Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio re defining local news.
Speaker 2: Some light rain coming down in the city forty eight
Speaker 2: degrees at eleven o'clock. Hello, thanks for being with us
Speaker 2: on this first day of March. I'm Sherry Small. Here's
Speaker 2: what's happening all right, Enjoy this mild day. It's about to.
Speaker 3: Get cold, increasingly wendy for the rest of today.
Speaker 2: Clouds of sunshine, a shower around.
Speaker 3: We'll top out in the low fifties, and Wendy are
Speaker 3: much colder. Tonight's guys clear around at twenty and.
Speaker 2: That was ACU weather meteorologist John Feerick. Tomorrow, we're looking
Speaker 2: at highs reaching just thirty one decrease in the city.
Speaker 2: Full forecast coming up. The mass Pike caused massive problems
Speaker 2: for computers yesterday. Here CBS News Boston's Julie McDonald with
Speaker 2: the tail.
Speaker 1: Travelers winding westbound found themselves hardly moving all day long.
Speaker 1: Emergency repairs on the mass Pike at the Root four
Speaker 1: ninety five interchange in Hopkins forced everyone off and onto
Speaker 1: Route nine for a detour that derailed ETAs for hours.
Speaker 4: Though it was in accident because I used the GPS
Speaker 4: so was hoping it's whatever your outed me, but I
Speaker 4: didn't say anything.
Speaker 3: Mass Doot said.
Speaker 1: A construction worker noticed unusual cracking between the lanes of
Speaker 1: the turnpike first thing Friday morning. An inspector determined that
Speaker 1: without emergency repairs, the issue could have created a huge sinkhole.
Speaker 5: We believe what happened is that as part of that
Speaker 5: construction activity, the contractor putting some new piles in disturbed
Speaker 5: some of that soil, which caused that embankment about thirty
Speaker 5: feet high up against the turnpike to become destabilized. That
Speaker 5: caused that settlement to start to occur.
Speaker 2: All lanes reopened by nine pm. Investigators are looking for
Speaker 2: answers in Roxbury after more than a dozen people allegedly
Speaker 2: attacked police during an arrest. This happened Thursday afternoon. Boston
Speaker 2: police got word of shots fired from a man matching
Speaker 2: a susp that was wanted for gun possession after fleeing
Speaker 2: the scene of an arrest earlier in the day. State
Speaker 2: troopers then tried to arrest that suspect, along with two
Speaker 2: other men. When things took a turn, several people, they say,
Speaker 2: attempted to stop police from making the arrest, punching them
Speaker 2: kicking them, pushing them to the ground. Boston police arrived.
Speaker 2: They were able to take two juveniles and one adult
Speaker 2: into custody. After last night's explosive conversation in the Oval Office,
Speaker 2: President Trump now cast blame on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky
Speaker 2: for blowing up the mineral deal.
Speaker 4: Trump has brushed off concerns that Putin could violate a
Speaker 4: peace deal, refusing to guarantee Ukraine's security so Russia won't
Speaker 4: invade again. I asked the President who he trusts more?
Speaker 6: Do you trust Putin nor Zelenski?
Speaker 4: More?
Speaker 3: Look, I don't trust or distrust anybody.
Speaker 1: I just want to get a deal done. And if
Speaker 1: the deal happens, good.
Speaker 5: But you can't embolden somebody that does not have the cards.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, that person says, oh well,
Speaker 1: now I.
Speaker 3: Could keep fighting.
Speaker 2: That's ABC's Selina Wang reporting from Washington and now the
Speaker 2: Fort awbz ACU weather forecast. Today is a mild day.
Speaker 2: We'll see a high of fifty two. It'll be windy,
Speaker 2: a mix of sun and clouds, and there are showers around.
Speaker 2: These are spotty showers hit and miss areas. Tonight it's
Speaker 2: going to be windy, sharply colder. We'll see a clear sky,
Speaker 2: but low's near twenty ACU weather. Real field temps will
Speaker 2: drop into the single digits tonight, and then tomorrow we'll
Speaker 2: see a twenty degree drop in the high temp, reaching
Speaker 2: a high of thirty one degrees, mostly sunny, but blustering
Speaker 2: and cold, real fields no higher than the teens. And
Speaker 2: then on Monday, still another cold day, not as windy,
Speaker 2: plenty of sunshine, but will only warm up to thirty
Speaker 2: And then on Tuesday, some sun followed by clouds, a
Speaker 2: milder afternoon, warming up to forty five degrees in the city.
Speaker 2: Right now we're seeing let's see, is it still raining?
Speaker 2: Just cloudy skies Right now we've seen often on rain
Speaker 2: throughout the morning. Forty eight degrees in Boston at eleven
Speaker 2: oh six. All right. The Department of Public Utilities approves
Speaker 2: plans to slash expensive utility bills.
Speaker 4: Don't have a whole buff to heat?
Speaker 5: How much money are you going to save?
Speaker 6: Elijah Desuza, the founder of the viral Facebook group Citizens
Speaker 6: Against Ever Source. He spent all day Friday outside the
Speaker 6: Department of Public Utilities, hoping to put pressure on the
Speaker 6: DPU to drastically cut heating bills. On Friday, the DPU
Speaker 6: approved plans from utility companies that will cut bills by
Speaker 6: seven to sixteen percent, money that will then be made
Speaker 6: up interest free in spring and summer bills. We do
Speaker 6: not want way away, We want affordable energy. We don't
Speaker 6: want to space these expensive months out then months where
Speaker 6: it's economical. DESUSA demanded something far more drastic, the pausing
Speaker 6: of the Mass Save program, which gives consumers rebates for
Speaker 6: making their homes more energy efficient, paid for in the
Speaker 6: delivery fee of you your gas an electric bill.
Speaker 2: And that was CBS News Boston's Christina Rex reporting from
Speaker 2: the State House. Newbery Ports iconic Pink House is set
Speaker 2: to be demolished this month after a year's long fight
Speaker 2: to save it fails. Governor Mora heely saying the US
Speaker 2: Fish and Wildlife Service will be going ahead with plans
Speaker 2: to demolish the abandoned building on Plum Island. The plants
Speaker 2: to tear down were paused back in October after Governor
Speaker 2: Helyy and others try to step in and preserve it,
Speaker 2: but without a workable solution, that's will continue to demolish
Speaker 2: it all right, a major North Carolina highway that has
Speaker 2: been shut down since Hurricane Helene, is back open this morning.
Speaker 3: Deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene washed away much of I
Speaker 3: forty through the Pigeon River Gorge in the North Carolina
Speaker 3: Mountains near the Tennessee border. The highway partially reopens today
Speaker 3: with one lane of traffic in each direction. The travel
Speaker 3: lanes are severely reduced, and the speed limit has been
Speaker 3: reduced to thirty.
Speaker 2: Five miles per hour.
Speaker 3: North Carolina Department of Transportation engineer Nathan Tanner. We would
Speaker 3: not open this road if we did not feel confident
Speaker 3: that it was safe for people to travel it. It's
Speaker 3: unknown how long it will take to fully rebuild and
Speaker 3: reopen the busy interstate highway. Jim Chrysula, CBS News, Ashville,
Speaker 3: North Carolina.
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