Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Speaker 2: All right, parties over people, It's back to business on
Speaker 2: this Tuesday morning, after what for some of us was
Speaker 2: a long holiday weekend. We're under cloudy skies this morning
Speaker 2: at thirty nine degrees in Boston. The News at six
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown And what a difference a day makes.
Speaker 1: Breezy and quite cool as cloud to give away to
Speaker 1: some sun later on the higes fifty to fifty four.
Speaker 2: At is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. It won't
Speaker 2: get out of the forties south of the city, especially
Speaker 2: on the Capean Islands today. Take me home Country Roads
Speaker 2: or the Space Race Highway. Either way, Sonny Williams and
Speaker 2: Butch Willmore, we'll splash down later today.
Speaker 3: NASA astronauts stuck in space or finally homeward bound. Butch
Speaker 3: Willmore and Sunny Williams left the International Space Station this
Speaker 3: morning SpaceX capsule, providing their ride home on docked right
Speaker 3: on schedule. What started as an eight day mission is
Speaker 3: now on day two hundred and eighty seven due to
Speaker 3: technical problems on their original spacecraft.
Speaker 2: That is, ABC's Andrew dimbered weather permitting the Dragon ten
Speaker 2: mission carrying Williams, will Moore and two others who will
Speaker 2: be back in Gravity's arms early this evening. Off the
Speaker 2: coast of Florida, Bruins stumble to the last place Buffalo Sabers.
Speaker 2: They blow it in overtime at the Garden. Celtic's nets
Speaker 2: at the Garden tonight, and it's opening day for Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball. It's Dodgers and Cubs in Tokyo. First pitch
Speaker 2: is coming up in just minutes. March Madness begins tonight
Speaker 2: with the high hopes for our brackets. The first bour
Speaker 2: on the men's college basketball sides tip off today.
Speaker 4: The first game is a showdown of two teams that
Speaker 4: folks around here likely haven't heard of, Saint Francis of
Speaker 4: Pennsylvania and Alabama State, the winner of which will face
Speaker 4: top seed at Auburn in the Southeast Region's first round,
Speaker 4: while the nightcap pits Sandy Diego State against blue blood
Speaker 4: North Carolina, a controversial pick in Thisius tournament because of
Speaker 4: the tar heels lackluster season, wreck Chris ham A WBZ Boston's.
Speaker 2: News radio, The Stadium Showdown heads to court this morning,
Speaker 2: but the judge delivers a blow already to a Boston neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I'm here at White Stadium. This is what the City
Speaker 1: of Boston and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy are going head
Speaker 1: to head over in court. This year long battle involving
Speaker 1: lawsuits and campaigns both for and against the public private
Speaker 1: partnership with a professional women's soccer team has culminated to
Speaker 1: this point.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: The latest twist in the story came Monday, when a
Speaker 1: judge rolled against the plaintiffs, dismissing one of the two
Speaker 1: major claims of a lawsuit which accused the City of
Speaker 1: Boston of violating the terms of a public charitable trust
Speaker 1: at White Stadium. James Rojas w b Z Boston's News Radios.
Speaker 2: Twenty four hours ago, at this very moment, it was
Speaker 2: pouring rain and much of the eastern side, much of
Speaker 2: Massachusetts really, and the heaviest rain was still to come.
Speaker 2: This morning, it's much different still, some clouds in the air,
Speaker 2: thirty nine degrees right now. We will see some sunshine
Speaker 2: emerging before long, and temperatures will jump into the lower fifties.
Speaker 2: It will be a breezy day today. In fact, if
Speaker 2: your travels are taking into the Cape and Islands, it's
Speaker 2: not going to get out of the forties. These are
Speaker 2: the final days of the winter season and it's really
Speaker 2: going to be above average. Temperatures for this time of year.
Speaker 2: Will be in the mid fifties again tomorrow with a
Speaker 2: mix of sun and clouds, and then on the first
Speaker 2: day of spring coming up on Thursday, it looks like
Speaker 2: it's going to rain. Temps will be in the fifties.
