Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: It's forty seven and rainy in Boston at eleven o'clock
Speaker 2: at Thursday morning on Madison Rodgers, and we start this
Speaker 2: hour with a sharp sell off on Wall Street response
Speaker 2: to new tariffs from President Trump. As of right now,
Speaker 2: the Down's down just over three and a half percent,
Speaker 2: the S and P down more than four percent, while
Speaker 2: the Nasdaq now pushes six percent. The selloff comes on
Speaker 2: the first trading day since President Trump announced a minimum
Speaker 2: ten percent tariff on all imports. CBS's Jill Schlessinger has more.
Speaker 3: Investors are worried that the Trump tariffs, along with all
Speaker 3: the previously announced tariffs, will slow down economic growth and
Speaker 3: cause prices to rise. In that environment, many companies will
Speaker 3: be under pressure to deliver results to their shareholders. There
Speaker 3: is a concern that consumers will start to see higher
Speaker 3: prices and we'll pull back on spending. Overall. That could
Speaker 3: put a dent in economic growth and also cause many
Speaker 3: companies to reevaluate their own spending and hiring plans.
Speaker 2: The Senates passed a bill aimed at curtailing some of
Speaker 2: the President's ability to invoke those tariffs. The bill challenges
Speaker 2: his declaration of a national emergency giving him the power
Speaker 2: to put tariffs in place. ABC's j O'Brien says some
Speaker 2: senators from President Trump's own party helped push that bill
Speaker 2: over the finish line. Last night.
Speaker 4: They get four Republicans Rand Paul plus three to vote
Speaker 4: for this. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch mccaddoll has long
Speaker 4: been a thorn in Donald Trump's side. They joined with
Speaker 4: Rand Paul all Democrats in this gets over the gold line.
Speaker 2: Now, this measure only focuses on the tariffs imposed on
Speaker 2: some Canadian imports. It also won't go into effect unless
Speaker 2: the House votes in agreement with the Senate. That is
Speaker 2: unlikely to happen as the state again tries Karen Reid
Speaker 2: for the murder of her Boston officer boyfriend. Today is
Speaker 2: day three of jury selection Norfilk Superior Court. At this point,
Speaker 2: seven jurors have been selected, four men, three women. They're
Speaker 2: looking to pick sixteen jurors in total, including alternates. Finding
Speaker 2: impartial jurors can be a challenge in a case as
Speaker 2: high profile as this one. Nearly all the potential jurors
Speaker 2: so far say they've at least heard of the case.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be a guarantee at construction sites in
Speaker 2: Boston a police officer unseen working in detail. Soon civilians
Speaker 2: will be able to work some of those shifts, and
Speaker 2: there are more changes coming the city now bringing in
Speaker 2: a Connecticut based company to modernize the scheduling system. It
Speaker 2: turns out that system is still done entirely by pen
Speaker 2: and paper. There's going to be a new priority system
Speaker 2: under which Boston police gets first DIBs on detailed shifts,
Speaker 2: followed by police from other local communities, and then civilians.
Speaker 2: The city has long struggled to fill those detailed shifts,
Speaker 2: leading to thousands of vacancies. In the four d a
Speaker 2: WBZI weather forecast, we will continue to see some showers
Speaker 2: around this afternoon. At this point, most of the rain
Speaker 2: is south of Boston, and it's coming down heaviest along
Speaker 2: the south coast and along the Rhode Island line. That
Speaker 2: is slowly but surely making its way out, though again
Speaker 2: some lingering rain later on this afternoon, winds picking up,
Speaker 2: temps getting warmer. We're expecting a high around sixty two,
Speaker 2: so quite a bit warmer than it is now. Mostly
Speaker 2: cloudy with a couple of showers. Tonight, we'll get down
Speaker 2: into the low fifties. Then Friday, clouds break for some sunshine.
Speaker 2: It's breezy sixty two to sixty six degrees. Some rain
Speaker 2: and drizzle moves back in for Saturday. Otherwise it's a cloudy,
Speaker 2: cooler one with temps in the mid upper forties. Then
Speaker 2: Sunday a couple of showers, especially in the afternoon, but
Speaker 2: it's back up in the sixties, around sixty four for
Speaker 2: the high and mostly cloudy. Looking ahead, we could see
Speaker 2: a lingering show hour around Monday morning, but otherwise sun
Speaker 2: returns with tempts into the low fifties. Possibly. Right now,
Speaker 2: it is forty seven degrees in Boston, light rain. It
Speaker 2: is drizzly, misty, and fairly nasty out there. At eleven five.
Speaker 2: Complaints about third party food delivery drivers causing traffic in
Speaker 2: Boston are stacking up, and as a result, the City
Speaker 2: councils now passed a measure to collect more driver data
Speaker 2: and beef up insurance coverage.
Speaker 1: This new proposal passed the City Council on an eleven
Speaker 1: to two vote, now waits the signature of Mayor Michelle Woo.
Speaker 1: It would require third party food delivery drivers to get
Speaker 1: city permits, increase insurance, and report data on a quarterly
Speaker 1: basis so the city can analyze some of the troublesome
Speaker 1: traffic spots.
Speaker 3: I think that there are other creative solutions to find
Speaker 3: that don't put the burden on the average worker.
Speaker 1: All these thinks it may be burdensome to drivers. Ryan agrees,
Speaker 1: but also thinks city safety is paramount.
Speaker 4: However, I understand the need to keep Selearia safe.
Speaker 1: He thanks reporting the driving data will be extra helpful.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if there's some way to just
Speaker 3: maken Z owns just the main.
Speaker 1: Street one detail that was initially tied to this measure
Speaker 1: that was dropped by the city council of fifteen cent
Speaker 1: per delivery tax along Boylson Street. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: There's a hearing set in Boston Federal Court this afternoon
Speaker 2: in the case of a detained Tough's PhD student, and
Speaker 2: the university itself has now joined the call to release
Speaker 2: fro Mesa Osturk. She's the Turkish national who was arrested
Speaker 2: by playing closed ice agents last week in Somerville in
Speaker 2: a declaration from the school. Tough says Osterk is described
Speaker 2: by faculty as a hard working, dedicated student, and they
Speaker 2: have no information supporting allegations that she was engaged in
Speaker 2: activities warranting her arrest. Ostark has been accused of supporting
Speaker 2: Hamas in her pro Palestinian activism. The US District Court
Speaker 2: is facing a challenge from the Trump administration. They argue
Speaker 2: that they don't have jurisdiction here because Romesa was taken
Speaker 2: out of state. Stay with WBZ News Radio for developments.
Speaker 2: The hearing this afternoon is expected to begin around two pm.
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