This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Lots of sun in Boston right now, It's sixty six degrees, it is four o'clock. You've made it to Friday. Good to be with you. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Marathon Monday just a few days away. We now have a better idea of what city, state, and federal agencies are doing to keep both the runners and the spectators safe. Law enforcement will be deployed along the marathon route. As we hear from CBS News Boston's Penny Commit.
Law enforcement officials across the state have been working for months not only to meet the moment, but to raise the bar on public safety and security.
We have worked to prepare for every possible scenario.
The FBI is not aware have any specific or credible threats targeting these events.
Well, you'll see hundreds of police officers, state troopers, and EMS personnel along the twenty six point two mile route. Officials say even more, we'll be working behind the scenes, including at the MEMA headquarters in Framingham and the FBI Boston's Joint Intelligence Center in Chelsea.
Now keep this in mind, if you have to get around on Marathon Monday, specifically in the morning. All the roads along the marathon route are closing at five o'clock in the morning. Public transit, of course the best way to go. But if you are driving, stay with us on Marathon Monday. We've got all the info you need in traffic and weather together on the threes Now police are not just getting ready for the marathon, they're also
getting ready for a big birthday party. This weekend is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the start of the American Revolution. All those years ago. It happened right in our backyard, the first shots fired in Lexington and conquered Now. Officials say they're not expecting any high ranking officials like the President to show up, but they've got plenty of fun activities that are planned and ready to go, Lots of history buffs already making their way to the
Metro West again, Public transit highly encouraged. The MBTA says it's running extra service on the commuter rail to get you there for a one at Boston. Federal judge throwing another wrench into the Trump administration's plans to deport migrants to countries like El Salvador.
District Judge Brian Murphy on Friday issued an injunction that bars the Trump administration from deporting any non citizen to a country not explicitly mentioned in their order of removal without first allowing them the chance to raise concerns about their safety. He said the order prevents the irreparable harm of non citizens being sent to countries where they might feed his persecution, torture, or death. Peter Harlambus ABC News.
And Mehmet Oz is officially now the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
I Memet Oz do solemnly swear you may know him as the TV personality doctor Oz, but now he's taking the helm of the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, and he has big plans.
The guy that we're going to make the care better, We're going to make it the outcomes improve, and we're going to make sure that America can actually be the healthiest country that could ever possibly be.
He pledges to do that by modernizing the system and cutting waste, fraud and abuse.
We are going to stop people from steel, prom our most vulnerable from stealing with the taxpayers.
Lindy Canyon, CBS News, the White House.
For the rest of the night, we will have some breezy conditions out there. It'll be cloudy and mild, maybe a couple of early showers. If you're north of Boston, we are having loads tonight in the low to mid fifties. For Tomorrow, it's going to be such a warm day. If you're away from the coast. We have a high year eighty with a mix of sun and clouds to start.
A couple of showers around during the evening hours, but again, what a warm day if you're in southeastern Massachusetts, though, we're not really getting out of the upper fifties to near sixty with that onshore breeze. For Tomorrow night, partly cloudy and breezy, low near fifty Easter Sunday for your sunrise service, again we'll be in the fifties, but we should have nice, calm conditions, breezy and cooler for the rest.
Of the day.
For the egg rolls, we've got a high year sixty and then Marathon Monday, cool with clouds and sunshine, a mix there, a high near fifty five, occasional rain and drizzle later in the day right now, our temperatures where it's sixty seven degrees in Orange sixty eight right now if you make your way to nash when New Hampshire south of Boston, where at sixty seven in Brockton, and in Boston at four oh six, it is partly cloudy
and right now where it's sixty seven. Runners from around the world are arriving in Boston for the Boston Marathon on Monday, and wbz's Carl Stevens wants to know why Boston.
Burnell Antsy from Saskatchewan has run marathons in Chicago and New York, but she says there's nothing like Boston.
Boston has my heart.
Boston absolutely has my heart. This is her fifth time running Boston. It's like a springtime home away from home.
Boston is very welcoming.
We love it being here. We feel very much kind of at home.
It's like a slightly bigger version of our city in Saskatoon.
Runners from all over have come to Boston. They'll ride the momentum wave of support from crowds along the route and take in the feel of the historic race in a historic place.
The community, the excitement, the culture is.
Like none other. From Copley Square Carl Stevens w Z Boston's News Radio.
The federal judge says the Trump administration cannot fire hundreds of employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Judge Amy Burman Jackson said she's worried that authorities are not complying with an earlier order that maintains the agency's existence until she rules on the merits of another suit trying to preserve it. About fifteen hundred employees around the chopping block. That would leave about two hundred left at the agency.
Her order band's officials from carrying out any mass firings are cutting off access to computer systems until a hearing on the twenty eighth, and Celtics fans are gearing up for the team's campaign for Banner nineteen.
The defending NBA champs back on the Parque on Sunday. Playoff energy returns after it seems like the regular season's success was on cruise control.
I think they've been awesome. Yeah, no, it's cool.
You know, Billy and Derek will be watching this Sunday.
Seems like a good vibe in the city.
It's too bad about the Bruins.
I'm bummed about that Derek says he's switching up that Bruins hat for the Shamrock beginning on Sunday afternoon, when fans will pour onto Causeways for Game one against the Magic.
Oh wow, Yeah, that'll be Bitney down here.
Other than some minor knee pain for Jalen Brown, which has been improving, the roster will be ready to roll, and so well fans. As the hype train rolls into North Station outside the Garden, Jim McKay WVZ, Boston's News Radio, You.
Are now in malup for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, wb Z and Boston's News Radio.