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Speaker 2: Seventy four degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock on Friday morning.
Speaker 2: You've made it to the end of the work week.
Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis. Thanks for joining us. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: Some marijuana users here in Massachusetts are looking forward to
Speaker 2: new regulations coming down today that could allow them to
Speaker 2: partake more in social settings. Here's so many BSS James Rojasa.
Speaker 1: Massachusetts could become the eleventh state to allow the consumption
Speaker 1: of marijuana at events or social settings. Supporters say it
Speaker 1: could benefit tourism, added.
Speaker 2: Bonus to their travels potentially, And I think if there's
Speaker 2: something like bars, cannabis bars, that kind of thing, again,
Speaker 2: it's another it's another thing to drop people out into.
Speaker 1: Those Some would have concerns.
Speaker 3: Certainly consistent with other practices. I'm suspicious generally, however, that
Speaker 3: you're going to inhibit your reaction time.
Speaker 1: The Cannabis Control Commission is asking for public feedback on
Speaker 1: whether to allow the purchase of products and the use
Speaker 1: of it in the same location or at designated events
Speaker 1: and places in downtown Boston. James Rojas WBZ Boston Some
Speaker 1: News radio.
Speaker 2: This comes as the state auditor, Diana Dezaglio, says she
Speaker 2: has discovered significant problems at the Cannabis Control Commission. Her
Speaker 2: office has put out a brand new audit that looked
Speaker 2: at the state agency's operations between twenty twenty two and
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Among other issues, the audit claims there
Speaker 2: was potential favoritism and or impropriety, and there also weren't
Speaker 2: any proper digital or paper records kept on fee collection,
Speaker 2: all of which Dezaglio's office says led to revenue laws
Speaker 2: for the state. The report also says the agency did
Speaker 2: not properly enforce regulations. There was also a lack of
Speaker 2: supervision and accountability for staff. A spokesperson for the commission
Speaker 2: telling WBZ News Radio they've been working closely with the
Speaker 2: Auditor's office and they've made progress on many of those
Speaker 2: issues that were raised. And Trump is on his way
Speaker 2: to Anchorage, Alaska right now for a summit this afternoon
Speaker 2: with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 4: The president is expected to hold a news conference at
Speaker 4: the conclusion of the summit. He says, if the meeting
Speaker 4: goes well, it'll be a joint news conference with Vladimir
Speaker 4: Putin by his side, But if it goes poorly, and
Speaker 4: he says there's a twenty five percent chance that it will,
Speaker 4: he'll hold his own news conference and then head back
Speaker 4: here to Washington. Trump has aired the hope that a
Speaker 4: second meeting with Vladimir Zelinsky could be hastily arranged, maybe
Speaker 4: even right there in Alaska. But that's only if things
Speaker 4: work out between him and Putin. Later today and this.
Speaker 2: ABC, Stephen Portnoy now on board Air Force One. This morning,
Speaker 2: the President told reporters that security guarantees for Ukraine are possible.
Speaker 2: He did say those guarantees have to include Europe, but
Speaker 2: did rule out NATO membership for Ukraine. When it comes
Speaker 2: to weather news, we have some developing in the Atlantic
Speaker 2: right now. It's Hurricane Aaron is officially now the first
Speaker 2: hurricane of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, just about a
Speaker 2: Category one right now. Mack sustained wins of seventy five
Speaker 2: miles an hour. But this is not expected to even
Speaker 2: approach the US for at least a few more days,
Speaker 2: so that is not anything we have to factor into
Speaker 2: the weekend forecast. We are looking at a pretty good
Speaker 2: weekend ahead today sun impatche clouds not as humid, high
Speaker 2: near seventy five in Boston, eighty well inland. For tonight
Speaker 2: mostly clear lone year sixty five. Then for tomorrow mostly
Speaker 2: sunny with a high in the upper seventies on the coast,
Speaker 2: eighty or so well inland. And then Sunday we could
Speaker 2: have a couple of storms in the afternoon and evening
Speaker 2: hours with a high year ninety seventy two in Gloucester
Speaker 2: right now, seventy five in Plymouth, where it's seventy seven
Speaker 2: in Auburn. In Boston right now at eleven oh five,
Speaker 2: it's partly cloudy and seventy four. It's win or go
Speaker 2: home now for the young sluggers from Braintree. Here's wbz's
Speaker 2: Jared Brosnan.
Speaker 5: After running through the New England Regionals with ease, Braintree
Speaker 5: American lost thirteen to nothing in their first Little League
Speaker 5: World Series game last night. Braintree was undefeated going into
Speaker 5: the game, but the team from Irmo, South Carolina proved
Speaker 5: to be a tough matchup. Now they have to win
Speaker 5: out to win the whole thing, five straight games to
Speaker 5: be exact. It starts on Saturday against the Southwest Champions
Speaker 5: from Lamar, Texas, who also lost their first game. First
Speaker 5: pitch is at three o'clock Jerre Brosn and WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 5: news radio.
Speaker 2: Attorneys for marathon bomber jaharz Ar Naye are now escalating
Speaker 2: their bid to remove the judge overseeing his death penalty case.
Speaker 2: Last month, the three judge panel rejected the bid, saying
Speaker 2: Judge Georgio o' toole's comments about the case are not
Speaker 2: enough to merit a recusal. Now, Sarnaia's lawyers are asking
Speaker 2: the full First Circuit Appeals Court to reconsider Sarnaiya's legal team,
Speaker 2: ultimately trying to get him a new trial. He has
Speaker 2: confessed to setting off the bombs at the marathon finish line,
Speaker 2: killing three people at the scene and entering hundreds. Washington,
Speaker 2: DC is now suing to block President Trump's federal takeover
Speaker 2: of the city police force. This lawsuit coming this morning
Speaker 2: after Attorney General Pam Bondi overnight named DEEA Boss Terry
Speaker 2: Cole as the district's new emergency police commissioner. Washington's mayor
Speaker 2: says that's not lawful.
Speaker 6: The standoff comes though, as eight hundred National Guard troops
Speaker 6: begin a second full day deployed here and the Guardess's character.
Speaker 6: This is a twenty four to seven mission and it
Speaker 6: comes as some protesters are now confronting federal law enforcement.
Speaker 6: Sean Dunn of Washington, d C is charged of the felony.
Speaker 6: He's accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal law
Speaker 6: enforcement officer, and the Attorney General revealed yesterday Done was
Speaker 6: an employee of the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2: CBS's Scott MacFarlane reporting there. Bondie also rescinding the district's
Speaker 2: sanctuary city policies. Her office says those limited police from
Speaker 2: working with federal authorities. And in Boston, city and church
Speaker 2: officials are calling for a hate crime investigation after another
Speaker 2: vandalism attack at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross early
Speaker 2: yesterday before seven am. The Boston Archdiocese says somebody they
Speaker 2: don't know who sprayed graffiti on a statue of the
Speaker 2: Blessed Virgin Mary. The arch Diocese says this is the
Speaker 2: second time the cathedral has been vandalized in two years.
Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty three, a man was arrested after
Speaker 2: attacking a crucifix on the grounds Boston City Councilor Ed
Speaker 2: Flynn now says he wants Boston Police to conduct a
Speaker 2: hate crime investigation. You are now in the loop for
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