Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio.
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Speaker 1: News twenty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Former President Jimmy Carter's
Speaker 1: casket is now being taken on a horse drawn caisson
Speaker 1: from the Navy Memorial in Washington, d C. To the
Speaker 1: Capitol Rotundo. Carter is the only graduate of the US
Speaker 1: Naval Academy to become President of the United States. His
Speaker 1: body is set to lie in state at the Capitol
Speaker 1: tonight and tomorrow before Thursday's state funeral at the National Cathedral.
Speaker 1: In Norfolk Superior Court, the prosecution's been trying to discredit
Speaker 1: a key expert for the defense in the Karen Reid case.
Speaker 1: We get more from wc's Brook McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Another heated day in court ahead of Karen Reid's second
Speaker 3: criminal trial.
Speaker 4: With all due respect, and I'm not somebody that just
Speaker 4: came in off the street.
Speaker 5: I have at least thirty years as a physician.
Speaker 3: Doctor Murray Russell answering questions from Prosecutor Hank Brennan on
Speaker 3: her qualifications as a dog bite expert. Doctor Russell testified
Speaker 3: during Reid's first trial that Boston Police officer John O'Keeffe
Speaker 3: was attacked by a dog, not hit by Reed's suv.
Speaker 3: Like the prosecution claims, the Commonwealth wants to prevent doctor
Speaker 3: Russell from testifying.
Speaker 2: Most animals don't just bite with their top teeth and drag.
Speaker 2: It happens quite a bit.
Speaker 1: What happens with frogs?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Anything happen with the Hogscogs bite and pull.
Speaker 3: Russell answered questions for over six hours from the defense
Speaker 3: back in December. Reid's second trial is set for April.
Speaker 3: Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: There's an investigation under wayne Florida after a pair of
Speaker 1: bodies are found in a plane's landing gear.
Speaker 4: Floridatharty say two bodies were found in the landing gear
Speaker 4: compartment of a Jet Blue plane Monday night at Fort
Speaker 4: Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. WPLGTV reports the bodies were found
Speaker 4: in the wheelwell area. A Jet Blue spokesperson says they
Speaker 4: were found during a routine and post flight maintenance inspection.
Speaker 4: The planet arrived in Fort Lauderdale shortly after eleven PM
Speaker 4: from JFK Airport in New York. Two weeks ago, a
Speaker 4: body was found in the wheelbay of a United Airlines
Speaker 4: flight from Chicago to Maui Julie Walker, New York.
Speaker 1: The Biden administration is increasing oversight on smart home devices.
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Trappers has the tails.
Speaker 6: The Biden Administration is now fully launching its labeling program
Speaker 6: for smart electronics and appliances to help Americans know what
Speaker 6: Internet connected devices are cyber secure. The US cyber Trust
Speaker 6: Mark will soon be on approved connected devices, including baby monitors,
Speaker 6: fitness trackers, virtual assistants, and home security cameras. It's a
Speaker 6: voluntary program. Companies can soon submit products to get tested
Speaker 6: for security standards. Major retailers like best Buy and Amazon
Speaker 6: have agreed to support the program and help educate consumers
Speaker 6: about the label. Karen travers ABC News Washington.
Speaker 1: Help for those in medical debt, at least on their
Speaker 1: credit reports, those reports will no longer include medical debt
Speaker 1: for Americans. New rule finalized by the Biden administration that
Speaker 1: takes affected March. About forty nine billion dollars worth of
Speaker 1: medical bills from the credit reports of about fifteen million
Speaker 1: Americans will be wiped away, and a twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: pole from nonprofit KFF found about one in twelve US
Speaker 1: adults have medical debt. To four day actual weather forecast,
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of the same as we've had
Speaker 1: the last several days coming up. Tonight. It's clear to
Speaker 1: partly cloudy, it's blusterye it's got temperatures in the teens
Speaker 1: and real fields probably below zero in some of the
Speaker 1: coldest spots overnight to night, close to zero for the
Speaker 1: real feel in Boston. Tomorrow, the winds are going to
Speaker 1: be whipping around pretty good again. Wind gus tomorrow could
Speaker 1: get close to forty miles an hour, so we'll have
Speaker 1: the sunshine, we'll have that wind, Temperatures in the twenties,
Speaker 1: will feel like it's in the single digits and low teens.
