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Speaker 2: Six o'clock on this Monday morning, and we've got a
Speaker 2: sunrise in progress. It is fifty degrees right now. The
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Speaker 2: being with us on this Monday morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 2: Nothing to see here.
Speaker 3: Letty of sunshine today, Breezy and pleasant this afternoon.
Speaker 2: High seventy one to seventy five. Actually, that's quite a
Speaker 2: lot to see here. WBZ ACI Weather Meteorologist Joe Lundberg.
Speaker 2: We are expecting another decent day coming up tomorrow. Happening
Speaker 2: right now. Weekend's tariff talk between the United States and
Speaker 2: China ends with an agreement for a ninety day pause
Speaker 2: in rates that have all but ground trade to a halt.
Speaker 1: As long as there is good state effort, engagement, and
Speaker 1: constructive dialogue, then we keep moving forward.
Speaker 2: That is US Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who says the
Speaker 2: United States will back down to a traditional thirty percent
Speaker 2: tariff on imports wild China resorts to its prior level
Speaker 2: of ten percent on US exports. Now, both sides plan
Speaker 2: to continue negotiations for a long term, sustainable and mutually
Speaker 2: beneficial arrangement, and so far, the news of this trade
Speaker 2: pause has sent the US stock markets higher. The Dow
Speaker 2: Jones is up by about one thousand points in the
Speaker 2: early going. This morning, President Trump is expected to sign
Speaker 2: what he calls one of the most significant executive orders
Speaker 2: yet this morning at the White House that promises to
Speaker 2: lower prescription drug costs covered by Medicare. In a post
Speaker 2: on his Truth social platform this weekend, the President says
Speaker 2: this move will give the US Most Favored Nation status
Speaker 2: and lower the cost of Medicare covered drugs to match
Speaker 2: the lowest price anywhere else in the world. The President
Speaker 2: says this will shave up to eighty percent of the
Speaker 2: cost of some drugs and save Americans trillions of dollars. Critics,
Speaker 2: it's unlikely to get anywhere close to that, at least
Speaker 2: for now, a limited number of drugs are eligible. Celtics
Speaker 2: will try to keep their mojo going in New York
Speaker 2: City tonight, Game four against the Knicks and Madison Square
Speaker 2: Garden coming up. The beast in the NBA's East is
Speaker 2: pushed to the brink The Pacers smoke the Cleveland Cavaliers
Speaker 2: to take a three games to one lead in that series,
Speaker 2: and the Red Sox road Show continues. After taking two
Speaker 2: of three from Kansas City, the Socks move on to
Speaker 2: Motown in a three game set with the Tigers. Tonight,
Speaker 2: No go for Jordan Hudson, the twenty four year old
Speaker 2: model and muse of seventy three year old former Patriots
Speaker 2: coach Bill Belichick, fails to win the Miss Maine USA pageant.
Speaker 2: The main native and Bridgewater State University graduate has been
Speaker 2: the focus of a media storm involving the hoodie. Hudson
Speaker 2: instead finishes third in the pageant, falling from a second
Speaker 2: place finish just last year. Americans are on the go
Speaker 2: as summer travel season is about to heat up. Wbzast
Speaker 2: Drew moholland this year with some impressive of numbers. Good
Speaker 2: morning Andrew, Good morning Jeff.
Speaker 4: You know I had full intentions of getting up to
Speaker 4: that Miss Main pageant there and I just couldn't.
Speaker 2: Quite get there.
Speaker 4: Summer travel season just about here, and even with flight
Speaker 4: delay as a shaky economy, we're expected to shatter at
Speaker 4: twenty year record this Memorial Day weekend triple a says
Speaker 4: more than forty five million of us are going somewhere
Speaker 4: this holiday, which is less than two weeks away.
Speaker 2: Wow, we need a holiday. No, Wa'm sure that would.
Speaker 4: Be an increase of about one point five million travelers,
Speaker 4: topping the previous high watermark set in two thousand and five.
