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Sunny in forty eight in Boston at eleven o'clock good Friday after morning, almost afternoon. I'm Sherry Small. It's March twenty eighth. Here's what's happening. Lawyers for a Tough's graduate student file and updated petition challenging her detention by Ice. Remesa os Turk was arrested outside her apartment in Somerville earlier this week. The new amended petition alleges that the
government violated os Turk's constitutional rights. It also demands that she be brought back to Massachusetts and released from custody. Tammy Mutasa, with CBS News Boston, has born.
Last year, Ramisa was one of the writers of an op ed calling for Tufts University to acknowledge genocide in Palestine. Tutsa was also the site of a pro Palestinian encampment. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressing the case.
We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses. And if we've given you a visa and then you decide to do that, we're going to take it away.
Rubio says, at least three hundred foreign students visas have been revoked, and once.
You've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States, and we have a right, like every country in the world, has a right to remove you from our country. So it's just that simple.
Ramesa was quickly taken out of Massachusetts to a Central Louisiana ice detention center before a federal judge issued in order limiting the government's ability to move.
Her, and, according to the Global Harvard Medical School scientists from Russia, has been in ice custody for six weeks now. Her visa canceled after undeclared frog embryo samples were found in our luggage at Logan. Exanna Petrovo was returning from a vacation in France in mid February. She was taken into ice custody at Logan, then transferred to detention centers
in Vermont in Louisiana. The Globe says the embriaales are crucial to her lab research on gene function, and a hearing for her asylum request has now been scheduled for May seventh. Her lawyers say that she fears political persecution if she is deported to Russia because of her opposition to Russia's war with Ukraine. And A massive seven point seven magnitude earthquake has hit Thailand's capital of Bangkok.
The epicenter was in Maynma, where the it's of course a civil war raging on, making it very hard to get information on the damage and really complicating emergency responses too. Our producer there saying that destruction is widespread and the expected casualty numbers should be high, with reports of devastated buildings, a hospital with patients inside reportedly torn to the ground.
And that's foreign correspondent Britt Kleine from ABC News. And now let's check the acuather forecast. Is a beautiful day today, you might want to enjoy it the weekend, and fortunately isn't going to be as nice. We'll see high as about fifty seven degrees, sunny or partly sonny skies, a little bit of a breeze, turning cloudy tonight, some rain later, we'll drop down to a low of forty and then
tomorrow we'll see a few showers. It's going to be cloudy highs in Boston forty two, and that high could slowly fall throughout the day. Farther south, parts of the South Coast Cape and Island can reach the lower fifties for highs. Sunday again drizzle, it'll be cloudy, even colder, highs near forty. It's going to feel like we're back to winter. But Monday we rebound quite a rebound with highs into the low sixties. We could see some showers hanging on and rather cloudy skies, but high could bump
to sixty four. It's sunny and forty eight in Boston at eleven oh five on this Friday morning, a new safety task force is launched in the city of Boston to reduce crime, drug use, in homelessness. WBC's James Rojas reports from Downtown.
Crossing Downtown Boston is the main focus of this new task force. It's made up of a coalition of city and state officials, law enforcement, and community organizations tackling issues impacting public safety.
Congregate drug use, homelessness in retail. Theft.
Rishi Shukla, co founder of the Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association, is on the task force.
We've had some issues here over the last twenty four months. Stabbings, shootings, other things. It happens across the country, happens across all the parts of the city, but we've had a couple of inches here where residents do not feel safe going to different parts of the neighborhood because of these high profile incidents. When you have kids walking to school and they're stabbing on the common, you can't have that.
This is an effort to streamline services, resources and strategies to improve public safety and perception in downtown crossing. James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Vice president JD Vance is visiting Greenland today. ABC's Terry Morgan reports that residents there are on edge.
Karon Nuk, Greenland's capital. You can hear the concern about what all this might mean. Do you think this is pressure on you guys much?
Yeah.
Second, Lady Ushavinz had a first plan to attend a dog sled race and promote cultural ties, but those plans were dropped. Many people here do want to see a deeper enhanced relationship with the US. There's a lot of resentment against Denmark, but an American takeover of Greenland.
Most people reject that and the visit happening days after President Trump promised to take over the island. And meanwhile, President Trump has reportedly frustrated that the Signal group chat story has remained in the headlines this as he continues to downplay it. CBS is Olivia Ronaldi with me, no.
One has lost their job yet, But of course, as this story continues, as there is now an investigation in Congress into this, and also some reaction in the courts that certainly this is something that's not just going to go away.
And the group chat in question revealed information about strikes on Yemen. Editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeff Goldberg, was accidentally added to the chat. The Massachusettstate Inspector General finds one point seven million dollars in uncollected cannabis licensing fees,
pointing the blame on the Cannabis Control Commission. The Loulsun reporting, the Inspector General says the Cannabis Commission failed to collect five hundred and fifty thousand dollars in pro rated licensing fees up to one point two million in provisional license fees, this happening over a two year span from August of twenty twenty two to August of twenty twenty four. A complaint in twenty twenty four spurred the investigation. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.
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