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Speaker 2: Good Friday morning. I'm Madison Rogers. It is forty degrees
Speaker 2: in Boston at eleven o'clock and here's what's happening. A
Speaker 2: state lawmaker from the Cape will face a Boston federal
Speaker 2: judge this afternoon. This morning, he's been arrested in a
Speaker 2: fraud scheme and cover up. Prosecutors with the US Attorney's
Speaker 2: Office alleged House Rep. Christopher Flanagan stole tens of thousands
Speaker 2: from a home a homebuilders association on the Cape, including
Speaker 2: after the Democrat was elected to Rep. Barnstable in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. US Attorney Leo Foley says he used the
Speaker 2: money to line his own pockets, including to pay off
Speaker 2: personal bills by luxury items and to bankroll his political campaign.
Speaker 2: Flanagan had served as an executive officer for that trade association.
Speaker 2: It's alleged he went to extraordinary lengths to cover up
Speaker 2: the scheme, even fabricating fake personas the reps do before
Speaker 2: a federal judge in Moachley Courthouse in Boston around two
Speaker 2: thirty PM. We'll bring you the latest right here on
Speaker 2: WBZ News Radio. The US Supreme Court has ordered the
Speaker 2: Trump administration to work toward bringing Kilmar Abrigo Garcia home.
Speaker 2: The man from Maryland mistakenly deported and sent to a
Speaker 2: notorious prison in his native El Salvador last month. ABC's
Speaker 2: Terry Moran has more.
Speaker 3: Exactly how or when Garcia will be returned to the
Speaker 3: United States remains unclear. The government says that Abrigo Garcia's
Speaker 3: was a member of the notorious MS thirteen gang in
Speaker 3: El Salvador and that he's a threat to the public here.
Speaker 3: His family disputes that he was under a court order
Speaker 3: protecting him from being deported to El Salvador because he
Speaker 3: feared for his safety there. In a statement, his wife
Speaker 3: saying I will continue to fight until my husband is home.
Speaker 2: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to explain
Speaker 2: how Garcia will be returned and set a deadline for
Speaker 2: the government to confirm his low location. Just a few
Speaker 2: days ago, the Supreme Court decided to allow the president
Speaker 2: to continue deporting people without due process through the eighteenth
Speaker 2: century Alien Enemies Act. In a push to drive out
Speaker 2: some legal immigrants, the Social Security Administration has labeled them debt.
Speaker 4: On Thursday, Agency officials added the names and social security
Speaker 4: numbers of over six thousand, mostly Latino immigrants to the
Speaker 4: database that they use to track dead people. The move
Speaker 4: effectively erases their ability to work in the United States
Speaker 4: or receive any benefits. The named immigrants entered the US
Speaker 4: through the Biden administration's parole programs, which granted temporary work permits,
Speaker 4: saying adding living people to the death database violates multiple laws.
Speaker 2: On Mark Mayfield and looking at the four day forecast,
Speaker 2: we should have some breaks of sunshine this afternoon, the
Speaker 2: high around forty five, and it should be a dry
Speaker 2: Friday night if you'd like to get out there. The
Speaker 2: rain holding off till after midnight, but once it starts
Speaker 2: coming down, we're going to be dealing with rain and
Speaker 2: potentially a wintry mix through the night and through much
Speaker 2: of tomorrow as well. Now it should be the northwestern
Speaker 2: suburbs for the most part seeing the slush out there,
Speaker 2: though there could be a couple of inches of accumulation,
Speaker 2: quite a bit of rain closer to Boston, maybe some
Speaker 2: ponding on the roads, watch out for that. Tomorrow's high
Speaker 2: is around forty oh. It's also windy, so Sunday cloudy
Speaker 2: and breezy, with just some occasional rain and drizzle. Less
Speaker 2: miserable up to forty six and a lot less miserable Monday,
Speaker 2: up to fifty seven in Boston with some sunshine. Right
Speaker 2: now in Boston it is forty and cloudy at eleven
Speaker 2: oh five. China is firing back against the US as
Speaker 2: a trade war reaches new heights, the latest with Abyc's
Speaker 2: brick Clinet.
Speaker 5: China now raising import taxes on goods from the United
Speaker 5: States to one hundred and twenty five percent as the
Speaker 5: tip for tap trade war escalates even further. The announcement
Speaker 5: from Beijing coming hours after Chinese presidency's imping said there
Speaker 5: were no winners in tariff war. China faces a one
Speaker 5: hundred and forty five percent levy on some of its
Speaker 5: goods imported to the United States as President Trump zeroed
Speaker 5: in on China as a target while pausing tariffs on
Speaker 5: dozens of other countries. In announcing the latest tariff hikes,
Speaker 5: China's Commerce ministry again said China would fight to the end,
Speaker 5: but the statement also suggested this might just be China's
Speaker 5: last tariff increase, saying if the US raises rates higher again,
Speaker 5: China will ignore it for Clinic, ABC News, Hong Kong.
Speaker 2: A lot of Massachusetts Democrats aren't happy with our reps
Speaker 2: in Washington and the kind of fight they've put up
Speaker 2: against the Trump administration. A new letter is signed by
Speaker 2: dozens of Democratic committees around the Commonwealth. They say, right
Speaker 2: now it's up to Democrats in Congress to save our democracy,
Speaker 2: but party leadership has failed to meet the moment. They're
Speaker 2: calling on the Massachusetts delegation to organize to replace Senate
Speaker 2: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and to use every tool, rule
Speaker 2: and procedure at their disposal to block Republicans at every turn.
Speaker 2: We'll have more from Washington coming up in a few
Speaker 2: A famous TV star is revealing a serious medical diagnosis.
Speaker 1: He's played doctors on TV based non small sew with
Speaker 1: a history of copd Now Gray's Anatomy star Eric Dane
Speaker 1: reveals he has als lou Gehrigg's disease. In a statement
Speaker 1: to People magazine, Dane, who is fifty two, returns to
Speaker 1: work next week on the show Euphorium. He says he's
Speaker 1: quote grateful to have my loving family by my side
Speaker 1: as we navigate this next chapter. Als is a progressive
Speaker 1: neurodegenerative disease affecting nerve cells in the brain and spinal
Speaker 1: cord with no known cure. Steve Kathan, CBS News.
Speaker 2: Boston University's men's hockey team has made it to the
Speaker 2: Frozen Four Championship this weekend. Wbz's Jim McKay is checking
Speaker 2: in with the Terrier Faithful out of the game tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Boston University is a renowned institution in so many ways,
Speaker 6: and that also includes on the ice.
Speaker 2: It's Massachusetts. We love our hoigh he.
Speaker 6: He who has a storied men's hockey program going back
Speaker 6: decades and that includes five national championships.
Speaker 2: It's not often that your school that you go to
Speaker 2: gets an opportunity to do this.
Speaker 6: The last Frozen Four title was sixteen years ago under
Speaker 6: the legend Jack Parker. Tomorrow night, they've got their shot
Speaker 6: against Western Michigan with third year head coach in Burlington
Speaker 6: native J.
Speaker 2: Pandolfo.
Speaker 6: I can only imagine what it would be like if
Speaker 6: we could, but it's gonna be crazy. The bars on
Speaker 6: com av will be a sea of red jerseys tomorrow night,
Speaker 6: and the Terrier Faithful have a confidence that seems to
Speaker 6: be catching on by the.
Speaker 2: Kids are excited. Oh yeah, no way to listen.
Speaker 1: They're gonna win.
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