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Speaker 2: Hello and good Saturday morning, twenty three degrees and sunny
Speaker 2: skies in Boston at eleven o'clock. I'm Sherry Small. Let's
Speaker 2: get you caught up. Here's what's happening. It is finally
Speaker 2: here a break from the snow and cold this weekend.
Speaker 3: Early sunny skies for the rest of today. High thirty
Speaker 3: seven patche Klaus Tonight low twenty five downtown, closer to
Speaker 3: twenty in most inland suburbs.
Speaker 2: And that's a hacky weather meteorologist Carl Erickson. And today
Speaker 2: is day one of the kickoff of a warming streak.
Speaker 2: Will tell you all about it in the forecast. That's
Speaker 2: coming right up to News now. A dangerous drive through
Speaker 2: the Proud Tunnel along the mass Pike yesterday concrete fell
Speaker 2: to the ground in the westbound lanes. Mass Dot Highway
Speaker 2: Administrator Jonathan Gulliver says inspections of the city's tunnels will
Speaker 2: continue through the weekend.
Speaker 1: And it didn't fall directly on any car. It fall
Speaker 1: right right in front of them.
Speaker 4: From I think the video that everybody has seen, so
Speaker 4: thankfully it was not worse. It could have caused some
Speaker 4: serious damage had gone through somebody's windshields.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 4: State police closed all but one lane as they, along
Speaker 4: with mas DOT, inspected the area and ultimately reopened the road.
Speaker 4: The State says this was an isolated incident and weather
Speaker 4: is to blame the result of freezing and thawing over
Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks. Drivers who were caught in
Speaker 4: the traffic stunned by what they saw.
Speaker 6: It's scary. I saw a ton of concrete missing from
Speaker 6: the side of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't believe that it would just fall down.
Speaker 3: I think it's absurd that for the amount of money
Speaker 3: that taxpayers are paying every single day, that to be
Speaker 3: worrying that concrete is falling in on your head while
Speaker 3: you're driving is a little bit absurd.
Speaker 4: Mascot says the Prudential Tunnel is between fifty and sixty
Speaker 4: years old and say this section of the tunnel was
Speaker 4: on deck for its three year inspection.
Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Mike Sullivan reporting there an update to
Speaker 2: the officer involve shooting in New Hampshire. Police say that
Speaker 2: they tried to make a traffic stop on the Route
Speaker 2: twenty eight bypassing just after nine PM yesterday. Authority say
Speaker 2: twenty six year old Levi Culty allegedly refused to stop
Speaker 2: his car, prompting an officer to shoot at the vehicle.
Speaker 2: Culty remaining hospitalized with non life threatening injuries. No officers
Speaker 2: were injured. The officer who pulled the trigger will not
Speaker 2: be identified until he is interviewed by the New Hampshire
Speaker 2: Department of Justice and the New Hampshire State Police Major
Speaker 2: Crimes Unit. Investigators say that will likely happen by next week.
Speaker 2: Congressman Stephen Lynch stepping up for veterans following mass layoffs
Speaker 2: ordered by the Trump administration.
Speaker 3: Defying Congressman Stephen Lynch stood outside the VA Medical Center
Speaker 3: at West Roxbury to slim President Trump for personnel cuts
Speaker 3: ordered by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 7: You don't balance the budget on the backs of our veterans.
Speaker 7: Even if a national treasury was down to the last dollar,
Speaker 7: would spend that dollar on our veterans and justifiably solved.
Speaker 3: Lynch was joined by state and local Veterans Affairs officials
Speaker 3: who call the layoffs devastating for both the healthcare workers
Speaker 3: who've lost their jobs and the veterans who depend on
Speaker 3: the VA Healthcare System at the VA Medical Center at
Speaker 3: West Roxbury. Mike macklum WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And now the for DAWBZ at you weather forecast. Partly
Speaker 2: sunny today, we're warming up to thirty seven degrees, finally
Speaker 2: a weekend without snow. Tonight party cloudy, down to twenty
Speaker 2: five in the city, closer to a low of around
Speaker 2: twenty and most of those inland suburbs. The warm up
Speaker 2: continuing tomorrow and the next few following days. Sunday is
Speaker 2: a mix of sun and clouds with highs near forty.
