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Sixty two degrees with sun and clouds in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good morning on this Memorial Day. I'm Kyle Bray and here's what's happening.
This just in.
President Trump threatens to withhold more money from Harvard University if the school doesn't turn over information about its foreign students. President Trump says he's thinking about taking three billion dollars from Harvard and redistributing it to trade schools. His administration has already frozen billions of dollars for the school, over which Harvard has sued. The President accuses Harvard of fostering and anti Semitic culture. Last week, his administration barred Harvard
from enrolling foreign students. Harvard sued, and a federal judge in Boston put that move on hold. WBZ News Radio has reached out to Harvard for comment. President Trump is also now delaying implementing fifty percent tariffs on the European Union for a month. The announcement follows yesterday's phone call between President Trump and the European Commission's president. The BBC's Katie Silver says much as at stake.
Just to give you an idea, the two economic super heavyweights trade around a trillion dollars of goods each year between and that's according to US government figures. So there certainly would be a lot of products, companies, and sectors impacted if we do, indeed see tariffs of that order place.
The European Commission is responsible for managing policies for the EU. On Friday, the President threatened to impose tariffs on the EU as soon as June first. President Trump will mark Memorial Day and honor the nation's fallen by laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, But it comes as Russia continues to attack Ukraine. Over the weekend, the President turned
his focus to Russia's war on Ukraine. It comes less than a week after President held a two hour phone call with Vladimir Putin in an effort to move towards peace negotiations. CBS News is Wendy Jos.
President Trump is lashing out at Russian President Vladimir Putin over his country's continued attacks on Ukraine. Posted on social media that Putin has gone absolutely crazy.
I'm not happy with what Putin's doing.
He's killing a lot of people.
We're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities.
I don't like it at all. The comments came after a big and deadly Russian drone barrage over the weekend and following a massive prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine.
And this morning a Ukrainian officials said an overnight Russian drone attack was another claim of the biggest one staged in the three year war. Two people are sent to the hospital after a car crashes into a house in Bronton. It's happened on Lafoy Street on Sunday evening. Bronton police saya driver was trying to pass another car when they went off the road, hit a fence and smashed into the house. Two people inside the car suffered non life
threatening injuries. The driver is expected to receive a summons. It's time now for the four day WBZ weather forecast. Today we're gonna see some sunshine mixing with clouds. We'll have a high of sixty four in Boston, but that will approach seventy if you're well inland. Tonight will be mainly clear, low of fifty three in the city between forty three and forty seven if you are inland. Tomorrow, we'll have lots of sun, will be high between seventy
two and seventy six. We'll keep those warm temperatures as we head into Wednesday, but we'll get intervals of more clouds mixing with that sun. We'll have some showers approaching at night. Thursday, it will be mainly cloudy with a shower or two. We should have a high around sixty five as we cool down a little bit. But then on sun on Friday, we'll be warming up a little bit. We'll have highs back in the seventies as we look ahead, and I may have some sun and a chance of
a shower. Right now in Boston, it is sixty two degrees, feels like seventy two and partly sunny. Passengers at Logan Airport are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. Wbz's Jabal Ed is there.
Hope it's Curty's nice and it's gonna get the Tampa safe. Standing in lines to check their branded Duffel bags in The Tampa's lacrosse team heads home in defeat after losing to a Delphi in overtime at Gillette Stadium for the D two National Championship. Despite that, players hold their heads high for air travel. Any words of wisdom for people traveling today, be nice to others. Words to take on the roads too, where you'll have company if you choose
to get behind a steering wheel. Mastot predicts today to be among the busiest on the roads.
Not as bad as it was.
Really, what were you expecting today?
I didn't know.
Despite the EBB and flow of people here at Logan Airport, the theme here is cautious optimism, Jay will Lett, WBZ Boston's news radio, And of.
Those folks heading over to Logan, they're part of more than three and a half million Americans that are expected to fly today. But at Newark Airport, travel remains tough. There nearly four hundred delays on Saturday, and the FAA says on average, flights at Newark were delayed about thirty five minutes. Yesterday. CBS's Chanel Call spoke to an expert about how this will impact everyone else.
Aviation expert Michael McCormick. Do you think it was happening at Newark? May and pack summer travel across the country.
There's an old adage within the aircraft Control System United States. Whoever New York goes so cooes the rest of the country. So if Nework is having a bad day and the rest of the country is going to have a bad day because so many flights go through that airspace.
Yesterday, Logan there were one hundred and forty five flight delays. So far Today according to Flight to Air we're only seeing thirty seven and no cancelations, so hope that can stay there. A bit of chaos in the sky out West with passengers acting up on a long haul flight.
Passengers wrestling an unruly man who authorities say tried to open the plane doors mid flight. The flight from Tokyo to Houston diverted to Seattle, passengers and crew using a zip tie to restrain the passenger. The airline all nip On Airways confirming the incident and saying a second passenger became unruly while on the tarmac in Seattle and that both were removed from the flight by Port of Seattle Police.
That's ABC's Morgan Norwood reporting robbers are targeting food delivery drivers in Mattapan and Hyde Park. The Boston Police Department is warning drivers who work for app based and independent food delivery services about a recent rise in robberies and the threat to their safety. In most cases that delivery drivers are approached by one or more people and are threatened, sometimes with weapons, before being robbed of their food delivery.
PPD offering some safety tips. They're saying to avoid carrying cash and report any customers who insist on cash payments outside the app's payment system. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Kyle Bray, WBZ, Boston's news radio