Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty
Speaker 1: three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The bell. It is a
Speaker 1: ringing on Wall Street that means today is over. And
Speaker 1: what a day it was. Stock's spinning back downward today
Speaker 1: after a day of historic gains Yesterday. Facy Junkie is
Speaker 1: at Bloomberg trying to digest this undigestible mess.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Ben, Well, yesterday it's just had. It was a
Speaker 2: huge stock buying wave, pretty much the biggest in years.
Speaker 2: Today the tide definitely turned again in a pattern of
Speaker 2: extremes that is starting to look a little too familiar.
Speaker 2: That Dow dropped one fifteen points, the Nasdaq fell seven
Speaker 2: thirty eight, the SMP down eighty nine. One trader told
Speaker 2: us that investors woke up with the realization that the
Speaker 2: President's a ten percent based tariffs are still here. His
Speaker 2: ninety day pause on most of the higher import taxes
Speaker 2: could just fly by, and in China is fighting back hard.
Speaker 1: Ben, all right, there is one more day in the
Speaker 1: trading week. We'll see how things shake out tomorrow. To
Speaker 1: end the week, keep a tune to WBZ News Radio
Speaker 1: and always streaming on the iHeartRadio Apple keep you posted
Speaker 1: on the tariffs and the trade wars and the market disaster.
Speaker 1: We are following some developing news out of New York
Speaker 1: this afternoon as well. And emergency response is underway after
Speaker 1: a helicopter crashes into the Hudson River. Law enforcement sources
Speaker 1: telling ABC News fatalities have been reported. Fire officials say
Speaker 1: at least four people were on board that helicopter. The
Speaker 1: Coastguard is stopping boat traffic in the area. Emergency boats
Speaker 1: are on the scene. This is a developing story. Will
Speaker 1: continue to bring you updates throughout the afternoon and evening.
Speaker 1: The House has approved President Trump's Big, Beautiful budget Bill,
Speaker 1: sliding by with a vote of two sixteen to two fourteen.
Speaker 1: Stacy Lynne with the tails OH.
Speaker 3: Speaker Mike on It is pleased they were finally able
Speaker 3: to clear the Senate adopted framework of the budget bill.
Speaker 4: I do hope and believe that.
Speaker 5: The vote today is a very strong signal to the markets,
Speaker 5: to investors, the Congress is going to get us one
Speaker 5: on foot.
Speaker 3: Moving the legislation forward. Is a significant win for the
Speaker 3: President and GOP leaders like Johnson, who promised that dozens
Speaker 3: of Republican holdouts they would seek at least one and
Speaker 3: a half trillion dollars in spending cuts to safety net
Speaker 3: programs in the final package. Stacey Lynn's CBS News Washington.
Speaker 1: Today was day eight of jury selection in Karen Reid's
Speaker 1: second criminal trial at Norfolk Superior Court. It's over now,
Speaker 1: wbz's Brook McCarthy as the latest.
Speaker 6: Jury selection will continue on Monday. In Karen Reid's retrial,
Speaker 6: sixteen jurors have been seated so far, eight men and
Speaker 6: eight women. According to CBS News Boston. On day eight
Speaker 6: of jury selection, three new jurors were added in two
Speaker 6: were excus The court had wanted to seat sixteen jurors,
Speaker 6: twelve that would deliberate and four alternates, but what the
Speaker 6: trial expected to last six to eight weeks, opening statements begin,
Speaker 6: they want to have as many jurors as possible. Read's
Speaker 6: first trial ended in a mistrial, and she is appealing
Speaker 6: to the US Supreme Court to try and get two
Speaker 6: of the three charges against her dropped on the grounds
Speaker 6: of double jeopardy. Reid is accused of hitting her Boston
Speaker 6: Police officer boyfriend John O'Keeffe with her SUV and leaving
Speaker 6: him in the snow to die. She says she's being framed.
Speaker 6: Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: A played at Reaga National Airport bumps into the wings
Speaker 1: of another today. WUSA TV says their wordo injuries reported
Speaker 1: a Long Island Republican Congressman Nick Loto was on board
Speaker 1: the jet that was hit. He said on social media
Speaker 1: that this was one of the ontce of a lifetime
Speaker 1: experiences of serving in Congress. Reagan National has been under
Speaker 1: tighter's scrutiny since the mid air collision, the deadly one
Speaker 1: earlier this year. We've got the clouds that have been
Speaker 1: building in through the afternoon. They'll continue to build in tonight,
Speaker 1: although we still have some peaks of sunshine around, so
Speaker 1: not everybody's getting under as much cloudiness as others are,
Speaker 1: but we'll all have clouds later. Will stay dry for
Speaker 1: much of the early evening around these parts, and then
Speaker 1: rain gets in here and some wet snow does too.
Speaker 1: North and west of the city. Temperatures in the mid
Speaker 1: thirties in the inland spots about thirty seven right along
Speaker 1: the coast. Some of the distant suburbs closer to freezing.
Speaker 1: A little rain or snow early tomorrow, otherwise cloudy, brisk,
Speaker 1: chili temperatures in the mid forties, and then some rain
Speaker 1: gets back in here late tomorrow night, that too could
Speaker 1: be mixed with some snow north and west of Boston,
Speaker 1: with temperatures in the thirties, and then Saturday and Sunday
Speaker 1: will be mainly in the forties and probably no higher
Speaker 1: than the mid forties, with some rain and or drizzle
Speaker 1: and a bit of a breeze. It is forty three
Speaker 1: degrees right now in Boston. An award winning actress from
Speaker 1: Dorchester is back in Boston, inspiring students the story from
Speaker 1: wz's Emma Friedman.
Speaker 5: She's back at her old stomping grounds, except this time
Speaker 5: she's the one on the stage.
Speaker 6: It's such a specifific experience going to the school.
Speaker 5: The seniors are sort of nodding their heads instead of
Speaker 5: answering questions Mayorwu was asking them. Sitting down with winning
Speaker 5: actress Iowa Debris at Boston Ladden, almost twelve years after
Speaker 5: she walked the holes.
Speaker 6: Is like a rigor that I have, I think, and
Speaker 6: a level of care that I think that I have
Speaker 6: that would not be possible if that.
Speaker 1: Having gone to the school.
Speaker 5: She talked about her own experience at Boston Ladden and
Speaker 5: how it shaped her TV career.
Speaker 6: My safety year had a rolling backpack, so.
Speaker 1: Right, okay, so that's all same.
Speaker 5: Meyr Wu also proclaiming April ten to be ioa debris
Speaker 5: day in the city of Boston. I'm a Freedman, w
Speaker 5: b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Back to the past for fans of Matt Damon and
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck's early work. The movie Dogma hits theaters nationwide
Speaker 1: in June to honor the twenty fifth addiversary. However, Kevin Smith,
Speaker 1: the director, will also host screenings and a national tour.
Speaker 1: That tour will land in Boston at Boston Common nineteen
Speaker 1: on May third. Tickets going fast. I always thought I
Speaker 1: was going to win, and I never did. Huh. Now
Speaker 1: they're not winning a million dollar sweep stage company for
Speaker 1: Chapter eleven.
Speaker 4: At one point, you couldn't escape the commercials that were
Speaker 4: on TV constantly.
Speaker 3: You know who we are, Public Superior.
Speaker 1: Here come on, here.
Speaker 4: A van pulling up, somebody getting out carrying a giant
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Speaker 4: out of gas publisher's clearinghouse, which says it gave away
Speaker 4: more than half a billion dollars in its sweepstakes, is
Speaker 4: filed for bankruptcy, saying it'll no longer push magazine subscriptions
Speaker 4: and instead focus on digital ads. As Cherry preston ABC News.
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