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Speaker 2: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 3: Forty one raised guys in Boston. But we're seeing rainslet
Speaker 3: and snow out there already. Weekend weather coming up is
Speaker 3: going to be a mix. But first we start with
Speaker 3: the recovery efforts underway, stretching now into a third day
Speaker 3: after this week's deadly playing collision over the Potomac River.
Speaker 3: Investigators are still searching for answers as to how an
Speaker 3: Army helicopter crash into an American Airlines passenger jet. ABC's
Speaker 3: Nicole D'Antonio as the latest.
Speaker 4: It's unclear how many air traffic controllers were working at
Speaker 4: the time of the crash, but an FAA report says
Speaker 4: staffing in the tower was not normal. Sources say the
Speaker 4: controller handling helicopters in the area during the collision was
Speaker 4: also handling airline traffic. Those jobs are typically assigned to
Speaker 4: two separate controllers, but supervisors routinely com them when aircraft's.
Speaker 3: Volume goes down.
Speaker 4: On the night of the crash, the decision to combine
Speaker 4: those jobs was made forty minutes earlier than usual because
Speaker 4: of lighter traffic. Nicolde Antonio ABC News in Arlington, Virginia.
Speaker 3: Investigators have recovered the flight data recorder and the cockpit
Speaker 3: voice recorder from the American Airlines plane. They hope these
Speaker 3: two black boxes will shed some light on how this happened.
Speaker 3: And at a White House news conference yesterday, if you
Speaker 3: missed it, President Trump basically blamed diversity initiatives at the
Speaker 3: FAA for the disaster. ABC's Andrew Dimbert has the.
Speaker 1: Latest, President Trump claiming that under the Biden administration, the
Speaker 1: FAA pushed for the hiring of people with disabilities.
Speaker 5: It says FAA says people with severe disabilities a most
Speaker 5: underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want amend.
Speaker 1: The American Association of People with Disabilities, slamming Trump's comments,
Speaker 1: saying FAA employees with disabilities did not cause the crash
Speaker 1: and de hiring did not cause the crash.
Speaker 3: President Trump did not offer evidence to support the claims.
Speaker 3: Federal investigators say this kind of investigation could take months,
Speaker 3: and they've been hesitant to speculate about any cause. The
Speaker 3: bird flu may be spreading In Plymouth and particular, hundreds
Speaker 3: of residents there reported seeing more dead birds on a pawd,
Speaker 3: this time Cordage Park which is a highly trafficked area
Speaker 3: for both dogs and people. So mass Wildlife is working
Speaker 3: with the town to remove and test the dead birds
Speaker 3: for the highly contagious avian flu. Combined, they've carefully removed
Speaker 3: nearly two hundred so far. Dph's bird flu is widespread
Speaker 3: in Massachusetts and is likely president in places where there
Speaker 3: have been confirmed cases, and this could be a game
Speaker 3: changer in treating pain. Boston based Vertex says it has
Speaker 3: come up with a new drug to treat pain without opioids.
Speaker 6: The FDA approving gernevcs, a non opioid pain medication designed
Speaker 6: to treat moderate to severe acute pain. Doctors say it
Speaker 6: could be a game changer. Unlike opioids, it's not addictive
Speaker 6: and works by blocking pain signals in the peripheral nervous system.
Speaker 6: Clinical trials show it provides significant pain relief in just
Speaker 6: two to four hours, comparable to opioids like hydro codone,
Speaker 6: but without the risks of addiction. Dave Packer, ABC News.
