Speaker 1: This is WBZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: A rainy Saturday afternoon in Boston. It's forty two degrees
Speaker 2: at four o'clock. Good afternoon, and let's start this hour
Speaker 2: downtown where Mayor Michelle wou just made a big announcement.
Speaker 3: I am so proud to stand before you as we
Speaker 3: launch officially our reelection campaign.
Speaker 2: Speaking in the South End, the mayor pitched a fights
Speaker 2: against the White House.
Speaker 3: We face serious challenges in this moment, and now is
Speaker 3: not the time for a mayor who needs on the
Speaker 3: job training.
Speaker 2: She faces an election coming up in September, with her
Speaker 2: main opponent so far being philanthropist and billionaire Josh Kraft.
Speaker 2: Huge crowds gathered downtown this afternoon in a protest aimed
Speaker 2: at the White House. Wbz's Mike Macklin in the crowds.
Speaker 4: Thousands arched from Boston Common to City Hall Plaza, as
Speaker 4: cities across the nation demonstrated in opposition to President Donald
Speaker 4: Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. This isn't a Democrat issue,
Speaker 4: this is an American issue.
Speaker 1: It's for all of us to stand up.
Speaker 4: Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll addressed the crowd on Boston Common.
Speaker 1: Government works best when we have checks and balances, when
Speaker 1: we have a Congress that actually.
Speaker 2: Is really going to check the power of the most
Speaker 2: powerful person in America.
Speaker 5: That's how it's supposed to work.
Speaker 4: On City Hall Plaza, Mayor Michelle wou drove home the
Speaker 4: message that she delivered to a Republican led Congressional committee
Speaker 4: in Washington.
Speaker 3: Boston has never and will never back down to Bullie.
Speaker 3: This is our city and.
Speaker 4: You will not break us. More than twelve hundred hands
Speaker 4: off demonstrations were planned in all fifty states across the country.
Speaker 4: On City Hall Plaza, Mike macklum WBZ Boston's.
Speaker 2: News baseline ten percent import taxes are now in effect
Speaker 2: on all goods coming into the country. It was an
Speaker 2: absolute meltdown to end the week on Wall Street.
Speaker 5: The Dow plummeted more than two thousand, two hundred points.
Speaker 5: The S and P five hundred, which we know is
Speaker 5: tied to many people's retirement funds, slid more than three hundred,
Speaker 5: while the NASDAK tumbled nearly one thousand points, now officially
Speaker 5: in a bear market, meaning it is down twenty percent
Speaker 5: from its record high. Investors dump stocks as recession talk
Speaker 5: now heats up. JP Morgan now raising the odds of
Speaker 5: a recession this year to sixty percent.
Speaker 2: That's ABC's Alexis Christophoris. President Trump has vowed the new
Speaker 2: taxes will lead to a renaissance for American manufacturing, but
Speaker 2: that could take a while. We have more wet weather
Speaker 2: coming up in the four day forecast. Rain at times Tonight,
Speaker 2: maybe a rumble of thunder down toward the South Coast
Speaker 2: and Cape. The lows around thirty nine degrees. It is
Speaker 2: milder Tomorrow, fifty five to fifty nine for the high,
Speaker 2: but another mostly cloudy with a few showers around, especially
Speaker 2: early in the day, lingering rain and drizzle. On Monday
Speaker 2: early in the day again, otherwise it's mostly cloudy, brisk
Speaker 2: and colder, forty two for the high. Then Tuesday a
Speaker 2: possible rain shower to start, maybe even mixing in with
Speaker 2: some snow and some colder spots. Otherwise, clouds break for
Speaker 2: some sunshine. It is pretty chilly, though still high just
Speaker 2: forty four. Right now it is rain from Boston out
Speaker 2: to the Berkshars. Here in the city forty two degrees
Speaker 2: and feeling like thirty At four oh six, a week
Speaker 2: of jury selection, and the Karen Reid retrial is now
Speaker 2: in the books. And in South Boston, a judge heard
Speaker 2: arguments around the buffer zone in Denham. Wbz's Charlie Bergeron has.
Speaker 1: That supporters of Karen Reid claiming the buffer zone is
Speaker 1: a violation of their First Amendment rights. Judge Beverly Canoni
Speaker 1: says the presence of protesters outside the courthouse could influence jurors.
Speaker 1: The judge expanding the buffer zone, which regionally prohibited demonstrations
Speaker 1: within two hundred feet at the courthouse during the last
Speaker 1: year's trial. Attorney Mark Rendaza, representing some of the plaintiffs,
Speaker 1: asking how a judge has the right to have any
Speaker 1: say with what's happening outside the courthouse. Plaintiffs say the
Speaker 1: buffer zone is so big now they can't get their
Speaker 1: message across. The only people who see or hear them
Speaker 1: are residents in the neighborhood. Rendaza stating that there should
Speaker 1: not even be a buffer zone, but its clients are
Speaker 1: willing to compromise. No decision made it yesterday's hearing. Both
Speaker 1: sides will continue to argue their case next Thursday, back
Speaker 1: at the Federal courthouse. Charlie Burger on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: In marsh Madness, it is Final four action for the
Speaker 2: men tonight in San Antonio, and on the sidelines, it's
Speaker 2: man versus Machine, a million dollar wager between a pro
Speaker 2: gambler and an AI program will come down to the
Speaker 2: Duke Houston game. Both gambler Sean Perry and the Site
Speaker 2: four s predictions have picked all final four teams correctly
Speaker 2: and have done very well over the first sixty games
Speaker 2: of the tournament. Perry, the Human wants Duke's Blue Devils
Speaker 2: to win, the bot picking the Cougars before that game,
Speaker 2: Florida will take on Auburn, and on the women's side,
Speaker 2: Yukon in South Carolina won their final four games yesterday.
Speaker 2: Now they'll face off for the title tomorrow afternoon. You're
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