Speaker 1: Another chilly night Tomorrow night with some clouds and that
Speaker 1: gusty breeze, a law of eighteen close to zero for
Speaker 1: the real fields. And then Thursday, another day of the
Speaker 1: chill says, we'll have the wind blowing around, temperatures near thirty,
Speaker 1: will feel like we're in the single digits and low teens.
Speaker 1: And then a little bit of relief on Friday, a
Speaker 1: little bit it won't be as harsh. First of all,
Speaker 1: there'll be less wind Friday, a lot of sunshine around,
Speaker 1: and we'll see temperatures get into the mid to upper thirties.
Speaker 1: Right now twenty six degrees in Boston. Two years after
Speaker 1: opening in Mattapan, a nonprofit hoping to provide healthy, affordable
Speaker 1: food is to the underserved neighborhoods is closing down the store.
Speaker 1: Wbz's Nicole Davis explains why.
Speaker 2: Daily Table CEO Sasha Porpora says they opened up their
Speaker 2: nonprofit low cost grocery store on River Street in Mattapan
Speaker 2: trying to tackle the neighborhoods overwhelming levels of food insecurity.
Speaker 7: The reason we close the store is it's not having
Speaker 7: the impact we hoped for.
Speaker 2: First and foremost, she says, they struggle to get customers
Speaker 2: in the door, partly because the location is not that accessible.
Speaker 2: She says they also underestimated the deep level of need.
Speaker 2: While they do offer big discounts on food using snap,
Speaker 2: she says expanded access to food pantries would likely serve
Speaker 2: that neighborhood better. As for the future, she says they
Speaker 2: hope to expand and they'll make sure for future locations.
Speaker 7: That not only is the population there that needs access
Speaker 7: to low cost food, but that we are in a
Speaker 7: location that makes it extremely easy for them to access it.
Speaker 2: Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Well, perhaps you don't always notice what surrounds you. You
Speaker 1: like the buildings in Boston. Sometimes they're there but almost
Speaker 1: in the background. Now some of the buildings that power
Speaker 1: over us are getting noticed with awards. W thebuzis j
Speaker 1: Weillette has the tails.
Speaker 5: The Boston Society for Architecture is between three finalists for
Speaker 5: the Harleston Parker Medal, an award given to the most
Speaker 5: beautiful structure built in Boston within the last decade. So
Speaker 5: no Boston City Hall did not make the cut. The
Speaker 5: finalists are the Adams Street Branch Library in Dorchester, Harvard's
Speaker 5: District Energy Facility in Allston, in the Roxbury Branch of
Speaker 5: the Boston Public Library. While the official medal is given
Speaker 5: by a professional panel, there is people's choice vote that's
Speaker 5: open now. You have until the end of this month
Speaker 5: to cast votes on the Society's website. Jay will Let
Speaker 5: WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: There comes the Consumer Electronics Show with Vegas. All of
Speaker 1: buzz before.
Speaker 8: The annual trade show known as CES even kicked off
Speaker 8: companies were already announcing new gadgets. LG showed off a
Speaker 8: TV that uses AI to sharpen images, and Bosh has
Speaker 8: even made a smart crib that it says can detect
Speaker 8: when your baby needs a diaper change. Mobility also expected
Speaker 8: to be a major theme this year, says Gary Shapiro,
Speaker 8: CEO of the Consumer Technology Association.
Speaker 1: Not only cars, but you see votes, and you see
Speaker 1: things that fly you around are electric scooters.
Speaker 8: Mike Debuski, ABC News.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio.