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News, mostly sunny in sixty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Suzanne Sausville. Thanks for joining us. Here's what's happening. Former First Lady of Massachusetts, Kitty Ducaucus has died. She was eighty eight years old. Wbz's Emma Friedman has more.
Kitty Ducaucus was born in Cambridge in nineteen thirty six. After marrying her husband, former Massachusetts Governor Michael Ducaucus in nineteen sixty three, she was pushed into the spotlight, and she stood by her husband when he became the Democratic nominee for president in nineteen eighty eight.
My husband is on the side of women, children, and working families of this great nation.
On the campaign trail, she spoke at the former governor's campaign rally in San Francisco.
Women in our country will finally we have equal rights and equal pay and equal opportune today.
As the First Lady of Massachusetts, she promoted gender advances in local government and advocated for mental health, immigrants and refugees. She was proud of her Jewish heritage and served on the US Holocaust Memorial Council. In two thousand and seven, the Kitty Doucaucus Treatment Center for Women was established to honor her work. I'm a freedman. W b Z, Boston's news radio.
Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft settled into Boston. Today. Wbz's Mike Maclin explains.
Josh Kraft called for fiscal accountability at city Hall, something he says is missing in the administration of incumbent Mayor Michelle Woom.
And with your help, we will reinstitute fiscal discipline to city Hall, to the city budget to be more responsible for your hard earned tax dollars.
Speaking to supporters that has newly opened campaign headquarters at Roxbury's Nubian Square, Kraft promised he'd cut spending before raising residential property taxes.
We have to look at our own backyard n find money in the budget, which is there four point six billion dollar budget, or you can cut this administration says there's not a penny to cut. I find that hard to believe.
Prahft's first priority gathering the necessary signatures to get his name on the ballot in Roxbury. Mike mclum WBZ Boston's news radio.
The New Hampshire Attorney General's office settles a lawsuit over alleged abuse at the state's youth detention center. Michael Gilpatrick accused ten staffers at the center in Manchester of sexual and physical abuse between nineteen ninety seven and two thousand, including repeated rapes. Four of those staffers have faced criminal charges, with one of them convicted last year. More than thirteen hundred former residents of the detention center have filed lawsuits
alleging some form of abuse. Gilpatrick's have been the second to go to trial, but instead the case was settled for ten million dollars. Jurors awarded thirty eight million dollars to the plaintiff in another case last May, though the verdict remains in dispute. The forecast a shower in spots early tonight, then becoming clear, windy and cool, with a
low of twenty nine. Mostly sunny Tomorrow, but cool and windy again, with highs just in the mid forties On Monday, cloudy with periods of rain, perhaps mixed with snow for a time to the north and west of the city, highs in the mid forties. On Tuesday, a mix of sun and clouds and breezy again, with a high of fifty three. Right now in Boston we have mostly sunny skies and sixty two degrees. Several Tesla facilities have been
targeted by acts of vandalism in recent weeks. ABC's Morgan Norwood has more all of.
It, adding to Tesla's troubles, shares plunging nearly forty percent this year, a major cyber truck recalled just this week, and a growing movement of activists, including a group calling itself Tesla Takedown Well. They're now planning nationwide demonstrations at showrooms next week. The bottom line, Tesla under pressure in the streets and in the markets.
One of those Tesla takedown protests happened today in Boston at the Tesla showroom on Boylston Street. Demonstrators are calling on people to sell their Tesla's, dump their stock, and join the picket lines against Elon Musk. American auto dealers are facing uncertainty of mid President Trump's trade wars. A twenty five percent tariff on imported cars and parts is set to take effect on April second. CBS's Carter Evans
with more even after twenty years selling cars. General manager Brandon Wishingrad can't find a way to predict how tariffs would impact prices at his family's niece On dealership. If a customer comes in now and says, how long are the prices.
Going to be steady on these cars? What would you tell them? It's tough to say. We know just as much as anybody else does. The one thing he can do is keep inventory. He stopped up for three months, so all of the cars on this lot right now are safe from tariffs. Yes, that's correct.
President Trump's reciprocal tariffs are also expected to go into effect on April second. NASA is looking for high school students to help with astronaut meal planning.
Culinary class students from ten high schools will visit the Johnson Space Center in Houston next month to present meals they prepared for astronauts in outer space. Among the finalists Marilynd's North Point High School, where students had to meet strict requirements. Class instructor chef Christopher Willis flow sodium, hardly any sugar because of the nutritional guidelines that NASA had
to approve. Culinary student for Tria oddly mentions her entry healthat while student Mia Johnson is offering outer space Enchilatties.
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Stephan Kauffman, CBS News.
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