Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News fifty four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Day one of testimony
Speaker 2: at the Karen Reid read trial is now in the books.
Speaker 2: Durors at Norfolk Superior Court in Denham sent home for
Speaker 2: the day of the DC's im A freedman is here.
Speaker 2: She's not going home right now. At least she got
Speaker 2: to tell us about what happened to day in port.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben, jurors, we'll be back tomorrow for more testimony.
Speaker 3: They have been sent home. The last person on the
Speaker 3: stand was Carrie Roberts, a friend of Boston police officer
Speaker 3: John O'Keefe's. Roberts went out looking for O'Keefe with Karen
Speaker 3: Reid and another woman, Jenn McCabe, after Reid called her
Speaker 3: multiple times in an early morning panic, hours before they
Speaker 3: discovered him dead.
Speaker 1: I looked at Jen and I said she's crazy. And
Speaker 1: then I turned around and watched and she ran over
Speaker 1: to a bound of.
Speaker 2: Snow when arted running before she got anywhere. Did you
Speaker 2: see anything at that point?
Speaker 4: I did not?
Speaker 2: Were you looking?
Speaker 1: I was looking. She said, there he is so looking
Speaker 1: around to see where he is.
Speaker 2: And you could see nothing.
Speaker 1: I did not.
Speaker 3: They discovered O'Keefe in the snow outside Officer Brian Alberts
Speaker 3: house in Canton, where some people had gone after a
Speaker 3: night of drinking. Prosecutors questioning Roberts on how Karen Reid
Speaker 3: knew where to look for O'Keefe during the snowy morning weather.
Speaker 3: This was in January, back in twenty twenty two. Roberts
Speaker 3: will be back in court tomorrow and on the stand
Speaker 3: for more questioning. Ben.
Speaker 2: All right, keep you to the WBZ. We'll keep you
Speaker 2: up today. This Karen Reid trial number two continues. Don't
Speaker 2: forget you can always download the iHeartRadio app and listen
Speaker 2: to us streaming on that app. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Speaker 2: says he's not going anywhere, despite another report that he
Speaker 2: shared details of a planned to US strike with relatives
Speaker 2: on a mobile app. More from ABC Stephen Portnoy, the.
Speaker 5: Defense secretary plays down the significance of the second reported
Speaker 5: signal chat, in which he shared details of last month's
Speaker 5: Yemen strike with his wife, his brother, and his attorney.
Speaker 4: Informal, unclassified coordinations for media coordination, other things.
Speaker 2: That's what I've said from the beginning.
Speaker 5: On Fox News, Pete Hegseth was asked about the men
Speaker 5: in his inner circle who've been ousted. Disgruntled former employees
Speaker 5: are peddling things to try to save their ass, but
Speaker 5: those men insist they were loyal to Hegseth and did
Speaker 5: not share information with reporters. Stephen Portnoy ABC Newist Washington.
Speaker 2: On tapbol Hill. Secretary of State Marco Rubio unfailing a
Speaker 2: massive overhaul of the State Department in the latest effort
Speaker 2: by the Trump administration to reimagine foreign policy and downsize
Speaker 2: the federal government. The plan, which Rubio announced on social media,
Speaker 2: involves producing staff in the US by fifteen percent, while
Speaker 2: also closing and consolidating more than one hundred bureaus around
Speaker 2: the world. There will also be a reimagined at office
Speaker 2: focused on foreign and humanitarian affairs to coordinate the aid
Speaker 2: programs overseas still left at the State Department. The Massachusetts
Speaker 2: lawmakers demanding answers about the Trump administration's immigration and deportation policies.
Speaker 2: Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, along with Congresswoman Anna
Speaker 2: Presley have written to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy
Speaker 2: Nome and the Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, among
Speaker 2: their concerns the arrests of Ramesa oz Turk, the tough
Speaker 2: student who has picked up in Somerville. They're asking for
Speaker 2: answers to a number of questions by May sixth, including
Speaker 2: what specific criteria led ICE to determine that no bedspace
Speaker 2: was available for oz Turk in New England, and why
Speaker 2: was oz Turk transported to New Hampshire and Vermont before
Speaker 2: being flown to Louisiana rather than being placed in a
Speaker 2: nearby facility in Massachusetts. Some clouds around, partly cloudy really
Speaker 2: as we head into the evening to night, temperatures right
Speaker 2: around fifty or so. Tomorrow, we're gonna have more sunshine
Speaker 2: and we're gonna have a pretty nice day. Not quite
Speaker 2: as warm in the inland spots today. We get into
Speaker 2: the mid seventies, probably right around seventy tomorrow, but we
Speaker 2: will stay cooler over the Capean Island. That won't change
Speaker 2: for tomorrow. We'll have mainly clear skies tomorrow night a
Speaker 2: forty eight and then some sunshine Thursdays sixty two. In Boston,
Speaker 2: low seventies Inland again the fifties and low sixties over
Speaker 2: the Capean Islands, and then on Friday partial sunshine a
Speaker 2: bit warmer too. Sixty eight in Boston, mid seventies. Well
Speaker 2: Inland will still be cooler, but probably mid sixties over
Speaker 2: the Capan Islands on Friday. Right now it is fifty
Speaker 2: four degrees in Boston. The winners of one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty ninth Boston Marathon honored at an event today. W
Speaker 2: the bz's very small with more.
Speaker 4: After night to sleep on it. The big winners of
Speaker 4: Monday's marathon recap their experiences at a press conference. My
Speaker 4: pleasure to welcome those champions to the stage. John Career
Speaker 4: of Kenya, the winner of the Professional men's division No
Speaker 4: after May withingicgo.
Speaker 3: My team was to Cagy and do it, and my
Speaker 3: team must come too, So I'm happy in via a.
Speaker 4: John and his brother Wesley are the only siblings to
Speaker 4: ever win Boston. Meanwhile, Sharon Lokati of Kenya won the
Speaker 4: Professional women's division, setting a course record of two hours,
Speaker 4: seventeen minutes, twenty two seconds.
Speaker 1: You know, just being here, everything just felt so close.
Speaker 5: Faith from the Kiku so yeah, honestly grateful.
Speaker 4: In the wheelchair Race Americans, Susanna Scaroni was recognized for
Speaker 4: her win in the women's division, claiming her second championship,
Speaker 4: and in the men's division winner Marcel who goes Switzerland.
Speaker 4: It's his eighth Boston Marathon win. Cherry Small WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 4: news radio.
Speaker 2: Hey Macover in Hyde Park Community Center getting a redo
Speaker 2: and help from the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: From fresh green paint in the basement's team room to
Speaker 1: a new garden planter out front, there's this beehive of
Speaker 1: activity all around the Hyde Park Community Center.
Speaker 6: We are thrilled to have the Boston Red Sox here today, Clover,
Speaker 6: fifty volunteers are out here.
Speaker 1: Jennis Walker is the executive director of Rebuilding Together Boston.
Speaker 6: The Boston Red Sox are the best. They're off to
Speaker 6: a great start this year and they have incredible volunteers, staff, people,
Speaker 6: the family, the players. Everyone coming out from the Boston
Speaker 6: Red Sox working with Rebuilding Together today.
Speaker 1: It's terrific. Any even some players, Yes, we'll be having
Speaker 1: some players.
Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to seeing Christian Campbell soon.
Speaker 1: The center's director tells me. Staff and kids who use
Speaker 1: this space have been so excited for today because this
Speaker 1: shows them that they matter. In Hyde park James Rojas,
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