Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news sixty
Speaker 1: five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The waiting is the hardest part,
Speaker 1: so they say all eyes are on dead unless the
Speaker 1: jury continues their deliberations. The Karen Reid retrial of the
Speaker 1: bzs Emma Friedman has details. We may retire and deliberate
Speaker 1: your verdict.
Speaker 2: Today's day two of jury deliberations. Judge Canoni started off
Speaker 2: the day as she always does, asking jurors if they
Speaker 2: avoided outside coverage of this case before sending them off
Speaker 2: to deliberate. Jurors got the case on Friday. After closing arguments,
Speaker 2: they deliberated for about an hour and a half before
Speaker 2: they went home for the weekend. There's twelve people on
Speaker 2: this jury, seven women and five men. During the first
Speaker 2: trial that ended in a mistrial over a hung jury,
Speaker 2: there was an even split of six men and six women.
Speaker 2: There's three charges on the verdict, slip second degree murder,
Speaker 2: manslaughter while driving under the influence, and leaving the scene
Speaker 2: of an accident.
Speaker 3: Resulting in death.
Speaker 2: I'm a freedman. W B Z Boston's news.
Speaker 1: Radio I Met Karen Read verdict slip has Karen Reid's
Speaker 1: defense with some issues. This morning, the defense formally asked
Speaker 1: the court to amend the second verdict slip for manslaughter,
Speaker 1: the defense saying the current verdict slip, particularly the slip
Speaker 1: for count two, risk confusing the jury and thus causing errors.
Speaker 1: Judge Beverly Canoni denying motion, writing that the verdict slip
Speaker 1: is consistent with Massachusetts law. Lawyers for Harvard have made
Speaker 1: their case against the Trump administration's plans to ban international
Speaker 1: students from enrolling at the school.
Speaker 3: The hearing saw lawyer for the Trump administration arguing that
Speaker 3: Harvard can't be trusted that the school isn't properly monitoring
Speaker 3: its students or sufficiently cracking down on anti Semitism. Harvard's
Speaker 3: lawyer said the vetting of visa holders is the government's responsibility,
Speaker 3: and he argued the university is being retaliated against for
Speaker 3: not bending to the administration's far reaching demands. Judge Allison
Speaker 3: Burrows has extended her temporary restraining order, which had been
Speaker 3: set to expire this coming Thursday, until next Monday while
Speaker 3: she considers whether to impose a longer lasting injunction.
Speaker 1: Mattis CBS is Stephen Portnoy. President Trump, meantime, is at
Speaker 1: the G seventh summit in Canada. He says Iran want
Speaker 1: to negotiate with Israel while it still can.
Speaker 4: Despite weekend talks getting canceled. President Trump said Monday he
Speaker 4: believes Iran is open to engagement with the US on
Speaker 4: a nuclear agreement.
Speaker 5: They have to make a deal, and it's painful for
Speaker 5: both parties, but I'd say Iran is not winning this
Speaker 5: war and they should talk, and they should talk immediately
Speaker 5: before it's too late.
Speaker 4: The President told ABC Sunday, it's possible the US could
Speaker 4: get involved in Israel's fight against Iran as today. What
Speaker 4: it would take for that to happen, he said.
Speaker 5: I don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 4: Karen Travers, ABC News. The White House.
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Speaker 1: ninety seven. Pretty decent day to day, temperatures climbing into
Speaker 1: the seventies and the warmer spots mid sixties. In the
Speaker 1: cooler spots, we'll have mostly cloudy skies as we head
Speaker 1: into the evening, temperatures mainly in the fifties upper fifties downtown,
Speaker 1: a few degrees below that in the suburbs. There'll be
Speaker 1: some fog that pushes in here later tonight in some
Speaker 1: areas as well, and then some clouds around Tomorrow, maybe
Speaker 1: some showers or drizzled Temperatures about seventy a rather cloudy night.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night hello of sixty one with a couple of
Speaker 1: showers possible. Wednesday's a warmer day, more humid too, some sunshine,
Speaker 1: temperatures near eighty. Maybe a thunderstorm as well. Thursday, maybe
Speaker 1: a thunderstorm especially late in the day as we really
Speaker 1: crank up the heat, getting to around ninety degrees for
Speaker 1: the high on Thursday. With that increased humidity, those storms
Speaker 1: on Thursday afternoon should push the humidity out of our
Speaker 1: way right now five degrees see in Boston. Well it's
Speaker 1: a tiny little dot, that's it. A couple of pixels.
Speaker 1: But the humble period carries a lot of weight These days,
Speaker 1: it appears wbz' s Kyle Shaffle has details.
Speaker 6: It seems a large part of texting is subtext, and
Speaker 6: there's a lot to read between those lines. You're texting
Speaker 6: somebody to text you back there. But a period at
Speaker 6: in his ends?
Speaker 1: Are they mad at you?
Speaker 3: Or what?
Speaker 6: One per one hundred percent?
Speaker 7: They're definitely mad at you.
Speaker 6: Every single person I talked to under the age of
Speaker 6: thirty had that same opinion. Periods are the province of
Speaker 6: grandparents and old people, especially in a text. Younger folks
Speaker 6: understand them as a sign of deep anger.
Speaker 7: But someone like a friend or significant other, there's a
Speaker 7: period there, you're in trouble.
Speaker 6: This isn't just a feeling among a couple of people.
Speaker 6: There's been several recent studies published in this area. One
Speaker 6: of those out of Australia found that the negative association
Speaker 6: decreases the longer the sentences.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I always assume that he's mad at
Speaker 4: me when.
Speaker 6: He uses a period. Kyle Shaffle to be BZ Boston's NewsRadio.
Speaker 1: Wait till I put a dozen exclamation points at the
Speaker 1: end of the text downe. At eight pm, the Red
Speaker 1: Sox will be announcing more information about the trade of
Speaker 1: Rafael Devers to Red Sox Nation. The Sluggers had to
Speaker 1: San Francisco to play for the Giants. There are some
Speaker 1: wondering what happened. Nobody busies drumal Holland with details.
Speaker 7: Raphael Devers had landed the largest contract in Red Sox history.
Speaker 7: It's gone and now Raffie's gone. The Red Sox feeling
Speaker 7: like Rafael Devers did not live up to the ten year,
Speaker 7: three hundred and thirteen million dollar deal he signed in
Speaker 7: January of twenty twenty three. If not shocked, Red Sox
Speaker 7: fans are at least surprised by the deal. The Socks
Speaker 7: are hot right now and just swept the Yankees. Randy
Speaker 7: Dumalig is with our friends KCBS in the Bay Area.
Speaker 7: He says, Giants fans out there did not see this
Speaker 7: one coming, but they're on cloud nine and they love
Speaker 7: the idea of Devers hitting out there at Oracle Park.
Speaker 1: Some of his hits from Fenway laid over to Oracle
Speaker 1: and actually some of those doubles and triples would be Homer's,
Speaker 1: you know, here in San Francisco.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm probably going to see some baseball splashing down
Speaker 7: in McCovey Cove from Devers, Rafael Devers, the last remaining
Speaker 7: member of the twenty eighteen World Series champion Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 7: now a San Francisco Giant, drewma Holland WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: By the way, Red Sox oaping up a three game
Speaker 1: series against those Giants in San Francisco beginning on Friday.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio