Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local
Speaker 1: news seventy six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Support is coming from
Speaker 1: local lawmakers from an Afghan man who's being detained by ICE.
Speaker 1: Some of the easy's Jeremy Russ. That's the story.
Speaker 2: He risked his life as an interpreter for American soldiers
Speaker 2: in Afghanistan. But now the man who we know only
Speaker 2: as Zia, is behind bars at an ICE detention center
Speaker 2: in Plymouth. Zeo was arrested in East Hartford, Connecticut, last
Speaker 2: month during a routine appointment as part of the process
Speaker 2: to get a green card. The Department of Homeland Security
Speaker 2: says Zea is in the country illegally, but during a
Speaker 2: visit to the detention center yesterday, Massachusetts Congressman Bill Keating
Speaker 2: said that's not true, and Zia deserves better treatment for
Speaker 2: the risks he took in the battlefield.
Speaker 3: This is nothing but a disgusting betrayal of that promise.
Speaker 3: A promise me to the people that risk their lives
Speaker 3: like Zia, but the promise made to our own troops
Speaker 3: that we would take care of those people that took
Speaker 3: care of them.
Speaker 2: Connecticut Senator Richard Blument Dahal was also there yesterday. He
Speaker 2: and Keating say Zia has a hearing scheduled for next month.
Speaker 2: Jeremy Ross WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: President Trump says he'll ramp up the federal law enforcement
Speaker 1: presidence in Washington, d C. After a former DOGE staffer
Speaker 1: was assaulted. ABC Stephen Portnoy has the latest.
Speaker 4: While details remain unclear, the White House says DC residents
Speaker 4: should expect to see an increase in federal law enforcement
Speaker 4: as early as tomorrow. That days after a high profile
Speaker 4: former DOGE staffer was beaten and bloodied by a group
Speaker 4: of teens as he protected his girlfriend. President Trump has
Speaker 4: suggested he might bring in the National Guard or use
Speaker 4: his emergency power under the d C Home Rule Act
Speaker 4: to gain control over DC police. That department's own data
Speaker 4: shows violent crime in the district is down twenty six
Speaker 4: percent compared to last year.
Speaker 1: It is not exactly clear what the extra federal authorities
Speaker 1: would be ordered to do there. The Massachusetts Attorney General's
Speaker 1: office has some work to do ahead of today's filing deadline.
Speaker 1: Andrea Campbell's office that it had received forty seven ballot
Speaker 1: initiative petitions to for certification decisions that could be released
Speaker 1: in less than a month. Of the forty seven petitions,
Speaker 1: forty two of proposed laws for the twenty twenty six ballot.
Speaker 1: Five are proposed constitutional amendments for the twenty twenty eight ballot.
Speaker 1: The Ang's office will review whether the initiative petitions meet
Speaker 1: certain constitutional requirements to be filed with the Secretary of
Speaker 1: the Commonwealth. Jays El Corea, the former Fall River mayor
Speaker 1: convicted of corruptions, been moved out of prison. Wbz's Madison
Speaker 1: Rogers with details.
Speaker 5: It's been a decade since a twenty three year old
Speaker 5: wunderkin secured the mayor's office in fall River, and after
Speaker 5: three years behind Bar's, thirty three year old jays L.
Speaker 5: Correa has been transferred to a residential re entry program
Speaker 5: in New York that's home confinement or a halfway house.
Speaker 5: The Bureau of Prison says he's due for release next July.
Speaker 5: Correa was first arrested in twenty eighteen for defrauding investors
Speaker 5: and convicted in twenty twenty one of extorting mayor wanna businesses.
