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Good Morning, eleven o'clock. Cole, We're up to fifteen degrees in Boston, and on Laurie Kirby, let's get right to it in Washington, which shop administration as a warning for cities and states that might not be on board with his immigration agenda. The Justice Department this morning is telling its prosecutors to investigate local jurisdictions that stand in the way a beefed up immigration enforcement. That could mean tighter
restrictions on sanctuary cities like Boston, Cambridge, and Newton. This is one of several steps the new administration has taken to crack down on immigration. Just this week, on his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order that would end birth rights citizenship as codified in the
Fourteenth Amendment. Eighteen states, including Massachusetts, have already filed suit over that order, and over to another pillar of President Trump's agenda, The new administration is already dismantling the federal government's diversity, equity and inclusion programs. ABC's Karen Travers picks up the story from there.
The Trump administration says by five pm today, all federal employees working on diversity, equity and Inclusion or DEI programs and initiatives must be put on paid administrative leave. That's according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management obtained by ABC News. This move by the Trump administration shuts down the relevant DEI offices and programs across the
federal government. It follows his executive action to dismantle federal DEI programs, something he pledged to do on the campaign trail. Karen Traver's ABC News The White House.
Allegations of domestic verbal abuse surface in Washington and could spell trouble for President Trump's defend Secreary Secretary nominee, and CBS's Lynda Kenyon has that story.
She Hegseth's former sister in law, Danielle Dietrich, who was married to Hegseth's brother, has provided an affidavit. She describes how Hegseth's second wife, Samantha, had an escape plan if she feared for her life. Dietrich said she did not personally witness one incident in particular, but did witness others, saying Hegseth was verbally abusive and threatened her. She also cited instances when Hegseth was drunk and passed out in
both public places and family gatherings. Hegseth's attorney accused Dietrich of having an axe to grind against the entire Hegseth family. Linda Kenyon CBS News, the White House.
And on Beacon Hill Today, Governor more Heeey is taking the ramps off a new fiscal year twenty twenty six budget. That big announcement will be made in the one o'clock hour. Transportation and education may well grab the biggest piece of
the funding pie. The governor has already said she wants to infuse eight billion into a long term plan to upgrade the MBTA, another transit here, and hopes to infuse more than two billion into higher ed. The governor has insisted that no new taxes will be necessary to pay for it all. Some even cold today, quite cold again below freezing during the daytime twenty two to twenty six.
So many of you are in the mid to low teens right now, so it's bitter cold despite that sun, and again we are just having this arctic air stuck here. It's not going away even through the weekend. Looks incredibly cold. We're lucky when we heat hit thirty two degrees for our high on Friday. That's the only day. Maybe you're freezing tomorrow, by the way, a little bit of snow tomorrow if you're in the cape in the Islands. Other than that, what you see, what you feel out there
right now is the prevailing weather situation. So there it is eleven o five. It appears that Boston Mayor Michael wo will have at least one challenger in this year's election. WBZ Sherry Small has more.
Josh Kraft has decided to run for Boston mayor. Craft is a nonprofit lead and the son of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. He's expected to make a formal announcement next month. The fifty seven year old has never held elective office. He currently Lesacondo in Boston's North End as his primary residence. Michelle Wu has said that she will run for a second term, but we're still waiting on her formal announcement. Sherry Small WZ Boston's news radio.
Voters in Massachusetts last year kicked the standardized mcast exam to the curb, so this means homework for local school districts because they have to come up with a replacement on the local level, and mathuan just did. The Eagle Tribune says in lou of passing the MCAST, Mathouin seniors this year will have the option to earn their diploma based on their performance in a few core classes. Similar
requirements have also been formalized in Lowell. Some school districts have complained that there hasn't been enough guidance from state ed officials on the next best steps here now that the MCAST is gone. So Governor Healy just created a new statewide graduation Council. They're going to come up with a new vision for setting high school graduates up for success. Stakeholders, students, parents, educators,
lawmakers are all on this council. By the way, you can still take the MCASS and if you do really well, it does count. It's just not mandatory in terms of getting your diploma. And this story now out of Newton, where they have just passed a Generational Tobacco Band dobli bzh will Lett is more.
The generational band to keep tobacco and e cigarette products out of the hands of Newton's younger crowd passes nineteen to four Council, where Susan Albright voted in favor.
Tobacco is not like ice cream or vegetable soup for taking away a product that kills when you says directed.
With this, those born on or after March first, two thousand and four cannot go to a store in Newton and make that purchase. Council, where Stephen Farrell voices his opposition that the ordinance of effectively splits up the rights of adults decades down the line.
What this ordinance does is create a special class of adults over the age of twenty one will not be able to make a personal legal decision for themselves.
Newton joins Brookline and Needham to make up more than a dozen Massachusetts communities that have passed a generational ban on tobacco. J Willett WBZ, Boston's news radio