Speaker 1: Fifty two degrees in cloudy in Boston at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Good Sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small.
Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. Firefighters continue to battle an eighth alarm
Speaker 1: fire in Boston. At a press conference, fire officials saying
Speaker 1: there was no one inside the building when that fire
Speaker 1: broke out at sixty five Gerrard Street in Roxbury. Roughly
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty firefighters have responded to the scene
Speaker 1: that they've been ordered out of the building and are
Speaker 1: now trying to knock it down from the exterior only.
Speaker 1: They believe construction materials inside the building are helping to
Speaker 1: fuel the flames, and a collapse zone has been set
Speaker 1: up on all sides. They are asking people to avoid
Speaker 1: the area if at all possible, and are reminding nearby
Speaker 1: residents in the area to keep their windows and doors
Speaker 1: closed to keep the smoke out. Keep it here for
Speaker 1: the very latest updates as we continue to follow this
Speaker 1: developing story, or you can catch us streaming with a
Speaker 1: new iHeart radio app. All Right, The iconic Saint Patrick's
Speaker 1: Day Parade through South Boston steps off in just about
Speaker 1: thirty minutes at eleven thirty. That's an hour and a
Speaker 1: half earlier than usual. The time change do in part
Speaker 1: to a push from Boston City Councilor At Flynn to
Speaker 1: crack down on public drinking.
Speaker 2: This parade is about respecting our veterans, respecting our military families.
Speaker 2: If you can't come to South Boston and behave, don't come.
Speaker 3: That is the message from Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn,
Speaker 3: who says his office was flooded with hundreds of calls
Speaker 3: after last year Saint Patrick's Day parade.
Speaker 2: It was pretty bad last year, and we all have
Speaker 2: seen the videos of the violence that took place up
Speaker 2: at Metal Ivana packing and other places, and the level
Speaker 2: of public drinking was excessive.
Speaker 3: Flynn just one of a number of local, state, and
Speaker 3: federal leaders signing on to a letter to area colleges
Speaker 3: and schools saying college and underage kids contributed to public drinking,
Speaker 3: disturbing incidents of islands and assault, along with beer cans
Speaker 3: thrown at parade marchers and public urination.
Speaker 1: And that CBS News Boston's Brandon Truett reporting there, all right,
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day is a big day for drinking. So
Speaker 1: Boston police are reminding people to keep their drinks close
Speaker 1: because of a danger from so called Roofe's, the colorless,
Speaker 1: odorless and tasteless date rape drug. Now there are drink
Speaker 1: testing tools out, including nail polish that changes color when
Speaker 1: a drink is drugged. The best advice if you feel dizzy, nauseous,
Speaker 1: or light head to get help and never leave your
Speaker 1: drink unattended.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Astronaut Sunny Williams of Needham is expected to finally come
Speaker 1: back to Earth this week.
Speaker 5: SpaceX capsule arrives at the International Space Station in it
Speaker 5: a crew of four to help that crew of two
Speaker 5: who has been stuck for months.
Speaker 4: Dragon contact and soft capture complete.
Speaker 1: And there you heard.
Speaker 4: Dragon has successfully docked to the International Space Station.
Speaker 5: We have condat from NASA TV. Butch Wilmore and Sonny
Speaker 5: william expected to be gone just a week when they
Speaker 5: launched on Boeing's first astronaut flight last June. The newcomers
Speaker 5: will spend the next few days learning the station's ins
Speaker 5: and outs. Whether permitting, the capsule should undock from the
Speaker 5: space station no earlier than Wednesday and splash down off
Speaker 5: Florida's coast. Matt Piper's CBS.
Speaker 1: News and now the four day WBZ ACU weather forecast
Speaker 1: got to turn out windy and warmer throughout this afternoon,
Speaker 1: with clouds in a high around sixty five, periods of rain,
Speaker 1: some heavy tonights, and even a thunderstorm, and that will
Speaker 1: continue through much of tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Some of the heavier rain could lead to flooding, especially
Speaker 4: on streets and poor drainage areas. Low fifty five tonight,
Speaker 4: Tomorrow's high close to sixty plenty of sunshine. Tuesday a
Speaker 4: nice afternoon high's fifty to fifty five, mixture of clouds
Speaker 4: and sun. Wednesday high forty six in Boston and near
Speaker 4: the coast, It'll be in the low fifties inland, and
Speaker 4: as we get into Thursday, high teptures again mostly in
Speaker 4: the low fifties. I'm accua with the bead realtis Brian's
Speaker 4: hops at WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Checking the region. With fifty nine degrees in Springfield, fifty
Speaker 1: excuse me, fifty nine in Pittsfield, fifth fifty in Springfield,
Speaker 1: Tepa is fifty three in Woolster up in let's see
Speaker 1: Lowell fifty five degrees Plymouth fifty six, New Bedford fifty
Speaker 1: nine and in the city we have cloudy Sky's fifty
Speaker 1: two degrees at eleven oh five. The Governor reinforces her
Speaker 1: commitment to diplomacy with our neighbors to the north.
Speaker 6: Governor Morehey convening a weekend State House summit with the
Speaker 6: premiers of Canada's eastern most provinces, important trade partners of Massachusetts.
Speaker 7: I want them to know that Massachusetts remains committed to
Speaker 7: that relationship, and I want to continue to find ways
Speaker 7: to support trade between Canada and New England and Massachusetts, specifically.
Speaker 6: US Canadian relations freed lately by President Donald Trump's tariffs
Speaker 6: on imports from Canada and the president's talk of annexing Canada.
Speaker 7: It's okay to read one another about hockey games, but
Speaker 7: this kind of talked about a fifty first state, and
Speaker 7: you know, tariffs, it's just it's a it's nonsense. Really,
Speaker 7: you know, that's no way to treat an ally and
Speaker 7: our largest trading partner. So I hope common sense and
Speaker 7: a cooler head prevails there.
Speaker 6: At the State House. Mike maclum WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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