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Pretty clear out there, very cold, but not as cold as yesterday, with a hide thirty two and our warm spot right now is twenty five degrees in downtown Boston. On Laurie Kirby. Patriots at Jerrell Pepper's leading guilty to cocaine possession this morning. The cases continue without a finding for four months, but Peppers still faces several other charges stemming from allegations he assaulted a woman in his Brain
Tree apartment. The trial was supposed to get under way yesterday, but then there was a water main break at Quinsy District Court, delaying it until today. Opening statements are now underway. President Trump's immigration crackdown is already starting to materialize. The Pentagon is sending hundreds of troops to the southern border. Federal prosecutors have been told to investigate cities and towns that get in the way of the Trump administration's agenda.
The state of Massachusetts has plans of its own, and WBCs J willetts.
That Governor Healy says Massachusetts is not a sanctuary state and will not intervene with a nationwide immigration upheaval. That does not mean, however, that Commonwealth officials are lending a hand to ICE. In fact, state police are ordered to only assist with criminal enforcement. At the local level, police departments are obligated by state law to not do the
job of federal immigration agents for them. In Worsir, the state's second largest city, public school officials have instructed bus drivers not to drop off students where they see ICE agents hanging around. Meantime, federal prosecutors are under direct orders to investigate any agency that steps in the way of ICE. Jwill Let WBZ Boston's news radio.
Memal On Capitol Hill, the US House passes a bill of further the president's immigration agenda. ABC's Rachel Scott.
And Immigrant Detention Bill is now headed to the President's desk. The Lake and Riley Act passing with some bipartisan support, marking the first piece of legislation President Donald Trump could sign into law. The bill, named for the twenty two year old Georgia nursing student killed by an undocumented migrant, requires ICE to detain undocumented migrants accused of theft and
violent crimes. The bill would be costly to enforce, ICE estimates it would cost close to twenty seven billion dollars in the first year alone.
Forty six House Democrats joined Republicans to push the bill over the finish line. President Trump promised this week to reinstate more than eight thousand troops who refused to get the COVID vaccine and were kicked out of the military. But a federal judge has just ruled that Boston Medical Center at every right to fire anito neo natal nurse
who refused to get the COVID shot. Alison Sears, cited her faith as the reason for not getting the COVID nineteen vaccine and for refusing to wear a face mask. In the ruling, the judge determined that the hospital had no way to safely accommodate her, given that she was working and caring for premature and extremely ill and vulnerable newborns. Right now, we're seeing twenties. We're headed for thirty two for our high to day. We're seeing some nice sunshine,
a little bit of a breeze out there. If you're on the cape, you might see some snowflakes falling. And then tonight nineteen in Boston, twelve to sixteen Inland. Tonight warmer on the Cape and islands. Friday, here we come some more clouds thirty two, even colder Saturday, but clear, more sun than anything. And Sunday we will feel so much warmer with a high of thirty eight. So these frigid temperatures could mean trouble for your car battery. Wbz's Jim McKay has more.
When you talk to people in the know at local auto body shops, this cold weather usually exposed as a problem you were already putting on the back burner.
Average battery last four to five years.
Stephen Donovan works with General Otto Supply in Marshfield. He says this time of year most people find out they should have replaced their battery years ago.
Anything over four years and it's not starting. You know it's time to replace the battery.
There are some in case of emergency tricks you can have up your sleeve, a battery booster pack for instance.
It's just like you would jump in a car.
Just got to make sure you're keeping.
Up with it. Like your phone, you gotta keep them shying.
A modern, more efficient way of jumping your car.
You can move it anywhere, which is nice. You don't have to back the car in and all that fun stuff.
In the end, regular service in battery checks when it's not below zero is your best bet in Marshfield. Jim mckawb Z Boston's News Radio.
Well, if you ever go to Mount Washington, you know it's much colder the higher up you go. How about working there, because these folks, the weather observers who do work on the top of Mount Washington are reporting it was twelve below zero yesterday and the blistering when it reached forty below. Luckily, they're working in a bunker that can sustain incredible cold weather and three hundred mile for
our winds. Several hundred miles south, many Americans are still recovering from a rare winter storm along the Gulf Coast. CBS is Katie Weiss is more from New Orleans.
The Big Easy is slowly returning back to normal after record snowfall and historic winter weather of that barrel through gave the city quite a bit of a challenge in terms of transportations. We've been seeing snowplows for the first time in the Big Easy coming through, clearing the roads that were hammered by this storm and covered in thick sheets of ice. We also spoke with some local businesses that are slowly getting back open.
Several people died in connection with that winter's storm, and of course it read Taffock on air travel all the way up and down the East Coast, including Logan Airport in Britain. Instruments from a legendary rocker hit the auction block.
Many of his peers consider Jeff Beck the greatest guitarist of all time. Two years after his death, his collection of guitars, amps, pedals and personal artwork has raised eleven million dollars, more than eight times the pre sale estimates, with bids from forty countries. The nineteen fifty four Gibbson Les Paul guitar, which featured on the cover of Beck's nineteen seventy five album Blow by Blow, fetch one point
three million dollars. Some of the proceeds are going to a local wildlife shelter supported by Beck, his wife, and his close friend Johnny Depp. Vicky Barker, CBS News.
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