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Getting better on the weather front, warming up to a high have forty eight degrees today downtown Boston. The rain is stopped. It's thirty nine in Washington. The Senator's voting right now on whether or not to confirm Health in
Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Kennedy has faced significant scrutiny because of his outspoken vaccine skepticism certainly in the past, and opinions about the COVID nineteen pandemic even now and ahead of today's confirmation, Senator Marky told WBZ News Radio he is prepared to fight the GOP over what he calls a threat to public health.
This is bringing out the Malding in me because they're going right to the healthcare of the auditary families in state. In Nike, hundred and eighteen percent of children died before the age of five. The average life expectancy was forty eight years of age because of Medicare, Medicaid vaccines, clean water, clean air, with extended life expectancy by thirty years. They're putting all of that progress in jeopardy, and I'm going to be battling them every single step of the way.
Senator Marky conceies the Democrats don't have the votes to stop Republicans. He insists, it's important to put them on the record so voters can hold them accountable. Again, this is underway and we will have a lot more on the culbination of this vote. Shortly. Health experts thought measles had been wiped out. Now an outbreak in Texas is making them think twice.
The patients had not been vaccinated against measles. Vaccination rates nationally had been falling since COVID nineteen sparked health concerns that doctors say are unfounded symptoms, says Zach Holbrooks at the South Plains Health District in West Texas.
Running does cough, high fever, and the biggest one's going to be a rash.
Most cases are mild, but measles can bring on pneumonia at brain swelling. Jim rillon ABC News.
A shelter funding bill passes the Senate on Beacon Hill. Now leaders in both chambers must reconcile the differences, of which there are little. They agree on the amount of funding to keep the emergency shelters running through this June
four hundred and twenty five million. They agree on shortening shelter stays to six months and tightening eligibility, and while they agree that only Massachusetts residents should be eligible, the Senate bill creates a wait list for applicants who appear to be but who need a little more time to get it verified. Republican state senators did not like this, saying it leaves too much room for families to get
into a shelter who simply shouldn't be there. A House Republican is collecting signatures on a petition to have his colleague, Congresswoman Ilan Jma were deported. Brian shook with the update on Congresswoman.
Omar Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, became a US citizen in two thousand after fleeing Somalia's Civil War. Texas Republican branding Gill is circulating the petition, claiming Omar is biased toward illegal immigrants. Several Democrats have criticized gil and the Republican Party. Congresswoman Promela Jayapaul wrote on x it's disgusting that Republicans are attempting to raise money by threatening to deport a US citizen just because they disagree with her. I'm Brian Shook.
Visibility could be a challenge out there. We have a little bit of fog as those temps rise. We have a little bit of snow in Conquered New Hampshire and looks like in Maine still snowing there a lot colder. We're already in the forties. We're headed for forty eight today in particular along the coast, the Cape in the Islands, and tonight gale warning for those coastal areas, very clear, moonlit, cold in the twenties. Tomorrow's sunny and cold, still windy,
thirty three are high. We have snow, sleet and freezing rain Saturday night, perhaps all rain late, especially on the south coast and the Cape, and then Sunday a little bit of snow and ice for interior sections. Let's go back to Logan Airport. We've been tracking some of the delays there and they're up now. Just shive two hundred flight Aware now reporting one hundred ninety three delays at
Logan Airport. If you're picking up or dropping off, or if you're an uber driver out there, a rideshare driver, there you go thirty cancelations at Logan Airport. WBC's Jim McKay is talking to some frustrated travelers at Logan.
Got the text message saying flight was canceled and to wait for an updated plan. Bee Auckman is one of the many travelers feeling big time frustration. Supposed to be heading back to Toronto, but that flight status is up in the air, as they say. He's even considering leaving Logan a different way.
So weld inline. We're just contemplating our options, even considering driving.
Don't be surprised to find problems flying out of town this week.
I was supposed to fly soon, actually not.
Elena has her own issues trying to get back to New Jersey.
The information was that we didn't have any more pandas, so we went waiting for pilotts.
Get ready because we're only just getting started at Logan. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Eva's butcher's shop in North Andover thought they had made a massive sale five thousand pounds of meat to one customer. Of course, the deal was too good to be true. Here's Christina Rex with CBS News Boston.
Because while the money came through at first the meat was purchased on a stolen credit card discovered from the shop. Got a frantic call.
And they said, I'm not from Massachusetts. I don't live in Massachusetts.
I don't know how you got my credit card.
The shop now has to return the sixty thousand dollars it made on the sales, and another twenty thousand dollars of holiday profits are frozen. Two just a straight feeling of betrayal. The Alonzo family doesn't know if they could pull through this loss. For Roberto, who started Avis Farm as an ode to his butcher father in Argentina, this feels personal.
Talking about the people.
They were his Spanish like me, and they came in shaken by him. In other news, if President Trump can rename the Gulf of Mexico, Weymouth Mayor Bob Henlend figures he can rename Hingham Bay. On Facebook, the mayor rice with tongue firmley in cheek that he was issuing a new executive order that Hingham Bay would henceforth be known as the Gulf of Weymouth. He writes the action is justified because three Harbor Islands are actually part of Weymouth
and Weymouth was settled eleven years before Hingham. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to w Bezy News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Laurie Kirby. W Bez Bustin's News Radio