Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Seventy one degrees with blue skies over Boston at eleven o'clock,
Speaker 2: Good Tuesday morning. I'm Madison Rogers, and let's start this
Speaker 2: hour with a dramatic scene outside mass General Hospital this morning.
Speaker 2: Boston Police say an officer working at detail was attacked
Speaker 2: by someone who managed to take that officer's gun then
Speaker 2: shot themselves. This happened around nine am and led to
Speaker 2: a massive police response on Cambridge Street. Boston Police Commissioner
Speaker 2: Michael Cox says someone appearing to be suffering a mental
Speaker 2: health episode approached the officer, attacked them, took their gun,
Speaker 2: then open fire on themselves.
Speaker 3: The officer had assistance from other detailed officers in the
Speaker 3: area that came, as well as some pedestrians, I mean
Speaker 3: some other people that were were there bystanders who helped assist.
Speaker 2: It's unclear if the suspect shot themselves on purpose or
Speaker 2: if it happened during the chaos. That suspect is in
Speaker 2: the hospital and is expected to survive. The commissioner says
Speaker 2: no one involved was seriously hurt. Over in Liverpool, England,
Speaker 2: dozens are hurt after a man drove a mini van
Speaker 2: into a crowd of soccer fans. It happened during a
Speaker 2: victory parade yesterday. More from CBS's Raimi and Asensio.
Speaker 4: What eyewitness told CBS views The running over of people
Speaker 4: seemed definitely intentional, that the driver just shut the door
Speaker 4: and didn't seem to care.
Speaker 2: And then we suddenly saw the car reverse and then
Speaker 2: accelerate and move through the crowd, and honestly, people scattered
Speaker 2: like bowling pins.
Speaker 4: It was terrifying.
Speaker 2: You genuinely was terrified.
Speaker 4: Seconds after the man finally stopped, the crowd now angry
Speaker 4: attacked his vehicle and threatened his life as police arrested
Speaker 4: him and took him away.
Speaker 2: Police say that suspect acted a lot, and they are
Speaker 2: not treating the incident as a possible act of terrorism.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration is taking its latest shot at Harvard,
Speaker 2: and this one is a major escalation. The White House
Speaker 2: is sending a letter to federal agencies this morning telling
Speaker 2: them to cut off any and all business with the university.
Speaker 2: The letter, first reported by The New York Times, comes
Speaker 2: from the US General Services Administration and directs agencies to
Speaker 2: cancel any existing contracts with Harvard and find new vendors.
Speaker 2: If successful, this would mark a complete break of the
Speaker 2: business relations relationship between the White House and the School. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: the President made a post on truth Social saying he's
Speaker 2: considering taking some three billion dollars from Harvard and giving
Speaker 2: that money to trade schools. The President's hitting pause on
Speaker 2: his newly threatened tariffs against the EU.
Speaker 1: President is now relenting just for now. He is delaying
Speaker 1: that threat of a fifty percent tariff against the European Union,
Speaker 1: one of our large trading partners. These massive tariffs were
Speaker 1: supposed to go into effect at the end of this
Speaker 1: week on June first, but instead he's now postponing them
Speaker 1: until July ninth, following a phone call with the head
Speaker 1: of the European Commission.
Speaker 2: And that news is driving some gains on Wall Street
Speaker 2: this morning, along with news that consumer confidence in the
Speaker 2: US apparently shot up last month. Staying very nice out
Speaker 2: there today, the highs around seventy five. Then it's partly
Speaker 2: cloudy with lows in the fifties. Tonight fifty four to
Speaker 2: fifty eight or so. Tomorrow again mid seventies, but it's
Speaker 2: a mix of clouds and sun, with some showers moving
Speaker 2: in at night, a few showers around Thursday. Mostly it's
Speaker 2: cloudy with tempts in the mid sixties. Back in the
Speaker 2: low seventies on Friday, but we do still have a
Speaker 2: shower or two, and looking ahead to the weekend, it
Speaker 2: looks like likely showers on Saturday, but drying out on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Right now, it is blue skies pretty much across the
Speaker 2: Bay State sixty six at the tip of the Capetown.
Speaker 2: It's seventy three in Lexington, sixty nine out in Springfield.
Speaker 2: Here in Boston seventy one and feeling warmer at eleven
Speaker 2: oh six at the Karen Reid retrial in Denham. Right now,
Speaker 2: doctor Judson Welcher, a crash expert for the prosecution, is
Speaker 2: at the witness stand. Court This morning started with an
Speaker 2: extended sidebar at the request of the defense, and soon
Speaker 2: we're expecting the prosecution to rest its case. Meantime, we're
Speaker 2: learning the defense wants to add some more potential witnesses
Speaker 2: to its list, and wbz's Emma Friedman will join us
Speaker 2: at eleven forty five with the very latest. Massachusetts is
Speaker 2: home to some of the best paid hourly workers anywhere
Speaker 2: in the country, but there is some disorder in the court.
Speaker 2: Here'sbz's Matt Phipps.
Speaker 4: In their call for higher wages. Public defenders will stop
Speaker 4: taking new criminal cases in Massachusetts starting today. The court
Speaker 4: appointed attorneys get the call whenever anyone facing criminal charges
Speaker 4: can't afford to hire a lawyer, but they say their
Speaker 4: paycheck pales in comparison to their colleagues in nearby states,
Speaker 4: and they'll rally at the State House this afternoon. This
Speaker 4: action could force a backlog, which could lead to cases
Speaker 4: being dropped. Matt Phipps WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Another local high school is taking away kids cell phones.
Speaker 2: It is Taunton High bringing in Yonder bags. Those are
Speaker 2: the special locked pouches that students will have to put
Speaker 2: their phones and eat, earbuds and smart watches inside, lock
Speaker 2: them up in front of staffers, and they can't get
Speaker 2: back into the bags until the school day is over.
Speaker 2: The Taunton Gazette reports the school committee recently passed the
Speaker 2: new policy at a meeting and meantime on Beacon Hill.
Speaker 2: Some leaders have recently voiced support for a potential state
Speaker 2: wide band on phones in classrooms. Some new research suggests
Speaker 2: there could be benefits to plugging into technology for seniors.
Speaker 5: Scientists study more than four hundred thousand adults with an
Speaker 5: average age of sixty nine, and those who engaged with
Speaker 5: digital technology on smartphones, tablets, or computers had a fifty
Speaker 5: eight percent reduced risk of cognitive impairment. A couple of
Speaker 5: possible reasons why the challenge of adapting to new technology
Speaker 5: stimulates your brain, and that technology can help you connect
Speaker 5: with others, which has been proven to preserve cognitive function
Speaker 5: in older people. The studies published to the journal Nature
Speaker 5: Human Behavior. Sherry preston ABC News.
Speaker 2: It could also be that seniors without cognitive impairments are
Speaker 2: more likely to engage with technology. You're now in the loop.
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