This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news seventy six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Support is coming from local lawmakers from an Afghan man who's being detained by ICE. Some of the easy's Jeremy Russ. That's the story.
He risked his life as an interpreter for American soldiers in Afghanistan. But now the man who we know only as Zia, is behind bars at an ICE detention center in Plymouth. Zeo was arrested in East Hartford, Connecticut, last month during a routine appointment as part of the process
to get a green card. The Department of Homeland Security says Zea is in the country illegally, but during a visit to the detention center yesterday, Massachusetts Congressman Bill Keating said that's not true, and Zia deserves better treatment for the risks he took in the battlefield.
This is nothing but a disgusting betrayal of that promise. A promise me to the people that risk their lives like Zia, but the promise made to our own troops that we would take care of those people that took care of them.
Connecticut Senator Richard Blument Dahal was also there yesterday. He and Keating say Zia has a hearing scheduled for next month. Jeremy Ross WBZ, Boston's news radio.
President Trump says he'll ramp up the federal law enforcement presidence in Washington, d C. After a former DOGE staffer was assaulted. ABC Stephen Portnoy has the latest.
While details remain unclear, the White House says DC residents should expect to see an increase in federal law enforcement as early as tomorrow. That days after a high profile former DOGE staffer was beaten and bloodied by a group of teens as he protected his girlfriend. President Trump has suggested he might bring in the National Guard or use his emergency power under the d C Home Rule Act
to gain control over DC police. That department's own data shows violent crime in the district is down twenty six percent compared to last year.
It is not exactly clear what the extra federal authorities would be ordered to do there. The Massachusetts Attorney General's office has some work to do ahead of today's filing deadline. Andrea Campbell's office that it had received forty seven ballot initiative petitions to for certification decisions that could be released in less than a month. Of the forty seven petitions, forty two of proposed laws for the twenty twenty six ballot.
Five are proposed constitutional amendments for the twenty twenty eight ballot. The Ang's office will review whether the initiative petitions meet certain constitutional requirements to be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Jays El Corea, the former Fall River mayor convicted of corruptions, been moved out of prison. Wbz's Madison Rogers with details.
It's been a decade since a twenty three year old wunderkin secured the mayor's office in fall River, and after three years behind Bar's, thirty three year old jays L. Correa has been transferred to a residential re entry program in New York that's home confinement or a halfway house. The Bureau of Prison says he's due for release next July. Correa was first arrested in twenty eighteen for defrauding investors and convicted in twenty twenty one of extorting mayor wanna businesses.
Out of six hundred thousand dollars at is sentencing. The judge called it a case of old school corruption and said what I have before me is an absolute lack of remorse. Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio.
We'll have a fairly decent night, mainly clear, skies, comfortable sixty three in Boston, probably closer to fifty in the coldest inland suburbs. Sunshine around Tomorrow, temperatures will get into the upper seventies at the harbor. We'll get into the mid eighties in the suburbs, and then clear Tomorrow night temperatures again sixty three in Boston, fifties in the suburbs. Saturday, mid eighties for the inland suburbs, probably mid seventies or
so near the water's edge. Mostly sunny and warmer. On Sunday, in fact, we may get into the low nineties and some of the inland spots. Upper eighties in Boston, closer to eighty for the Capean Islands, and the nineties may hang around for at least a few days to kick off next week, and more humidity. You'll sneak in here
as well. Right now it is seventy five degrees in Boston, some of the top Girl Scout cookie sellers in Eastern Massachusetts chewing the fat or the cookies as the case maybe at the Girl Scout Museum at the headquarters in Waltham.
It's not every day get to sit down with some absolute pros of the Girl Scout cookie game. So I figured I had to learn the secrets behind their success. For Girl Scout Brownie Emma, it was about placement and teamwork.
They went to Peterson's Market and my family helped me.
Too, And family is a big part of it, especially for Junior Scout Haven, who says her family always had her back.
They're like encouraging me all the way. Like they're like encouraging and like I'm saying, I can do this, even at like the toughest time.
They're here at the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Museum to celebrate their success and get ready for the next cookie season. But for Scouts like Alex's, cookie season is more than just trying to sell the most suites.
I learned how to be a leader, money management, how to be a good friend, how to talk to strangers. Because I'm a very shy person, so it's good to help me talk to people.
I don't know from Wallfam, Kyle Bray, WBZ boss Since News Radio.
Who knows. Maybe one day those cookie magnets will make this list. The Fortune one hundred Most Powerful People in Business list, a couple of locals did nestled in the middle of the top one hundred. Couple of local names that wield power. Fidelity Investments CEO A chair Abigail Johnson ranked forty fourth, which is twenty spots higher than last year.
At number twenty two. Reshma Kuol Romney, a president and CEO at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, also on the list, as you might expect, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong topping the list ultra processed foods. We've heard a lot about them, and we've heard that they're not good for us, but we haven't stopped eating them.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that most Americans get more than fifty percent of their calories from ultra processed foods, energy dense foods typically full of sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats. It's the first time the CDC has confirmed those high levels of consumption using dietary information collected from August twenty twenty one to August twenty twenty three.
The report says that for young people eighteen and under older, processed foods make up nearly sixty five percent of the calories they consume each day. For adults, it's about fifty three percent. The top sources burgers and sandwiches, sweet baked goods, savory snacks, pizza, and sweetened drinks I'm Donna water.
It's been nearly twenty four years since the September eleventh terror attacks and still remains from being identified in New York. The identities of the remains of three more victims in New York City have been learned, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, says Ryan Fitzgerald of New York, Barbara Keating of Palm Springs, California, and a woman whose names being withheld. The match with remains using advanced DNA technology,
along with new samples from family members. About forty percent of those who were killed at the World Trade Center site on nine to eleven not been identified. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker WBZ, Boston's news radio