This is WBZ, Boston's news radio Rea defining local news. Well, look who decided to show up? It's Friday. Get in here, you little bugger. Let's bring it in six o'clock on this Friday morning, and we're getting started under partly to mostly cloudy skies. It is thirty six degrees in Boston. The News at six is brought to us by your new England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters.
Thanks for being here. I'm Jeff Brown. As Boston plots in early spring, comeback, clouds breaking for some sun later today with a high of forty eight, but it'll reach the mid fifties. Well inland. WBZ achiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg will be in the mid fifties tomorrow and well into the sixties on Sunday. Well. The first of three hearings is set for today in a Cambridge courtroom where the names and the best kept secret in Brothels are about
to be made public. Some of the more than two dozen men in high profile positions, which could include elected officials, professors, doctors and members of the military, will be exposed for doing business with the houses of ill reputed operating in Greater Boston and just outside the nation's capital. Releasing the names has been like pulling teeth, and an attempt to protect their privacy created their own cases in court. The three master minds of the sprawling brothel enterprise have all
pleaded guilty recently to federal charges. A pair of Harvard scientists through the White House when their work goes missing from a public database.
A lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of removing peer reviewed articles from a government patient safety website because they contain what it calls newly forbidden words. Those words and terms are transgender and LGBTQ. Harvard medical professors Gordon Schiff and Celestois say the removal violates their First Amendment right to
free speech. They claim that allowing the government to censor research for political reasons will almost certainly increase the number of Americans who die or are permanently disabled due to misdiagnosis At Harvard Medical. James rohas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Time is getting precious in a shutdown showdown on Capitol Hill, and it looks like the Democrats are gonna blink. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says, given the circumstances, he will vote with Republicans to keep the government running with a six month extension. Schumer says it beats watching the entire economy go into free fall, and he urges his colleagues to join him in a vote for what he would determine to be the good of the country. Senators have
until midnight tonight before Cinderella's Slipper no longer fits. Bruins faceplant on the road as the Red Hots. Senators teach the Bees a hard lesson. Bruins will host the Tampa Bay Lightning tomorrow night. Celtics will take their talents to Miami tonight and spring training baseball Red Sox also take
on Miami the Marlins in Jupiter, Florida this afternoon. First pitch is coming up at four to ten, and another reminder that Southwest Airlines is starting to act like all other carriers and on the ground, Amtrak starts poking that bear.
The Passenger railroad company posted on X this week, guess we're the only ones doing free baggage now. It then reminded passengers they can bring one personal item up to twenty five pounds plus two curry on items up to fifty pounds each. Southwest Airlines announced on Tuesday would begin charging most customers for checked bags on May twenty eighth. Passengers that have high loyalty status will still be allowed to check two bags for free.
I'm Mark Mayfield and started under partly to mostly cloudy skies this morning in Boston. Its thirty six degrees. The winds are relatively calm as we walk out the door. We will see clouds breaking for some sun from time to time today and a little bit milder than yesterday as we'll make a run at the lower fifties in inland locations might stall in the upper forties along the shoreline today Overnight tonight, more low clouds and some patchy
fog too. Will drop into the thirties this weekend. Seems like we're going to be on a bit of a roll. Temperatures tomorrow will be well into the fifties under mostly cloudy skies. It will become a little bit breezier tomorrow on Sunday for the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston. Temperatures later in the day, especially right after noontime, That's when we'll notice the difference as the tempts jump into
the sixties, some inland locations will get very close. I don't want to say this too loud because you don't want to jinx it, but some inland locations might get very close to seventy on Sunday. It's still winter. Technically we've got less than a week to go, but I guess we'll take it right. Thirty six degrees, mostly cloudy right now in Boston at six oh six this Friday morning. This trash is no one's treasure in East Boston. CBS News Boston's Mike Sullivan has our story caught on.
Camera right in East Boston, a man in a van jumping bags of garbage, trying to blend in with the neighborhood trash day.
Like this one.
You could tell it was all construction material and it was really heavy.
We spoke with a neighbor who lives nearby. He asked or made anonymous.
My landlord who looked out our window one day and noticed that there was a van out front.
It was sitting at the corner of Sumner and or Leeds Street. The person who owns a surveillance video came out to confront the person doing the dumping, telling them you can't do this, he said.
My boss told me to people threatened to call the cops. It was enough of a threat for the worker to pick up his toys, his trash and go home. A federal Anti Semitism task course is about to pay a visit to Boston. The panel wants to meet with Mayor Michelle Wu as well as her counterparts from New York City, Denver, and Chicago soon, all of whom recently testified to a
House committee on sanctuary cities on Capitol Hill. Officials with the Justice Department say the task force would like a word with each mayor about responses to anti semitism at schools and on college campuses over the past couple of years. Mayor's office in Boston says the city stands behind its local policies as it weighs an appropriate response to the FEDS. No progress in Middle East peace talks this morning. Negotiations involving the United States, Israel, and Hamas to extend the
terms of a recently expired six week ceasefire have gone nowhere. Meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin indicates he is open to discussing Ukraine's ideas for a ceasefire, but skeptics say Putin's ideas would make a truce an impossibility. Still, Putin says he wants to talk about it with President Trump over the phone and do it soon. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.