Fifty nine degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning and welcome. I'm Charlie Burger On here is what's happening. Well, Unfortunately, after a couple of nice days, we've got wet weather in the forecast today Today brings a less than ideal start to the weekend with plenty of clouds, breezy conditions, occasional rain, and even a thunderstorm leading to ponding on roadways with a high only getting the sixty one with Troy Thornton and the four day WBZ ACTU weather forecast
is coming up. Hundreds of thousands in Saint Peter's Square as Pope Francis this morning, at this hour is being laid to rest. The latest now with the CBS News Special Report. CBS News Special Report.
The funeral match for Pope Francis at Saint Peter's Square is nearing its conclusion. The homily delivered by the Dean of the College of Cardinals is held true to Francis's life as the people Pope, the People's Pope. Through a translator, this is Cardinal Giovanni Battista.
Ray in Mezzolo jen He was a pope with an open heart.
Towards the Vatican.
Says two hundred and fifty thousand people paid respects in the three days leading up to the funeral, and estimated two hundred thousand are there now. CBS News correspondent Chris Livsey.
Especially the young people here today, this is significant because they've never known another pope and who the next pope will be. They don't have any frame of reference for that, but Pope Francis.
In just a few minutes, the Pope's coffin will be driven across Rome to his final resting place. CBS News special report.
I'm Peter K, President Trump, French President Emmanuel Micron, Prince William and the Spanish royal family among those in attendance. Senator Ed Markey in Rome as well as part of the US delegation of senators attending the funeral is wbz's Brook McCarthy Looking back.
Senator Ed Markey speaks highly of Pope Francis, Reflecting on the time he traveled to the Vatican to meet the Pope to discuss climate change as he.
Was drafting the incyclical that he was writing on a climate.
Change Marque says the Pope had a passion for protecting the planet, and he hopes his successor will carry on that message. As part of a delegation of US senitors representing the US in Rome, Markey says it's an honor to be able to pay his respects along with mourners from around the world.
He looked at everyone as if they were God's child, and he wanted to ensure that they were treated with dignity and that our planet was also protected from the ravages of climate change.
Pope Francis was eighty eight. Brooke McCarthy WBZ Boston's Neowsradio.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulling a truck over to the side of a road in Winthrop yesterday and then detaining two people who are employees of a painting and flooring company. The owner of the truck says they questioned him initially, but he was released when he showed agents his US passport. No information from ICE as to what charges the two people detained will be facing. It was back in January a number of people were also detained by federal agents
in the Greater Boston area. Let's check the four day WBZ ACU weather FORECASTLEA Troy Thornton tells US today it's cloudy, it's breezy, periods of rain, even a thunderstorm. Temperatures only to the low sixties, clouds with some leftover showers overnight. As we drop into the forties. Tomorrow it's Chile. It's breezy, more clouds than sun. Only in the mid fifties tomorrow, and then of course as you head back to work, it will be warmer Monday, with sunshine high seventy sun
and clouds seventy five on Tuesday. So there's a lot of rain moving from west to east, some heavy rain falling in some areas, especially to the north and west
of Boston, but that rain is all pushing east. Right now in Waltham, it is sixty degrees rain right now in Lowell, fifty seven drier to the south at least for the moment, fifty nine in Brockton, and here in Boston right now with some clouds, and at fifty nine degrees at six oh five, A paramedic on duty the night that Karen Reid allegedly killed her police officer boyfriend John O'Keeffe, took the stand yesterday after the jury visited the scene where John o'keeff died.
We went about to cause that we didn't you don't think we would be witnesses.
In a murder trial, Kenton Fire Department paramedic Jason Becker testified that Karen Reid was visibly upset when she spoke with him in an ambulance. The night, police and emergency personnel arrived to find the lifeless body of Reed's boyfriend, Boston Police officer John O'Keeffe in the snow. Reid is on trial for the second time, charged with second degree murder in O'Keefe's death. Prosecutors alleged she struck O'Keeffe with
her Lexus SUV after a knife of heavy drinking. The jury and reads retrial got a look at the scene in Canton before Jason Becker testified. Testimony resumes on Monday in Debni Mike Maclum WVZ Boston's news radio.
Back on December one, thirty seven year old Colin Hullum arrested charged with assault to kill an assault in battery, allegedly stabbing a twenty six year old man multiple times outside the road Runner concert venue in Brighton. Now. Collum's thirty eight year old sister, Chondra Dixon of Brighton also facing charges identified in surveillance video from that same night punching one person kicking another after being confronted for cutting
a line at the bar. Dixon facing charges of assault and battery and we'll be back in court on June twenty sixth. The woman who said she was sexually trafficked by financier Jeffrey Epstein has died. CBS News correspondent Jennifer Kuiper.
Virginia Gufrey, according to her family, died by suicide Friday in Western Australia. She was forty one. She was a prominent accuser of the late Jeffrey Epstein and accused Epstein's former girlfriend, Elaine Maxwell, of grooming and abusing her when she was seventeen. Maxwell was later sentenced to twenty years in prison for helping Epstein's sexually abuse underage girls. Asked by CBS News in twenty twenty, if the buck stopped with Maxwell, Guffrey replied.
No, the buck stops when every single monster gets held accountable and our children are safe.
Geuphray's family says she was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking.
Euphray sued Britain's Prince Andrew in twenty twenty one, alleging that he sexually abused her when she was seventeen. He denied the claims and an out of court settlement was reached. In twenty twenty two, the Trump administration temporarily reinstating the legal status of international students whose records were canceled. A Justice Department lawyers as the records will be restored while ICE develops a new policy for handling terminated student statuses.
This follows the recent revocation of visas for many international students, especially those involved in political protests or with past legal issues. Like Hey, why you are now in the loop? News updates throughout the day. Listen to do WDBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Charlie Berger on WDBZ, Boston's news radio