Forty two degrees light rain coming down in Boston at eleven o'clock. Hello, and thanks for being with us on this Sunday morning. It's April sixth. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening.
All right.
We're still still dealing with rain this morning, but with some warmer temps ahead today compared to yesterday.
That is, it is going to be mostly claudia and milder day, with a few showers around, especially early.
I have to fifty five.
The INCI will be mostly claudy with some rain and drizzle moving in ladload to being down at thirty eight.
And that's ack you weather meteorologists Matt Rindy. The full forecasts coming up in traffic and weather on the threes. Tens of thousands of people joined in Boston's Hands Off rally in Boston yesterday. WBC's Mike Macklin reports.
Thousands marched from Boston Commons, city Hall plaza as cities across the nation demonstrated in opposition to President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.
This isn't a Democrat issue, this isn't a mare Can issue.
It's for all of us.
To stand up.
Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll addressed the crowd on Boston Common.
Government hurks best when we have checks and balances, when we have a Congress that actually is willing to check the power of.
The most powerful person in America. That's how it's supposed to work.
On City Hall Plaza, Mayor Michelle wou drove home the message that she delivered to a Republican led Congressional committee in Washington.
Boston has never and will never back down to the police.
This is our city and you will not break us.
More than twelve hundred hands off demonstrations were planned in all fifty states across the country on City Hall Plaza Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news radio.
And it's estimated between twenty five and thirty thousand people attended that Boston rally and from the East Coast to the West Coast just about everywhere in between as well. Demonstrators criticize a Trump administration's mass firings under the Department of Government Efficiency and other actions. In Florida, people rallied near a golf course where President Trump spent the morning.
When asked about the protests, the White House said that President Trump will always protect social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. All right, Things certainly didn't go as plan for an alleged cop impersonator in New Hampshire. A Manchester man arrested and accused of impersonating a police officer after he tried to arrest a real off duty cop. The Union Leader reporting that Hampton police arrested twenty four year old Luke Foster outside a donut shop on Lafayette Road on Thursday.
He was arraigned on Friday in Hampton District Court. He was ordered held until a probable cause hearing on April eleventh. And now the four d A WBCU weather forecast. Here's meteorologist Bill Decker.
We'll see if your showers in the early afternoon, then mostly cloudy and milelder to finish shar Sunday high fifty five, clouds Tonight low thirty eight. Was some rain and drizzle, returning late and drizzable. Taper to showers tomorrow. Maybe some snowflakes I'll mix in. Otherwise, the cloudy, brisk and chile Monday,
high forty two. We'll see another rain of snowshower chance to start Tuesday, then at chilly afternoon clouds break for sun high forty four and Sunday and forty four again Wednesday. I'm acu whether Mediici reologist Bill Dagger at wb Z Boston's news radio.
Wels We're still seeing rain over a good portion of the state right now. Parts of western mass are dry at this point, and parts of the South Shore from Plymouth south the Cape the Islands, they're dry. Parts of southern Massachusetts Fall River, Taunton, New Bedford dry. But this rain is sweeping through, so that could change. Forty six degrees in Falmouth, we have forty five in Worcester, forty four in Brockton, and forty three in Lowell. In the
city right now, some rain still coming down. It's forty two degrees. Back to news. Ukrainian President Zelensky is criticizing the US and Embassy over its response to recent Russian air strikes. Jim Forbes has more.
On Friday, Russian missiles killed sixteen people and injured fifty more in a central Ukrainian city. Zelensky said the Embassy's response was quote surprisingly disappointing, accusing officials of being afraid to mention Russia when commenting on the attacks. The US Ambassador to Ukraine said the air strikes were horrific, but
did not specifically say the missiles were from Russia. Zelensky said the US quote is afraid to even say the word Russian when speaking about the missiles that murdered children. I'm Jim Forbes.
A big day for women's basketball.
South Carolina will have a chance to lock up its second straight national title when the game Cocks take on Yukon in the women's title game in Tampa today, and it is the third title game appearance in four years for head coach Don Stay squad, which unlike last season, has relied on a balanced attack at a deep bench all season long. Freshman Joyce Edward Word's the player to watch, averaging a team high twelve point seven points a game.
And that CBS is Erica Hirschkowit. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio