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Sunny in eighty degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon. I'm Suzanne Saalsville. Here's what's happening. The Senate votes to move forward with President Trump's tax and spending bill after a late night session. Republican lawmakers were at a standstill for several hours, with leaders working behind the scenes to rein in a few of the holdouts. CBS's Michael Tuscano has more.
Finally, just after eleven pm Eastern time, the a's are fifty one, the na's are forty nine. Senate Majority leader John Thune was ready to move right to debate.
Aston sent the reading be dispensed with.
But Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said, not so fast.
Democrats are going to force this chamber to read it from start to finish by redesignating paragraph four as paragraph five and this, and by inserting after paragraph three the following new paragraph.
And that is what reading out loud, a nine hundred and forty page bill sounds like. Hour after hour.
Michael Toscano section seven zero five zero seven.
CBS News Washington and Today.
After voting no North Carolina Republican Tom Tillis says he will not run for re election. A two term Senator, Tillis was opposed to President Trump's budget bill because of its reductions to Medicaid. Among the proposed cuts and President Trump's budget bill or cuts to renewable energy incentives. Opposing Democrats say the cuts would put hundreds of solar projects
at schools at risk. The Globe reports Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, along with Senators Chuck Schumer and Ron Wyden, compiled the list of schools with solar installations in the works. The list includes seven solar panel projects at elementary schools in Massachusetts, including in Brookline, New Bedford, Winchester, and Westwood. Tens of thousands of Iranians gather over the weekend for a series of state funerals in the wake of Israeli and US
strikes honey Iran's nuclear program. ABC's Marcus Moore reports we.
Saw extraordinary pictures of the crowds filling the streets of Tehran on Saturday. There were morning the deaths of those top Irani and military commanders and nuclear scientists to cripple Iran's nuclear program. But there are conflicting intelligence assessments on just how much the US strikes set back Iran's nuclear program. President Trump dismissed an earlier leaked Pentagon intel report that said the program was only set back a few months.
President Trump is also dismissing the notion that Iran might have moved some of its enriched uranium before the US strikes. He appeared on Fox News this morning. Plus, we didn't give much notice because they didn't know we were coming until just you know then, And nobody thought we'd go after that site because everybody said that site is impenitraed.
Well, you can't, you know, you're.
Not going to be this way. It is at the bottom of a mountain.
Meanwhile, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has suggested that Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again in a matter of months, contradicting President Trump's claims that Iran's nuclear facilities were totally obliterated. The forecast mainly clear skies overnight, with a low of sixty seven Tomorrow, mostly sunny and warm eighty five in the city, around ninety further inland. On Tuesday, a mix of sun and clouds
and very humid. Showers and thunderstorms do return in the afternoon. We'll see a high of eighty eight on Wednesday, Partly sunny and very warm, but less humid, with a high near ninety. Right now in Boston, it's mostly sunny and seventy nine degrees. Authorities make an arrest in a deadly stabbing in Middleborough yesterday. The Plymouth County DA's office says it happened at a home on Fairview Street. The victim is said to be sixty six year olds Paul Palmer
Lou who was pronounced dead at the hospital. Officials say the suspect, Andrew Horseman, has been charged with murder. Police say the victim was in a long term relationship with Horseman's mom. With the Toronto Blue Jays playing at Fenway Park this weekend, there are quite a few people from Canada in Boston, despite the tensions between Canada and the US. Wbz's Carl Stevens spoke with some Canadian tourists at Fanuel Hall.
Harry Cudson from Nova Scotia was walking around Fannel Hall here wearing a Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap. He says he's here on a tour that he paid for before Donald Trump was elected president, creating some tension between the US and Canada. And I asked him if he'd have booked it after that all started, would have I would give.
It more thought.
Yeah, there was no question about it. We're friends, We even traveling for some time, and that the option to come up, so we decided that we would do this as another tour.
He says, they've I had a good visit and despite a few second thoughts, he sounded like he made the right decision to visit this part of America.
Well, I'm seventy four years old and I'm get a short time, right, So you ever know when next to the moral might not come.
From Fannel Hall Carl Stevens WBC Boston's news Radio.
Another day, another scam.
Boston Police say they've gotten two reports of a scam targeting local businesses. Here's how it works. A suspect calls stores posing as a delivery company. The scammer tells the manager they're lay on a payment and the only way to make right is by depositing money from the store safe into a bitcoin ATM. Police say this is a scam. How do you know? Because real delivery companies won't demand
payment via cryptocurrency. Businesses can protect themselves by telling their employees to keep an ear out for suspicious calls and to report them to the police. Jeremy Russ, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
It's an ice cream caper and Salem, New Hampshire police are searching for two mass suspects who broke into Moose Place ice cream during the overnight hours on Thursday. Police have released surveillance photos of the suspects on their social media. They're asking anyone who recognizes the pair or has any information about the incident to contact them. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen
to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Suzanne Sosville, WBZ, Boston's news radio.