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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. A federal lawsuit filed in Boston fighting back against President Trump's moves to close the Department of Education. Lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Teachers, the Somerville and East Hampton Districts, and other groups, is asking a judge to block the administration's plan to
cut the agency's workforce in half. They say only Congress can close the Department for President has told Education Secretary Linda mcmahn to take any steps permittable by law to shut it down. A federal judge reviewing the Trump administration's use of wartime deportation powers has denied a request that he lifts his temporary restraining order that blocks further use of the seventeen ninety eight law on alleged Venezuelan gang members.
In this latest order, Judge James Boseburg says the president's use of the Alien Enemies Act is unprecedented outside what he calls a typical wartime context. The judge says anyone subject to the presidential proclamation needs to be given the chance to challenge the government's assertions that they're members of
Trende Arragua. This afternoon, an appeals court above Bosburg will hear arguments as the Trump administration pushes to lift the judge's temporary restraining order, which now blocks further deportations of Venezuelan's under the seventeen ninety eight law.
Not is ABC Stephen Portnoy. The President says he'll impose a twenty five percent tariff on countries that buy oil or gas from Venezuela.
President Trump writs on social media that Venezuela has been quote very hostile to the US and accused that country of purposely sending tens of thousands of criminals here. Because of that, the President says we'll put a twenty five percent tariff on all imports from any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela. This will go into effects starting April, second part of a big round of tariffs expected on that day. China could be impacted by this
move as a major buyer of crude from Venezuela. Venezuela also supplies to the US about three percent of all oil and gas brought into the country comes from Venezuela. Karen Travers, ABC NEWSLU Whitehouse.
The death toll grows in Gaza, with another hospital struck.
The IDF saying it struck Nasser Hospital, Gaza's largest hospital that's still operational, that missile strike damaging huge sections of the facility. According to an American doctor inside at the time of the strike, that I spoke to the IDF saying it targeted and killed a senior member of Hamas's political team, using the hospital as a base. Hamas saying
he was there to receive medical treatment. And now since the start of this war, the death toll topping fifty thousand people, say health officials.
The horrors in Gaza continue another ABC's Matt Rivers. Meantime, activists say one of the Palestinian co directors of the Oscar winning documentary film No Other Land was attacked by Jewish settlers and arrested this evening. Today's the first day for along awaited South Coast commuter rail service. The one point one billion dollar project to connect the region to
downtown Boston's taken decades. For the first time in sixty five years, Fall River, Freetown, Middleborough, New Bedford, and Taunton will have passenger rail service. The line begins with two branches, one in Fall River, the other in New Bedford. They link up at a new station in East Taunton. Trips will take riders about an hour and a half to get from end to end. Still in the rain and
will be for a while longer. In fact, we've got some pretty heavy rains off across parts of central Massachusetts, flowing down into parts of Rhode Island and Connecticut. It's pushing off to the north and east, so getting a little bit heavier stuff even closer to Boston. Now looks
like we've got some downpours. At least the radar is pretty hot out along the Route two corridor out toward Harvard, getting into Leminster, Fitchburg, and then back down one to ninety towards Stirling and Holden and Worcester, so there's some heavier downpours. There's also some not so heavy rain that also could impact your commute this afternoon, and this will continue to push off to the north and east and eventually get out of here, bringing just some partly cloudy
skies later to night. Temperatures, which have been mainly in the thirties and low forties, will pretty much stay there. Maybe we'll lose a couple degrees tonight, but not much. Tomorrow, we'll have some sun and clouds. It'll be breezy and milder. Temperatures get into the low fifties. We'll be in the upper forties on Wednesday, a couple of showers around, maybe even some heavier rain showers or drizzle over the Capan Islands. Partly sunny again. Thursday. Temperature is about fifty Right now,
we're forty two degrees in Boston. A kickoff to the country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary and Paul Revere's infamous ride. Wbz's Ailes Schaffel with detail.
Local sign maker and artist Billy Crosby got quite a commission to build a larger than life lantern, modeled after the ones used to warn that the Red.
Coats were on the way by sea. They said they wanted a lantern. I said, we can make you a lantern, and then they said we want a big lantern.
This thing is ten feet tall and took a month to build. With the anniversary of the ride around the corner. Crosby says he was honored to have been tapped to make this thing, which is now stationed in front of the Conquered Museum.
I wanted to do it as soon as they said it, and then we've been doing science at Cocket since nineteen seventy seven since I was a KI, so I was psyched to be involved in it.
They threw an elaborate lighting ceremony, complete with bike riders carrying a torch from the old North Church to this very spot, and they were a little late, so the MC had to.
Vent I'll be coming around the corner when they come. Eventually, though the lantern was lit.
Kyle Shaffele to be busy Boston's News radio.
Looking for a piece of land in central New Hampshire. Let's say something hilly and going downhill fast. Ragged Mountain is up for sale, The Union Leader reports. Ragged Mountain in Danbury, New Hampshire, is on the market, along with up to one thousand surrounding acres. We'll break out that old baseball glove and then throw it away where we're going. We don't need gloves.
Baseball was a much different game in the eighteen sixties.
There's no gloves.
But when the ball gets hit and it hits the ground and it bounces one time and you catch it, that's an out. And it was called bound ball, says Kevin Doyle, founder of the Fort Myers Vagabond, which just played their seventh annual vintage game not far from Thomas Edison's winter home. Organizer Lara Wilson is with the Edison and Henry Ford Winter Estates.
Thomas Edison actually threw out a pitch here.
To every year the Estates host vintage games with lemon peel balls. Would bants, no gloves, and of course those old time uniforms to play as they did one hundred and sixty years ago, no radar guns or exit velocity readings allowed. Peter King's CBS News Orlando. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WDZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBC Boston's news radio