Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: thirty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: Another day on the stock market slide, although today felt
Speaker 2: a whole lot more like a roller coaster. In fact,
Speaker 2: we may even finally land up on at least one
Speaker 2: of the markets. Bloomberg's Tracy Junkie is here with us.
Speaker 2: I know these numbers got to settle, but the Nasdaq
Speaker 2: may have escaped with a wind today.
Speaker 3: It just might have been fifteen points higher as we
Speaker 3: watch for the settle. The Dell, however, down three hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty, yes, down twelve points. The dew at the worst, however,
Speaker 3: was down seventeen hundred points. Investors heard it from the
Speaker 3: President himself last hour there will be no pressing pause
Speaker 3: on the sweeping tariffs set to begin on Wednesday. Rumors
Speaker 3: of a ninety day pause earlier had powered in a
Speaker 3: state founding twenty six hundred point in Dow swing to
Speaker 3: the upside, and though we did see some losses return,
Speaker 3: the market definitely did not abandon all hope.
Speaker 2: Ben all right a better day, even though two of
Speaker 2: the three finished down will have more reaction coming up
Speaker 2: throughout the afternoon on WBZ. Meantime at the White House
Speaker 2: is rarely. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is there meeting with
Speaker 2: President Trump. Netanyahu says he is going to tear down
Speaker 2: trade barriers with the US.
Speaker 4: We will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States.
Speaker 3: We intend to do it very quickly. We think it's
Speaker 3: the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: Then Yahoo adds Israel wants to be a close trading
Speaker 2: partner with the US. President Trump says the tariffs will
Speaker 2: soon make America wealthier and stronger. The President also saying
Speaker 2: he's communicated directly with Iran and says Orreny in fact,
Speaker 2: militia groups need to disarm immediately.
Speaker 4: I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be
Speaker 4: preferable to doing the obvious, and the obvious is not
Speaker 4: something that I want to be involved with, or frankly,
Speaker 4: that isuer ones to be involved with if they can
Speaker 4: avoid it. So we're going to see if we can
Speaker 4: avoid it.
Speaker 2: President Trump has hinted at military action is if a
Speaker 2: deal is not struck. Following the revocation of visas of
Speaker 2: three Harvard international students and two recent grads. The universities
Speaker 2: out with a statement saying they deeply value the international
Speaker 2: students and scholars who travel here to learn and grow.
Speaker 2: Those who had visas revoked had not been publicly identified.
Speaker 2: The school says they learned of the revocations during the
Speaker 2: routine records check and says we are not aware of
Speaker 2: the tales of the revocations or the reasons for them.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration has said it may target foreign born
Speaker 2: students if they are considered a threat to national security.
Speaker 2: In several of the reported cases detailed, students have not
Speaker 2: been charged with a crime, supporters arguing their only offense
Speaker 2: appears to concern their activism. Speaking of the students, Harvard
Speaker 2: says the talent they bring to campus each day increases
Speaker 2: our ability to advance world class discovery in fields that
Speaker 2: have meaningful impacts on people's lives. A couple of agency
Speaker 2: board members fired by the president can return to work
Speaker 2: for now, so says a court.
Speaker 5: The seven to four ruling comes from an appeals court
Speaker 5: regarding the status of Merit Systems Protection Board member Kathy
Speaker 5: Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynn Willcox. Government
Speaker 5: lawyers say President Trump has the final say on firing
Speaker 5: such board members and reinstating them undermines his authority. The
Speaker 5: case will likely head to the Supreme Court when Needel
Speaker 5: that CBS News.
Speaker 2: Court's over for the day. In Denham, jury selection continues
Speaker 2: in the Karen Reid case. CBS News boss and says
Speaker 2: no new jurors were added today, which means there are
Speaker 2: still ten jurors seated out of the sixteen needed for
Speaker 2: opening statements to begin. There's been some rain and showers
Speaker 2: around out the western part of the state. Have been
Speaker 2: some snowflakes mixed in, and that may be the deal
Speaker 2: for some of the even closer suburbs later tonight, north
Speaker 2: and west of the city, where temperatures may be just
Speaker 2: cold enough to bring us a snow shower or two.
Speaker 2: There'll be some showers of the regular nature around as well.
Speaker 2: Thirty six. The low downtown will be in the lower thirties.
Speaker 2: In some of the inland suburbs. Tomorrow, it's a mostly
Speaker 2: cloudy morning. There'll be a little bit of rain shower activity,
Speaker 2: maybe a snow shower in a few spots. The wind's
Speaker 2: going to start to pick up and blow around pretty
Speaker 2: good as well as we head into the afternoon. There'll
Speaker 2: be some clouds in sun then temperatures though only in
Speaker 2: the low forties, mainly cleared chilly Tomorrow night thirty in Boston,
Speaker 2: but mid twenties and the colder suburbs. We get a
Speaker 2: little better on Wednesday with some sunshine, temperatures in the
Speaker 2: upper forties, some sun giving way to clouds. Thursday near fifty.
Speaker 2: Right now forty nine degrees in Boston. Did I say
Speaker 2: forty nine? I wish thirty nine degrees in Boston. It's
Speaker 2: dinner with the side of nostalgia in Shrewsbury, one restaurant
Speaker 2: back in business.
Speaker 6: Maybe you lived it or just heard the stories, but
Speaker 6: in the eighties and nineties it was all about munching
Speaker 6: on popcorn and peanuts while watching cartoons. And now, after
Speaker 6: a decade long hiatus, the ground around his back.
Speaker 7: Post photos of whatever it may be, and say remember
Speaker 7: when and when someone did it with the ground round,
Speaker 7: there would be thousands of comments on it.
Speaker 6: Nagie and Joseph shared the new owners here at the
Speaker 6: restaurant off Route nine. Right now, they're serving up dinner
Speaker 6: ahead of a grand opening later this month, and it's
Speaker 6: very different from the local ground round that we had
Speaker 6: in terms of infrastructure itself, but somehow it still felt
Speaker 6: like a ground round The place satisfies that nostalgic itch
Speaker 6: walking in the door to see a vintage popcorn machine,
Speaker 6: but with some updates showing a sign at the times on.
Speaker 7: The old days they played black and white cartoons, we
Speaker 7: are playing like eighties nineties cartoons because the way we
Speaker 7: look at it, the generation that was there as kids,
Speaker 7: that's the cartoons they would.
Speaker 6: Have watched in Shrewsbury. Emma Friedman WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All Lives will be on Springfield in September. The latest
Speaker 2: Basketball Hall of Fame class will get enshrined. Then a
Speaker 2: Smith Basketball Hall of Fame announcing not inductees that will
Speaker 2: be celebrated on September fifth and sixth. That one of
Speaker 2: the inductees is actually more than one, really the two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight US Olympic Men's basketball team. Sports teams
Speaker 2: retire jersey numbers based on how good the players were.
Speaker 2: Hurricanes get retired depending on how bad the storms were.
Speaker 2: Several storm names from the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins
Speaker 2: are retired after the destruction they caused. In twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8: Retired names include Beryl, Helene, Milton, and John replaced by Brianna, Holly,
Speaker 8: Maguil and Jake. The twenty twenty four Atlantic hurricane season
Speaker 8: marked the ninth consecutive year of above average activity, and
Speaker 8: the year ahead could bring more dangerous storms, as experts
Speaker 8: predict seventeen named storms, nine hurricanes, and four of them
Speaker 8: are expected to be Category three or stronger. The above
Speaker 8: average activity is anticipated due to warmer Atlantic waters and
Speaker 8: uncertain al Nino conditions.
Speaker 2: That is CBS's Jesse Mitchell If You're Happy and you
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Speaker 2: five Happiness Survey Launching today. The Happiness Survey has helped
Speaker 2: us shape the city's policies and programs since twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: It measures residents satisfaction with life and Someerville city services, neighborhoods,
Speaker 2: and other things. This month and next, nearly seventeen thousand
Speaker 2: randomly selected households will receive either a postcard or a
Speaker 2: survey packet inviting one household member to participate online or
Speaker 2: on paper. The city is encouraging all selected households to participate.
Speaker 2: Participation is anonymous survey. Results will be shared later this year,
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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio