Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Seventy five degrees in Boston. We've got some beautiful puffy
Speaker 2: clouds out there. We'll get a look at the weekend
Speaker 2: forecast coming up. I'm Nicole Davis. It's four o'clock and
Speaker 2: here's what's happening. Testimony done for the day in the
Speaker 2: Karen Reid murder re trial. As WBZ Suzanne Sausville reports,
Speaker 2: forensic scientists from the State Police crime laber on the
Speaker 2: stand and the judge ruled against the defense on new
Speaker 2: evidence the state wants to introduce.
Speaker 3: Ashph Leer testified that pieces of plastic found at the
Speaker 3: scene where John O'Keefe's body was found fit together to
Speaker 3: form the tailite from Reid's suv However, she also told
Speaker 3: defense attorney David Gannetti that she could not speak to
Speaker 3: the chain of custody of evidence from January twenty ninth
Speaker 3: to March fourteenth, when the lab got the evidence.
Speaker 1: Do you know where Michael Practice stored this clothing during
Speaker 1: that six week period?
Speaker 4: Now? Do you know how often he was alone with
Speaker 4: access to the clothing during that six week period?
Speaker 5: Off?
Speaker 3: Michael Proctor is the mass State Police trooper who led
Speaker 3: the investigation who was fired for inappropriate behavior. Defense attorney
Speaker 3: Robert Alessi argued the trial would need to be delayed
Speaker 3: four days if the prosecution were allowed to introduce a
Speaker 3: new crash report that he said changes the timeline. Prosecutor
Speaker 3: Hank Brennan's is nothing.
Speaker 1: In the reports that changes his heart as a timeline.
Speaker 3: That's just an attempt to cause fair. The judge ruled
Speaker 3: the new crash report can come in Suzanne so Osville WBZ,
Speaker 3: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: State labor officials say the Massachusetts unemployment rate rose last
Speaker 2: month for the fourth straight month. The state's unemployment rate
Speaker 2: was over four percent in April, which is slightly higher
Speaker 2: than the national rate. Official say employees added about seventy
Speaker 2: seven hundred jobs in April, saying the job market remained
Speaker 2: stable quote despite economic headwinds. They say the uptick is
Speaker 2: due to more people entering the workforce and not more layoffs.
Speaker 2: The first direct peace talks between Russia and Rane are done.
Speaker 2: They wrapped up just a short time after they started.
Speaker 1: Fewer than two hours after Turkey's foreign minister opened the meeting.
Speaker 1: Of officials say the talks ended the Ukrainian officials as
Speaker 1: a low level Russian team made new unacceptable demands for
Speaker 1: Kiev's forces to leave huge swaths of land earlier.
Speaker 4: Real chance to take important steps toward ending this war
Speaker 4: if only Putin had not been afraid to come to Turkya.
Speaker 1: Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky ripped of Vladimir Putin for nixing an
Speaker 1: offer to meet face to face. As Putin was chairing
Speaker 1: a national security meeting, President Trump was saying, they will
Speaker 1: meet as soon as possible.
Speaker 5: I think it's time for us to just do it.
Speaker 1: The Kremlin suggests. Momentum for such a summit is growing.
Speaker 1: Saga Magani Washington.
Speaker 2: And in New York. Singer Cassie Ventura has been finished
Speaker 2: testifying in the sex trafficking trial of her ex boyfriend
Speaker 2: Sean Diddy Combs. She was being crossed examined today about
Speaker 2: being attacked and beaten by Combs in a hotel back
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, after which she texted him quote, I'm
Speaker 2: not a rag doll. Combs is accused of drugging and
Speaker 2: beating Ventura and others and forcing them to participate in
Speaker 2: days long sex parties. The defense claims they were willing participants,
Speaker 2: and while Combs was violent, he was not running any
Speaker 2: sort of criminal enterprise. And for the weekend forecast, we
Speaker 2: are looking pretty good today. For the rest of the
Speaker 2: afternoon into the evening, there is a chance we could
Speaker 2: see a couple of stray showers. We've got a low
Speaker 2: close to sixty, and there is a bit of fog
Speaker 2: developing tonight. For tomorrow, a couple of thunderstorms are possible
Speaker 2: in the afternoon. So for yet another weekend, I think
Speaker 2: we're up to nine at this point. Cannot say it's
Speaker 2: going to be a totally dry Saturday, but that's okay.
