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Speaker 1: get started this morning. Good morning, It's six o'clock under
Speaker 1: mainly clear skies. It's thirty two degrees here in Boston.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us on this Wednesday morning. I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff Brown. It's the season of the.
Speaker 2: Witch chilly today with some sun followed by increasing clouds.
Speaker 2: We'll have a little rain and vis little at times tonight.
Speaker 1: As in which way do we go? WBZ achi weather
Speaker 1: meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Only in the forties today, but tomorrow
Speaker 1: we're back in the sixties. It's Global tariff Day and
Speaker 1: no one really knows yet what that means. President Trump
Speaker 1: says he's got a playbook of how retaliatory levies will
Speaker 1: roll out and affect the rest of the planet, and
Speaker 1: he will reveal those plans to the rest of us
Speaker 1: this afternoon from the White House. Experts say it is
Speaker 1: say sure bet. The long promised twenty five percent tariffs
Speaker 1: will hit Canada and Mexico and more levies will include China.
Speaker 1: It is also expected that the so called Dirty fifteen countries,
Speaker 1: which account for the bulk of trading with the United States,
Speaker 1: will be affected to some degree. They also include the
Speaker 1: European Union Nations, Vietnam, Japan, and India. Time is of
Speaker 1: the essence for TikTok. President Trump will listen to final
Speaker 1: pitches from American companies willing to step to the plate
Speaker 1: to buy the social media app from its Chinese owners.
Speaker 1: Today at the White House, one of the President's first
Speaker 1: executive orders since taking office was to give a seventy
Speaker 1: five day lifeline to TikTok to sell itself or risk
Speaker 1: being shut down in the United States. A deadline day
Speaker 1: is Saturday, but the President says he's confident a deal
Speaker 1: will be struck between now and then. New research shows
Speaker 1: more Americans are avoiding the doctor's office these days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, simple answer, why it's too expensive to get medical treatment.
Speaker 3: The latest pull from Gallup reveals eleven percent of US
Speaker 3: over the last three months say treatment is not an
Speaker 3: option because of the price tag, and there is a
Speaker 3: widening gap among blacks and Hispanics. It's the highest level
Speaker 3: of unaffordability in four years. The report shows white and
Speaker 3: high earning hosseholds are not affected. Druvaholland WBC Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1: How much of New England is at a loss today?
Speaker 1: With millions of dollars in federal funding of Planned Parenthood
Speaker 1: centers yanked away. More than four million bucks vanish across
Speaker 1: four states in this region. New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island
Speaker 1: all hit in the latest round of austerity. The latest
Speaker 1: target of DOGE and the Trump administration nationwide planned Parenthood
Speaker 1: was to use that money to pay for annual exams,
Speaker 1: cancer treatment, and birth control. There's no telling if that
Speaker 1: money will ever come back. So far, it appears that
Speaker 1: Massachusetts and Vermont are unscathed, at least for now. Le
Speaker 1: Bruins continue to circle the drain as Washington's Alex Ovechkin
Speaker 1: gets one goal closer to Hockey's goat Bees lose the Garden.
Speaker 1: Celtics will go for ten wins in a row Tonight.
Speaker 1: They're back ated in the Garden against Miami. Later on
Speaker 1: The Red Sox Traveling Road Show resets tonight in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: First pitch six thirty five from Iceman to his role
Speaker 1: in Batman Forever Hollywood remembers a fan favorite.
Speaker 4: Savy eats Maverick. The Kid eat Maverick. That's why I
Speaker 4: fought for you. That's why you're still here.
Speaker 1: Val Kilmer's most recent role in Top Gun Maverick. His
Speaker 1: voice altered electronically. His family says Kilmer had been treated
Speaker 1: for throat cancer for several years, but they say his
Speaker 1: death is due to complications from pneumonia. Val Kilmer was
Speaker 1: sixty five clouds. As we get started on this Wednesday
Speaker 1: morning in Boston, it is ridiculously cold once again, thirty
Speaker 1: two degrees here in the city, which means that likely
Speaker 1: in many of our suburbs where you're waking up this morning,
Speaker 1: the dashboard in the car reads in the twenties. That's
Speaker 1: not unusual, seeing a number of twenties across the board
Speaker 1: this morning. This is really just a reminder that winter
Speaker 1: has not entirely left behind. Temperatures today only going to
Speaker 1: get into the mid forties. We will see some sunshine
Speaker 1: along the way. It's going to be breezy once again,
Speaker 1: so even while it's in the forties, it's gonna be needing.
