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Speaker 2: Good Morning at eleven o'clock on this Tuesday, mostly clouding
Speaker 2: forty two degrees in Boston and back and forth and
Speaker 2: back again, and the Karen Reid murder case in det
Speaker 2: Lawyers this morning have been arguing over which witnesses are
Speaker 2: best suited to testify in the upcoming retrial. Joining me
Speaker 2: now live again is wbz's Jay will.
Speaker 3: Lett Hey Lord. The latest witness that the defense wants
Speaker 3: to keep out of court is Robert Gilman, a meteorologist
Speaker 3: who the prosecution wants to testify on blizzard conditions.
Speaker 4: The Komba proposes calling this gentleman to talk about the
Speaker 4: weather conditions leading up to midnight that John keeps killed,
Speaker 4: to talk about the temperatures, the wind conditions, also the snowfall.
Speaker 3: The prosecution's Hank Brennan defense lawyer Robert Alessi is against
Speaker 3: Gilman's testimony based on his informal language, calling the ground
Speaker 3: as hard as a rock. In his credentials, he's not
Speaker 3: qualified in this area.
Speaker 4: He doesn't even state a methodology.
Speaker 3: Earlier today, the two sides sparred over having a dog
Speaker 3: bite expert for the prosecution take the stand doctor James
Speaker 3: Crosby his testimony, ruling out the possibility O'Keefe was bitten
Speaker 3: by a dog. We're still waiting on a resolution to
Speaker 3: state claims that the defense attorney, Alan Jackson prepped and
Speaker 3: paid for a crash reconstruction expert despite a court order
Speaker 3: not to. The defense also has a motion to throw
Speaker 3: out the entire case on grounds of extraordinary governmental misconduct,
Speaker 3: claiming the Commonwealth tampered with evidence and the jury. The
Speaker 3: prosecution is asking the judge to deny the motion to dismiss.
Speaker 3: A retrial is still scheduled for April first, but that
Speaker 3: can change. Jay Willett WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Mexico and Canada woke up to new terrass from President
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. The president also doubled duty against China. Now
Speaker 2: all three countries have announced retaliatory tariffs, and Governor Healey
Speaker 2: says base stators will pay the price. WBZ Sherry small
Speaker 2: with more.
Speaker 1: Governor Moore Healey issuing a statement warning Massachusetts residents that
Speaker 1: new tariffs on Canada and Mexico will be felt here
Speaker 1: at home. In addition to things like groceries, electronics, appliances,
Speaker 1: cars and housing costing more. Heally says gas prices, home
Speaker 1: heating and energy bills will skyrocket. She predicts paying twenty
Speaker 1: cents more per gallon at the pump. The governor says
Speaker 1: a ten percent tariff on petroleum and natural gas imports
Speaker 1: from Canada would cost three hundred and seventy million dollars
Speaker 1: a year here in Massachusetts and over billion dollars for
Speaker 1: the New England region. She says, the President picking fights
Speaker 1: with our allies and largest trading partners raises costs on everyone.
Speaker 1: Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The group behind the reason No Kings on President's Day
Speaker 2: protests will be back at today on the Boston Common.
Speaker 2: Fifty to fifty one Massachusetts is holding a Save our
Speaker 2: Union rally starting at four pm. The Political Action Group
Speaker 2: is asking all allied organizations to join them in peacefully
Speaker 2: making their voices heard. The demonstration comes ahead of President
Speaker 2: Trump's address this evening before a joint session of Congress.
Speaker 2: We will take that live starting at nine pm Eastern,
Speaker 2: and of course we'll stream it on the new iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Snow flurries in central New Hampshire right now, and just
Speaker 2: a little bit of cloud cover in the Greater Boston area.
Speaker 2: We're in the forties. We're headed for high of forty eight,
Speaker 2: mostly cloudy tonight, low near forty, very mild weather continuing Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Fifty six are high, some stray showers, then heavy rain,
Speaker 2: thunderstorms at night and Thursday leftover showers sixty degrees on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Boston Public Schools might make use of a hospital that
Speaker 2: fell victim to the Stuart health care crisis. Wbz's Jim
Speaker 2: McKay reports.
Speaker 5: When Carney Hospital closed down, a victim of the Stuart
Speaker 5: Healthcare bankruptcy, many wondered, what will be coming here next?
Speaker 5: How about a school?
Speaker 4: I think it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 5: There's a proposal in the works that would take EMK Academy,
Speaker 5: a school that has struggled finding a permanent location in
Speaker 5: the past.
Speaker 6: And how's it here on a brand new, sprawling campus.
Speaker 3: All the kids are on that same playing field.
Speaker 5: Well, it's just a proposal at the moment. Some of
Speaker 5: the finances haven't even begun to play out.
Speaker 3: It's just the way they're trying to put it out
Speaker 3: from our constructure.
Speaker 5: Marvin has two kids within the Boston Public Schools system,
Speaker 5: also brings up challenges of travel to this potential new location.
Speaker 3: And they're not looking at the downside.
Speaker 5: The MK idea is one of five proposals being looked
Speaker 5: at by the City of Boston and Boston Public Schools
Speaker 5: at Dorchester. Jim AIKAWBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Relatively stable night for Pope Francis, who remains in the
Speaker 2: hospital in Rome and guarded condition this hour. The Vatican
Speaker 2: says the Pope no longer needs a ventilator mass to breathe.
Speaker 2: He did sleep through the night and doctors removed build
Speaker 2: up from his lungs during two respiratory crises in the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. The Pope is receiving oxygen through
Speaker 2: his nose through a tube. He is not out of
Speaker 2: danger and again the Vatican will give us their evening
Speaker 2: update in just a couple of hours. Tensions between the
Speaker 2: US and Canada are still apparent at sporting events north
Speaker 2: of the border, probably Bezi's Jared Brosden with that.
Speaker 6: While we've entered the month of March, anthem singers in
Speaker 6: Canada are still struggling to find silence as they step
Speaker 6: up to the mic. First at the WWE's event in Toronto.
Speaker 1: Where the Buckets of scene.
Speaker 6: Then again in Ottawa the Senator's Sharks game oh C
Speaker 6: can C by the Tzarly Light, and in Montreal, Canadians
Speaker 6: fans ignored a familiar PSA that started in the Four
Speaker 6: Nations tournament.
Speaker 1: We asked, in the spirit of these three page that
Speaker 1: united us, that you currently respect the Canadian and US
Speaker 1: national anthems and the players representing each country.
Speaker 6: With the tariffs now in effect, all eyes will be
Speaker 6: on Edmonton, Alberta tonight as the Oilers take on the
Speaker 6: Anaheim Ducks at nine pm. Jared Brosn and WBZ Boston's
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