Speaker 3: Fleet rain a little bit of snow too, and the
Speaker 3: doppler is vibrant right now across Massachusetts. Boston might be
Speaker 3: getting a little bit of rain soon. If this map
Speaker 3: is correct. It's just cloudy out there, pretty mom forty
Speaker 3: one in Boston. In fact, some of these areas in
Speaker 3: the Cape which has been seeing some heavier rain in
Speaker 3: the lower Cape area very mild forty two. And then
Speaker 3: tonight we're all going to be below freezing, so what
Speaker 3: comes down could actually freeze and be icy and treacherous
Speaker 3: if you're driving. We can also see about an inch
Speaker 3: of snow tonight, and this looks like it's widespread Saturday
Speaker 3: morning snow, and then here comes the sun on a
Speaker 3: very chilly, dry Saturday, frigid, frigid tomorrow and Tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Sunday starts out fine. You know, if you're going to
Speaker 3: do anything outside, do it Sunday morning. By late afternoon,
Speaker 3: we could see another round of this mix of rain
Speaker 3: and snow in Monday. Dishonoring the game with possible insider info.
Speaker 3: Wbz's Drewmalin is more on trouble off the hardwood for
Speaker 3: a former self.
Speaker 7: Yeah, do you remember Terry Rogiers.
Speaker 1: Over from step Back Wide Open?
Speaker 5: Boston has the lead.
Speaker 7: Terry Rosier drafted by the Celtics twenty fifteen. He may
Speaker 7: be in some very hot water right now with the
Speaker 7: Feds prosecutors are looking at gambling and that Rogier may
Speaker 7: be part of an illegal sports betting scheme. Officials say
Speaker 7: he left a twenty twenty three game as a member
Speaker 7: of the Charlotte Hornets with an injury, and they believe
Speaker 7: a whole lot of people knew that was the plan
Speaker 7: from the start. This is part of the same investigation
Speaker 7: that led to the lifetime ban of Toronto Raptors player
Speaker 7: Johntay Porter. We shall see how it all plays out,
Speaker 7: Drew mo'holland WVZ Boston's news.
Speaker 3: Radio and underway right now in Denham, Karen Read is
Speaker 3: back in court this morning for another hearing about what
Speaker 3: evidence will be allowed in her retrial this spring, And
Speaker 3: right now, Reid's lawyer is arguing for the judge to
Speaker 3: allow testimony from defense witness Richard Green, a cell phone expert.
Speaker 3: The prosecution does not want mister Green to take the
Speaker 3: stand in the retrial. The defense argues, not so fast.
Speaker 5: In mister Brennan's argument, he did not make one argument
Speaker 5: about mister Green's qualifications zero, So I'm assuming because there's
Speaker 5: nothing in their motion that even goes into why he.
Speaker 3: Might not be qualified.
Speaker 2: So to me, your honor.
Speaker 5: That's a tacit concession if not expressed, if he's qualifying.
Speaker 3: So the question at the heart of this what time
Speaker 3: did key witness Jen McCabe google Hasslan to die in
Speaker 3: the cold a type bo for presumably how long to
Speaker 3: die in the cold, and Green said he believed she
Speaker 3: made that search only hours before John o'key's body was
Speaker 3: found in the snow, and canton the prosecutions trying to
Speaker 3: dispute that again, We're monitoring. We'll have more from Norfolk
Speaker 3: Superior Court shortly, both here and streaming on the new
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. Let's go to Greenland. What's going on there?
Speaker 3: A top Danish official joining the chorus of voices against
Speaker 3: President Trump's suggestion that we buy it.
Speaker 2: Denmark's Foreign minister said a US takeover of Greenland is
Speaker 2: not in the island's interests. On Thursday, his counterpart, Secretary
Speaker 2: of State Marco Rubio, downplayed any idea of using military force,
Speaker 2: but said President Trump's talk of buying the territory was
Speaker 2: quote not a joke. The Foreign minister said, it's not
Speaker 2: a joke either when we say that Greenland will not
Speaker 2: become an American possession. He said it's not in the
Speaker 2: interests of the Kingdom of Denmark, which controls Greenland. Trump
Speaker 2: has said it would be a purchase that would benefit
Speaker 2: America's strategic interests. Steve Kaith and CBS News.
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Speaker 3: I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ, Boston's news radio