Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Fifty nine degrees in Boston. It is partly cloudy in
Speaker 2: the city. At eleven o'clock, Happy Thursday. I'm Nicole Davis
Speaker 2: and here's what's happening. Karen Reid's second murder trial is
Speaker 2: back from morning recess. Just before the break, we heard
Speaker 2: testimony from Trooper Nicholas Garrino. He analyzed Reid and John
Speaker 2: O'Keefe's phones, and he's been talking about the nuts and
Speaker 2: bolts of how he extracted data from those phones. Courteous
Speaker 2: getting back in session a couple moments ago, Garino is
Speaker 2: still on the stand. WBZ Suzanne Sausville back with us
Speaker 2: at eleven fifteen with the very latest Keep it right
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Speaker 2: oh one. Over to the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Speaker 2: facing more controversy now over reports he installed the Signal
Speaker 2: messaging app onto a computer in his office. His ABC's
Speaker 2: Nicole D'Antonio.
Speaker 3: Eg Seth was already under fire for allegedly using Signals
Speaker 3: dish fair military attack plans in Yemen. The administration has
Speaker 3: said nothing that Hegseth shared was classified. We also know
Speaker 3: his wife, Jennifer, former Fox News producer, was among those
Speaker 3: on a signal thread discussing the attack plans, and in
Speaker 3: recent days, multiple aids to Secretary Hegseth have left, been
Speaker 3: fired or reassigned amid a leak investigation, with one describing
Speaker 3: the Pentagon as total chaos.
Speaker 2: Meig Seth has blamed disgruntled former employees with what he
Speaker 2: calls axes to grind for going public with information about
Speaker 2: the inner workings of the Pentagon. President Trump calling on
Speaker 2: Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure peace in Ukraine. This
Speaker 2: comes hours after the Kremlin launched a deadly attack on
Speaker 2: Ukraine's most populated city.
Speaker 4: President trumpun social media, sending a sharp message to Russian
Speaker 4: President Vladimir Putin. The president writing quote, I am not
Speaker 4: happy with the Russian strikes on Kiev. Not necessary and
Speaker 4: very bad timing. Vladimir stop. At least nine people were
Speaker 4: killed and dozens more were injured in an overnight Russian
Speaker 4: attack on Kiev. Just yesterday, President Trump told reporters he
Speaker 4: believed Russia was ready to make a deal to end
Speaker 4: the war and indicate it he could be meeting with
Speaker 4: Putin soon. Karen Travers ABC News, the White House.
Speaker 2: And yesterday the President blamed Vladimir Zelenski for prolonging the
Speaker 2: war by pushing back against a peace deal put forth
Speaker 2: by the United States. That deal would have ceeded some
Speaker 2: territory to Russia, including Russian occupied Crimea and At eleven
Speaker 2: oh two, Pope Francis still lying in state inside Saint
Speaker 2: Peter's Basilica this hour, The Vatican says more than sixty
Speaker 2: thousand people have already filed past his coffin as people
Speaker 2: pay their final respects. Meantime, speculation is swirling about who
Speaker 2: will be his successor. Here CBS's seth don't.
Speaker 1: John Allen is the editor of Crux, a news site
Speaker 1: specializing in the Vatican. Is it too early to know
Speaker 1: if there are front runners?
Speaker 3: It is never too early to talk about whether or
Speaker 3: not there are front runners.
Speaker 1: In keeping continuity with Pope Francis's ministry, Allen says one
Speaker 1: bet would be the Vatican's number two.
Speaker 3: Cardinal Pietro paral and Italian, currently the Vatican Secretary of State.
Speaker 1: He's a tested top diplomat.
Speaker 2: The Pope's funeral is set for Saturday at the Vatican
Speaker 2: for the rest of the afternoon. There is a chance
Speaker 2: we might be seeing a couple of showers. I am
Speaker 2: taking a look at the radar and seeing a couple
Speaker 2: of them popping up in parts of the Berkshires and
Speaker 2: western Massachusetts. So we'll keep an eye and see if
Speaker 2: those make their way over here toward the Boston area.
