Fifty two degrees in cloudy in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good Sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. Firefighters continue to battle an eighth alarm fire in Boston. At a press conference, fire officials saying there was no one inside the building when that fire
broke out at sixty five Gerrard Street in Roxbury. Roughly one hundred and fifty firefighters have responded to the scene that they've been ordered out of the building and are now trying to knock it down from the exterior only. They believe construction materials inside the building are helping to fuel the flames, and a collapse zone has been set
up on all sides. They are asking people to avoid the area if at all possible, and are reminding nearby residents in the area to keep their windows and doors closed to keep the smoke out. Keep it here for the very latest updates as we continue to follow this developing story, or you can catch us streaming with a new iHeart radio app. All Right, The iconic Saint Patrick's Day Parade through South Boston steps off in just about thirty minutes at eleven thirty. That's an hour and a
half earlier than usual. The time change do in part to a push from Boston City Councilor At Flynn to crack down on public drinking.
This parade is about respecting our veterans, respecting our military families. If you can't come to South Boston and behave, don't come.
That is the message from Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, who says his office was flooded with hundreds of calls after last year Saint Patrick's Day parade.
It was pretty bad last year, and we all have seen the videos of the violence that took place up at Metal Ivana packing and other places, and the level of public drinking was excessive.
Flynn just one of a number of local, state, and federal leaders signing on to a letter to area colleges and schools saying college and underage kids contributed to public drinking, disturbing incidents of islands and assault, along with beer cans thrown at parade marchers and public urination.
And that CBS News Boston's Brandon Truett reporting there, all right, Saint Patrick's Day is a big day for drinking. So Boston police are reminding people to keep their drinks close because of a danger from so called Roofe's, the colorless, odorless and tasteless date rape drug. Now there are drink testing tools out, including nail polish that changes color when a drink is drugged. The best advice if you feel dizzy, nauseous, or light head to get help and never leave your drink unattended.
All right.
Astronaut Sunny Williams of Needham is expected to finally come back to Earth this week.
SpaceX capsule arrives at the International Space Station in it a crew of four to help that crew of two who has been stuck for months.
Dragon contact and soft capture complete.
And there you heard.
Dragon has successfully docked to the International Space Station.
We have condat from NASA TV. Butch Wilmore and Sonny william expected to be gone just a week when they launched on Boeing's first astronaut flight last June. The newcomers will spend the next few days learning the station's ins and outs. Whether permitting, the capsule should undock from the space station no earlier than Wednesday and splash down off Florida's coast. Matt Piper's CBS.
News and now the four day WBZ ACU weather forecast got to turn out windy and warmer throughout this afternoon, with clouds in a high around sixty five, periods of rain, some heavy tonights, and even a thunderstorm, and that will continue through much of tomorrow.
Some of the heavier rain could lead to flooding, especially on streets and poor drainage areas. Low fifty five tonight, Tomorrow's high close to sixty plenty of sunshine. Tuesday a nice afternoon high's fifty to fifty five, mixture of clouds and sun. Wednesday high forty six in Boston and near the coast, It'll be in the low fifties inland, and as we get into Thursday, high teptures again mostly in the low fifties. I'm accua with the bead realtis Brian's hops at WBZ Boston's news radio.
Checking the region. With fifty nine degrees in Springfield, fifty excuse me, fifty nine in Pittsfield, fifth fifty in Springfield, Tepa is fifty three in Woolster up in let's see Lowell fifty five degrees Plymouth fifty six, New Bedford fifty nine and in the city we have cloudy Sky's fifty two degrees at eleven oh five. The Governor reinforces her commitment to diplomacy with our neighbors to the north.
Governor Morehey convening a weekend State House summit with the premiers of Canada's eastern most provinces, important trade partners of Massachusetts.
I want them to know that Massachusetts remains committed to that relationship, and I want to continue to find ways to support trade between Canada and New England and Massachusetts, specifically.
US Canadian relations freed lately by President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada and the president's talk of annexing Canada.
It's okay to read one another about hockey games, but this kind of talked about a fifty first state, and you know, tariffs, it's just it's a it's nonsense. Really, you know, that's no way to treat an ally and our largest trading partner. So I hope common sense and a cooler head prevails there.
At the State House. Mike maclum WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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