Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio way, defining
Speaker 1: local news seventy five degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: on Monday morning. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis.
Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. The hearing is underway right now in
Speaker 1: Boston Federal Court. Harvard is challenging more than two and
Speaker 1: a half million dollars in federal funding cuts. Here's the
Speaker 1: AP's Jennifer King with Moore.
Speaker 2: It's a pivotal moment in the university's battle against the
Speaker 2: federal government. The university says the government's using the funding
Speaker 2: as leveraged to control its academic decisions after they rejected
Speaker 2: the demands in a letter from an anti semitism task force.
Speaker 2: They wanted changes to Harvard policies on campus protest, admissions,
Speaker 2: hiring in other matters. Harvard President Alan Garber pledged to
Speaker 2: fight anti semitism, but said no government should dictate what
Speaker 2: private universities can teach, who they admit and hire, and
Speaker 2: which areas of study and inquiry they pursue. The Trump
Speaker 2: administration denies the cuts were made in retaliation and says
Speaker 2: the government has Why does Russian to cancel contracts for
Speaker 2: policy reasons. I'm Jennifer King.
Speaker 1: At noon, supporters of Harvard say they planned a rally
Speaker 1: outside the courthouse. Be sure to stay here on WBZ
Speaker 1: News Radio. We'll have all the latest, and of course
Speaker 1: we're always streaming on the iHeartRadio app. Meantime, we're expecting
Speaker 1: to get more information soon about the death of a
Speaker 1: man in police custody on the streets of Haverol, Essex County.
Speaker 2: D A.
Speaker 1: Paul Tucker is holding him. Briefing this hour on the
Speaker 1: investigation into the death of Francis Jigliotti. So ill played
Speaker 1: out back on the eleventh. Police called to the area
Speaker 1: by Bradford's seafood Jigliotti reportedly acting erradically, wandering into traffic.
Speaker 1: Minutes later, he was seen on video screaming for help.
Speaker 1: Lying on the ground. Multiple Haverol police officers were holding
Speaker 1: him down and couffing him. Jigliotti died soon after. In Washington,
Speaker 1: some House Republicans say they want more transparency with the
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein case.
Speaker 3: A group of House Republicans now joining Democrats pushing for
Speaker 3: a vote to compel the government to release more of
Speaker 3: the Jeffrey Epstein files. The proposed resolution would carry no
Speaker 3: legal wait but demonstrates the bipartisan push for more transparency.
Speaker 3: Days after President Trump ordered the Justice Department to request
Speaker 3: the release of grand jury transcripts related to Epstein's sex
Speaker 3: trafficking case. Releasing grand jury records could take time and
Speaker 3: require a judge's approval, and legal experts say the transcripts
Speaker 3: may not reveal any new details and likely cover only
Speaker 3: a fraction of the evidence gathered.
Speaker 1: That is, the ABC's Nicole D'Antonio with that update and
Speaker 1: striking sanitation workers for Republic Services remain on the picket
Speaker 1: line this morning, and trash is still piling up in
Speaker 1: more than a dozen cities and towns around Greater Boston
Speaker 1: because of it. This afternoon, attorneys for six of those
Speaker 1: cities in towns are doing Salem Superior Court. They claim
Speaker 1: the company is in breach of contract by not somehow
Speaker 1: getting the trash picked up, and they want a judge
Speaker 1: to force the company to get it done. Reps for
Speaker 1: the company, Republic and the Teamsters Local twenty five, last
Speaker 1: meeting back on Friday with a federal mediator. The talk's
Speaker 1: not going anywhere after that meeting. Republic says their offer
Speaker 1: is competitive. The union says the company is negotiating in
Speaker 1: bad faith. And for the rest of the afternoon, it
Speaker 1: is going to be a beautiful Monday out there. If
Speaker 1: there's any way you can maybe pop out for a
Speaker 1: lunch Alfresco or just kind of take the laptop outside,
Speaker 1: I definitely recommend it. It's not that humid. It's going
Speaker 1: to be nice and warm, but not too hot. Temperatures
Speaker 1: right now for most of us in the seventies, and
Speaker 1: we have a bit of a breezy day right now.
