Speaker 1: Good morning to you. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Starting in Cambridge. Harvard University filing a new federal lawsuit
Speaker 1: against the Trump administration. The school is challenging the administration's
Speaker 1: decision to ban them from enrolling foreign students. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: they want a restraining order to stop that move. Here's
Speaker 1: ABC Stephen Portnoy.
Speaker 2: Harvard says, what the stroke of a pen, the administration
Speaker 2: is sought to erase a quarter of its student body.
Speaker 2: The university says the action amounts to a blatant violation
Speaker 2: of the First and Fifth Amendments and is just the
Speaker 2: latest example of retaliation against the school for its refusal
Speaker 2: to allow the administration to control it. Homeland Security Secretary
Speaker 2: Christy Nolmes says Harvard has fostered anti Semitism and coordinated
Speaker 2: with communist China. Nolmes says the administration's move should quote
Speaker 2: serve as a warning to all academic institutions.
Speaker 1: President Alan Garber says the school condemns this unlawful and
Speaker 1: unwarranted action. He calls it a warning to international students
Speaker 1: at schools around the country. Meantime, President Trump says he
Speaker 1: wants to put a new fifty percent tariff on all
Speaker 1: God's imported from the EU, and he wants it to
Speaker 1: start on June first. The President was upset by the
Speaker 1: lack of progress in trade talks with the European Union,
Speaker 1: saying on truth Social Quote discussions with them are going nowhere.
Speaker 1: He's also threatening a twenty five percent tariff on Apple
Speaker 1: unless they bring their iPhone production to the US. President
Speaker 1: Trump saying last week that he did not like Apple
Speaker 1: CEO Tim Cook's decision to move manufacturing for iPhones to
Speaker 1: new plants in India that would again count for iPhones
Speaker 1: sold in the United States. Meantime, President Trump is hosting
Speaker 1: big money investors who are interested in his latest private enterprise.
Speaker 1: Here CBS is Steve Kathan.
Speaker 3: President Trump used his Virginia golf club to host a
Speaker 3: dinner for top investors in one of his meme coin
Speaker 3: cryptocurrency projects. Businessman Donald Quimby says he bought two million
Speaker 3: dollars worth of trump Coin recently.
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Speaker 3: Critics have labeled it a historic corruption of the presidency.
Speaker 3: George Washington in the University professor Jessica Tillipman.
Speaker 1: Ethnically, this appears to be a president that could be
Speaker 1: potentially benefiting privately from something that he's doing out in
Speaker 1: the open.
Speaker 3: Steve Kith and CBS News.
Speaker 1: Very busy travel days. You can imagine as maybe you
Speaker 1: and millions of other Americans head off to the holiday
Speaker 1: weekend destination.
Speaker 4: Overall, Triple A expects forty five point one million to travel.
Speaker 4: Ali Mitchell opted to take the train to New York City.
Speaker 1: I honestly find it just to be the easiest as
Speaker 1: far as like the travel goes, I don't know less
Speaker 1: like delays.
Speaker 4: At Newark Airport Thursday, a long line of planes waiting
Speaker 4: to take off as Alexa Pearnston waited for her flight
Speaker 4: to Japan. How concerned about flying out in Newark are
Speaker 4: you today? I'm coming in anticipating that there might be
Speaker 4: some challenges.
Speaker 3: So if there aren't any challenges, all be pleasantly surprising.
Speaker 1: That update there from CBS's Kris Fan Cleeve. The weather
Speaker 1: thankfully is starting to improve. With everything that we've got
Speaker 1: going on today, it's going to be a lot nicer
Speaker 1: ound there. We are not completely out of the woods
Speaker 1: when it comes to showers, there is a chance we
Speaker 1: could have a couple stray ones. And the breeze is
Speaker 1: sticking around as well, although certainly not gusting as much
Speaker 1: as it was yesterday. We have a high today in
Speaker 1: the mid fifties, and then tonight occasional rain, mostly early,
Speaker 1: with a low in the upper forties. For Tomorrow Saturday,
Speaker 1: breaks of sun becoming breezier, with a couple of showers,
Speaker 1: but again nothing consistent and a high year sixty Sunday
Speaker 1: clouds and sun breezy, with a high year sixty three. Monday,
Speaker 1: more sun than clouds and a high in the mid
Speaker 1: to upper sixties. So looking better as we make our
Speaker 1: way through the holiday weekend. And you got to go
Speaker 1: to the store and get everything you need for the barbecue.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: While April saw dip in food inflation, wbz's Jim McKay
Speaker 1: went to see if that's being reflected at the checkout.
Speaker 5: Since the pandemic, it seems we've almost gotten used to
Speaker 5: high prices and inflation, especially when you're grocery shopping.
Speaker 3: You all right, wish things would go down.
Speaker 5: I don't like to see the prices go lot. Jannis
Speaker 5: and Tom from Hanover, saying they were looking to pick
Speaker 5: up some steaks in market basket, something Jannis doesn't mind
Speaker 5: paying more for. You know, you're getting a good product
Speaker 5: in there, you get good price. Her two sons love
Speaker 5: a good steak on the grill. For Tom, well, he's
Speaker 5: going to stick to bargain hunting.
Speaker 1: Those things always seem to go up quicker than they
Speaker 1: go down.
Speaker 5: He's grilling chicken this weekend instead. He just wishes he
Speaker 5: could save a few more bucks on that grocery bill.
Speaker 1: Be nice if things could drop.
Speaker 3: Someone not going to let that spoil.
Speaker 5: However. The Unifficials start this summer in head Over JIMMYAWBZ
Speaker 5: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: The upcoming hurricane season expected to be rather busy, and
Speaker 1: the head of the National Weather Service says even though
Speaker 1: there have been plenty of cuts because of DOGE, the
Speaker 1: forecasting should not be interrupted.
Speaker 6: Noah predicts up to nineteen named storms this season, with
Speaker 6: as many as five major hurricanes of category three or higher.
Speaker 6: Even with cuts and government funding, National Weather Service Director
Speaker 6: Ken Graham says they'll get the job done.
Speaker 4: You know, the Hurricane Center's floy staffed, and you know
Speaker 4: I'm going to make sure that our offices when there's
Speaker 4: a hurricane threat, that's going to have the resources that
Speaker 4: they need to make sure every morning goes out.
Speaker 6: Graham says they're looking at new tech in the private
Speaker 6: sector to offset a loss of personnel. The six month
Speaker 6: Atlantic hurricane season starts June first. Rory O'Neil WBZ Boston's
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