Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sunny and thirty four degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock
Speaker 2: on this Wednesday morning. Hello, and thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: I'm Sherry Small, and here's what's happening. Two of the
Speaker 2: United States largest trading partners strike back against President Trump's
Speaker 2: latest salvo of terriffs. China has high tariffs on US
Speaker 2: goods eighty four percent of the European Union just in
Speaker 2: post twenty five percent duties of his own. President Trump, though,
Speaker 2: is still defending his tactics despite the turmoil.
Speaker 1: Trump last night downplaying the concerns on Wall Street. I
Speaker 1: know what the hell I'm doing, the President's saying, negotiations
Speaker 1: are underway with some countries.
Speaker 3: These countries are calling us up, kissing my they are.
Speaker 4: They are dying to make it your, please, please make
Speaker 4: it your I'll do anything.
Speaker 1: But China has refused to give in to what it
Speaker 1: calls blackmail.
Speaker 2: And that's ABC's Lionel Moyes reporting. Consumers in Europe meanwhile,
Speaker 2: respond to President Trump's terraces by boycotting US goods. Your
Speaker 2: CBS is Vickie Barker.
Speaker 3: Consumer sentiment against the US is particularly strong in Denmark,
Speaker 3: whose territory Greenland. President Trump has said he wants to acquire.
Speaker 3: Many Danes are canceling their Netflix, Disney Plus, and Apple
Speaker 3: TV subscriptions, and the Danish Facebook group, with ninety thousand members,
Speaker 3: helps Danes find non US made alternatives to everything from
Speaker 3: shoes to lawnmowers. Vicky Barker, CBS News London.
Speaker 2: And it has been an up and down day on
Speaker 2: Wall Street. We will bring you the very latest in
Speaker 2: Bloomberg business that's coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2: Today is day seven in the Karen Reid retrial. Three
Speaker 2: more jurors seated yesterday. One juror from last week was
Speaker 2: dismissed for personal reasons, so that leaves the current jury
Speaker 2: makeup of six men and six women. Four more needed
Speaker 2: to reach the sixteen that Judge Beverly Cononi requires before
Speaker 2: move forward with the trial. So far, more than three
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty jurors have been screened. Neared told reporters
Speaker 2: yesterday that she expects opening statements could begin next Tuesday.
Speaker 2: She also says that she's anxious and that it is
Speaker 2: in God's hands this time. The defense is the defenses.
Speaker 2: Opening statement will be given by Attorney Alan Jackson. Reed's
Speaker 2: illegal team is still waiting to hear if the US
Speaker 2: Supreme Court will hear their appeal, trying to get two
Speaker 2: of the charges tossed out, citing double jeopardy. They've also
Speaker 2: asked the trial be delayed while waiting on the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: More than one hundred people are dead many more injured
Speaker 2: after yesterday's roof collapse at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 5: Among the dozens killed a saxophonist on stage, Local politicians
Speaker 5: and two former Major League Baseball players, including Octavio Dotel.
Speaker 5: Official say the former pitcher died on his way to
Speaker 5: the hospital. On social media, Dotel's former teams, including the
Speaker 5: Yankees and Astros, paying tribute to the former World Series champion,
Speaker 5: and the Mets holding moment of silence. Another player, forty
Speaker 5: four year old Tony Blanco, was also killed in the
Speaker 5: roof collapse.
Speaker 2: It's ABC's Andrew Dimper reporting there coming up. A Boston
Speaker 2: City councilor pleads guilty and steps dead. Now let's check
Speaker 2: the ACU weather forecast. It's going to be a sunny
Speaker 2: but breezy day today. High not getting out of the
Speaker 2: forties once again, high forty seven, mainly clear. Tonight, we'll
Speaker 2: drop to thirty two in the city, mid twenties for
Speaker 2: these coldest inland suburbs, and then Thursday sun giving way
Speaker 2: to clouds. Highs near fifty inland in the forties near
Speaker 2: the coast, and then Jus Thursday night is when we're
Speaker 2: going to see a little bit of that rain return. Also,
Speaker 2: we'll see possibly some of that rain mixing with some
Speaker 2: wet snow north and west of the city. Thursday nights
Speaker 2: low thirty five to thirty nine. Friday, we're going to
Speaker 2: see some rain near and west of four ninety five.
Speaker 2: Hi's forty six to about fifty Saturday. Unfortunately, we're seeing
Speaker 2: some rain and drizzle at times to start off the weekend,
Speaker 2: and high's only reaching about the mid forties again, mid forties.
Speaker 2: It's looking like on Sunday as well. In Boston we
Speaker 2: are seeing plenty of sunshine and we've warmed up to
Speaker 2: thirty four degrees, but again because of that wind, it
Speaker 2: feels ten degrees cooler. Back to news now at eleven
Speaker 2: oh five. Opinions are mixed here in the base date
Speaker 2: over President Trump's trade war. WBC's James Rojas is at
Speaker 2: Logan Airport.
Speaker 5: Folks in Massachusetts are looking at this escalating situation from
Speaker 5: different angles.
Speaker 2: A lot of like the current administration is saying like
Speaker 2: it's a short term.
Speaker 1: Hurting, now for a long term gain. Well, billionaires can last.
Speaker 4: Through a recession.
Speaker 1: The regular man, really, Canton.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's blubber. Maybe they're just talking
Speaker 4: big because they like to talk big, and maybe it's real.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's unsettling for everybody. I don't
Speaker 4: think it's unfair. We're not doing it to people that
Speaker 4: aren't doing it to us.
Speaker 3: Basically, Yeah, I think really I agree with some form
Speaker 3: of tariff, but obviously have concerns about the execution how
Speaker 3: this particular shot, who's being implemented? Hello Logan, James Rojas
Speaker 3: w b Z, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Boston City Councilor Tanya Fernandez Anderson resigns after pleading guilty
Speaker 2: to wire fraud and stealing from a federally funded program.
Speaker 2: For other charges will be dropped. Fernandez Anderson was arrested
Speaker 2: last year, accused of stealing thousands in a kickback scheme.
Speaker 2: May Boston Mayor Michelle, who urged her to resign.
Speaker 3: Officials brightly should be held to a high standard, so
Speaker 3: I called initially for resignation months ago.
Speaker 2: And Fernandez Anderson represents Dorchester, Roxbury, Fenway and parts of
Speaker 2: the South End prosecutors recommending that she serve a year
Speaker 2: and a day in prison, spend three years on probation,
Speaker 2: and pay thousands of dollars in restitution. Scientists a not
Speaker 2: so fast after a company claimed to bring the dire
Speaker 2: wolf back from extinction. Scientists say three pops created from
Speaker 2: a combination of gene editing techniques and DNA from ancient
Speaker 2: fossils are impressive, but you can't actually call them dire
Speaker 2: wolves because they can't be cloned. Heleontologists point out the
Speaker 2: DNA wasn't well enough preserved, so they're referring to babies
Speaker 2: Romulus Remus and Callisi, named after the fierce creatures on
Speaker 2: Game of Thrones, as gray wolves that have had part
Speaker 2: of their genome changed to look like dyers. The Dallas
Speaker 2: based bioscience firm that created them has also set insights
Speaker 2: on bringing back wooly mammoths and Dodo birds. Deborah Rodriguez
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