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News forty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Change of plans. President Trump has withdrawn Representative Elease at stephonics nomination as UN Ambassador. CBS is Linda Kenyon explains why.
In a truth Social post, the President said, quote, it is essential that we maintain every Republican seat in Congress, adding I have asked Elise as one of my biggest allies, to remain in Congress. Idaho Republican Jim Rish heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
I have been.
Notified by the White House she.
Has been withdrawn.
Delaware Democrat Chris Coons also serves on the committee.
It just reflects that the agenda that Republicans are trying to move through the House at the behest of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, does not have the votes right now.
It did appear Stephanic would have easily been confirmed by the Senate Canyon CBS News The White House.
Another rally planned this evening in Somerville for a Turkish Tufts student detained by federal authorities. The rally is planned outside Somerville City Hall for Rumesa os Turk, a doctoral student at Tufts who was moved out of Massachusetts by the time her lawyer went to court and a judge ordered her to be kept in the state. Lawyers say oz Turk was detained on Tuesday, shortly after leaving her home in Somerville and was moved to an IC detention
center in Louisiana. Homeland Security says os Turk was detained after and her visa revoked after an investigation found that she had engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A DHS spokesperson says glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is common sense Security continuing the trend and keeping a promise.
With big cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The nation's top health agency, says it's eliminating ten thousand jobs as part of a major restructuring plan. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior teased the cuts earlier this week.
We're going to go back to providing gold standard science.
We're going to keep the money to the scientists and to the patients, other than to the administrators bureaucrats.
Overall, HHS says it's slashing its workforce by a total of twenty thousand through ten thousand layoffs and another ten thousand workers taking early retirements or buyouts. Most of the cuts will be in the public health agencies, the FDA and CDC, which will shed roughly six thousand positions. Sagur Magani Washington.
Hearing today before the Senate Commerce and Aviation Subcommittee on the NTSB's preliminary findings on the crash involving an American Airlines flight in an Army Blackhawk helicopter in January. A crash killed sixty seven people, including half a dozen connected to the Boston Skating Club in TSB Chair Jennifer Hammandy testified and said the agency will be thorough and it's invested.
I know we're all searching for answers, the right safety solutions, but the NTSB is the gold standard for accident investigations for a reason. We are thorough and we're fact based. We leave no stone unturned and we let the evidence guide us.
The FAA acted upon an NTSB recommendation and banned non essential helicopter travel around Reagan National earlier this month. Last night, as the TD Garden a tribute to those killed in that crash, the skating world descending on Boston for the World Figure Skating Championships. The Championships featured a tribute to all twenty eight members of the skating community who were killed in that collision. Partly cloudy skies as we head into the evening, temperatures the low thirties in some of
the Northwest suburbs, thirty eight in Boston. A couple of spot showers around in a few places. Later tonight could be a snowflake mixed in the coldest spots. Breezy with some sunshine around Tomorrow, We'll make a run into the upper fifties. Clouds move in tomorrow late in the day, and we'll have some rain moving in here after midnight Tomorrow night with a low near forty, and then Saturday,
a few showers around. Rather cloudy. Day will be in the low forties in Boston, though warming up a little bit in lower fifties at least over the South Coast Cape Islands. Sunday some rain possible in the morning, most of that north of Boston. Otherwise, clouds in Chile high forty four. We're at forty seven degrees right now in Boston. Mayor Michelle Wo making some new comments today about her appearance on The Daily Show.
She was a New Yorker.
They're just jealous, Mary, Michelle Wu, using humor to casually brush aside the Daily Show host Ronnie Chang's repeated references to Boston as a racist city. During her recent appearance on the show, broadcast out of New York City, Chang asking Wo how traditionally Irish Boston could elect a young woman of Asian descent as its mayor.
We recognize how much work there is still to do. Certainly Boston has made a lot of strides, and I was very proud in that setting and any setting to go and defend our city and represent who we are today, how we have learned from our history, and how we are still planning to continue with the progress there.
Woo quick to defend Boston on the program, just as she did recently when she appeared before a hostile Republican led congressional committee in Washington. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's news radio.
In mere moments, the Boston Red Sox get their twenty twenty five campaign underway, taking on the Rangers this afternoon in Texas. Meantime, from Brockton to the Bronx. The Brockton Rocks announcing this week on Facebook that their catcher John Christino was signed by the Yankees. The twenty twenty four Frontier League home run leader and catcher of the Year posted on Instagram. Since I was a kid, I've had the same dream that that was to be a Major
League Baseball player. He thanked Bose who helped make this possible and says, without your endless support, none of this could have happened. You might think about old people when you think about heart disease. Now a warning for young people about the risk factor.
Many teenagers could already be setting themselves up for heart problems later in life. A study by the American Heart Association found the time between age eighteen and one's mid twenties are crucial to heart health. Many teenagers are developing obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type two diabetes, and it's important to address those risk factors at a young age.
The CBS is Michael George just over two weeks until CBS Morning's co host Gail King and five other women get to fly into space.
The eleven minute Blue Origin flight will take off April fourteenth at nine to thirty am Eastern. Former passenger William Shatner told Gail to embrace the moment.
The g forces that are going to be on you. You're gonna feel like I'm gonna die, but You're not going to die. Then you are scaring them fish right now.
The all women crew will include pop star Katie Perry, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bo, civil rights activist Amanda Win, film producer Carrie Anne Flynn, and journalist Lauren Sanchez, the fiance of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Michael Wallace CBS News.
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