Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio redefining local news sixty
Speaker 1: one degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The jury has now been
Speaker 1: excused for the day that the Karen Reid retrial. A
Speaker 1: number of witnesses taking the stand today, including some investigators.
Speaker 1: Maureen Hartnett with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab analyzed
Speaker 1: Reads SUV.
Speaker 2: Did you focus on the right rear side of the
Speaker 2: vehicle beyond the broken tail life yes? Did you notice
Speaker 2: any damage, any scratches to the right quarter panel or
Speaker 2: the right side of that blexus?
Speaker 1: Yes, I did. I noticed some scratches as well as
Speaker 1: a dent in the rear door in that scene area.
Speaker 1: She says she also saw scratches and glass on the
Speaker 1: back bumper and an apparent hare. Reads accused of striking
Speaker 1: her boyfriend John o'keef for the re SUV, then leaving
Speaker 1: him for dead in the snow and canton. The defense
Speaker 1: argues she's being framed. A Georgetown at University scholar from
Speaker 1: India has been released from immigration detention after a federal
Speaker 1: judge ordered his release today while his case proceeds but
Speaker 1: dark Khan. Surrey was arrested outside his Virginia apartment in
Speaker 1: March the Trump administration accusing him of supporting Hamas. Officials
Speaker 1: say his visa was revoked because of his social media
Speaker 1: posts and his wife's connection to Gaza. She is a Palestinian.
Speaker 1: American Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior defending cuts to
Speaker 1: federal health funding. While testifying today before Congress, Secretary Robert F.
Speaker 3: Kennedy Junior tells Democratic Congresswoman Rosa Doloro He's not doing
Speaker 3: anything wrong.
Speaker 2: If you appropriate the money to me, I'm going to
Speaker 2: spend that we.
Speaker 3: Have appropriated, mister secret But he also seemed to indicate
Speaker 3: the cuts are not his IDEA.
Speaker 2: Whitehouse proposal is to do very very large cuts at
Speaker 2: and I ah.
Speaker 4: Well, that is that is contrary for the money appropriated.
Speaker 3: Secretary Kennedy also insisted funding for life saving research is
Speaker 3: not being withheld, although the numbers seem to indicate otherwise.
Speaker 3: Lynday Kenyon CBS News Washington.
Speaker 1: The Celtics play the Knicks in a must win game
Speaker 1: at the Garden tonight. Celtics fans are devastated after losing
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum to a serious injury. But once as the
Speaker 1: road ahead looked like WBC's Kyle Bray went.
Speaker 5: To find out, it was a scary site for self
Speaker 5: expanse to see star Jason Tatum rupture his Achilles tendon
Speaker 5: on national TV. But now that he's gone under the knife,
Speaker 5: the road to recovery begins. Mass General Brigham doctor Adam
Speaker 5: ten Forty tells me these injuries are particularly devastating.
Speaker 6: The challenge with the Achilles tendon is that it's very
Speaker 6: important for being able to develop the ballistic athletic movements
Speaker 6: that are required to be the All Star athlete that
Speaker 6: Jason Tatum is.
Speaker 5: He'll need to make up for the lost muscle during
Speaker 5: his post surgery recovery and then focus on rebuilding his
Speaker 5: coordination and strength. The Celtics haven't given a timeline yet,
Speaker 5: but doctor ten forty says we could see him back
Speaker 5: next year.
Speaker 6: We will see athletes as quickly as six months get
Speaker 6: back into sport. We give a range of six to
Speaker 6: nine months because there's a number of different factors to
Speaker 6: go into tissue healing.
Speaker 5: Kyle BRAWBZ Boston's news Radio, The sunshine is still lingering
Speaker 5: in eastern Massachusetts We've had more clouds back across.
Speaker 1: The interior this afternoon, and we'll bring clouds in for
Speaker 1: everybody as we head into the evening. Eventually we'll fall
Speaker 1: down into the mid fifties with a couple of showers
Speaker 1: in here later tonight, mainly cloudy, couple of showers. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: sixty four in Boston, upper sixties Inland, some clouds and fog.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, some clouds and fog. On Friday, it will
Speaker 1: be a warmer day as we hang on to mostly
Speaker 1: cloudy skies, the spotty shower around. Temperatures into the seventies,
Speaker 1: and then we're in the low to mid seventies on Saturday.
Speaker 1: There'll be breaks of sunshine. They'll also be the threat
Speaker 1: of a thunder shower. Sixty one right now in Boston.
Speaker 1: The Healey administration has created a new online dashboard attempting
Speaker 1: to track impacts from federal cuts. Some of the busys
Speaker 1: Madison Rodgers with more.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of confusion right now as the Trump
Speaker 4: administration looks to cut spending in the name of efficiency
Speaker 4: and aligning programs with the president's agenda. In the last
Speaker 4: four months, the dashboard at mass dot gov slash fed
Speaker 4: Impact says state agencies have seen three hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: million dollars in pulled funds. Some of the biggest cuts
Speaker 4: are money for vaccines for kids, mental health care for students,
Speaker 4: emergency shelter programs. Health and Human Services is the hardest
Speaker 4: hit agency, the Governor's office stressing this doesn't include hundreds
Speaker 4: of millions of dollars for federal programs, jobs, and research
Speaker 4: grants in Massachusetts, and they're hoping this will be a
Speaker 4: helpful tool for local municipalities along with businesses and nonprofits
Speaker 4: to see the impacts and make plans. Madison Rogers WBZ
Speaker 4: Boston's News.
Speaker 1: Radio bringing back the ice cream on a Corner and
Speaker 1: Brighton stabs actually you can stop buys this ice cream
Speaker 1: shop as it rises from the dead again. The dbz's
Speaker 1: Hile shaffle with the cold hard truth.
Speaker 7: Like having an ice cream shop at the corner of
Speaker 7: Washington and Chesna Hill have is practically grandfathered into the lease.
Speaker 7: At this point, there have been three separate ice cream
Speaker 7: shops here just in the last five years.
Speaker 1: They'll slow because probably because of the weather, but hopefully
Speaker 1: soon it's gonna be better. This one is actually brand new.
Speaker 7: Borgu behind the counter at Sweet Spoon, so some people
Speaker 7: who walk in.
Speaker 1: Don't actually notice the store is any different. Before this,
Speaker 1: the space was the Scoop and Scootery since.
Speaker 7: Twenty twenty, and before that it was Abbots for about
Speaker 7: a decade. The plan is to change up operations a little.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a homemade ice cream but.
Speaker 1: In the future not now.
Speaker 7: Brighton Center has ad trouble keeping its storefronts filled. There's
Speaker 7: plenty of vacant space, so the hope is that this
Speaker 7: ice cream shop will actually stick.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffel w Easy BOSTON'SNOOS Radio. Something's cooking in Memphis.
Speaker 1: It's the World Championship Barbecue cooking contest. Starting today.
Speaker 8: One hundred and thirty teams are competing for the title
Speaker 8: of Memphis in May World Champion.
Speaker 5: It is like nothing I believe you have ever tasted before.
Speaker 8: Marketing director Tiffany Perry says more than one hundred and
Speaker 8: fifty thousand dollars in prize money as it. There's also
Speaker 8: a junior competition for the first time, so.
Speaker 6: We're really trying to usher in our next generation of
Speaker 6: barbecue lovers and pittmasters.
Speaker 8: There are turkey and chicken categories.
Speaker 1: And there's even a vegetarian competition.
Speaker 8: The winners will be crowned Saturday. Michael Wallace, CBS News.
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