Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Fifty eight degrees under a blue sky in Boston. It's
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Good Wednesday morning. I'm Madison Rodgers, and let's
Speaker 2: start off in debt U. Right now, Karen Reid's second
Speaker 2: murder trial is coming back from a morning break. Carrie
Speaker 2: Roberts still on the stand answering questions from prosecutors. She
Speaker 2: was with Reid when they found the body of Boston
Speaker 2: officer John o'keef, and Robert says she helped dig her
Speaker 2: friend's body out of the snow and picked up his
Speaker 2: cell phone.
Speaker 3: What did you do with John Pollen when you picked
Speaker 3: it up from the ground.
Speaker 1: I put it in my pocket and gave it to
Speaker 1: a first responder when they came over, All right, I
Speaker 1: handed it off to a first responder.
Speaker 2: Before the break. The prosecution also played police dash cam
Speaker 2: footage from the scene. Keep it right here or stream
Speaker 2: us on the iHeartRadio app for the very latest. Elon
Speaker 2: Musk says he's taking a step back from his work
Speaker 2: with the Department of Government Efficiency. ABC's Rachel Scott has
Speaker 2: more on that.
Speaker 4: The World's richest Man insisting he will stay with the
Speaker 4: Trump administration at least part time, but will focus on
Speaker 4: his business starting.
Speaker 1: Next month, yet allocating far more of my time to Tesla.
Speaker 4: His remarks coming after his company, Tesla, announced a nine
Speaker 4: percent drop in revenue from January to March and a
Speaker 4: staggering seventy one percent drop in profits in the first
Speaker 4: quarter the electric car gi and blaming the growing trade
Speaker 4: war and quote changing political sentiment which could have a
Speaker 4: meaningful impact on demand for our products in the near term.
Speaker 2: Tesla stocks have seen major gains this morning in the
Speaker 2: wake of that announcement. In fact, we're seeing major gains
Speaker 2: across the major markets right now. Will have the very
Speaker 2: latest coming up with Bloomberg Business. A man charged with
Speaker 2: murder in Alston is due back in court this hour.
Speaker 2: Miss harrowing details emerge. On Monday, officials believe twenty six
Speaker 2: year old Omar Rians attacked an elderly female family member
Speaker 2: with a baseball back and a sword, killing her. After
Speaker 2: a search, the suspect was arrested allegedly trying to steal
Speaker 2: a car a few blocks away. Riaz yesterday was charged
Speaker 2: with murder, armed carjacking, and resisting arrest. He's been ordered
Speaker 2: held without bail, pending a competency hearing, which should be
Speaker 2: starting in about a half hour in Brighton. It's an
Speaker 2: active information with anyone with information strongly urged to contact
Speaker 2: Boston Police. At the Vatican, mourners are filing through Saint
Speaker 2: Peter's Basilica paying their final respects to the late Pope Francis.
Speaker 5: A solemn ceremony in Vatican City. Pope Francis brought to
Speaker 5: Saint Peter's Basilica to lion state the Pope's simple wooden coffin,
Speaker 5: carried by white glove paul bearers, escorted by the Papal
Speaker 5: Swiss Guard, and there were splendent uniforms cardinals joining the
Speaker 5: procession as it made its way from the chapel of
Speaker 5: the Santa Marta Guesthouse just after nine am in Vatican City.
Speaker 2: That's ABC's Harry Moran. The Pope's funeral is set for Saturday.
Speaker 2: There will be a period of morning before cardinals gather
Speaker 2: to choose the Pope's successor in the coming weeks. Looking
Speaker 2: at the four day forecast, now, it's going to stay
Speaker 2: mostly sunny and get quite a bit warmer out there.
Speaker 2: This afternoon. We're expecting a high year seventy in Boston,
Speaker 2: mainly clear skies. Tonight low around forty eight in the city,
Speaker 2: cooler inland spots should see a low in the low forties.
