Billy's News

Plan for delays when traveling for Memorial Day. A candlelight Vigil near the white house, and another in Brooklyn. Harvard is being told they can no longer enroll foreign students and billions of their funding has been frozen. A morgue manager at Harvard medical pleaded guilty for selling body parts Boston Calling starts today with Luke Combs headlining. Mission impossible and Lilo and Stich land in the theaters today.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. It is Friday, May twenty third, start of
the long Memorial Day weekend, and it's still raining. It's
been raining for more than twenty four hours. A half
a foot of rain in woods Hull and in Falmouth yesterday,
win gus yesterday, more than sixty miles an hour in Plymouth.
The forecast going forward, while more showers later today, early tonight.

(00:22):
Highs today in the fifties, Tomorrow, scattered showers into the sixties,
spot showers on Sunday, and pretty nice for Memorial Day
on Monday. Keep in mind the mad rush to get
out of town today planned for the delays on the Expressway.
The hov Lane will open up at one o'clock this
afternoon and you could run into delays out at Logan

(00:43):
Airport and cruise or out early this morning with a
cleanup down trees and branches, flooded roads. Other stories of
candlelight vigil near the White House last night. Another one
in Brookline last night honoring the two embassy staffers shot
and killed by a lone gunman outside a Jewish museum
in DC. As he was shooting, he was shouting Free Palestine.

(01:06):
It was a double murder in broad daylight.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is not an act of a hero. It is
the kind of case that we will vigorously pursue. Anti
Semitism will not be tolerated, especially in the nation's capital.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
And emotions running high at a vigilant Brookline last night.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
The senseless violence behind it, it is to what we
all worry about when we come to events like this.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's our greatest fear nobody's signed up for.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
We all have to combat hate. We all have to
advocate for better security, unfortunately, but also better education.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Another story this morning, Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students,
so says the Homeland Security Chief.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
They will no longer be allowed to participate in this
student exchange visitor program, and that's up to twenty seven
percent of their enrolled students. There should be a warning
to every other university to get your act together.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Billions in funding has also been frozen. Meantime, a former
morge manager at Harvard Medical pleading guilty yesterday to selling
body parts. Other stories. The Boston Calling Festival kicks off
today at Harvard. The lineup today includes Luke Combe, Sheryl Crow, T. Payne,
and TLC. Big numbers expected at the movie theaters this

(02:18):
weekend with a new Mission Impossible movie and the Lee
Lo and Stitch movie both arriving today, and it's new
Music Friday today justin you want to give us a tease, Well.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
We had the live performance tees of that Alex Warren
jelly roll song.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well it is out and we'll have it okay. Meantime
its sports Red Sox Orioles have a day night doubleheader
out at Fenway. NBA Playoffs. Thunderbeat the Timberwolves again last night.
They take a two game ZIP lead in the series.
Pacers and the Knicks have a game two tonight. NHL
Playoffs Panthers beat the Hurricanes again. They lead the series
two games ZIP. Oilers and Stars play again tonight seven

(02:54):
to ten. This morning, the concert tickets up for grabs.
Two tickets to four of the biggest shows this summer.
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