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News seventy four degrees in Boston. Right now. It's eleven o'clock on Thursday morning. Good to be with you. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Local lawmakers are speaking out in support of an Afghan man who's been detained by ICE. Here's w bz's Jeremy Russ.
He risked his life as an interpreter for American soldiers in Afghanistan, but now the man who we know only as Zia is behind bars at and ICE detention center in Plymouth. Zo was arrested in East Hartford, Connecticut, last month during a routine appointment as part of the process
to get a green card. The Department of Homeland Security says Zea is in the country illegally, but during a visit to the detention center yesterday, Massachusetts Congressman Bill Keating said Zia is here illegally and deserves better treatment for the risks he took in the battlefield.
This is nothing but a disgusting betrayal of that promise. A promise me to the people that risk their lives like Zia. But the promise made to our own troops that we would take care of those people that took care of them.
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal was also there yesterday. He and Keating say Zia has a hearing scheduled for next month. Jeremy Ross WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Homeland Security is updating its list of sanctuary cities and states they say deliberately refuse to collaborate on ICE rates. The state of Massachusetts as a whole is no longer on the list. Most of the cities that have been listed in Massachusetts are off it now too. The only city in the Bay State that's still listed is Boston, which is identified as quote deliberately and shamefully obstructing the
enforcement of federal immigration laws. Now, city law in Boston does not completely restrict local assistance with ICE, but it does limit that assistance to significant public safety concerns like human trafficking. The Kremlin says President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will soon meet to talk about the war in Ukraine.
US Special Envoy Steve Wikoff also met with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday, a lead up to a possible Trumps summit with Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski to talk about ending the Ukraine Russia War.
There's a very good prospect that they will, and we haven't determined where, but we had some very good talks with President Putin today.
It's unclear how soon a possible meeting could be held. Wendy July, CBS News.
And President Trump's new sweeping tariffs are in effect on dozens of American trading partners. Here's ABC's Rachel Scott.
After months of pauses and extensions over nine, President Trump's punishing new tariffs finally snapping into effect. More than ninety countries now facing tariffs ranging from fifteen percent to as high as forty one percent. Well almost all imported goods remain subject to a ten percent tariff. Those tariffs will be paid by companies, but economists warn the costs may be passed on to consumers for the rest of the afternoon.
That smoke that Hayes is finally starting to make its way out of our neck of the woods. We have temperatures in the seventies right now, getting up to about the low eighties inland, seventy five right on the coast, and that Hayes will gradually keep dissipating throughout the day and into tonight as the jet stream finally moves a lot of that Canadian wildfire smoke out of our neck of the woods. For tonight, mostly clear, low near sixty
in Boston, fifties in the suburbs. For tomorrow, mostly sunny. To wrap up the work week, hine year seventy eight to eighty on the coast, eighty five inland, and for the weekend staying pretty dry. Sunshine on Saturday with a high in the mid seventies on the coast, eighty five inland. Someday warmer. We've got low nineties inland, close to eighty or so on the Capean Islands. Our temperatures out there right now seventy four degrees in Brewster on the Cape
west of Boston. It is seventy four in Worcester as well north of Boston, seventy three in Amesbury. And in Boston at eleven oh five it is partly cloudy with a bit of Hayes and seventy four mathun School bus drivers could soon have another safety tool at the ready. Here's WBZ Sherry.
Small Salem and Peabody already have them. Several other areas, including Amherst, Revere and Lowell are considering them. Now add Mathuin to the list with Monday night, City Council first reading an approval vote on the proposed ordinance to install cameras on school buses to catch drivers who illegally pass them when they're stopped with red lights flashing.
Is for everybody to be more conscious.
It's a great idea.
Whoever has said they should do this, God bless that face.
That's Esther of Methuen. Her thirteen year old grandson Jordan, rides a bus to school.
I do believe it's a good idea to put cameras on the bus, just in case.
Called accountable for what they.
Did, offenders would receive a pricey ticket in the mail. The second City Council reading and vote is in September, but the School Committee would have to approve this in order for it to be implemented. From Athun Sherry Small WBZ Boston's news radio over to.
The airport right now over at Logan Airport. Kind of a tough day if you're flying on United after that tech litch forced a nationwide ground stop last night. Seven United flights have been delayed. Today, four have been canceled, but flights have resumed overall.
At major hubs served by United Airlines, thousands of passengers got the bad news. The problem was with the computer system that calculates the weight and balance of United aircraft, a crucial component in flight safety. After finally landing in Houston, Benjamin Fuintes took it in stride.
Things happen. I get it, but it's been.
A long day.
Jim Ryan, ABC News and at eleven oh seven, rats in Boston might soon find it a little bit harder to get their next meal. The city Council approved a new ordnance yesterday deploying rat resistant trash cans into certain neighborhoods where the rodent problem has become untenable. Those neighborhoods
include Austin, Brighton, Roxbury, chinatown Southey, and others. The council also gave the green light to create a brand new city office focused solely on dealing with the hubs, rat and pest issues, including new campaigns and potentially new policy. Some grown ups are turning to a childhood habit to soothe what ails them. Your CBS is Debora Rodriguez.
They go buy lots of names, binky, nook, knook, bobo, shooty, no matter what you call it, you don't have to be a baby to use a pacifier anymore. Chinese media is tracking a new trend of young adults popping passes to alleviate stress. Companies that have developed new, larger versions to meet the demand are doing booming business on e commerce sites. Their priced anywhere from a buck fifty to
a whopping seventy for luxury versions. Users say the grown up binkies provide a sense of safety they haven't felt since childhood, but doctors remind falling asleep with a pacifier in your mouth and interfere with breathing and mess up your bite. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
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