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It is forty one degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock and good Thursday morning. We're following some developing news as the Celtics are sold. The buyer is William Chisholm, a Georgetown native who runs a private equity firm called Symphony Technology Group based out of California. Chisholm paying six point one billion dollars for the team. That's the highest sum ever paid for a North American sports franchise. Co owner Wick Grausbeg will keep his job as the team's governor
through the twenty twenty seven to twenty eight season. His family bought the Celtics in two thousand and two. President Trump is expected to sign an executive order this afternoon to shut down the Department of Education.
Administration is already laid off half the department's staff. Sources say the Education Secretary will now be directed to dissolve the agency while keeping critical services and programs in place elsewhere. The order comes after Trump vowed to return education authority to the States.
That is, ABC's Andrea Fuji. Workers at the doe's Boston office were among those included in large scale layoffs last week, The Massachusetts Teachers Association said the layoffs jeopardized federal funding that supports things like special education programs and meal services. Though President Trump has said that he does want to shut down the department, he can't do that completely without congressional approval. The Israeli military is still striking targets inside Gaza.
Earlier this week, Israel broke the ceasefire that began in January in an attempt to force Hamas into submission. Your CBS's Raimian Asensio.
Israel's military said it has restarted ground operations in central Gaza, retaking a key corridor dividing the north and south of the Strip, warning gozzen's to evacuate areas turning into combat zones. Around five hundred people have reportedly been killed well since Israel's shocked air strikes before dawn Tuesday, more than a hundred of those believed to be children.
Israel has threatened total destruction in Gaza if the remaining hostages aren't released and if mus isn't expelled. The Trump administration is just one more hour to provide more information about deportation flights over the weekend and whether they violated a judge's order. Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.
The court giving the Trump administration until noon to turnover information about those hasty deportation flights carrying hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, who the White House says are violent gang members, but so far the administration has been stonewalling. Judge James Boseburg says he wants specifics about when exactly the flights took off and left US airspace after the administration ignored his verbal directive to turn the planes around and return the migrants to the US immediately.
The judges order Saturday blocked the Trump administration from deporting non citizens under the Alien Enemies Act, eighteenth century law that lets the president's speed up deportations when the country is at war. He declared an invasion by the Venezuelan gang. Okay, And looking at the four day forecast, we will have some areas of fog and spotty drizzle moving out and then moving back in for this evening. We'll top out
around fifty one to fifty five degrees this afternoon. Again, some wet stuff starting tonight, developing into a steadier rain late forty three for the low. We are expecting rain at times tomorrow morning as clouds break for some afternoon sunshine. It does become windy out there. Forty nine for the high. Milder Saturday, fifty seven to sixty one with clouds and sun mostly sunny. Sunday buck cooler, quite breezy, with tempts
in the mid forties. Right now, it's forty one degrees in Boston, clouds overhead and a bit of fog around. At eleven oh five. The Karen Reid case is back in court right now. The judge considering a defense motion to allow the jury to.
Know that the ar Cca crash experts were hired by federal investigators, and it led to a tense exchange between the judge and defense attorney David Yannetti.
If I allow, and I'd be very surprised if I did mention that this was a federal grand jury and that the federal how does that not open the door to all the testimony that mister Brennan just brought up that he'd be able to get into.
Okay, So, first of all, and this is later in my argument.
We're not asking you no, could you answer that now?
And then saying, you just said it's late. Hold on, you just said it's later in the I know, but I said.
You interrupted me, and I was just about to say, but I'll address it now.
Cannettie arguing the jury shouldn't have to speculate on who hired the experts, but Prosecutor Hank Brennan says.
Respectfully, the Commonwealth does not look to hide the truth.
The reality is if the jury is going to hear information, they should hear the entire truth.
It was brought to the court's attention that the defense wasn't upfront about their communications with the ARCA witnesses. The trial is set to begin April first for jury selection, this despite arguments from the defense and prosecution to delay it. It's a sure sign of spring March madness is here, and wbz's Drew Mamaholland tells us brackets are fixing to be busted.
By the time you hit the pillow tonight, you would have had the chance to watch parts of sixteen basketball games.
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Yes, it's one of the most wonderful times of the year for the sports fan, especially the college basketball fan. And you think you can predict a perfect bracket. Do you punk? Well, the odds of predicting all sixty three NCAA tournament games correctly are one in nine point two quintillion.
So you're telling me there's a chance.
You have a better chance of getting hit by space Read what who writes this stuff? Drew Mohollan, WZ Boston's News Radio.
S it is the first day of spring today, So what exactly does that mean? From a scientific standpoint? Mark Mayfield explains.
At this point in the planet's annual orbit, the Sun appears directly over the equator, producing essentially the same amount of time in daylight and darkness over today's twenty four hours. Then, for the northern half of the planet, daylight hours steadily increase until the longest day of the year, the summer solstice in June. Time in daylight will then start to decline again, eventually reaching the autumnal equinox this fall. I'm Mark Mayfield.
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