Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sixty three degrees and Breezyan Boston on this home opener
Speaker 2: at Fenway Park Friday, Good afternoon or morning. Still, I'm
Speaker 2: Madison Rogers getting ahead of myself. Let's start this hour
Speaker 2: on Wall Street. Stock seeing major losses in a second
Speaker 2: day of tariff turmoil. The downsdown more than thirteen hundred points,
Speaker 2: the S and P and NASTAC both down between four
Speaker 2: and five percent, and the trade war escalates. CBS's Michael Wallace,
Speaker 2: as America's biggest trading partner, is firing back.
Speaker 3: China is imposing thirty four percent tariffs on all US goods,
Speaker 3: matching the reciprocal tariffs Trump slapped on Chinese imports. China's
Speaker 3: tariffs will take effect April tenth. China's finance ministry says
Speaker 3: Trump's tariffs are inconsistent with international trade rules and a
Speaker 3: danger global economic development and the stability of the production
Speaker 3: and supply chain.
Speaker 2: Wall Street is seeing the worst numbers since the dawn
Speaker 2: one of the pandemic. For his part, President Trump says
Speaker 2: he saw this coming.
Speaker 4: President Trump sounding unbothered by the plunge on Wall Street
Speaker 4: after his sweeping tariffs upended the world economy.
Speaker 5: I think it's going very well with an operation, I
Speaker 5: like what a patient gets operated on.
Speaker 4: On Air Force one, the President laying out a timetable, I'd.
Speaker 1: Always say it would take a year and a half.
Speaker 4: To two years, but he did not explain what would
Speaker 4: happen to alleviate pain in the interim, or acknowledge that
Speaker 4: American businesses will likely pay more to build products here
Speaker 4: than overseas.
Speaker 2: That's ABC's Mary Bruce reporting. And while Wall Street is
Speaker 2: painting a dark picture of the economy, the jobs report
Speaker 2: out today is lifting some spirits.
Speaker 5: The job market was stronger than expected in March. The
Speaker 5: US economy added two hundred and twenty eight thousand jobs
Speaker 5: in the month of March. It was the strongest performance
Speaker 5: this year. There was a downward revision to the past
Speaker 5: two months of forty eight thousand, but still this report
Speaker 5: was far better than expected.
Speaker 2: Unemployment did tick up to four point two percent. And
Speaker 2: will have more news coming up from the business world
Speaker 2: with Bloomberg in just a few This justin to the
Speaker 2: WBZ newsroom. Actor and comedian Russell Brand is now facing
Speaker 2: rape and sexual assault charges in the United Kingdom. Police
Speaker 2: in London say the alleged offenses took place between nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety nine and two thousand and five. Brand denying all
Speaker 2: the allegations. He says his relationships were always consensual. He's
Speaker 2: now due before a judge in London early next month.
Speaker 2: Comedian John Oliver is facing a new lawsuit over an
Speaker 2: episode of his HBO show last week Tonight.
Speaker 1: It was a show about Medicaid. There's long lost, massive
Speaker 1: flow with all Medicaid systems. It showed clips of doctor
Speaker 1: Brian Mobley. He alleges in a lawsuit they were taken
Speaker 1: out of context to make him the face of a
Speaker 1: predatory system. He says the episode that aired last year
Speaker 1: wrongfully implied that he had illegally denied services to patients.
Speaker 1: The segment centered on a severely disabled patient in Iowa
Speaker 1: whose Medicaid care had been cut off. A representative for
Speaker 1: last week Tonight called the lawsuit meritless. Steve Kaithan, CBS
Speaker 1: News and.
Speaker 2: Checking the four day forecast, it's a mix of sun
Speaker 2: and clouds This afternoon high around sixty six degrees. Tonight
Speaker 2: is partly cloudy to start. We have more clouds building
Speaker 2: late and low around forty one. Saturday's cloudy with some
Speaker 2: rain and drizzle at times. Forty three to forty seven
Speaker 2: for the high mid upper fifties for Sunday, but it
Speaker 2: is mostly cloudy with a few showers around. Lingering showers
Speaker 2: are possible for Monday, mostly south of town. Otherwise some
Speaker 2: limited sunshine may return and it's a high around forty two.
Speaker 2: Right now, it is sixty three and cloudy in New
Speaker 2: Bedford fifty eight and sunny in Worcester, sunshine north of
Speaker 2: town as well, sixty two. Right now in Danvers. In
Speaker 2: Boston it is partly sunny, sixty three degrees and a
Speaker 2: big gusty at ten oh six. We are just a
Speaker 2: few hours away now from watching the Red Sox take
Speaker 2: the field at Fenway for the first time in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. WBZ s Drewmaholland has everything we need to know.
Speaker 6: The socks on the field for one hundred and thirteenth time.
Speaker 6: Levin Reid, how's the weather.
Speaker 2: And pulling all to this unbrellaup like nerdy pop.
Speaker 6: I remember that from four years ago, our good friend
Speaker 6: Levin Reid from CBS News Boston had a tough day
Speaker 6: in the driving rain covering the opener.
Speaker 1: Had to fix my unbrell up given printfer scripts, which
Speaker 1: are now you've called subs the paper.
Speaker 6: Ah poor lev the weather's better today. They canceled that game.
Speaker 6: The Red Sox also postponed their home opener back at
Speaker 6: two thousand and three, but not before Ray Charles came
Speaker 6: out and sang America the beautiful Ray Charles was booked,
Speaker 6: show had to go on, and then the game was postponed.
Speaker 2: The White House is turning up the pressure on Harvard.
Speaker 2: School officials have been sent a list of demands by
Speaker 2: the Trump administration to avoid losing out on billions in funding.
Speaker 2: The letter, obtained by The Globe, calls for changes to
Speaker 2: biased program that fuel antisemitism, an end to DEI, and
Speaker 2: commitment to full cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security
Speaker 2: and other federal agencies. A number of schools are also
Speaker 2: facing similar demands from the White House. The news comes
Speaker 2: after the Trump administration announced it would be reviewing some
Speaker 2: nine billion dollars in federal money earmarked for Harvard. Karen
Speaker 2: Reid is making an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: Her attorneys argue the retrial now underway violates double jeopardy,
Speaker 2: and jurors from the first trial had come forward to
Speaker 2: say there was consensus behind closed doors to a quit
Speaker 2: read of murder and leaving the scene that would leave
Speaker 2: only the manslaughter charge. Supreme Court justices will now decide
Speaker 2: whether or not to take up the case. First trial
Speaker 2: ended last summer with a hung jury. Right now, a
Speaker 2: new jury selection process is underway and ten jurors have
Speaker 2: been picked. As of right now, they'll be weighing whether
Speaker 2: Reid is guilty of killing Boston Police officer John O'Keefe
Speaker 2: three years ago in Canton. You're now in the loop
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