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Forty five degrees sun and clouds in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Kyle Bray and here's what's happening. We start this hour with news out of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE just got a new director and he's the same man who used to lead the Boston Field office. Wbzs Suzanne Sosville reports.
Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Noam announced Sunday that Todd Lyons is now the acting director of ICE. He'll lead President Trump's nationwide efforts to round up people who are in the US illegally and deport them. Noome also announced that her former aide, Madison Shean, will serve as the agency's deputy director, adding more people to the team.
With Todd and with Madison, is going to allow us to partner with local law enforcement officials to make sure that we truly are following through on enforcing the.
Law, she says. Lyons and she and are workhorses and strong leaders who will quote lead ICE in achieving the American people's mandate to target, arrest and to port illegal aliens. Suzanne Saulsville, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
This just into the WBZ newsroom. The Air Force intercepts a civilian aircraft flying in temporarily restricted airspace near the President's home in Florida. Defense officials say President Trump was finishing a round of golf at the time of the incidents. The Air Force jets used flares to get the civilian pilot's attention. Norad says these types of incidents are relatively common, but they've become more frequent since the president took office
in January. Something similar happened yesterday. This comes just hours after the Secret Service shot a man near the White House overnight. The AP's Donna Warder has the details.
Authority say an armed man near the White House was shot and wounded by Secret Service agents in an early Sunday confrontation. Secret Service agents received a report from local police about a suicidal individual who was traveling from Indiana and found the man's car in a person matching his description nearby. The Secret Service says the man pulled out a weapon as officers approached, and they shot him. The man is in the hospital and his condition is unknown.
President Donald Trump has been in Florida over the weekend Donald Warder Washington.
Meantime, President Trump is calling for Republican lawmakers to unite behind House Speaker Mike Johnson's new short term spending bill is a possible government shutdown looms. ABC's Alex Preschet has more.
Speaker Johnson can likely only afford to lose one Republican vote in Already two have said that there are no Democrats call the bill reckless and troublesome, and could use this moment to challenge the Doge cuts to the federal government.
The bill would fund the government through the end of September. Congress has until Friday to avoid a shutdown. Time now for the four to a wbz ACU weather forecast are Now We're seeing plenty of clowns and the sun starting to peak out through those clowns. We've hit our high for the day of forty five degrees. Tonight we'll see some clowns. We'll have a low of thirty four.
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Tomorrow is to start the work week. It will be turning milder with early clouds giving way to plenty of sunshine. We'll have hive around fifty one. Tomorrow night will be mainly clear low of thirty five. It's getting an even warmer as we continue into the week, almost feeling like spring at times. On Tuesday, it will be breezy, but it will be even milder with sun for most of
the day. We'll have highs between fifty five and fifty eight on Wednesday and will be a bit cooler with more clouds around to start the day, but we'll have a nice sunny afternoon, even though it will feel a little bit colder, and I will be around forty seven today. Right now in Boston it is forty five degrees. Are you bummed out by now? The Bruins season is going well. If you still want a good dose of the good old hockey game, the Hockey East Men's Tournament is about
to get underway. Wbz's Jared Brosnan takes a look at the field.
The entire Hockey's tournament takes about a week and a half, but action begins this Wednesday for the opening round. Those matchups include the University of Vermont Catamounts versus the U mass Amherst Minutemen, the University of New Hampshire Wildcats versus the Riverhawks of UMass Low, and then the Northeastern Huskies
take on the Merrimack Warriors. Once that's wrapped up, the winners will reseed and face off against top seeded Boston College, second seed University of Maine or Boston University in the third spot. Yukon and Providence also getting a buye for finishing fourth and fifth, respectively. Yukon has home ice for their quarterfinal matchup on Friday, and after the quarterfinals it's off to the garden for the rest of the tournament. Thursday, March twentieth is the semis, then the championship game is
set for Friday, the twenty first. Jere Brosnan WBZ Boston Snows Radio.
In the women's tournament, Boston University beat Northeastern to win the Hockey East Championship. How are you feeling after losing an hour of sleep last night? Well, if you think daylight saving time can be hard on us, it can be even harder for dogs. Tammy Trihuillo explains.
It can cause some house bets to wonder why their feeding schedule seems different at first. That can also have a more significant effect on working dogs. Researchers at the University of Toronto looked at how daylight saving time affected sled dogs. They found that the time switch led to an increase in activity before their handlers arrived, but the dogs got back to normal after one or two days. I'm Tammy Triheo.
Police are looking for answers after a teen was killed in a double stabbing in Chelsea last night. This all happened around eight forty five on Eastern Avenue, Chelsea, and State Police responded to the scene and found a seventeen and a fifteen year old boy with stab wounds. The seventeen year old died of his injuries. Police say this all started after a fight broke out and on nearby Spencer Avenue. So far, no arrests have been made. Anyone with information is asked to reach out to State Police.
Later this week, we'll get the chance to get a glimpse of a total lunar eclipse. Wbz's Sherry Small tells us about it.
There will be a spectacle in the sky to see on Thursday and Friday, March thirteenth and fourteenth, a total lunar eclipse that will flush the moon a reddish orange color, been called a blood moon. A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth is positioned exactly between the Moon and the Sun. The Earth blocks all direct sunlight from lighting up the Moon's surface. The eclipse is happening Thursday night into Friday morning,
lasting a few hours. The blood moon portion will only be visible for about an hour, starting at two twenty six am Friday morning. Peak viewing will be close to three am. Now, unlike a solar eclipse, you don't need any special glasses to view a lunary eclipse. It's safe to see it with the naked eye, so just look up and if you have binoculars or a telescope, even better. Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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