Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local.
Speaker 2: News forty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. It's been a bad
Speaker 2: day for air travel in London, though it is expected
Speaker 2: to get better. Electrical substation exploded and caught fire, knocking
Speaker 2: out power to the airport.
Speaker 1: Police do not believe foul play was involved.
Speaker 2: Emma Fulton was at the airport. She had to reschedule.
Speaker 1: We had to go to the Air India desk, which
Speaker 1: was a bit chaotic.
Speaker 3: We got there, they changed the flight for four days time.
Speaker 1: On the twenty fourth, at seven o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: one flight left Charlotte, North Carolina for London.
Speaker 4: We are headed back to Charlotte.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you what's going on.
Speaker 1: The pilot explained the situation.
Speaker 4: The wrong ways have lights, but there's no power in
Speaker 4: all the terminals and they are not accepting flights into
Speaker 4: fundon Heathrow.
Speaker 2: I met Donahue and we've had one plane to reland
Speaker 2: at Heathrower. Trying to get some flights in there today
Speaker 2: and hope to return to a full schedule tomorrow. The
Speaker 2: first of the flights expected to bring stranded passengers back
Speaker 2: from other airports in Europe and get airplanes back in
Speaker 2: the right place. President Trump announces a sixth generation US
Speaker 2: fighter jet manufactured by Boeing.
Speaker 6: President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseath announced the new
Speaker 6: fighter jet, the F forty seven, that will replace the
Speaker 6: Air Force's F twenty two Raptor.
Speaker 7: It'll be known as the F forty seven.
Speaker 5: The General's picked a title, and it's a beautiful number.
Speaker 7: F forty seven.
Speaker 6: President Trump is the forty fifth and now forty seventh
Speaker 6: US President. Secretary Hegseeth called this a big day for
Speaker 6: the US military and the world, saying the new fighter
Speaker 6: jet would give the US generations of air dominance. Karen Travers,
Speaker 6: ABC News The White House.
Speaker 2: Boston, Ayora Michell WIO announcing an initiative to prevent residents
Speaker 2: and small businesses from being displaced. A Place to Thrive
Speaker 2: is the first program of its kind in Boston lays
Speaker 2: out a two year plan to help stabilize those who
Speaker 2: are facing economic displacement. It includes helping multiple low and
Speaker 2: moderate income households purchase their own home, supporting student and
Speaker 2: employer sponsored workforce housing, and providing those facing displacement with
Speaker 2: a relocation plan. The mayor says Boston must keep its residents,
Speaker 2: small businesses, and cultural spaces rooted in our neighborhoods. Another
Speaker 2: day to day of probable cause hearings for more than
Speaker 2: two dozen men who allegedly frequented brothels run out of
Speaker 2: high end Boston area apartments.
Speaker 4: Formerly a sex worker, now an attorney who advocates for survivors,
Speaker 4: Stacy Lee barn stains and the buffeting wins outside of
Speaker 4: the courthouse to send a message to the alleged patrons
Speaker 4: of the sex rank. But none of those men personally
Speaker 4: stood before the magistrate, and that does not sit well
Speaker 4: with Barns. We get arrested, our names get thrown in
Speaker 4: a newspaper.
Speaker 7: Sometimes they take our pictues and we'll just put on
Speaker 7: blasts all over the place.
Speaker 1: We exploit, if you will.
Speaker 2: And these guys were able to side step.
Speaker 3: All of that.
Speaker 4: So some of the defendants fought to keep their identities private,
Speaker 4: a battle that went all the way to the state's
Speaker 4: High Court, where it lost. Some of those identities, authorities
Speaker 4: have said include powerful executives, government contractors with security clearances,
Speaker 4: and politicians. Each of those defendants will show up personally
Speaker 4: for their arraignment. Cambridge District Court Clerk Share and Casey
Speaker 4: has said one way or another from Cambridge Kettlebill, will
Speaker 4: you're busy? Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Cambridge City Councilor Paul Toner is facing a charge for
Speaker 2: allegedly being one of the clients. Some sunshine breaking out
Speaker 2: even as close by as right near Boston. We did
Speaker 2: have clouds hanging in near the coast, and we'll get
Speaker 2: some clouds to hang in, probably over the Cape Island
Speaker 2: longer than anyone else, and maybe a shower or two
Speaker 2: as we head into the evening. Otherwise you'll start to
Speaker 2: see the clearing skies if you haven't already, and later
Speaker 2: tonight will feel a chill in the air, temperatures in
Speaker 2: the thirties. The winds that we've had today, the really
Speaker 2: gusty ones, those will die back a little bit, but
Speaker 2: still breezy and real feels overnight tonight and probably closer
Speaker 2: to twenty in some of the coldest spots periods of
Speaker 2: sun and clouds Tomorrow, still breezy but mild as we
Speaker 2: get into the low sixties, and some of the warmest
Speaker 2: spots probably upper fifties, downtown, lower fifties over the Capean Islands.
