Clear sky's in thirty nine degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good Saturday morning. Thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right. After a few days of rain, today we dry out.
Look for a mix of sun and clouds to start the weekends to day with a breezy and milder day as well, with highs from fifty seven to sixty one.
That's ACU weather meteorologist LaTroy Thornton. The full forecast coming up in three to News Now. Two home invasions leave Dorchester residence shake in the attackers posing as city workers. CBS News Boston's Beth germano with detail.
This pair posing as city workers with the distinctive yellow safety vest may have struck again, Boston police say early Thursday afternoon, intruders made their way inside an apartment here at eleven eleven Blue Hill Avenue. Neighbors seeing a sudden rush of police.
I saw the three or four police card coming, had one ambulance or like a fire SIDVISTCRD is coming there. He knows something. I'll be scared, very scared. But at the end of the day, we got to handle this problem.
Boston Police say a man was duct taped, zip tied, and robbed by two men with a knife posing as workers, one in a yellow safety vest. Police say it took an hour for the victim to free himself before calling nine to one one. A similar crime was carried out earlier this month on Adams Street in Dorchester. An elderly Vietnamese man bound and gagged and threatened with a gun by thieves and similar clothes.
And Boston Police have not said what the thieves were able to get away with. The investigation continues. Budget cuts leave dozens of teachers and educators in North Andover out of the job and a school temporarily closed. The North Andover School Committee voted yesterday to cut the teachers and teaching assistants and close Kittridge Elementary School for the time being.
The Teachers' Union says that the cuts involve a total of thirty four staff members affecting elementary s schools North Andover Middle School in North Andover High and students at Kittridge Elementary will be assigned to other schools. The union says it will continue to fight to stop the cuts, and despite protests, the Boston School Committee votes to cut and merge some schools in its district.
It's very devastating.
Hundreds of Boston students have to pack their school bags for elsewhere after summer twenty twenty six.
We consider everyone here family, all the friends, and you know they're they're very sad.
Parents picking up their kids at paul A. Dever Elementary in Dorchester are in mourning for their school that's open for now, but on the city's chopping block.
Something I didn't even know until now. It's going to surprise a lot of a lot of a.
Lot of fans.
The five to one vote from the Boston School Committee puts Dever Elementary in the path of a four school wide closure to others are set to merge, and you know.
They expressed that they're going to miss everyone, so it's really sad.
The city, meantime, says the move will allow for more student resources. Decision meant to help match the number of buildings to enrollment in Dorchester. Jay will Lett WBZ Boston's.
News Radio Vanell lest check the weather. We're going to see some sun and clouds today. It'll be breezy and milder, no rain in the forecast, and we're bumping up the temperatures to a pleasant fifty seven to about sixty one, lower fifties for the Capean Islands. Tonight, clear skies, well clear to partly cloudy. I guess I should say it'll be breezy, a low of twenty eight, and then tomorrow a cool down. So definitely today is the better pick
of the weekend days. It'll be breezy, much cooler. We will see some sunshine, but highs will only reach the low to mid forties. On Monday, cloudy, some rain returning in, perhaps even snow for a time. For areas north and west of the city, high's forty four to forty eight, and then Tuesday just a mix of maybe sun and clouds,
not quite as cool, warming up to fifty three. Taking a look at the region right now, we're seeing thirty nine degrees in Falmouth, thirty five in Worcester, thirty six in Brockton, thirty three in Lowell, and we have thirty nine degrees in Boston and clear skies across the board. It's six oh five. Back to news all right, as officially spring. We've been waiting for that, but unfortunately that means allergy season isn't far behind.
Spring has indeed derived on the calendar, but the cold weather's not quite through with us yet. Ak You Weather Chief meteorologist Jonathan Porter says because of that, we're not going to see the full onslaught of pollen for a little longer, but when we do, it will hit hard.
We could be dealing with a period of time, especially later in May and June, that people who are especially susceptible to tree pollen dealing with some challenging situations as all the trees bloom out sort of at once during that time period.
He says.
Here in Massage, he says, we are expecting an average level of tree pollen this year. As we get into the summer, though, you'll notice a lot of grass pollen more than usual because we have a forecast that is wetter and warmer than normal.
And then the ragweed season, which is during the late part of the summer, typically early August in the Boston area, we're expecting about average intensity.
Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Karen Reid's legal team is turning to federal court in a fight to delay the start of Reed's retrial. This week, Judge Beverly Cononi denied a motion by the defense to delay the start of the retrial, ruling the trial will start on April first, as scheduled, While defense attorneys appealed that decision and a filed to petition in US District Court in Massachusetts to try to push back the start
of the retrial until the end of April. Detained Columbia University activist grad Mahmoun Khalil appeared in a Louisiana court yesterday. We get that story from Andrew Whitman.
The brief hearing was only about scheduling in his immigration case. The thirty year old sat alone with his lawyers, appearing in the court about one hundred and fifty miles north of and Rouge via video. Khalil's attorney asked for more time to prepare his case. The judge scheduled the next hearing for April eighth. The Columbia grand student was arrested March eighth after serving as a spokesperson and negotiator last year for pro Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a campus building
last spring. Khalil, who has no criminal record, has not been charged with any crime. Andrew Whitman, New York.
Meanwhile, Columbia University announcing policy changes one week after the Trump administration threatened to cut off federal.
Funding Columbia's interim presidents as the university will conduct a thorough review of regional studies programs starting with the Middle East. Columbia will also more protests inside academic buildings and wearing face masks on campus to conceal one's identity. An exception would be made for those wearing face masks for health reasons.
The Trump administration had pulled four hundred million dollars in research grants and threatened even more over the university's handling of protests against Israel's military campaign in Gaza and calling them anti Semitic, a label rejected by protesters. Linda Kenyon, CBS News Washington.
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