1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: This is wb Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: Cloudy and thirty two degrees in the city at eleven 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: o'clock on this Valentine's Day. Hello and thanks for being 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: with us. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. The Department 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security is shut down for now. Funding was 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: cut off at midnight. Lawmakers left Washington without reaching a 7 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: deal at issue, the Democrats want to reform ICE after 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: the deadly shootings of two Minneapolis residents by federal agents. 9 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: Republicans say some of what Democrats want, including agents not 10 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: being allowed to wear masks, are non starters for them, 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: and if a shutdown continues, there will be some disruptions 12 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,639 Speaker 1: at the TSA and Coast Guard, but ICE will largely 13 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: function normally. That's because the agency already received seventy five 14 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: billion dollars in funding from the president, so called Big 15 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill of Boston. Federal judge rules the Trump administration 16 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: must return Babson's student, Amy Lopez Belosa, who was deported 17 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: back in November. CBS News Boston Samantha Cheney reports. 18 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 2: When it all happened. Attorney Todd Palmerlow says the student she. 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 3: Was attending Babson College on a full ride. 20 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: Was on her way home to Texas to surprise our 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 2: family for Thanksgiving. Instead, she ended up arrested at Logan Airport. 22 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,559 Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security said she received quote full 23 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 2: due process. According to the federal agency, she entered the 24 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 2: country illegally as a child in twenty fourteen and in 25 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 2: order of removal was issued the following year. 26 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 4: She had no idea, totally blindsided. Her parents didn't know either. 27 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: Palmerlow says the family thought their case had been dismissed, 28 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 2: and I. 29 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 5: Would hope that the government, in light of the fact 30 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 5: that she is a child, still into the immigration laws, 31 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 5: but they would just let her come in and take 32 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 5: her fingerprints and go on our way and live. 33 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 2: Her life now. In the next two weeks, the judge 34 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: ordered periodic updates on the steps being taken to bring 35 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: Annie home by that said deadline. 36 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: The deadline is February twenty seventh. Former CNN anchor Don 37 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: Lemon pleads not guilty to federal charges in connection with 38 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: an anti ice protest at a Minnesota church last month. 39 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: Lemon has said that he was there to report on 40 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: the protest as an independent journalist. He was taken into 41 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 1: custody in Los Angeles back on January twenty ninth, while 42 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: he was there covering the Grammy Awards. Attorney General Pam 43 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: Bondi called the protest a coordinated attack, and the White 44 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: House fires off another round in its battle with. 45 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 6: Harvard, Trump administration sues Harvard over admissions records in a 46 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 6: lawsuit filed Friday in a Massachusetts federal court. The Justice 47 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 6: Department says Harvard has refused to give up admissions records 48 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 6: they have demanded to ensure the Ivy League has stopped 49 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 6: using a fermentive action and admissions. The Trump administration accusing 50 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 6: Harvard of refusing to comply with a federal investigation, asking 51 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 6: a judge to order Harvard to release the admissions records. 52 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 6: In a statement, Harvard says the university has been responding 53 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 6: to the government's requests and that the university is in 54 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 6: compliance with the Supreme Court decision barring affirmative action and admissions. 55 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 6: This lawsuit is the latest move in the Trump administration's 56 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 6: legal tango with Harvard. Last year, Harvard rejected a list 57 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 6: of demands from the administration, prompting Harvard to lose billions 58 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 6: of dollars in federal cuts. I'm a freedman. WBZ Boston's 59 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 6: news radio. 60 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: Now the for DAWBZ achu weather forecast for this Valentine's Day. 61 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: It's going to be partly to mostly sunny, but we're 62 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: warming up to forty and then tonight mostly clear skies 63 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: with an overnight low of twenty one. On Sunday Tomorrow, 64 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: sunshine giving way to clouds in the afternoon. I have 65 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: thirty six. Monday is the long holiday weekend President's Day. 66 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: On Monday, plenty of clouds in the morning, but those 67 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: clouds could break for some late day sunshine. Hi's thirty 68 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: six to forty and then Tuesday clouds and some sunshine. 69 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: But we're warming up to forty three degrees. Right now 70 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: in Boston, it's cloudy and thirty two, but it's a 71 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: real field temp with windschill at fields ten degrees colder 72 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: at eleven oh five. Back to news. New England. Patriots 73 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: wide receiver Stefan Diggs made his first court appearance yesterday 74 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: on allegations that he assaulted a woman who worked. 75 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 4: For him digs Arrayment in Denham District. Court was brief. 76 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 4: The Patriots wide receiver stood silently as a not guilty 77 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 4: plea was edared. Diggs accused of assaulting a private chef 78 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 4: over a paycheck dispute. Court documents alleged Diggs try to 79 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 4: choke his accuser, putting his elbow against her neck. Diggs attorney, 80 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 4: Mitchell Schuster. 81 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 3: He is completely innocent of these false allegations that have 82 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 3: been alleged against him. We're confident that after the facts 83 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 3: and evidence are reviewed in this case, he will be 84 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 3: completely exonerated. 85 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 4: The Patriots have stood by Diggs, issuing a statement saying 86 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 4: the organization supports him. Neither the team nor the NFL 87 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 4: has issued any disciplinary action against Diggs. In Debnham Mike 88 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 4: Macklum WBZ Boston's News Radio. 89 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: A twenty three year old suspected of killing two teenagers 90 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: in Brockton last March, is captured in Mexico. Da Vinci 91 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: Leonard accused of shooting and killing fifteen year old to 92 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: Mario Albertson in eighteen year old Savannah Alvarez outside a 93 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: Chipotle restaurant near the Westgate Mall. Again, this happening last March. 94 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: Leonard was on the Massachusetts Most Wanted List. He's expected 95 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,239 Speaker 1: to be returned to Brockton to face murder charges. Drama 96 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: on the high seas. Two naval ships colliding in the 97 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: Caribbean on Wednesday. Two troops suffered minor injuries. The destroyer 98 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: USS Truxton and a supply ship collided as the warship 99 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: was being resupplied. Right now, there are twelve ships in 100 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: the region. ABC chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raditz reports 101 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: that the military is making changes in its maritime map. 102 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 5: There will soon be fewer ships in the Caribbean. President 103 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 5: Trump confirming the aircraft carrier USS geralds Ford will soon 104 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 5: leave the Caribbean to join another carrier in the Middle 105 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 5: in case Iran fails to agree to a nuclear deal, 106 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 5: President clearly implying the threat of a possible military action. 107 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: And in another incident, a naval officer was reported lost 108 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: at sea after falling overboard from the USS Ujima last week. 109 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: You are now in ballot for news updates throughout the day. 110 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: To listen to WBZ NewsRadio on the iHeart radio app, 111 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: I'm sharing a small WBZ Boston's news radio