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Speaker 2: here on a Thursday morning. We're getting started at six
Speaker 2: o'clock under cloudy skies and some rain out in portions
Speaker 2: of central Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: This morning.
Speaker 2: It is fifty six degrees here in Boston. The News
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Speaker 3: I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 2: We are off to a shaky start.
Speaker 1: We'll start today with some rain in a thunderstorm in places.
Speaker 2: It'll be clouding the rest of the day with a
Speaker 2: leftover shower or thunderstorm.
Speaker 3: It spawn.
Speaker 2: That is w BZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Mainly
Speaker 2: in the sixties today, warm and very humid. On the
Speaker 2: way tomorrow with Jason Tatum watching from a hospital bed.
Speaker 2: The Celtics live to see another day.
Speaker 3: It's off to holiday.
Speaker 2: What big night comes forty and it contains that way
Speaker 2: I sle on TNT This time. Boston holds on to
Speaker 2: a big lead. They force a Game six with the Knicks.
Speaker 2: That's coming up tomorrow night in New York City. Another day,
Speaker 2: another walk off loss for the Red Sox in Detroit.
Speaker 2: They're off today, back at Fenway to open a series
Speaker 2: with the Braves this weekend, and golf's second major of
Speaker 2: the year gets underway this morning. Round one of the
Speaker 2: PGA Championship happens at Quail Hollow in Florida. New research
Speaker 2: this morning suggests Alzheimer's disease as a ticking time bomb
Speaker 2: that can be detected long before full symptoms typically arrive.
Speaker 2: In fact, scientists say hints there are there decades ahead
Speaker 2: of the full onset of the disease. The report comes
Speaker 2: in a version of this week's British medical journal The Lancet,
Speaker 2: and it shows the earliest signs can begin to emerge
Speaker 2: in patients as young as their mid twenties. It's an
Speaker 2: entirely new look that has even experts taking a second glance.
Speaker 2: Doctors say the best medicine is still living a healthy lifestyle,
Speaker 2: stay active, and keep the mind sharp to keep these
Speaker 2: at bay. A State Police crime lab expert will return
Speaker 2: to the stand today to talk evidence at the Karen
Speaker 2: Reid trial. This morning, CBS News Boston's Christina Rack says
Speaker 2: the jury learns more about a relationship on the rocks
Speaker 2: between Reed and John O'Keefe.
Speaker 4: O'Keefe became a primary caretaker for his niece and nephew
Speaker 4: after their mother his sister died in twenty thirteen. The
Speaker 4: niece testified about Reid and O'Keefe's relationship in January twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two, saying quote, I could tell that there was tension.
Speaker 3: They were cold towards each other.
Speaker 4: And she referenced the alleged cheating incident in Aruba that
Speaker 4: Karen Reid had texted Brian Higgins.
Speaker 3: About he hooked up with another girl on vacation. I
Speaker 3: am very close to his niece. It is a very
Speaker 3: up situation.
Speaker 4: O'keef's niece said, quote, Karen Reid started yelling about like
Speaker 4: how he had kissed someone else and she had witnessed it.
Speaker 3: It was really loud. She was very upset.
Speaker 4: The morning O'Keeffe died, his niece said she heard Karen
Speaker 4: Reid on the phone say could I have done something?
Speaker 3: Could he have been hit by a plow?
Speaker 2: The teenager also testifies read thought she was living in
Speaker 2: a nightmare. Uber's got something upsit sleeve that's new and
Speaker 2: it comes with more.
Speaker 1: Seats imagine a bus with predetermined pickup and drop off
Speaker 1: locations on a specific route during weekday commuting hours. Now
Speaker 1: replace that with an Uber shuttle. That's the service that
Speaker 1: the right share company is offering, named Uber root Share.
Speaker 1: Some see the benefits.
Speaker 3: I think it probably could work well. Personally, I probably don't.
Speaker 4: Think I take advantage of it, but I can see
Speaker 4: how it would work for a lot of people to
Speaker 4: fill in the gaps.
Speaker 1: But not everyone is on board esse yet. I take
Speaker 1: the tea back and forth to work, and I jump
Speaker 1: a ride.
Speaker 3: It puts later in the day. So I never took Uber,
Speaker 3: so I would never take it Live ticket.
Speaker 1: The new right share option launched Wednesday in selects cities,
Speaker 1: including Boston. James Rojas w b Z Boston some news
Speaker 1: radio blowny skuys in Boston this morning. It's fifty six degrees.
Speaker 1: We are seeing a line of showers and potentially heavy downpours.
Speaker 1: May be embedded with some thunderstorms as well. Not far
Speaker 1: from the city, pretty much surrounding the city out in
Speaker 1: portions of Metro West and on the south Shore, a
Speaker 1: heavy band of rain is moving through the area. Otherwise
Speaker 1: we're gonna see mostly cloudy skies today, with a couple
Speaker 1: of leftover showers throughout the rest of the day. Daytime
Speaker 1: highs will be in the sixties. Overnight tonight rather cloudy.
Speaker 1: Some fog will develop along the shoreline later on. Low's
Speaker 1: in the fifties, and it looks like any fog will
Speaker 1: be left over to greet us tomorrow morning. It looks
Speaker 1: like we're gonna start off on a cloudy note tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but there are some chances of sunshine in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: It's going to be very warm and very humid tomorrow,
Speaker 1: with highs at least in the low to mid seventies.
Speaker 1: Looks like we might be in for a little bit
Speaker 1: of an ify weekend once again, for the ninth consecutive time.
Speaker 1: We're expecting some showers and possibly some thunderstorms on Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 1: It certainly will not be a washout, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like we're going to get away with it scott
Speaker 1: free this weekend. Right now in Boston fifty six, it's cloudy,
Speaker 1: we've got some rain on the way six oh six
Speaker 1: on this Thursday morning, and a former mayor is returning
Speaker 1: Massachusetts today. We find out more from wbz's Drew mo'holland,
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 5: And good morning jeff Marty Walsh, who could forget him.
Speaker 4: Work even harder to achieve more for the city that.
Speaker 3: We all love.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's currently the head of the NHL Players Union,
Speaker 5: and this morning he's going to address the class at
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five at Western New England University in Springfield.
Speaker 5: Since leaving Boston City Hall four years ago, Walsh has
Speaker 5: been at the White House, former President Biden's labor secretary.
Speaker 5: Probably remember that before being lured to the NHL Players Association.
Speaker 5: This kicks off peak graduation season two. Jeffrey, you know
Speaker 5: that in greater Boston and all across Massachusetts, tons of
Speaker 5: graduating classes get their degrees in the next seventy two hours.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Certainly looks like this is going to be the busiest
Speaker 2: weekend for graduation, which is in some cases we'll extend
Speaker 2: right into next month. Yeah, all right, true, Thank you.
Speaker 2: President Trump makes his final stop on his multi day
Speaker 2: tour of the Middle East and the United Arab Emirates today,
Speaker 2: but not before visiting US troops stationed in cutter The
Speaker 2: President faces a whirlwind back home over his recent decision
Speaker 2: to accept a four hundred million dollar boeing seven forty
Speaker 2: seven from the Katari royal family to be used as
Speaker 2: Air Force one. Senator Elizabeth Warren, for one, is among
Speaker 2: the Capitol Hill officials demanding an investigation into the Pentagon
Speaker 2: for the way this deal is being constructed, which would
Speaker 2: be a gift to the Defense Department, but decommissioned and
Speaker 2: given to President Trump after he leaves office for the
Speaker 2: first time. As Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior testifies in front of a Senate committee. It
Speaker 2: is a tense day on Capitol Hill as Kennedy is
Speaker 2: pressed about his thoughts on vaccines and whether he'd let
Speaker 2: his own kids get a measle shot. He says he would,
Speaker 2: while Kennedy also testifies that no one should take medical
Speaker 2: advice from him. Protesters gather outside the building, and Ben
Speaker 2: and Jerry's co founder Ben Cohen is among seven demonstrators arrested.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's news radio