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Speaker 3: News twenty nine degrees. We've got a few clouds around
Speaker 3: in Boston. It is six o'clock here on this Friday morning,
Speaker 3: December thirteenth, twenty twenty four, and this hour news is
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Speaker 3: joining us. I'm Jim McKay and here's what's happening. Well,
Speaker 3: it is the middle of December and we are certainly
Speaker 3: feeling like it's risk and cold today with sunshine much
Speaker 3: of the time, and it will stay cold through the weekend.
Speaker 3: That is WVZAKI weather meteorologist Brian Thompson and telling us
Speaker 3: we can expect sunshine to stick around. But also these
Speaker 3: Chile temperatures were in the thirties all weekend long with
Speaker 3: sunshine as well. The latest now from the Karen Reid
Speaker 3: murder case testimony at Norfolk Superior Court, and the prosecution
Speaker 3: is trying to disqualify a dog bite expert from testifying
Speaker 3: and reads upcoming retrial.
Speaker 4: Sucial prosecutor Hank Brennan grilled defense expert doctor Marie Russell
Speaker 4: on her experience on wounds.
Speaker 2: Have you studied a collection of wounds when people fell
Speaker 2: backwards onto the ground.
Speaker 1: I've seen hundreds of people that have fallen backwards.
Speaker 4: She testified during Karen Reid's first criminal trial, saying she
Speaker 4: believes John O'Keeffe was attacked by a dog and not
Speaker 4: hit by Reid's SUV. The prosecution filed the motion to
Speaker 4: try and prevent her from testifying in the second trial,
Speaker 4: saying she's not an expert. Defense attorney Robert Alessi asked
Speaker 4: her about her findings when it came to O'Keefe's sweatshirt.
Speaker 1: Well taken in totality with the other images.
Speaker 3: I believe that these are all the result of multiple
Speaker 3: dog bites.
Speaker 4: The prosecution claims Reid hit O'Keefe with her SUV and
Speaker 4: left them and this snow to die well. The defense
Speaker 4: says he was attacked by a dog and she was framed.
Speaker 4: Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: Well Cambridge police sending out the warnings of a phone
Speaker 3: scam where the voice you hear is someone impersonating a
Speaker 3: police officer. The messages people are getting is someone pretending
Speaker 3: to be a cop telling you that you've missed jury
Speaker 3: duty need to pay a large sum of money to
Speaker 3: avoid jail time there and then instructions for the person
Speaker 3: to deposit funds at a specific location and deliver the
Speaker 3: receipt to the Cambridge Police. As always, never give your
Speaker 3: personal information over the phone if you do have any
Speaker 3: information on the scam or if you get the call.
Speaker 3: Cambridge Police have an anonymous tip line. With holiday celebrations
Speaker 3: comes holiday gifts. Some advice this morning for people to
Speaker 3: look in to get those special items to their end
Speaker 3: destination on time.
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Speaker 4: That's the best way and you get everything on time.
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, we have a delivery for you. Thank you.
Speaker 5: And some other advice to get everything where it needs
Speaker 5: to go, like this mug for my family. Make sure
Speaker 5: to use the right packaging to help reduce weight. Envelopes
Speaker 5: are usually less expensive than boxes and print two copies
Speaker 5: of the lab but one for the outside of the
Speaker 5: box and one for the inside as a backup just
Speaker 5: in case something happens to it. Nancy Chin, CBS News.
Speaker 3: Silver Spring, Maryland and a rough road trip for the Bruins.
Speaker 3: To say, the league.
Speaker 2: Leaves for done centers and that Chuck Clark.
Speaker 1: They score ritch guns, the guy who got it is and.
Speaker 3: It's three one see out and that's it. On the
Speaker 3: call last night the krack and would make it five
Speaker 3: to one. That was the final Bees outscored thirteen to
Speaker 3: two in the last two games. They're in Vancouver Tomorrow
Speaker 3: night Celtics meantime steamroll. The Pistons won twenty three to
Speaker 3: ninety nine. Thursday Night Football Rams able to sneak past
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers with a twelve to six win.
