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It's thirty eight degrees and feeling more like twenty in Boston at four o'clock, good Saturday afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers, and it's a mid April wintry mess out there. We are drying out now somewhat, but some of us are dealing with more than half a foot of snow Wooster seeing eight inches seven inches of snow in Fitchburg, in and around Boston. It's just been a slushy coating and it will stay nasty out there this weekend. Stay tuned
for the four day forecast. Breaking her silence in a new court filing, a tought doctoral student says she feared for her life and believed she was being abducted. She was arrested by plainclothes ICE agents last month in Summerville. A new court hearing has been set as the federal government accuses her of supporting terrorists and looks to deport her. Here's the I'm a freedman.
Vermont District Court Judge William Sessions will hear oral arguments regarding Romesa os Turk's case on Monday in Burlington, OZ Turk's attorneys have asked the judge to make sure Vermont District Court is the right place to hear the case. The legal team also asking that Judge Sessions order her immediate release from the Ice attention facility she's been at in Louisiana since late March. The thirty year old doctoral student from Turkey's visa was taken away after she was
accused of publicly expressing support for Palestine. A federal judge in Boston moved the case to Vermont, where os Turk was held briefly before being moved to Louisiana. She made national news after massed federal agents and plane clothes stopped her near her home in Somerville and arrested her. I'm a freedman, w BZ, Boston's news radio.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and nineteen other state ags are pushing a judge to block the president's so called ideological deportation policy targeting college students. The ags filed a brief supporting a lawsuit from the American Association of University Professors. They're accusing the Trump administration of violating students' First Amendment
rights and causing irreparable harm to schools. The Trump administration argues it's removing non citizens deemed threat to national security. Some relief for big tech companies and consumers, The Trump administration says its reciprocal tariffs will not apply to phones, computers, and other electronics. CBS Tech contributor Ian Sure says the move isn't just about saving consumers cash.
This also underscores the power that many tech companies have in politics. A lot of tech's biggest names were there during Trump's second inauguration in January and have since tried to cozy up with the White House, likely in part to prepare for moments like this. The question now for a lot of other people is that, just like the terrifyights of the last Trump administration, what other exemptions are going to come through and how much of this is truly bluster versus reality? Ian Sure CBS News.
And as of today, China has increased its tariffs on American goods to one hundred and twenty five percent, and the messy weather will continue this weekend. Tonight, tempts will be holding nearly steady in the thirties, will have occasional rain and a brisk wind. Then tomorrow largely the same rain on and off, drizzlin' spots. It's up to forty seven degrees on Sunday. You could see some rain into
early tomorrow night. Otherwise a clearing sky and a excuse me, a low around forty three degrees, A lot nicer on Monday, just in time to go back to work. It's up to sixty three degrees with some sunshine again, low sixties on Tuesday, but we will see more clouds building with a shower two in spots, and we do have a little bit of rain, most of it just south of Boston end up in southern New Hampshire. Looks like a
wintry mix in some spots here in Boston. Right now we have a bit of scattered drizzle and wind gus sneering thirty miles an hour, thirty eight degrees and feeling like the low twenties. At four oh six Manchester, New Hampshire, officials are setting up new TB testing clinics. People at two homeless facilities may have been exposed. Here's wbz's Sherry Small.
New Hampshire health officials say a person with tuberculosis recently spent time at two Manchester locations the Families in Transition Adult Homeless Shelter and the twelve sixty nine Cafe Homeless Outreach Center. Anyone who visited either location between October first of last year and January thirty first of this year could have come in contact with the infected person and should get tested. The new free testing clinics are being held at the twelve sixty nine Cafe on Union Street
on Tuesday, April fifteenth and Wednesday, April sixteenth. So far, more than one hundred people have already been tested. Of those, they found five who were diagnosed with Layton tuberculosis infection, meaning they're not sick but could develop the disease later in life. Tuberculosis is a serious illness that can cause major issues with the lungs. Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Four days left to get those tax returns done, and as procrastinators may be scrambling, scammers or at their peak, tax season is a gold mine for cyber criminals.
That's Sam Ruben with cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks. Fishing and text based attacks are the most popular with cyber criminals telling taxpayers they owe.
Money or are due to credit as well as calls.
The attackers are reaching out to potential victims and trying to entice them to share information or otherwise get a return filed in a way that's going to lead to theft of information or money. Ruben urges consumers to use a virtual private network when online, be alert, and if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Brad Gibson for CBS News.
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