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Hello and good Saturday morning. I'm Sherry Small. It's April fifth. Here are the uh. Here's what's happening? All right? Yesterday's beautiful weather won't be making an encore performance today, unfortunately, riskin Shelley for the rest of today. It's a brain and drizzled at times. Stepture is nearly studying the load of mid forties and thatsachy Weather meteorologist John Ferick. The full forecast coming up in Traffic and Weather on the threes.
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The Pro Right's Hands Off Rally is beginning right now at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common. It is among the dozens of protests around Massachusetts and nationwide sending a message to President Trump and Special Advisor Elon Musk about cuts being made to programs that are relied on by the middle class and working families. Protesters will march to City Hall Plazough with a program of speaker set to begin at twelve thirty, among them Senator at Markey and
Mayor Wu. The event, it's expected to run until about two o'clock. It will also feature an acoustics set by the drop Kick Murphy's. Businesses and consumers bracing for the impact as President Trump's sweeping tariffs take effect. Abc'sjo'brien reporting from Washington.
Sident Trump posting big business is not worried about the tariffs because they know they are here to stay, and arguing countries will be forced to strike new trade deals that will supercharge our economy. And now days away from the start of steeper individualized tariffs on more than fifty countries, from China to Vietnam to the European Union, the opening salvos of a trade war, China hitting back with their own thirty four percent tariffs on all US imports, and.
Wall Street reacting with huge losses for a second consecutive day yesterday, the Dow losing more than twenty two hundred points. Senate Republicans the approving a multi trillion dollar package of tax breaks and spending cuts. Senators working into the early hours green lighting the framework that's central to President Trump's agenda. Republicans muscled past Democrats with a fifty one to forty eight,
mostly party line vote. The passage pays the way for Republicans to push a tax cut bill through both Chambers of Congress in the coming month. The framework that's been highly criticized by Democrats of cutting key safety net programs now goes to the House. All right, the matchup is set. Now is down to two in women's NCAA Tournament national title game, their.
Quest for a second straight title continues. The South Carolina game Cocks advanced to their third national championship game in four years, knocking off Texas in the National Semis Friday night, seventy four fifty seven. Their next opponent the Yukon Huskies, who blew out overall top seed UCLA eighty five to fifty one. Yukon and South Carolina meet Sunday afternoon in Tampa, Rica Herskowitz for a CBS News.
And Now let's take a look at the weather. Cloudy, breezy, much colder. Today. We're going to see rain and drizzle at times, Temps nearly steady in the load to mid forties, and then rain hanging on tonight, maybe some thunder toward the South coast Cape in the Islands overnight low thirty nine. Tomorrow, we will warm up, but it's still going to be quite dreary, mostly cloudy, a few showers, around especially early, but high's will reach fifty five to about fifty nine
and then cooler. On Mondays we head back to work, the lingering rain and drizzle hanging on, most likely to the south and east of Boston. Otherwise for everyone else, just mostly cloudy but colder, high of just forty two degrees, and then we stay in the forties on Tuesday as well. It's cloudy and forty three right now in Boston at eleven five on this Saturday morning. Back to news now, several international students at UMAs Amherst have had their visas revoked.
Must Amherst Chancellor Javier Reas breaking the news in an email to the campus community. He says over the course of the week, five international students have had their visas taken away and student status is terminated by the federal government. Reyes's federal officials didn't notify UMass of its plans, and that the university only became aware from checking the Immigration and Customs Enforcement student database. The school is connecting the
five students to on and off campus resources. Chancellor Raya says they're working with the UMass Office of General Counsel and the Attorney General of Massachusetts to protect the community. He says any students on UMass sponsored visas should contact the Office of Global Affairs if they get a call from the Feds. The Trump administration continues to revoke hundreds of visas as it cracks down on foreign students. Some
students targeted over pro Palestinian activism. Emma freed Men WBZ Boston's news radio.
A former traveling nurse from New Hampshire is sentenced to three months in federal prison for stealing patients drugs. Fifty five year old Lorelei Lebroad pleading guilty in Boston federal court yesterday to siphoning more from patients supplies while she was working at a rehab facility in Danvers. She worked as a registered nurse for more than thirty years and
had a license in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The AG's office says Lebron voluntarily gave up her New Hampshire license back in twenty twenty one after being accused of tampering with morphine bottles at a rehab center in Darry, New Hampshire, but she kept working as a travel nurse until May of twenty twenty two, using her Massachusetts license all right. Disgraced ex Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died. Mccarack expelled from the priesthood after the church found him guilty
of sexual abuse. At one point, he was a spiritual leader of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.
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Theodore McCarrick was ninety four years old. Hospitals, nursing homes, and home healthcare agencies could take a hit from the deportation of legal and undocumented migrants. Here CBS's Christopher to explain.
The study published in Jamma Network finds that deportations could worsen already critical shortages of healthcare workers in the US. Doctor Stefi Woolhandler is one of the studies authors. To my knowledge, there's no potential pool of workers who could build these positions. Certainly, that's what the hospital executors are saying.
It's what the nursing home industry is saying. Researchers say about four percent of staff at hospitals and outpatient settings in the US, seven percent of nursing home workers, and at least ten percent of personnel and home care agencies and informal settings are non citizen immigrants, documented and undocumented Christopher Cruz, CBS News.
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