[applause] good evening, massachusetts. speaker, leader, members of the senate and the house the treasurer of goldberg, chief justice and members of the judiciary and governor's counsel, governor dukakis, governor. [applause] it's also good to see governor swift. [applause] officials -- [applause] they are a rowdy bunch. leaders from business and labor, clergy and guests, thank you for being here tonight. thank you as well to my partner, the commonwealth's first partner. [applause] thank you for all of your love and support. and thank you for my family for all you've given to me. [applause] lieutenant governor. [applause] we have had a great year. it's been so special to work with you. your care and compassion for our residents is unbounded plus you have a pretty great game. to the cabinet and executive staff, we can take one for this one. we do things a little differently. >> forgive us. we are rookies. it to the cabinet and executive staff, you are the best teammates we could ever have to the state employees in this chamb

[applause] [applause] good evening massachusetts. [cheering] good evening massachusetts. president, speaker, leader tara, leader jones, members of the senate and the house, secretary galvin, attorney general campbell, treasurer goldberg, chief justice and members of the judiciary and the governor's counsel. governor dukakis, governor swift. [applause] [applause] [applause] good to see you here. it is also good to see governor swift. [cheering] [applause] [applause] mayor and local officials,. [laughter] [cheering] it is a rowdy bunch. leaders from business and labor, clergy and guests, thank you for being herenk tonight. thank you as well to myy partner in the commonwealth's first, first partner. [applause]pp thank you. thank you for all of your love and support. and thank you to my family for all that you have given to me. [applause] lieutenant governor,. [cheering] [cheering] we have had we have had a great year. it has been so special to work with you. your knowledge of local issues is unmatched. your care and compassion for our residents is unbounded. plus you've got

the supreme judicial in massachusetts. and by virtue of a judicial decision in 1783 that ruled that enslavement was incompatible with the massachusetts constitution on the grounds of the language in. the constitution that came from the declaration of independence. enslavement was abolished in massachusetts. so that's the second important lesson of the story. the abolitionist movement had to grow greatly in force over time, obviously, before it became what we know of it in the 19th century. but as they say, it quickened in that moment. that is when it came to life. it was born. there had been prior writers and thinkers going as far back as the early 18th century. james otis, who famously gave us the slogan no taxation without representation, also argued that the africans on the shores of the atlantic, there coast rather had the same rights as englishmen, and should be respected as having the same rights as englishmen. so the intellectual foundations had been growing, and then the politics quickened in the of the revolution.

the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i have a question for the gentleman from texas. doou agree or disagree that we know that to change enforcement, we must change the law? i'm happy to yield to the gentleman. does he agree that we need to change the law if we're going to change enforcement? mr. burgess: i would recommend -- if the gentleman will yield, i would recommend to the gentleman that you enforce existing law as a starting point. mr. mcgovern: yeah, but i'm using your words, dr. burgess. you know, from 6/18/2018. you say, we know we need to change enforcement, we know that to change enforcement, we must change the law. and then you go on to talk about immigration bills that we might consider in congress and talk about the importance of legislation and this is how democracy works. so, i mean, the bottom line is, you know, republicans are really good at complaining, but they're not so good as legislating. they're not so good at getting things done. and when things begin to move in a direction when we may -

she is taking resources from massachusetts with people who are struggling now.nsibilities are to massachusetts, not someone who hopped over the border. >> todd: catherine, you heard when asked, the governor said we need more housing. when it comes to the governor, what do you make of the response or lack thereof when it comes to, we're taxpaying citizens and we're getting the shaft. >> it is simple, massachusetts is full. michelle wu is putting a huge burden on residents of rocksbury. there is an open-air drug market. people are struggling in this neighborhood and now having one of their assets taken away, it is not fair to them. >> todd: do you scratch your head and wonder why doesn't wu and -- tell joe biden to shut the border and this would not be necessary? do you ask yourself that? >> i know why, they are going along with joe biden's agenda. boston is full, they don't care about us, they only care about their agenda and their political career at our expense. >> todd: the state says migrants will be out by may, do you trust that? >> i don't. last time it las

