Speaker 1: Clear sky's in thirty nine degrees in Boston at six o'clock.
Speaker 1: Good Saturday morning. Thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small.
Speaker 1: Here's what's happening all right. After a few days of rain,
Speaker 1: today we dry out.
Speaker 2: Look for a mix of sun and clouds to start
Speaker 2: the weekends to day with a breezy and milder day
Speaker 2: as well, with highs from fifty seven to sixty one.
Speaker 1: That's ACU weather meteorologist LaTroy Thornton. The full forecast coming
Speaker 1: up in three to News Now. Two home invasions leave
Speaker 1: Dorchester residence shake in the attackers posing as city workers.
Speaker 1: CBS News Boston's Beth germano with detail.
Speaker 3: This pair posing as city workers with the distinctive yellow
Speaker 3: safety vest may have struck again, Boston police say early
Speaker 3: Thursday afternoon, intruders made their way inside an apartment here
Speaker 3: at eleven eleven Blue Hill Avenue. Neighbors seeing a sudden
Speaker 3: rush of police.
Speaker 4: I saw the three or four police card coming, had
Speaker 4: one ambulance or like a fire SIDVISTCRD is coming there.
Speaker 4: He knows something. I'll be scared, very scared. But at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, we got to handle this problem.
Speaker 3: Boston Police say a man was duct taped, zip tied,
Speaker 3: and robbed by two men with a knife posing as workers,
Speaker 3: one in a yellow safety vest. Police say it took
Speaker 3: an hour for the victim to free himself before calling
Speaker 3: nine to one one. A similar crime was carried out
Speaker 3: earlier this month on Adams Street in Dorchester. An elderly
Speaker 3: Vietnamese man bound and gagged and threatened with a gun
Speaker 3: by thieves and similar clothes.
Speaker 1: And Boston Police have not said what the thieves were
Speaker 1: able to get away with. The investigation continues. Budget cuts
Speaker 1: leave dozens of teachers and educators in North Andover out
Speaker 1: of the job and a school temporarily closed. The North
Speaker 1: Andover School Committee voted yesterday to cut the teachers and
Speaker 1: teaching assistants and close Kittridge Elementary School for the time being.
Speaker 1: The Teachers' Union says that the cuts involve a total
Speaker 1: of thirty four staff members affecting elementary s schools North
Speaker 1: Andover Middle School in North Andover High and students at
Speaker 1: Kittridge Elementary will be assigned to other schools. The union
Speaker 1: says it will continue to fight to stop the cuts,
Speaker 1: and despite protests, the Boston School Committee votes to cut
Speaker 1: and merge some schools in its district.
Speaker 5: It's very devastating.
Speaker 6: Hundreds of Boston students have to pack their school bags
Speaker 6: for elsewhere after summer twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: We consider everyone here family, all the friends, and you
Speaker 5: know they're they're very sad.
Speaker 6: Parents picking up their kids at paul A. Dever Elementary
Speaker 6: in Dorchester are in mourning for their school that's open
Speaker 6: for now, but on the city's chopping block.
Speaker 3: Something I didn't even know until now. It's going to
Speaker 3: surprise a lot of a lot of a.
Speaker 5: Lot of fans.
Speaker 6: The five to one vote from the Boston School Committee
Speaker 6: puts Dever Elementary in the path of a four school
Speaker 6: wide closure to others are set to merge, and you know.
Speaker 5: They expressed that they're going to miss everyone, so it's
Speaker 5: really sad.
Speaker 6: The city, meantime, says the move will allow for more
Speaker 6: student resources. Decision meant to help match the number of
Speaker 6: buildings to enrollment in Dorchester. Jay will Lett WBZ Boston's.
