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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: And the prosecution rests at the Karin Read trial in
Speaker 2: Norfolk Superior Court. The state is now done presenting their
Speaker 2: case as they tried to prove Read killed her than
Speaker 2: boyfriend Johnald Keith with their suv in January of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. The prosecution's final witness, Judson Welcher, an accident reconstructionist,
Speaker 2: to us on the stand for three days of the
Speaker 2: Z Susanne Salsville has more.
Speaker 3: Defense attorney Robert Alessi questioned Welter about glass found near
Speaker 3: John O'Keefe's body and on the bumper of Reed's suv.
Speaker 3: You have no basis as you sit here today to
Speaker 3: conclude that the glass on the bumper came from a
Speaker 3: drinking glass connected to mister O'Keeffe.
Speaker 4: Do you well, We have a picture of a broken
Speaker 4: glass at the scene, so I wouldn't say we have
Speaker 4: no basis.
Speaker 1: We don't necessarily have enough to conclude it's from it, though.
Speaker 3: But then things seem to get personal. Between a Lessi
Speaker 3: and Welter. At least that's how a Lessie took it.
Speaker 5: You're on a he heep's referencing my hand in saying
Speaker 5: I'm doing something when I'm not, and I think that's
Speaker 5: distracting to the jury.
Speaker 1: I'm not interrupting, Don hold On.
Speaker 3: The State played one less clip of Read during a
Speaker 3: television interview before resting it's now the defense's case. Suzanne
Speaker 3: Soosville WBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio Cainger's a WZ newsro in This afternoon, a federal
Speaker 2: appeals court ruling to let many of the president's tariffs
Speaker 2: continue for the time being. This ruling freezes a decision
Speaker 2: from a federal trade court yesterday that had blocked many
Speaker 2: of those tariffs. The court said the president didn't have
Speaker 2: the power to impose such sweeping changes to the global economy.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration currently in the process of appealing the ruling.
Speaker 2: President Trump faces several lawsuits over his terriffs, which opponents
Speaker 2: say he doesn't have the power to impose. A new
Speaker 2: season fire between Israel and Hamas could be on the horizon.
Speaker 4: White House Press Secretary of Caroline Levitz says Israel has
Speaker 4: signed off on a sixty day ceasefire deal in Gaza.
Speaker 6: Special Envoy Witkoff and the President submitted a seatsfire proposal
Speaker 6: to Hamas that Israel backed and supported.
Speaker 4: Speaking to reporters, Secretary Levit also said Hamas is evaluating
Speaker 4: the proposal. The agreement is said to be a general
Speaker 4: framework that would include a long term ceasefire, withdrawal of
Speaker 4: Israeli troops from Gaza, more aid for Palestinian civilians, at
Speaker 4: a transfer of power from Hamas to an independent Palestinian committee.
Speaker 4: Linda Kenyon CBS News the White.
Speaker 2: House on a day when Harvard University holds graduation exercises,
Speaker 2: a federal judge in Boston issues a preliminary injunction on
Speaker 2: the Trump administration's threat to prevent students at that school
Speaker 2: who are foreign from enrolling. Earlier today, the administration delayed
Speaker 2: the action by thirty days. This injunction, though, renders that
Speaker 2: new deadline moot while Harvard challenge is in court. At
Speaker 2: Harvard reaction from those from outside the US.
Speaker 6: I've heard from the friend students. They've had a hard
Speaker 6: conversations with their classmates here and try to unite and
Speaker 6: just defend Harvard as Harvard fights to really keep this
Speaker 6: institution the oldest university in the country, as it's always
Speaker 6: been a welcome place for Forton students.
Speaker 2: Matters CBS is Nikki Baptiste. We've had a few showers,
Speaker 2: especially south of town, over the Cape and Islands, south shore,
Speaker 2: south coast. Not much there now, a few scattered showers,
Speaker 2: so you could get under one if you're there. Mostly
Speaker 2: cloudy through the night. Temperatures in the mid fifties, and yeah,
Speaker 2: there could be a shower in a few spots, but
Speaker 2: nothing really widespread. Warmer tomorrow into the mid maybe even
Speaker 2: upper seventies, with some sunshine poking out. Risk of a
Speaker 2: shower or two and an evening shower before a steady
Speaker 2: rain gets in here overnight Tomorrow night into Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: That rain will continue in the morning but then come
Speaker 2: to an end or at least taper off a bit.
Speaker 2: Just clouds in the afternoon with a shower or two.
Speaker 2: Seventy for the high Another round of rain is possible
Speaker 2: Saturday night, the intervals of clouds and sun on Sunday,
Speaker 2: Temperatures in the mid maybe upper sixties. Right now sixty
Speaker 2: one degrees see in Boston. An investigation at an MBTA
Speaker 2: maintenance facility has led to federal charges against some employees.
Speaker 2: Wdbz's Madison Rogers with details.
Speaker 5: Instead of inspecting redline tracks, they're accused of doing work
Speaker 5: on their personal cars or otherwise dodging duties and then
Speaker 5: lying about it. That's the allegation out of the MBTA's
Speaker 5: Cabot yard in Southe. We first learned about an investigation
Speaker 5: months ago, and now one manager and four x inspectors
Speaker 5: are all facing charges in Boston federal court. The US
Speaker 5: Attorney's Office says back in September. In October, then employees
Speaker 5: falsified reports saying tracks had been inspected when they hadn't.
Speaker 5: Manager Brian Faffinger allegedly knew it was happening and even
Speaker 5: had them do work on his car too. They face
Speaker 5: charges for aiding and abetting, falsifying records, and false statements
Speaker 5: Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: THEMBTA says it is taking the allegations very serious lee
Speaker 2: and is thankful for the investigation. A former MBTA transit
Speaker 2: police sergeant is found guilty of helping to file a
Speaker 2: fake arrest report at the Ashmont tes station. David Finnerty
Speaker 2: of Rutland was convicted of one count of aiding and
Speaker 2: abetting the filing of false report. Police say it was
Speaker 2: June of twenty eighteen. Police officer Finerity was supervising another
Speaker 2: officer who would use excessive force on a mat at
Speaker 2: the train Stopfinity helped to file the report so that
Speaker 2: the officer wouldn't be investigated. He's now facing a twenty
Speaker 2: year prison sentence and a fine of up to two
Speaker 2: hudred and fifty thousand dollars. If you can't get enough
Speaker 2: of the Karate Kid, well you're in luck. Wbz's Bryan
Speaker 2: att Nelly tells us there's a new competitor in the
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Speaker 7: A sequel to both nineteen eighty four is the Karate
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Speaker 2: Must be at the Nexus at the Universe.
Speaker 7: While originally considered a reboot a remake, at the time
Speaker 7: twenty tens, the Karate Kid has been folded into the
Speaker 7: main continuity.
Speaker 1: All right, you can do, mister Yagi ho, do you
Speaker 1: not come looking for sins in Miaki?
Speaker 6: I cam looking for you?
Speaker 7: Stringing together, it's two main characters, Jackie Chan as mister
Speaker 7: Han and Ralph Maccio is Daniel LaRusso. He is to me,
Speaker 7: but cute men's just sinds himniyaki. They'll combined forces to
Speaker 7: help a young kung fu product who relocates to New
Speaker 7: York City and attracts unwanted attention from a local karate champion.
Speaker 7: Driven by his two mentors, he'll and bark on a
Speaker 7: journey to enter the Ultimate Karate Competition. Brian anton Alli,
Speaker 7: WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio.