Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Grace guys over the city of Boston, fifty five degrees.
Speaker 2: It's eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's
Speaker 2: happening over indebtiment, the Karen Reid retrial, the defense. It's
Speaker 2: still cross examining. Shannon Burgess is a digital forensics expert
Speaker 2: for the Commonwealth. Wbz's Emma Friedman back with us at
Speaker 2: eleven fifteen meantime. On Capitol Hill today, President Trump is
Speaker 2: spending time with Republicans trying to rally support for what
Speaker 2: he calls his big, Beautiful budget bill. This bill contains
Speaker 2: much of his agenda and really compacts it into one
Speaker 2: piece of legislation. Your CBS's Natalie brand Well in.
Speaker 3: His words, he said this morning he is the cheerleader
Speaker 3: for the Republican Party, and we know on close votes
Speaker 3: he's had to personally lobby some of these Republican members
Speaker 3: or holdouts, make phone calls, or as we're seeing today,
Speaker 3: go over there physically and talk to the GOP House
Speaker 3: conference behind closed door.
Speaker 2: Now, hardline conservatives say this bill just does not cut
Speaker 2: enough and will only add to the deficit. Democrats say
Speaker 2: it focuses more on keeping taxes low for corporations and
Speaker 2: wealthy Americans at the expense of health coverage and food
Speaker 2: assistants for working families in need. I meantime, the President
Speaker 2: is also changing his tone when it comes to former
Speaker 2: President Biden's cancer diagnosis. At first a president offering his sympathies,
Speaker 2: but now he's suggesting a cover up. Here's ABC's Nicology Antonio.
Speaker 4: President Trump called Biden's cant diagnosis sad, while appearing to
Speaker 4: cast doubt on Biden's doctors.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was the same doctor and somebody is not
Speaker 5: telling the facts.
Speaker 2: That's a big problem.
Speaker 4: Biden's team said doctors diagnosed him Friday with an aggressive
Speaker 4: form of prostate cancer after he experienced urinary symptoms, and
Speaker 4: say the cancer had spread to the bones. President Trump
Speaker 4: now suggesting without evidence that the announcement was delayed.
Speaker 2: The CDC normally does not recommend regular prostate cancer screenings
Speaker 2: from men over seventy because they say the risk generally
Speaker 2: outweighs the benefits at eleven o two. If you're feeling
Speaker 2: anxious about the state of the economy, you are not alone.
Speaker 2: Despite uncertainty involving inflation and tariffs. There are ways you
Speaker 2: can protect yourself and your cash.
Speaker 6: This is Jim Ryan. While average consumers can't control the economy,
Speaker 6: they could at least prepare for any downturn. Financial planners
Speaker 6: say the average American family should have an emergency fund
Speaker 6: of about thirty five thousand dollars to cover six months housing, utilities, food,
Speaker 6: medical care, and car payments. Psychologists say that even having
Speaker 6: two thousand dollars set aside yields a twenty one percent
Speaker 6: boost in the average consumer's sense of financial well being.
Speaker 6: Jim Ryan, ABC News.
Speaker 2: Well, it's gray out there, tell you that much, and
Speaker 2: it's really not going to get much better unfortunately for
Speaker 2: the rest of the day. We have a couple of
Speaker 2: peaks of sun here in the forecast, but honestly, the
Speaker 2: clouds are likely going to win out. And when it
Speaker 2: comes to the temperature, we're not really warming up that
Speaker 2: much more either. Most of us are in the mid
Speaker 2: to upper fifties and that is where it's going to
Speaker 2: stay for the rest of the day. Very blustery outside
Speaker 2: with a wind from the north right now at about
Speaker 2: fifteen miles an hour later on tonight, we could have
Speaker 2: a bit of drizzle later on at the low in
Speaker 2: the upper forties, and for tomorrow, breezy, cloudy, intermittent drizzle.
Speaker 2: Kind of one of those days where it's just raw
Speaker 2: and chilly and a little bit wet from time to time,
Speaker 2: a high only fifty three. Then we have a no
Speaker 2: o' Easter showing up on Thursday morning. We'll have periods
Speaker 2: of rain, very windy out there, you know how this goes.
Speaker 2: We'll have some flooding in the usual spots, could also
Speaker 2: see coastal flooding. And we have a high on Thursday,
Speaker 2: not that far from fifty right now, fifty six in Fitchburg,
Speaker 2: seeing fifty five in Amesbury, fifty six as well in Hingham,
Speaker 2: and in Boston at eleven oh five it is cloudy
Speaker 2: and fifty six.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: Gas prices are down as we head into the holiday weekend.
Speaker 2: WBC's Jim McKay took a look to see if this
Speaker 2: could be a preview for the rest of the summer.
Speaker 1: One thing is for certain.
Speaker 5: Gas price is when compared to this week in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four, are down over fifty cents a gallon on
Speaker 5: average on the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1: According to Triple A, it's awesome.
Speaker 5: Brian from Weymouth has noticed because in the summer of
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four he was hoofing at last year.
Speaker 2: I literally never used my car just because it was
Speaker 2: like a legitimate factor.
Speaker 5: There have been reports of some slow bookings heading into
Speaker 5: the summer for some New England destinations, so if you
Speaker 5: act fast, you can still get some savings. We're still
Speaker 5: saving at the pub for now, but you can bet
Speaker 5: that price we'll really begin to tick up once we
Speaker 5: cross into the summer season.
Speaker 1: Officially, honestly, I don't know. I'm not really that bothered
Speaker 1: by it, like it's unfortunate, but that's how the market
Speaker 1: works for now.
Speaker 5: Book those savings while you can in Braintree. Jim MCKAWBZ
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Speaker 2: And you know, we're in college graduation season and finding
Speaker 2: the perfect gift could be a bit tricky, but wbz's
Speaker 2: James Rojas is here to help.
Speaker 1: There are different approaches to finding the best gifts for
Speaker 1: that graduating senior, like going in the super personal direction.
Speaker 7: I have a daughter that's graduating next year, so I
Speaker 7: would say maybe an necklace or a charm or something
Speaker 7: that has coordinates of where either they went to school
Speaker 7: or their home.
Speaker 1: Maybe a ticket to a destination of their choice.
Speaker 3: Because everybody's so tired of being stuck in the same place.
Speaker 1: I guess yeah. The gift could be centered around their major.
Speaker 5: I'm a nursing student, so nursing related things like steposcopes
Speaker 5: and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I would say specific to the major. To the major
Speaker 1: or at the end of the day. It can be
Speaker 1: what anybody would want. Bots and lots of money. Yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: cash cash is a good gift at Logan James Rojas
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Speaker 2: The MBTA has now come to a settlement the family
Speaker 2: of a man who was killed by an MBTA Redline train.
Speaker 2: Robinson Leyland of Dorchester was dragged to death at the
Speaker 2: Broadway station in twenty twenty two. Has happened when he
Speaker 2: got his arms stuck in a door and the safety
Speaker 2: system to make sure he would have been able to
Speaker 2: get it out was broken. The family claims the tea
Speaker 2: operators did not do enough to make sure everybody was
Speaker 2: in the car before taking off, and inspectors had not
Speaker 2: been ensuring the equipment was working properly. Leyland's family now
Speaker 2: set to receive about five million dollars from the tea
Speaker 2: or documents say that cash will be split between Leyland's
Speaker 2: children and his nephew. You are now in the loop
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