Speaker 1: This is w b Z Boston's news radio redefining local
Speaker 1: news sixteen degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening at the Karen Reid retrial.
Speaker 1: The jury's been hearing testimony for hours from medical examiner
Speaker 1: doctor Irene Scordi Bellow. She determined that John O'Keefe's death
Speaker 1: was caused by blunt force trauma and hypothermia, but she
Speaker 1: did not determine a manner of death. During cross examination,
Speaker 1: the defense asked her about injuries to O'Keefe's arm.
Speaker 2: Is it correct that you, in your autopsy report did
Speaker 2: not determine the cause of those wounds to mister O'Keefe's radar.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 1: The defense argues that the injuries could have been from
Speaker 1: a dog bite. The Supreme Court's heard arguments over the
Speaker 1: authority of judges to block President Trump's executive order ending
Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. The order would deny citizenship to children born
Speaker 1: in the US to parents here illegally. ABC Steven Portnoy
Speaker 1: has more.
Speaker 3: The immediate question for the justices is whether district court
Speaker 3: judges should have the power to block the President's order nationwide,
Speaker 3: or whether more opponents should have to file more lawsuits.
Speaker 3: Liberal Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, So the administration appears to
Speaker 3: be playing catch me if you can, where everybody has
Speaker 3: to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order
Speaker 3: for the government to stop violating people's rights. Conservative Justice
Speaker 3: Brett Kavanaugh appeared to worry about the implications of a
Speaker 3: win for the administration.
Speaker 1: They're going to be suits filed all over the place
Speaker 1: seeking class wide treatment.
Speaker 3: Stephen Portnoy ABC News Washington. There are new estimates from
Speaker 3: the Census Bureau. The Joe, Massachusetts population grew by nearly
Speaker 3: seventy thousand from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: It's partly due to record levels of internal migration. Secretary
Speaker 3: of State Bill Gavin says it illustrates the importance of
Speaker 3: ensuring all residents are counted in the next federal census.
Speaker 1: Because of the state's largest immigrant population in the city
Speaker 1: of Revere, experience the most population gross tount that sought decreases,
Speaker 1: mostly in western Massachusetts and Barnstable County. American consumers were
Speaker 1: spending last month trying to beat the price hikes expected
Speaker 1: to come from the President's tariffs on imported goods.
Speaker 4: Retail sales last month came in a tenth of a
Speaker 4: percent above March, according to the Census Bureau, down from
Speaker 4: the one point four percent surge in February. Sales of
Speaker 4: cars and trucks slew dramatically from one month to the next. Separately,
Speaker 4: the Labor Department reports that weekly jobless claims were unchanged
Speaker 4: last week after a substantial decline the week before.
Speaker 1: His ABC's Jim Ryan. A proposal in Washington to trim
Speaker 1: food Aid could increase the Massachusetts share of the program's
Speaker 1: costs by hundreds of millions of dollars a year, so
Speaker 1: says Governor Morri Healey, who warned members of Congress in
Speaker 1: a letter. The governor wrote to leaders of the House
Speaker 1: Agriculture Committee, contending that potential changes to the Supplemental Nutrition
Speaker 1: Assistance Program, or SNAP, would shift significant costs to states
Speaker 1: that they did not plan for and cannot afford. The
Speaker 1: Agriculture Committee this week advanced a bill that could cut
Speaker 1: up the three hundred billion dollars in federal spending on SNAP.
Speaker 1: We've been watching all of this rain and shower activity.
Speaker 1: There's been a few breakaway showers that have gotten closer
Speaker 1: to Boston, but most of the activities off to the west.
Speaker 1: As promised. There was this cell that popped up and
Speaker 1: ran through Boston Harbor. Well, we said it would hit
Speaker 1: in the hot and lin and it is now hitting
Speaker 1: the hot and linn and swamps good with a little
Speaker 1: bit of rain. It's not a big cell, but nonetheless,
Speaker 1: if you're under it, maybe the umbrella needs to come up.
Speaker 1: It's out to the west where we're really seeing some
Speaker 1: heavy downpours Wayland, Natick, Framingham, Ashland. Back towards Southborough and Molborough,
Speaker 1: there's been some heavier rain. Not going to name all
Speaker 1: the towns of course you know where you live, but
Speaker 1: there is some rain, shower activity and even some heavier
Speaker 1: stuff back toward Worcester. A lot of this is lifting
Speaker 1: off to the north. There's still a bunch of heavier
Speaker 1: rain out along the Turnpike and Brimfield stir Bridge out
Speaker 1: toward the eighty four exchange, but this is pushing off
Speaker 1: this precipitation again to the north, up toward Levenster, Fitchbury,
Speaker 1: up along the Route two corridor. So something to watch
Speaker 1: out for here four ninety five corridor, especially the more
Speaker 1: central part of it has been under some of this rain,
Speaker 1: so that's what we're dealing with this afternoon. Eventually we'll
Speaker 1: stop dealing with it and just have some clouds and fog.
Speaker 1: Tonight fifty eight for the low. Tomorrow, we're into the seventies.
Speaker 1: There'll be some clouds and fog to start. There'll be
Speaker 1: some clouds hanging on through the day. There may be
Speaker 1: a stray afternoon shower as well, and then a rather
Speaker 1: cloudy night Tomorrow night as stray shower as possible. Saturday,
Speaker 1: some sunshinel breakout. We'll get in on some pretty okay
Speaker 1: weather for a while, but still some thundershower activity that
Speaker 1: may get in here, especially afternoon on Saturday. Temperatures near seventy,
Speaker 1: mid seventies for some of us on Sunday, with some
Speaker 1: sun and some clouds and still the risk of a
Speaker 1: scattered shower. Right now, we're at sixty degrees in Boston.
Speaker 1: A ceremony at the State House honoring some graduates of
Speaker 1: the Massachusetts University System who went on to become educators.
Speaker 1: Wz's Carl Stevens would moore.
Speaker 5: There are nine campuses in the state university system, and
Speaker 5: this educator alumni Awards ceremony was to honor nine educators
Speaker 5: who graduated from the system's teacher Preparation program. One of
Speaker 5: those honored was Geene Wallace, a mass College of Art graduate,
Speaker 5: has been teaching art to students of all ages for
Speaker 5: more than twenty years. Her advice to any young would
Speaker 5: be teachers.
Speaker 6: You really have to love what you're doing to be good,
Speaker 6: because if you cannot underestimate the amount of effort and
Speaker 6: time that goes into teaching outside of the classroom time
Speaker 6: and so you have to be invested. You have to
Speaker 6: really really want that.
Speaker 5: You have to love what you're doing, Love what you're
Speaker 5: doing well. The eight others honored have different fields of expertise,
Speaker 5: they all have that one thing in common, a love
Speaker 5: for teaching. From the State House, Carl Stevens WBZ Boston's
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