Speaker 1: Sonny in sixty eight degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Good Saturday morning is always thanks for tuning in. I'm
Speaker 1: Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. A summerlike mix with possible
Speaker 1: thunderstorms tossed in clouds.
Speaker 2: It's signed for the rest of today.
Speaker 3: Breeze and warm, a thunderstorm in the area, especially to
Speaker 3: the west of the city.
Speaker 2: Any thunderstorm could produce gusty wins in a drenching downpour.
Speaker 1: And that's ACU weather meteorologist John feerickhes between seventy six
Speaker 1: and eighty the full forecasts coming up. A key witness
Speaker 1: in the Karen Reid murder retrial faces another grueling day
Speaker 1: on the stand to wrap up the week in Norfolk
Speaker 1: Superior Court yesterday, w BZ Suzanne Sausville.
Speaker 4: Report, Jen mckabe was grilled for hours by defense attorney
Speaker 4: Alan Jackson. He questioned her about her testimony before a
Speaker 4: grand jury in June twenty twenty three, trying to point
Speaker 4: out discrepancies with her current testimony. She admitted to making
Speaker 4: a few calls the morning of John's death, but denied
Speaker 4: calling her sister Nicole, even though records show with thirty
Speaker 4: eight second call to her sister.
Speaker 5: There's nothing nefarious. I remembered who I called. I didn't
Speaker 5: go back and look at phone records.
Speaker 6: I didn't say it was neharius. Why would you use
Speaker 6: the word.
Speaker 5: Etharius because there's nothing about me calling my sister that
Speaker 5: is nefarious, and I feel like you're insinuating it might
Speaker 5: be and it's not.
Speaker 4: She was also asked if she and her family used
Speaker 4: a group chat to coordinate versions of events that happened.
Speaker 4: McCabe said no. Suzanne Sasville WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: A former mass Date Police sergeant, is found guilty in
Speaker 1: his role in a bribery scheme. Gary Cedarquist of Stowton,
Speaker 1: is one of six people accused of taking bribes in
Speaker 1: exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driving tests, whether
Speaker 1: they actually passed or not. Cedar Quest found guilty of extortion,
Speaker 1: conspiracy to commit extortion, mail fraud, and more. He'll be
Speaker 1: back in court in July for sentencing. Cedar Quest dishonably
Speaker 1: dis charged as a state trooper. Last year. President Trump
Speaker 1: spending another weekend at mar A Lago, but his administration's
Speaker 1: work continues on a number of fronts. Here's CBS's Broadley Blackburn.
Speaker 3: In an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court, the
Speaker 3: Trump administration asked to clear the way for the Department
Speaker 3: of Government Efficiency to access sensitive social security data with
Speaker 3: personally identifiable information on millions of Americans, supposedly to find fraud.
Speaker 3: Billionaire Elon Musk has said he's winding down his time
Speaker 3: with DOZE, but the administration says the department's work to
Speaker 3: cut government waste will continue. Friday, the President also gave
Speaker 3: Congress his budget blueprint, calling for one hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: three billion dollars in spending cuts. It targets public health, education,
Speaker 3: and clean energy programs, but would not touch defence, border securities,
Speaker 3: social security, Medicare, or Medicaid.
Speaker 1: Maine reaches a settlement with the Trump administration ending a
Speaker 1: federal freeze on funding for a child nutrition program in
Speaker 1: the state, and now the ACU. The forecast a mix
Speaker 1: of sun and clouds. It's going to be breezy and warm,
Speaker 1: a thunderstorm in the area mainly west and north of
Speaker 1: the city that could produce some downpours. Also see some
Speaker 1: strong winds. Highs around eighty degrees, though holding in the
Speaker 1: sixties for the South coast Cape in the Islands. Tonight,
Speaker 1: a couple of showers in a thunderstorm, mostly from ninety
Speaker 1: five westward. We'll see a low tonight, mild low of
Speaker 1: fifty eight degrees. Tomorrow a couple of showers around high's
Speaker 1: near seventies, so not as warm as today Tomorrow. On Monday,
Speaker 1: I should say back to work. Highs in the load
Speaker 1: to mid fifties with a mix of clouds, rain and
Speaker 1: drizzle at times. Tuesday, remaining cloudy with some rain and
Speaker 1: drizzle likely again on Tuesday with the high of just
Speaker 1: sixty one. It's mostly sunny and right now at sixty
Speaker 1: eight degrees in Boston at eleven oh five. Back to News,
Speaker 1: Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump's order ending public broadcasting
Speaker 1: funding unconstitutional, and the Senator warns about a fight with
Speaker 1: Congress down the road.
Speaker 7: The executive order to funding public broadcasting, says Markey, is
Speaker 7: a direct threats the survival of local media stations nationwide.
Speaker 8: Which are a lifeload for rural in urban communities alike
Speaker 8: and offer everything from educational children's programming to life saving
Speaker 8: emergency alerts.
Speaker 7: Ur The more the move is unconstitutional, says Marky noting
Speaker 7: that Article one gives Congress sole authority and the funding
Speaker 7: of public broadcasting. The Massachusetts Democrat predicts by partisan resistance
Speaker 7: to the move. Last week, Markey and Alaska Republican Lisa
Speaker 7: Murkowski sent a letter of concern to the White House
Speaker 7: when the suggestion of the funding public broadcasting was first floated.
Speaker 7: Kendall BILWBSY Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: An investigation continues in Taunton this after shots ring out
Speaker 1: in broad daylight. Polly say it happened at about eight
Speaker 1: twenty yesterday morning near the intersection of Fifth and Westwater Street.
Speaker 1: The driver a driver opening fire, hitting another vehicle twice.
Speaker 1: No injuries reported. One person has been arrested. All right,
Speaker 1: if you're a traveler but don't have your real ID yet,
Speaker 1: you now have just less than five days to get one.
Speaker 1: But CPS's Brad Gibson says there is a work around.
Speaker 2: So what do you do if you don't have a
Speaker 2: certified real ID with that little gold star in the
Speaker 2: upper right corner.
Speaker 6: You've got options a US passport, but you can also
Speaker 6: bring a permanent resident card, a border crossing card, a
Speaker 6: US passport card, or a DODID.
Speaker 2: That's John Breo, a travel expert with an actual consumer league.
Speaker 2: Eighty one percent of travelers already have a real ID,
Speaker 2: but in either case, beginning May seventh, I.
Speaker 6: Certainly anticipate that there are going to be a lot
Speaker 6: of people who show up at the airport without real ID,
Speaker 6: and that can lead to delays.
Speaker 2: Brad Gibson for CBS News.
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