Speaker 1: This is WBZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Hello and good Saturday morning. I'm Sherry Small. It's April fifth.
Speaker 2: Here are the uh. Here's what's happening? All right? Yesterday's
Speaker 2: beautiful weather won't be making an encore performance today, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: riskin Shelley for the rest of today. It's a brain
Speaker 2: and drizzled at times. Stepture is nearly studying the load
Speaker 2: of mid forties and thatsachy Weather meteorologist John Ferick. The
Speaker 2: full forecast coming up in Traffic and Weather on the threes.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: The Pro Right's Hands Off Rally is beginning right now
Speaker 2: at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common. It is among
Speaker 2: the dozens of protests around Massachusetts and nationwide sending a
Speaker 2: message to President Trump and Special Advisor Elon Musk about
Speaker 2: cuts being made to programs that are relied on by
Speaker 2: the middle class and working families. Protesters will march to
Speaker 2: City Hall Plazough with a program of speaker set to
Speaker 2: begin at twelve thirty, among them Senator at Markey and
Speaker 2: Mayor Wu. The event, it's expected to run until about
Speaker 2: two o'clock. It will also feature an acoustics set by
Speaker 2: the drop Kick Murphy's. Businesses and consumers bracing for the
Speaker 2: impact as President Trump's sweeping tariffs take effect. Abc'sjo'brien reporting
Speaker 2: from Washington.
Speaker 1: Sident Trump posting big business is not worried about the
Speaker 1: tariffs because they know they are here to stay, and
Speaker 1: arguing countries will be forced to strike new trade deals
Speaker 1: that will supercharge our economy. And now days away from
Speaker 1: the start of steeper individualized tariffs on more than fifty countries,
Speaker 1: from China to Vietnam to the European Union, the opening
Speaker 1: salvos of a trade war, China hitting back with their
Speaker 1: own thirty four percent tariffs on all US imports, and.
Speaker 2: Wall Street reacting with huge losses for a second consecutive
Speaker 2: day yesterday, the Dow losing more than twenty two hundred points.
Speaker 2: Senate Republicans the approving a multi trillion dollar package of
Speaker 2: tax breaks and spending cuts. Senators working into the early
Speaker 2: hours green lighting the framework that's central to President Trump's agenda.
Speaker 2: Republicans muscled past Democrats with a fifty one to forty eight,
Speaker 2: mostly party line vote. The passage pays the way for
Speaker 2: Republicans to push a tax cut bill through both Chambers
Speaker 2: of Congress in the coming month. The framework that's been
Speaker 2: highly criticized by Democrats of cutting key safety net programs
Speaker 2: now goes to the House. All right, the matchup is set.
Speaker 2: Now is down to two in women's NCAA Tournament national
Speaker 2: title game, their.
Speaker 4: Quest for a second straight title continues. The South Carolina
Speaker 4: game Cocks advanced to their third national championship game in
Speaker 4: four years, knocking off Texas in the National Semis Friday night,
Speaker 4: seventy four fifty seven. Their next opponent the Yukon Huskies,
Speaker 4: who blew out overall top seed UCLA eighty five to
Speaker 4: fifty one. Yukon and South Carolina meet Sunday afternoon in Tampa,
Speaker 4: Rica Herskowitz for a CBS News.
Speaker 2: And Now let's take a look at the weather. Cloudy, breezy,
Speaker 2: much colder. Today. We're going to see rain and drizzle
Speaker 2: at times, Temps nearly steady in the load to mid forties,
Speaker 2: and then rain hanging on tonight, maybe some thunder toward
Speaker 2: the South coast Cape in the Islands overnight low thirty nine. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: we will warm up, but it's still going to be
Speaker 2: quite dreary, mostly cloudy, a few showers, around especially early,
Speaker 2: but high's will reach fifty five to about fifty nine
Speaker 2: and then cooler. On Mondays we head back to work,
Speaker 2: the lingering rain and drizzle hanging on, most likely to
Speaker 2: the south and east of Boston. Otherwise for everyone else,
Speaker 2: just mostly cloudy but colder, high of just forty two degrees,
Speaker 2: and then we stay in the forties on Tuesday as well.
Speaker 2: It's cloudy and forty three right now in Boston at
Speaker 2: eleven five on this Saturday morning. Back to news now,
Speaker 2: several international students at UMAs Amherst have had their visas revoked.
Speaker 5: Must Amherst Chancellor Javier Reas breaking the news in an
Speaker 5: email to the campus community. He says over the course
Speaker 5: of the week, five international students have had their visas
Speaker 5: taken away and student status is terminated by the federal government.
Speaker 5: Reyes's federal officials didn't notify UMass of its plans, and
Speaker 5: that the university only became aware from checking the Immigration
Speaker 5: and Customs Enforcement student database. The school is connecting the
Speaker 5: five students to on and off campus resources. Chancellor Raya
Speaker 5: says they're working with the UMass Office of General Counsel
Speaker 5: and the Attorney General of Massachusetts to protect the community.
Speaker 5: He says any students on UMass sponsored visas should contact
Speaker 5: the Office of Global Affairs if they get a call
Speaker 5: from the Feds. The Trump administration continues to revoke hundreds
Speaker 5: of visas as it cracks down on foreign students. Some
Speaker 5: students targeted over pro Palestinian activism. Emma freed Men WBZ
Speaker 5: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: A former traveling nurse from New Hampshire is sentenced to
Speaker 2: three months in federal prison for stealing patients drugs. Fifty
Speaker 2: five year old Lorelei Lebroad pleading guilty in Boston federal
Speaker 2: court yesterday to siphoning more from patients supplies while she
Speaker 2: was working at a rehab facility in Danvers. She worked
Speaker 2: as a registered nurse for more than thirty years and
Speaker 2: had a license in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The
Speaker 2: AG's office says Lebron voluntarily gave up her New Hampshire
Speaker 2: license back in twenty twenty one after being accused of
Speaker 2: tampering with morphine bottles at a rehab center in Darry,
Speaker 2: New Hampshire, but she kept working as a travel nurse
Speaker 2: until May of twenty twenty two, using her Massachusetts license
Speaker 2: all right. Disgraced ex Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died. Mccarack
Speaker 2: expelled from the priesthood after the church found him guilty
Speaker 2: of sexual abuse. At one point, he was a spiritual
Speaker 2: leader of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.
Speaker 1: D c.
Speaker 2: Theodore McCarrick was ninety four years old. Hospitals, nursing homes,
Speaker 2: and home healthcare agencies could take a hit from the
Speaker 2: deportation of legal and undocumented migrants. Here CBS's Christopher to explain.
Speaker 3: The study published in Jamma Network finds that deportations could
Speaker 3: worsen already critical shortages of healthcare workers in the US.
Speaker 3: Doctor Stefi Woolhandler is one of the studies authors. To
Speaker 3: my knowledge, there's no potential pool of workers who could
Speaker 3: build these positions. Certainly, that's what the hospital executors are saying.
Speaker 3: It's what the nursing home industry is saying. Researchers say
Speaker 3: about four percent of staff at hospitals and outpatient settings
Speaker 3: in the US, seven percent of nursing home workers, and
Speaker 3: at least ten percent of personnel and home care agencies
Speaker 3: and informal settings are non citizen immigrants, documented and undocumented
Speaker 3: Christopher Cruz, CBS News.
Speaker 2: You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
Speaker 2: the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart
Speaker 2: Radio app, and I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio