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Speaker 1: Hello Friday, Where have you been? But it's good to
Speaker 1: have you back six o'clock on this Friday morning. And
Speaker 1: look at this cloudy skies once again, another damp field
Speaker 1: to the air, fifty two degrees here in Boston as
Speaker 1: we get started this morning. The News at six is
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. So how low can you go?
Speaker 2: Cloudy today? Breeze?
Speaker 1: It is much cool with some rain during the midday
Speaker 1: at afternoon hours. Temperature city then beginning to fall a
Speaker 1: bit this afternoon at is WBZ achy weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg.
Speaker 1: The steadiest and heaviest rain arrives late today and into
Speaker 1: the overnight hours. We'll only be in the forties and
Speaker 1: fifties today. Better times, though, are coming this weekend. When
Speaker 1: jurors returned to the courtroom in the Karen Reid case
Speaker 1: this morning, a Massachusetts State Police sergeant who spent all
Speaker 1: day on the stand yesterday will still be there. Sergeant
Speaker 1: Yuri Buchanic, one of the lead investigators, into the Death
Speaker 1: into the Death of John O'Keefe tells the court about
Speaker 1: controversial and crude text messages sent by one of his subordinates,
Speaker 1: the since fired trooper Michael Proctor. Buchanic also lost five
Speaker 1: vacation days as punishment for failing to properly supervise Proctor
Speaker 1: following the controversy which emerged during Reid's first trial. Proctor's
Speaker 1: messages about Reed's personal appearance and mental demeanor were sent
Speaker 1: to colleagues and friends. No days off for Pope Leo
Speaker 1: the fourteenth.
Speaker 2: Through the Ministry of Peter.
Speaker 3: You have called me to carry that cross and to
Speaker 3: be blessed with that mission.
Speaker 1: The new Pope jumps right into his new job while
Speaker 1: by celebrating a private Mass for the College of Cardinals
Speaker 1: at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City this morning. The
Speaker 1: former Cardinal Robert Prevost will hold his first blessing in
Speaker 1: Saint Peter Square for the faithful on Sunday. Pope Leo
Speaker 1: follows in the footsteps of the first to take the name,
Speaker 1: some sixteen hundred years ago, the most recent at the
Speaker 1: turn of the twentieth century. Celtics prepped for Game three
Speaker 1: against the new York Knickerbockers. That series moves to Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden. It's on tomorrow afternoon at three point thirty.
Speaker 1: NHL Playoffs. How about this? Edmonton takes a two games
Speaker 1: to none lead over the Vegas Nights, with an overtime
Speaker 1: victory to seal the deal. Red Sox around the road,
Speaker 1: A tough trip waits with a weekend series in Kansas
Speaker 1: City against the Red Hot Royals. Along with them a
Speaker 1: disgruntled designated hitter WBC's Drew Mohalland this year, this doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like it's heading in the right direction, does it?
Speaker 3: Can I tell you something? I was at Fenway yesterday.
Speaker 3: The sun was shining, the socks were winning, the pitching
Speaker 3: was putting up. Zero's Rafael Devers launching a home run
Speaker 3: over the monster.
Speaker 2: He'll take down the left field, let's head it back
Speaker 2: toward the wall.
Speaker 1: Soon.
Speaker 3: A beautiful dat good day going around and the home stand.
Speaker 3: And then I see this, Rafael Devers not happy about
Speaker 3: being asked to play first base. Of course, they have
Speaker 3: injury problems there. There was that whole saga in spring
Speaker 3: training where they wanted him to be the DH and
Speaker 3: now he's just not happy being asked to go to
Speaker 3: first base, but the general manager, so he voiced his
Speaker 3: opinion after the game, and now we have chaos. Jeffrey,
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1: Year is that contract and a long way to go too.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of former players will say in
Speaker 1: today's baseball, you got to play wherever, because that's part
Speaker 1: of the game. Kevin Malarga said that, Kevin Millar said
Speaker 1: the other night, and so it's it remains to be seen.
Speaker 1: I just I don't understand why they are not there.
Speaker 1: They're treading very carefully around Rafael Devers. Yeah, somebody better
Speaker 1: find him a glove. I think I think that might happen,
Speaker 1: but that remains to be seen.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Andrew, thank you. And we are starting to see the
Speaker 1: first of the rain beginning to fall out in the
Speaker 1: Berkshires and heading towards central mass At this hour now
Speaker 1: here in Boston, it might feel a little bit damp,
Speaker 1: but we are certainly waking up under cloudy skies, no precipitation.
Speaker 1: Right now here in eastern Massachusetts, it is just fifty
Speaker 1: two degree and unfortunately that's about the high temperature of
Speaker 1: the day. So the rain is going to be arriving
Speaker 1: here in Greater Boston, at least the first wave of
Speaker 1: it later stages of the morning into the early afternoon,
Speaker 1: and then it will pick up an intensity later on
Speaker 1: in the day into the nighttime hours as well. When
Speaker 1: all is said and done, we could see up to
Speaker 1: two inches of precipitation. The heaviest downpours will be out
Speaker 1: in portions of central Massachusetts, and temperatures are only going
Speaker 1: to be in the upper forties to low fifties today.
Speaker 1: This is not a very good day, so as we
Speaker 1: move forward though into the weekend, the showers will come
Speaker 1: to an end. Tomorrow we'll start to see some brighter
Speaker 1: skies and some sunshine in the afternoon. Highs will be
Speaker 1: in the upper sixties. Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be spectacular with plenty of sunshine
Speaker 1: and into the low seventies. That looks like it's going
Speaker 1: to begin another change here in our trend as we
Speaker 1: head into next week with more sunshine and warmer air
Speaker 1: moving in. Right now, it's fifty two and clouds in
Speaker 1: Boston six oh six this Friday morning, and yes, time
Speaker 1: is running out to give props to mom.
Speaker 2: There's nothing grander than that of a mother's love. Though
Speaker 2: this family is Mother's Day destination comes pretty close.
Speaker 1: We are going to the Grand Canyon.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm hoping to experience just the beautiful Granger. For
Speaker 2: lack of a better word, Lisa's daughters were lacking some
Speaker 2: better words of their own when asked if gifts were ready,
Speaker 2: okays on the spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am is on Prime. I guess two days.
Speaker 2: You better get it quick. Lim from Revere has a
Speaker 2: more solid game plan. I'm gonna give my wife some
Speaker 2: free time, take the kids out to go out and
Speaker 2: have fun, and uh my mom's coming into town and
Speaker 2: we're gonna go I think do some brunch on the beach.
Speaker 1: James Rojas w b Z Boston some news radio video
Speaker 1: gamers find themselves on Cloud nine in Boston these days.
Speaker 4: I am cosplaying as buy from Arcade or if you
Speaker 4: know League of Legends, how about you, And I'm Jason
Speaker 4: from the same show.
Speaker 2: Cosplay.
Speaker 4: Fun and Games is the bye inside Packs East at
Speaker 4: the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Outside, however, not fun
Speaker 4: at all. With PAX being the largest gaming convention in
Speaker 4: the East, Traffic in the Seaport district will be worse
Speaker 4: than usual, so much so that Wren and Jackie from
Speaker 4: Boston got a hotel in Boston. It's rough with traffic,
Speaker 4: trying to get around people.
Speaker 1: Parking is horrendous around Ereon.
Speaker 4: Traffic is expected to be the heaviest between eight am
Speaker 4: and noon and two to seven pm Thursday through Sunday.
Speaker 4: In addition, two graduations are being held at the Leader
Speaker 4: Bank Pavilion, one on Thursday and one on Saturday. From
Speaker 4: the Seaport Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio