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One degrees in Boston at four o'clock good Saturday afternoon on Madison Rogers. We've seen dueling protests on Boston Common this afternoon after an anti abortion crowd took to the streets. Several arrests have been made. The men's march started late this morning outside Boston's Planned Parenthood in Alston, before making
the three mile journey to the Common. Police and riot gear we'reund in forced clearing the way for that march and clashing with pro abortion counter demonstrators, some of them in clown costumes. Police tell us a number of people were taken into custody around Kenmore Square. We are expecting to learn more details from BPD soon. Keep it right here on WBZ News Radio for the latest, and stream us on the iHeartRadio app. It's another weekend on the
picket lines for teachers in Beverly, Gloucester and Marblehead. In Gloucester, tensions seem to boil over, as WBZTV's Beth dromanas.
Shameful, it really is shameful. Gloucester High School social worker Dan Graham saying the Tension between teachers and the city could not be higher, and got higher still when video captured Mayor Greg Virga making an obscene gesture to a chanting crowd as he left contract negotiations Thursday night.
I'm a little shocked. I've been teaching in the school for thirty one years, half of my life, and we deserve better.
We tried to speak with the mayor ourselves, but he sent out a video message of regret at what happened, saying it was frustration directed at a former public safety official he says hurled an insult.
He also says that his family feels threatened, sharing a video of crowds protesting outside his home. And we are watching closely for any developments in those contract talks. As President Electromp builds his cabinet, there's some growing scrutiny around the choice of now former Congressman Matt Gates for Attorney General. It is unclear right now whether the House Ethics investigation into sexual misconduct and drug allegations we'll ever see the light of day.
Growing number of Republican Senators making it clear they want to see the House Ethics Committee report into Trump's pick for attorney General Matt Gates, sources telling us the committee was preparing to vote to release that report as early as this week, but then Gates resigned from Congress after
being nominated by Trump, abruptly ending their investigation. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday, after spending the night at Bar Logo with President elect Trump, arguing, now the report should be shell.
That's ABC's Mary Alice Parks. The DOJ ended its own probe without charging Gates last year. In Maine, Democratic US Congressman Jared Golden will keep his seat. The razor thin race was finally called last night after a rank choice run off. Golden has been facing a challenge from Republican Austin Terrio. The Ape s has Golden won by just a tenth of a percent around seven hundred votes. Terrio's
campaign says they'll try for a recount. There are now just a handful of undecided seats in the House, and looking at the four day wbz ACU weather forecast, it stays fairly nice out there this weekend, though the risk for fires continues. Mainly clear tonight low forty two and brisk. Tomorrow, we're up near sixty with sun and clouds, it's breezy. Then Monday, a mix of sun and clouds. It's again mild and breezy, with a higher round fifty nine, mid
fifties and mostly sunny. On Tuesday, it's a mostly clear sky right now over Boston, sixty one with the wind out there making it feel like the mid upper fifties and a red flag warning in effect until six. I'm in dangerously dry conditions across much of the state. We do have an update on the brush fire situation. Mass DFS is listing more than a dozen significant active fires.
Two of them are still less than fifty percent contained, the Blaze and Boxford State Forest that's burned over one hundred acres, and in the Lynn Woods, where more than four hundred acres have been torched meantime. Northwest of New York City, there's concern that a wildfire that's torched of acres could grow again.
Dry, windy and warming conditions this weekend could complicate efforts to bring a deadly wildfire burning across the New Jersey New York border under control. The Jennings Creek fire has scorched more than seven square miles. It's about ninety percent contained.
CBS's Dana Jacobson. There from southern Delaware up to Vermont and New Hampshire, that red flag of warning is again in effect. A ceremony in the Boston Harbor today commissions a new naval warship. Wbz's Mike Macklin has the story.
It was a day of Navy pride in Charlestown, as the shipyard that is home to the Navy's oldest commissioned warship, the USS Constitution, host to the commissioning of the Navy's newest warship, the USS Nantucket.
As we add the Nantucket to our roster, we are giving our Navy new agility and reach essential for supporting our interests in a world where competition and uncertainty are the norm.
Vice Admiral Michael Boyle called the Nantucket a fast, flexible, capable vessel of a twenty first century Navy. Boston Mayor Michelle Wou told the ship's crew they carry on a proud legacy, the.
Charge to uphold and protect the highest aspirations of our values, to deter aggression, maintain freedom, and help us shape.
A world where peace is what we deserve.
The Nantucket will be based at the Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville, Florida. Mike Macklin, WBZ Boston's News Radio Wooster.
Families are reacting after a fight at Burncote High School yesterday sent one girl to the hospital. The district sent a message to families expressing disappointment that instead of calling for help, some students apparently recorded the fight on their cell phones. This is being described as a fight between two students. A girl was taken away in an ambulance. There's no update right now on her condition. The students involved in the fight will be facing discipline.
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