Speaker 2: Monday heighs near forty three. Again, sun and clouds. Tuesday,
Speaker 2: we will see rather cloudy skies and even some excuse me,
Speaker 2: some rain showers in the area at night. But as
Speaker 2: far as the afternoon goes, we're going to see a
Speaker 2: high of forty six degrees, and that high continues into Wednesday,
Speaker 2: with highs once again in the mid forty. All right,
Speaker 2: let's check the region right now. Temp wise, we're looking
Speaker 2: at twenty six in Amherst, twenty four up in Northfield,
Speaker 2: twenty five in Athol farther to the east, twenty four
Speaker 2: degrees in Lowell along the north shore, twenty four in Gloucester.
Speaker 2: Let's go down south here, twenty nine in Plymouth, the
Speaker 2: capesne anywhere between. It looks like twenty five and twenty
Speaker 2: seven degrees, twenty eight in Waltham, twenty eight in New Bedford,
Speaker 2: and twenty five in Framingham in the city right now
Speaker 2: sunny and twenty three degrees. But don't be fooled, it
Speaker 2: is chilly out there. The real field temp is fourteen.
Speaker 2: It's eleven oh five. Back to news. Now a local
Speaker 2: museum now home to a piece of maritime history. It's
Speaker 2: WBC's Kendlebule with that story for us this morning, throwing.
Speaker 5: An intensely focused beam of light over fourteen miles. The
Speaker 5: Fresnel Lighthouse lens made in Paris and the late eighteen
Speaker 5: hundreds kept sailors alive in maritime commerce possible. But the
Speaker 5: coast Guard lamp is Tom Camello. It's much more than that.
Speaker 5: It's a work of ide their artists anyway, so they
Speaker 5: built something to do a job. But it's a work
Speaker 5: of allt Camella, a company. The two hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: pounds of glass and metal from the Federal storage facility
Speaker 5: in DC where it's been for thirteen years, to the
Speaker 5: custom House Maritime Museum in Newburyport, where we will now
Speaker 5: be on full display, and museum director James Russell says
Speaker 5: it will be a display worthy of this historical piece
Speaker 5: of engineering. The lens will look like it's floating in space,
Speaker 5: which has gone to really very fantastic. Russell expects the
Speaker 5: complete exhibits to be up sometime in April. From Newburyport.
Speaker 5: Kennelbill It'll be busy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: A Jet Blue pilot is arrested at Logan Airport on
Speaker 2: sexual exploitation charges out of North Carolina. Thirty three year
Speaker 2: old Jeremy Gudorf forrested Thursday night, appearing in East Boston
Speaker 2: District Court yesterday on a fugitive from Justice warrant. Goudorf's
Speaker 2: attorney says that he intends to go back to North
Speaker 2: Carolina to face the charge of second degree sexual exploitation
Speaker 2: of a minor. A judge set bail at ten thousand
Speaker 2: dollars with condition that he clears the warrant by Tuesday.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration launching an investigation into Mainz Education Department.
Speaker 2: This move follows a curt exchange between the President and
Speaker 2: main Governor Janet Mills over his executive order banning transgender
Speaker 2: girls from competing in girl sports. Are you not going
Speaker 2: to comply with it.
Speaker 7: Law?
Speaker 4: Well, we are the federal law.
Speaker 7: Well you better do it.
Speaker 4: You better do it, because you're not going to get
Speaker 4: any federal funding at all if you don't.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile, President Trump will be speaking at the Conservative
Speaker 2: Political Action Conference in Washington later today. Here's a previous.
Speaker 6: Speech at the conference, known as Sea Pack, will be
Speaker 6: a friendly event for the president. Populated by conservative Republicans.
Speaker 6: This annual event presents an opportunity for Republicans and candidates
Speaker 6: to share ideas and deliver speeches, but it is more
Speaker 6: likely this time to be a celebration of Trump himself.
Speaker 6: Some supporters are even referring to it as Tea Pack.
Speaker 6: In his speech, Trump is expected to tout his actions
Speaker 6: during the first month of his administration. He's also expected
Speaker 6: to cite his poll numbers and criticize the previous administration.
Speaker 6: Linda Kenyon, CBS News the White House.
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