Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news. Well,
Speaker 1: look at this Thursday already in Boston, and who are
Speaker 1: right back at it. We've got cloudy skies and a
Speaker 1: few showers to wake us up this morning. It is
Speaker 1: a mild fifty seven degrees here in the city. Six
Speaker 1: o'clock and the news at six is brought to us
Speaker 1: by your New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel
Speaker 1: drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us this Thursday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. It is metal off the middle time.
Speaker 1: Cloudy today included in yesterday, a bit of rain in
Speaker 1: the area this morning, a straight shower this afternoon, or
Speaker 1: high today sixty two to sixty six. It is w
Speaker 1: b z ACHI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg, and it looks
Speaker 1: like rain is going to take us at least showers
Speaker 1: into the weekend as well. Another food fight at Market
Speaker 1: Basket Supermarket, says the board of Director's sidelines beloved longtime
Speaker 1: CEO ar Thir T. De Mulis. He's on paid leave
Speaker 1: now as the board conducts an investigation into what it
Speaker 1: fears is a sinister plot to stage an employee walk out.
Speaker 1: Official say de Mulis is frustrated over being required to
Speaker 1: get approval from the board for his everyday decisions. De Mulis,
Speaker 1: whose son and daughter are also on the outs of
Speaker 1: the company, say the rest of the board is trying
Speaker 1: to cover up its tracks on a possible sale of
Speaker 1: that company. At the Karen Reid trial, the defense continues
Speaker 1: to try to poke holes in the theory of a
Speaker 1: crash expert that Read backed her suv at an accelerated
Speaker 1: rate of speed into John O'Keefe, leaving her boyfriend for
Speaker 1: dead in the snow more than three years ago. Possible,
Speaker 1: that's not probable, no possible, anything as possible, and on
Speaker 1: deal possibilities at deal in probabilities. The final witness of
Speaker 1: the prosecution remains under cross examination, Judson Welcher. After four
Speaker 1: hours of defense grilling Reads, lawyers say they are about
Speaker 1: halfway done with Welcher. It is a half day of
Speaker 1: testimony today. The defense is expected to get the case
Speaker 1: before this week is out. At the Sean Diddy Combs
Speaker 1: trial and Federal Court in Manhattan, another witness testifies that
Speaker 1: the one time hip hop mogul attacked his longtime girlfriend,
Speaker 1: Cassie Ventura. Combs is accused of sex trafficking and racketeering
Speaker 1: charges in what prosecutors say was a long running criminal enterprise. Meantime,
Speaker 1: Cassie Ventura, just days after her blistering testimony, is a
Speaker 1: new mom for the third time. The aspiring singer gives
Speaker 1: birth to a bouncing baby boy. Ventura and her husband
Speaker 1: are also parents to two young girls as well. In
Speaker 1: the NBA Playoffs, the Oklahoma City Thunder returned to the finals.
Speaker 1: They send the Minnesota Wolves home for the summer, and
Speaker 1: for the third consecutive year, the Florida Panthers returned to
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Final in the NHL with a victory
Speaker 1: over the Carolina Hurricanes. And your Boston Red Sox are
Speaker 1: on quite a losing spin. They're circling the drain, and
Speaker 1: they're headed to Atlanta in a tough weekend matchup Coming up.
Speaker 1: WBC's Drew m'holland is here with an inside look. Good
Speaker 1: morning Andrew, Good morning Jeffrey. They won't lose today, right,
Speaker 1: theoretically not? I understand Major League Baseball and a rare
Speaker 1: move would like to give them an additional loss. These
Speaker 1: guys are inventing new ways to lose, aren't they? Blown leads.
Speaker 2: We had two runners on third base at one point yesterday,
Speaker 2: and in extra innings with a lead, we do this.
Speaker 1: Rop ball hit to second base.
Speaker 3: They're going to come home the time the ride would
Speaker 3: be an understatement, Jeffrey.
Speaker 2: That throw is way wide.
Speaker 1: They can see this kind of baseball at little league
Speaker 1: fields all over the Commonwealth. They are ruining. Oh it's
Speaker 1: really we didn't think this was going to happen, but
Speaker 1: they've managed to do it yet again. Are you done
Speaker 1: with them?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Mean, I need something to do for the rest of
Speaker 1: the summer. It's not even summer yet, and here we go.
Speaker 1: All right, Drew, thank you. We knew it couldn't last.
