WEBVTT

1
00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:06.480
<v Speaker 1>This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

2
00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:12.119
<v Speaker 2>Sixty eight degrees, a very heavy, steady rain out there

3
00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:16.079
<v Speaker 2>in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis.

4
00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.960
<v Speaker 2>Here's what's happening. Water is starting to recede on our

5
00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.559
<v Speaker 2>flooded out roads and highways after being shut down for hours.

6
00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:26.519
<v Speaker 2>We are finally starting to see some lanes reopen on

7
00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:30.120
<v Speaker 2>the Expressway. It has been a very difficult commute this morning.

8
00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.880
<v Speaker 2>WBC's Jim McKay is heading south through Milton. He's just

9
00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:35.399
<v Speaker 2>try to wait his turn to get by.

10
00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:35.880
<v Speaker 3>Jim.

11
00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:38.799
<v Speaker 2>What's going on out there? What do you see?

12
00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.000
<v Speaker 3>Plan to hey there, Nicole. Yeah, In fact, I just

13
00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:46.119
<v Speaker 3>made my way through Milton and Furnessburg Parkway where they

14
00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:50.000
<v Speaker 3>had some earlier closures on the southbound side. Those lanes

15
00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:52.399
<v Speaker 3>are now starting to reopen, so you will run into

16
00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.719
<v Speaker 3>about a mile back up to the Adams Street overpass

17
00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.359
<v Speaker 3>southbound on the Expressway in Milton into Quincy, but then

18
00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:02.320
<v Speaker 3>things open up up and actually getting to the Braintree

19
00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:05.400
<v Speaker 3>Split southbound, it's a pretty smooth ride now outside of

20
00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.280
<v Speaker 3>the rain shower. As I will, however, though say on

21
00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:09.319
<v Speaker 3>the northbound side.

22
00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:09.719
<v Speaker 4>Nicole.

23
00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.079
<v Speaker 3>State Police still has everything shut off at the Braintree Split.

24
00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:16.840
<v Speaker 3>They have cars loaded onto the back of towbits over

25
00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:20.640
<v Speaker 3>by Furnessburg Parkway because several cars got stuck at some

26
00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.519
<v Speaker 3>of those high waters earlier this morning. So you have

27
00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.400
<v Speaker 3>all that wall of traffic there shut off by the

28
00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:31.239
<v Speaker 3>Brainchree Split and being diverted through Braintree and Quinsy. But

29
00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.879
<v Speaker 3>it's still a mess if you're trying to head northbound southbound. However,

30
00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:37.879
<v Speaker 3>it's not too bad. I also did notice coming out

31
00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.480
<v Speaker 3>of the O'Neil Tunnel coming through Boston, the Columbia Road

32
00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:45.040
<v Speaker 3>exit was a big time mess. Of course, Morrissey Boulevard,

33
00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:47.719
<v Speaker 3>as we know, floods out brutally during weather like this,

34
00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:50.239
<v Speaker 3>so that was actually all the way backed up to

35
00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.480
<v Speaker 3>the Greater Food Bank Boston Food Bank building. But outside

36
00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.840
<v Speaker 3>of that, Nicole southbound, things are starting to move a bit,

37
00:01:57.120 --> 00:01:59.120
<v Speaker 3>and I'm here through Weymouth and it's just a good

38
00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:02.239
<v Speaker 3>old fashioned range. We're barding live on Ruth three. Jim McKay,

39
00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:04.079
<v Speaker 3>WBC Boston's.

40
00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.640
<v Speaker 2>News radio roving reporter, Thank you so much. Jim McKay. Yeah,

41
00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:08.919
<v Speaker 2>we had that flash flood warning. It's still up for

42
00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.439
<v Speaker 2>about thirteen more minutes or so for Boston and points south.

43
00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:16.560
<v Speaker 2>We're talking about places like Weymouth, Quincy, Dedham, Situate, Holbrook, Avon.

