This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news forty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. The news brought to you by Window Nation. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Well, we really could use a spring nor reaster around here, said no one ever yet here we are.
Some periodic heavy rain through late evening and also into the overnight. Winds also peaking later on this afternoon into the evening hours as well, possibly impacting the evening commute. Minor coastal issues during high tide tonight, and also with some lingering minor impacts spilling.
Over into Friday as well. Matt Is CBS News Boston Meteorologist Jason Michael rain and wind hitting us today. It will get better into the holiday weekend. We'll have details coming up meantime with a holiday weekend match doots encouraging Memorial Day travelers to plan ahead. The hov Lane on the Expressway deployed early today at two o'clock tomorrow. It will open even earlier at one pm to help with
traffic flow out of town. Mass Dot telling people to use their real time travel tools and resources and also take public transportation as much as possible, they say, to help get you to your destination. As a heads up, the Registry of Motor Vehicle Service Centers it closed Monday for the holiday, and there's adjustments to the t's schedule. Monday, all subway and bus services will operate on a Sunday schedule. The battle between Harvard and the Trump administration continues when
it comes to international students. More from WBC's Brook McCarthy.
Harvard University says the government's action is unlawful after Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome ordered her department to terminate the school Student and Exchange Program certification, which means they can no longer enroll foreign students, and ones already on campus must transfer or lose their legal status. In a letter to the school, Nome says they are holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, anti Semitism, and coordinating with the Chinese
Communist Party on campus. She called enrolling foreign students a privilege, not a right. In their response, Harvard says they are fully committed to maintaining the school's ability to host international students and scholars. Harvard has students from over one hundred and forty different countries. The administration has also cut roughly three billion dollars in federal funding from the school for not complying with its policies. Burke McCarthy WBZ Boston's news radio.
It was early embassy staff members shot and killed in Washington, d c. And as the investigation continues, Massachusetts Governor Morraheely is reacting. The governor says state police n alert, but there's no known threat to the commonwealth. The killing happened outside an American Jewish Committee event. The governor says this was a senseless, hate fueled act of violence and says there is no justification for anti Semitism or violence in
our nation's capital or anywhere else. President Trump set the host of the top crystal currency investors out of dinner tonight, a president calling it the most exclusive invitation in the world. ABC's Karen Travers tells us the event is sparking some conflict of interest concerns.
Whitehouse defended President Trump attending tonight's exclusive Crypto Gala, a dinner at his golf in Virginia with the top two hundred and twenty holders of the Trump Meme. Coin Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was asked whether the White House Counsel's off has reviewed the dinner and offered advice on his participation.
President is abiding by all conflict of interest laws that are applicable to the President, and I think everybody the American public believe it's absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.
Karen Travers ABC News, we are still dealing with this northeaster, and depending on where you are, rain is falling at a varying degree. We have some heavier rain back through parts of central Massachusetts. In fact, some pretty heavy downpours north central right now, out toward the Winchington area Gardner that kind of comes down across through the state. And then there's heavier rain down around Rhode Island. There's been some over the Cape and islands. A lot of this
is pushing off toward the north. So as we go through the afternoon, in the latter part of the afternoon, in the evening, places where it's maybe not rain quite as heavily, I might pick up some heavier rain and all that rain got to go somewhere. Sometimes it just puddles up in poor drainage areas and low lying areas, and that may be quite a problem, certainly on the roadways. As we head into this evening.
We do have a coastal flood advisory that starts at six o'clock to night, a wind advisory through this evening along the coast. Some of our wind gusts already in excess of forty miles an hour. We may see some hit fifty miles an hour as we go through the night. Tomorrow, it's cloudy, it's breezy, it is cool. It'll feel even cooler with that breeze. Temperatures in the mid fifties. A couple of showers will linger Tomorrow night, blustery with occasional rain.
Temperatures in the upper forties and then upper fifties. On Saturday, we'll have some clouds around, we may have a shower or two. Sunday gets better, some sunshine, Temperatures in the sixties. Looks like Monday should be okay as well, though not terribly warm, only in the sixties. Right now, we're at forty six degrees. See in Boston, Logan Airport's been seeing delays and cancelations today with the weather woes along the eastern part of the country. Here Northeast, especially three hundred
and forty one delays at Logan. According to the numbers from flight Aware, there have been sixty one cancelations, and with the long holiday weekend get away upon US, lines have been growing at airports security checkpoints nationwide. ABC's Jim Ryan tells us the US travel industry is pricing for record numbers this weekend.
As crowded as the airports are on this unofficial start to summer, highways are crammed with Memorial Day road trippers.
It's more flexible. You leave whenever you want.
Says Zaike SAIDs of Triple A.
You can pack as much as you want in the car, make stops along the way, and for many families it's more economical.
Staying home instead. The price of a typical All American barbecue is up about four percent this year from last Jim Ryan ABC News.
By the way, if you're flying, this is also the first long holiday weekend where travelers need a real ib or other identification to board domestic flights. 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 w b Z, Boston's news radio