Speaker 2: Looks like it's going to be a little bit colder
Speaker 2: though as we head towards the weekend. Once again, on Friday,
Speaker 2: temperatures will be stuck in the forties, but we rebound
Speaker 2: nicely coming up this weekend. Right now in Boston, cloudy
Speaker 2: skies and thirty nine degrees this Tuesday morning, it's six
Speaker 2: oh five. Marine scientists can sleep a little easier these days.
Speaker 5: Experts say the endangered North Atlantic right whale population seems
Speaker 5: to be making a comeback. Officials with the Center for
Speaker 5: Coastal Studies say they've seen more right whales return to
Speaker 5: Cape Cod Bay this season than in recent memory. They've
Speaker 5: counted more than fifty new animals in a population that
Speaker 5: is believed to be numbered at fewer than four hundred worldwide.
Speaker 5: Researchers credit new shipping regulations for saving the lives of
Speaker 5: right whales. This after the Center spotted the first right
Speaker 5: whale of the season off the coast of Massachusetts. Earlier
Speaker 5: this month, thirty one year old Nauset and her calf, Jaywill,
Speaker 5: led WBZ, Boston's news radio. The EPA is cutting ties
Speaker 5: with its largest division. More than one thousand scientists with
Speaker 5: the Office of Research and Development will be laid off.
Speaker 5: It is the latest target in a government wide reduction
Speaker 5: in force campaign. EPA chief Lee Zelden says he plans
Speaker 5: to cut the entire agency's budget by sixty five percent,
Speaker 5: and this elimination will wipe out most chemists, biologists, and others.
Speaker 5: Critics say this will leave the nation short on air
Speaker 5: quality monitoring, the cleanup of toxic sites, and leave US
Speaker 5: short unclean water sources.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: Today's day, President Trump and Russias Vladimir Putin aren't expected
Speaker 2: to talk on the phone in hopes of coming to
Speaker 2: a consensus on a cease fire agreement in Ukraine. Ukrainian
Speaker 2: President Vladimir Zelensky has already agreed to the terms issued
Speaker 2: by the United States. It is not clear specifically what
Speaker 2: the President has on his mind today, but it is
Speaker 2: believed that a territory exchange will be a key part
Speaker 2: of any agreement. Skeptics, including Zelensky, say Putin's demands might
Speaker 2: make it next to impossible to achieve a real and
Speaker 2: lasting cease fire meantime. A new NBC News poll finds
Speaker 2: most Americans favor Ukraine over Russia, but almost half of
Speaker 2: those surveyed say President Trump sides with Vladimir Putin. No
Speaker 2: more Secret Service protection for former President Joe Biden's adult children.
Speaker 2: President Trump cuts off the detail effective immediately for Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden and his sister Ashley, cutting short mister Biden's executive
Speaker 2: order by three months. It is customary for close relatives
Speaker 2: of the outgoing first family to receive Secret Service protection
Speaker 2: for a limited time after leaving office. Former presidents and
Speaker 2: First ladies receive lifetime protection. Well Grammy Award winning singer
Speaker 2: Ed Sharon's secret is out of the bag and what
Speaker 2: Night in a Boston, Irish pub. Wbz's Drew Mulholland is here.
Speaker 2: Have you recovered yet.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm doing well. Good to see you.
Speaker 2: Good to be seen.
Speaker 7: It is first at Shecheron Post, I'll see you at
Speaker 7: the pub, and then last night he does a pop
Speaker 7: up show at the dub Leinner. How about that For
Speaker 7: a surprise.
Speaker 6: He performed a few of his favorites right in the
Speaker 6: heart of Boston, wearing a Celtics jersey, and Sheeron had
Speaker 6: the place rock in as a huge crowd tried to
Speaker 6: catch a glimpse through the window outside before he left.
Speaker 7: Jeff, you like this, Ed Sheeran buys around for everybody. Well,
Speaker 7: there's a surprise. That's the surprise right there. Drinks on me.
Speaker 2: Well worth the trip.
Speaker 7: Indeed, what a nice I know.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. You are now in the loop For news updates
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