1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 2: We defining local news. 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 3: It's eleven o'clock right now in Boston, partly cloudy sky's 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 3: fifty seven degrees. We'll get the full forecast coming up 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 3: in just a few minutes. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 3: Here is what's happening. Baseball is back. It is opening day. 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 3: Wbz's drewm o'holland gets us ready. 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 4: Red Sox begin the season today at four to ten Cincinnati. Yep, 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 4: in Cincinnati. That's right, the first time these two teams 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 4: meet for an opening day ever. But of course there 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 4: is a long history hereof it stays fair. Holda Carlton 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 4: Fisk nineteen seventy five home run forces a Game seven 13 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 4: in the World Series that uugh went to the Reds, 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 4: Dick Stockton with the legendary call. As for this year's 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 4: Red Sox, Vegas has them as a playoff team if 16 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 4: you crunch the numbers barely, but that wildcard is helpful. 17 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 4: A long season ahead, It all begins today, one game 18 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 4: at a time. A happy opening Day. Drew maholland, WBZ 19 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 4: Boston's news. 20 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 3: Radio meantime at eleven oh one, Today's day forty one 21 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 3: if the partial government shutdown. Lawmakers in Washington are still 22 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 3: stalled over how to fund the Department of Homeland Security. 23 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 3: They're trying to come to a deal quickly as their 24 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 3: Eastern recess starts tomorrow. Democrats are demanding to include reforms 25 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 3: for ICE and have rejected any proposals that come without it. 26 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,279 Speaker 3: Republicans have rejected a Democrat proposal to fund TSA alone. 27 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 3: Here s ABCSJ O'Brien. 28 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: We're told that bipartisan negotiations on that are still creeping along, 29 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: and this morning, President Trump is now turning up the 30 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,119 Speaker 1: pressure on Republicans. In a post just moments ago, he 31 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: once again called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the Senate's 32 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: long standing filibuster rules, something that Republicans have been rejecting 33 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: now for months, and use that mechanism to fund the 34 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security as well as past the President's 35 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: voter id legislation. 36 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 3: Meantime, ICE agents have started to check traveler IDs at 37 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 3: some airports. 38 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: They had mostly been patrolling terminals and standing watch while 39 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 2: the shorthand to TSA screen passengers, but Wednesday, ICE agents 40 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: were seen verifying IDs at New York's LaGuardia and at 41 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 2: the airports in Atlanta and Phoenix. The Department of Homeland 42 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 2: Security says those ICE officers receive standard TSA training curriculum and. 43 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: They're doing such an unbelievable job at the airports. 44 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 2: President Trump says he's ready to send more help to 45 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: airports if we have to. 46 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 5: We're going to send in the National Guard if we 47 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 5: need to. 48 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 2: Michael Wallace, CBS News. 49 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 3: At eleven oh two. Boston School Committee has approved a 50 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 3: new one point seven million dollar budget for the upcoming 51 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 3: school year. Educators around the district, though, are not too 52 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 3: happy about what it could bring. The new spending plan 53 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 3: calls for a four point five percent increase over current levels, 54 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 3: but the devil's in the details here is it also 55 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 3: calls for up to four hundred layoffs. The school committee 56 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 3: unanimously approving the budget hours after Boston teacher's rally to 57 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 3: try to stop the possible cuts. The district says the 58 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 3: budget prioritizes student facing strategies and it's necessary to deal 59 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 3: with declining enrollment. For the rest of the afternoon, it 60 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 3: will warm up nicely. It's going to be a beautif 61 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 3: full mild day. We've got temperatures in the low to 62 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 3: mid sixties across the board for the forecast, and we 63 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 3: are looking at plenty of sun out there right now, 64 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 3: except for if you're south of Boston. Still seeing a 65 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 3: couple of stray showers on the south coast and a 66 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 3: couple of the islands in the area around Woods Hole 67 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 3: getting over toward the Vineyard. But again those are moving 68 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: out pretty quick, and the showers we were seeing on 69 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 3: Cape and those have moved out to sea. So again 70 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 3: this is all getting out of our way and looking 71 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 3: forward to a beautiful afternoon with the nice breeze and 72 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 3: again highs in the sixties. A little bit cooler though 73 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 3: on the Capean Islands where the wind there is blowing 74 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 3: up to about thirty miles an hour at times. For tonight, cloudy, 75 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 3: some more rain moves in. We have a low in 76 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 3: the low to mid forties for tomorrow. We will have 77 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: some early showers left over from that rain coming in tonight. 