Speaker 2: a sprawling agency essential to national security and the president's
Speaker 2: immigration agenda. Meantime, the Pentagon has a new leader now.
Speaker 2: Pete Hagsath was sworn in as Defense Secretary this morning,
Speaker 2: just hours after a dramatic confirmation in the Senate with
Speaker 2: a tie breaking vote cast by Vice President Vance. A
Speaker 2: park south of town has been shut down over a
Speaker 2: potential bird flow outbreak. DW Field Park in Brockton and
Speaker 2: Avon will stay closed off until further notice. Officials say.
Speaker 2: We've also now learned that two birds found in Norfolk
Speaker 2: last week have now been confirmed bird flu cases. And
Speaker 2: checking the latest on the nationwide outbreak.
Speaker 4: New poultry infections detected in twenty eight states just this
Speaker 4: month alone, and so far as CDC reports, sixty seven
Speaker 4: confirmed cases here in the US, and that's mostly in
Speaker 4: people who had direct contact with invected livestock. The virus
Speaker 4: has led to one death in Louisiana, with two cases
Speaker 4: involving children.
Speaker 2: Over in California that was ABC's Morgan Norwood. Last weekend
Speaker 2: in Plymouth, dozens of dead waterfowl were found at the
Speaker 2: Billington Sea Pond. In the Middle East, there's been another
Speaker 2: exchange today. One week now into the fragile cease firing, Gaza,
Speaker 2: Israel has released two hundred Palestinian prisoners and in return
Speaker 2: four Hamas hostages. Female soldiers are free and what's being
Speaker 2: described as the CeaseFire's first major crisis. Meantime, Israel says
Speaker 2: displaced Palestinians will not be allowed to return to northern
Speaker 2: Gaza this weekend as had been expected or had been expected.
Speaker 2: They say that a hostage who was suppose to be
Speaker 2: released has not been. In the four day wbz ACU
Speaker 2: weather forecast, it's gonna be less cold in the coming days.
Speaker 2: Tonight's partly to mostly cloudy and brisk, with a low
Speaker 2: around twenty three, Partly sunny and breezy, Tomorrow, warming up
Speaker 2: to around forty degrees in the afternoon. Then Monday we'll
Speaker 2: top out in the mid thirties. It also becomes rather
Speaker 2: windy by late in the day. We'll have sun in
Speaker 2: some clouds up near forty for Tuesday, but it's mostly
Speaker 2: cloudy and still breezy, and mainly in northern and western
Speaker 2: parts of the area. You could see a snow shower
Speaker 2: as well. Right now in Boston, it's twenty nine degrees
Speaker 2: with a chili breeze out there. It feels like fifteen
Speaker 2: under a partly sunny sky. There's an extra terrestrial investigation
Speaker 2: in downtown Boston sort of. A piece of art was
Speaker 2: recently installed in downtown Crossing which looks like a parked
Speaker 2: car that's been crushed by a falling satellite. Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: Boston police say someone showed up, ripped the satelle light
Speaker 2: off the art installation, dragged it around for a bit,
Speaker 2: and then ran off. The vandal apparently left the satellite
Speaker 2: on the ground, but the piece was certainly damaged. Please say.
Speaker 2: They're trying to track down the suspect, and a little
Speaker 2: neighborhood along the shoreline of Hull lives an artist with
Speaker 2: a dream. The blee Beezy's Jeremy Russ introduces us you
Speaker 2: name it.
Speaker 5: Mike Dowdash has probably been there and probably done that
Speaker 5: from running an iron Man people.
Speaker 4: I laugh at people on the Boston Marcelon Off.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, try doing this to building boats and cars
Speaker 5: in California. But these days he's a sculptor who chisels stone,
Speaker 5: whoa look at that do what I can best describe
Speaker 5: as shapes that look like clouds or what he describes as.
Speaker 2: Three dimensional representations of non Euclidean forms.
Speaker 5: They say life imitates art, and Mike's life has gotten
Speaker 5: about as complex as the sculptures he makes.
Speaker 2: I got cancer a few years ago, so I have
Speaker 2: four years surviving.
Speaker 5: His goal is to donate the sculptures as educational pieces
Speaker 5: for the Perkins School for the Blind.
Speaker 1: Hopefully when I'm going to stand the test of time,
Speaker 1: that they're not dated like a shad.
Speaker 5: Jeremy Russ WBZ Boston's News.
Speaker 2: Radio, and you can see more of Jeremy's story on
Speaker 2: our TikTok account at WBZ News Radio. Down in Providence,
Speaker 2: Brown University Health is moving into the former Hasbro offices.
Speaker 2: The university just announced about six hundred administrative workers will
Speaker 2: move to the downtown building this summer, and this comes
Speaker 2: as toy making giant Hasbro is set to move out
Speaker 2: of downtown Providence at the end of this month. They
Speaker 2: do still have headquarters in Patucket, but the company has
Speaker 2: reportedly been mulling a move to Boston. Tonight on SNL
Speaker 2: Yeah Sine, actor Timothy Shallomey will join a very exclusive club.
Speaker 2: He's about to become just the fifth non professional singer
Speaker 2: in the show's fifty year history to pull double duty
Speaker 2: as both host and musical guest. Shalam May recently starred
Speaker 2: in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, and as
Speaker 2: of Thursday, he's been nominated for Best Actor at the
Speaker 2: upcoming Oscars. You're now in the loop. For news updates
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