Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty
Speaker 1: four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A change of plan sends
Speaker 1: the market skyward. Today. Stock surged after President Trump announced
Speaker 1: the ninety day pause on tariffs except for China. Tracy
Speaker 1: Junky said Bloomberg, watching numbers climb this high, we haven't
Speaker 1: done that in a while, have we traced?
Speaker 2: I mean, we've never really seen some of this, and
Speaker 2: then now up at twenty nine hundred and sixty two
Speaker 2: points as we wait for the final numbers to come in.
Speaker 2: The Nasdaq up eighteen hundred and fifty seven, the SMP
Speaker 2: up four seventy four. Never have we seen larger point
Speaker 2: gains on these and the percentage changes a better way
Speaker 2: to compare performance are also exceptional, with the Nasdaq rising
Speaker 2: the most in a quarter century, and all it took
Speaker 2: was a partial walk back of the Trump tariffs. President
Speaker 2: Trump said he is pausing most of his most aggressive
Speaker 2: tariffs on many nations.
Speaker 1: Ben all right, mark this date, April ninth, Big day
Speaker 1: on Wall Street. Will continue to follow the numbers and
Speaker 1: developments as we continue here with the tariffs and tariff talk,
Speaker 1: keep it tune to WBZ News Radio, and of course
Speaker 1: listen to us on the iHeartRadio app. You can make
Speaker 1: us your number one preset, which you should. Goviny Hilly says,
Speaker 1: the administration is going to help navigate the choppy see
Speaker 1: of tariffs.
Speaker 3: Businesses in Massachusetts. This administration we have your back no
Speaker 3: matter what is coming from Washington, the chaos and uncertainty.
Speaker 3: I will do everything in my power as governor and
Speaker 3: our administration will to help you as a business succeed
Speaker 3: in this time.
Speaker 1: The governor's say, situation's President Trump would stop playing roundwid
Speaker 1: tariffs and come up with a sensible plan that businesses
Speaker 1: and families could plan for the city of Boston trying
Speaker 1: to play a little defense as it looks forward to
Speaker 1: the future. W bz's Hiles Shaffle has more from city
Speaker 1: Hall here, talk through next fiscal year's budget proposal with
Speaker 1: a sense of caution.
Speaker 4: Her plan is about a four percent increase over this
Speaker 4: year's at four point eight billion dollars, but she says
Speaker 4: the city is trying to scale back. That means no
Speaker 4: new jobs created on the city payroll.
Speaker 5: Preparing for the worst case scenarios given federal uncertainty, while
Speaker 5: not jumping ahead to slash city services that we know
Speaker 5: are more critical than ever.
Speaker 4: Most of the city's money draws heavily from property taxes
Speaker 4: that can annoy residents, but Wu says it also insulates
Speaker 4: the city from market shops. But she couldn't rule out
Speaker 4: the possibility of the economy getting bad enough to cause
Speaker 4: drastic workforce cuts.
Speaker 5: It may very well get to the point where we
Speaker 5: will need to be considering layoffs and hiring freezes.
Speaker 4: Kyle Schaffel to BBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 1: Radio troubles this afternoon on the Commuter rail line and
Speaker 1: Canton a commuter rail train colliding with a tractor trailer
Speaker 1: for police say nobody was hurt. The crash shut down
Speaker 1: Pine Straight and has been causing major delays. The MBTA
Speaker 1: has canceled trains on the Stoton line, and shuttle buses
Speaker 1: are running between Stoughton and Kenton Center until further notice.
Speaker 1: Court's done for the day in the Karen Reid case
Speaker 1: in Norfolk Superior Court in Deadam after day seven of
Speaker 1: jury selection, fifteen jurors now have been seated, eight men
Speaker 1: and seven women. CBS News Boston, says one more juror
Speaker 1: is needed in order to swear that jury in and
Speaker 1: get this trial started. Read outside court said to her
Speaker 1: expectation is the opening statements could begin early next week.
