Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sixty eight degrees, a very heavy, steady rain out there
Speaker 2: in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. Water is starting to recede on our
Speaker 2: flooded out roads and highways after being shut down for hours.
Speaker 2: We are finally starting to see some lanes reopen on
Speaker 2: the Expressway. It has been a very difficult commute this morning.
Speaker 2: WBC's Jim McKay is heading south through Milton. He's just
Speaker 2: try to wait his turn to get by.
Speaker 3: Jim.
Speaker 2: What's going on out there? What do you see?
Speaker 3: Plan to hey there, Nicole. Yeah, In fact, I just
Speaker 3: made my way through Milton and Furnessburg Parkway where they
Speaker 3: had some earlier closures on the southbound side. Those lanes
Speaker 3: are now starting to reopen, so you will run into
Speaker 3: about a mile back up to the Adams Street overpass
Speaker 3: southbound on the Expressway in Milton into Quincy, but then
Speaker 3: things open up up and actually getting to the Braintree
Speaker 3: Split southbound, it's a pretty smooth ride now outside of
Speaker 3: the rain shower. As I will, however, though say on
Speaker 3: the northbound side.
Speaker 4: Nicole.
Speaker 3: State Police still has everything shut off at the Braintree Split.
Speaker 3: They have cars loaded onto the back of towbits over
Speaker 3: by Furnessburg Parkway because several cars got stuck at some
Speaker 3: of those high waters earlier this morning. So you have
Speaker 3: all that wall of traffic there shut off by the
Speaker 3: Brainchree Split and being diverted through Braintree and Quinsy. But
Speaker 3: it's still a mess if you're trying to head northbound southbound. However,
Speaker 3: it's not too bad. I also did notice coming out
Speaker 3: of the O'Neil Tunnel coming through Boston, the Columbia Road
Speaker 3: exit was a big time mess. Of course, Morrissey Boulevard,
Speaker 3: as we know, floods out brutally during weather like this,
Speaker 3: so that was actually all the way backed up to
Speaker 3: the Greater Food Bank Boston Food Bank building. But outside
Speaker 3: of that, Nicole southbound, things are starting to move a bit,
Speaker 3: and I'm here through Weymouth and it's just a good
Speaker 3: old fashioned range. We're barding live on Ruth three. Jim McKay,
Speaker 3: WBC Boston's.
Speaker 2: News radio roving reporter, Thank you so much. Jim McKay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we had that flash flood warning. It's still up for
Speaker 2: about thirteen more minutes or so for Boston and points south.
Speaker 2: We're talking about places like Weymouth, Quincy, Dedham, Situate, Holbrook, Avon.
Speaker 2: The heaviest of this rainfall has passed. That is the plus,
Speaker 2: and we'll get a look at traffic and weather together
Speaker 2: in just about forty five seconds right here on WBZ.
Speaker 2: Another story we're watching though. At eleven oh two in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire, federal judge is about to hold a hearing
Speaker 2: on a class action lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order
Speaker 2: trying to end birthright citizenship.
Speaker 1: This is not the first case filed after the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court's decision last week lifting the nationwide injunction on ending
Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. Lawyers in Maryland on Monday filed a similar
Speaker 1: lawsuit seeking a new preliminary injunction halting any action denying
Speaker 1: citizenship to newborn babies and certifying a class that would
Speaker 1: include mothers who are in the United States illegally, not.
Speaker 2: As CBS News legal analyst Thine Rosenbaum, the New Hampshire
Speaker 2: plaintiffs include two parents, their infants, and a pregnant woman.
