Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. So
Speaker 1: I suppose it shouldn't surprise me when go time arrives,
Speaker 1: but somehow it always does. And here it is Friday,
Speaker 1: finally in Boston. It is six o'clock and we've got
Speaker 1: mostly cloudy skies. It is a very muggy seventy four
Speaker 1: degrees here in the city. The News at six brought
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Speaker 1: on this Friday morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 2: The party is apparently over well. I have intervals of
Speaker 2: clowns and sunshine today.
Speaker 1: Not as warm as yesterday, but still humid. As w
Speaker 1: b Z Achi weather meteorologist Heather's aire. We're talking about
Speaker 1: temperatures mainly in the mid to upper seventies, but showers
Speaker 1: and thunderstorms, and a floodwatch has been posted for parts
Speaker 1: of Greater Boston. Later today, a buzzer beater in the
Speaker 1: nation's heartland, it's wud threat touts of a second the
Speaker 1: meeting Tyres Halliburton does it again and love them in Indiana.
Speaker 1: The call on ESPN as the Pacers break the Thunder's
Speaker 1: hearts in Oklahoma City with a last second Game one win.
Speaker 1: As the NBA Finals gets under way, Red Sox are
Speaker 1: back in action tonight. They will visit the Evil Empire
Speaker 1: for a weekend series, their first series with the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees so far this season. Testimony resumes in the
Speaker 1: Karen Reid trial this morning in Norfolk Superior Court. Day
Speaker 1: off yesterday, when Judge Beverly Canoni decides the already high
Speaker 1: heat of the courtroom would be unbearable to take with
Speaker 1: ninety degree temperatures outside. When last we met, the jury
Speaker 1: heard from a snowplow driver who says he never saw
Speaker 1: a body in the snow outside of Canton home more
Speaker 1: than three years ago, and testimony from a friend of
Speaker 1: Karen Reid who says she saw Reid at a bar
Speaker 1: hours before John O'Keeffe's death and claims Reid was not drunk,
Speaker 1: but also appeared to be very much in love with
Speaker 1: the Boston police officer. Another former girl friend of Sean
Speaker 1: Diddy Combs, takes the stand at Comb's federal sex trafficking
Speaker 1: and racketeering trial in New York City. The woman known
Speaker 1: only as Jane to the jury, speaks in hush tones
Speaker 1: and claims that Combs forced her to take part in
Speaker 1: hundreds of sex parties known as freak coughs, and says
Speaker 1: her relationship with a hip hop mogul change for the
Speaker 1: worse during a party at a Los Angeles hotel several
Speaker 1: years ago. Jane says, despite her fears, she felt obligated
Speaker 1: to Playcate Colmbs. The fifty five year old faces up
Speaker 1: to a lifetime in prison if convicted, but he denies
Speaker 1: all of the charges. A short lived White House bromance
Speaker 1: falls apart when both President Trump and Elon Musk say
Speaker 1: it's not me, it's you. The falling out spirals out
Speaker 1: of control in real time.
Speaker 3: An advisor to President Trump told CBS News that Musk,
Speaker 3: who is deeply involved with his SpaceX rocket company, is
Speaker 3: angry the nomination of his preferred pick to run NASA
Speaker 3: was pulled. Trump withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman to
Speaker 3: head NASA without explanation last Saturday. Musk was also agitated,
Speaker 3: the advisor says, when government support for electric cars was
Speaker 3: pulled from the budget bill, potentially chipping away at the
Speaker 3: bottom line of his car company. Tesla Michael Toscano, CBS
Speaker 3: News Washington.
Speaker 1: Both go at it on social media yesterday, but both
Speaker 1: sides seem to have cooler heads prevail. Late last night,
Speaker 1: lost in the drama of the White House selon Musk
Speaker 1: soap opera, President Trump and China's President Chijingpang meet on
Speaker 1: the phone and spend an hour and a half talking
Speaker 1: about the kids, the family, and yes, jump starting trade talks.
Speaker 1: President Trump says the business end of the phone call
Speaker 1: results in a plan to immediately resume those discussions.
Speaker 4: The Commerce and Treasury Secretary and the Trade representative will
Speaker 4: be meeting with their Chinese counterparts in the near future,
Speaker 4: and also indicated that things were going to be improving
Speaker 4: when it comes to the rare earth minerals that the
Speaker 4: United States has accused China on slow walking the export
Speaker 4: of those things in recent weeks. That was the big
Speaker 4: impetus for the President dropping Chinese tariffs from one hundred
Speaker 4: down to thirty percent.
