Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Speaker 2: Good Friday morning. It's May second. I'm Sherry Small. It's
Speaker 2: fifty nine degrees in cloudy in Boston at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: Let's get you caught up in news. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: President Trump says he's pulling Harvard's tax exempt status. Here's
Speaker 2: WBC's Drew Mholland with the tails.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Harvard, you've got mail, President Trump saying it is
Speaker 3: what they deserve the school. We saw this coming though.
Speaker 3: Right just last night, President Trump took a one hundred
Speaker 3: day victory lap at the University of Alabama and said this, it.
Speaker 4: Is clear to see the next chapter of the American
Speaker 4: story will not be written by the Harvard crimson It
Speaker 4: will be written by you, the Crimson Tide.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the president joining a Crimson Tide icon. Former coach
Speaker 3: Nick Saban, in a commencement address the decision to pull
Speaker 3: Harvard's tax exempt status. It's not over. It's almost certainly
Speaker 3: going to face legal challenges. Drumaholland WZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And Harvard calls the move unlawful and says it will
Speaker 2: divert money away from things like student financial aid and
Speaker 2: medical research. All Right, Jen McCain is back on the standing.
Speaker 2: Karen Reid's second murder trial. Defense attorney Alan Jackson is
Speaker 2: asking her about her movement, including a drive to Kenton
Speaker 2: Police Sergeant Michael Lank's home after John O'Keefe's death. The
Speaker 2: Trump administration is about to resume collections on defaulted student loans.
Speaker 2: Brian Shook reports the Department announced collections will begin on
Speaker 2: May fifth, and borrowers could be referred to debt collectors
Speaker 2: or have money deducted from their paychecks. Student loan repayment
Speaker 2: requirements were paused in March twenty twenty due to the
Speaker 2: COVID nineteen pandemic. The Biden administration opted not to resume
Speaker 2: collections and attempted to forgive student loan debt in a
Speaker 2: program that was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration has indicated it would offer no such
Speaker 2: concessions to borrowers. I'm Brian Shook, a Maryland judge pushing
Speaker 2: back refusing to give the Trump administration an extension to
Speaker 2: provide more information on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia deported to
Speaker 2: an El Salvador Prison by what the government calls an
Speaker 2: administrative error.
Speaker 5: Stephen Miller argued on equivocally that he believes the administration
Speaker 5: believes at brago Garcia is an MS thirteen violent gang member.
Speaker 5: The judge has ordered information from the administration about why
Speaker 5: abrago Garcia was deported that way, why he has not
Speaker 5: been returned as initially ordered by the judge, what his
Speaker 5: condition is there, and those answers have not been forthcoming.
Speaker 2: And that CBS is Scott McFarlane reporting now the four
Speaker 2: dawbz ACU weather forecast. After these clouds do clear out,
Speaker 2: we're going to see some sunshine and some really warm
Speaker 2: Temperatures will be up to seventy six to eighty degrees today,
Speaker 2: a spotty late day thunderstorm in the mix, but on
Speaker 2: the south coast capein Islands low to mid sixties. Tonight,
Speaker 2: a mild night, partly to mostly cloudy. There will be
Speaker 2: a straight thunder shower early but a low of just
Speaker 2: sixty degrees in the city, mid fifties for the Cape
Speaker 2: and the Islands. Unfortunately, we're looking at rain once again
Speaker 2: this weekend. This seems to be a pattern that we
Speaker 2: just can't kick a mix of sun and clouds, breezy
Speaker 2: on Saturday, with a shower and thunderstorm in the afternoon
Speaker 2: that could be intense enough to produce some flooding downpours.
Speaker 2: Also strong winds on top of that, but highs will
Speaker 2: reach anywhere between eighty to eighty four degrees for the
Speaker 2: South coast Capein Islands, highs will hold in the sixties. Sunday,
Speaker 2: a couple of showers around, cloudy and breezy highs though
Speaker 2: taking a dip around sixty in the city, sixty four
Speaker 2: to sixty eight Inland, and then we cool down even
Speaker 2: more on Monday. Right now, it's fifty nine degrees and
Speaker 2: cloudy in Boston at eleven oh five. It's Mental Health
Speaker 2: Awareness Month and wbz's James Rojas's some people are celebrating
Speaker 2: with a healthy dose of nature.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things people do to take
Speaker 1: care of their mental health. Some practice breathing exercises, others
Speaker 1: connect with friends and family, and some connect with nature.
Speaker 1: In fact, that was the most common answer for those
Speaker 1: asked about how they clear their mind, get outside and
Speaker 1: just get away from it all kinds of things.
Speaker 4: Yep, a little bit of self care every day.
Speaker 1: It's anything in the mountains, camping, hiking, anything like that.
Speaker 6: The beach is just so vast and open and calming
Speaker 6: and not today, but usually, I mean it usually takes
Speaker 6: people back to a happy place being out next to trees,
Speaker 6: ghost user serotonin, and it releases all these feelings inside
Speaker 6: of you that make you feel better.
Speaker 5: So anything in.
Speaker 1: Your nature at logan James Rojas, WBZ, Boston Some News Radio.
Speaker 2: Boston Medical Centers officially renaming two of the hospitals that
Speaker 2: it acquired in Stuart Healthcare's bankruptcy. Goodsmaritan Medical Center in
Speaker 2: Brockton is now Boston Medical Center South seen Elizabeth Medical
Speaker 2: Center in Brighton becoming BMC Brighton. Their affiliated physician practices
Speaker 2: will also adopt the BNC BMC Health name. The rebranding
Speaker 2: is part of BMC's goal to unify care across the region.
Speaker 2: The BMC took over operations of both hospitals last October,
Speaker 2: significantly expanding its reach and also doubling its bed capacity.
Speaker 2: There's a new recall that home cooks might want to
Speaker 2: be aware of.
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Speaker 1: Meathan into Fooity, the.
Speaker 4: Pressure cooker that crisps It's the best of pressure cooking
Speaker 4: and air.
Speaker 1: Frying all in wine.
Speaker 7: Now, Shark Ninja is recalling a round two million foody
Speaker 7: Op three hundred series pressure cookers sold in the US
Speaker 7: and Canada. It comes after more than one hundred people
Speaker 7: suffered burn injuries after hot food spewed out of the devices.
Speaker 7: There have been more than fifty reports of people getting
Speaker 7: second or third degree.
Speaker 2: Burns, and that CBS's Jim Crsula according there. Shark Ninja
Speaker 2: says that the pressure cookers have lids that can open
Speaker 2: while the devices are in you, so if you have
Speaker 2: one of these pressure cookers, you can contact Shark Ninja
Speaker 2: for a free replacement lid. Evacuation orders are underway on
Speaker 2: the southern tip of South America after a seven point
Speaker 2: four magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Chile and Argentina.
Speaker 2: New people on the coast near the Strait of Magellan
Speaker 2: have been ordered to get inland in case of a
Speaker 2: tsunami strike. No word yet on any casualties or damages
Speaker 2: from the earthquake. You are now in the loop for
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