Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna go ahead and do this all
Speaker 1: over again. It is Monday once again in Boston, and
Speaker 1: we're waking up with some pretty hefty wind gusts and
Speaker 1: some solid rain falling down on us as well. It
Speaker 1: is also fifty eight degrees here in the city. Six
Speaker 1: o'clock this Monday morning in the News at six is
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. You know what they say, rainy days
Speaker 1: and Mondays.
Speaker 2: Rain, some heavy and a thunderstorm will continue for much
Speaker 2: of today. Watch for flooding, especially up street and in
Speaker 2: poor drainage areas.
Speaker 1: Kind is wbz acuweather meteorologist Heather's are highs around sixty today.
Speaker 1: Sunshine is coming back tomorrow. About a million people jam
Speaker 1: into South Boston for the annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade,
Speaker 1: and thirteen of them will have a date in court.
Speaker 1: All hands on deck for Boston Police who make nine
Speaker 1: arrest and issue citations for four others two four others,
Speaker 1: including a juvenile. All eyes on public drunkenness and indeed
Speaker 1: possession of alcohol among the charges. Others include assault and
Speaker 1: battery on a police officer and destruction of property. Today
Speaker 1: is Saint Patrick's Day, It's also Evacuation Day. It's a
Speaker 1: holiday in Boston and all of Suffolk County and celebrations
Speaker 1: are underway before the sun comes up.
Speaker 3: For years, South Street Diner has been a beacon of
Speaker 3: hope and of corn of beef for those celebrating the
Speaker 3: Irish holiday. For many, it's a must go to destination.
Speaker 4: Very busy yes, people coming into Boston to go see
Speaker 4: the parade and then people on their way out after
Speaker 4: the parade.
Speaker 3: There was no rain for the Saint Patrick's Day parade,
Speaker 3: but manager Shennon McNeil can't stay the same for today.
Speaker 4: Well, I think with the rain it's kind of unpredictable
Speaker 4: yesterday because it was so nice though, you know, we
Speaker 4: had a lot more people.
Speaker 3: I think those who do brave the elements, they will
Speaker 3: be greeted with hot food, a green decor that would
Speaker 3: make a leprechaun blush, and of course corse the diner's
Speaker 3: famous shamrock shaik at South Street Diner. James Rojas WBZ
Speaker 3: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: The Fedral judge puts the government on notice and an
Speaker 1: eight thirty am deadline today. The court wants a response
Speaker 1: to the deportation of a Rhode Island doctor when it
Speaker 1: specifically told US Customs officials to hold off on any
Speaker 1: proceedings until the Court had a chance to look into
Speaker 1: the case. Doctor Rasha Alauea, a kidney specialist at Brown
Speaker 1: University and Rhode Island Hospital, has been removed from the country.
Speaker 1: Alouea was taken into custody at Logan Airport after returning
Speaker 1: from a visit with her parents in Lebanon last week.
Speaker 1: Officials say despite the fact that she had been issued
Speaker 1: in H one B visa, Bruins hope to end the
Speaker 1: two games slide. Tonight. They'll shuffle off to Buffalo take
Speaker 1: on the Sabers. Later on. Celtics are off until tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: They're back home to take on the Nets, and the
Speaker 1: Red Sox host the Orioles in spring training baseball in
Speaker 1: Fort Myers, Florida. No winner, no chicken dinner at least yet.
Speaker 1: Pro Golf continues this morning in Florida.
Speaker 5: The Players Championship is still going. After whether DeLay's impacted
Speaker 5: the golf tournament over the weekend. But the field is gone.
Speaker 5: It's just Rory McElroy, JJ spawn a trophy and oh yeah,
Speaker 5: a four point five million dollar pay day. They're both
Speaker 5: tied at twelve under and ready to go for a
Speaker 5: three hole playoff. Playing the iconic last three holes of
Speaker 5: TBC Sawgrass down in Jacksonville. That island green on whole seventeen.
Speaker 5: Seems a lot easier for the professionals, but anything can
Speaker 5: happen in a playoff. McElroy and Spawned t off at
Speaker 5: nine am. Jerre Brosnan WBZ Boston's News Radio, I.
Speaker 1: Think rain is coming down at a pretty good clip
Speaker 1: into every location here in eastern Massachusetts this morning. We've
Speaker 1: got some downpours and some steady rain elsewhere. It is
Speaker 1: a very mild fifty eight degrees out the door this morning.
