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Sixty eight degrees, a very heavy, steady rain out there in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Water is starting to recede on our flooded out roads and highways after being shut down for hours. We are finally starting to see some lanes reopen on the Expressway. It has been a very difficult commute this morning. WBC's Jim McKay is heading south through Milton. He's just try to wait his turn to get by.
Jim.
What's going on out there? What do you see?
Plan to hey there, Nicole. Yeah, In fact, I just made my way through Milton and Furnessburg Parkway where they had some earlier closures on the southbound side. Those lanes are now starting to reopen, so you will run into about a mile back up to the Adams Street overpass southbound on the Expressway in Milton into Quincy, but then things open up up and actually getting to the Braintree Split southbound, it's a pretty smooth ride now outside of
the rain shower. As I will, however, though say on the northbound side.
Nicole.
State Police still has everything shut off at the Braintree Split. They have cars loaded onto the back of towbits over by Furnessburg Parkway because several cars got stuck at some of those high waters earlier this morning. So you have all that wall of traffic there shut off by the Brainchree Split and being diverted through Braintree and Quinsy. But it's still a mess if you're trying to head northbound southbound. However,
it's not too bad. I also did notice coming out of the O'Neil Tunnel coming through Boston, the Columbia Road exit was a big time mess. Of course, Morrissey Boulevard, as we know, floods out brutally during weather like this, so that was actually all the way backed up to the Greater Food Bank Boston Food Bank building. But outside of that, Nicole southbound, things are starting to move a bit, and I'm here through Weymouth and it's just a good
old fashioned range. We're barding live on Ruth three. Jim McKay, WBC Boston's.
News radio roving reporter, Thank you so much. Jim McKay. Yeah, we had that flash flood warning. It's still up for about thirteen more minutes or so for Boston and points south. We're talking about places like Weymouth, Quincy, Dedham, Situate, Holbrook, Avon. The heaviest of this rainfall has passed. That is the plus, and we'll get a look at traffic and weather together in just about forty five seconds right here on WBZ.
Another story we're watching though. At eleven oh two in New Hampshire, federal judge is about to hold a hearing on a class action lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order trying to end birthright citizenship.
This is not the first case filed after the Supreme Court's decision last week lifting the nationwide injunction on ending birthright citizenship. Lawyers in Maryland on Monday filed a similar lawsuit seeking a new preliminary injunction halting any action denying citizenship to newborn babies and certifying a class that would include mothers who are in the United States illegally, not.
As CBS News legal analyst Thine Rosenbaum, the New Hampshire plaintiffs include two parents, their infants, and a pregnant woman. It has certainly been a very tough morning with all this rain, it is mostly making its way out to see at this point the heaviest of these downpours. We are still seeing some rain left behind though, and it will take a few hours for all this to finally move out. Later on this afternoon, we could have a
couple of lingering showers. We've got a high year seventy and for tonight mostly cloudy, a couple passing showers mostly early alone near sixty. Still human out there. Tomorrow could have some afternoon storms west of Boston with a high in the mid seventies. On the coast low eighties. Well inland.
All right, we are taking a look at our temperatures now sixty five in Westford sixty nine where it's still raining pretty hard, and hang them north of Boston sixty five in Salem, and in Boston at eleven oh five it is right now raining and sixty six degrees. Well, we have been watching the situation out there when it comes to the heavy rain, taking a look at the rain gauge reports, places like brain Tree seeing five inches of rain six inches plus, and places like North Hangham
and Weymouth. These torrential downpours turning roads into rivers and highways into parking lots. Take Granite Street and brain Tree, for example, where a man named Paul had to be piggyback to drive Land by police as his car got washed out.
I came off from rose Cliff down the street there, but there was a cop car in front of the cemetery, and I thought there was a procession going on. They usually blocked to traffic, you know, So I came around him and I came down here and I got floated away.
And wbz's Jared Brosman has more.
I'm still over here in Braintree on Granite Street, and if you can hear that scraping sound behind me, that is the sound of one of the cars that they did pull out of the water. The guy driving and his name is Paul. He said he did need authorities to rescue them earlier. And it looks like he's got a piece of metal something underneath this car that's just scraping underneath the bottom. There's a lot of smoke coming
out at the back the car. Not sure I'm standing in the best position right now, but it is still at least getting a little bit better over here. For the first time, I can actually see the yellow lines on Granite Street in the section where it was flooding. It looks like the flooding on the Volkswagging parking lot is a little bit better than it was before, but still not able to get through here on Granite Street.
You're going to get detoored on the Braintree side right by the Ford Dealership, and you're going to get detoored right into Pine Hills Cemetery if you're coming up from the Quincy side from Braintream. J Brosnan WVZ, Boston's news radio.
And other news We're watching this morning another chapter in the court case with widespread implications as playing out right here in Boston.
A federal judge here in Boston about to hear arguments regarding the White House's attempts to require transgender, non binary and intersects people to use passports marks with their sex assigned at birth. Loyola Law professor Laurie Levinson tells us this case revolves around an executive order President Trump signed on his first day in office.
That said that people could no longer on their passport put in a designation of X.
This is now a class action lawsuit involving many parties before the court.
The ASLU and other groups have come in and argued that there's no good basis for the administration to make this change and they did not follow the proper policies to do so.
The judges already told the Trump administration they must comply with prior policies when issuing passports, so the experts say, expect a White House appeal to be on the way as well. Drew maholland WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
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