This is WBS Boston's news radio, redefining local news sixty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Things are relatively calm outside this afternoon. Heavy rainbow this morning anything but calm. Flooding on nine ninety three and local roads across the South Shore caused closures as well as heavy backups. Some computers even caught in the water.
The drivers of those flooded cars sat inside of their vehicles for hours waiting for the water to recede and for tow trucks to arrive, and.
The nearby Volkswagen dealership had several cars sitting in floodwaters.
There is flooding being reported all around.
Quincy's just had.
A few people passing by, all holding umbrellas.
Officials telling people all over the map don't try to drive through flooded out roads. Your car cannot do what you think it can in most cases, you don't want to total your car or worse.
Flood watch for the eastern part of the state is just to come to an end. Wheather is expected to improve over the coming days and the weekend. Just a little leftover rain here now south of Boston and over the Cape and Islands will catch you up on traffic and weather together in a couple of minutes. The White House is slamming a New Hampshire judges ruling blocking President Trump's executive order against birthright citizenship.
The White House is calling this decision quote an obvious and unlawful attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court's clear order against universal relief. Spokesers and Harrison Fields as in a statement, the Administration will be quote fighting vigorously against attempts by district court judges to try to impede the President's policies. The judge in New Hampshire Thursday certified a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union filed on behalf of pregnant
immigrants to immigrant parents and their infants. Karen Travers, ABC News, the White House.
Place Study and activists Smuckmood Khalil is seeking twenty million dollars in damages from the Trump administration weeks after being freed from immigration detention. His lawyers claim he was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted, and smeared as anti Semitic. Khalil was detained for over three months after being arrested by ICE agents in March while he was a student at Columbia. The
administration accused him of pro terrorist activity. Khalil says he suffered harsh conditions and jail and continues to fear for his safety. Much of the t's busiest line getting ready to shut down tonight. Wbz's Madison Rodgers with more.
Crews need to do maintenance work along the Red Line, so writers going through the downtown stretch will be stuck on the shuttles. The closure start today thirty tonight and goes through the end of service Sunday from Jfkumass in Dorchester to Kendall Mit in Cambridge. The tee morning riders to allow for ample extra time trying to ease the pain. Shuttle buses will be free, and so will the commuter rail from brain Treated South Station and from North Station
to Porter. Blue Cross is also announcing some free blue Bike rides with a twenty dollars credit. We have the code and more information on our website wbzewsradio dot com Madison Rogers Way, Boston's News Radio.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell says her Office has reached the settlement with a Delaware based student loaned company. Settlement with Earnest Operations LLC resolves allegations the companies lending practices violated various consumer protection and fair lending laws. Under the settlement terms, Ernest will pay two and a half million dollars to the Commonwealth and implement extensive changes to its business practices, including taking steps to mitigate risks of unfair
lending and insure compliance with stan federal laws. We've got most of the rain out of here. Capean Islands still picking up some showers, most of it's on the outer cape, and it's like ned Tucket's got the rain right now. Some earlier precipitation over the vineyards slid off, though there could be some more shortly, and there could be some showers for some of us as we head through the evening tonight, just some scattered leftover showers with some scattered
leftover clouds. Stemperatures in the mid sixties. Tomorrow we're better. We have clouds breaking for some sun in the afternoon. It'll be humid, temperatures not seventy six in Boston, low eighties well Inland, and we could fire off a thundershower well inland as well, partly cloudy, muggy. Tomorrow night a low sixty six, and then the weekend's looking pretty good. It'll be humid, clouds, some sun, Temperatures mid seventies or so near the coast, mid eighties or so inland. Right
now sixty five degrees in Boston. A familiar but rare foe slithering into Addleborough. Wbz's Jared Broston with the tails.
Officials in Addleborough or warning residents about what they believe is a copperhead snake after two dogs were bitten by the ten Mile River.
People often confuse milk snakes with copperheads. Milksnakes are a lot more common.
That's Jacob Wolf at the Blue Hills Trail Side Museum here in Milton, which has a copperheaded snake that they take care of. He says the pattern is what typically confuses people, as they can look similar, but unlike milk snakes, copperheads are venomous.
Definitely steer clear, don't try to poke it or anything. You know, they mostly are wary of people, so they're not going to be going after people.
You know.
They eat a lot of small.
But for the animal enthusiasts out there, beware of getting close.
I mean, you can take a picture from Afar, but just you know, keep your distance.
From Blue Hills. I'm Jared Brosnan WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
I'm going to get this straight. Don't poke the bear and don't poke the snake. Good advice. It's the most anyone has ever paid for a handbag. ABC Cherry Preston has more on a record breaking sale of the original Birken bag.
In nineteen eighty four, London born star Jane Burkin was sitting on a plane next to the head of fashion house Hermez, when she accidentally spilled some things from her purse. She asked why Burkin didn't make a bigger bag, So they grabbed an air sickness bag and began sketching a design for what would become the original Birkin bag. More than forty years later, that original bag sold at auction
in Paris for eight point two million dollars. The commercialized version of the original bag has become one of the world's most exclusive luxury items, with a year's long waiting list.
Cherry Preston, ABC News call it beaber fever. The Hollywood record says Justin Bieber is about to drop a new album slated to come out tomorrow, would be his first since Justice in twenty twenty one. The pop star reportedly has been spending time in Iceland to record, and he also posted several photos today which appear to be a track list. 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