Speaker 1: You're going to be needing a winter coat more than
Speaker 1: likely throughout much of the day today. Things do tend
Speaker 1: to change this time of year rather rapidly. Overnight Tonight
Speaker 1: we might see a couple of snowflakes, but then the
Speaker 1: temperatures will rise tomorrow. We'll be back in the sixties
Speaker 1: by tomorrow afternoon. There might be some showers on our
Speaker 1: doorstep later on tomorrow as well, and then into Friday.
Speaker 1: Friday looks like it's actually going to be a pretty
Speaker 1: decent day with clouds breaking for sunshine, high temperatures in
Speaker 1: the mid to upper sixties, maybe near seventy degrees. This
Speaker 1: is opening day for the Red Sox by the way
Speaker 1: at Fenway Park against the Cardinals, and it does look
Speaker 1: like there's a reasonable expectation we might see seventy on
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon. Right now, it's a far cry thirty two
Speaker 1: degrees partly cloudy skies. As we get started at six
Speaker 1: oh six on this Wednesday morning, it is time to
Speaker 1: get those steps in today. Walk sign is on the
Speaker 1: cross now.
Speaker 2: Participating in National Walking Days just as easy as putting
Speaker 2: one foot in front of the other.
Speaker 1: It's how many of us get around.
Speaker 2: And sometimes it can seem faster than trying to navigate
Speaker 2: through Boston while cars and trucks are stuck in traffic,
Speaker 2: just keep a close eye on the cobblestone and brick sidewalks.
Speaker 2: It's also good for you, as it's recommended to get
Speaker 2: thirty to sixty minutes of walking in a day to
Speaker 2: improve your health, both physical and mental. In the West End,
Speaker 2: James throwhas w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Karen Reid tells supporters that being back on trial for
Speaker 1: murder is kind of like de Jarvus. Jury selection continues
Speaker 1: this morning in the Karen Reid case in Norfolk Superior Court.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of potential jurors will be asked to fill out
Speaker 1: a three page questionnaire for starters before being vetted by lawyers.
Speaker 1: By that process, two jurors have been selected in the
Speaker 1: murder retrial in the twenty twenty two killing of Boston
Speaker 1: police officer John O'Keeffe in Kenton. Judge Beverly Canoni says
Speaker 1: she expects jury selection could take several weeks. A retired
Speaker 1: Massachusetts State Police trooper changes his mind and is now
Speaker 1: expected to plead guilty to charges connected to a commercial
Speaker 1: driver's license scam. Sixty four year old Calvin Butner of
Speaker 1: Halifax will change his plea on several charges He and
Speaker 1: several others were involved in a conspiracy to hand out
Speaker 1: these licenses to application to applicants who either failed the
Speaker 1: exam or didn't take the exam at all. Others caught
Speaker 1: up in the scheme include current and former state police troopers.
Speaker 1: Butner will appear in Boston Federal Court on Monday for
Speaker 1: a change of plea. Hearing the charges as they stand
Speaker 1: could send Butner to prison if convicted for more than
Speaker 1: one hundred years. A timeless shop finally goes silent in Arlington.
Speaker 1: Cambridge Typewriter in Arlington, Massachusetts, was the last place in
Speaker 1: the state where you could get your wonderful old manual
Speaker 1: typewriter repaired. After forty five years in business, seventy year
Speaker 1: old Tom Furrier has called it a day.
Speaker 2: Just me, that's it. That's why my customers are so excited,
Speaker 2: because I know there's nobody here.
Speaker 1: Oddly enough, he's closing it a time when typewriters are
Speaker 1: more popular than they've been in a long time.
Speaker 2: People think I'm crazy because this is the busiest I've
Speaker 2: ever been.
Speaker 1: Christopher Cruz, CBS News. Tom Farrier once got a gift
Speaker 1: of a typewriter from Tom Hanks. He tried for years
Speaker 1: to find a buyer for Cambridge typewriter, but none could
Speaker 1: be found, so Tom is off to retirements. You are
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