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News forty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. It's been a bad day for air travel in London, though it is expected to get better. Electrical substation exploded and caught fire, knocking out power to the airport.
Police do not believe foul play was involved.
Emma Fulton was at the airport. She had to reschedule.
We had to go to the Air India desk, which was a bit chaotic.
We got there, they changed the flight for four days time.
On the twenty fourth, at seven o'clock in the morning, one flight left Charlotte, North Carolina for London.
We are headed back to Charlotte.
Let me tell you what's going on.
The pilot explained the situation.
The wrong ways have lights, but there's no power in all the terminals and they are not accepting flights into fundon Heathrow.
I met Donahue and we've had one plane to reland at Heathrower. Trying to get some flights in there today and hope to return to a full schedule tomorrow. The first of the flights expected to bring stranded passengers back from other airports in Europe and get airplanes back in the right place. President Trump announces a sixth generation US fighter jet manufactured by Boeing.
President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseath announced the new fighter jet, the F forty seven, that will replace the Air Force's F twenty two Raptor.
It'll be known as the F forty seven.
The General's picked a title, and it's a beautiful number.
F forty seven.
President Trump is the forty fifth and now forty seventh US President. Secretary Hegseeth called this a big day for the US military and the world, saying the new fighter jet would give the US generations of air dominance. Karen Travers, ABC News The White House.
Boston, Ayora Michell WIO announcing an initiative to prevent residents and small businesses from being displaced. A Place to Thrive is the first program of its kind in Boston lays out a two year plan to help stabilize those who are facing economic displacement. It includes helping multiple low and moderate income households purchase their own home, supporting student and employer sponsored workforce housing, and providing those facing displacement with
a relocation plan. The mayor says Boston must keep its residents, small businesses, and cultural spaces rooted in our neighborhoods. Another day to day of probable cause hearings for more than two dozen men who allegedly frequented brothels run out of high end Boston area apartments.
Formerly a sex worker, now an attorney who advocates for survivors, Stacy Lee barn stains and the buffeting wins outside of the courthouse to send a message to the alleged patrons of the sex rank. But none of those men personally stood before the magistrate, and that does not sit well with Barns. We get arrested, our names get thrown in a newspaper.
Sometimes they take our pictues and we'll just put on blasts all over the place.
We exploit, if you will.
And these guys were able to side step.
All of that.
So some of the defendants fought to keep their identities private, a battle that went all the way to the state's High Court, where it lost. Some of those identities, authorities have said include powerful executives, government contractors with security clearances, and politicians. Each of those defendants will show up personally for their arraignment. Cambridge District Court Clerk Share and Casey has said one way or another from Cambridge Kettlebill, will you're busy? Boston's news radio.
Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner is facing a charge for allegedly being one of the clients. Some sunshine breaking out even as close by as right near Boston. We did have clouds hanging in near the coast, and we'll get some clouds to hang in, probably over the Cape Island longer than anyone else, and maybe a shower or two as we head into the evening. Otherwise you'll start to see the clearing skies if you haven't already, and later tonight will feel a chill in the air, temperatures in
the thirties. The winds that we've had today, the really gusty ones, those will die back a little bit, but still breezy and real feels overnight tonight and probably closer to twenty in some of the coldest spots periods of sun and clouds Tomorrow, still breezy but mild as we get into the low sixties, and some of the warmest spots probably upper fifties, downtown, lower fifties over the Capean Islands. Partly cloudy, breezy tomorrow and night lows in the twenties.
And then on Sunday, it'll be a breezy day. There'll be lots of sunshine, but it will be cooler despite the sun. Forty three to forty seven. Monday, we're in the mid forties. A little bit of rain comes in and we may get in on a little bit of snow mixing with that rain for a time north and west of the city. Right now we're at forty two degrees in Boston. Well, now that springs here in New England,
allergy season isn't far behind. Wdbz's Nicole Davis spoke with an expert to learn more about what we can expect.
Spring has indeed derived on the calendar, but the cold weather's not quite through with us yet. At You Weather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter says, because of that, we're not going to see the full onslaught of pollend for a little longer, but when we do, it will hit hard.
We could be dealing with a period of time, especially later in May and June, that people who are specially susceptible to tree pollend dealing with some challenging situations as all the trees bloom out sort of at once during that time period.
He says, here in Massachusetts, we are an average level of tree pollen this year. As we get into the summer, though, you'll notice a lot of grass pollen more than usual because we have a forecast that is wetter and warmer than normal.
And then the ragweed season, which is during the late part of the summer, typically early August in the Boston area, we're expecting about average intensity.
Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's News.
Radio planning to do the moving thing.
I like the moved moved, You like the Boston's ramping up to the great move in for now, there's plenty on the market.
Wbz's Emma Friedman's getting some insider information you here.
September first two renters like a bus and the lead up isn't always pretty with people battling it out for the best place and the best deal. But that's why it's good to have a guy with the data on.
Every data chart across every national portal or local portal. You'll see April is when you get a ton of availability. So it's coming right now and we'll see a lot of that in the next three weeks.
Dimitrio Selpaglo is the CEO of Boston Pats and he's pulling up the real time data from two hundred and sixteen thousand apartments and so.
You can wait, but you might miss the best apartment. By the same token, if you get into August, you might find a great deal, but it might not be the perfect apartment that you want.
He also says having a good, strong group gives you a boost when it comes to negotiations. In Austin Ma Friedman WBZ Boston's news Radio.
A handful of New England bridges or on the list of nearly seventy spans that the NTSB says will be
evaluated for a risk of collapse. Both the upper and lower parts of the Tobyn Bridge, along with the Born and Sagamore Bridges, are slated for what are called vulnerability assessment to determine their risk of collapse should they be involved in a vessel collision like the one that hit Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, a memorial bridge in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island's Clayborne pell Newport Bridge are
also on the list. The NTSB notes that the recommendation doesn't suggest the bridges are certain to collapse, but rather bridge owners should evaluate whether the bridges are above the official acceptable level of risk. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio