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News Sunshine twenty nine in Boston. It's eleven o'clock Good Friday Morning on Laurie Kirby, and we have a lot of breaking news. The Supreme Court with gun us to save TikTok, but it's still unclear exactly what will happen Sunday when the law of ban it goes into effect. More now in this special report from CBS News.
The Supreme Court has just upheld a ban on TikTok, refusing to block a federal loss eight set to take effect this Sunday if the app isn't sold to a non Chinese company Loyola Laws Lori Levinson.
The Supreme Court said that Congress's ban on TikTok did not violate the First Amendment. It said that there was enough reason for Congress to ban TikTok because of its data gathering practices and threats to mash security.
President Biden has said he will not enforce the ban. Correspondent, we judge anks as that leaves it up to the Trump administration.
The incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz that we will put measures in place to keep TikTok from going dark, but there aren't that many options that they have on the table right now.
TikTok CEO is set to attend President elect Trump's inauguration Monday, CBS News special Report. I'm Deborah Rodriguez.
And just now President Elect Donald Trump just hold CNN News. He will be making the decision on TikTok's fate. It's not entirely clear how that would work. Of course, he's teased a potential executive order without elaborating on how he would bypass Congress. And of course now we have the Supreme Court ruling. But keep it right here. Sunday is going to be a very interesting day Monday as well for our team coverage both here and streaming on the
new iHeartRadio. Israel's security Cabinet has approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza with a Moss That deal is now headed to the Fools Habitat for review and a final vote by sundown, hopefully. CBS is Linda Gradstein with War.
The Israeli government has notified the families of the thirty three Israeli hostages expected to be freed in the first phase of the ceasefire deal. Including two American citizens. The list includes women, children, elderly people, and people who are sick. Hamas has not yet informed Israel how many of the thirty three people on the list are still alive, although Israel believes most of them are. The first three hostages are due to be released on Sunday.
Six students are injured in a school bus crash in Waltham, Pelisa. The crash was reported just before a thirty to string. A collision evolved three vehicles. Here is school bus from Waltham's dual language school of VAM and a mini van and the van was with Ram Services. They provide transportation for seniors and people with disabilities. The driver was the only person on board at the time. He was injured in the crash, but again his injuries are believed to
be minor. Police are investigating. Mostly sunny right now, pretty nice. It's not that cold because it's not that windy. I'm seeing thirty in Falmouth, Wooster, Boston twenty nine. We're ahead of her high of forty clear tonight. To start, we're in the twenties, mid twenties or so, so it gets interesting this weekend. First, we've got some rain tomorrow afternoon and Saturday night pretty mild forty five degrees tomorrow and then here it comes a change. This is significant, you know.
Every day this keeps evolving, which is why we bring you traffic and weather together every ten minutes here and of course on the new iHeartRadio app. So on Sunday, it's getting cold and we have a coastal storm is going to be south and east of us. Here are the dicted forecast as snow amounts right now from Joe over at ACU Weather. Half a foot of snow you heard right, half a foot on the maximum side. In general, if you're on the cape or the south coast, we're
looking at one to three inches of snow. A lot of you have Monday off. That's going to help in terms of how much time we have to shovel out and driving and traffic and all of that. But we'll stay with us. Storms can bounce, it can change. We could have more, we could have less, you know the drill. I want to go back to our top story. The Supreme Court, which is the nation's highest court in the land, is just upheld the law to ban TikTok in the
United States. If the popular social media app owned by a Chinese company does not find a new parent company by Sunday, and wbz's James Rojas is asking if people will miss it if it goes away.
For some, like Hailey from Summerville, a ban of TikTok would be a good thing.
I tried it once. I was on it for seven hours and I was like, never again on a for seven hour and you're like, yeah, ended that. I was like, I don't want to have this impatient.
Jody from Franklin uses TikTok occasionally, and.
I don't like the talk of the algorithm and how it's gathering data.
So I think that it's useful, but I won't miss it.
But there are supporters of the app. I'm a Christian, I use it from ministry. I have like twenty thousand followers. I really like the platform.
I think it's government over each This is going to take a lot of jobs from people because some people make a living off of TikTok.
Some are concerned that a band would stifle free speech. James Rojas w b Z BOSTON'SNOWS Radio.
So why did the Supreme Court uphold the ban? They decided the risk to national security posed by TikTok ties to communist China. Overcoming concerns about limiting speech. We'll have a lot more coming up with another special report shortly. The federal government says it will soon scrutinize the hot prices of popular weight loss drugs, which are all the rage. Ceb IF says. Alex Tim has.
That Medicare has announced fifteen more drugs that is targeting for its drug price negotiation program. It includes blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drug Ozampic and Wagovi. President Biden has hailed the program, created by the Inflation Reduction Act as one of his signature accomplishments, saving Medicare and seniors and billions of dollars. The second round of talks also comes as the Biden administration has proposed to expand Medicare to
cover weight loss drugs. It is unclear how or if the incoming Trump administration will finalize that proposal.
President Biden takes more weight off thousands of shoulders.
President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly twenty five hundred people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses and serving what the Winehouse says are disproportionately long sentences compared to what they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice.
The President says in a statement that with this action, he's now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in history, but he's not yet finished using his clemency power, saying he'll continue to review additional commutations and pardons. Karen Travers, ABC News Washington.
He was supposed to deliver the packages, not steal them. William Page, a former US Postal Service worker from Duxbury, faced his punishment in Worcester Federal Court yesterday. He got two years probation. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ, Boston's news radio