Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio Rea defining local news. Well,
Speaker 1: look who decided to show up? It's Friday. Get in here,
Speaker 1: you little bugger. Let's bring it in six o'clock on
Speaker 1: this Friday morning, and we're getting started under partly to
Speaker 1: mostly cloudy skies. It is thirty six degrees in Boston.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here. I'm Jeff Brown. As Boston plots
Speaker 1: in early spring, comeback, clouds breaking for some sun later
Speaker 1: today with a high of forty eight, but it'll reach
Speaker 1: the mid fifties. Well inland. WBZ achiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg
Speaker 1: will be in the mid fifties tomorrow and well into
Speaker 1: the sixties on Sunday. Well. The first of three hearings
Speaker 1: is set for today in a Cambridge courtroom where the
Speaker 1: names and the best kept secret in Brothels are about
Speaker 1: to be made public. Some of the more than two
Speaker 1: dozen men in high profile positions, which could include elected officials, professors,
Speaker 1: doctors and members of the military, will be exposed for
Speaker 1: doing business with the houses of ill reputed operating in
Speaker 1: Greater Boston and just outside the nation's capital. Releasing the
Speaker 1: names has been like pulling teeth, and an attempt to
Speaker 1: protect their privacy created their own cases in court. The
Speaker 1: three master minds of the sprawling brothel enterprise have all
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty recently to federal charges. A pair of Harvard
Speaker 1: scientists through the White House when their work goes missing
Speaker 1: from a public database.
Speaker 2: A lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of removing peer reviewed
Speaker 2: articles from a government patient safety website because they contain
Speaker 2: what it calls newly forbidden words. Those words and terms
Speaker 2: are transgender and LGBTQ. Harvard medical professors Gordon Schiff and
Speaker 2: Celestois say the removal violates their First Amendment right to
Speaker 2: free speech. They claim that allowing the government to censor
Speaker 2: research for political reasons will almost certainly increase the number
Speaker 2: of Americans who die or are permanently disabled due to
Speaker 2: misdiagnosis At Harvard Medical. James rohas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Time is getting precious in a shutdown showdown on Capitol Hill,
Speaker 1: and it looks like the Democrats are gonna blink. Senate
Speaker 1: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says, given the circumstances, he will
Speaker 1: vote with Republicans to keep the government running with a
Speaker 1: six month extension. Schumer says it beats watching the entire
Speaker 1: economy go into free fall, and he urges his colleagues
Speaker 1: to join him in a vote for what he would
Speaker 1: determine to be the good of the country. Senators have
Speaker 1: until midnight tonight before Cinderella's Slipper no longer fits. Bruins
Speaker 1: faceplant on the road as the Red Hots. Senators teach
Speaker 1: the Bees a hard lesson. Bruins will host the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Lightning tomorrow night. Celtics will take their talents to
Speaker 1: Miami tonight and spring training baseball Red Sox also take
Speaker 1: on Miami the Marlins in Jupiter, Florida this afternoon. First
Speaker 1: pitch is coming up at four to ten, and another
Speaker 1: reminder that Southwest Airlines is starting to act like all
Speaker 1: other carriers and on the ground, Amtrak starts poking that bear.
Speaker 3: The Passenger railroad company posted on X this week, guess
Speaker 3: we're the only ones doing free baggage now. It then
Speaker 3: reminded passengers they can bring one personal item up to
Speaker 3: twenty five pounds plus two curry on items up to
Speaker 3: fifty pounds each. Southwest Airlines announced on Tuesday would begin
Speaker 3: charging most customers for checked bags on May twenty eighth.
Speaker 3: Passengers that have high loyalty status will still be allowed
Speaker 3: to check two bags for free.
Speaker 1: I'm Mark Mayfield and started under partly to mostly cloudy
Speaker 1: skies this morning in Boston. Its thirty six degrees. The
Speaker 1: winds are relatively calm as we walk out the door.
Speaker 1: We will see clouds breaking for some sun from time
Speaker 1: to time today and a little bit milder than yesterday
Speaker 1: as we'll make a run at the lower fifties in
Speaker 1: inland locations might stall in the upper forties along the
Speaker 1: shoreline today Overnight tonight, more low clouds and some patchy
Speaker 1: fog too. Will drop into the thirties this weekend. Seems
Speaker 1: like we're going to be on a bit of a roll.
Speaker 1: Temperatures tomorrow will be well into the fifties under mostly
Speaker 1: cloudy skies. It will become a little bit breezier tomorrow
Speaker 1: on Sunday for the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston.
Speaker 1: Temperatures later in the day, especially right after noontime, That's
Speaker 1: when we'll notice the difference as the tempts jump into
Speaker 1: the sixties, some inland locations will get very close. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say this too loud because you don't
Speaker 1: want to jinx it, but some inland locations might get
Speaker 1: very close to seventy on Sunday. It's still winter. Technically
Speaker 1: we've got less than a week to go, but I
Speaker 1: guess we'll take it right. Thirty six degrees, mostly cloudy
Speaker 1: right now in Boston at six oh six this Friday morning.
Speaker 1: This trash is no one's treasure in East Boston. CBS
Speaker 1: News Boston's Mike Sullivan has our story caught on.
Speaker 4: Camera right in East Boston, a man in a van
Speaker 4: jumping bags of garbage, trying to blend in with the
Speaker 4: neighborhood trash day.
Speaker 1: Like this one.
Speaker 2: You could tell it was all construction material and it
Speaker 2: was really heavy.
Speaker 4: We spoke with a neighbor who lives nearby. He asked
Speaker 4: or made anonymous.
Speaker 2: My landlord who looked out our window one day and
Speaker 2: noticed that there was a van out front.
Speaker 4: It was sitting at the corner of Sumner and or
Speaker 4: Leeds Street. The person who owns a surveillance video came
Speaker 4: out to confront the person doing the dumping, telling them
Speaker 4: you can't do this, he said.
Speaker 1: My boss told me to people threatened to call the cops.
Speaker 1: It was enough of a threat for the worker to
Speaker 1: pick up his toys, his trash and go home. A
Speaker 1: federal Anti Semitism task course is about to pay a
Speaker 1: visit to Boston. The panel wants to meet with Mayor
Speaker 1: Michelle Wu as well as her counterparts from New York City, Denver,
Speaker 1: and Chicago soon, all of whom recently testified to a
Speaker 1: House committee on sanctuary cities on Capitol Hill. Officials with
Speaker 1: the Justice Department say the task force would like a
Speaker 1: word with each mayor about responses to anti semitism at
Speaker 1: schools and on college campuses over the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: Mayor's office in Boston says the city stands behind its
Speaker 1: local policies as it weighs an appropriate response to the FEDS.
Speaker 1: No progress in Middle East peace talks this morning. Negotiations
Speaker 1: involving the United States, Israel, and Hamas to extend the
Speaker 1: terms of a recently expired six week ceasefire have gone nowhere. Meantime,
Speaker 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin indicates he is open to discussing
Speaker 1: Ukraine's ideas for a ceasefire, but skeptics say Putin's ideas
Speaker 1: would make a truce an impossibility. Still, Putin says he
Speaker 1: wants to talk about it with President Trump over the
Speaker 1: phone and do it soon. You are now in the
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