Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We defining local news thirty eight degrees see in Boston
Speaker 2: at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parkner. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: Day two of jury selection in Denham at Karen Reid's
Speaker 2: murder reed trial. Yesterday, the first two jurors were seated.
Speaker 2: Two more were seated today, according to the CBS News Boston.
Speaker 2: In all, seventeen jurors are needed. Reid faces charges of
Speaker 2: second degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol,
Speaker 2: and leaving the scene of personal injury and death. Her
Speaker 2: first trial ended at a mistrial with a hung jury.
Speaker 2: President Trump soon expected to announce a sweeping new round
Speaker 2: of terriffs.
Speaker 3: Trump is set to unveil his plan for another round
Speaker 3: of tariffs. He'll speak this afternoon in the Rose Garden,
Speaker 3: but so far the White House hasn't revealed any details
Speaker 3: of what he's going to announce. The President has said
Speaker 3: for weeks the so called reciprocal tariffs are aimed at
Speaker 3: balancing trade deficits the US has with countries around the world,
Speaker 3: but economists are warning that American consumers will feel an impact.
Speaker 3: Prices going up on cars, clothing, food, and electronics. The
Speaker 3: White House says Americans should trust the president in how
Speaker 3: he handled trade and tariff policies in his first term.
Speaker 3: Karen Travers, ABC News the White.
Speaker 2: House President Trump has called today Liberation Day to overseas
Speaker 2: trading partners. Though it feels anything.
Speaker 4: But I'm Vicky Barker at the Foreign desk in London.
Speaker 4: European Central Bank President Christine Lagard warns that Trump's tariffs
Speaker 4: quote will unsettle the trade world as we know it.
Speaker 4: Germany has repeated its plea that trade wars hurt both sides,
Speaker 4: and the EU has warned it plans to respond in
Speaker 4: kind to any new tariffs before the end of April.
Speaker 4: Vicky Barker, CBS News, London case dismissed.
Speaker 2: The case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams for
Speaker 2: corruption gets thrown out.
Speaker 5: Federal judge dismisses the corruption case against New York City
Speaker 5: Mayor Eric Adams. Judge Daleo granting the Justice Department's extraordinary
Speaker 5: request to set us up criminal charges so the mayor
Speaker 5: could aid President Trump's immigration crackdown, but the judge denied
Speaker 5: prosecutors the ability to potentially bring the criminal case back
Speaker 5: after the mayoral election. The order to dismiss the case
Speaker 5: with prejudice spares Adams from having to govern in a
Speaker 5: way that pleases Trump or potentially risk having the charges revived.
Speaker 5: The Justice Departments pushed to and the case caused a
Speaker 5: rift between its leadership in Washington and prosecutors in New York,
Speaker 5: who resigned. Adams had pled not guilty to the charges,
Speaker 5: including bribery Julie Walker, New York.
Speaker 2: The City of Cambridge's upping fees for its electric vehicle
Speaker 2: charging stations beginning April fifteenth, City owned charging stations will
Speaker 2: be nine cents more per kilowatt hour. The city has
Speaker 2: forty public charging ports and says the fee increases reflect
Speaker 2: rising electricity rates. The city says its goal is to
Speaker 2: reach one hundred public charging ports by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: A bit of a colorful radar. We look at the
Speaker 2: ACCU weather radar this afternoon. It's not here though. Here
Speaker 2: it's just nothing. The reds and the yellows, and the
Speaker 2: greens and the blues and the pinks all out into
Speaker 2: New York State and into Pennsylvania. That is our rain,
Speaker 2: and even some mixed precipitation that'll be heading our way
Speaker 2: as we head through the evening tonight and certainly overnight,
Speaker 2: so we'll have clouds building in and then the rain
Speaker 2: gets in here later tonight overnight could mix with some
Speaker 2: snow and sleep at least for a time, especially north
Speaker 2: and west of the city. Even a bigger concern up
Speaker 2: into parts in New Hampshire where there is a winter
Speaker 2: weather advisory posted starting at eight o'clock tonight. Slick roads
Speaker 2: certainly a possibility wherever some of the sleet or snow
Speaker 2: does mix in, but it'll be short lived because by
Speaker 2: the time we get to tomorrow, we'll be seeing temperatures rise,
Speaker 2: eventually landing in the low sixties with the rain and
Speaker 2: drizzle in the morning and clouds around in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, some showers may pop back up fifty three
Speaker 2: for the low tomorrow night, and then back into the
Speaker 2: sixties on Friday. We'll have clouds early, but we'll break
Speaker 2: for some sunshine in a pretty decent day for opening
Speaker 2: day at Fenway Park thirty eighth right now in Boston
Speaker 2: at Fenway Park, speak of it the Cruz they're working
Speaker 2: to put all the finishing touches in place ahead of
Speaker 2: Friday's opening Day in wbz's Kyle Bray takes a look
Speaker 2: at what you can expect.
Speaker 6: First pitch on Friday isn't until two ten, but the
Speaker 6: party gets started a lot earlier. The team is encouraging
Speaker 6: fans to be in their seats by one thirty for
Speaker 6: the usual home opener pomp and circumstance, but there will
Speaker 6: be some special guests there as well. Chief Experience Officer
Speaker 6: Sarah McKenna says the Treble All Stars from Boston Arts
Speaker 6: Academy will be there to sing.
Speaker 7: The anthem will be sung by just some kids from
Speaker 7: across the street from Boston Arts Academy, some high school students,
Speaker 7: extremely talented kids over there that are just doing wonderful
Speaker 7: things in the Boston school system.
Speaker 6: After that, there will be a flyover with fighter jets
Speaker 6: in a refueling plane, but the main event will be
Speaker 6: a tribute to the nineteen seventy five Pennant winning Red
Speaker 6: Sox team. Members of the team will be there to
Speaker 6: celebrate and remember the life of Socks legend Louis ti On,
Speaker 6: who died last October. From Fenway Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's
Speaker 6: News Radio.
Speaker 2: A local investor strikes hit big I should say, an
Speaker 2: inventor gets some investors and then strikes hit big. It's
Speaker 2: a do hickey that helps feed a flock of chickens.
Speaker 2: BBC style shaffle with more on what brought him there.
Speaker 6: Ah, man, my heart was in my stomach.
Speaker 3: You know, right before the doors opened, I was standing
Speaker 3: mind the doors there thinking about that song from Eminem
Speaker 3: Lose Yourself.
Speaker 1: But Westbridgewater local Eric Didrickson wasn't about to throw down
Speaker 1: a sick freestyle. He was on Shark Tank pitching famous
Speaker 1: business personalities on the passion project that's become his life,
Speaker 1: a new way to feed chickens. I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: it was pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean, when those doors open, you only you only
Speaker 4: get one take.
Speaker 1: Most of the sharks were out pretty much instantly, but
Speaker 1: Damon John bought in three hundred grand for a twenty
Speaker 1: percent steak in riverbend resources. Since the show aired, Eric says,
Speaker 1: there was a huge boom in sales.
Speaker 2: You know, my initial envision was, you know, essentially just
Speaker 2: this product, a chicken feeder, a better chicken feeder, and
Speaker 2: now it's kind of like evolving into this like poultry company.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 1: Alkins are the third most popular pet in America and
Speaker 1: with high end prices only growing. Kyle Shaffele, WBZ Boston's News.
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