Speaker 3: How are Christmas tree sales going this holiday season? We're
Speaker 3: gonna take a look on that is get it check
Speaker 3: now on that forecast. We've got some cloud cover at
Speaker 3: the moment, a real cold start of the morning out there.
Speaker 3: Most of us are in the twenties and feeling like
Speaker 3: the teams certainly one of those mornings you're gonna want
Speaker 3: to bundle up, and it's gonna be one of those
Speaker 3: weekends where you're gonna want to bundle up if there
Speaker 3: are a little brief reprieve of some sixty degree temperatures
Speaker 3: and range hours this week, we are off to a
Speaker 3: pretty chilly weekend, but a nice crisp winter forecast. Plenty
Speaker 3: of sunshine for your Saturday Tomorrow, less wind. You'll have
Speaker 3: a high of thirty three degrees, feeling like the freezing mark.
Speaker 3: And then by Sunday we're into the upper thirties with
Speaker 3: sunshine and clouds, and we're feeling a bit more comfortable
Speaker 3: on Monday, and we will have some raiding around, but
Speaker 3: we're going to be back into the mid forties. At
Speaker 3: the moment. In Boston right now, we're at twenty nine
Speaker 3: degrees with some clouds. It is six oh six on
Speaker 3: WBZ News Radio. I have a new administration in Washington.
Speaker 3: Some LGBT legal groups say they have been flooded with requests.
Speaker 6: There's a real sense of fear in the transgender community
Speaker 6: locally and around the country.
Speaker 2: The incoming administration has promised that it will initiate changes
Speaker 2: in federal law that require people to identify only with
Speaker 2: their birth sex.
Speaker 6: Senior attorney Chris Urgel at Boston based Glad Law says
Speaker 6: many are concerned the new administration might make their transition,
Speaker 6: so they're rushing to update things like their legal names
Speaker 6: and gender markers on ID forms. GLAD Law has a
Speaker 6: service aimed at helping people navigate the process.
Speaker 2: Last month we saw three times as many intakes as
Speaker 2: we did the same month in the previous year.
Speaker 6: Groups like GLAD and states like Massachusetts arguing up for
Speaker 6: potential legal fights around trans issues. Downtown. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ,
Speaker 6: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: He extended the invite, but appears Chinese President Sheishin Ping
Speaker 3: will not be attending the inauguration of President elect Donald
Speaker 3: Trump on January twenty at the Chinese zoned newspaper, The
Speaker 3: South China Morning Post cited historical precedent and diplomatic protocol
Speaker 3: as the reason that President she probably would not be attending.
Speaker 3: It's believed mister Trump is also reaching out to other
Speaker 3: world leaders about attending his inauguration. Christmas tree sellers are
Speaker 3: in the middle of their busy season WBZ style Chaffe.
Speaker 3: I went to a popular one in Austin to see
Speaker 3: how things are going.
Speaker 1: Harvard Aving, Austin is not usually known for its abundance
Speaker 1: of trees, except for these couple weeks in December.
Speaker 6: We have two different types of trees here. We got
Speaker 6: Fraser and Baltom Fir.
Speaker 1: When the Boston Christmas tree lot is open and Roaring
Speaker 1: Nate is walking me through the offerings. That's about a
Speaker 1: sixer right there is. His business has been brisker than
Speaker 1: normal because Thanksgiving was late and they open up the
Speaker 1: day after the season is condensed. They've been selling trees
Speaker 1: here for more than fifty years. The different trees have
Speaker 1: different pros and cons. Balsam Firs have that classic Christmas
Speaker 1: tree smell, but that's not what everybody needs.
Speaker 3: So for folks that celebrate Orthodox Christmas, they tend to
Speaker 3: opt for the Frasers.
Speaker 1: That's because Fraser first tend to last longer, and Orthodox
Speaker 1: Christmas is in January. Kyle Schaffel to WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 3: I'm Jim McKay, WBZ Boston's News Radio