Speaker 1: News Radio Vanell lest check the weather. We're going to
Speaker 1: see some sun and clouds today. It'll be breezy and milder,
Speaker 1: no rain in the forecast, and we're bumping up the
Speaker 1: temperatures to a pleasant fifty seven to about sixty one,
Speaker 1: lower fifties for the Capean Islands. Tonight, clear skies, well
Speaker 1: clear to partly cloudy. I guess I should say it'll
Speaker 1: be breezy, a low of twenty eight, and then tomorrow
Speaker 1: a cool down. So definitely today is the better pick
Speaker 1: of the weekend days. It'll be breezy, much cooler. We
Speaker 1: will see some sunshine, but highs will only reach the
Speaker 1: low to mid forties. On Monday, cloudy, some rain returning in,
Speaker 1: perhaps even snow for a time. For areas north and
Speaker 1: west of the city, high's forty four to forty eight,
Speaker 1: and then Tuesday just a mix of maybe sun and clouds,
Speaker 1: not quite as cool, warming up to fifty three. Taking
Speaker 1: a look at the region right now, we're seeing thirty
Speaker 1: nine degrees in Falmouth, thirty five in Worcester, thirty six
Speaker 1: in Brockton, thirty three in Lowell, and we have thirty
Speaker 1: nine degrees in Boston and clear skies across the board.
Speaker 1: It's six oh five. Back to news all right, as
Speaker 1: officially spring. We've been waiting for that, but unfortunately that
Speaker 1: means allergy season isn't far behind.
Speaker 5: Spring has indeed derived on the calendar, but the cold
Speaker 5: weather's not quite through with us yet. Ak You Weather
Speaker 5: Chief meteorologist Jonathan Porter says because of that, we're not
Speaker 5: going to see the full onslaught of pollen for a
Speaker 5: little longer, but when we do, it will hit hard.
Speaker 2: We could be dealing with a period of time, especially
Speaker 2: later in May and June, that people who are especially
Speaker 2: susceptible to tree pollen dealing with some challenging situations as
Speaker 2: all the trees bloom out sort of at once during
Speaker 2: that time period.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 5: Here in Massage, he says, we are expecting an average
Speaker 5: level of tree pollen this year. As we get into
Speaker 5: the summer, though, you'll notice a lot of grass pollen
Speaker 5: more than usual because we have a forecast that is
Speaker 5: wetter and warmer than normal.
Speaker 2: And then the ragweed season, which is during the late
Speaker 2: part of the summer, typically early August in the Boston area,
Speaker 2: we're expecting about average intensity.
Speaker 5: Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Karen Reid's legal team is turning to federal court in
Speaker 1: a fight to delay the start of Reed's retrial. This week,
Speaker 1: Judge Beverly Cononi denied a motion by the defense to
Speaker 1: delay the start of the retrial, ruling the trial will
Speaker 1: start on April first, as scheduled, While defense attorneys appealed
Speaker 1: that decision and a filed to petition in US District
Speaker 1: Court in Massachusetts to try to push back the start
Speaker 1: of the retrial until the end of April. Detained Columbia
Speaker 1: University activist grad Mahmoun Khalil appeared in a Louisiana court yesterday.
Speaker 1: We get that story from Andrew Whitman.
Speaker 4: The brief hearing was only about scheduling in his immigration case.
Speaker 4: The thirty year old sat alone with his lawyers, appearing
Speaker 4: in the court about one hundred and fifty miles north
Speaker 4: of and Rouge via video. Khalil's attorney asked for more
Speaker 4: time to prepare his case. The judge scheduled the next
Speaker 4: hearing for April eighth. The Columbia grand student was arrested
Speaker 4: March eighth after serving as a spokesperson and negotiator last
Speaker 4: year for pro Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a campus building
Speaker 4: last spring. Khalil, who has no criminal record, has not
Speaker 4: been charged with any crime. Andrew Whitman, New York.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Columbia University announcing policy changes one week after the
Speaker 1: Trump administration threatened to cut off federal.
Speaker 7: Funding Columbia's interim presidents as the university will conduct a
Speaker 7: thorough review of regional studies programs starting with the Middle East.
Speaker 7: Columbia will also more protests inside academic buildings and wearing
Speaker 7: face masks on campus to conceal one's identity. An exception
Speaker 7: would be made for those wearing face masks for health reasons.
Speaker 7: The Trump administration had pulled four hundred million dollars in
Speaker 7: research grants and threatened even more over the university's handling
Speaker 7: of protests against Israel's military campaign in Gaza and calling
Speaker 7: them anti Semitic, a label rejected by protesters. Linda Kenyon,
Speaker 7: CBS News Washington.
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