Speaker 1: That wind from the north northwest about fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: miles an hour, So if you do eat outside, just
Speaker 1: be sure to hold down all the napkins so they
Speaker 1: don't go flying. For tonight, clear skies, low near fifty
Speaker 1: if you're north in west of Boston. Sixty or so
Speaker 1: in the city and on the coast. For your Tuesday Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: sunny skies with a high in the upper seventies. Wednesday,
Speaker 1: mix of sun and clouds and a high in the
Speaker 1: low to mid eighties. Cooler in southeastern mass warming up
Speaker 1: and getting more humid on Thursday and Friday, with highs
Speaker 1: in the nineties seventy six degrees in Fall River, seeing
Speaker 1: seventy four in Framingham, seventy two in Amesbury. In Boston.
Speaker 1: Right now, at eleven oh five it is partly cloudy
Speaker 1: and seventy five degrees.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Sleep does a body good, of course, especially when that
Speaker 1: body is still growing. And if a new school start
Speaker 1: time bill moves forward on Beacon Hill, it might soon
Speaker 1: be easier for kids to make sure they can get
Speaker 1: that necessary shut eye.
Speaker 4: As we all know, sleep is king when it comes
Speaker 4: to preparing ourselves for a healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 1: He gets six thirty right now. Who doesn't want to
Speaker 1: get out of bud.
Speaker 4: Jerry from Hingham is a third grader. When I talked
Speaker 4: about school start times, the later the better.
Speaker 1: And we start bad at eight o'clock at night.
Speaker 4: Right now, there's a bill on Beacon Hill that would
Speaker 4: have new statewide school start times no earlier than eight
Speaker 4: am for middle schools and eight thirty for high schools.
Speaker 3: I already take three kids to three different places.
Speaker 4: John from Handover's a busy dad during the school year,
Speaker 4: to say the least.
Speaker 1: And so my work day starts a lot later.
Speaker 4: He's in favor of the chain. Luckily I'm flexible or
Speaker 4: not Right now, it's still in the works, and if
Speaker 4: it does get the green light in the Governor's signature,
Speaker 4: it would go into effect in twenty twenty eight. Jim
Speaker 4: mcka WVZ, Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1: There are almost two hundred and seventy five assisted living
Speaker 1: facilities here in Massachusetts, and by the end of the week,
Speaker 1: each and every one will have to file a report
Speaker 1: on its fire safety protocols. Governor Healy is rolling out
Speaker 1: what she calls a fire and life safety initiative for
Speaker 1: these centers. Each facility will have to send letters to
Speaker 1: families and state officials detailing their safety plans in case
Speaker 1: of emergency. They'll also have to take a survey to
Speaker 1: see if they're complying with safety requirements like working sprinklers.
Speaker 1: All this in response to the deadly fire in Fall
Speaker 1: River that tore through the Gabriel House assisted living center.
Speaker 1: Ten people were killed in that fire. In Gaza, Dozens
Speaker 1: they're dead, many more wounded after Israeli troops opened fire
Speaker 1: near a crowd trying to get food at an AID
Speaker 1: site yesterday. Here's ABC's Ian Pannell.
Speaker 5: At least eighty Palestinians killed in more than one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty injured. According to hospital officials, we raised our
Speaker 5: hands like this, this man says, signaling we were peaceful.
Speaker 5: Then they started firing at us. Israel disputes this number,
Speaker 5: but he's investigating what happened. World Food Program condemning the
Speaker 5: incidents as a new low point the idea of insisting
Speaker 5: they fired to remove an immediate threat, but they haven't
Speaker 5: said what the threat was.
Speaker 1: Meantime, Gaza's Health ministry says the Palestinian death toll has
Speaker 1: surpassed fifty nine thousand after more than twenty one months
Speaker 1: of war between Israel and Hamas. You are now in Malu.
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