>> i think that's hogwash. >> reporter: massachusetts's governor maura healey says stewart executivesthemselves at the public's expense. >> the game was come to massachusetts, make some investments, and then begin to suck out as much as you can in terms of profits. >> reporter: steward's initial investments included propping up the employee pension fund. but financial records show since 2016, the company has sold off more than a billion dollars of its hospital's real estate. and in early 2021, steward's owners paid themselves millions in dividends. around the same time, steward's ceo ralph de la torre acquired this 190-foot yacht. its price tag, an estimated $40 million. he declined an interview. >> they've taken money away from these assets which are so important hospitals that provide needed care, and they're using that money to line their own pockets. i'm disgusted. it's selfish. it's greed. >> reporter: healey told us she's placed state monitors inside steward's hospitals to try to ensure patient safety. >> and we have to do that because steward has failed. >> it's still so surrea

and thank the gentleman from massachusetts. i don't get up very often and speak on much on the floor, to be honest. what i heard in the few minutes here from my colleagues is, as the gentleman from massachusetts said, the greatest hits, the recurring talking points over and over and over that are completely disconnected from where constituents in my district in the hudson valley of new york are on a whole host of issues. people that want us to actually fix problems, and specifically people that want us to stand up for freedom and democracy in the face of rising authoritarian axis around the world, and instead of doing any of that, we're debating these same bills over and over and over. we should be voting right now to stand strong with our democratic, small d democratic allies around the world from europe to the middle east to the indo-pacific. i'm not going to read this letter, but ads i was walking here i received a letter from one of my constituents, appear 18-year-old young man. i'm not going to say his name and embarrass h

teacher strike in massachusetts kept 12,000 students out of the classroom for two weeks. school choice is the solution. cory deangelis, a hero in that space, explains next. only sleep number smart beds let you each choose your individual firmness and comfort. your sleep number setting. and actively cools and warms up to 13 degrees on either side. now save 50% on the sleep number limited edition smart bed. plus, free home delivery when you add an adjustable base ends monday. only at sleep number. joey: what is called an illegal teacher strike in newton, massachusetts kept kids out of class for two weeks affecting 12,000 students. school choice is the solution, quote, mpower parents with choices, embrace school choice initiatives and make children the sender of the system. cory deangelis joins us now. thank you for joining us. breakdown what happened here and why this matters. >> reporter: i am here in boston 15 minutes from newton, massachusetts. teachers strikes are technically illegal for public-sector employees but for the past two years since 2,022, there have been six

[applause] >> my name is jenny gusman, i live in worcester, massachusetts. in our state. i take care of people with disability and who are sick and who need help with their daily activities, but i do not have health insurance myself. i have been called an essential worker, sure, and the worst of the pandemic in massachusetts, there are 165,600 without health insurance. again, 165,600 without health insurance. i am an essential worker living paycheck to paycheck and i have to make decisions every day. do i put gas in my car? or do my pay my bills? or do i put food on my table? i am a proud member union of 1199sciu and we have been organizing and want a pathway towards 25 an hour with three-year contract with the state of massachusetts. governor healy says she supports pca's, but in her new state budget she's cutting pca's who work fewer than 10 hours, that means my brothers and sisters who do less than 10 hours will be having no jobs and those people who need care won't have anybody. there is -- this is why i am organizing with the massachusetts poor people's

the fourth massachusetts is sent ahead. their orders are to burn the bridge while the two regiments sit on a hill outside of major watson's house along the bush river, which flows under the appomattox, the third virginia reserves fire a shot and run, which is what reserves are supposed to do. go. go ahead. up comes the confederate cavalry. first leap stays back at those crossroads down there to protect about any incursions from that direction. so i've got deering mccausland and mumford. they start attacking the infantry. go ahead. go. washburn hears this and comes riding back down the road very impressive. a little charge, tj. they come down and columns of four, they make a left turn and then they attack four lines of 20 men attacking 1200 confederates. okay. and their first charge is successful and they push some people back, but pretty soon they're outnumbered. obviously. and there's a battle, of course. leading the charge. washburn does do the charge. four lines extra at 20. he charges sabers drawn. this is a charge the

the fbi laboratory is able to report that the crop in question came from the massachusetts mill. because the largest purchaser of the pattern been a boston necktie manufactured fbi agents visit retail outlets throughout new england. this painstaking, thorough investigation eventually pays off a recall. the customer, who recently purchased a large number of ties. one was a duplicate of a pattern shown photographs of nonbank robbers. the third identifies a customer. with this new and valuable information. the fbi locates a man answering description of their suspect live quietly in an apartment house in portland, maine. a man's on his auto tires match the tire prints found near the shack. before a positive can be made. agents confront the suspect. in a. so that he will have no opportunity to warn his confederates the agents proceed cautiously. in the apprehension of a dangerous criminal. the fbi special agent may uncomfortable situations beyond his training or experience. he must then rely upon his courage and resourcefulness resourcefulness. it was in this manner that fbi apprehend

in massachusetts, anyone that steps foot here, for 20 years or 20 minutes, you do have some benefitsthe entire country that has this, i think new york city has it as well, but we are the only state and what that basically means is taxpayers are mandated to pay for your shelter. and as a result, the migrant situation is exploding in our state. we are becoming a destination for migrants sent to. and as a result, our shelter system, welfare system is stretched beyond thin and it's becoming pretty much a disaster. the state is acknowledging they are spending about a billion dollars a year, that's about $3 million a day. if you think about your town and city, that's a lot of money that can go far, and just going for the migrant situation. but our poll went through a lot of questions dealing with the migrant situation. we found across republicans, democrats, and independents, people have some apprehension about how the governor is handling the migrant situation. they don't blame the massachusetts legislature, the governor, they blame mostly washington, but the answers for how we are dealin

we couldn't even drive out. >> reporter: the massachusetts coast is under a flood advisory.ller with cbs boston is there. >> low-lying areas often flood, but northerly wins and an astronomical tide make this parking lot look like a swimming pool. >> reporter: as a safety precaution, many school districts closed today. new york city public schools went remote, but the computer network had a meltdown when nearly a million students tried logging in at the same time. >> so to say that i am disappointed, frustrated, and angry is an understatement. >> reporter: well, there was one great benefit to that online learning snafu. central park today filled with kids who actually got to bring those sleds out of their closets for the first time in more than two years. but, norah, now that the sun has gone down, all of that slush is refreezing as ice, so authorities warn you have to be careful out there right now. norah. >> that is an important warning. lana zak, thank you so much. let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel as there are more storms o

he was a former school teacher, bookseller, but he released the report of massachusetts of the massachusetts sanitary commission. and he was the one that really proposed the ongoing and regular collection of those vital statistics that i mentioned before, birth and death data and conducting ongoing statistical analyzes to inform sanitary measures and to track health during this time. he also proposed that we have state and local boards of to oversee this data and his recommendations were later adopted with the first the creation of the first state board health in massachusetts in. 1869. and so i won't walk through all of these but this just to highlight the number of reports being released that really emphasized the importance of worker workers, health and housing, right. and giving kind of that preference preferential option for the poor. there is a growing recognition that were disparate health outcomes, disparate conditions, and something needed to be done. so there was a real recognition, again, of kind of these, what we now call social determinants of health. and there was a recognition

we couldn't even drive out. >> reporter: the massachusetts coast is under a flood advisory.moller with cbs boston is there. >> in downtown the low-lying areas often flood but northerly winds and an astronomical tide making the parking lot look like a swimming pool. >> reporter: as a safety precaution, many school districts closed today. new york city public schools went remote, but the computer network had a meltdown when nearly a million students tried logging in at the same time. >> so to say that i am disappointed, frustrated, and angry is an understatement. >> reporter: well, there was one great benefit to that online learning snafu. central park today filled with kids who actually got to bring those sleds out of their closets for the first time in more than two years. but norah, now that the sun has gone down, all of that slush is refreezing as ice, so authorities warn you have to be careful out there right now. norah. >> norah: that is an important warning. lana zak, thank you so much. we have breaking news just coming in. let's get to those details. >> reporter: i am

this is why i am organizing with the massachusetts poor people's campaign. got to get our power as people. we are taking back the mic, raising our voices and registering our voters as demands. forward together. >> not one step back. [applause] rev. barber: as you can see, from all around the country, and this is just a few. we have 32 states online right now. have a seat you all. have a seat. they are there online, all over the country. now, we have someone from georgia. come on in, if she is online. >> how are you, reverend barber? >> hey. >> hey, y'all. i'm from the state of georgia. i am a 38-year-old single mom of two. i was homeless until two years ago with my children. recently, i have been doing part-time work and thankfully, they got me into the job. i've been applying and applying to get b going to way. even if i went to college for four years, i could look to have a middle-class wage. unfortunately, that was not the case for me. it's been 16 years since they have raised minimum-wage. the other day, a few of my friends were at the park and we were t

