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Hello and good Saturday morning, twenty three degrees and sunny skies in Boston at eleven o'clock. I'm Sherry Small. Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening. It is finally here a break from the snow and cold this weekend.
Early sunny skies for the rest of today. High thirty seven patche Klaus Tonight low twenty five downtown, closer to twenty in most inland suburbs.
And that's a hacky weather meteorologist Carl Erickson. And today is day one of the kickoff of a warming streak. Will tell you all about it in the forecast. That's coming right up to News now. A dangerous drive through the Proud Tunnel along the mass Pike yesterday concrete fell to the ground in the westbound lanes. Mass Dot Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver says inspections of the city's tunnels will continue through the weekend.
And it didn't fall directly on any car. It fall right right in front of them.
From I think the video that everybody has seen, so thankfully it was not worse. It could have caused some serious damage had gone through somebody's windshields.
For sure.
State police closed all but one lane as they, along with mas DOT, inspected the area and ultimately reopened the road. The State says this was an isolated incident and weather is to blame the result of freezing and thawing over the last couple of weeks. Drivers who were caught in the traffic stunned by what they saw.
It's scary. I saw a ton of concrete missing from the side of it.
I mean, I can't believe that it would just fall down.
I think it's absurd that for the amount of money that taxpayers are paying every single day, that to be worrying that concrete is falling in on your head while you're driving is a little bit absurd.
Mascot says the Prudential Tunnel is between fifty and sixty years old and say this section of the tunnel was on deck for its three year inspection.
CBS News Boston's Mike Sullivan reporting there an update to the officer involve shooting in New Hampshire. Police say that they tried to make a traffic stop on the Route twenty eight bypassing just after nine PM yesterday. Authority say twenty six year old Levi Culty allegedly refused to stop his car, prompting an officer to shoot at the vehicle. Culty remaining hospitalized with non life threatening injuries. No officers
were injured. The officer who pulled the trigger will not be identified until he is interviewed by the New Hampshire Department of Justice and the New Hampshire State Police Major Crimes Unit. Investigators say that will likely happen by next week. Congressman Stephen Lynch stepping up for veterans following mass layoffs ordered by the Trump administration.
Defying Congressman Stephen Lynch stood outside the VA Medical Center at West Roxbury to slim President Trump for personnel cuts ordered by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.
You don't balance the budget on the backs of our veterans. Even if a national treasury was down to the last dollar, would spend that dollar on our veterans and justifiably solved.
Lynch was joined by state and local Veterans Affairs officials who call the layoffs devastating for both the healthcare workers who've lost their jobs and the veterans who depend on the VA Healthcare System at the VA Medical Center at West Roxbury. Mike macklum WBZ, Boston's news radio.
And now the for DAWBZ at you weather forecast. Partly sunny today, we're warming up to thirty seven degrees, finally a weekend without snow. Tonight party cloudy, down to twenty five in the city, closer to a low of around twenty and most of those inland suburbs. The warm up continuing tomorrow and the next few following days. Sunday is a mix of sun and clouds with highs near forty.
Monday heighs near forty three. Again, sun and clouds. Tuesday, we will see rather cloudy skies and even some excuse me, some rain showers in the area at night. But as far as the afternoon goes, we're going to see a high of forty six degrees, and that high continues into Wednesday, with highs once again in the mid forty. All right,
let's check the region right now. Temp wise, we're looking at twenty six in Amherst, twenty four up in Northfield, twenty five in Athol farther to the east, twenty four degrees in Lowell along the north shore, twenty four in Gloucester. Let's go down south here, twenty nine in Plymouth, the capesne anywhere between. It looks like twenty five and twenty seven degrees, twenty eight in Waltham, twenty eight in New Bedford, and twenty five in Framingham in the city right now
sunny and twenty three degrees. But don't be fooled, it is chilly out there. The real field temp is fourteen. It's eleven oh five. Back to news. Now a local museum now home to a piece of maritime history. It's WBC's Kendlebule with that story for us this morning, throwing.
An intensely focused beam of light over fourteen miles. The Fresnel Lighthouse lens made in Paris and the late eighteen hundreds kept sailors alive in maritime commerce possible. But the coast Guard lamp is Tom Camello. It's much more than that. It's a work of ide their artists anyway, so they built something to do a job. But it's a work
of allt Camella, a company. The two hundred and fifty pounds of glass and metal from the Federal storage facility in DC where it's been for thirteen years, to the custom House Maritime Museum in Newburyport, where we will now be on full display, and museum director James Russell says it will be a display worthy of this historical piece of engineering. The lens will look like it's floating in space, which has gone to really very fantastic. Russell expects the
complete exhibits to be up sometime in April. From Newburyport. Kennelbill It'll be busy Boston's news radio.
A Jet Blue pilot is arrested at Logan Airport on sexual exploitation charges out of North Carolina. Thirty three year old Jeremy Gudorf forrested Thursday night, appearing in East Boston District Court yesterday on a fugitive from Justice warrant. Goudorf's attorney says that he intends to go back to North Carolina to face the charge of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor. A judge set bail at ten thousand dollars with condition that he clears the warrant by Tuesday.
The Trump administration launching an investigation into Mainz Education Department. This move follows a curt exchange between the President and main Governor Janet Mills over his executive order banning transgender girls from competing in girl sports. Are you not going to comply with it.
Law?
Well, we are the federal law.
Well you better do it.
You better do it, because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't.
And meanwhile, President Trump will be speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington later today. Here's a previous.
Speech at the conference, known as Sea Pack, will be a friendly event for the president. Populated by conservative Republicans. This annual event presents an opportunity for Republicans and candidates to share ideas and deliver speeches, but it is more likely this time to be a celebration of Trump himself. Some supporters are even referring to it as Tea Pack. In his speech, Trump is expected to tout his actions
during the first month of his administration. He's also expected to cite his poll numbers and criticize the previous administration. Linda Kenyon, CBS News the White House.
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