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Skip to contentNOWCASTNewsCenter 5 at 11Live NowMenu WCVB NewsCenter 5SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL72°WeatherSevere Weather There is currently 1 active weather alertBoston, MA02108 72° Clear Chance of precipitation 2% 1 / 2MassGOP demands information about '$1 billion in secret migrant crisis spending'Share WCVB logoUpdated: 5:47 PM EDT Aug 27, 2024Infinite Scroll EnabledJamy Pombo Sesselman Senior Digital Editor/Producer, WCVB.commigrants in Boston buildingmigrants in Boston buildingGET OUR POLITICS NEWSLETTERStay up to speed on all the latest local and national political news.Your Email AddressSubmitPrivacy NoticeBOSTON —Massachusetts Republicans are alleging the amount of money spent on the state's migrant crisis is veiled in "secrecy" and are demanding a full disclosure about the spending and asking for information on public safety incidents at state-funded emergency housing.The Massachusetts Republican Party Chair has formally submitted FOIA requests to the Executive Office for Administration & Finance, the Office of the Governor, Legal Counsel, the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and the Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development for the information, the group said Tuesday.“The Healey-Driscoll Administration has shrouded nearly $1 billion spent in secrecy, leaving Massachusetts residents in the dark. They have withheld critical information on 600 incidents involving police, fire and EMT," Massachusetts Republican Party Chair Amy Carnevale said in a statement."I don't think that there's a legitimate reason for any of this information to be shielded from public view. If anything, we need more transparency, more scrutiny and accountability, and that will lead to better governance," said state Rep. Ryan Fattman, who represents Worcester.
Plans to help migrant families as deadline to leave Logan arrivesThe MassGOP alleges the administration has also obstructed the flow of information to the public."I think they need to tell us how $1 billion is being spent through their vendors, identify what crimes of the 600 (public safety incidents) that have been committed in the last year. That's two almost two per day. You know, what are they? And what's being done to rectify them and make sure that the victims are safe?" Fattman said.Sen. Bruce Tarr has proposed an amendment to the Senate budget requiring all services for the emergency shelter system to be subject to competitive bidding and posted on Open Checkbook."This amendment, aimed at ensuring accountability and efficiency, was unfortunately blocked by the Democratic supermajority. Similar efforts were proposed by the House GOP caucus but were also blocked," Carnevale said.Shelter change could affect schools for homeless, migrant familiesCarnevale added that the party is "standing against the veil of secrecy and the obstructionist efforts of the Healey-Driscoll Administration and the Democratic supermajority.""The public deserves transparency. Release the details on the vendors profiting from this crisis and the public safety issues affecting our communities. On behalf of Massachusetts residents, we are demanding accountability,” Carnevale said.Top PicksWebb telescope spots six rogue worlds within a glowing cosmic cloud
The Paralympic Games are starting. Here's what to expect as 4,400 athletes compete in ParisAlabama high school football player's death highlights football head injury risksStudents learning life skills while serving up something specialWebb telescope spots six rogue worlds within a glowing cosmic cloudShare CNN logoUpdated: 8:32 PM EDT Aug 27, 2024Ashley Strickland, CNNPlay VideoPlayUnmuteRemaining Time -0:08Picture-in-PictureFullscreenGET NATIONAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTSThe latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox.Your Email AddressSubmitPrivacy NoticeAstronomers have spotted six rogue worlds or cosmic objects that don't orbit stars, using the James Webb Space Telescope.Video above: Webb Telescope detects chemical ingredients in stars
The celestial bodies are slightly bigger than Jupiter, and the observations are shedding light on how stars and planets form across the universe.The Webb telescope peered into a star-forming nebula, or a cloud of gas and dust, named NGC 1333 located 960 light-years away within a larger gas and dust cloud called the Perseus molecular cloud. Turbulence inside the nebula creates knots that collapse due to gravity, giving birth to stars.The space observatory captured a dramatic, glowing image of the cosmic cloud. While the Hubble Space Telescope has previously captured images of the nebula, dust obscured its view of the star formation process.But Webb — which is capable of observing the universe in infrared light — was able to look right through the dust.Mars-WaterNew Mars study suggests an ocean's worth of water may be hiding beneath the red dusty surfaceWithin the nebula are newborn stars, brown dwarfs and objects with planet-like masses, all about five to 10 times more massive than Jupiter. These are the lowest-mass objects found to have been created by a process that typically leads to the formation of stars, which are much larger than planets, or brown dwarfs — celestial objects that aren't quite a star or a planet. Brown dwarfs are more massive than planets but not quite as massive as stars.The findings are part of a study that has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal."We used Webb's unprecedented sensitivity at infrared wavelengths to search for the faintest members of a young star cluster, seeking to address a fundamental question in astronomy: How light an object can form like a star?" said senior study author Ray Jayawardhana, provost and astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, in a statement. "It turns out the smallest free-floating objects that form like stars overlap in mass with giant exoplanets circling nearby stars."
