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Mostly cloudy, sixty eight degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. Thanks for being with us on this Saturday. I'm Sherry Small and here's what's happening. Patriots Day weekend includes a taste of summer.
Today brings nothing less than the warmest day so far this year, with breezy conditions despite more clouds than sunshine. I expect to hire around eighty for Boston, but it stays closer to sixty for the Capean Islands and e Sacky.
Weather Meteorologist Latroit Thornton. We'll have the full accu weather forecast coming up in three. Celebrations continuing in Conquered and Lexington as America commemorates the start of the Revolutionary War. Governor Morricky Lee touting the role Massachusetts played in the formation of our country and the patriotic spirit is still present in the commonwealth today.
In Massachusetts, we take deep pride in the role the state and people have played in America's great journey. The spirit that burned bright right here and Conquered never faded at every moment. We've answered the call for liberty and advance the cause of freedom.
And thousands turned out for the parade in Conquered this morning. If you miss that one, you still have time to catch the one in Lexington that is scheduled to step off at two pm, a true sign that it is spring. The Swan Boats returning to the Public Garden for a one hundred and forty eighth season. Mayor Michelle wu Boston Parks and rec and the Pageant family kicking things off
with the inaugural cruise around Garden Lagoon. The Swan Boats date back to eighteen seventy seven, when Robert Paget, an Irish immigrant and a shipbuilder, opened for business. Christians gathering in Rome to honor the resurrection of Jesus, also wondering about Pope Francis as he continues to cover from about with double pneumonia. ABC's Marcus Moore reports from Rome.
Holy Week masses are set to continue and we'll watch for what appearance as Pope Francis makes after his long hospital stay from pneumonia just weeks ago. The faithful have gathered here in large numbers, hoping to receive a blessing from the Pope on Easter Sunday.
And meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared an Easter ceasefire in Ukraine. This follows several Russian bombing attacks on Ukraine's gathering for Holy Week services. New federal regulations may throw a few curves into the start of the upcoming commercial fishing season.
The latest amendment to the Maguson Stevens Law that covers us commercial fishing doubles the number of recognized godstocks in Georgia's bank, each requiring their own rebuilding goals and catch limits, none of which has been achieved yet. Policy director of the Northeast Seafood Coalition Vito Jacaloni calls it an atomic bomb thrown into the fishing industry.
There's only thirty boats left in the offshore fleet, and they've come up with stuff that's just not going.
To be worked.
Everyone involved says Amendment twenty five can't be implemented correctly by the time fishing grounds are due to open May first. Gloucester State Senator Minority lead Bruce Tire has been pushing the Feds for an emergency order that will make that happen. We have precious little time to be able to get this right and get it right so that our fishing fleet doesn't pay the price by not being.
Able to fish at the beginning of the new fishing year.
On May first.
Jack Colney says a correct emergency order is more important than a quick one. Otherwise, boats who said sale May first will find their season over shortly after. Kendall Bill to be busy in Boston's news radio.
And now the four d a WBZ achu weather forecas warm day to day, despite quite a few clouds out there, some sunshine breaking through. We'll see highs eighty to about eighty four degrees on the cape in the Islands, a few degrees of sixty. A shower and thunderstorm in play around very late this afternoon and early tonight. Then it'll just be breezy. The skies will clear. We'll have a
mild overnight tamp with a low of fifty four. On Easter Sunday Tomorrow, it's going to be windy and cooler, a mix of sun and clouds, a high of sixty four and then even cooler on Monday, Patriots Day. That might be good for those runners in the Boston Marathon. It'll be a mix of sun and clouds but high is only reaching fifty seven in the city, low sixties in the inland areas. A couple of showers around, but
that looks like well after racetime Monday night. Then Tuesday we're back at it with highs in the low to mid seventies. In Boston. Right now it's mostly cloudy, sixty eight degrees. It's eleven oh six. Back to News now. Parents in Burlington file suit over an annual mental health survey.
Arlington Public Schools is facing two federal complaints from parents over its annual youth Risk Behavior survey after some parents were outraged over the questions in a section about student sexual activity. The questions contained what parents called graphic and obscene depictions of sex acts for a survey given out to kids as young as eleven. School committee member Melissa massar Ardo apologize to parents in a recent meeting.
I'm very disappointed that we needlessly exposed young children to these topics. I was equally disturbed to learn that students whose parents had opted them out of completing this and other similar surveys were told to complete the survey anyway that sound.
Courtesy of Burlington Cable Access Television. Hilda Darien was one of several parents disturbed by the questions, you have corrupted their innocent minds by exposing them to explicit sex or sexual acts that most adults would not even tolerate being asked about. Kyle Brad WBZ Boston's news radio.
A local college student from Kansas City, is facing federal charges. He appeared in court the Doga accusing nineteen year old Owen McIntyre starting a fire at a Tesla dealership in his hometown last month, damaging two cyber trucks and two charging stations. He's being charged with unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device in one count of malicious damage of
interstent interstate commerce. That is FBI director Cash Ptel praising the arrest, saying it's the second this week related to Tesla targeting. Overnight, the Supreme Court blocks a Trump administration from deporting another planeload of suspected Venezuelan gang members from Texas to El Salvador. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting.
The court order concerns Trump administration plans to use the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act, used rarely and only in wartime until now to deport about thirty Venezuelan men being held in Texas. The Court says not to do that quote until further order of this Court. The ACLU said in an emergency filing last night that the Venezuelans had been told they were about to be removed. The Supreme Court had previously ruled that could not happen unless
they had a chance to legally challenge it. Michael Fuscuano, CBS needs Washington.
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