This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news thirty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A federal judge out of Washington State has temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order to limit birthright citizenship right laid out in the Fourteenth Amendment. ABC Stephen Portnoy has more.
The hearing didn't even take half an hour. Judge John Kunauer said in his four decades on the bench he'd never seen such a clear case. The Reagan appointee called President Trump's order blatantly unconstitutional and said it quote boggles
my mind that any lawyer would unequivocally assert otherwise. Trump's order aims to block the issuance of passports and Social Security numbers to children born to women here illegally or on temporary visas, unless the father is a US citizen or a Green card holder.
The President signing an executive order aiming to declassify remaining federal records related to the asassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Junior. Speaking to reporters, The President said everything will be revealed. The order directs the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General to develop a plan within fifteen days to declassify the remaining JFK records, and within forty five days for
the other two cases. The President had ordered the substantial release of the JFK assassination records in his first term, but some were redacted or withheld due to concerns raised by the intelligence community. The President's also doubling down on his new trade terrorists, laying out his plans in a speech to global businesses and political leaders in Switzerland.
President Trump touted the executive actions he has taken in his first days in office to attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He set his message to businesses around the world is very simple.
Come make your product in America, and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth.
But the President also issuing a threat.
If you don't make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply, you will have to pay a tariff.
Karen Travers ABC News the White House.
After a one day delay the trial of Patriots Safety Gabrill Peppers has started in Quincy. Peppers started the day pleading guilty to a cocaine possession charge. He still faces charges including assault on a woman last October. The prosecution today laying out its case.
When she was inside mister Peppers on October fifth, twenty four, he grabbed her by the next he slammed her head against the wall, and then he later pushed her upstairs.
And Peppers has pleaded not guilty to the assault charges and told police he believed the alleged victim was making the allegations to destroy his NFL career. On that cocaine possession charge, that case was continued without a finding for four months, with the stipulation that Peppers must remain drug free while on probation. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell announcing a settlement in the multi state suit against the Sackler
family and their company, Purdue Pharma. The seven point four billion dollars settlement in principle would have up two one hundred and eight million dollars distributed to Massachusetts. Settlement, if approved by the US Bankruptcy Court for Southern District of New York, will end the Sackler's control of Purdue and its ability to sell opioids in the US. We have a little bit of improvement in the temperature department, and over the next couple of days, you'll be seeing that, well,
really feeling that. Tonight nineteen in Boston, twelve to sixteen in the inland suburbs, and low twenties over the Capan Islands. Tomorrow it's a brisk day. There'll be some sunshine, There'll be temperatures into the low thirties, some of the real feels into the twenties at times as the breeze blows around. Mainly clear Tomorrow, night lows in the teens, and then on Saturday, more sun than clouds. There'll be at chili
breeze temperatures in the upper twenties, upper thirties. A few spots could tickle forty on Sunday with a mix of clouds and sunshine. Right now it is thirty degrees in Boston. When families are evicted from their homes, whatever the reason, experts say, it can cause a lot of strife for the children involved. Seas Nicole Davis with more on a new pilot program in Boston that is hoping to help families in need.
Data shows many families in Boston facing eviction are in that position because of non payment of rent. Daniel Johnson, the director of the city's Office of Housing Security, says there are many reasons why.
Plation housing costs families are larger. The cost of living is more expensive.
She says, often these evictions force kids into shelters far away from their schools, or even forcing families into living in cars.
Household is evicted that disrupts the education of the child.
The City of Boston says it wants to avoid as much upheaval for these kids as possible, so enter the Access to Council Pilot.
Program guarantees legal representation for families with school age children and communities most impacted by evictions.
Working in partnership with Boston Public schools and local legal aid groups to try to stop these evictions and keep kids home, Johnson says they want to help at least one hundred and twenty families this year. Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's News.
Radio, It's the end of an era. The CBS Evening News. Wbz's Rumal Holland tells us Nora O'Donnell will take her final bow from the anchor chair.
The network announced last summer that Nora O'Donnell would leave the nightly news after the election cycle and Inauguration Day.
Good evening on Nora O'Donnell, and thank you for joining.
Us after more than five years at the Evening News. She'll move to a new role as senior correspondent, featuring high profile interviews and will appear on several platforms for the network. The new anchor team, veteran John Dickerson in New York's nightly News anchor Maurice deu Bois takes over starting Monday. Nora O'Donnell saying goodbye to the anchor desk at the CBS Evening News.
And that's tonight's CBS Evening News.
I'm Noaura O'Donnell and I'm sure moholland WDZ, Boston's news Radio.
The layoffs at CNN, The network's expected to lay off about two hundred employees, or six percent of the workforce. The move part of a shift toward a more digital oriented future at the network. A new warning about counterfeit botox. There's been an arrest in New York with a suspect accused of injecting his clients with drugs from China.
Authorities are sounding the alarm about fake botox after arresting a New York City esthetician accused of injecting clients with counterfeit botox from China and giving it to clients without a license, even when he knew people were getting ill. Henry Callender says he was a client.
It felt like I had my body was like having an allergic reaction or something to the botox in part of my forehead.
Officials say the investigation began after a client complained about vision problems and depth perception when walking before eventually developing botulism.
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