Speaker 2: It has certainly been a very tough morning with all
Speaker 2: this rain, it is mostly making its way out to
Speaker 2: see at this point the heaviest of these downpours. We
Speaker 2: are still seeing some rain left behind though, and it
Speaker 2: will take a few hours for all this to finally
Speaker 2: move out. Later on this afternoon, we could have a
Speaker 2: couple of lingering showers. We've got a high year seventy
Speaker 2: and for tonight mostly cloudy, a couple passing showers mostly
Speaker 2: early alone near sixty. Still human out there. Tomorrow could
Speaker 2: have some afternoon storms west of Boston with a high
Speaker 2: in the mid seventies. On the coast low eighties. Well inland.
Speaker 2: All right, we are taking a look at our temperatures
Speaker 2: now sixty five in Westford sixty nine where it's still
Speaker 2: raining pretty hard, and hang them north of Boston sixty
Speaker 2: five in Salem, and in Boston at eleven oh five
Speaker 2: it is right now raining and sixty six degrees. Well,
Speaker 2: we have been watching the situation out there when it
Speaker 2: comes to the heavy rain, taking a look at the
Speaker 2: rain gauge reports, places like brain Tree seeing five inches
Speaker 2: of rain six inches plus, and places like North Hangham
Speaker 2: and Weymouth. These torrential downpours turning roads into rivers and
Speaker 2: highways into parking lots. Take Granite Street and brain Tree,
Speaker 2: for example, where a man named Paul had to be
Speaker 2: piggyback to drive Land by police as his car got
Speaker 2: washed out.
Speaker 5: I came off from rose Cliff down the street there,
Speaker 5: but there was a cop car in front of the cemetery,
Speaker 5: and I thought there was a procession going on. They
Speaker 5: usually blocked to traffic, you know, So I came around
Speaker 5: him and I came down here and I got floated away.
Speaker 2: And wbz's Jared Brosman has more.
Speaker 6: I'm still over here in Braintree on Granite Street, and
Speaker 6: if you can hear that scraping sound behind me, that
Speaker 6: is the sound of one of the cars that they
Speaker 6: did pull out of the water. The guy driving and
Speaker 6: his name is Paul. He said he did need authorities
Speaker 6: to rescue them earlier. And it looks like he's got
Speaker 6: a piece of metal something underneath this car that's just
Speaker 6: scraping underneath the bottom. There's a lot of smoke coming
Speaker 6: out at the back the car. Not sure I'm standing
Speaker 6: in the best position right now, but it is still
Speaker 6: at least getting a little bit better over here. For
Speaker 6: the first time, I can actually see the yellow lines
Speaker 6: on Granite Street in the section where it was flooding.
Speaker 6: It looks like the flooding on the Volkswagging parking lot
Speaker 6: is a little bit better than it was before, but
Speaker 6: still not able to get through here on Granite Street.
Speaker 6: You're going to get detoored on the Braintree side right
Speaker 6: by the Ford Dealership, and you're going to get detoored
Speaker 6: right into Pine Hills Cemetery if you're coming up from
Speaker 6: the Quincy side from Braintream. J Brosnan WVZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And other news We're watching this morning another chapter in
Speaker 2: the court case with widespread implications as playing out right
Speaker 2: here in Boston.
Speaker 7: A federal judge here in Boston about to hear arguments
Speaker 7: regarding the White House's attempts to require transgender, non binary
Speaker 7: and intersects people to use passports marks with their sex
Speaker 7: assigned at birth. Loyola Law professor Laurie Levinson tells us
Speaker 7: this case revolves around an executive order President Trump signed
Speaker 7: on his first day in office.
Speaker 4: That said that people could no longer on their passport
Speaker 4: put in a designation of X.
Speaker 7: This is now a class action lawsuit involving many parties
Speaker 7: before the court.
Speaker 4: The ASLU and other groups have come in and argued
Speaker 4: that there's no good basis for the administration to make
Speaker 4: this change and they did not follow the proper policies
Speaker 4: to do so.
Speaker 7: The judges already told the Trump administration they must comply
Speaker 7: with prior policies when issuing passports, so the experts say,
Speaker 7: expect a White House appeal to be on the way
Speaker 7: as well. Drew maholland WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
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