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Speaker 3: Sunny, forty two degrees good Wednesday morning, eleven o'clock on
Speaker 3: Laurie Kirby. We start this hour with news on the economy.
Speaker 3: New numbers show inflation slowed last month for the first
Speaker 3: time since September. ABC Jim Ryan reports.
Speaker 1: Americans last month, we're paying two point eight percent more
Speaker 1: for just about everything than they were in February of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. After days of heavy losses, a CPI
Speaker 1: report showing a accelerating rate of inflation pushed the stock
Speaker 1: market higher. Got to dig into the numbers, finds egg
Speaker 1: prices nearly sixty percent higher than a year ago.
Speaker 3: The Fed is expected to keep its benchmark rate steady
Speaker 3: the next time they meet, at least until they see
Speaker 3: the economic impact of the Trump Administration's tariffs that went
Speaker 3: into effect this morning, and the world is reacting. President
Speaker 3: Trump's twenty five percent duties on steel and aluminum went
Speaker 3: into effect overnight. In response, Canada just announced tariffs on
Speaker 3: US imports that will cost more than twenty billion dollars,
Speaker 3: while the EU this morning announced new duties on farm
Speaker 3: and industrial products from the us ABC's Mary Bruce with
Speaker 3: Moore on the Tit for Tat overnight.
Speaker 2: The next wave of Trump's tariffs taking effect twenty five
Speaker 2: percent on all steel and aluminum imports. It comes after
Speaker 2: a roller coaster day of threats and retreats. Trump vowing
Speaker 2: to double that twenty five percent tariff to fifty percent
Speaker 2: on steel and aluminum imports from Canada after Ontario said
Speaker 2: it would start taxing electricity coming into the US, but
Speaker 2: the two countries then walking back those threats for now,
Speaker 2: But economists warned that American businesses will pay for those
Speaker 2: tariffs and pass costs along to consumers by raising prices.
Speaker 3: The Dow is down three hundred and forty five points
Speaker 3: right now, all three major indices. You know it's doing well.
Speaker 3: Gold selling like gangbusters, Bloomberg Business news coming up. New
Speaker 3: Hampshire Senator Jean Shaheen announces she will not run for
Speaker 3: her fourth term next year. The Democrat has held her
Speaker 3: seat in the Upper Chamber since two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3: It comes at a precarious time for New Hampshire Democrats.
Speaker 3: Last fall, granted, state voters supported the Harris Waltz ticket
Speaker 3: and sent Democrats to Congress, but They also elected a
Speaker 3: new Republican governor and bolster the Republican majority in the
Speaker 3: state legislature. A former Republican Massachusetts Senator, Scott Brown, is
Speaker 3: already said to be eyeing Shaheen's seat. Police arrest protesters
Speaker 3: in New York demanding the release of a Columbia University
Speaker 3: grad student arrested by Ice ABC's Reagan Meggie with the updates.
Speaker 4: Mamu Camille basically is a permanent US resident. He also
Speaker 4: is a supporter of the pro Palestine movement, and the
Speaker 4: government is accusing him of basically siding with terrorists. Khalil
Speaker 4: has led demonstrations against Israel's war in Gaza, which rocked
Speaker 4: Columbia's campus last year. Khalil's attention over the weekend has
Speaker 4: prompted protests across the city.
Speaker 3: Khalil has a green cart, but the White House wants
Speaker 3: to deport him for allegedly supporting Hamas nice sunshine out
Speaker 3: there a little bit cooler today. We knew that we
Speaker 3: are in the forties and we'll go up to a
Speaker 3: high of forty seven. I'm seeing forty fours are high
Speaker 3: out there right now, but lots of sunshine.
Speaker 5: Obby.
Speaker 3: It is kind of a milky skyline. It's not that
Speaker 3: pristine blue. And this is ahead of a little rain
Speaker 3: or snow tonight. Okay, So that is still in our forecast,
Speaker 3: which is a little blast of winter. Winter's final days,
Speaker 3: bringing us some snow tomorrow, much like today, but cloudier
Speaker 3: and Friday just peaks of sun, same temp warming it
Speaker 3: up big time this weekend though, Saturday and Sunday we're
Speaker 3: eyeing sixty degrees on both days. There are some exceptions.
Speaker 3: We'll run those down for you in a little bit,
Speaker 3: but again very very mild, a little bit wild though
Speaker 3: with some thunderstorm on Sunday. Okay. So the budget acts
Speaker 3: falls hard and cuts hard. In Boston, federal education workers
Speaker 3: are being laid off in this city and around the nation.
Speaker 3: Wbz's Madison Rogers has worn.
Speaker 6: Every single worker at Boston's Department of Education branch is
Speaker 6: being sacked, and it's the same story for branches in
Speaker 6: several other cities. DOE Secretary Linda McMahon just announced layoffs,
Speaker 6: impacting close to half the department's four thousand odd workers.
Speaker 6: The secretary says the move will ensure resources are directed
Speaker 6: to where they matter most, students, parents and teachers, it's
Speaker 6: a step toward dismantling the department altogether, a move, the
Speaker 6: governor says, would be devastating, especially for the highest needs students.
Speaker 6: Massachusetts gets more than two billion dollars in education funding
Speaker 6: a year, going to things like special education and helping
Speaker 6: pay teachers in low income districts. Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's
Speaker 6: News Radio.
Speaker 3: Tesla Vendel's strike again in Denham. President Trump vows to
Speaker 3: label any violence against tes Law or any other company
Speaker 3: is domestic terror. Dead on police Hey for the second
Speaker 3: time in weeks, vandals targeted the Root One dealership. These
Speaker 3: are protest vandalism targeting Tesla and its owner. Elon Muscazie
Speaker 3: slashes federal jobs nationwide as head of Dog Many Charlestown
Speaker 3: residents a plans for new pro soccer stadium, and ever
Speaker 3: it will do the more harm than good.
Speaker 5: The mere mention of this new soccer stadium plan to
Speaker 5: people in Charlestown will elicit a similar response, it's terrible,
Speaker 5: free discouraging. Bethany and Mike both attending this week's town
Speaker 5: hall meeting with Mayor Michelle wou where they expressed frustrations
Speaker 5: that they will incur all the noise in traffic from
Speaker 5: this new stadium.
Speaker 6: But what's the benefit.
Speaker 2: Doing something this big.
Speaker 6: It takes sacrifices, but when it kind of puts a
Speaker 6: vampro on the business, it just makes it very frustrating.
Speaker 5: Mike thinks it's actually going to hurt some businesses around
Speaker 5: Sullivan Square. We're still quite a ways off from construction
Speaker 5: in this project being finalized, but the new home across
Speaker 5: from the Encore looks like a go and not everyone's
Speaker 5: happy about it. In Charlestown, JIMMICKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3: Saint Thomas Moore Church in Braintree is being torn down.
Speaker 3: Of course, it closed in twenty twenty two after serving
Speaker 3: the local Catholic community for more than eighty years. What's
Speaker 3: next age restricted condos if it gets the proper approval.
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