Speaker 2: Most of the day will be okay, and we've got
Speaker 2: a high year seventy. Partly cloudy tomorrow night, low near sixty, breezy,
Speaker 2: not as humid on Sunday because yes, it has been
Speaker 2: very sticky. We'll have a mix of sun and clouds
Speaker 2: on Sunday. A couple of showers cannot completely be ruled out,
Speaker 2: but again, most of the day should be good. I've
Speaker 2: got a hine year seventy right now. It's seventy nine
Speaker 2: in Norwood, where it's seventy eight and Methuin eighty two
Speaker 2: in acton and in Boston right now at four five,
Speaker 2: partly cloudy and seventy six degrees. Look, pull out all
Speaker 2: the cliches you want. The winner go homes, the doer dies, whatever,
Speaker 2: but they all count tonight at Madison Square Garden as
Speaker 2: the Celtics fight to stay alive, keep going.
Speaker 5: Keep doing your thing.
Speaker 3: Let's go Celtics.
Speaker 1: I think we clothed it out on Monday.
Speaker 5: You can't slow down the confidence of Celtics fans outside
Speaker 5: the garden. You just heard John from Medford who's commuting
Speaker 5: to work and he's already looking forward to Game seven
Speaker 5: on Monday night. Hold your horse's pal, We've still got
Speaker 5: to get through Game six tonight.
Speaker 1: They come to play.
Speaker 2: In Game seven, they take care of it.
Speaker 5: Everywhere I turn, fans are keeping the faith. Remember there's
Speaker 5: no Jason Tatum. But in Game five the Celtics were
Speaker 5: able to spread the scoring around with an impressive showing,
Speaker 5: and they're hoping it can happen once again tonight at
Speaker 5: Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: We're taking this Tonight.
Speaker 5: Tip off is at eight o'clock. If the Celtics are
Speaker 5: able to get that win, it would be Game seven
Speaker 5: on Monday night. Here at the garden and then anything
Speaker 5: can happen. Reporting from Cosway Street Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 5: News Radio.
Speaker 2: Republicans cannot seem to agree on the President's tax bill.
Speaker 4: Several Republicans say the big Beautiful bill still needs work.
Speaker 4: Five of them voted against advancing the measure in the
Speaker 4: House Budget Committee. South Carolina's Ralph Norman says it doesn't
Speaker 4: cut enough.
Speaker 1: Kyle smoking mares.
Speaker 4: Further complicating matters for House Speaker Mike Johnson. GOP moderates
Speaker 4: opposed the bill, saying it doesn't do enough to restore
Speaker 4: the state and local tax deduction. Facing a self imposed
Speaker 4: Memorial Day deadline for passage in the House, Johnson will
Speaker 4: need to achieve near unanimity in his conference to get
Speaker 4: the measure into the Senate. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington
Speaker 4: and at four.
Speaker 2: Seven, this just into the WBZ Newsroom. The Supreme Court
Speaker 2: has now rejected a move by President Trump to quickly
Speaker 2: resume deportations of Venezuelans under a wartime law. In the
Speaker 2: seven to two ruling, the justices said the government did
Speaker 2: not give enough notice, and also that there were issues
Speaker 2: with a lower court ruling. Now the administration has leaned
Speaker 2: on the Alien Enemies Act to carry out its immigration
Speaker 2: immigration crackdown, claiming the US has been invaded by undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2: So again, Supreme Court just a short time ago ruling
Speaker 2: against President Trump and the Trump administration when it comes
Speaker 2: to deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. We'll get more
Speaker 2: details on that coming up here in the news on WBZ.
Speaker 2: You are now in the Loup. For news updates throughout
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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis. Wb leaned Boston's news radio