Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local.
Speaker 2: News forty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. White House Special Envoy
Speaker 2: Steve Witkoff is in Moscow today talking with Russian President
Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin. This is the first todd the US is
Speaker 2: talking with Russia sent Ukraine agreed to a thirty day
Speaker 2: cease fire proposal. More in the latest from ABC's Karen Trappers.
Speaker 3: Russian President Vladimir Putin has put out a quote very
Speaker 3: promising statement on a ceasefire with Ukraine, but he said
Speaker 3: it was incomplete.
Speaker 4: We're getting words that things are going okay in Russia
Speaker 4: and doesn't mean anything until we hear what the final
Speaker 4: outcome is. But they have very serious discussions going on
Speaker 4: right now with President Putin and others.
Speaker 3: Putin said Thursday Russia is for the proposed thirty day ceasefire,
Speaker 3: but has concerns. President Trump said there's not much time
Speaker 3: to reach deal given the ongoing fighting and casualties. Karen
Speaker 3: Travers ABC News. The White House.
Speaker 2: Federal judge in California ordering the Trump administration to reinstate
Speaker 2: thousands of probationary workers let go in mass firings across
Speaker 2: multiple agencies. The judge found the firings didn't follow federal
Speaker 2: law and required immediate offers of reinstatement to be sent.
Speaker 2: The agencies include the Department of Veterans, Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy,
Speaker 2: and the Interior and Treasury. The order from the San
Speaker 2: Francisco based judge came in a lawsuit filed by a
Speaker 2: coalition of labor unions and organization as the administration moves
Speaker 2: to dramatically downsize the federal workforce. Efforts by the Trump
Speaker 2: administration to change up and reduce the Department of Education
Speaker 2: has been met with pushback across the country. Now, a
Speaker 2: group of attorneys general, including Massachusetts ag Andrea Campbell, have sued.
Speaker 5: On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced it would be
Speaker 5: eliminating nearly half of its workforce, terminating nearly two thousand employees.
Speaker 5: The Trump administration has made it crystal clear that its
Speaker 5: in goal is to dismantle the department and that these
Speaker 5: terminations will help do that.
Speaker 2: Through a lawsuit filed in the U. S. District Court
Speaker 2: from Massachusetts, the coalition sieks a court order to stop
Speaker 2: the Trump Administration's policies when it comes to DOE and
Speaker 2: the cutting of workforce and programs. The coalition argues that
Speaker 2: by drastically reducing its workforce, the department will be unable
Speaker 2: to perform functions mandated by statute. The Trump administration has
Speaker 2: said in the past it recognizes that parents, not the government,
Speaker 2: play a fundamental role in choosing and directing the upbringing
Speaker 2: and education of their children. The colin A Mulligan for
Speaker 2: the Trump administration, they have pulled their nominee to lead
Speaker 2: the CDC.
Speaker 3: The White House has pulled the nomination of Dave Weldon,
Speaker 3: a former Florida congressman who was President Trump's pick to
Speaker 3: lead the Centers for Disease Control, just hours before his
Speaker 3: scheduled Senate confirmation hearing. That's according to multiple sources familiar
Speaker 3: with the decision. When he was nominated last year, Weldon,
Speaker 3: a longtime vaccine skeptic, was championed by allies of Health
Speaker 3: and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior Karen Travers
Speaker 3: ab See News the White House.
Speaker 2: Coming up on WBZ. Lots of birds across the United
Speaker 2: States aren't doing that well. We've got some clouds around
Speaker 2: as we head into the evening, so we'll be partly
Speaker 2: to mostly cloudy tonight. You may have to do a
Speaker 2: little ducking and dodging to try to find that lunar eclipse.
Speaker 2: Later on, we'll see if maybe a few open spots
Speaker 2: in the sky pop up. Temperatures tonight about thirty in
Speaker 2: areas north and west of town, thirty seven at the coast.
Speaker 2: Clouds break for sun tomorrow forty six. In Boston we'll
Speaker 2: get into the low fifties, though well inland. By Saturday
Speaker 2: we're near sixty degrees with mostly cloudy skies and a
Speaker 2: bit of a breeze. On Sunday we'll be into the sixties,
Speaker 2: low sixties, at least there will be a wind around.
Speaker 2: Some of the gusts could be forty miles an hour.
Speaker 2: And then we get some rain in here later on
Speaker 2: in the day and into Sunday night, and at some
Speaker 2: point Sunday night overnight into Monday, that rain could become
Speaker 2: pretty heavy and even a few thunderstorms mixed. In forty
Speaker 2: two degrees right now in Boston, there's a new report
Speaker 2: and it's for the birds, Oh really it is, And
Speaker 2: a consortium of scientific and conservation organizations have worries about
Speaker 2: the decline of the nation's bird populations.
Speaker 1: That's the song of the Salt Marsh sparrow, one of
Speaker 1: forty two Red alert species facing dangerously low populations. According
Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty five State of the Birds Report.
Speaker 1: Experts like Commanda Rotawalald at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology say
Speaker 1: it and others are at risk without immediate intervention. She
Speaker 1: says grasslands birds have.
Speaker 3: Declined by forty three percent since nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1: Rohotawalld says habitat loss is partly to blame, and humans
Speaker 1: need to remember if conditions are healthy for birds, they're
Speaker 1: unlikely to be healthy for US. Allison Key CBS News.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty five State of the Birds Report was
Speaker 2: produced by entities led by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative.
Speaker 2: The US Department of Agricultures announced plants to spend one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars to study bird flu and consider vaccines
Speaker 2: and other strategies to fight the disease in concert with meat, chicken,
Speaker 2: and egg and turkey groups. Chicken meat producers remain the
Speaker 2: most resistant to fact scenes. Officials say it could mean
Speaker 2: suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens,
Speaker 2: which has ledisroaring egg prices. A move to Vaccin eight
Speaker 2: has been delayed in part because of those concerns. Chicken
Speaker 2: exporters are worried it could jeopardize the exports that totaled
Speaker 2: nearly four point seven billion dollars last year. Wheeling out
Speaker 2: the classics, several dozen cars and trucks that are part
Speaker 2: of Ford's rarely seen heritage fleet are going on display.
Speaker 6: Some employees in the media have gotten a sneak peak,
Speaker 6: but come bring your child a workday at Ford's Dearborn,
Speaker 6: Michigan headquarters, on full display vehicles including a series of
Speaker 6: Mustang performance vehicles, a nineteen thirty eight V eight ambulance,
Speaker 6: and a twenty oh three Model T one hundred that
Speaker 6: is a replica of a nineteen fourteen model Te Ted Ryan,
Speaker 6: Ford's heritage brand manager, says this is the first time
Speaker 6: these vehicles have been assembled and shown like this.
Speaker 2: About as CBS's Jennifer Kuiper, nearly three decades after she
Speaker 2: took the reins of the fashion label founded by her
Speaker 2: late brother, Honatella Versace, is moving aside Madame.
Speaker 7: There had been speculation after last month's fall Winter fashion
Speaker 7: show in Milan that this would be Dona Tella Versaci's
Speaker 7: last collection. Its skin tight, wildly colored leggings and structured
Speaker 7: jackets liberally quoted her beloved brother Johnny, and now she's
Speaker 7: confirmed it herself. The sixty nine year old who took
Speaker 7: over the label after Johnny's nineteen ninety seven murder, is
Speaker 7: stepping down to focus on philanthropic interests and to promote
Speaker 7: the brand in different ways. Vicki Barker, CBS News London.
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