Speaker 1: We will be in the lower sixties this afternoon, but
Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to be a damp day
Speaker 1: at the very least, and certainly some periods of heavy
Speaker 1: rain throughout the rest of the morning hours before we
Speaker 1: finally start to settle this down a little bit this afternoon.
Speaker 1: A couple of showers will be left over overnight tonight
Speaker 1: as we drop down to about forty plenty of sunshine
Speaker 1: back at us to tomorrow, it is going to be
Speaker 1: a high temperature in the middle fifties. Wednesday is the
Speaker 1: final day of winter. It is a mix of clouds
Speaker 1: and sun, a high near fifty along the waterfront, mid
Speaker 1: fifties and inland locations. And the first day of spring
Speaker 1: on Thursday looks like mostly cloudy and a shower, pretty
Speaker 1: typical of spring like conditions. Temps will be in the
Speaker 1: fifties on Thursday as well. Right now, it's fifty eight
Speaker 1: and raining at a pretty good clip pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 1: This morning, Good morning, it's six oh five. It is
Speaker 1: full steam ahead on the MBTA's Red Line.
Speaker 2: Teas general manager Philip Ang says, this is just the beginning.
Speaker 2: That's the sound of a Red Line train on the
Speaker 2: brain Tree branch moving at fifty miles an hour. The
Speaker 2: tea tells me it's the first time the trains have
Speaker 2: gone that speed in twenty years.
Speaker 3: Well, pri have to see it to believe it, because
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, they say the slow zones
Speaker 3: are gone and it's still slow.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited.
Speaker 2: It's Christian's first time taking the tea with the new
Speaker 2: peppin it step. Emmanuel rides the Red Line every day,
Speaker 2: and since he just got off, I asked him if
Speaker 2: it feels any faster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's pretty sure, but I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be fasted.
Speaker 2: Though he says it's hard to know exactly what fifty
Speaker 2: miles an hour feels like when you're on a crowded
Speaker 2: train with eyes on your destination. The NBTA celebrated the
Speaker 2: end of slow zones last year, after removing the final
Speaker 2: ones from the Green Line in Cambridge. I'm a Friedman
Speaker 2: w BZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Jury selection in the second murder trial of Karen Reid
Speaker 1: is expected to begin two weeks from tomorrow, but tonight,
Speaker 1: the first of a three part documentary about the Mansfield
Speaker 1: woman's first murder trial begins on the Investigation Discovery Channel.
Speaker 1: The series is expected to include behind the scenes footage
Speaker 1: and interviews from key players in her first trial, which
Speaker 1: ended in a hung jury last summer in Norfolk Superior Court.
Speaker 1: Reid faces the same three charges in her upcoming retrial,
Speaker 1: despite numerous attempts to close the case. The first episode
Speaker 1: in the documentary airs tonight for the first time since
Speaker 1: his month long hospitalization, the world catches a glimpse of
Speaker 1: Pope Francis. The Vatican releases a photo of the pontiff
Speaker 1: to the faithful as many gather below the window to
Speaker 1: his room at Jammelli Hospital in Rome. The Pope is
Speaker 1: seen sitting in a wheelchair in front of an altar
Speaker 1: at a small chapel inside that hospital. Doctor say the
Speaker 1: eighty eight year old continues to respond pretty well the
Speaker 1: treatment of double pneumonia. There is still non timetable for
Speaker 1: his discharge from the hospital. Authorities in the Dominican Republic
Speaker 1: this morning are not allowing an American college student to
Speaker 1: leave spring break.
Speaker 6: Joshua Reebee, the man police believed to be the last
Speaker 6: person to have seen missing University of Pittsburgh student Sadikha Kananki,
Speaker 6: facing questions from Dominican prosecutors.
Speaker 3: For days.
Speaker 6: Local authorities have maintained Reebe is not a suspect. He
Speaker 6: is still being considered a witness to a possible drowning,
Speaker 6: but now sources familiar with the investigation say the lead
Speaker 6: prosecutor is examining possible contradictions in his story.
Speaker 1: That's ABC's Aeriel Reschef Friends of the twenty two year
Speaker 1: old Reebe back Home say he exemplifies values of compassion, respect,
Speaker 1: and integrity, and they support their friend. You are now
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