Speaker 1: Fifty one and Sonny in Boston at six o'clock. Good
Speaker 1: Monday morning. It's Memorial Day. This newscast is brought to
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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening right just in time for the holiday.
Speaker 1: We dry out today.
Speaker 2: Cool but nice day today with times of sun and
Speaker 2: clouds and highs in the sixties.
Speaker 1: Ecky Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg there. We'll have your full
Speaker 1: forecast coming up in traffic and weather. On the threes,
Speaker 1: President Trump says he is delaying the fifty percent tariffs
Speaker 1: on European on the European Union. Fiona MacDonald with the
Speaker 1: BBC has to tail.
Speaker 3: President Trump says he's granted the European Union another month
Speaker 3: to conclude a trade deal and avert the imposition of
Speaker 3: new sanctions. He threatened on Friday to impose taxes of
Speaker 3: fifty percent on European imports, but following a telephone call
Speaker 3: with the European Commission President Ursula vunder Lyon, Trump said
Speaker 3: he had agreed to extend the deadline for negotiations until
Speaker 3: July the ninth MS funde Lyon said she was ready
Speaker 3: to advance talk swiftly.
Speaker 1: The European Commission is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing
Speaker 1: policies for the EU. The President had previously threatened to
Speaker 1: impose tariffs on June first. Meanwhile, the President is standing
Speaker 1: firm in his feud with Harvard.
Speaker 4: The President is defending his administration's decision to block Harvard
Speaker 4: University from accepting international students, posting on true Social we
Speaker 4: want to know who those foreign students are a reasonable
Speaker 4: request since we give Harvard billions of dollars. The executive
Speaker 4: action was temporarily blocked by a federal judge late last week,
Speaker 4: with a hearings set for this Thursday.
Speaker 1: And that CBS is Willie James Inman reporting Harvard says
Speaker 1: the Trump administration's latest move against the university is unlawful.
Speaker 1: Russia stages is a night other drone attack against Ukraine overnight,
Speaker 1: a Ukrainian official calling it the biggest one of the
Speaker 1: war yet. Word of the latest attack comes after President
Speaker 1: Trump lashed out at Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 5: Trump bearing down on Moscow, turning his fury toward Vladimir
Speaker 5: Putin last night after a massive Russian attack on Ukraine.
Speaker 2: And I'm not happy with what Putin's doing is killing
Speaker 2: a lot of people.
Speaker 4: And I don't know what the hell happened to Putin
Speaker 4: a week ago.
Speaker 5: Today, Trump spoke with Putin for more than two hours,
Speaker 5: saying after the call that Russia and Ukraine would immediately
Speaker 5: start negotiations toward a ceasefire. But over the weekend, Russia
Speaker 5: launched its most intense aerial attacks on Ukraine in more
Speaker 5: than a year, including hundreds of missiles, killing at least
Speaker 5: eighteen people injuring dozens more.
Speaker 1: And that's ABC's Andrew Dimbert reporting.
Speaker 2: Coming up.
Speaker 1: Observing the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis
Speaker 1: now the fort A WBC ACHU weather forecas We're going
Speaker 1: to have a dry Memorial Day. It's going to be
Speaker 1: on the chili side. High sixty four in the city,
Speaker 1: approaching seventy well inland Tonight, mainly clear skies will drop
Speaker 1: down to a low of fifty three in the city,
Speaker 1: low to mid forties for those inland areas. Tomorrow Tuesday,
Speaker 1: back to work. Highs in the low to mid seventies,
Speaker 1: Lots of sunshine as well. Same deal on Wednesday, the
Speaker 1: high seventy two to seventy six, a mix of sun
Speaker 1: and clouds, and then at night showers will approach. And
Speaker 1: then on Thursday we're back to that shower or two
Speaker 1: in the daytime high of just sixty five. Right now
Speaker 1: in Boston it's sunny and fifty one degrees. It's six
Speaker 1: oh five. Back to News now, Somerville Mark's Memorial Day
Speaker 1: with a ceremony at a local cemetery yesterday. Logan Hall
Speaker 1: with CBS News Boston was there.
Speaker 6: For Vietnam War veteran Thomas White. Memorial Day means so
Speaker 6: much more than just a three day weekend.
Speaker 7: I came home.
Speaker 5: We lost all fifty eight thousand, four hundred guys in
Speaker 5: Vietnam that are on the Vietnam War.
Speaker 6: Thomas lost many friends in the Vietnam War, and now
Speaker 6: for a year he comes to the Somerville Veterans Cemetery
Speaker 6: on this very day and salutes every grave to honor
Speaker 6: those lives lost for you serving in Vietnam. Did you
Speaker 6: have friends that you that you lost in that war?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Actually, one of the promoment prisons, touch Hea.
Speaker 7: He's the Medal of honor recipient.
Speaker 6: Tom Kelly, director of Veteran Services in Somerville. Jerome Thomas
Speaker 6: helped organize the ceremony to pay tribute to those who
Speaker 6: sacrificed their lives.
Speaker 1: Signifies for me as a veteran just brother, and says,
Speaker 1: so we've lost in the past those who want to
Speaker 1: perform me and sacrifice all. And the ceremony followed the
Speaker 1: city's annual Memorial Day parade. It took more than a century,
Speaker 1: but two Black Civil War veterans are finally being recognized
Speaker 1: for their service.
Speaker 7: There's been neglected for over a century.
Speaker 2: John Wilson Junior talking about Joe and Henry Whedon both
Speaker 2: served together in the same unit, the thirty ninth United
Speaker 2: States Colored Infantry. Within days, the two men will have
Speaker 2: the same headstones at ar Lincoln National Cemetery, and that'll
Speaker 2: we place on their graves in Frederick at the Sunnyside
Speaker 2: New Life Community Church. We still have descendants that go
Speaker 2: to church here. Got Tan Whedon is the great great
Speaker 2: granddaughter of John Whedon. His memory will live on forever.
Speaker 2: Jimmie Alexander for CBS News Washington.
Speaker 1: Yesterday mark five years since George Floyd was killed by mine.
Speaker 1: Minneapolis police officers, activists, and faith leaders gathered in George
Speaker 1: Floyd's Square. That's the intersection where former police officer Derek
Speaker 1: Chauvin used his knee to pin Floyd's neck to the pavement.
Speaker 1: David Schuman with CBS News Minnesota reports some in Minnesota
Speaker 1: have mixed feelings about the area.
Speaker 7: No city autobody has been here twenty three years, but
Speaker 7: the owner, Dan, who asked us not to use his
Speaker 7: last name, says he's struggling badly, but this is.
Speaker 3: A small people's character.
Speaker 4: Come over here, have coaches in college.
Speaker 5: I have to keep start vibe.
Speaker 7: Dan carries a gun for protection since he was assaulted
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty, but we spoke to more than one
Speaker 7: who said they do feel safe living here.
Speaker 1: And last week, the Justice Department announced that it was
Speaker 1: ending investigations into six police agencies and canceling consent decrees
Speaker 1: that were proposed for Louisville and Minneapolis, But Minneapolis Police
Speaker 1: Chief Brian O'Hara says that reform efforts will continue there
Speaker 1: with or without federal oversight. You are now in the loop.
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