The new dashboard shows 725 new cases (was 1,139 yesterday) and a gigantic 51,419 new tests. The seven-day weighted average of the positive rate is at 1.8 percent.
BREAKING: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules any individual who is not being held without bail, and who has not been charged with a "violent or serious offense," shall be released from jail. #WBZ
As for inmates serving sentences, the SJC says it does not have the authority to order them released, but is urging the Department of Corrections and the parole board to work with the special master to expedite parole hearings. #WBZ#coronavirus
The SJC ruling on the release of jailed defendants in Massachusetts does NOT apply to people charged with the below offenses. There are a lot of them. #WBZ
BREAKING: Massachusetts has just announced 51 *new* cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of presumptive cases to 92 -- a 124 percent increase from yesterday. Seventy of the cases are related to the Biogen conference in Boston. Six people are hospitalized. #WBZ
BREAKING: Governor Baker declares a state of emergency in Massachusetts for coronavirus. #WBZ
Details on the coronavirus cases in Massachusetts. Middlesex County is the most affected. #WBZ
BREAKING: @CBSMiami reports Nikolas Cruz's gun jammed after he changed magazine clips, forcing him to end his attack. #WBZ
This is likely the evidence that Sen. Marco Rubio was referencing during a CNN town hall when he said, "Three or four people might be alive today because of something this deranged killer did, had to do."
That is why, Rubio went on, he might now support limits on magazines.
Eight states and D.C. have laws banning large-capacity magazines: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.