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News twenty six degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. I'm Kyle Bray, and here's what's happening. We start off in our nation's capital. President Trump embarks on his first trip of his new turn today to disaster zones in North Carolina and California. It's been a busy first week for the President. Yesterday, he ordered the release of classified documents on the assassinations of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King Junior.
At first glance, this seems like a sweeping action to pull back the curtain on conspiracies surrounding these killings, but ABC Stephen Portnoy says it's not that simple.
The president's order doesn't actually declassify anything. It does direct agencies to come up with a plan for the release of the still secret documents. That plan is due in two weeks for the JFK record and in forty five days for the MLK and RFK. Material. Experts Hoop been steeped in these cases for decades, called the president's move an important and positive step, but they're still skeptical, fearing a cumbersome declassification process is still in store.
President Trump pledged to declassify details of these assassinations during his first term, but ended up withholding some documents at thebhst of federal authorities. Despite getting a pardon from President Trump, oath Keeper's founder, Stuart Rhodes is banned from entering Washington, d C. Without a court approval. That order came from a US district court just two days after Rhodes was released from prison and made a visit to the Capitol. Rhodes was charged and convicted with some of the most
serious crimes related to the Capitol riot. He was supposed to serve eighteen years in prison for seditious conspiracy. When Rhodes returned to Washington, d C. This week, he was met with at least one He met with at least one lawmaker and defended his actions during the Capitol riot. And While President Trump fulfill's campaign promises on immigration, ABC's Mary Bruce.
Reports immigration a top issue in Trump's campaign, the White House now eager to show they're delivering across the country in major cities like Boston, New York, and Newark, some communities rattled by ice raids. The Newark mayor, saying he will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized. Trump has promised the largest mass deportations in American history, but sources tell ABC News these appear to be routine immigration rates that have been customary for years.
Meantime, here in our backyard, Chelsea City Manager Fidel Maltz writes in an open letter to the community that ICE had mobilized in the city, but so far no residents have been detained. He writes that as someone who immigrated to the US as a young child, he understands the importance of keeping families together. Meantime, in Brockton, the school district is vowing to protect all students, regardless of their
immigration status. The Broughton Enterprise reports the school's superintendant says that any federal agents that show up at one of the city's public schools will be directed to this superintendent's office and the district will get legal counsel. It's time
now for the four to a wbz ACU weather forecast. Today, We're gonna see sun and a few clowns high of around thirty three Tonight, it will be turning out to be mainly clear we'll have a loaf of about eighteen in Boston, and we'll get down to eight in some of those coldest inland suburbs. It will be in the low twenties if you're out on the Capan Islands. Now Tomorrow we'll have plenty of sun with a cold breeze high of around thirty. Then on Sunday we'll be warming
up to a high of about thirty eight. Still have that breeze and the clouds will break for some sun. Now on Monday start of the work week, it will be rather windy with periods of clouds and sun. We'll have a high about thirty seven, and looking ahead for the rest of the work week, we're gonna see that breeze. We'll be lingering around, We'll have some more clouds, and the highs will be not far from forty. Right now
in Boston it is twenty six degrees. A seventeen year old football player from Hanover gets the meeting of a lifetime with Bill Belichick. CBS News Boston's Brandon Truitt says Marky Wallbridge didn't even know what was coming.
Marky getting a thirty minute heads up that the coach was on the way.
I don't really like get nervous for meetings with the coaches, but him, I was like a little bit nervous for it because I grew up watching him on TV. All the success he's had as a coach. We've been to like the Patriots Paride. Why not see him to celebrate.
On the day Belichick signed his multi year deal at UNC Chapel Hill, he made a stop at Saint Sebastian's to offer Markey a spot on his team.
I had to text as coach and say, can you just make sure you get a picture just I just need one picture of Bill Belichick with Marky. I saw a League Lineman of the Year.
His parents as proud as can be, not just for the recognition their son's getting, but the work he's put in.
It's amazing and it's it's unreal at times.
Wallbridge is a six foot six, two hundred and seventy pounds left tackle from Saint Sebastian's. He got his first college it was only fourteen years old. Belijack also traveled to Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood. This week time now is eleven o six. The fight against a gas fired power plant in Broughton has been going on for decades, and opponents of the plan just got a major win. The Brockton Enterprise reports the Department of Environmental Protection denied
Brockton Power and Air permit. The company has thirty days to appeal. The dep sided with residents fighting back against the three hundred and fifty megawatt plant after analysis from the department found Brockton Power had no reasonable likelihood of completing the project. Residents told the paper they opposed the plant because they were worried about emissions in the area that already has a landfill and a wastewater treatment plant. Panda Bear's return to Washington, d C after over a year.
CBS's Wendy Jullette reports.
Children wearing bear hats welcome the return of two giant pandas to the Smithsonian's National Zoo from China, Washington, DC is no longer unbearable. A band in dancing panda then open the new renovated habitat that three year olds Boo Lee and Shing Bao now call home. Zoo director doctor Brandy Smith.
The picture isn't great for a lot of species, but with pandas it is.
Admission to the zoo is free, though reservations are required. When did you let CBS News.
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