The observations are helping astronomers better understand the different ways that stellar objects form."We are probing the very limits of the star forming process," said lead study author Adam Langeveld, also an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins, in a statement. "If you have an object that looks like a young Jupiter, is it possible that it could have become a star under the right conditions? This is important context for understanding both star and planet formation."MarsMars and Jupiter get chummy in the night sky. The planets won't get this close again until 2033The birth of rogue worldsTypically, stars form from clouds of gas and dust. Then, leftover material from the star's formation leads to the creation of planets. But it's possible that stellar bodies can also form similar to planets, the study authors said."Our observations confirm that nature produces planetary mass objects in at least two different ways — from the contraction of a cloud of gas and dust, the way stars form, and in disks of gas and dust around young stars, as Jupiter in our own solar system did," Jayawardhana said.One of the newly detected objects has an estimated mass of five Jupiters, or about 1,600 Earths. A dusty disk surrounding the object shows that it likely formed similar to a star. And given that disks of gas and dust may give rise to planets, it's possible that the planetlike object could also form "mini" planets."Those tiny objects with masses comparable to giant planets may themselves be able to form their own planets," said study coauthor Aleks Scholz, an astrophysicist at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom, in a statement. "This might be a nursery of a miniature planetary system, on a scale much smaller than our solar system."
FILE - A plane passes in front of the moon, Aug. 30, 2023, in Chicago. Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon that could be used to shelter future explorersThe team used Webb to study the nebula in detail in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, and spotted a rare occurrence: a brown dwarf with a companion object that also has the mass of a planet."It's likely that such a pair formed the way binary star systems do, from a cloud fragmenting as it contracted," Jayawardhana said."The diversity of systems that nature has produced is remarkable and pushes us to refine our models of star and planet formation."Astronomers are still trying to glean insights into how free-floating rogue worlds form and evolve. It's possible that the planet-like bodies initially form around and orbit stars but are kicked away by gravitational interactions with other bodies.Rogue planets account for about 10% of the celestial bodies within the nebula studied by Webb, but these mysterious objects are still considered rare across the Milky Way.In the future, the team will use Webb to study more of these objects to see how they may form their own mini planetary systems.And when it launches in May 2027, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find hundreds of rogue planets and help astronomers uncover the secrets of these nomadic worlds.PlanetThis giant gas planet is as fluffy and puffy as cotton candyTop PicksWebb telescope spots six rogue worlds within a glowing cosmic cloud
The Paralympic Games are starting. Here's what to expect as 4,400 athletes compete in ParisAlabama high school football player's death highlights football head injury risksStudents learning life skills while serving up something specialThe Paralympic Games are starting. Here's what to expect as 4,400 athletes compete in ParisShare AP logoUpdated: 12:02 PM EDT Aug 27, 2024By CIARÁN FAHEY and TOM NOUVIAN AP Sports WritersPlay VideoGET LOCAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTSThe latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox.Your Email AddressSubmitPrivacy NoticePARIS —Let the games begin again.The Paralympic Games are set to open Wednesday as some 4,400 athletes with disabilities, permanent injuries or impairments prepare to compete for 549 medals across 22 sports over 11 days in Paris.Video above: Paris has become more accessible for disabled. Will it last after the Olympics and Paralympics?The French capital, which just hosted the Olympics, again provides the backdrop for what promises to be another spectacle, with many of the same venues hosting Paralympic competitions.Historic square Place de la Concorde, which hosted skateboarding, breaking and 3x3 basketball during the Olympics, will host the opening ceremony.The venue beside the Eiffel Tower, which hosted beach volleyball during the Olympics, will host blind soccer, an adaption of the game for visually impaired players in teams of five with a ball containing rattles.Equestrian returns to Château de Versailles, which will host para equestrian events. The Grand Palais transitions from fencing to wheelchair fencing. Archery venue Invalides will host para archery.