Speaker 2: Otherwise we should be seeing a mix of sun and clouds.
Speaker 2: We have a high near sixty five in Boston and
Speaker 2: by the coast, seventy to seventy five Inland, so not
Speaker 2: too shabby, i'd say. Otherwise, if you can dodge those
Speaker 2: showers for tonight partly to mostly cloudy, mild a shower,
Speaker 2: it cannot be ruled out, especially north and west. We
Speaker 2: have alone near fifty five tonight and partial sunshine tomorrow
Speaker 2: to wrap up the work week. Sixty eight downtown, mid
Speaker 2: seventies north and west. Starting off the weekend, mostly cloudy
Speaker 2: and breezy, a couple of showers moving through in a
Speaker 2: thunderstorm as well, and we've got a high near sixty five,
Speaker 2: sixty one in Methuin right now, sixty two in Westborough,
Speaker 2: sixty two as well in Easton and in Boston at
Speaker 2: eleven Oho, five Sun and Clouds and fifty nine degrees.
Speaker 2: Boston mayoral challenger Josh Kraft now receiving an endorsement from
Speaker 2: another deep pocketed donor. Here's wbz's Jim.
Speaker 5: McKay, Chairman of New Balanced. Jim Davis, who's got a
Speaker 5: long history as a Republican donor, is backing Joshkraft for
Speaker 5: mayor of Boston with a one million dollar donation to
Speaker 5: the Your City, Your Future super Pack. This isn't the
Speaker 5: first time Davis has put money into mayoral races in
Speaker 5: opposition of Meri Wu. He donated to other campaigns against
Speaker 5: Michelle Woo in twenty twenty one. The pack Davis just
Speaker 5: donated to also has received six figure donations from Robert
Speaker 5: Hale of Granite Telecommunications and John Kalnanough Construction Giant JCNA
Speaker 5: Jim McKay WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: As of now, a handful of MBTA bus routes in
Speaker 2: the Boston area are fair free. Top officials at the
Speaker 2: TEA say that is not sustainable. They do say, though,
Speaker 2: if the entire bus network was fair free, that could
Speaker 2: actually be advantageous. You report to Beacon Hill lawmakers Lindsay Heffernan,
Speaker 2: the chief of Policy and Strategic Planning at the TEE,
Speaker 2: says this could end up leading to higher ridership. She
Speaker 2: says many commuters paying fares or will pay fares once
Speaker 2: they get to trains or a ferry. Accessibility is also
Speaker 2: a factor, as the TEA believes de Man would skyrocket
Speaker 2: for the ride if there was no fare, and the
Speaker 2: Tea is required to offer that service free. If bus
Speaker 2: service is free, not being said, Heffernan says, would cost
Speaker 2: tens of millions of dollars every year. They would have
Speaker 2: to make sure a dedicated stream of cash is in
Speaker 2: place to cover that cost. Police are out with yet
Speaker 2: another scam warning, this one targeting the dating scene.
Speaker 6: Officials said, beware of prowlers disguising themselves with phony dating
Speaker 6: or social media profiles, reeling in victims with love only
Speaker 6: to get us hook line and sinker in a financial scam.
Speaker 6: Officials say the fraudsters often poses members of the military
Speaker 6: and often based overseas. The takeaway is, if it sounds
Speaker 6: too good to be true, it probably is.
Speaker 2: J Willett WBZ, Boston's news Radio. Before we take a
Speaker 2: look at Bloomberg Business at eleven oh seven new research
Speaker 2: suggesting some food additives could raise your risk of type
Speaker 2: two diabetes.
Speaker 7: By themselves, the food dies, artificial sweeteners, and emulsifiers don't
Speaker 7: pose much of a threat, French researchers say the risks
Speaker 7: arise when those additives are combined in ultra processed foods
Speaker 7: like broths, salsas, margarine, and sodas. The researcher suggests you
Speaker 7: avoid ultra processed foods as much as you can. Tuesday,
Speaker 7: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior called on the food
Speaker 7: industry to stop using several artificial dyes. Michael Wallace, CBS News.
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