Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news Friday.
Speaker 1: A little devil get in here. Good morning. It is
Speaker 1: six o'clock, clear skies for the most part. It's forty
Speaker 1: degrees in Boston. The news at six rot to us
Speaker 1: buy your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel
Speaker 1: drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us today. I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 1: Don't count these spring chickens before they hatch, so it's
Speaker 1: going to be mild today. We've got chilly and wet
Speaker 1: weather in store for this weekend. Is WBZ Achi weather
Speaker 1: meteorologist heather Sare Sunshine, mid fifties today, rain tomorrow. That's
Speaker 1: the spirits, Hi fly shut deep into the hell of
Speaker 1: it's way back there. Oh great, I guess so good.
Speaker 1: The call on nesson Red Sox win late on opening
Speaker 1: day in Texas, Socks and Rangers will go again tonight.
Speaker 1: It is opening day for the Woo Socks today. First
Speaker 1: pitch at Polar Park in Wooster just after three o'clock. Alabama,
Speaker 1: Florida Duke and Texas Tech move on to college Basketball's
Speaker 1: Elite eight. Four more games in March Madness scheduleds for
Speaker 1: later today federal Judge James Boseburg launches into another national
Speaker 1: controversy with an order that Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth, National
Speaker 1: Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and other top level intelligence officials
Speaker 1: retain the records of the signal messaging exchange, which revealed
Speaker 1: plans of attack on Houthy rebels in Yemen and included
Speaker 1: the editor in chief of The Atlantic. The judge is
Speaker 1: also the center of the Trump administration's decision to deport
Speaker 1: hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members in defiance of the court.
Speaker 1: The administration has a Monday deadline now to show that
Speaker 1: they have saved the signal records. Vice President j. D.
Speaker 1: Vance and his wife Usha are in Greenland today, though
Speaker 1: Greenland doesn't want them. The second family will tour a
Speaker 1: US military base and stay largely out of the public's eye,
Speaker 1: while Greenland's Prime Minister maintains this visit is meant to
Speaker 1: intimidate his people. A majority of Greenlanders say they do
Speaker 1: not want to be annexed by the United States, while
Speaker 1: President Trump says we'll get it one way or another.
Speaker 1: Greenland has long been the fascination of the United States
Speaker 1: for security purposes and Greenland's minerals with at least five
Speaker 1: discussions and attempts to purchase or take over the region
Speaker 1: beginning in the eighteen sixties. Time to move on.
Speaker 2: The old relationship we had with the United States based
Speaker 2: on deepening integration of our economies and type security and
Speaker 2: military cooperations is over.
Speaker 1: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says the United States can
Speaker 1: no longer be a reliable partner on trade, and his
Speaker 1: nation is ready to move on. The newly installed prime minister,
Speaker 1: who faces a snap election next month, says Canadian industries
Speaker 1: are looking elsewhere now to blunt the force of twenty
Speaker 1: five percent tariffs President Trump has promised will take place
Speaker 1: next week. Carney, a one time goalie for the Harvard
Speaker 1: hockey team, says his nation plans retaliatory levels next week
Speaker 1: as well. Not a bad start to Friday morning in Boston. This,
Speaker 1: by the way, feels like it may be the longest
Speaker 1: week ever, doesn't it? Forty degrees right now in Boston.
Speaker 1: We do have some clouds. Otherwise, well, let's call it
Speaker 1: partly cloudy skies. How about that forty degrees At the moment,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a relatively nice day today with
Speaker 1: a mixture of clouds and sunshine throughout. Highs will be
Speaker 1: in the mid fifties, a bit breezy as well, things
Speaker 1: go downhill. I'm afraid from here overnight tonight the clouds
Speaker 1: are in full force and maybe a couple of showers
Speaker 1: hanging around. This weekend is not a very good one.
Speaker 1: I want to just forget about this in early spring.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be a typical postcard type of
Speaker 1: weather weekend. We're expecting to see clouds both Tomorrow and Sunday,
Speaker 1: chilly air, two highs only in the forties, and some
Speaker 1: rain from time to time in both days as well.
Speaker 1: So if we skip right over that and get back
Speaker 1: to work on Monday, still cloudy and still some rain. However,
Speaker 1: Monday's high temperatures will be in the low sixties. Right
Speaker 1: now in Boston, it's forty degrees, partly cloudy, skies coming
Speaker 1: up on sunrise here in the city six five This Friday,
Speaker 1: Aday morning, Boston drills down on safe Streets.
Speaker 3: The one Downtown Task Force will be focused on all
Speaker 3: of downtown Boston and surrounding neighborhoods with the goal of
Speaker 3: improving public safety. This follows a summit where members of
Speaker 3: the community, city and state officials, and law enforcement agreed
Speaker 3: that more needs to be done to address drug use, crime,
Speaker 3: and homelessness. Now, those who live and work around here
Speaker 3: have some suggestions. Fix the shelters.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of sober homeless people don't go
Speaker 2: to shelters because the shelters have a lot of drug
Speaker 2: use in them.
Speaker 1: So fix up the shelters, make them nicer.
Speaker 3: The shelters that there are aren't particularly safe. You know,
Speaker 3: I've worked in shelters doing like GMT work.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't stay there.
Speaker 3: I would choose to stay outside. The task force is
Speaker 3: expected to operate through the fall in downtown Crossing James
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Speaker 1: Radio Happening right now. Powerful earthquakes hit Southeast Asia, more
Speaker 1: than a dozen believed dead. A seven point seven magnitude
Speaker 1: quake triggers the Temblers. According to the usg allow Logical Survey,
Speaker 1: the shaking centered in me and Marr, but felt as
Speaker 1: far away as the capital city of Thailand. Official say
Speaker 1: evacuations are underway in both cities. Bangkok is home to
Speaker 1: some seventeen million people, many of whom live in high
Speaker 1: rises one of which is believed to have collapsed in Bangkok.
Speaker 1: At least three people are believed dead in that city.
Speaker 1: Survey says Americans are down on their lock. A new
Speaker 1: CBS News Yugov poll finds we're more pessimistic in recent
Speaker 1: days about the US economy, and many of us fear
Speaker 1: the US is headed for an economic slowdown or maybe
Speaker 1: a recession in the next year. Concern of President Trump's
Speaker 1: tariff talk, which even he says will likely be painful,
Speaker 1: gives us a glasses half empty attitude. The survey shows
Speaker 1: many Americans paychecks are not keeping up with inflation now,
Speaker 1: even though at least half say they're doing fairly well
Speaker 1: financially today. Jay Willett WBZ Boston's news radio Hollywood loves
Speaker 1: a comeback story, but its own industry is not delivering.
Speaker 2: The report shows jobs in television and movie production have
Speaker 2: not recovered from last year's entertainment strikes, which at the
Speaker 2: time of the walkouts were struggling to come back following
Speaker 2: the pandemic through in recent wildfires. It is a recipe
Speaker 2: for disaster brewing in Tinseltown. The report from the Otis
Speaker 2: College of Art and Design finds jobs in the industry
Speaker 2: are twenty five percent below a peak three years ago
Speaker 2: as shooting days for projects continued to dwindle. In Los Angeles,
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