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Rain still coming down in the city fifty three degrees at eleven o'clock on this Monday morning. Hello and happy Saint Patrick's Day. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. This just coming into the newsroom. A hearing in Boston Federal Court is abruptly called off now. A judge had wanted to figure out why a Rhode Island doctor was deported despite a court order not to. But now that hearing is not happening after all, CBS's Wendy Gillette has to tail a.
Federal judge in Boston cancel the planned hearing today regarding the removal of thirty four year old doctor Rasha Allowe from the country after two of her attorneys withdrew from the case. She holds an H one B visa to work at Brown University, but was detained at Logan Airport in Boston last week after flying back from Lebanon to
see family. According to a lawsuit, the judge barred her removal from Massachusetts, but Customs and Border Protection says the order was only received after she was flown out of the US. Wendy July CBS News.
Meanwhile, hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members are deported from the US to El Salvador, where they are now imprisoned. The Trump administration is accused of defying a judge's order against using wartime powers in order to deport the migrants without due process. Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.
After some non citizens represented by the ACLU sued the administration, that federal judge in an emergency hearing Saturday ordered any plane containing these folks that is going to take off ors in the air needs to be returned to the United States, adding this is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately. The two planes already in the air, sources tell us the administration made the calculated decision to ignore that directive.
When the Trump administration denies defying the judge's order. Meanwhile, the Trump administration says that they'll target more student protesters for deportation after arresting a Columbia University grad student.
The Secretary of State says more student visas than green cards will be revoked as the federal government makes the case to remove mah Khalil, the Columbia grad students. Attorney Brad Parker says the only basis for the removal action is a determination solely by the Secretary of State.
That's it.
There's no criminal charges, there's no unlawful activity that's even alleged by the government.
At this point, Khalil's attorneys say they are challenging the basis for his detention, insisting again that he does not support Hamas.
At SABC Sonya Ricone reporting from New York City, the mayor of Quinsy is getting more pushedback on the plan to put two bronze statues at the city's new public safety headquarters that is set to open in October. According to The Patriot Ledger, the group Americans United for Separation of Church and State says that the statues of Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Florian should not be erected
at a government building because of their religious symbolism. Saint Michael and Saint Florian are the patron saints of police and firefighters. The Massachusetts American Civil Liberties Union has also expressed its opposition. The pair of bronze statues will cost eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Patriot Ledger says that Mayor Tom Coate he'll defend the statues in court
if it comes to that. Let's check whether overcast skies for a lot of US, periods of rain as well, some of that heavy still early this morning tamps nearly steady in the upper fifties to near sixty, and tonight a couple of showers, mainly early. Otherwise those clouds are going to break late. We'll see lows near forty thirties for many of the inland suburbs. We dry out tomorrow with plenty of sunshine but lower temperatures, highs in the low to mid fifties, and Wednesday a mix of sun
and clouds, another dry day. Highs near fifty in Boston in the coast, low fifties inland. Right now in Boston we have some rain coming down in fifty three degrees at eleven. Back to news now, Astronaut Sunny Williams of Needham could now be just hours away from a homecoming. She's been stuck in space for more than nine months.
The crew that is, we're leaving Butch Willmore and Needham's Sunny Williams launched Friday night and doc to the space station this weekend.
It was a wonderful day.
Great to see our friends arrive, so thank you so.
Much, Sonny Butch and two crew members who arrived in September. We'll all undock overnight tonight at one five am. Splashdown should happen just before six pm Tuesday. The timetable could change based on weather and sea conditions off the Florida coast. Rory O'Neil WBZ, Boston's news radio.
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to speak tomorrow on ending the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin confirming Putin's participation this morning. Now. President Trump told reporters on Air Force One last night that the talk will include discussions on land and power plants, a process that he describes as quote dividing up certain assets. Ukraine announced last week that it had accepted a US proposed thirty
day ceasefire, putting the ball in Russia's court. President Trump says that the US will keep attacking Houthi rebels in Yemen until the Iran back group stops their attacks on shipping in the Red Seat.
President announcing on social media that he launched what he called a decisive and powerful attack against Iranian bacts, hoothy militants and Yemen, writing on social media they have waged an unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence and terrorism against American
and other ships, aircrafts, and drones. The President then demanding that Iran stops supporting the Huthis immediately, writing do not threaten the American people, their president adding if you do, beware because America will hold you fully accountable.
That's ABC's Rachel Scott reporting US strikes have reportedly killed at least fifty three people in Yemen, including women and children. New Hampshire's Public Health Department issues a warning over raw mil that could be contaminated with listeria. That raw milk was sold at Brookvale Mercantile, located in Brentwood. The milk, labeled Brookvale Pines Farm, sold in half gallon containers with best if used by dates through March twenty second. If
you've purchased any of that product, don't drink it. If you have already consumed the affected product, monitor for infection symptoms, which include fever, muscle aches, nausea, digestion problems, headache, and a stiff neck. 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