Speaker 2: Seems like we're always breaking records on holiday weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're going to give it another go. No getting to
Speaker 2: the point where we want to change from a spring
Speaker 2: fever to full on summer mode, although it doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like we have any big warm ups in the cards
Speaker 2: here of late. However, the weather has turned decidedly nicer
Speaker 2: here in Boston. Another nice sunrise underway. It's fifty degrees
Speaker 2: right now. We'll see high temperature is eventually getting to
Speaker 2: around seventy today, and of course it's going to be
Speaker 2: warmer in inland locations, a little bit cooler along the waterfront.
Speaker 2: Mostly sunny and breezy conditions throughout the day. Continued clear
Speaker 2: to partly cloudy overnight Tonight, low's in the fifties. Tomorrow
Speaker 2: some sunshine to start, Clouds on the increase once again,
Speaker 2: high in the upper sixties to low seventies. We're looking
Speaker 2: at our next possibility of some showers moving in though
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, with a high in the middle sixties, and
Speaker 2: that looks like it's going to be the beginning of
Speaker 2: an unsettled stretch of weather coming up to take us
Speaker 2: through the tail end of this work week. Right now,
Speaker 2: all systems go. This Monday morning in Boston, it is
Speaker 2: fifty degrees, clear skies and bright sunshine six oh six
Speaker 2: on this Monday morning. Trouble for air travel in the
Speaker 2: United States will mean slow downs in the coming weeks
Speaker 2: that could affect flights from coast to coast.
Speaker 3: There sure are a lot of happy people flying out
Speaker 3: of Logan, specifically for those who are not flying to
Speaker 3: Newark flights and Newark. I know, no, God, no, are
Speaker 3: you flying to Newark? Fining chance, No, not anywhere but Newark.
Speaker 3: That's the overall feeling here at Terminal B. This comes
Speaker 3: after the New Jersey Airport faced its third technical problem
Speaker 3: in two weeks this weekend. A telecommunications issue grounded flights
Speaker 3: for forty five minutes. Now, official safe flights in and
Speaker 3: out of Newark are going to be reduced over the
Speaker 3: next few weeks to cut down on delays and cancelations
Speaker 3: at Logan Games rowhas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Testimony resumes in the Karen Reid trial once again this
Speaker 2: morning in Norfolk Superior Court. Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Yuri
Speaker 2: Buchanic is expected to return to the stand for a
Speaker 2: third day of testimony. Sergeant Buchennick has been reading flirtatious
Speaker 2: text messages hinting of a budding romance between Red and
Speaker 2: ATF agent Brian Higgins, just as things started to go
Speaker 2: south in her relationship with Boston Police officer John O'Keefe.
Speaker 2: Buchenck also shared text messages sent by former trooper Michael Proctor,
Speaker 2: who has since been fired for those inappropriate texts. Buchanic
Speaker 2: was also stripped of a week of vacation days and
Speaker 2: an internal investigation that found he failed to properly oversee
Speaker 2: Proctor's behavior with this investigation while on the job. Opening
Speaker 2: statements are expected today. In New York, the sex trafficking
Speaker 2: federal trial of Sean Diddy coombe.
Speaker 5: It's twelve people who will decide whether he's guilty or
Speaker 5: expected to be seated first thing Monday, after lawyers make
Speaker 5: cuts from a pool of more than forty prospective jurors.
Speaker 5: Once the jury has sworn, attorneys will deliver opening statements
Speaker 5: and the first witnesses will testify, among them Combs's ex girlfriend,
Speaker 5: Cassie Ventura, one of the women federal prosecutors say was
Speaker 5: coerced into drugged up sex marathons known as Freakouts. Allegations
Speaker 5: Combs did not.
Speaker 2: At ABC's Aaron Katerski, and if convicted on all charges,
Speaker 2: Combs could potentially get a lifetime in prison. You are
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Speaker 2: Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.