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Some light rain coming down in the city forty eight degrees at eleven o'clock. Hello, thanks for being with us on this first day of March. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right, Enjoy this mild day. It's about to.
Get cold, increasingly wendy for the rest of today.
Clouds of sunshine, a shower around.
We'll top out in the low fifties, and Wendy are much colder. Tonight's guys clear around at twenty and.
That was ACU weather meteorologist John Feerick. Tomorrow, we're looking at highs reaching just thirty one decrease in the city. Full forecast coming up. The mass Pike caused massive problems for computers yesterday. Here CBS News Boston's Julie McDonald with the tail.
Travelers winding westbound found themselves hardly moving all day long. Emergency repairs on the mass Pike at the Root four ninety five interchange in Hopkins forced everyone off and onto Route nine for a detour that derailed ETAs for hours.
Though it was in accident because I used the GPS so was hoping it's whatever your outed me, but I didn't say anything.
Mass Doot said.
A construction worker noticed unusual cracking between the lanes of the turnpike first thing Friday morning. An inspector determined that without emergency repairs, the issue could have created a huge sinkhole.
We believe what happened is that as part of that construction activity, the contractor putting some new piles in disturbed some of that soil, which caused that embankment about thirty feet high up against the turnpike to become destabilized. That caused that settlement to start to occur.
All lanes reopened by nine pm. Investigators are looking for answers in Roxbury after more than a dozen people allegedly attacked police during an arrest. This happened Thursday afternoon. Boston police got word of shots fired from a man matching a susp that was wanted for gun possession after fleeing the scene of an arrest earlier in the day. State troopers then tried to arrest that suspect, along with two
other men. When things took a turn, several people, they say, attempted to stop police from making the arrest, punching them kicking them, pushing them to the ground. Boston police arrived. They were able to take two juveniles and one adult into custody. After last night's explosive conversation in the Oval Office, President Trump now cast blame on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky for blowing up the mineral deal.
Trump has brushed off concerns that Putin could violate a peace deal, refusing to guarantee Ukraine's security so Russia won't invade again. I asked the President who he trusts more?
Do you trust Putin nor Zelenski?
More?
Look, I don't trust or distrust anybody.
I just want to get a deal done. And if the deal happens, good.
But you can't embolden somebody that does not have the cards.
And all of a sudden, that person says, oh well, now I.
Could keep fighting.
That's ABC's Selina Wang reporting from Washington and now the Fort awbz ACU weather forecast. Today is a mild day. We'll see a high of fifty two. It'll be windy, a mix of sun and clouds, and there are showers around. These are spotty showers hit and miss areas. Tonight it's going to be windy, sharply colder. We'll see a clear sky,
but low's near twenty ACU weather. Real field temps will drop into the single digits tonight, and then tomorrow we'll see a twenty degree drop in the high temp, reaching a high of thirty one degrees, mostly sunny, but blustering
and cold, real fields no higher than the teens. And then on Monday, still another cold day, not as windy, plenty of sunshine, but will only warm up to thirty And then on Tuesday, some sun followed by clouds, a milder afternoon, warming up to forty five degrees in the city. Right now we're seeing let's see, is it still raining? Just cloudy skies Right now we've seen often on rain throughout the morning. Forty eight degrees in Boston at eleven
oh six. All right. The Department of Public Utilities approves plans to slash expensive utility bills.
Don't have a whole buff to heat?
How much money are you going to save?
Elijah Desuza, the founder of the viral Facebook group Citizens Against Ever Source. He spent all day Friday outside the Department of Public Utilities, hoping to put pressure on the DPU to drastically cut heating bills. On Friday, the DPU approved plans from utility companies that will cut bills by seven to sixteen percent, money that will then be made up interest free in spring and summer bills. We do
not want way away, We want affordable energy. We don't want to space these expensive months out then months where it's economical. DESUSA demanded something far more drastic, the pausing of the Mass Save program, which gives consumers rebates for making their homes more energy efficient, paid for in the delivery fee of you your gas an electric bill.
And that was CBS News Boston's Christina Rex reporting from the State House. Newbery Ports iconic Pink House is set to be demolished this month after a year's long fight to save it fails. Governor Mora heely saying the US Fish and Wildlife Service will be going ahead with plans
to demolish the abandoned building on Plum Island. The plants to tear down were paused back in October after Governor Helyy and others try to step in and preserve it, but without a workable solution, that's will continue to demolish it all right, a major North Carolina highway that has been shut down since Hurricane Helene, is back open this morning.
Deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene washed away much of I forty through the Pigeon River Gorge in the North Carolina Mountains near the Tennessee border. The highway partially reopens today with one lane of traffic in each direction. The travel lanes are severely reduced, and the speed limit has been reduced to thirty.
Five miles per hour.
North Carolina Department of Transportation engineer Nathan Tanner. We would not open this road if we did not feel confident that it was safe for people to travel it. It's unknown how long it will take to fully rebuild and reopen the busy interstate highway. Jim Chrysula, CBS News, Ashville, North Carolina.
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