Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Thirty nine degrees feels like twenty four in Boston at
Speaker 2: four o'clock, I'm Kyle Bray and here's what's happening. Thousands
Speaker 2: gathered on the Common this afternoon to march in honor
Speaker 2: of International Women's Day. WBZ Suzanne Sasville was there.
Speaker 3: On the Next Revolution.
Speaker 4: Thousands of men and women of all ages come out
Speaker 4: to protest the Trump administration. One sign reads to port
Speaker 4: Musk removed Trump. Trish is from Marshfield.
Speaker 5: I feel like we all have to stand up and
Speaker 5: show our faces and get loud and get busy and
Speaker 5: organize against this regime that's taken over our government.
Speaker 4: Eighty five year old Betty Slade rented a bus to
Speaker 4: bring forty people from the Cape, including her ninety six
Speaker 4: year old husband.
Speaker 3: We're amazed that we have to fight again and again for.
Speaker 2: Civil rights, women's rights, human rights, decency and compassion. But
Speaker 2: we do, don't we We do?
Speaker 4: With flags, banners and signs, they marched through the Common
Speaker 4: to the prew and onto Boylston Street before heading back
Speaker 4: to the Common. Suzanne Sasville, WBZ Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2: Turning the tariff tables, President Trump is now threatening to
Speaker 2: impose more tariffs on Canada, not long after pausing some
Speaker 2: of them. CBS's Nicole Killian explains.
Speaker 4: He turned up the tough talk on Canada, vowing to
Speaker 4: slap reciprocal tariffs on the US's northern neighbor by early
Speaker 4: next week on lumber and dairy products.
Speaker 6: Canada has been ripping us off for years on tariffs
Speaker 6: for lumber and for dairy products two and fifty percent,
Speaker 6: which has taking.
Speaker 2: Advantage of our farmers.
Speaker 6: They'll be met with the exact same tariff unless they
Speaker 6: this week.
Speaker 2: President Trump also paused certain tariffs against Mexico until next month.
Speaker 2: With lash for workers at USAID after being fired and
Speaker 2: then rehired, some of them have been let go once again.
Speaker 2: CBS's Jennifer Kuiper has more.
Speaker 3: Two sources tell CBS News that USAID is reissuing termination
Speaker 3: notices for probationary workers, essentially refiring them. Probationary workers at
Speaker 3: USAID initially received termination notices on February twenty fourth from
Speaker 3: an email address which was not an official USAID HR
Speaker 3: affiliated email address, but, according to two sources, an email
Speaker 3: address created by DOGE. Two sources tell CBS News that
Speaker 3: HR staff were vocal that they were completely uninvolved with
Speaker 3: the initial terminations and reduction enforces. Jennifer Kuiper, CBS News.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Governor Heally launches a website to help tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of federal workers that DOGE fired. The site promotes
Speaker 2: new job opportunities and training resources right here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: It's time now for the four day WBZAC weather forecast.
Speaker 2: There's a wind advisory in effect tonight until ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: We're the risk of wildfires will be will be decreasing
Speaker 2: throughout this evening. Now Todight it will be mainly clear,
Speaker 2: will be brisk and cold. We'll have lows between twenty
Speaker 2: four and twenty eight degrees. Tomorrow will be partly sunny
Speaker 2: with a chili breeze. We'll have highs near forty five.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night will have some clouds and will be a
Speaker 2: low of around thirty four. Now on Monday, as we
Speaker 2: headed to the work week, we'll be turning milder with
Speaker 2: some clouds early giving away for plenty of sunshine. We'll
Speaker 2: have a hive around fifty one, and then on Tuesday
Speaker 2: will be even milder with sun for much of the day,
Speaker 2: we'll start to get highest up close to sixty. They'll
Speaker 2: be between fifty five and fifty eight. Right now in
Speaker 2: Boston it is thirty eight degrees with a real feel
Speaker 2: of thirty five. South Boston is getting ready for its
Speaker 2: annual Saint Patrick's Date parade. Wbz's Mike Macklin.
Speaker 6: Reports Irish music set the mood in the Curly Community
Speaker 6: Center in South Boston, as the neighborhood's Irish community got
Speaker 6: an early start on the same Patrick's Day festivities. Congressman
Speaker 6: Stephen Lynch introducing Mayor Michelle wou just back from Washington,
Speaker 6: where she was grilled by a congressional committee about the
Speaker 6: city's reputation as a sanctuary city for migrants. It was wonderful, wonderful,
Speaker 6: wonderful to have her down there to defend the city
Speaker 6: of Boston and the welcoming city that we are.
Speaker 5: I was there defending immigrants, but also Boston, and I
Speaker 5: told them when I would come home and we would
Speaker 5: have a full month celebrating Boston's Irish American heritage and
Speaker 5: our city being a home for generations and generations of
Speaker 5: people who believed that.
Speaker 6: This is where they could build a better life South Boston.
Speaker 6: Looking forward to March seventeenth and the upcoming Saint Patrick's
Speaker 6: Day parade in South Boston. Mike Maclin WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: A middle school teacher in Needham is on administrative leave
Speaker 2: as he faces several serious charges. CBS News Boston's Tammy
Speaker 2: Mutasa has the details.
Speaker 1: Seventeen years Michael Chickalela was a trusted educator working with
Speaker 1: children and Needham Public schools, but now the High Rock
Speaker 1: Middle School teacher is charged with uploading at least one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight images and videos showing young boys
Speaker 1: being sexually abused. The victims we're as young as three
Speaker 1: years old to twelve explode.
Speaker 6: You don't think he did it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave that.
Speaker 6: Up to the court.
Speaker 1: That's the teacher's nineteen year old son outside court, after
Speaker 1: being asked about his dad's arrest.
Speaker 4: Wasn't anything too crazy.
Speaker 6: I usually can keep myself composed, So doesn't see that.
Speaker 6: Did your father ever abuse you?
Speaker 1: No, sir, prosecutors say. The forty six year old soccer
Speaker 1: coach even posed as a thirteen year old using an
Speaker 1: online messaging app to cat kids up. Investigators had been
Speaker 1: looking into the teacher since last August.
Speaker 2: In a statement, Needham Public School says they've removed his
Speaker 2: access to buildings, grounds and digital files. Boston based Wayfair
Speaker 2: lays off hundreds of employees, half of which are in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: The layoffs include three hundred and forty people from its
Speaker 2: technology division. The company says it's working to move its
Speaker 2: platform to the cloud, which means they need to change
Speaker 2: their tech. Wayfair is also shuttering its technology development center
Speaker 2: in Austin, Texas. This is the latest round of masked
Speaker 2: layoffs to impact the company. Last year, Wayfair laid off
Speaker 2: around thirteen percent of its global workforce. You are now
Speaker 2: in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen
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