Speaker 2: Then Thursday is another very nice one, breezy, up to
Speaker 2: sixty four in Boston, but into the mid seventies for
Speaker 2: some of us inland. Sixty four again Friday with partial
Speaker 2: sun and then Saturday, again we're in the mid sixties,
Speaker 2: but it's cloudier with a few showers around, drying out
Speaker 2: and turning windier on Sunday, partly sunny with a high
Speaker 2: near sixty. Right now it is sixty two degrees in Norwood.
Speaker 2: It's fifty eight in Peabody, fifty eight here in Boston
Speaker 2: too though with that sunshine feeling like the low sixties.
Speaker 2: It's easy, breezy, and somewhat sneezy. High tree pollen levels
Speaker 2: right now. Five one of the biggest video sharing platforms
Speaker 2: on the planet, is turning twenty years old today. Wlebz's
Speaker 2: Jim McKay has more these days.
Speaker 6: When you run it too some young people and ask
Speaker 6: about their favorite social media you'll get an array of responses.
Speaker 2: I like TikTok, Instagram, Instagram, I'm probably TikTok amidst.
Speaker 6: The TikTok at instagrams, I was able to find someone
Speaker 6: who enjoys the app that's turning twenty today YouTube. Cliff
Speaker 6: is a junior at Quincy High only knows a world
Speaker 6: where YouTube has always been here. But lest we forget,
Speaker 6: it was on this date in two thousand and five
Speaker 6: the first grainy video was posted to YouTube. It's been
Speaker 6: entertaining us ever since.
Speaker 2: I posted videos to make my friends laugh. It's pretty
Speaker 2: fun and it is.
Speaker 6: Always so good about never taking itself too seriously. Hence
Speaker 6: their twentieth birthday video they posted on the official YouTube
Speaker 6: channel a rick Roll to celebrate YouTube's twentieth and here's
Speaker 6: to twenty more and Quincy Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's news radio and.
Speaker 2: You can find us on at WBZ News Radio Boston.
Speaker 2: Today would have been a very special birthday for the
Speaker 2: great playwright from Stratford upon Avon. Oh that this.
Speaker 5: Two solid fast.
Speaker 7: This would have been Shakespeare's four hundred and sixty first birthday.
Speaker 7: In his honors. Sotheby's has just announced the sale of
Speaker 7: the first four editions of his collected works.
Speaker 1: How's the Winter of our Discom attendance.
Speaker 7: It'll be the first time since nineteen eighty nine that
Speaker 7: a set of the first, second, third, and fourthfolios are
Speaker 7: offered at auction as a single lot. It's expected to
Speaker 7: sell or up to six million dollars on May twenty third.
Speaker 7: By the way, today is also the anniversary of Shakespeare's
Speaker 7: death in sixteen sixteen. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
Speaker 2: Massachusett's residence filing for jobless benefits can now count on
Speaker 2: assistance for a little while longer. Unemployment recipients can now
Speaker 2: receive benefits for a maximum of thirty weeks. That's up
Speaker 2: from a max twenty six weeks. This extension is triggered
Speaker 2: by rising unemployment rates, specifically when one of the state's
Speaker 2: metro areas tops five point one percent across a twelve
Speaker 2: month average. New federal data show the Springfield area just
Speaker 2: hit five point two percent for their unemployment rate. A
Speaker 2: business lobbying organization, the n FIB, is calling for reform,
Speaker 2: arguing the state's current system is putting too much strain
Speaker 2: on local businesses. Another streaming service is about to crack
Speaker 2: down on password.
Speaker 1: Sharing subscribers to max, We'll start getting subtled and not
Speaker 1: so subtle warnings if multiple users are sharing account passwords
Speaker 1: outside the home.
Speaker 3: And then as we go through twenty five, you're going
Speaker 3: to see the filters get tighter and tighter. We think
Speaker 3: that's a meaningful growth driver, likely more and so begins
Speaker 3: to kick in in the back half of twenty five
Speaker 3: and into twenty six.
Speaker 1: JB. Perett is head of Streaming at Warner Brothers Discovery
Speaker 1: and discuss the strategy at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit.
Speaker 1: Disney Plus and Hulu are also conducting a crackdown on
Speaker 1: password sharing. Rory O'Neil WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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