Speaker 5: Out of six hundred thousand dollars at is sentencing. The
Speaker 5: judge called it a case of old school corruption and
Speaker 5: said what I have before me is an absolute lack
Speaker 5: of remorse. Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: We'll have a fairly decent night, mainly clear, skies, comfortable
Speaker 1: sixty three in Boston, probably closer to fifty in the
Speaker 1: coldest inland suburbs. Sunshine around Tomorrow, temperatures will get into
Speaker 1: the upper seventies at the harbor. We'll get into the
Speaker 1: mid eighties in the suburbs, and then clear Tomorrow night
Speaker 1: temperatures again sixty three in Boston, fifties in the suburbs. Saturday,
Speaker 1: mid eighties for the inland suburbs, probably mid seventies or
Speaker 1: so near the water's edge. Mostly sunny and warmer. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: in fact, we may get into the low nineties and
Speaker 1: some of the inland spots. Upper eighties in Boston, closer
Speaker 1: to eighty for the Capean Islands, and the nineties may
Speaker 1: hang around for at least a few days to kick
Speaker 1: off next week, and more humidity. You'll sneak in here
Speaker 1: as well. Right now it is seventy five degrees in Boston,
Speaker 1: some of the top Girl Scout cookie sellers in Eastern
Speaker 1: Massachusetts chewing the fat or the cookies as the case
Speaker 1: maybe at the Girl Scout Museum at the headquarters in Waltham.
Speaker 6: It's not every day get to sit down with some
Speaker 6: absolute pros of the Girl Scout cookie game. So I
Speaker 6: figured I had to learn the secrets behind their success.
Speaker 6: For Girl Scout Brownie Emma, it was about placement and teamwork.
Speaker 7: They went to Peterson's Market and my family helped me.
Speaker 6: Too, And family is a big part of it, especially
Speaker 6: for Junior Scout Haven, who says her family always had
Speaker 6: her back.
Speaker 7: They're like encouraging me all the way. Like they're like
Speaker 7: encouraging and like I'm saying, I can do this, even
Speaker 7: at like the toughest time.
Speaker 6: They're here at the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Museum
Speaker 6: to celebrate their success and get ready for the next
Speaker 6: cookie season. But for Scouts like Alex's, cookie season is
Speaker 6: more than just trying to sell the most suites.
Speaker 7: I learned how to be a leader, money management, how
Speaker 7: to be a good friend, how to talk to strangers.
Speaker 7: Because I'm a very shy person, so it's good to
Speaker 7: help me talk to people.
Speaker 6: I don't know from Wallfam, Kyle Bray, WBZ boss Since
Speaker 6: News Radio.
Speaker 1: Who knows. Maybe one day those cookie magnets will make
Speaker 1: this list. The Fortune one hundred Most Powerful People in
Speaker 1: Business list, a couple of locals did nestled in the
Speaker 1: middle of the top one hundred. Couple of local names
Speaker 1: that wield power. Fidelity Investments CEO A chair Abigail Johnson
Speaker 1: ranked forty fourth, which is twenty spots higher than last year.
Speaker 1: At number twenty two. Reshma Kuol Romney, a president and
Speaker 1: CEO at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, also on the list, as you
Speaker 1: might expect, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong
Speaker 1: topping the list ultra processed foods. We've heard a lot
Speaker 1: about them, and we've heard that they're not good for us,
Speaker 1: but we haven't stopped eating them.
Speaker 8: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that
Speaker 8: most Americans get more than fifty percent of their calories
Speaker 8: from ultra processed foods, energy dense foods typically full of sugar, salt,
Speaker 8: and unhealthy fats. It's the first time the CDC has
Speaker 8: confirmed those high levels of consumption using dietary information collected
Speaker 8: from August twenty twenty one to August twenty twenty three.
Speaker 8: The report says that for young people eighteen and under older,
Speaker 8: processed foods make up nearly sixty five percent of the
Speaker 8: calories they consume each day. For adults, it's about fifty
Speaker 8: three percent. The top sources burgers and sandwiches, sweet baked goods,
Speaker 8: savory snacks, pizza, and sweetened drinks I'm Donna water.
Speaker 1: It's been nearly twenty four years since the September eleventh
Speaker 1: terror attacks and still remains from being identified in New York.
Speaker 1: The identities of the remains of three more victims in
Speaker 1: New York City have been learned, the Office of the
Speaker 1: Chief Medical Examiner, says Ryan Fitzgerald of New York, Barbara
Speaker 1: Keating of Palm Springs, California, and a woman whose names
Speaker 1: being withheld. The match with remains using advanced DNA technology,
Speaker 1: along with new samples from family members. About forty percent
Speaker 1: of those who were killed at the World Trade Center
Speaker 1: site on nine to eleven not been identified. You are
Speaker 1: now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day,
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Speaker 1: Ben Parker WBZ, Boston's news radio