"We are at the heart of the city," International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "The symbolism behind this is like the city of Paris is giving our athletes a gigantic hug."“We’ve got some monstrous iconic sites, and we’re going to get an eyeful,” France's para triathlon champion, Alexis Hanquinquant, said. “Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. I think we’re going to have some pretty exceptional Paralympic Games.”Video below: Paralympian Blake Haxton gears up for third Olympics with renewed focusPlay VideoOf the 22 Paralympic sports, only two do not have an Olympic equivalent — goalball and boccia. In goalball, teams of visually impaired or blind players take turns rolling a ball containing bells toward the opposing goal while the defending team’s players act as goalkeepers. In boccia, players throw or roll leather balls as close as they can to a small ball called a jack.Compared to the previous edition of the Paralympics in Tokyo, 10 medal events have been added to give female athletes and those with high-support needs more opportunities.Parsons said around 2 million of 2.5 million tickets have been sold for the various events, which would be the second highest ever total number of spectators at a Paralympics, behind the London Paralympics in 2012.The Paralympic flame was lit Saturday in Stoke Mandeville, a village northwest of London widely considered the birthplace of the Paralympic Games, and was to make its way via a torch relay under the English Channel to cities all over France before lighting the cauldron during the opening ceremony on Wednesday.Oksana MastersParalympic social media accounts bypass traditional media with edgy take
Anticipation has been building with Parisians returning from their summer vacations – the city almost felt empty at the beginning of the month with many away at the coast. For locals who missed the Olympic action, the Paralympics are a second chance to catch some of the excitement.The athletes — Paralympians — will be the focus of attention starting Thursday in the first day of competition, when there will be medals to be won in para taekwondo, para table tennis, para swimming and para cycling on the track.As was the case for the Olympics, there will medals up for grabs on each of the 11 days of competition.Many of the competing athletes have titles to defend.Para shooter Avani Lekhara, the first Indian woman to win a pair of medals at a single edition of the Paralympics, returns to defend her 10-meter air rifle gold in the SH1 category from Tokyo.The SH1 category is for rifle shooters with lower limb impairments like amputations or paraplegia who can hold their gun without difficulty and shoot from a standing or sitting position.Blake HaxtonParalympian Blake Haxton gears up for third Olympics with renewed focusAmerican multi-sport specialist Oksana Masters won a hand-cycle road race and time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics, and she will be looking to add to her career total of seven gold and 17 medals overall in both summer and winter events.Para powerlifter Sherif Osman of Egypt is going for his fourth gold medal, and Italian fencer Bebe Vio is vying for her third consecutive gold in wheelchair fencing. After contracting meningitis as a child, doctors amputated both her legs and her forearms to save her life.Brazil is unbeaten in blind soccer going back to the first tournament in Athens in 2004, but France harbors hopes of an upset. The hosts kick off against China and Brazil plays Turkey on Sept. 1, a day before the teams meet for a potentially decisive match in Group A.
And there are other storylines.Visually impaired Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo will be the first transgender woman to compete at the Paralympics when she races in the heats for her classification in the women’s 400 meters on Sept. 2.American swimmer Ali Truwit is competing a year after losing her lower leg in a shark attack while snorkeling.Teenage swimmer David Kratochvil is carrying Czech hopes of a medal after losing his sight because of a serious illness about 10 years ago. The 16-year-old Kratochvil used to play ice hockey but switched to the pool, where he set world records in the 50 and 200 meter backstroke last year.Many more wait to be told over the next two weeks.Top PicksWebb telescope spots six rogue worlds within a glowing cosmic cloudThe Paralympic Games are starting. Here's what to expect as 4,400 athletes compete in ParisAlabama high school football player's death highlights football head injury risksStudents learning life skills while serving up something specialWCVB BostonHearst Television logo Contact UsNews TeamApps & SocialEmail AlertsCareersInternshipsAdvertiseDigital Advertising Terms & ConditionsBroadcast Terms & ConditionsRSSEEO ReportsCaptioning ContactsPublic Inspection FilePublic File AssistanceFCC ApplicationsNews About WCVBNews Policy StatementsHearst Television participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.©2024, Hearst Television Inc. on behalf of WCVB-TV.Privacy NoticeYour California Privacy RightsInterest-Based AdsTerms of UseSite Map
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