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Good Friday morning. It's May second. I'm Sherry Small. It's fifty nine degrees in cloudy in Boston at eleven o'clock. Let's get you caught up in news. Here's what's happening. President Trump says he's pulling Harvard's tax exempt status. Here's WBC's Drew Mholland with the tails.
Yeah, Harvard, you've got mail, President Trump saying it is what they deserve the school. We saw this coming though. Right just last night, President Trump took a one hundred day victory lap at the University of Alabama and said this, it.
Is clear to see the next chapter of the American story will not be written by the Harvard crimson It will be written by you, the Crimson Tide.
Yeah, the president joining a Crimson Tide icon. Former coach Nick Saban, in a commencement address the decision to pull Harvard's tax exempt status. It's not over. It's almost certainly going to face legal challenges. Drumaholland WZ Boston's news radio.
And Harvard calls the move unlawful and says it will divert money away from things like student financial aid and medical research. All Right, Jen McCain is back on the standing. Karen Reid's second murder trial. Defense attorney Alan Jackson is asking her about her movement, including a drive to Kenton Police Sergeant Michael Lank's home after John O'Keefe's death. The Trump administration is about to resume collections on defaulted student loans.
Brian Shook reports the Department announced collections will begin on May fifth, and borrowers could be referred to debt collectors or have money deducted from their paychecks. Student loan repayment requirements were paused in March twenty twenty due to the COVID nineteen pandemic. The Biden administration opted not to resume collections and attempted to forgive student loan debt in a program that was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration has indicated it would offer no such concessions to borrowers. I'm Brian Shook, a Maryland judge pushing back refusing to give the Trump administration an extension to provide more information on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia deported to an El Salvador Prison by what the government calls an administrative error.
Stephen Miller argued on equivocally that he believes the administration believes at brago Garcia is an MS thirteen violent gang member. The judge has ordered information from the administration about why abrago Garcia was deported that way, why he has not been returned as initially ordered by the judge, what his condition is there, and those answers have not been forthcoming.
And that CBS is Scott McFarlane reporting now the four dawbz ACU weather forecast. After these clouds do clear out, we're going to see some sunshine and some really warm Temperatures will be up to seventy six to eighty degrees today, a spotty late day thunderstorm in the mix, but on the south coast capein Islands low to mid sixties. Tonight, a mild night, partly to mostly cloudy. There will be a straight thunder shower early but a low of just sixty degrees in the city, mid fifties for the Cape
and the Islands. Unfortunately, we're looking at rain once again this weekend. This seems to be a pattern that we just can't kick a mix of sun and clouds, breezy on Saturday, with a shower and thunderstorm in the afternoon that could be intense enough to produce some flooding downpours. Also strong winds on top of that, but highs will reach anywhere between eighty to eighty four degrees for the
South coast Capein Islands, highs will hold in the sixties. Sunday, a couple of showers around, cloudy and breezy highs though taking a dip around sixty in the city, sixty four to sixty eight Inland, and then we cool down even more on Monday. Right now, it's fifty nine degrees and cloudy in Boston at eleven oh five. It's Mental Health Awareness Month and wbz's James Rojas's some people are celebrating with a healthy dose of nature.
There are a lot of things people do to take care of their mental health. Some practice breathing exercises, others connect with friends and family, and some connect with nature. In fact, that was the most common answer for those asked about how they clear their mind, get outside and just get away from it all kinds of things.
Yep, a little bit of self care every day.
It's anything in the mountains, camping, hiking, anything like that.
The beach is just so vast and open and calming and not today, but usually, I mean it usually takes people back to a happy place being out next to trees, ghost user serotonin, and it releases all these feelings inside of you that make you feel better.
So anything in.
Your nature at logan James Rojas, WBZ, Boston Some News Radio.
Boston Medical Centers officially renaming two of the hospitals that it acquired in Stuart Healthcare's bankruptcy. Goodsmaritan Medical Center in Brockton is now Boston Medical Center South seen Elizabeth Medical Center in Brighton becoming BMC Brighton. Their affiliated physician practices will also adopt the BNC BMC Health name. The rebranding is part of BMC's goal to unify care across the region.
The BMC took over operations of both hospitals last October, significantly expanding its reach and also doubling its bed capacity. There's a new recall that home cooks might want to be aware of.
They have become hugely popular.
Meathan into Fooity, the.
Pressure cooker that crisps It's the best of pressure cooking and air.
Frying all in wine.
Now, Shark Ninja is recalling a round two million foody Op three hundred series pressure cookers sold in the US and Canada. It comes after more than one hundred people suffered burn injuries after hot food spewed out of the devices. There have been more than fifty reports of people getting second or third degree.
Burns, and that CBS's Jim Crsula according there. Shark Ninja says that the pressure cookers have lids that can open while the devices are in you, so if you have one of these pressure cookers, you can contact Shark Ninja for a free replacement lid. Evacuation orders are underway on the southern tip of South America after a seven point four magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Chile and Argentina.
New people on the coast near the Strait of Magellan have been ordered to get inland in case of a tsunami strike. No word yet on any casualties or damages from the earthquake. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio