Conference, the spouse of a jailed cia whistleblower will speak out today for the first time. Her she heads to the National Press club, holly sterling, the ,ife of imprisoned former cia will join us. Then to israel and the occupied territories. Have killed more than 30 palestinians in the last two weeks. With tensions rising over is really control of the temple mount in jerusalem, Palestinian Authority president abass accuses them of sparking a religious war. These days the israeli aggressive assault against our people in its land and its holy places is escalating in the racism is showing its ugly face and making the occupation uglier. Threatening peace and stability and threatening to spark a religious conflict that would burn everything. Not only in the region, but also in the whole world. Amy . We will go to tel aviv, haifa, jerusalem to get the latest on the worst violence in over a year. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace
A piece of garbage. Erika donald trump tearing into a local newspaper. The publisher hes calling a low life on the eye for this tuesday morning. Youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning this is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Erika looking live at radar as snow transitions to sleet. Some spots will get rain before it all moves out. This is a look at the snow in framingham overnight. Fortunately, it wont amount to much. Just enough to be a real mess this morning. Good morning. Thanks for starting your day right here. Im erika tarantal. Antoinette and im antoinette antonio. Emily and randy are off today. We have your Team Coverage of the storms impact on the commute. Fitzgibbon. Cindy. Cindy its a mess already. Here we are just 5 00 a. M. Theres still some areas dealing with primarily snow. Thats the farther north that you go up through the merrimack hampshire. But a lot of purple indicated here on our winter radar. That is telling you theres a now. Youre probably hearing it time.
This is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Erika looking at the radar right now as snow transitions to sleet. Some spots will get rain before it all moves out. Some spots already getting it. This is a look at the snow in framingham overnight. Fortunately, it wont amount to much. But just enough to be a mess this morning especially if youre trying to get around. Good morning. Thanks for starting your day right here. Im erika tarantal. Antoinette and im antoinette antonio. Emily and randy are off today. We do have Live Team Coverage of this storms impact on that commute starting with cindy. What a mess it is in some parts. Cindy youve got it. It is a mixture of everything out there this morning. We started as snow. Many of us quickly changed to sleet. Already seeing some rain now on the cape and the islands. You can see it is a mess out there. The most snow primarily right now is from the Merrimack Valley, parts of metro west right on up into southern New Hampshire. Here too weve had sleet mixing
In the midst of a pandemic. So of the officials had an almost Impossible Task of delivering and election and allowing american democracy to continue even while the pandemic was raging across the country. That is the part tramp. We have to give them that is the triumph we have to give them acknowledgment. They turned out at rates not seen before in american elections. That is the triumph side of it. The downside is that there were people who unnecessarily died. Because we did not offer full mail balloting in the 2020 election and unfortunately there were those forces that try to undermine our democracy. They leveraged the fact that we had to move to mail ballots in an us at time. At an unprecedented time. Host what do you say to people who deny the results of the 2020 election . Guest trump had an opportunity to provide evidence of some sort of malfeasance in the election. He went before judges he appointed to the bench, he had allies in key states that were serving on his reelection co
There is no reason the federal government should only and and have a department of the interior to cover that is a waste of time. I would also eliminate much of the military budget if it were my choice. If we cut military spending in half we would still we the Largest Military budget in the world by far. If we cut in half again and we would still have the largest budget in the world if we cut in half a third time and reduce it down 1 8 of what were spending we would still have the Largest Military budget in the world. We need to bring our troops home and return to a system of National Defense instead of international offense. Hays first of all, i would do that i did at city hall for 24 years when we balance to balanced as 24 budgets and created jobs we took saying this line by line the things that we thought were essential to deal with Public Safety and build a community. Those were the things that we ought to do in congress. And cut waste. It is incredible. Of a billion and a half dol