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Cloudy in fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, and thanks for joining us. I'm Suzanne Salsville. Here's what's happening. We start this hour in Dorchester, where a man was shot and killed late last night. Police say officers responded to the area of Bluehill Ave and Georgia Street at around eleven and found the victims suffering from a gunshot wound. They were later pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center. The victim's name has not been identified.
Boston Police are encouraging anyone with information to contact them. In the Middle East, Israel fails to intercept a Hoofy rebel missile targeting the airport in Tel Aviv. The BBC's Mike Thompson has more.
Israel has long prided itself on its highly effective air defense systems, which have successful intercepted numerous Houthi missiles, but the failure this time has sparked alarm and will be discussed by the country's security cabinet later. The injuries were few, and the missile fire from Yemen hit the outer edge of the airport. It's now fully operational, but a number of major airlines have temporarily canceled flights.
Israeli officials vowed to respond to the attack. Meanwhile, Israel says it's calling up reservists to expand its military operation in Gaza. The BBC's Hugo Bichiga has.
More thousands of reservists have been called up. Israel says its military pressure that will lead to the release of hostages who remaining captivity, a strategy that has also included a ban on the entry of humanitarian supplies into the territory. Aid agencies say this could be a war crime, an accusation Israel rejects. For critics this is a failed policy. No captive has been freed since Israel ended the cease fire and resumed its attacks.
Amotch, a group se Gaza, is in dire need of food, water, and other supplies. A former vice president is being honored in Boston today. ABC's Dave Packer has that.
Former Vice president Mike pens and Boston to receive the twenty twenty five John F. Kennedy Profile and Courage Award for his actions. On January sixth, twenty twenty one, when a violent mob stormed the US capital. Caroline Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg will present the award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. The library says Pence was chosen for putting his life and career on the line to ensure the constitutional transfer of presidential power.
On January sixth, twenty twenty one, Dave Packer ABC News.
A local automation company announces hundreds of layoffs after a merger. The Globe reports Wilmington based Symbodic will lay off four hundred workers next month. The announcement comes a few months after the company acquired Walmart's robotic unit, which uses robots to assemble individual grocery orders at stores. As part of the acquisition, Walmart agreed to install the order packing system into four hundred of its stores and pay Symbodic up
to five hundred twenty million dollars. Cloudy tonight with some rain at times, load near fifty. Tomorrow, cloudy, breezy and much cooler, with more rain and drizzle. Highs in the load to mid fifties on Tuesday. Cloudy with periods of rain that could be heavy at times. High sixty one on Wednesday, mostly cloudy with sun here and there, some showers still possible, high sixty seven. Right now in Boston,
it's cloudy and fifty seven degrees. The NHL Draft lottery is being held tomorrow night, and as wbz's Charlie Bergeron tells us, the Bruins could score big.
The lottery will determine the order of selection for the first sixteen picks in the first round. Now, to go into how the draft or will be determined, let's just say it's ping pong balls tossed into a machine. They're pulled out. There are one thousand, four digit combinations for each team. As each ball is drawn, odds changed teams are eliminated. So the Bruins have an eight and a half percent chance of securing the number one selection. Last time the Black and Gold had the number one pick
was nineteen ninety seven. And who did they select? Saint Thomas, Ontario's Joe Thornton, who played with the Bruins from ninety seven until he was traded to San Jose in two thousand and five. Charlie Burger On WBZ, Boston's news.
Radio champion swimmer Katie Ledeci does it again. She breaks her own record. CBS's Matt Piper has details.
Swimming superstar Katie Ledeci added to her long list of accomplishments Saturday when she broke her own world record in the eight hundred meter free style. It was at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale. The twenty eight year old set a new mark of eight minutes four point one to two seconds, breaking the previous marks she's set nearly nine years ago at the Rio Olympics by
zero point sixty seven seconds. According to USA Swimming, Ladecki now has the top ten performances all time in the event. At last year's Paris Olympics, she became the most decorated female American Olympian of all time, with fourteen medals. Matt Piper, CBS News.
The federal government will resume collections on paused federal student loans tomorrow. The payments were put on hold during the COVID pandemic. Jillian Berman is the assistant managing editor for Marketwaunch. She says, if you're not sure what the status of your loan is, you better find out the.
Best thing to do is to check your account at studentad dot gov. Sign in there, and you know, it should be pretty clear to you whether or not you're in default. If you find out that that's the case for most people, the best thing to do is going to be to contact something something called the Default Resolution Group, and they will, you know, sort of give you your options to help you get out of default.
The Trump administration says starting tomorrow, borrow in default risk having their benefits and wages garnished. Mother's Day is one week from today.
We're in the flower season, so you can't really go wrong with the flowers you're choosing.
Kalin Garco is head of floral design at The Books Company, which offers online flower delivery. She says starting with your mom's favorite flower or colors can spark ideas. Lily's, tulips and roses are also popular choices, and give them a fresh cut before they go into a vase.
Specifically a forty five degree angle, and make sure you're putting them in nice cream water.
The water should be cool with no leaves touching it. Wendy ji Lett CBS News.
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