This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news. Really, you're kidding me, right Chester, It is time to do this again, six o'clock on a Wednesday morning, this time Hartley, Cloudy skies in forty four 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 with us on this Wednesday morning. I'm Jeff Brown, and Boston is on the move today.
You will turn out cloudy.
It'll be breezy at mild this afternoon with a showering places. Hi, it's the mid fifty. It is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Heavy rain overnight tonight, How about sixty for tomorrow afternoon's high temperature. Bruins get man handled by the predators at the Garden. The Bees run into the Hurricanes in Carolina. Tomorrow night. Celtics will host the Trailblazers the Garden.
Tonight in the Red Sox host the Tampa Bay Rays in spring training Baseball one oh five, first pitch in Fort Myers this afternoon, and Trump goeslong.
There's been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.
Plays all his hits in a prime trimee prime time address to Congress.
The raucous partisan booing and insults and yelling. At least five Democrats walking out of the President's speech to the joint Session, one being ejected for standing, protesting and refusing to sit down. That was Houston area Congressman Al Green, who outside talked to ABC News.
Poll accept the punishment, but it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this President's desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Secure.
On one of the dams who walked out, New Mexico Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury saying they couldn't believe what the President was, in her words, spewing out mister Trump announcing that one of the terrorist leaders responsible for the murder of thirteen American soldiers during the evacuation from Afghanistan will be taken into US custody. White House official confirming that to ABC News ABC News.
For Christians around the world, the Holy season of Lent begins today and Pope Francis spends it in a hospital in Rome, where doctors say the eighty eight year old slept through the night but was placed back on a ventilator as a precaution. The pope has been there since Valentine's Day for treatment of double pneumonia and other complications. Official say he's now in stable condition, but with a guarded prognosis, which means the Pope is not out of
the woods just yet. This weekend, we lose an hour of sleep.
Before you spring your clocks forward this weekend. A new Gallup survey finds most Americans would rather stay with standard time all year round. When last polled in nineteen ninety nine, seventy three percent of Americans prefer the later sunsets that come with daylight saving Time, but now that number is down to forty percent. Fifty four percent of Americans believe standard time is the way to go. Three years ago, the US Senate voted to implement daylight saving time year round,
but that bill then stalled in the House. I'm rory O'Neil.
This is nice, isn't it. We're starting this whin day morning under mainly clear skies called partly cloudy skies, at sunrise. It's forty four degrees already in Boston. We do have a couple of areas of shower activity which could pop up from time to time, especially this morning. They'll be brief in nature, at least in the early portion of the day and mainly confined to just outside the four ninety five loop. Otherwise, we're going to see mostly cloudy
skies today. Eventually it will be breezy, but temperatures will be in the load of mid fifties. We've got a storm system that is going to rake the entire East Coast over the next several hours. It's going to head our way overnight tonight, and that could likely mean heavy rain and some areas of thunderstorms in the overnight hours. Temperatures are not going to fall all that much, will only be dropping to about fifty tonight Tomorrow, more clouds
than sun. A couple of leftover showers early will make a run at sixty degrees tomorrow. It's been months since we've been able to say that. And then on Friday, it's back to more normal conditions with some sunshine returning highs in the load to mid forties. Right now, already forty nine degrees here are forty four degrees. Rather in Boston on this Wednesday morning at six oh five, more than four hundred government buildings could be on the chopping block,
including a couple of iconic locations here in Boston. The John F.
Kennedy Federal Building, right by Boston City Hall, is where government employees report to work, including those in the DEA, Social Security Administration, and IRS. It's also where US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey have offices. But soon this and the Tip O'Neil building could be put up for sale as the federal government tries to make operating cost cuts.
The US General Services Administration calls them and seven other federal buildings in the Commonwealth obsolete and unsuitable for federal use. In downtown Boston, James Rojas w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Mayor Woo goes to Washington. Boston's mayor will join her colleagues from New York City, Chicago, and Denver for what is supposed to be testimony to a House committee on Capitol Hill on the success of sanctuary cities. WBCs Drew mom'holland is following this story for US this morning and brace yourself. Good morning, Drew, Yeah, Good morning, Jeffrey.
Critics say this is a trap by Republicans who will bubble the mayor for obstructing President Trump's campaign to toss as many undocumented and criminal immigrants as possible. Mayor Wu has been prepping for this day, reportedly with the help of a law firm that charges nine hundred and fifty dollars an hour to the tune of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Jeffrey. I was told there'd be no
math involved. The mayor will attempt to show her policies to help make Boston the safest major city in the nation, but of course she's under a lot of fire here.
Already already, and the three other mayors will also be on the hot seat today. The proceedings begin on Capitol Hill at ten o'clock this morning. Thank you, Drew. No relief for weary homeowners in Boston. The city says the next property tax bills are about to go out next month, and they will look a lot like the first ones that were sent this year, which in many cases means a repeat of double digit increases. Mayor Wu has been trying to give residential taxpayers a break by hoisting a
lot of the burden on to businesses. A third attempt to get lawmakers on Beacon Hill aboard with a home rule petition is not addressed, and the deadline for tackling the touchy subject has come and gone. A testing meeting in Everett last night as city councilors make a move on the mayor.
Everett residents were sounding off about the State Inspector General report that Mayor Carlo day Maria should pay back some one hundred eighty thousand dollars in overpayments he received as longevity payments over the course of five years.
On behalf of the good people of Everett.
I hope the City Council does the ethical and morally right thing for justice.
Mayor should pay back one hundred and eighty thousand dollars and he should resign.
Thank you thanks.
After hearing from constituents, the Everett City Council voted to demand a repayment from the mayor, who has claimed he did nothing wrong and has been transparent and receiving longevity payments up until twenty twenty one. Along with the repayment vote, the city council also approved one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for an audit Jim McKay, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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