Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news fifty
Speaker 1: four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The Karen Reid retrial is
Speaker 1: over for the day at Norfolk Superior Court in Denham. Today,
Speaker 1: the jury heard from a number of witnesses, including multiple
Speaker 1: police officers. Massachusetts State Police trooper Kevin O'Hara the last
Speaker 1: to testify. His team searched for evidence at the scene
Speaker 1: where John o'keef's body was found during redirect. He told
Speaker 1: the prosecution there were concerns because of the weather.
Speaker 2: How much of your focus is near the street area?
Speaker 1: Only ninety nine percent of it, sir. As soon as
Speaker 1: we got to the grass and realized we couldn't.
Speaker 3: Clear it properly, my main focus was on that street,
Speaker 3: just again because I was concerned about the plow coming
Speaker 3: through it a later time.
Speaker 1: You're worried that if you.
Speaker 4: Didn't finish the street there could be some impact from plowing.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, sir. Meantime, during cross examination, the defense asked
Speaker 1: why the scene was not secured or taped off off.
Speaker 1: O'Hara said they would be able to tell if the
Speaker 1: scene was disturbed, because fresh snow at the scene would
Speaker 1: have also been disturbed. Developments this afternoon as the US
Speaker 1: Supreme Courts as a ban on transgender service members can
Speaker 1: begin at the Pentagon.
Speaker 5: The decision for now sets aside a lower court's order
Speaker 5: that blocked the transgender ban from taking effect. It means
Speaker 5: the military can begin discharging transgender service members while the
Speaker 5: case plays out. The Trump administration argues it is owed
Speaker 5: substantial deference when it comes to how it runs the military.
Speaker 5: The court's three liberals said they would have left in
Speaker 5: place the order of a federal judge and Tacoma, Washington,
Speaker 5: who said the ban was unsupported, dramatic, and unfairly exclusionary.
Speaker 1: That is ABC Stephen Portnoy no immediate decision today after
Speaker 1: attorneys for the federal government and Tuff's grad student Ramesa Ozturk,
Speaker 1: went before the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals this
Speaker 1: morning in New York. Os Turk was arrested by ice
Speaker 1: agents in Somerville in March. First, she went to Vermont,
Speaker 1: then to Louisiana. After a federal judge in Vermont ordered
Speaker 1: her returned there, The government appeace Ill then the case
Speaker 1: hit the three judge panel in Manhattan today. President Trump
Speaker 1: meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White
Speaker 1: House today, discussing what the President calls some tough points.
Speaker 2: Trade is one of those tough points, especially since President
Speaker 2: Trump imposed twenty five percent tariffs on cars made in Canada.
Speaker 1: We want to make our own cars.
Speaker 2: We don't really want cars from Canada. The other tough
Speaker 2: point the President's comments about making Canada the fifty first state.
Speaker 5: There are tremendous benefits to the Canadian citizens, tremendously lower taxes,
Speaker 5: free military.
Speaker 2: Trump pushed the issue even further.
Speaker 1: Never say never, Never say never.
Speaker 2: Well, Canadian Prime Minister Carney did seem to say never.
Speaker 3: As you know from real estate, there are some places
Speaker 3: that are never for sale.
Speaker 2: Linda Kenyon, CBS News the White House.
Speaker 1: A year after Stewart health Care is bankruptcy filing, Massachusetts
Speaker 1: Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey are writing the Justice
Speaker 1: Department and Securities and Exchange Commission calling for accountability for
Speaker 1: Ralph Delatoria and other Stewart and Medical Properties Trust executives.
Speaker 1: The senators say the ex engaged in years of unusual deals.
Speaker 1: Stewart declared bankruptcy. May sixth of last year, two hospitals
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts closed in the Senators in a letter to
Speaker 1: Attorney General, Pambondi wrote, as evidenced to buy the unanimous
Speaker 1: contempt to referral, the Senate believes this matter is serious,
Speaker 1: meriting a criminal investigation by the Department. And they go
Speaker 1: on to say we urged DOJ to give appropriate weight
Speaker 1: and consideration to the bipartisan and unanimous nature of the referral.
Speaker 1: In Lea Cloudy Skies, as we head through the remainder
Speaker 1: of the afternoon, a couple of showers could get into
Speaker 1: the Boston area early on. What we're watching right now
Speaker 1: is some heavier rain that is pushing into southern Worcester County.
Speaker 1: A lot of this has come up through Connecticut, skirted
Speaker 1: over to Rhode Island, and now it's lifting off to
Speaker 1: the north, so getting close to Worcester. Now we've got
Speaker 1: some more rain out toward the Quabbin Reservoir area, Belcher
Speaker 1: Town and where getting a little bit of rain. And
Speaker 1: there's more rain pushing up through southern Rhode Island and
Speaker 1: southern Connecticut, and that may have enough for Umpho off
Speaker 1: to the east to get into the Boston area later on,
Speaker 1: so rain around at least through the evening, temperatures mid fifties,
Speaker 1: areas of fog, and then tomorrow some clouds with breaks
Speaker 1: of sunshine, a little breezy in an afternoon thunder shower.
Speaker 1: Temperatures near seventy. Thursday, some showers possible, also some sun possible.
Speaker 1: Temperatures near seventy. Doesn't look like much of a day.
Speaker 1: On Friday. We'll have clouds, it'll be breezy, it'll be
Speaker 1: chilly in the low fifties. It'll feel with the real
Speaker 1: fields and that breeze like it's in the mid thirties
Speaker 1: to near forty. Right now fifty four degrees in Boston.
Speaker 1: It's been twenty plus years since the nationwide real ID
Speaker 1: idea was born. Now just a day to implementation.
Speaker 4: Because the paperwork for the so called real ID must
Speaker 4: be completed in person.
Speaker 1: It's been real busy. I've never seen it busy like
Speaker 1: this before.
Speaker 4: State driver's license offices have been crowded with applicants. But
Speaker 4: what's the rush? Matthew Boudreau of the Louisiana Office of
Speaker 4: Motor Vehicles says, if.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna fly between now and let's say the fall,
Speaker 3: they have plenty of time to come in.
Speaker 4: And you can still travel without the real ID card
Speaker 4: as long as you have a valid passport or military identification.
Speaker 4: Jim Ryan, ABC News.
Speaker 1: By the way, Homeland Security is telling travelers who aren't
Speaker 1: real ID compliant they will still be able to fly,
Speaker 1: but should be prepared for extra scrutiny. Christy Noome telling
Speaker 1: a congressional panel eighty one percent of travelers already have
Speaker 1: IDs that comply with real ID. She says security checkpoints
Speaker 1: will be accepting those passports along with tribal identification when
Speaker 1: the deadline hits tomorrow, but says those who still lack
Speaker 1: identification that complies with real ID may be diverted to
Speaker 1: different lines to have extra steps, but they'll still be
Speaker 1: allowed to fly. This is not a test, in fact,
Speaker 1: it's the real thing, all right. It's a real test.
Speaker 1: SAT season is here, and the College Board says nearly
Speaker 1: two million graduating high schoolers took on the exam last year.
Speaker 1: He use, He's Jeremy Russ. This year set out to
Speaker 1: see what it's like.
Speaker 3: The last time I took the SATs, I was seventeen
Speaker 3: years old, and my score got me into Boston University.
Speaker 3: Since then, six years of on by, I've earned a
Speaker 3: college degree and I even landed a job in my field.
Speaker 3: So I took a practice sat to see if I'm
Speaker 3: still as smart as I was all those years ago.
Speaker 3: Long story short, I didn't do as well as I
Speaker 3: did when I was seventeen, and the college board says
Speaker 3: my score might not even be good enough for my
Speaker 3: alma mater.
Speaker 1: So what are the.
Speaker 3: Keys to success? I asked around and kept getting a
Speaker 3: similar answer. I think a lot of it is less
Speaker 3: about your intrinsic capability and more about what you're willing
Speaker 3: to put into the preparation aspect of of it. And
Speaker 3: don't forget a fully charged testing device. It's all online now,
Speaker 3: after all. Good luck to everyone taking the SATs. Jeremy
Speaker 3: Ross WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: the beer gardens back of the Common for the summer.
Speaker 1: The beer garden and performance venue open Friday, located at
Speaker 1: the corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets. The city continuing
Speaker 1: its partnership with Harpoon Brewery in Emerson College's Uncommon Corner,
Speaker 1: which also features daily entertainment, live music, food vendors. The
Speaker 1: L Jeffa's Tucker Rhea will be the vendor this year
Speaker 1: for the first time. The mayor says she's excited to
Speaker 1: see the return of Uncommon Corner and the joy and
Speaker 1: vibrancy it brings to downtown Boston. You are now in
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