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<v Speaker 1>This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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<v Speaker 2>Sixty three degrees and Breezyan Boston on this home opener

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<v Speaker 2>at Fenway Park Friday, Good afternoon or morning. Still, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>Madison Rogers getting ahead of myself. Let's start this hour

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<v Speaker 2>on Wall Street. Stock seeing major losses in a second

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<v Speaker 2>day of tariff turmoil. The downsdown more than thirteen hundred points,

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<v Speaker 2>the S and P and NASTAC both down between four

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<v Speaker 2>and five percent, and the trade war escalates. CBS's Michael Wallace,

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<v Speaker 2>as America's biggest trading partner, is firing back.

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<v Speaker 3>China is imposing thirty four percent tariffs on all US goods,

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<v Speaker 3>matching the reciprocal tariffs Trump slapped on Chinese imports. China's

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<v Speaker 3>tariffs will take effect April tenth. China's finance ministry says

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<v Speaker 3>Trump's tariffs are inconsistent with international trade rules and a

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<v Speaker 3>danger global economic development and the stability of the production

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<v Speaker 3>and supply chain.

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<v Speaker 2>Wall Street is seeing the worst numbers since the dawn

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<v Speaker 2>one of the pandemic. For his part, President Trump says

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<v Speaker 2>he saw this coming.

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<v Speaker 4>President Trump sounding unbothered by the plunge on Wall Street

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<v Speaker 4>after his sweeping tariffs upended the world economy.

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<v Speaker 5>I think it's going very well with an operation, I

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<v Speaker 5>like what a patient gets operated on.

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<v Speaker 4>On Air Force one, the President laying out a timetable, I'd.

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<v Speaker 1>Always say it would take a year and a half.

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<v Speaker 4>To two years, but he did not explain what would

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<v Speaker 4>happen to alleviate pain in the interim, or acknowledge that

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<v Speaker 4>American businesses will likely pay more to build products here

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<v Speaker 4>than overseas.

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<v Speaker 2>That's ABC's Mary Bruce reporting. And while Wall Street is

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<v Speaker 2>painting a dark picture of the economy, the jobs report

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<v Speaker 2>out today is lifting some spirits.

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<v Speaker 5>The job market was stronger than expected in March. The

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<v Speaker 5>US economy added two hundred and twenty eight thousand jobs

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<v Speaker 5>in the month of March. It was the strongest performance

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<v Speaker 5>this year. There was a downward revision to the past

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<v Speaker 5>two months of forty eight thousand, but still this report

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<v Speaker 5>was far better than expected.

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<v Speaker 2>Unemployment did tick up to four point two percent. And

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<v Speaker 2>will have more news coming up from the business world

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<v Speaker 2>with Bloomberg in just a few This justin to the

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<v Speaker 2>WBZ newsroom. Actor and comedian Russell Brand is now facing

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<v Speaker 2>rape and sexual assault charges in the United Kingdom. Police

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<v Speaker 2>in London say the alleged offenses took place between nineteen

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<v Speaker 2>ninety nine and two thousand and five. Brand denying all

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<v Speaker 2>the allegations. He says his relationships were always consensual. He's

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<v Speaker 2>now due before a judge in London early next month.

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<v Speaker 2>Comedian John Oliver is facing a new lawsuit over an

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<v Speaker 2>episode of his HBO show last week Tonight.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a show about Medicaid. There's long lost, massive

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<v Speaker 1>flow with all Medicaid systems. It showed clips of doctor

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<v Speaker 1>Brian Mobley. He alleges in a lawsuit they were taken

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<v Speaker 1>out of context to make him the face of a

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<v Speaker 1>predatory system. He says the episode that aired last year

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<v Speaker 1>wrongfully implied that he had illegally denied services to patients.

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<v Speaker 1>The segment centered on a severely disabled patient in Iowa

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<v Speaker 1>whose Medicaid care had been cut off. A representative for

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<v Speaker 1>last week Tonight called the lawsuit meritless. Steve Kaithan, CBS

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<v Speaker 1>News and.

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<v Speaker 2>Checking the four day forecast, it's a mix of sun

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<v Speaker 2>and clouds This afternoon high around sixty six degrees. Tonight

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<v Speaker 2>is partly cloudy to start. We have more clouds building

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<v Speaker 2>late and low around forty one. Saturday's cloudy with some

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<v Speaker 2>rain and drizzle at times. Forty three to forty seven

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<v Speaker 2>for the high mid upper fifties for Sunday, but it

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<v Speaker 2>is mostly cloudy with a few showers around. Lingering showers

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<v Speaker 2>are possible for Monday, mostly south of town. Otherwise some

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<v Speaker 2>limited sunshine may return and it's a high around forty two.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, it is sixty three and cloudy in New

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<v Speaker 2>Bedford fifty eight and sunny in Worcester, sunshine north of

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<v Speaker 2>town as well, sixty two. Right now in Danvers. In

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<v Speaker 2>Boston it is partly sunny, sixty three degrees and a

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<v Speaker 2>big gusty at ten oh six. We are just a

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<v Speaker 2>few hours away now from watching the Red Sox take

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<v Speaker 2>the field at Fenway for the first time in twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five. WBZ s Drewmaholland has everything we need to know.

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<v Speaker 6>The socks on the field for one hundred and thirteenth time.

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<v Speaker 6>Levin Reid, how's the weather.

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<v Speaker 2>And pulling all to this unbrellaup like nerdy pop.

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<v Speaker 6>I remember that from four years ago, our good friend

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<v Speaker 6>Levin Reid from CBS News Boston had a tough day

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<v Speaker 6>in the driving rain covering the opener.

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<v Speaker 1>Had to fix my unbrell up given printfer scripts, which

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<v Speaker 1>are now you've called subs the paper.

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<v Speaker 6>Ah poor lev the weather's better today. They canceled that game.

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<v Speaker 6>The Red Sox also postponed their home opener back at

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<v Speaker 6>two thousand and three, but not before Ray Charles came

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<v Speaker 6>out and sang America the beautiful Ray Charles was booked,

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<v Speaker 6>show had to go on, and then the game was postponed.

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<v Speaker 2>The White House is turning up the pressure on Harvard.

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<v Speaker 2>School officials have been sent a list of demands by

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<v Speaker 2>the Trump administration to avoid losing out on billions in funding.

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<v Speaker 2>The letter, obtained by The Globe, calls for changes to

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<v Speaker 2>biased program that fuel antisemitism, an end to DEI, and

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<v Speaker 2>commitment to full cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security

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<v Speaker 2>and other federal agencies. A number of schools are also

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<v Speaker 2>facing similar demands from the White House. The news comes

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<v Speaker 2>after the Trump administration announced it would be reviewing some

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<v Speaker 2>nine billion dollars in federal money earmarked for Harvard. Karen

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<v Speaker 2>Reid is making an appeal to the US Supreme Court.

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<v Speaker 2>Her attorneys argue the retrial now underway violates double jeopardy,

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<v Speaker 2>and jurors from the first trial had come forward to

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<v Speaker 2>say there was consensus behind closed doors to a quit

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<v Speaker 2>read of murder and leaving the scene that would leave

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<v Speaker 2>only the manslaughter charge. Supreme Court justices will now decide

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<v Speaker 2>whether or not to take up the case. First trial

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<v Speaker 2>ended last summer with a hung jury. Right now, a

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<v Speaker 2>new jury selection process is underway and ten jurors have

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<v Speaker 2>been picked. As of right now, they'll be weighing whether

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<v Speaker 2>Reid is guilty of killing Boston Police officer John O'Keefe

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<v Speaker 2>three years ago in Canton. You're now in the loop

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