Fifty one and Sonny in Boston at six o'clock. Good Monday morning. It's Memorial Day. This newscast is brought to us by your New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drived headquarters. I'm Sherry Small. Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening right just in time for the holiday. We dry out today.
Cool but nice day today with times of sun and clouds and highs in the sixties.
Ecky Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg there. We'll have your full forecast coming up in traffic and weather. On the threes, President Trump says he is delaying the fifty percent tariffs on European on the European Union. Fiona MacDonald with the BBC has to tail.
President Trump says he's granted the European Union another month to conclude a trade deal and avert the imposition of new sanctions. He threatened on Friday to impose taxes of fifty percent on European imports, but following a telephone call with the European Commission President Ursula vunder Lyon, Trump said he had agreed to extend the deadline for negotiations until July the ninth MS funde Lyon said she was ready to advance talk swiftly.
The European Commission is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing policies for the EU. The President had previously threatened to impose tariffs on June first. Meanwhile, the President is standing firm in his feud with Harvard.
The President is defending his administration's decision to block Harvard University from accepting international students, posting on true Social we want to know who those foreign students are a reasonable request since we give Harvard billions of dollars. The executive action was temporarily blocked by a federal judge late last week, with a hearings set for this Thursday.
And that CBS is Willie James Inman reporting Harvard says the Trump administration's latest move against the university is unlawful. Russia stages is a night other drone attack against Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official calling it the biggest one of the war yet. Word of the latest attack comes after President Trump lashed out at Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump bearing down on Moscow, turning his fury toward Vladimir Putin last night after a massive Russian attack on Ukraine.
And I'm not happy with what Putin's doing is killing a lot of people.
And I don't know what the hell happened to Putin a week ago.
Today, Trump spoke with Putin for more than two hours, saying after the call that Russia and Ukraine would immediately start negotiations toward a ceasefire. But over the weekend, Russia launched its most intense aerial attacks on Ukraine in more than a year, including hundreds of missiles, killing at least eighteen people injuring dozens more.
And that's ABC's Andrew Dimbert reporting.
Coming up.
Observing the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis now the fort A WBC ACHU weather forecas We're going to have a dry Memorial Day. It's going to be on the chili side. High sixty four in the city, approaching seventy well inland Tonight, mainly clear skies will drop down to a low of fifty three in the city, low to mid forties for those inland areas. Tomorrow Tuesday, back to work. Highs in the low to mid seventies,
Lots of sunshine as well. Same deal on Wednesday, the high seventy two to seventy six, a mix of sun and clouds, and then at night showers will approach. And then on Thursday we're back to that shower or two in the daytime high of just sixty five. Right now in Boston it's sunny and fifty one degrees. It's six oh five. Back to News now, Somerville Mark's Memorial Day with a ceremony at a local cemetery yesterday. Logan Hall with CBS News Boston was there.
For Vietnam War veteran Thomas White. Memorial Day means so much more than just a three day weekend.
I came home.
We lost all fifty eight thousand, four hundred guys in Vietnam that are on the Vietnam War.
Thomas lost many friends in the Vietnam War, and now for a year he comes to the Somerville Veterans Cemetery on this very day and salutes every grave to honor those lives lost for you serving in Vietnam. Did you have friends that you that you lost in that war?
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Yeah, Actually, one of the promoment prisons, touch Hea.
He's the Medal of honor recipient.
Tom Kelly, director of Veteran Services in Somerville. Jerome Thomas helped organize the ceremony to pay tribute to those who sacrificed their lives.
Signifies for me as a veteran just brother, and says, so we've lost in the past those who want to perform me and sacrifice all. And the ceremony followed the city's annual Memorial Day parade. It took more than a century, but two Black Civil War veterans are finally being recognized for their service.
There's been neglected for over a century.
John Wilson Junior talking about Joe and Henry Whedon both served together in the same unit, the thirty ninth United States Colored Infantry. Within days, the two men will have the same headstones at ar Lincoln National Cemetery, and that'll we place on their graves in Frederick at the Sunnyside New Life Community Church. We still have descendants that go to church here. Got Tan Whedon is the great great granddaughter of John Whedon. His memory will live on forever.
Jimmie Alexander for CBS News Washington.
Yesterday mark five years since George Floyd was killed by mine. Minneapolis police officers, activists, and faith leaders gathered in George Floyd's Square. That's the intersection where former police officer Derek Chauvin used his knee to pin Floyd's neck to the pavement. David Schuman with CBS News Minnesota reports some in Minnesota have mixed feelings about the area.
No city autobody has been here twenty three years, but the owner, Dan, who asked us not to use his last name, says he's struggling badly, but this is.
A small people's character.
Come over here, have coaches in college.
I have to keep start vibe.
Dan carries a gun for protection since he was assaulted in twenty twenty, but we spoke to more than one who said they do feel safe living here.
And last week, the Justice Department announced that it was ending investigations into six police agencies and canceling consent decrees that were proposed for Louisville and Minneapolis, But Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says that reform efforts will continue there with or without federal oversight. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio APP. I'm Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio