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Thirty nine degrees feels like twenty four in Boston at four o'clock, I'm Kyle Bray and here's what's happening. Thousands gathered on the Common this afternoon to march in honor of International Women's Day. WBZ Suzanne Sasville was there.
On the Next Revolution.
Thousands of men and women of all ages come out to protest the Trump administration. One sign reads to port Musk removed Trump. Trish is from Marshfield.
I feel like we all have to stand up and show our faces and get loud and get busy and organize against this regime that's taken over our government.
Eighty five year old Betty Slade rented a bus to bring forty people from the Cape, including her ninety six year old husband.
We're amazed that we have to fight again and again for.
Civil rights, women's rights, human rights, decency and compassion. But we do, don't we We do?
With flags, banners and signs, they marched through the Common to the prew and onto Boylston Street before heading back to the Common. Suzanne Sasville, WBZ Boston's News radio.
Turning the tariff tables, President Trump is now threatening to impose more tariffs on Canada, not long after pausing some of them. CBS's Nicole Killian explains.
He turned up the tough talk on Canada, vowing to slap reciprocal tariffs on the US's northern neighbor by early next week on lumber and dairy products.
Canada has been ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber and for dairy products two and fifty percent, which has taking.
Advantage of our farmers.
They'll be met with the exact same tariff unless they this week.
President Trump also paused certain tariffs against Mexico until next month. With lash for workers at USAID after being fired and then rehired, some of them have been let go once again. CBS's Jennifer Kuiper has more.
Two sources tell CBS News that USAID is reissuing termination notices for probationary workers, essentially refiring them. Probationary workers at USAID initially received termination notices on February twenty fourth from an email address which was not an official USAID HR affiliated email address, but, according to two sources, an email address created by DOGE. Two sources tell CBS News that HR staff were vocal that they were completely uninvolved with
the initial terminations and reduction enforces. Jennifer Kuiper, CBS News.
Meanwhile, Governor Heally launches a website to help tens of thousands of federal workers that DOGE fired. The site promotes new job opportunities and training resources right here in Massachusetts. It's time now for the four day WBZAC weather forecast. There's a wind advisory in effect tonight until ten o'clock. We're the risk of wildfires will be will be decreasing throughout this evening. Now Todight it will be mainly clear, will be brisk and cold. We'll have lows between twenty
four and twenty eight degrees. Tomorrow will be partly sunny with a chili breeze. We'll have highs near forty five. Tomorrow night will have some clouds and will be a low of around thirty four. Now on Monday, as we headed to the work week, we'll be turning milder with some clouds early giving away for plenty of sunshine. We'll have a hive around fifty one, and then on Tuesday will be even milder with sun for much of the day, we'll start to get highest up close to sixty. They'll
be between fifty five and fifty eight. Right now in Boston it is thirty eight degrees with a real feel of thirty five. South Boston is getting ready for its annual Saint Patrick's Date parade. Wbz's Mike Macklin.
Reports Irish music set the mood in the Curly Community Center in South Boston, as the neighborhood's Irish community got an early start on the same Patrick's Day festivities. Congressman Stephen Lynch introducing Mayor Michelle wou just back from Washington, where she was grilled by a congressional committee about the city's reputation as a sanctuary city for migrants. It was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful to have her down there to defend the city of Boston and the welcoming city that we are.
I was there defending immigrants, but also Boston, and I told them when I would come home and we would have a full month celebrating Boston's Irish American heritage and our city being a home for generations and generations of people who believed that.
This is where they could build a better life South Boston. Looking forward to March seventeenth and the upcoming Saint Patrick's Day parade in South Boston. Mike Maclin WBZ Boston's News Radio.
A middle school teacher in Needham is on administrative leave as he faces several serious charges. CBS News Boston's Tammy Mutasa has the details.
Seventeen years Michael Chickalela was a trusted educator working with children and Needham Public schools, but now the High Rock Middle School teacher is charged with uploading at least one hundred and sixty eight images and videos showing young boys being sexually abused. The victims we're as young as three years old to twelve explode.
You don't think he did it.
I'm gonna leave that.
Up to the court.
That's the teacher's nineteen year old son outside court, after being asked about his dad's arrest.
Wasn't anything too crazy.
I usually can keep myself composed, So doesn't see that. Did your father ever abuse you?
No, sir, prosecutors say. The forty six year old soccer coach even posed as a thirteen year old using an online messaging app to cat kids up. Investigators had been looking into the teacher since last August.
In a statement, Needham Public School says they've removed his access to buildings, grounds and digital files. Boston based Wayfair lays off hundreds of employees, half of which are in Massachusetts. The layoffs include three hundred and forty people from its technology division. The company says it's working to move its platform to the cloud, which means they need to change their tech. Wayfair is also shuttering its technology development center
in Austin, Texas. This is the latest round of masked layoffs to impact the company. Last year, Wayfair laid off around thirteen percent of its global workforce. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Kyle Bray, WBZ, Boston's news radio