Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Getting better on the weather front, warming up to a
Speaker 2: high have forty eight degrees today downtown Boston. The rain
Speaker 2: is stopped. It's thirty nine in Washington. The Senator's voting
Speaker 2: right now on whether or not to confirm Health in
Speaker 2: Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Kennedy has faced
Speaker 2: significant scrutiny because of his outspoken vaccine skepticism certainly in
Speaker 2: the past, and opinions about the COVID nineteen pandemic even
Speaker 2: now and ahead of today's confirmation, Senator Marky told WBZ
Speaker 2: News Radio he is prepared to fight the GOP over
Speaker 2: what he calls a threat to public health.
Speaker 3: This is bringing out the Malding in me because they're
Speaker 3: going right to the healthcare of the auditary families in state.
Speaker 3: In Nike, hundred and eighteen percent of children died before
Speaker 3: the age of five. The average life expectancy was forty
Speaker 3: eight years of age because of Medicare, Medicaid vaccines, clean water,
Speaker 3: clean air, with extended life expectancy by thirty years. They're
Speaker 3: putting all of that progress in jeopardy, and I'm going
Speaker 3: to be battling them every single step of the way.
Speaker 2: Senator Marky conceies the Democrats don't have the votes to
Speaker 2: stop Republicans. He insists, it's important to put them on
Speaker 2: the record so voters can hold them accountable. Again, this
Speaker 2: is underway and we will have a lot more on
Speaker 2: the culbination of this vote. Shortly. Health experts thought measles
Speaker 2: had been wiped out. Now an outbreak in Texas is
Speaker 2: making them think twice.
Speaker 4: The patients had not been vaccinated against measles. Vaccination rates
Speaker 4: nationally had been falling since COVID nineteen sparked health concerns
Speaker 4: that doctors say are unfounded symptoms, says Zach Holbrooks at
Speaker 4: the South Plains Health District in West Texas.
Speaker 1: Running does cough, high fever, and the biggest one's going
Speaker 1: to be a rash.
Speaker 4: Most cases are mild, but measles can bring on pneumonia
Speaker 4: at brain swelling. Jim rillon ABC News.
Speaker 2: A shelter funding bill passes the Senate on Beacon Hill.
Speaker 2: Now leaders in both chambers must reconcile the differences, of
Speaker 2: which there are little. They agree on the amount of
Speaker 2: funding to keep the emergency shelters running through this June
Speaker 2: four hundred and twenty five million. They agree on shortening
Speaker 2: shelter stays to six months and tightening eligibility, and while
Speaker 2: they agree that only Massachusetts residents should be eligible, the
Speaker 2: Senate bill creates a wait list for applicants who appear
Speaker 2: to be but who need a little more time to
Speaker 2: get it verified. Republican state senators did not like this,
Speaker 2: saying it leaves too much room for families to get
Speaker 2: into a shelter who simply shouldn't be there. A House
Speaker 2: Republican is collecting signatures on a petition to have his colleague,
Speaker 2: Congresswoman Ilan Jma were deported. Brian shook with the update
Speaker 2: on Congresswoman.
Speaker 5: Omar Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, became a US citizen in
Speaker 5: two thousand after fleeing Somalia's Civil War. Texas Republican branding
Speaker 5: Gill is circulating the petition, claiming Omar is biased toward
Speaker 5: illegal immigrants. Several Democrats have criticized gil and the Republican Party.
Speaker 5: Congresswoman Promela Jayapaul wrote on x it's disgusting that Republicans
Speaker 5: are attempting to raise money by threatening to deport a
Speaker 5: US citizen just because they disagree with her. I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 2: Visibility could be a challenge out there. We have a
Speaker 2: little bit of fog as those temps rise. We have
Speaker 2: a little bit of snow in Conquered New Hampshire and
Speaker 2: looks like in Maine still snowing there a lot colder.
Speaker 2: We're already in the forties. We're headed for forty eight
Speaker 2: today in particular along the coast, the Cape in the Islands,
Speaker 2: and tonight gale warning for those coastal areas, very clear, moonlit,
Speaker 2: cold in the twenties. Tomorrow's sunny and cold, still windy,
Speaker 2: thirty three are high. We have snow, sleet and freezing
Speaker 2: rain Saturday night, perhaps all rain late, especially on the
Speaker 2: south coast and the Cape, and then Sunday a little
Speaker 2: bit of snow and ice for interior sections. Let's go
Speaker 2: back to Logan Airport. We've been tracking some of the
Speaker 2: delays there and they're up now. Just shive two hundred
Speaker 2: flight Aware now reporting one hundred ninety three delays at
Speaker 2: Logan Airport. If you're picking up or dropping off, or
Speaker 2: if you're an uber driver out there, a rideshare driver,
Speaker 2: there you go thirty cancelations at Logan Airport. WBC's Jim
Speaker 2: McKay is talking to some frustrated travelers at Logan.
Speaker 1: Got the text message saying flight was canceled and to
Speaker 1: wait for an updated plan. Bee Auckman is one of
Speaker 1: the many travelers feeling big time frustration. Supposed to be
Speaker 1: heading back to Toronto, but that flight status is up
Speaker 1: in the air, as they say. He's even considering leaving
Speaker 1: Logan a different way.
Speaker 4: So weld inline. We're just contemplating our options, even considering driving.
Speaker 1: Don't be surprised to find problems flying out of town
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 4: I was supposed to fly soon, actually not.
Speaker 1: Elena has her own issues trying to get back to
Speaker 1: New Jersey.
Speaker 4: The information was that we didn't have any more pandas,
Speaker 4: so we went waiting for pilotts.
Speaker 1: Get ready because we're only just getting started at Logan.
Speaker 1: Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Eva's butcher's shop in North Andover thought they had made
Speaker 2: a massive sale five thousand pounds of meat to one customer.
Speaker 2: Of course, the deal was too good to be true.
Speaker 2: Here's Christina Rex with CBS News Boston.
Speaker 6: Because while the money came through at first the meat
Speaker 6: was purchased on a stolen credit card discovered from the shop.
Speaker 6: Got a frantic call.
Speaker 5: And they said, I'm not from Massachusetts. I don't live
Speaker 5: in Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you got my credit card.
Speaker 6: The shop now has to return the sixty thousand dollars
Speaker 6: it made on the sales, and another twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 6: of holiday profits are frozen. Two just a straight feeling
Speaker 6: of betrayal. The Alonzo family doesn't know if they could
Speaker 6: pull through this loss. For Roberto, who started Avis Farm
Speaker 6: as an ode to his butcher father in Argentina, this
Speaker 6: feels personal.
Speaker 4: Talking about the people.
Speaker 2: They were his Spanish like me, and they came in
Speaker 2: shaken by him. In other news, if President Trump can
Speaker 2: rename the Gulf of Mexico, Weymouth Mayor Bob Henlend figures
Speaker 2: he can rename Hingham Bay. On Facebook, the mayor rice
Speaker 2: with tongue firmley in cheek that he was issuing a
Speaker 2: new executive order that Hingham Bay would henceforth be known
Speaker 2: as the Gulf of Weymouth. He writes the action is
Speaker 2: justified because three Harbor Islands are actually part of Weymouth
Speaker 2: and Weymouth was settled eleven years before Hingham. You are
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