44
00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:20.919
<v Speaker 2>The heaviest of this rainfall has passed. That is the plus,

45
00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.280
<v Speaker 2>and we'll get a look at traffic and weather together

46
00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:26.240
<v Speaker 2>in just about forty five seconds right here on WBZ.

47
00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:29.240
<v Speaker 2>Another story we're watching though. At eleven oh two in

48
00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.599
<v Speaker 2>New Hampshire, federal judge is about to hold a hearing

49
00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.520
<v Speaker 2>on a class action lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order

50
00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:37.479
<v Speaker 2>trying to end birthright citizenship.

51
00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.280
<v Speaker 1>This is not the first case filed after the Supreme

52
00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:45.280
<v Speaker 1>Court's decision last week lifting the nationwide injunction on ending

53
00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:50.479
<v Speaker 1>birthright citizenship. Lawyers in Maryland on Monday filed a similar

54
00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:55.360
<v Speaker 1>lawsuit seeking a new preliminary injunction halting any action denying

55
00:02:55.400 --> 00:03:01.120
<v Speaker 1>citizenship to newborn babies and certifying a class that would

56
00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:04.120
<v Speaker 1>include mothers who are in the United States illegally, not.

57
00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.919
<v Speaker 2>As CBS News legal analyst Thine Rosenbaum, the New Hampshire

58
00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.800
<v Speaker 2>plaintiffs include two parents, their infants, and a pregnant woman.

59
00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:14.159
<v Speaker 2>It has certainly been a very tough morning with all

60
00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.159
<v Speaker 2>this rain, it is mostly making its way out to

61
00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.919
<v Speaker 2>see at this point the heaviest of these downpours. We

62
00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:22.560
<v Speaker 2>are still seeing some rain left behind though, and it

63
00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:24.840
<v Speaker 2>will take a few hours for all this to finally

64
00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.039
<v Speaker 2>move out. Later on this afternoon, we could have a

65
00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.719
<v Speaker 2>couple of lingering showers. We've got a high year seventy

66
00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:33.439
<v Speaker 2>and for tonight mostly cloudy, a couple passing showers mostly

67
00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.879
<v Speaker 2>early alone near sixty. Still human out there. Tomorrow could

68
00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:39.360
<v Speaker 2>have some afternoon storms west of Boston with a high

69
00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.479
<v Speaker 2>in the mid seventies. On the coast low eighties. Well inland.

70
00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.080
<v Speaker 2>All right, we are taking a look at our temperatures

71
00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.080
<v Speaker 2>now sixty five in Westford sixty nine where it's still

72
00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.800
<v Speaker 2>raining pretty hard, and hang them north of Boston sixty

73
00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.960
<v Speaker 2>five in Salem, and in Boston at eleven oh five

74
00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:58.240
<v Speaker 2>it is right now raining and sixty six degrees. Well,

75
00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.599
<v Speaker 2>we have been watching the situation out there when it

76
00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:02.840
<v Speaker 2>comes to the heavy rain, taking a look at the

77
00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:06.560
<v Speaker 2>rain gauge reports, places like brain Tree seeing five inches

78
00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.080
<v Speaker 2>of rain six inches plus, and places like North Hangham

79
00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:14.400
<v Speaker 2>and Weymouth. These torrential downpours turning roads into rivers and

80
00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:18.160
<v Speaker 2>highways into parking lots. Take Granite Street and brain Tree,

81
00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:20.319
<v Speaker 2>for example, where a man named Paul had to be

82
00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:23.600
<v Speaker 2>piggyback to drive Land by police as his car got

83
00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:24.040
<v Speaker 2>washed out.

84
00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.720
<v Speaker 5>I came off from rose Cliff down the street there,

85
00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.639
<v Speaker 5>but there was a cop car in front of the cemetery,

86
00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.160
<v Speaker 5>and I thought there was a procession going on. They

87
00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.160
<v Speaker 5>usually blocked to traffic, you know, So I came around

88
00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:39.000
<v Speaker 5>him and I came down here and I got floated away.

