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Sixty six degrees in Boston. At eleven o'clock, It's Monday. Good to be with you. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. We start at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, where right now and the Karen Reid re trial. A cell phone expert for the prosecution is testifying on the stand is answering questions about health data that was found on John O'Keefe's cell phone. The prosecution is trying to prove that Reid hit o'keef with the RESUV and left
him for dead in the snow in Canton. Her defense claims she's being framed as part of a cover up. Now meantime, the Supreme Court today saying it will not take up Reed's appeal to have some of the charges against her dropped. Reid had been pushing to get two of the three charges dismissed, including second degree murder, claiming she was being subject to double jeopardy. And also at eleven oh one, a new report says three American children have been deported alongside their undocumented mothers.
ACOU advocates say The US born children are ages two, four, and seven, and one has a rare form of cancer. They claim they were deported Friday with their undocumented immigrant mothers. The Trump administration argues one of the women asked for her child to be sent with her, but the move is already facing a court challenge. Bradley Blackburn's CBS News New York.
President Trump has hit one hundred days in office, and a new poll is taking a temperature on how people feel about the start of the second Trump presidency. Here's ABC's Andrea Fujii.
The latest ABC News Washington Post IPSOS poll shows fifty five percent of Americans disapprove of how he is handling his job, the lowest for any chief executive during their first three months in the past eighty years. Chief among the numbers, he's underwater when it comes to the economy, where fifty three percent of respondents say it's worse than when he took office in January.
Now, the poll was not all bad for the president, as a majority of those surveyed say they believe his administration has been cutting back on federal waste. However, this was the lowest one hundred day job approval rating in this poll in the past eighty years. The disapproval for the president to and his job so far as raising tempers at town halls for other Republicans nationwide.
A town hall for New York Congressman Mike Lawler turning hostel last night, those in the crowd expressing anger at President Trump's immigration and economic policies, and.
We're just going to be yel back and forth that the time is going.
To run pretty pointy.
Trump claims Democrats are paying people to infiltrate Republicans town halls at the scene repeats itself across the country.
ABC's Christian Cordero with that update. Funny of sun out there today, and we have a nice breeze from the northwest about ten fifteen miles an hour. Certainly not as gusty as it was yesterday when we were getting all knocked around out there, but we have temperatures getting up into the mid seventies today, a little bit cooler right on the coast, but really not by much. Night mostly clear. We have a low in the mid fifties on the coast, and forty five to fifty or so if you're north
and west for tomorrow. Mix of sunning clouds. Another great day, warmer than today actually with a high in the upper seventies. Still staying cool in southeastern Massachusetts, especially right by the coast, really struggling to get out of the sixties. Wednesday partly to mostly sunny with a n ice breeze and a high year seventy. Thursday, mix of sun and clouds and a high year sixty a little bit warmer north and
west and cooler right by the coast. Right now, as we take a look at our temperature sixty six in Situate, seeing sixty seven in Whyland north of Boston, sixty seven in Danvers, and in Boston at eleven oh five, it is partly cloudy and sixty six. A very busy part of East Boston could look very different in the near future, and it's all about safety. Here's wbz's James Rojas.
Maverick Square is a very busy area of East with buses rolling in and out of Maverick Station, a lot of foot traffic, and of course a lot of cars, aymore crosswocks, special ones at the end. Parson times are just run straight through it.
You do see a lot of that.
You know they'll they'll come up this side and down that side. The city's transportation department is gearing up to publish an interactive website where people can review safety improvement plans and give their feedback. Something Mike over here is more than happy to give.
Yeah straight.
A complete bus lane going up and down both lines of the street would be perfect, and we do have too much double backing.
The city is currently in its research phase with the goal of improving safety connectivity and creating a space where people can gather in Maverick Square. James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio.
The Vatican says it has an idea as to when they want to start choosing their next leader.
We now have a date for the conclave. It will be May seventh, next Wednesday. This is when one hundred and thirty five cardinals who are eligible to vote will be deciding on who is the next pope. This is following, of course, the death of Pote France's thousands have already been to pay their respects. Line goes all the way
around the building here. Some seventy thousand have been through a very simple termb it's just his name in Latin Francisco's which has written on it James Longman, ABC News in Row.
Now locally, Cardinal Sean O'Malley will not be able to vote, as cardinals have to be under eighty years old to do so. The cardinal will be eighty one this summer. Eleven oh seven. Lawyers for Harvard University at Boston Federal Court today Federal judge hearing arguments over removed from the Trump administration to freeze more than two billion dollars in federal funds to Harvard University, vast majority of that money
going toward medical research. The freeze came after the White House imposed a list of demands on Harvard to get the cash back, including a ban on face masks, mandatory class audits, and cutting diversity programs, claiming this was all to fight antisemitism. The administration also threatened to remove Harvard's ability to host international students and to cut off its non profit tax status if it did not adopt the demands.
School refused, suing instead to get the money back. President Alan Garber saying this is government overreach and scientists are warning we might be heading towards several dangerous tipping points. They say are points of no return when it comes to climate change.
The report in the journal Earth System Dynamics look at sixteen different places on Earth, from Greenland ice sheets to the Amazon rainforest. It found that if government policies stay at their current course and global temperatures aren't lowered, the damage could be permanent. Study co author Tim Lenton.
Place is like the Great Barrier reef, but the reefs in the Caribbean as well, so that's a system that might already be at or past the tipping point.
Overall, Lenton says, a number of tipping points are already near critical levels.
We're at a significant risk, like tens of percent of crossing more than one tipping point.
Brad Gibson for CBS News.
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