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News fifty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. President Trump says there will be a nearly one month tariff delay on most products from both Canada and Mexico. The President's signing an executive order just a short time ago in the Oval Office. It delays tariffs on all goods under the United States Mexico Canada Agreement. This agreement makes the three North American nations a free trade zone. The terroriffs are delayed until
April second. The President said he still plans to impose reciprocal tariffs. Then it comes after the President put an exemption on auto terriffs from the two countries yesterday. Also, Representatives has voted to center Texas Democrat Al Green two hundred and twenty four to one ninety eighth the vote after he disrupted President Trump's addressed to Congress this week.
All Republicans, along with ten Democrats, voted in favor of Before the vote, Speaker Mike Johnson said the resolution was necessary.
We take no pleasure in this. I gave repeated warnings to Representative Green to stand down and to sit down, and he refused to do it. He chose to deliberately violate House rules in a manner that we think is probably unprecedented in history.
House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, though voted no.
Republicans are playing political and partisan games with their censor resolutions because they are on the run.
Green is the fifth member of Congress to be centered this decade. For now, Democratic states have a leg up. In a case brought by several states, a federal judge is issued in order blocking the Trump administration from pausing federal funding.
In issuing this nationwide injunction blocking January's funding pause, where an Island based federal judge, John McConnell accused the executive branch of putting itself above Congress imposing a categorical mandate over spending. Lawmakers have already approved McConnell's ruling. Sites the Eight Year War, the Founders fought quote against a monarch's cruel reign, reminding readers that the system the Framers devised gives the House and Senate the power of the purse.
That is ABC Stephen Portnoy claims for jobless benefits took a dipp last month, even more than expected.
Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week. Jobless filings dropped by twenty one thousand for a total of two hundred and twenty one thousand, significantly fewer than analysts expected. It's another sign the labor market remained steady before an
expected purge of federal government employees. The jobless claims are considered a proxy for layoffs, and some analysts expect the federal workforce slashing ordered by Elon Musk's doze effort will show up in the report in coming weeks or months. The government will release last month's jobs report tomorrow. Saga Magani, Washington.
We do have a wind advisory that goes up at seven o'clock this evening for areas in eastern Massachusetts, but we do have a high wind warning for parts of central Massachusetts where the winds could gust north of fifty sixty miles an hour later on tonight. The winds will start to pick up this evening. You'll feel them and perhaps hear them shaking the house a shower or too
early this evening, mostly Capean Islands. Before we clear out temperatures near thirty in the city, some upper twenties in the suburbs, and the real fields with those winds as they start to whip around, will fall back into the teens. A very windy day Tomorrow, despite plenty of sunshine, we'll only get into the low to mid forties, and with the wind it'll feel at least early like it's in the teens and twenties. Blustery Tomorrow, night thirty one for
the low sun and some clouds. On Saturday, still windy, temperatures in the low forties Sunday, partly to mostly sunny high of forty two. Right now it is fifty three degrees see in Boston in a galaxy far far away now just kidding, it's in Summerville. A death star worth of Star Wars memorabilias given away. Wbz's Matt Sheer introduces us to the force behind the Big Gift.
It seems like almost every Star Wars toy you could imagine is boxed up here in James Kelly's basement.
You know, it's like an old guy with all this stuff and it's gotta go.
Gotta go because of something involving his landlord. You didn't want to go into details.
I can't.
Rather than sell everything and almost certainly make big bucks.
Money is an illusion.
Anyway, he had a better idea.
We just had that wildfire in California.
I'm show a lot of those people lost their stuff.
Two problems though, one shipping and two distributing. So a few days later I went back to his place with an army of stormtroopers and Jedi.
Oh, you guys have blown him.
We had some good news. DHL offered to ship everything for free, and we found a group called the Lost Stuffy Project, who distribute toys to kids who lost everything in La.
We go to hear, We're gonna make people's lives better.
This is one of my high points in life in Summerville. Matt shear WBZ Boston's.
News radio, and we can say more of Matt's adventures on our Instagram and TikTok WBZ News Radio. The Massachusetts RMV is reminding you to get the real ID starting May seventh. Those flying domestically have to present a real ID or a passport. The registry says it's over fifty percent of the state already has gotten their real ID. You can only get a real ID after an in person appointment. The RMV says you can go online to
see which documents are required. The R and V says you should schedule unappoyment at least three weeks before your flight in order to get that real ID on time. It's the off season for Santa, but toys, well, they're always in season. CBS's Michael George is at the International Toy Fair checking out some of the hot items that'll likely be on wish lists this year.
Kids are expected to flip out for this toy Panda Cocoa, which responds to touch like a tickle. This Barbie fashion set allows kids to pick out an outfit and then use an app to create a digital character. Retro toys are also in high demand, with updated takes on products first popular decades ago. In the Memory game, Simon now has a footpad so players can repeat what Simon says.
Kids can try to score a bullseye with a series of new NERF Blasters Zoe, a toy many kids may be adding to their wish lists for a blast this holiday season.
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