89
00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.160
<v Speaker 2>And wbz's Jared Brosman has more.

90
00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:43.399
<v Speaker 6>I'm still over here in Braintree on Granite Street, and

91
00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:45.519
<v Speaker 6>if you can hear that scraping sound behind me, that

92
00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.279
<v Speaker 6>is the sound of one of the cars that they

93
00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.680
<v Speaker 6>did pull out of the water. The guy driving and

94
00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:51.680
<v Speaker 6>his name is Paul. He said he did need authorities

95
00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.480
<v Speaker 6>to rescue them earlier. And it looks like he's got

96
00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.319
<v Speaker 6>a piece of metal something underneath this car that's just

97
00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.519
<v Speaker 6>scraping underneath the bottom. There's a lot of smoke coming

98
00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.319
<v Speaker 6>out at the back the car. Not sure I'm standing

99
00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:03.959
<v Speaker 6>in the best position right now, but it is still

100
00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.800
<v Speaker 6>at least getting a little bit better over here. For

101
00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:08.279
<v Speaker 6>the first time, I can actually see the yellow lines

102
00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.480
<v Speaker 6>on Granite Street in the section where it was flooding.

103
00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.759
<v Speaker 6>It looks like the flooding on the Volkswagging parking lot

104
00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:15.839
<v Speaker 6>is a little bit better than it was before, but

105
00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.639
<v Speaker 6>still not able to get through here on Granite Street.

106
00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:20.600
<v Speaker 6>You're going to get detoored on the Braintree side right

107
00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:22.879
<v Speaker 6>by the Ford Dealership, and you're going to get detoored

108
00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:25.000
<v Speaker 6>right into Pine Hills Cemetery if you're coming up from

109
00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:29.319
<v Speaker 6>the Quincy side from Braintream. J Brosnan WVZ, Boston's news radio.

110
00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.399
<v Speaker 2>And other news We're watching this morning another chapter in

111
00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.480
<v Speaker 2>the court case with widespread implications as playing out right

112
00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:35.240
<v Speaker 2>here in Boston.

113
00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.360
<v Speaker 7>A federal judge here in Boston about to hear arguments

114
00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:42.360
<v Speaker 7>regarding the White House's attempts to require transgender, non binary

115
00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.639
<v Speaker 7>and intersects people to use passports marks with their sex

116
00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:49.519
<v Speaker 7>assigned at birth. Loyola Law professor Laurie Levinson tells us

117
00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:53.120
<v Speaker 7>this case revolves around an executive order President Trump signed

118
00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:54.720
<v Speaker 7>on his first day in office.

119
00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.560
<v Speaker 4>That said that people could no longer on their passport

120
00:05:57.800 --> 00:05:59.879
<v Speaker 4>put in a designation of X.

121
00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.240
<v Speaker 7>This is now a class action lawsuit involving many parties

122
00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:03.959
<v Speaker 7>before the court.

123
00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:06.879
<v Speaker 4>The ASLU and other groups have come in and argued

124
00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:10.600
<v Speaker 4>that there's no good basis for the administration to make

125
00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:14.000
<v Speaker 4>this change and they did not follow the proper policies

126
00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:14.560
<v Speaker 4>to do so.

127
00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.560
<v Speaker 7>The judges already told the Trump administration they must comply

128
00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.560
<v Speaker 7>with prior policies when issuing passports, so the experts say,

129
00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:23.800
<v Speaker 7>expect a White House appeal to be on the way

130
00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.800
<v Speaker 7>as well. Drew maholland WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

131
00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.680
<v Speaker 2>You are now in the loop for news updates throughout

132
00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.920
<v Speaker 2>the day. Listened to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio

133
00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:36.600
<v Speaker 2>app I'm Nicole Davis WBZ, and to Boston's News Radio