Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sixty five degrees. It's eleven o'clock, lots of sun out there,
Speaker 2: a lot of pollen as well. Checked the forecast in
Speaker 2: just a few minutes. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: The defense is now cross examining key witness Jen McCabe
Speaker 2: and the Karen Reid retrial. McCabe says she has a
Speaker 2: very close family and it's a family that's heavily involved
Speaker 2: in the case where John O'Keefe's body was found outside
Speaker 2: her brother in law's house in Canton. The defense pointing out, you.
Speaker 3: Also said that you knew and your words light Karen
Speaker 3: Reid my client on the twenty eighth of January twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 3: Yes, but she very much is not family. Correct.
Speaker 2: Correct. The defense is trying to make the argument that
Speaker 2: Read is a scapegoat and that the family is covering
Speaker 2: for each other in O'Keeffe's death. It is eleven o'h
Speaker 2: one and Wall Street is now waiting through a lot
Speaker 2: of red this morning. In response to new numbers suggesting
Speaker 2: the economy shrunk at the start of the year, a.
Speaker 4: Dive into the numbers fines of forty one percent surge
Speaker 4: in imports from January to March, coinciding with President Trump's
Speaker 4: promise of sweeping tariffs on foreign goods that helped to
Speaker 4: drive the GDP into negative territory for the first time
Speaker 4: in three years. A separate report from payroll processor ADP
Speaker 4: showed job creation slowed to just sixty two thousand positions
Speaker 4: last month, about half of the Dow Jones consensus Jim
Speaker 4: Ryan ABC News.
Speaker 2: Other numbers out today showed cooling inflation and increased spending
Speaker 2: as Americans brace for the impact of the president's tariffs.
Speaker 2: Many of those tariffs have been paused, but not the
Speaker 2: tariffs on China. ABC's Lionel moyees with the update on
Speaker 2: Washington's trade war with Beijing.
Speaker 1: The White House says deals are in the works that
Speaker 1: will level the global trading field for American business, but
Speaker 1: so far no word of any official negotiations with China.
Speaker 1: China's Foreign ministry releasing a video vowing not to kneel
Speaker 1: down to Washington in the toy endusry growing concern about
Speaker 1: a shortage this coming holiday season, with many stores depending
Speaker 1: on China for the hot items. More than sixty percent
Speaker 1: of toy companies in the US say they've already canceled orders.
Speaker 1: Nearly half say they could go out of business within
Speaker 1: weeks or months if the tariffs continue.
Speaker 2: Stocks are lower across the board. Much more coming up
Speaker 2: in Bloomberg Business at eleven oh eight and at eleven
Speaker 2: oh two. This just in too the WBZ newsroom. A
Speaker 2: federal judge in Vermont has just ordered the release of
Speaker 2: a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in
Speaker 2: Gaza while studying at Columbia University. Moosa Madawi has been
Speaker 2: a legal permanent US resident for a decade. He was
Speaker 2: arrested by Ice while he was at an interview about
Speaker 2: finalizing his US citizenship. Mdawi's lawyers have maintained he was
Speaker 2: arrested in retaliation for exercising his right to free speech.
Speaker 2: It's another warm day out there, with many of us
Speaker 2: in the mid to upper sixties right now, and it's
Speaker 2: a breezy one as well. Wind shifting a little bit
Speaker 2: from yesterday now it is coming in from the northwest
Speaker 2: at about fifteen twenty miles an hour. We will get
Speaker 2: up to about the mid seventies if you're north and
Speaker 2: west of Boston today seventy or so right on the
Speaker 2: coast with a lot of sun. Now for tonight mostly clear,
Speaker 2: we have a low in the mid forties if you're
Speaker 2: right on the coast to upper thirties north and west. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: sun and clouds becoming breezy with the high in the sixties.
Speaker 2: A little bit coolerround the capin Islands, staying in the
Speaker 2: mid to upper fifties. Then we start to see our
Speaker 2: next round of rain on Friday. We have the mix
Speaker 2: of sun and clouds to start. Clouds move in though
Speaker 2: into the afternoon and we have some showers, even a
Speaker 2: couple of thunderstorms. Highs in the seventies pushing eighty north
Speaker 2: and west, low to mid sixties though, if you're on
Speaker 2: the capin Islands right now, sixty five degrees in Wareham,
Speaker 2: seeing sixty six in Lynn, sixty four in Natick, and
Speaker 2: in Boston at a Lefno. Five it is partly cloudy
Speaker 2: and sixty five. Police in Boston have now identified a
Speaker 2: group of people accused of attacking a Suffolk University student
Speaker 2: as he was walking by the common your wbz's Matt Fipps.
Speaker 5: This took place late on Saturday night, offers found the
Speaker 5: victim bleeding from the head. He tells police a group
Speaker 5: shoved him, put him in a headlock, and broke a
Speaker 5: bottle over his head. Investigators say an image captured from
Speaker 5: a surveillance camera did yield positive IDs on the suspects,
Speaker 5: but their identities have not yet been shared. Matt phipps
Speaker 5: WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Residents of Milton now giving the green light to hike
Speaker 2: their property taxes in hopes of covering budget deficits. More
Speaker 2: than fifty five hundred residents voting yesterday to approve the
Speaker 2: nine and a half million dollar hike, thirty one hundred
Speaker 2: residents voting against it. Now, both the town and school
Speaker 2: budgets need this boost. Town officials say it was a
Speaker 2: mix of factors that led them to this point, including
Speaker 2: higher costs, lower revenues, and federal pandemic funding being phased out.
Speaker 2: Without the hike, officials say there would have been cuts
Speaker 2: to a number of services, including plowing and paving crews,
Speaker 2: the town's library, and jobs in the schools. There's a
Speaker 2: new study out this week suggesting that we humans heal
Speaker 2: a lot slower than other mammals.
Speaker 3: Researchers found it face human cuts more than twice as
Speaker 3: long to heal as the wounds of monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees,
Speaker 3: mice or other mammals. Furry animals are covered by hair follicles,
Speaker 3: which house stem cells. When necessary, they grow new skin.
Speaker 3: Our ancestors lost many of their hair follicles, so we
Speaker 3: heal more slowly. Our skin is now packed with sweatlands,
Speaker 3: which also have some stem cells, but they're not as
Speaker 3: good at repairing wounds. Michael Wallace, CBS.
Speaker 2: News eleven oh seven, A country superstar is making his
Speaker 2: way to the Garden in Boston. Here's wbz' s Drew
Speaker 2: moholland Yah.
Speaker 6: It's going to be a late summer early fall show
Speaker 6: for The Chief. The Free the Machine tour will stop
Speaker 6: on Causeway Street for Eric Church September nineteenth, being made
Speaker 6: official today. Get there early as el King is opening
Speaker 6: x'es and o's for the wind Baby. Tickets go on
Speaker 6: sale to see Eric Church and el King a week
Speaker 6: from Friday. The Chief, Eric Church Boston bound in September.
Speaker 2: And Somerville's porch Fest music festivals almost here in the
Speaker 2: list of reformers just keeps growing. Somerville Arts Council now
Speaker 2: says four hundred and ninety two acts have signed up
Speaker 2: to perform that day, May tenth. We're talking everything from
Speaker 2: solo folk singers, to rock bands, to funk groups much more.
Speaker 2: Porchfest usually draws thousands of spectators to the streets of Summerville.
Speaker 2: This year, organizers have put new safety measures in place,
Speaker 2: including increased security and street closures. You are now in
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