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For a pretty sunrise forty seven degrees in Boston at
six o'clock. Good morning and welcome. I'm Charlie burgon On.
Here's what's happening. And the wet weather thankfully behind us,
but today quite a bit cooler. It is going to
be a chilly, rather windy day with more clouds than some.
We could have a stray afternoon shower with a high
near fifty five. Mack you weathers Matt Rindy has the
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four day forecast in just a few minutes. The city
of Boston yesterday marking sixty years since the Reverend doctor
Martin Luther King Junior led thousands through the streets of
Boston on a freedom march for civil rights.
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The procession from Copley Square to Boston Common on the
sixtieth anniversary of the nineteen sixty five Freedom March, led
by the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King Junior, was strikingly
similar Marcher's six decades apart brave chilly April rains in
nineteen sixty five, Doctor King addressed the crowd this year,
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his son MLK, the third spoke.
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We've got to find a way to move forward. We've
seen chaos for quite a few years now, but out
of that chaos must come community.
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Massachusetts Congress Willbaniana Presley also addressed this year's rally across
the country.
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We are witnessing that dangerous resurgence of white supremacy. Occupant
Trump means to make America Jim Crow again.
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On Boston Common, Mike Macklin, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
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Police have identified one of the two bodies found in
the woods near a walmart in Salem. The victim identified
as forty one year old Ross Gemple of Arizona. Thirty
year old j Blogit charged with two counts of murder
a rain Thursday in Salem. District. Court authority say Blodget
had been living in the woods near the walmart on
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Highland Avenue. The second victim will not be publicly identified
until next of kin are notified. As the Trump administration
says it's working to strike a deal to end the
war between Russia and Ukraine. Here's the latest update from
CBS's Tory and Small.
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It's an apparent shift in language from Donald Trump on
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Right after his meeting with Zileinsky,
he cast out on whether Putin wants to stop this war,
writing in a post on social media quote there was
no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles and to
civilian areas, cities, and towns over the last few days.
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And the president also hinting at further sanctions against Russia.
A British Airways flight headed from Washington, d C. To
London diverted to Logan Airport last night, landed at about
seven point thirty after a report of a bird strike
and smoke in the cabin. A spokesperson for British Airways
says the flight was diverted to Boston as a precaution.
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There were no reports of injuries. It's unclear how many
people were aboard the aircraft. Let's check the four WBZ
ECHU weather forecast. We've got a lot of rain yesterday
and it's clearing out today. However, it's going to be
a chilly day and windy, more clouds than sun. Again.
You can't rule out a passing shower later today with
temperatures to the mid fifties. Cloudy tonight forty eight, low,
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and then tomorrow looks great sunshine high seventy Tuesday, sun
clouds high seventy five. Wednesday, sunshine again, high to about
seventy and then maybe a little cooler in the sixties
on Thursday. Forty seven degrees right now in Boston, but
it is very windy. Got that wind coming out of
the west fifteen miles per hour gusting to thirty one.
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Feels like it's in the thirties out the door this
morning at six oh five. Protests continue following the arrest
of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Duggan. The Trump administration accusing Dugan
of obstructing an immigration arrest. On Friday, WDJT television's Andy
Bernhardt from Saint Francis.
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Menity leaders with more ultiple organizations spoke saying Judge Dugan's
action show loyalty to the constitution. Protesters say, I want
to believe that our judges aren't going to be silenced.
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Organizers say this is just the beginning until they see action.
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Dugan could be facing six.
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Years in prison if convicted of the charges.
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She is scheduled to return to the court May fifteenth
for her next hearing. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers accusing the
Trump administration of repeatedly using dangerous rhetoric to attack an
attempt to undermine our judiciary at every level. One of
the two crew members injured when a rope snapped on
a fishing boat off Nahant has died. A family friend
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identifying the victim as twenty six year old Jackson Marston.
Friday afternoon. The Coastguard, responding to a distress call from
the vessel twenty five to life and then once on shore,
EMS rushing both victims to Beverly Hospital. The status of
the second victim not known this morning. That tragedy happening
just days before the end of the fishing season. Well
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filling your tank today to prepare for the week ahead.
Keep your head on a swivel. A forty nine year
old man pumping gas in his range Rover last night
at his shell station on Main Street in Reading, someone
jumped into his suv and stole it. The victim from
Reading was pumping gas on the passenger side of his
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SUV when the suspect pulled up in a Chevy Malibu
which had been stolen in Maine. He hopped out of
the car into the range Rover, did a U turn
and took off. The victim wound up being dragged about
twenty feet before letting go. Of the mirror on the
side of his car, later treated for injuries at Leahy Hospital.
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Anyone who may have witnessed what happened to or who
may have any information asked to contact police in Reading.
According to a new study, water bills are going up
well pretty much everywhere. His reporter Brad Gibson.
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The average monthly water bill in America is up seven
percent from last year. Economist Taylor Bowley with the Bank
of America Institute.
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Water utility payments were more than twice the rate of
overall inflation.
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The mid Atlantic region saw the greatest increase in prices,
at almost ten percent in one year. The reason for
these higher costs extreme weather, growing populations, and aging infrastructures.
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It's another stress or in an overall general economic environment
where there are so many cost of living pressures right now.
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Brad Gibson for CBS.
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News and Bowley also says the majority of local utilities
are contending with rising operational costs driven by various spending challenges,
and when all taken together, Bowley said, it might be
some time before the rising tide of water bill is
finally settles down once again. You are now in the
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