Speaker 2: Partly cloudy, breezy tomorrow and night lows in the twenties.
Speaker 2: And then on Sunday, it'll be a breezy day. There'll
Speaker 2: be lots of sunshine, but it will be cooler despite
Speaker 2: the sun. Forty three to forty seven. Monday, we're in
Speaker 2: the mid forties. A little bit of rain comes in
Speaker 2: and we may get in on a little bit of
Speaker 2: snow mixing with that rain for a time north and
Speaker 2: west of the city. Right now we're at forty two
Speaker 2: degrees in Boston. Well, now that springs here in New England,
Speaker 2: allergy season isn't far behind. Wdbz's Nicole Davis spoke with
Speaker 2: an expert to learn more about what we can expect.
Speaker 1: Spring has indeed derived on the calendar, but the cold
Speaker 1: weather's not quite through with us yet. At You Weather
Speaker 1: Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter says, because of that, we're not
Speaker 1: going to see the full onslaught of pollend for a
Speaker 1: little longer, but when we do, it will hit hard.
Speaker 5: We could be dealing with a period of time, especially
Speaker 5: later in May and June, that people who are specially
Speaker 5: susceptible to tree pollend dealing with some challenging situations as
Speaker 5: all the trees bloom out sort of at once during
Speaker 5: that time period.
Speaker 1: He says, here in Massachusetts, we are an average level
Speaker 1: of tree pollen this year. As we get into the summer, though,
Speaker 1: you'll notice a lot of grass pollen more than usual
Speaker 1: because we have a forecast that is wetter and warmer
Speaker 1: than normal.
Speaker 5: And then the ragweed season, which is during the late
Speaker 5: part of the summer, typically early August in the Boston area,
Speaker 5: we're expecting about average intensity.
Speaker 1: Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's News.
Speaker 2: Radio planning to do the moving thing.
Speaker 4: I like the moved moved, You like the Boston's ramping
Speaker 4: up to the great move in for now, there's plenty
Speaker 4: on the market.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Emma Friedman's getting some insider information you here.
Speaker 3: September first two renters like a bus and the lead
Speaker 3: up isn't always pretty with people battling it out for
Speaker 3: the best place and the best deal. But that's why
Speaker 3: it's good to have a guy with the data on.
Speaker 7: Every data chart across every national portal or local portal.
Speaker 7: You'll see April is when you get a ton of availability.
Speaker 7: So it's coming right now and we'll see a lot
Speaker 7: of that in the next three weeks.
Speaker 3: Dimitrio Selpaglo is the CEO of Boston Pats and he's
Speaker 3: pulling up the real time data from two hundred and
Speaker 3: sixteen thousand apartments and so.
Speaker 7: You can wait, but you might miss the best apartment.
Speaker 7: By the same token, if you get into August, you
Speaker 7: might find a great deal, but it might not be
Speaker 7: the perfect apartment that you want.
Speaker 3: He also says having a good, strong group gives you
Speaker 3: a boost when it comes to negotiations. In Austin Ma
Speaker 3: Friedman WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: A handful of New England bridges or on the list
Speaker 2: of nearly seventy spans that the NTSB says will be
Speaker 2: evaluated for a risk of collapse. Both the upper and
Speaker 2: lower parts of the Tobyn Bridge, along with the Born
Speaker 2: and Sagamore Bridges, are slated for what are called vulnerability
Speaker 2: assessment to determine their risk of collapse should they be
Speaker 2: involved in a vessel collision like the one that hit
Speaker 2: Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, a memorial bridge in Portsmouth,
Speaker 2: New Hampshire, and Rhode Island's Clayborne pell Newport Bridge are
Speaker 2: also on the list. The NTSB notes that the recommendation
Speaker 2: doesn't suggest the bridges are certain to collapse, but rather
Speaker 2: bridge owners should evaluate whether the bridges are above the
Speaker 2: official acceptable level of risk. You are now in the loop.
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