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News, light, rain, and thirty eight degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock good Monday morning. I'm Sherry Small. Let's get you caught up.
Here's what's happening. As President Trump baxist tariffs, consumers and the markets are reacting. We're seeing big swings on Wall Street early this morning, with all three major indexes fluctuating between slightly in the green and solidly in the red. Right now, the Dow is down two hundred and fifty nine, the SMP of two points, the NASDAC up ninety. Meanwhile, shoppers on South Shore worried about the impacts terriffs may have on their future plans.
Bill from Hanover has quite a big purchase to make.
We're thinking of replacing my wife's car.
That Trump tarriffs are certainly complicating things, and he's hoping over the next few days he can close on a car with his wife before auto tariffs really sink in.
But it seems on paper that they should end up increasing in price.
We want to be at least somewhat proactive.
It's quite the conundrum for many Americans in the market for anything from a new car to a new TV, not to mention the everyday staples at the supermarket.
You know, it's pretty much buy by the essentials by which he needs to make it through the week.
Talking with some shoppers outside of the market, Basket and Hanover who tell me they don't see a huge difference.
Jes Yet, I'll just give it some time.
A long term tariff policy will be changing prices as frequently as our early spring forecasts here in New England and handover Jim akawv Z Boston's news radio.
Israel titans it's grip on Gaza as it looks to pressure Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages. A new report says Israel now controls over half of the territory in the Gaza Strip. Forces have been raising land to help expand a buffer zone there. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Israeli forces shoot and kill a Palestinian teenager with US citizenship. Your CBS is reimy insensio with more.
It was a fourteen year old boy, Omar Muhammad rabet is his name, killed in a town about twenty five miles north of Jerusalem, and the mayor of that town said that an Israeli settler shot and killed him and then wound two are the teens who were with him. The IDF does have its side of the story. In a statement, it said that its soldiers identified what they called three terrorists their words, who were throwing rocks at a highway and they said, we're putting drivers at risk.
And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington today to meet with President Trump at the White House to discuss tariffs on Israel and more. All the four d a wbzach you weather forecasts. It's going to be cloudy, breezy. We'll see some rain, some of it mixing with wet snow at times, mainly north and west of Boston, but we'll only reach a high near forty. A very chilly day today and a chili night. Some of that rain
is going to hang on ending after midnight. There could be wet snow mixed in again, mainly north and west of the city overnight low thirty five. Tomorrow is going to be a day much like today, again, rain, a possible snowshower, becoming windy in the afternoon, a mix of sun and clouds just about everything Hi only reaching forty four. Wednesday's high forty seven scott Despite sunny skies on Thursday, we will see a mix of sun and clouds, highs
near fifty. We're seeing light rain in Boston and at eleven oh five it's thirty eight degrees in the city. To news now, a key member of the Baker administration announces he's running for governor of Massachusetts on the Republican ticket.
I'm Mike Kennealy, and I'm excited to announce my candidacy to be your governor.
Mike Kenneely is the former Housing and Economic Development Secretary under Governor Charlie Baker. He has formally launched a bid against Governor Mora Healy. In that campaign video that you heard that was released this morning, he said that Massachusetts is heading in the wrong direction. His campaign getting an early jumpstart. The gubernatorial election isn't until November of next year. Twenty twenty six, more international students studying here in Massachusetts
are having their visas and legal statuses revoked. His WBC's James Rojas, reporting from Tufts.
Tuffts University, made national headlines following the on camera detainment of an international student last month. Since then, another student lost their legal status. Over the past several days at UMass Amherst, six students had their visas revoked, the same as being said for three currents and two former Harvard students now over at Northeastern, and the university says several
of its students have also lost their legal status. Stories like these are creating a lot of anxiety and uncertainty on campuses across the Commonwealth. At Tufts, James Rojas WBZ Boston'snoos Radio.
A showdown brewing over the case of kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Mariland man mistakenly deported to l Salvador. Now the White House has just asked the Supreme Court to step in and block a court order requiring that he be returned to the United States. A lower court judge ruled that he must be returned home today, but the White House says it just doesn't have jurisdiction. CBS is Scott MacFarlane with more.
In a blistering opinion this weekend, Judge Paula Zennis said it was a grievous error and that the administration had no authority to arrest Garcia, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador, let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere. The administration has CounterPunch, saying the judge can't exert authority over El Salvador, where Abrigo Garcia remains being held.
In a statement to CBS News, Attorney General Pam Bondi said that she expects her attorneys to zealously advocate on behalf of the US. All Right, it's back to jury selection today and the Karen Reid retrial today, marking the fifth day so far for selecting a jury after tenders were chosen last week. The judge is looking to see it at least sixteen. Some legal experts are raising concerns
over the selection. With the massive publicity surrounding this trial, They fear that some potential jurors could be underplaying their bias in order to get seated on the jury. Reid's defense, meanwhile, has filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court trying to get two of the three charges thrown out, saying that jurors from the first trial, which ended with a hung jury, came forward afterwards claiming that they were only undecided on one of the charges. 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