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the 45 million americans impacted from west virginia to massachusetts. places, 15 inches of snow fell today alone emma needing to dangerous road conditions, crashes, and many tonight are without power. more than 1 million students were out of school. new york city is digging out and this is the biggest snowstorm since 2022. snow covered roads caused havoc during the morning commute, causing more than 1200 accidents in pennsylvania alone. air travelers faced their own problems, with more than 3,000 delays and cancellations at the nation's airports. well, tonight, the major concern is coastal flooding. more than 11 million on the shorelines are under alerts tonight. cbs's lana zak starts us off tonight. >> reporter: a near miss in the northeast as a fast-moving storm dumped snow from maryland to massachusetts. new york city saw the highest daily snow total in more than two years, just over 3 inches, but far less than the eight that was predicted by the national weather service. >> i wanted more. i wanted way more appeared and i wanted it to snow all day. >

tenemos aquí la señora que está buscando departamentos en el parte este del estado de massachusetts enando el toque de queda. más refugios para migrantes luego que se atribuyeran algunos incidentes violentos a las personas que residen en estos lugares. desde hoy, el toque de queda se estableció desde las 23:00 de la noche y hasta las 06:00 en 20, refugios. después de haber impuesto inicialmente restricciones en otros 4 lugares. no obstante, habrá excepciones para las personas que tienen trabajos nocturnos. la mayoría son buenos y vienen a trabajar, pero vienen delincuentes en esos grupos. pues justo todas estas medidas de seguridad son respuesta a hechos como el del 27 de enero, en que un grupo de supuestos migrantes atacó a 2 policías. cuando los dispersaban frente a un albergue. también en esa área un adolescente disparó un guardia de seguridad luego de incautar artículos robados de una tienda. la gobernadora katie dijo que a la ciudad. hasta ahora han llegado alrededor de 170.000 solicitantes de asilo. seguimos hablando de este día de san valentín en donde muchos van a pensar la 2 3

katie is live on the road near plymouth, massachusetts. katie, how bad are the conditions there? the roads? >> well, sandra, it is getting slippery at times. my heart was beating out of my chest a little bit because as soon as i get off some of these main -- a plow truck just came through here on the route, to get rid of some of the snow that's been piling up but it's not the case once you get off. and it's actually taking us a bit more time to get from boston down to the cape because of just traffic being backed up with how risky and slippery the roads are. we know where we are headed in plymouth, massachusetts, we are expecting to see really more of a wind-driven snow. winds are already gusting as fast as 60 miles per hour on the cape. so we are going to be looking out for outages, coastal flooding is also possible with high tide this afternoon, and pennsylvania and new jersey are currently in the lead for snow totals. they have over a foot there, but parts of new england are catching up. we have places like hartford, connecticut with almost a foot. roads are slippery in connec

last year, we set a challenge, for rhode island to reach massachusetts student achievement levels by 2030. we're doing this by improving three main areas -- ricas scores, student attendance, and fafsa completion. when we set that goal, i told a story about a painter who wanted to paint the perfect sunrise. every day, the painter would get up, ready to start, then he'd think, "this sunrise is beautiful, but maybe tomorrow will be better." long story short, he never got it done. last year, i said, when it comes to improving rhode island's education system, we can't be like that painter. we can't wait. and the good news is, we haven't. 38 out of 39 cities and towns have joined this effort that we're calling learn365ri. [applause] it's a commitment to prioritize learning in all our communities. a simple concept -- every home, every day, learning matters. we've built a remarkable statewide team who's doing the work on education. and within our administration, we have experienced staff leading the way -- education commissioner angelica infante-green, who was recently appointed by the biden

. >> dana: a massachusetts charter school girls basketball team was forced to forfeit its game afterton opposing team injured two players. the transgender player ripped the ball from other player's arms forcing her to fall. you have been looking into this and it's another story. >> another story and one that a lot of parents care about not just for this happening in massachusetts. the video we saw has gone viral. the coach made the decision to forfeat the game after three players on his team were injured. according to a source two of the team girls on this collegiate charter school were injured by a transgender player on the kip academy team. an eighth grade girl on the team hurt her back when the transgender athlete grabbed the basketball out of her hands. the girl false to the ground and lays on the court and saying she was badly injured. the coach decided to end the game at halftime after a third player on his team was injured. the school said the team was already downplayers going into the game and uninjured players were afraid of getting hurt ahead of the upcoming playoff games.