78 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 3: Otherwise breezy conditions, clouds breaking up in the afternoon him 79 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 3: not too far from fifty before that falls into the forties. 80 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: Weekend so far looking dry. We've got a high in 81 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 3: the upper thirties Saturday and Sunday, sun mixing with clouds 82 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 3: and a high near fifty. It's fifty one degrees in 83 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 3: Leminster right now. Fifty one is well in Ipswich south 84 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 3: of Boston, fifty four in Bridgewater. In Boston at eleveno 85 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 3: five partly cloudy, and fifty seven in the city. Meantime, 86 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 3: we're watching some developing news on the South Shore. We 87 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 3: have now learned a suspended Plymouth police officer was arrested 88 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 3: this morning and charged with child rape the Plymouth County 89 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 3: DA's office as Officer Samantha Pelrine and her husband, Daniel Farrand, 90 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,679 Speaker 3: were taken into custody at their home this morning. Officer 91 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 3: pel Rene is facing four counts of child rape. It 92 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 3: is unclear what charges her husband is facing now. Pel 93 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 3: Rene has been on leave from the Plymouth Police since 94 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 3: the seventeenth. That is the same day the alleged victim 95 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 3: filed an abuse prevention order in court, claiming he had 96 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 3: been physically and sexually abused by the pair for years. 97 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 3: Now to the war in the Middle East, and President 98 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 3: Trump continues to insist Iran and the US are engaged 99 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: in talks to end the war. Tehran, though at least 100 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 3: publicly is denying it. Sources do say the countries have 101 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 3: been trading messages through Pakistan. Here's ABC's Rachel Scott. 102 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 6: The Whitehouse now upping the pressure to get Iran to 103 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 6: come to the table, threatening to strike again if no 104 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 6: deal is made. A month into this war, the President 105 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 6: has refused to rule out boots on the ground. Lawmakers 106 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 6: on both sides of the aisle uneasy about the prospect. 107 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 6: On Capitol Hill, Republicans leaving a classified briefing with the 108 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 6: Pentagon frustrated Congressman Nancy May, saying the military objectives outlined 109 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 6: in that briefing were not the same as the justifications 110 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 6: given to the American public for the war. 111 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 3: Meantime, Israel says it has killed the head of the 112 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 3: Iranian Revolutionary Guards Navy, who was the key official overseeing 113 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 3: the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has not 114 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 3: immediately acknowledged that killing. Over at the Harvard University campus, 115 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 3: a new response is coming to a recent lawsuit from 116 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 3: the Trump administration claiming the school did not protect Jewish 117 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,559 Speaker 3: and Israeli students from anti semitism after the October seventh 118 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: attacks by Hamas. The Harvard Crimson reports one hundred and 119 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 3: twenty Jews Bish affiliates have signed a new letter condemning 120 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 3: the suit. In the letter, they say it's just a 121 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 3: political move to shut down the school's academic freedom, calling 122 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 3: it reprehensible. In the letter, they say the Justice Department 123 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 3: needs to drop the case, claiming it quote exploits concerns 124 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 3: about anti Semitism to what they call to justify what 125 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 3: they call an authoritarian assault on institutions of higher education. 126 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 3: And she used to lead the university, but now a 127 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 3: former Harvard president is returning to the classroom. 128 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 5: Blaudine Gay will teach a seminar this fall semester about 129 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 5: university power struggles, something she's all too familiar with. Gay's 130 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 5: brief tenure as head of Harvard came to a quick 131 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 5: head following Capitol Hill testimony, when she and some of 132 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 5: her colleagues were taken a task for campus policies and 133 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 5: handling of protests following the twenty twenty three Hamas attack 134 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 5: on Israel. 135 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 3: It's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our 136 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 3: policies against bullying. Does that speech not cost that barrier? 137 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 4: Does that speech not call for the genocide of Jews? 138 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 3: And the elimination of Israel. 139 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 5: She resigned shortly after her appearance in DC and has 140 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 5: been on leave. Gay will return in the spring semester 141 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 5: next year to teach two more courses. Matt Phipps WVZ, 142 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 5: Boston's News Radio. 143 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 3: You are now in the loop for news updates throughout 144 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 3: the day. Listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. 145 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 3: I'm Nicole Davis wb READ, Boston's News Radio.