Speaker 1: Both President Trump and President she also exchange invites to
Speaker 1: each other to meet face to face. Ezy sunshine through
Speaker 1: otherwise what looks to be a cloudy sky for the
Speaker 1: most part here in Greater Boston, it is a very
Speaker 1: sticky seventy four degrees as we get started this morning.
Speaker 1: The temperatures will be warm and muggy once again today,
Speaker 1: with highs approaching eighty and many inland spots. But we
Speaker 1: are going to need to be keeping an eye to
Speaker 1: the sky, say around noontime and thereafter, we've got the
Speaker 1: very real possibility of seeing showers and some potent thunderstorms
Speaker 1: rumbling through the area. In fact, a flood watch is
Speaker 1: in effect for portions west of Boston later on today
Speaker 1: as well. Unfortunately, this rain is going to linger through
Speaker 1: the overnight hours and will extend into the early stages
Speaker 1: of tomorrow. Saturday kicks off the weekend with a few
Speaker 1: more showers and thunderstorms. Otherwise, it looks like a mostly cloudy,
Speaker 1: warm day tomorrow with highs in the mid seventies. The
Speaker 1: end of the weekend on Sunday looks a whole lot better,
Speaker 1: with a mix of sun and clouds and high temperatures
Speaker 1: in the middle seventies as well. Right now, we're already
Speaker 1: there at seventy four here in Boston and a very
Speaker 1: sticky start to the day at six oh six this
Speaker 1: Friday morning. Today is National Donut Day and a local
Speaker 1: man says pedal power to the people and a day
Speaker 1: long mission between Boston City Line.
Speaker 5: First Munchkins, Here we go.
Speaker 2: Adam Bigeow of Cambridge is fueling up for a long
Speaker 2: day and bike ride ahead of him. He's here at
Speaker 2: the Duncan on Bennington Street, the first of ninety two
Speaker 2: Duncans he's riding to today.
Speaker 5: My girlfriend was diagnosed with MSS last year and so
Speaker 5: I wanted to do something. I'm doing a fundraising ride
Speaker 5: later this month, and I wanted to do something fun
Speaker 5: to raise awareness that I was doing it. There's nothing
Speaker 5: more Boston than Duncan, So here I am.
Speaker 2: Duncan is helping him with the logistics and with Munchkins
Speaker 2: to keep him energized.
Speaker 5: So they've also given me some gift cards. So if
Speaker 5: you can find me in the wild, it's like a
Speaker 5: scavenger hut. If you can find the guy with the propoller,
Speaker 5: you can get some some gift cards in free swag.
Speaker 2: Today his girlfriend was here at the Duncans starting line
Speaker 2: of seeing Adam off and snapping a photo at every stop.
Speaker 2: An East James Rojas w b Z Boston, some news
Speaker 2: radio in.
Speaker 1: South Boston and police storm the beach law enforcement called
Speaker 1: the Carson Beach in Southea on reports that youths are
Speaker 1: causing a rucus. State and Boston police presence also includes
Speaker 1: the Marine Unit just offshore. Two teenagers ultimately detained as
Speaker 1: cops break up some fights. No serious injuries reported, and
Speaker 1: today marks the eighty first anniversary of the Allied invasion
Speaker 1: of the beaches of Normandy. It's d Day and anniversary
Speaker 1: celebrations are going to continue all morning long. In France,
Speaker 1: a Milford High school student wakes up in his own
Speaker 1: bed this morning after an immigration judge freeze eighteen year
Speaker 1: old Marcelo Gomes da Silva from an ice lock up.
Speaker 1: The young man was swept away after being stopped by
Speaker 1: agents while on his way to volleyball practice last weekend,
Speaker 1: in a raid that even the government admits was intended
Speaker 1: to take his father into custody. Gomes da Silva tell
Speaker 1: the crowd he hadn't showered since landing in lock up,
Speaker 1: had very little to eat, and was forced to sleep
Speaker 1: on the floor. His next hearing is pending, though it
Speaker 1: will be, but with a backlog in the courts, there's
Speaker 1: no telling when that hearing might actually be. You are
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