Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. She's home and she's
Speaker 1: speaking out. Meet them. Native astronauts Sunny william speaking out
Speaker 1: for the first time since her extended stay in space.
Speaker 1: William says she got the first thing she did when
Speaker 1: she got home.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I wanted to hug my husband and hug
Speaker 2: my ducks, and I'll say that in that order.
Speaker 1: Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore insists they weren't stranded
Speaker 1: in space. After having to stay on the International Space
Speaker 1: Station much longer than expected, like nine months, Willmore says
Speaker 1: they were just doing their job.
Speaker 3: The plan went way off for what we had planned,
Speaker 3: but because we're in human spaceflight, we prepare for any
Speaker 3: number of contingencies.
Speaker 1: Two also said they weren't aware of all the attention
Speaker 1: they were getting during the mission and thanked the public
Speaker 1: for their support. President Trump has referred to April second
Speaker 1: as Liberation Day.
Speaker 2: President Trump maintains that America has been ripped off because
Speaker 2: it imports more goods than it exports. He's promising reciprocal
Speaker 2: tariffs on every nation that charges import tariffs on American goods.
Speaker 2: His goal with the new set of tariffs is to
Speaker 2: spur companies to do their manufacturing here in the US
Speaker 2: instead of overseas, which would boost the economy, but many
Speaker 2: economists say average US families would have to absorb the
Speaker 2: cost in the form of higher prices and lower incomes.
Speaker 1: That is CBS's Stacy Lynn, the federal judge presiding over
Speaker 1: the Boston Marathon bomber's efforts to overturn his death sentence,
Speaker 1: rejects a motion for his recusal. The Globe reports lawyers
Speaker 1: for Johyz and I have had asked the judge, Georgie O'Toole,
Speaker 1: be removed from the case, arguing that his comments on
Speaker 1: podcasts and at events constituted bias. Prosecutors disagreed. O tool
Speaker 1: ruled that the defense had not met the high threshold
Speaker 1: needed to make his recusal necessary. Just one more day now.
Speaker 1: Jury selection starts tomorrow in Norfolk Superior Court in the
Speaker 1: second murder trial of Karen Reid of the b z's
Speaker 1: book McCarthy with a previews.
Speaker 4: Your service is complete.
Speaker 1: I'm declaring a mistrial in this case.
Speaker 3: After her first criminal trial ended with a hung jury
Speaker 3: last summer. Karen Reid's retrial we'll get under way tomorrow
Speaker 3: with jury selection. Norfolk County has over two hundred people
Speaker 3: ready to go for day one of jury selection, which
Speaker 3: is expected to take a few weeks. This time around, perspective,
Speaker 3: jurors will have to fill out an additional one page
Speaker 3: questionnaire about their knowledge and opinion of the case. Over
Speaker 3: one thousand people have been called to the court for
Speaker 3: jury duty in the first week alone. Reid is accused
Speaker 3: of hitting her Boston Police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe and
Speaker 3: leaving him in the snow to die. Reid's team is
Speaker 3: expected to introduce a third party defense, saying she's being framed.
Speaker 3: Judge Beverly Canoni ruled today that the defense can't call
Speaker 3: a former FBI agent to testify on police policies when
Speaker 3: it comes to how the crime scene was handled. Brook McCarthy,
Speaker 3: WBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 1: Radio Okay with w BZ News Radio will follow developments
Speaker 1: in the Karen Reids second trial and bring them to
Speaker 1: you right here on WBZ and of course always streaming
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app Well, here we go again. Heads
Speaker 1: up on the tee some changes on the Ashemont branch
Speaker 1: of the MBTA Redline service will be suspended starting tomorrow
Speaker 1: for construction work. The t says free shuttle bus service
Speaker 1: will replace Redline service between jfk U Mass and Ashmond
Speaker 1: from April first to the ninth, and then from April
Speaker 1: tenth to the thirtieth, shuttle trains will provide service between
Speaker 1: those stops. The closure will accommodate track work on the
Speaker 1: Ashmont branch and Mattapan line, and the agency says they'll
Speaker 1: take time to do improvements on things like walkways and
Speaker 1: track and power upgrades as well. Coming up on WZ
Speaker 1: one local chocolate shop getting ready for a major Jewish holiday.
Speaker 1: As we checked the four day WZ active weather forecast,
Speaker 1: where on the rain right now, We've had a couple
Speaker 1: of sprintzes around. It's about it. The cloud's just hanging
Speaker 1: tough through this day and into the evening. Eventually later
Speaker 1: tonight we will bring in some rain. Some of it
Speaker 1: could cause some ponding on roads, could even be a
Speaker 1: rumble of thunder around. Temperatures mainly in the mid forties
Speaker 1: or so, breezy Tomorrow, there will be some sunshine breaking out,
Speaker 1: temperatures in the low fifties, partly cloudy, colder. Tomorrow night
Speaker 1: will be near freezing, maybe even a few degrees below
Speaker 1: that in some of the coldest spots. Wednesday we only
Speaker 1: get to about forty for a high with a mix
Speaker 1: of sun and clouds. Clouds at night will bring some
Speaker 1: rain Wednesday night. Thursday, we'll have some rain around, but
Speaker 1: we will get milder temperatures climbing into the low to
Speaker 1: mid sixties. Right now fifty nine degrees. See in Boston,
Speaker 1: it's another big candy holiday season. In Summerville, a chocolate
Speaker 1: tear is whipping up treats for a holiday with some
Speaker 1: very tight rules. As we hear from wz's Hyle Shaffles.
Speaker 5: Sarah Shapiro is standing over a counter holding a twenty
Speaker 5: five pound brick of chocolate. Okay, have you ready? The
Speaker 5: owner of Wild Child Chocolate, she's hard at work pumping
Speaker 5: out luxury chocolate bars with top quality cocoa. But this
Speaker 5: chocolate is particularly special.
Speaker 4: It's a big financial leap for any business to become
Speaker 4: kosher for pass.
Speaker 5: Passover rules are even stricter than normal kosher food. Nothing
Speaker 5: can ever touch grains or lagoons.
Speaker 4: Everything that you have in the kitchen has been cleaned again,
Speaker 4: so make sure that there isn't even a crumb passover.
Speaker 5: Chocolate tends to be low quality. It's just not worth
Speaker 5: it for top chocolate makers to go through the effort.
Speaker 5: But slowly Sarah is trying to change that.
Speaker 4: We've learned the language of wine in the last twenty
Speaker 4: years for coacher keepers, but chocolate wasn't really part of
Speaker 4: that conversation.
Speaker 5: Kyle Scheffeld to be busy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: May tenth is the date for Somerville's porch Fest this year,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people and jam streets in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four means some new rules for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: The Somerville Arts Council for starters change the application process
Speaker 1: and says to ensure public safety, there may be certain
Speaker 1: streets where bands will not be able to play. There
Speaker 1: are some restricted streets. Another information on the Arts Council's website. Applications,
Speaker 1: by the way for Porchfest open until April tenth. Hoop
Speaker 1: dreams continue for just a handful of college basketball teams
Speaker 1: these days. Among those dreams that are still alive Yukon women.
Speaker 1: They look a bunch of Final four ticket tonight. Wbzi's
Speaker 1: Drewmalholland tells us this is a time of year when
Speaker 1: losing can be well tough on everyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The women's basketball coach for LSU, legendary head coach Kim
Speaker 6: Molkie saw her Tigers lose to UCLA this weekended. In
Speaker 6: the press conference, a reporter from the student run radio
Speaker 6: station at LSU asked coach Melky a question or was
Speaker 6: about to.
Speaker 5: Jadan Smith Kalistry Sports coaches the second straight year, you
Speaker 5: guys could eliminated in the Elite eight.
Speaker 6: How many found fours you play in?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: None, so it's probably pretty good.
Speaker 5: Huh yeah, all.
Speaker 1: Right, all right.
Speaker 6: She gave a wink and was smiling though having a
Speaker 6: little fun with young Jaden. After a tough loss for LSU,
Speaker 6: March madness rolls on. We're getting to the end here,
Speaker 6: Drew moholland, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio.