Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: forty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Another busy day in
Speaker 1: the Karen Reid case.
Speaker 2: The Commonwealth has added three of Reed's attorneys, Alan Jackson,
Speaker 2: Lies a Little and David Gyannetti to their witness list.
Speaker 2: And today it was supposed to be the final pre
Speaker 2: trial hearing, but the prosecution filed the number of new
Speaker 2: motions and that puts another hearing on the calendar for
Speaker 2: next Tuesday. Of the Busiest Book, McCarthy with more on
Speaker 2: what happened today.
Speaker 3: Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan in defense attorney Alan Jackson arguing
Speaker 3: over whether the jury should be able to hear that
Speaker 3: John O'Keefe planned to break up with Karen Reid.
Speaker 4: If anything mister Brennan just said was true, he might
Speaker 4: have an argument.
Speaker 1: My goodness, it's important to get some of the facts right.
Speaker 3: Judge Barbary Kenoni, saying they need to keep things civil.
Speaker 5: I suggest that we take the personal attacks completely out
Speaker 5: of this hold on hold on both sides.
Speaker 3: The defense also argued that they should be able to
Speaker 3: tell the jury that ARCA crash free construction experts were
Speaker 3: hired by the Department of Justice, because otherwise it leads
Speaker 3: to speculation, but the Commonwealth says the jury would need
Speaker 3: the entire truth. Judge Canoni took this under advisement and
Speaker 3: denied a motion by the defense to push back the
Speaker 3: start of the trial by a few weeks, so jury
Speaker 3: selection is still set for April first. Brooke McCarthy WBZ
Speaker 3: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Pasport signs off on fee increases for Ruber and Lyft
Speaker 2: rides to and from Logan Airport. The agency's board unanimously
Speaker 2: approving a two dollars and twenty five cent hike. Fees
Speaker 2: will also go up this summer and again in fiscal
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight for limo and taxi pickups, employee parking,
Speaker 2: as well as terminal and economy parking. President Trump shortly
Speaker 2: we'll sign an executive order aimed at shutting down the
Speaker 2: Department of Education.
Speaker 5: Teachers in Warren, Michigan, have held a protest to draw
Speaker 5: attention to they say the impact dismantling the Department of
Speaker 5: Education would have on students and the communitysident, and Trump
Speaker 5: will sign an executive order to begin the process, but
Speaker 5: he can only go so far without Congress. Bob Callender,
Speaker 5: president of the Warren Michigan Teachers Union, tel CBS News.
Speaker 2: About fifteen million dollars in federal funding comes into our
Speaker 2: school district alone.
Speaker 4: That's easily one hundred and fifty to two hundred staff
Speaker 4: positions that could be impacted.
Speaker 5: Several Republican governors are expected to join President Trump at
Speaker 5: the White House, signing Jonnifer Kuiper CBS.
Speaker 2: News at the Federal Judge as block Delon Musk's DOGE
Speaker 2: team from accessing Social Security Administration personal information at least
Speaker 2: for now. European leaders signed a joint statement backing Ukraine
Speaker 2: during an emergency summit today.
Speaker 6: The French Finance Minister didn't mince words, addressing this the
Speaker 6: second emergency EU sum at this month. The world that
Speaker 6: we've known since the fall of the Berlin Wall is
Speaker 6: no more, he said the message. With the US backing
Speaker 6: away from its post war commitments to the defense of Europe,
Speaker 6: only Europe can defend itself from new incursions by an
Speaker 6: emboldened Russia. Finally, relatedly, America's NATO allies are ramping up
Speaker 6: their defense spending and there's a growing sense in European
Speaker 6: capitals that this has become a race against time. Vicky Barker,
Speaker 6: CBS News, London.
Speaker 2: As we head into the evening tonight, we will have
Speaker 2: clouds filling back in. We did break out some sunshine
Speaker 2: west of the city. Out in the central Massachusetts. It
Speaker 2: turned out to be a pretty decent sunny day, at
Speaker 2: least for many places. Forty three will be our low tonight.
Speaker 2: We'll bring in some drizzle and some fog as we
Speaker 2: go through the evening, and then a steadier rain gets
Speaker 2: in here late tonight. There is a big band of
Speaker 2: rain off into New York State and Pennsylvania and that's
Speaker 2: coming our way. Rain will start us off tomorrow. There
Speaker 2: could be a snowflake or two mixed in as we
Speaker 2: head through the morning out in some of the higher elevations,
Speaker 2: pretty distant suburbs, so we're talking outside of four ninety
Speaker 2: five and up into some of that hilly or terrain.
Speaker 2: And then even then it's just going to be some
Speaker 2: flakes and such, and then we'll get some sunshine tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 2: How about that forty nine for the high temperature with
Speaker 2: the wind whipping around mainly clear Tomorrow night breezy seven Saturday,
Speaker 2: It'll be a pretty decent day. There'll be a breeze,
Speaker 2: but temperatures with some sunshine will be near sixty degrees
Speaker 2: in the warmest spots, only in the forties, though sunshine
Speaker 2: prevails on Sunday right now, where it's forty six degrees
Speaker 2: in Boston. It's the start of a new ownership error
Speaker 2: for the Boston Celtics. Wdz's Hileschaffle getting reaction from fans
Speaker 2: at the Garden.
Speaker 4: The Boston Celtics are very nearly under new ownership.
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic for the future.
Speaker 4: Fans are reacting to that news today as we all
Speaker 4: learn a little bit about the lead guy in the
Speaker 4: group that's agreed to plunk down a cool six point
Speaker 4: one billion dollars.
Speaker 2: To buy the team. I'm excited to learn more about them.
Speaker 4: Bill Chisham hails from Georgetown, mass and calls himself a
Speaker 4: lifelong Seas fan. Fans I talked to will relieved that
Speaker 4: the next owner is a local. Some found the price staggering.
Speaker 3: Now six point.
Speaker 2: One billion dollars, there is a lot of money to
Speaker 2: spend on a sports team. I don't think that it's
Speaker 2: worth that much.
Speaker 4: But most found that kind of spending understandable.
Speaker 2: We have an amazing team.
Speaker 1: It's an expensive team, but they're great players, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited for everything that's coming, at.
Speaker 4: Least this season, and we'll see what happens. Owner Wick
Speaker 4: Grossbeck will still be CEO through twenty twenty eight. A
Speaker 4: board of governors still needs to approve the sale, but
Speaker 4: it looks like the seas will be in new hands
Speaker 4: this summer. Kyle Shaffele w Bus Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: New England potanical gardens getting some national attention. USA Today
Speaker 2: ranking the Coastal Main Potanical Gardens as the tenth best
Speaker 2: in the country. It's in Booth Bay. It's the largest
Speaker 2: potanical garden in New England at three hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: five acres. Don't want the potanical gardens, how about some
Speaker 2: cherry blossoms. The National Cherry Blossom Festivals underway in the
Speaker 2: nation's capital.
Speaker 7: There will be throngs of people crowding into the title
Speaker 7: basin area, with the monuments to Presidents Washington and Jefferson
Speaker 7: providing a backdrop to the pink and white spectacle. The
Speaker 7: colorful trees were established here in nineteen twelve, with the
Speaker 7: gift of three thousand of them from the city of
Speaker 7: Tokyo to the people of Washington. A National Park Service
Speaker 7: projects the trees will likely look their best from March
Speaker 7: twenty eight to thirty one. Peak bloom is considered when
Speaker 7: seventy percent of the Yoshino cherry blossoms are open, and
Speaker 7: it normally lasts about a week. As of late yesterday,
Speaker 7: the blooms were about halfway there. Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
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