Speaker 1: Our great stretch of weather has apparently come to a
Speaker 1: screeching halt here in Greater Boston, and this morning there
Speaker 1: are a couple of breaks in the clouds, but otherwise
Speaker 1: we are seeing some spotty showers just exiting the coastline
Speaker 1: this morning, so otherwise we're looking at most cloudy skies.
Speaker 1: It is fifty seven degrees as we get started on
Speaker 1: this Thursday morning. High temperatures will only be in the
Speaker 1: low sixties today, and we're going to see intermittent rain
Speaker 1: and drizzle throughout the entire day. It continues cloudy with
Speaker 1: a couple of showers overnight. Tonight, temperature's really holding pretty
Speaker 1: much steady in the upper fifties. Then tomorrow, a mixture
Speaker 1: of clouds and some sunshine. We cannot rule out the
Speaker 1: possibility of a shower or two. Daytime highs will be
Speaker 1: warm and sticky in the low to mid seventies tomorrow,
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, it looks like for what is this maybe
Speaker 1: the twelfth consecutive weekend that we're going to see some
Speaker 1: precipitation that's going to be with us on Saturday before
Speaker 1: things start to dry out on Sunday. Right now in Boston,
Speaker 1: cloudy skies, couple of rain drops out in about It's
Speaker 1: fifty seven as we get started on this Thursday morning
Speaker 1: at six oh six. Salem is often known for its
Speaker 1: dark and sinister history. But one local is trying to
Speaker 1: put candy on the map. What are you doing here today?
Speaker 1: Picking up girls?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: This is Fred Caller, but they're all too fast. A
Speaker 2: guy I met at mark get basket with lots of
Speaker 2: dad jokes and a shopping car full of EM and MS.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't believe all the em and MS, I have
Speaker 1: in my house really expresso Jlipano. Can I come see it? Yes?
Speaker 2: It worked out great because he's a nearly eighty year
Speaker 2: old disabled veteran out shopping for the first time since
Speaker 2: his wife passed. He needed help carrying groceries. I needed
Speaker 2: to see this collection. The first room you walk into
Speaker 2: in his home is covered floor two ceiling with Eminem merch.
Speaker 1: Cuckoo, clocks, sack scratches.
Speaker 2: You got even more over here he's going. It extends
Speaker 2: into his living room, dining room. He even has entire
Speaker 2: closets full of rare Eminem flavors. But he's not trying
Speaker 2: to get rich here. This is just something to bring
Speaker 2: him a little joy.
Speaker 1: It costs nothing to be polite.
Speaker 2: Matt Shear WBZ Boston's News radio and check out Matt's
Speaker 2: report on our TikTok page.
Speaker 1: Find us at WBZ News Radio. Well, it was over
Speaker 1: really before it began. Elon Musk is out at the
Speaker 1: White House. His exit really comes as no surprise. He's
Speaker 1: already stepped back considerably to attend to his struggling companies,
Speaker 1: but he announces on social media that his time as
Speaker 1: special government employee is now up and thanks President Trump
Speaker 1: on his exit for his trust in running DOGE. Despite
Speaker 1: eroding promises to cut two trillion dollars in the federal budget,
Speaker 1: that number repeatedly has been lowered to its current estimate
Speaker 1: of about one hundred and fifty billion dollars. The exit
Speaker 1: comes just after Musk criticizes the President's budget bill as
Speaker 1: being deeply flawed. Despite threats from the President, most US
Speaker 1: businesses say they plan to pass price ikes onto US
Speaker 1: new survey finds sixty percent of companies planned to pass
Speaker 1: the tariff based increases to customers. The results come just
Speaker 1: before the US Trade Court blocked the tariff policy on
Speaker 1: grounds it exceeded the President's power. Lingerie shop Victoria's Secret
Speaker 1: really does keep a secret.
Speaker 3: If you were hoping to shop for undies or pjs online,
Speaker 3: you could be out of luck. Victoria's Secrets website has
Speaker 3: shut down because of a security threat. A disclaimer on
Speaker 3: the home page says it's taken action as a precaution
Speaker 3: and the company's team, along with third party experts, are
Speaker 3: working around the clock to fully restore operations. In the meantime,
Speaker 3: the lingerie chain reminds customers both its Victorious Secret and
Speaker 3: Pink stores nationwide are still open. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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