Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Perhaps the best news
Speaker 2: of the day on Wall Street today came just a
Speaker 2: moment ago when the market closed for the day. It
Speaker 2: was a terrible ride on Wall Street all the way
Speaker 2: down to the basement. The Nasdaq fell four percent today,
Speaker 2: seven hundred and twenty seven points, the down down nine
Speaker 2: hundred and forty two, the S and P five hundred,
Speaker 2: down one hundred and fifty five points. And as bad
Speaker 2: as those numbers are, off the lows so it was
Speaker 2: even worse during the day as some Wall Street investors
Speaker 2: questioned the president's comments from over the weekend that he
Speaker 2: may let the economy endure through the tariffs and other policies.
Speaker 2: President Trump had told Fox News over the weekend that
Speaker 2: he hates to predict things and wouldn't say whether he
Speaker 2: thought a recession was coming. The less, Wall Street sold
Speaker 2: off today and sold off big Todd. We'll get more
Speaker 2: details on what happened on Wall Street and see where
Speaker 2: these numbers finally settle as we check it with Bloomberg
Speaker 2: in just about seven minutes. The IRS could lose up
Speaker 2: to half of its workforce from federal layoffs. CBS's Stacey
Speaker 2: Lynn tells us what's next.
Speaker 3: With thousands of layoffs, see IRS may struggle carrying out
Speaker 3: its basic mission collecting taxes. There will be fewer audits
Speaker 3: that could have recoved billions for the US. One just
Speaker 3: fired worker told The New York Times she was in
Speaker 3: the middle of what she called a slam dunk case
Speaker 3: on a multinational company earning roughly three billion dollars a year.
Speaker 3: It's now stalled.
Speaker 4: She said.
Speaker 3: The DOGE cuts will ultimately create more government waste, not
Speaker 3: reduce it, and add even more to the deficit. Stacey
Speaker 3: Lynn CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: In Saudi Arabia, the US is taking part with Ukraine
Speaker 2: in talks that are aimed at ending the war with Russia.
Speaker 4: Officials from both Washington and Kiev will meet in the
Speaker 4: Kingdom tomorrow. You're gambling with world war following last month's
Speaker 4: stunning Oval Office blow up between Presidents Trump and Zelensky yesterday.
Speaker 5: I think you're gonna have eventually, and maybe not in
Speaker 5: the distant Fuji, you can have some pretty good results.
Speaker 4: The president sounded upbeat about the talks, but also questions
Speaker 4: whether Ukraine actually wants peace well right.
Speaker 2: Now, they haven't shown into the extent that they should.
Speaker 4: In Kiev, Grostia bo klt Zelensky said over the weekend,
Speaker 4: Russia's been ramping up attacks instead of thinking about how
Speaker 4: to end the war. Asked what Moscow's expecting from the talks,
Speaker 4: Kremlin spokes from Dmitri Peskoff says, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 4: Russia's expecting, but what the US is expecting. Sagur Magani Washington.
Speaker 2: On update out of Los Angeles today, where the District
Speaker 2: Attorney Nathan Hockman is acting at court to withdraw his
Speaker 2: predecessor's motion to free the Menendez brothers. Hawkman says, lyolent
Speaker 2: Eric Menendez lied repeatedly about why they killed their parents
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 6: With respect to.
Speaker 5: Them, the key issue of exhibiting insight, full insight into
Speaker 5: their crimes and completely accepting responsibility for their actions. This
Speaker 5: is where the Menendezes fall short.
Speaker 2: The brothers are serving life terms without the possibility of parole.
Speaker 2: The previous district attorney recommended the brothers be resentenced to
Speaker 2: fifty years to Life. Hackman previously said he opposes the
Speaker 2: Brothers re sentencing the fort awbc ACU weather forecast. We're
Speaker 2: going to have mainly clear skies as we head into
Speaker 2: the evening tonight. The temperature is falling back to about
Speaker 2: thirty seven in Boston, into the twenties and some of
Speaker 2: the coldest inland suburbs. After we ran into the low
Speaker 2: sixties today, Tomorrow we'll probably get to sixty again, and
Speaker 2: in fact more spots may get into the low sixties tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Cape and Islands won't be one of them, though. Upper forties.
Speaker 2: That's going to do it for the Cape and Islands,
Speaker 2: with breezy conditions and some sunshine. Clear to partly cloudy
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. Thirty eight in Boston, low thirties in the
Speaker 2: inland suburbs. Looks like we'll be the forties Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 2: Some sunshine on Wednesday, some rain and or snow to
Speaker 2: start on Thursday before we just sit in the clouds.
Speaker 2: Right now, it is fifty nine degrees in Boston. An
Speaker 2: elementary school and the Hunt will be getting a greenhouse
Speaker 2: thanks to some green from a generous donor.
Speaker 7: We Hunt School Superintendent Robert Leebo says an anonymous donor
Speaker 7: has donated eighty thousand dollars to build a greenhouse right
Speaker 7: here at the Johnson Elementary School.
Speaker 6: The plan is to get it up this spring and
Speaker 6: have it working with our kids this fall. They would
Speaker 6: be growing produced not only for the school cafeteria, but
Speaker 6: also running a farmer's market.
Speaker 7: While the eighty thousand will cover most of the costs,
Speaker 7: they still need to raise more than twenty thousand to
Speaker 7: make the greenhouse a reality.
Speaker 6: And we're doing a brick fundraiser, which is where you
Speaker 6: can purchase for one hundred dollars an engraved brick.
Speaker 7: And those bricks will form the walkway leading from the
Speaker 7: school to the greenhouse. From the Hunt Carl Stephens, WBC
Speaker 7: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: It is almost spring. That's good news for those who
Speaker 2: like the warmer weather and trees and flowers in bloom.
Speaker 2: It is not good news for those who have to
Speaker 2: deal with allergies from trees and flowers in bloom.
Speaker 1: Climate Central analysis finds the growing season is now more
Speaker 1: than fifty days longer than it was in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: and that may mean a longer and more miserable allergy. Season.
Speaker 8: Try to keep the windows closed so collins from outdoors
Speaker 8: aren't coming in very frequently. You want to open it
Speaker 8: at nighttime. The problem is you will wake up with
Speaker 8: lots of symptoms.
Speaker 1: Cleveland Clinic Allergies Sandra Hang recommend the nasal spray for
Speaker 1: congestion and sinus pressure, while an oral antihistamin relieves a
Speaker 1: running nose.
Speaker 2: Stephen Kuffman SEEBS News forget about holding on to your
Speaker 2: hat on Mount Washington during last week's high winds. It
Speaker 2: was hold on to you last week we told you
Speaker 2: about some of the gusts on Mount Washington won over
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty miles an hour. But wait, there's
Speaker 2: more now. The Mount Washington Observatory shared a video on
Speaker 2: social media showing the wind gusts that whipped across the
Speaker 2: summit of New England's tallest mountain. Of do showed employees
Speaker 2: sliding across the very top of the mountain. They were
Speaker 2: seen struggling to even crawl in winds on top of
Speaker 2: the sixty two hundred and eighty eight foot peak. Friday's
Speaker 2: high wind gust was one hundred and thirty eight miles
Speaker 2: an hour. It was a almost calm one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty mile an hour gust on Saturday. You are now
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