Speaker 1: As we head into the evening, mainly clear skies. There
Speaker 1: will be a chill in the air thirty two in Boston,
Speaker 1: but back down into the low to mid twenties and
Speaker 1: some of the colder inland suburbs. Tomorrow we'll have some sunshine.
Speaker 1: It will warm us up a little more than it
Speaker 1: did today, about fifty inland, but near the coast forties
Speaker 1: to our night clouds. A little bit of rain gets
Speaker 1: in here later, and then that rain could mix with
Speaker 1: a little wet snow north and west of the city.
Speaker 1: Temperatures mainly in the thirties, cloudy, breezy, cool on Friday,
Speaker 1: mid forties, that's it. Little rain and drizzle at times,
Speaker 1: especially outside of one twenty eight, and then Saturday, cloudy, brisk,
Speaker 1: chili rain result temperatures in the mid forties. We may
Speaker 1: get a little warm up in here next week, so
Speaker 1: be patient. Springs coming. I think forty four right now
Speaker 1: in Boston. A summertime vibe is coming to Braintree. A
Speaker 1: little early food trucks are rolling out in another South
Speaker 1: Shore community. Wbz's Jim McKay with the tails.
Speaker 6: For the past few years, the Cellshore Food Truck Association
Speaker 6: has been holding food truck Nights and hanover Kingston and Weymouth.
Speaker 1: If to mix it up, because.
Speaker 6: You don't need the same thing everything a day, think
Speaker 6: of it as a food truck party and gathering. Now
Speaker 6: they're adding brain Tree to their list of destinations Wednesday
Speaker 6: nights beginning May seventh through late August at the Braintree
Speaker 6: Highlands Playground.
Speaker 1: And it's a huge residential complex here as well.
Speaker 3: And it definitely offers the bid choice for the people
Speaker 3: here who live here, who work.
Speaker 6: Here, A great way to enjoy a meal in the
Speaker 6: nice weather, sampling some of the best on the go
Speaker 6: grub the Cell Shore has to offer, from lobster rolls
Speaker 6: to grilled cheese, ice cream and everything in between. We
Speaker 6: may be braving some chilly early spring days, but warm
Speaker 6: weather is coming, Braintreet. Jim MCKAWVZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: A little improvement in drought conditions in Massachusetts. Energy and
Speaker 1: Environmental Affairs Secretary of Rebecca Tepper declaring the Connecticut River Valley, central, southeast,
Speaker 1: and western regions of the state downgraded to a Level one,
Speaker 1: or mild drought status following two months of above normal precipitation.
Speaker 1: The northeast region joins the Cape At Islands regions at
Speaker 1: Level two that's considered significant drought. Maybe they were trying
Speaker 1: to keep warm, whatever it is, there's a mystery surrounding
Speaker 1: medieval books from an abbey in France.
Speaker 7: Bio archaeologist in Europe are trying to figure out the
Speaker 7: origin of clumps of hair used on the weathered covers
Speaker 7: of books discovered at a Catholic monks abbey founded in
Speaker 7: France of the year eleven fifteen. Researchers say the book
Speaker 7: covers are too hairy to come from cows or other
Speaker 7: local mammals. During that time period, book covers were made
Speaker 7: from the skins of calves, goats, sheep, deer, pigs, and
Speaker 7: even in some Maca circumstances humans. Jim Chrysili CBS News.
Speaker 1: Beverly's City council will form a committee to look at
Speaker 1: how the city can address illegal short term rentals, or
Speaker 1: even change its policy altogether to allow them to operate.
Speaker 1: The Salem News reports The unanimous vote came on a
Speaker 1: plan to form a special committee on rental policies that
Speaker 1: would include community stakeholders. The paper reports there are more
Speaker 1: than two dozen short term rentals listed in Beverly on
Speaker 1: Airbnb's website, despite prohibition by the city of such rentals
Speaker 1: except for licensed lodging houses. You are now in the
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