Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio redefining local news seventy
Speaker 1: one degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. May during now excuse to
Speaker 1: the day at the Karen Reid red trial in Denham,
Speaker 1: had a Knowles with the vast State Police crime Lab
Speaker 1: finished up testifying this afternoon. She had calculated how drunk
Speaker 1: read would have been when she allegedly hit John o'keef
Speaker 1: with her SUV.
Speaker 2: So you calculated the defendants blood alcohol concentration to be
Speaker 2: between point one four and point two eight at twelve
Speaker 2: forty five am on January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Yes. During cross examination, the defense points out her calculations
Speaker 1: were based on testing that was done by a third
Speaker 1: party hospital.
Speaker 4: Basically, you cannot personally vouch for the ethanol testing that
Speaker 4: was performed at Good Samarian.
Speaker 1: Correct, that's accurate.
Speaker 5: The reliability of the results that my calculations were based on.
Speaker 4: My calculations are only as good as the numbers that
Speaker 4: I was provided.
Speaker 1: Court will resume in Norfolk Superior Court on Monday. We're
Speaker 1: expecting a full week of testimony next week. Another promise
Speaker 1: from the President to take away federal dollars from Harvard University,
Speaker 1: WBC's jabal Letts and Cambridge with reaction.
Speaker 6: Things are on campus that don't function like they used
Speaker 6: to because they can't because if nobody. Students at Harvard
Speaker 6: say they're constantly checking headlines in the school's ongoing feud
Speaker 6: with President Trump. I think it's a shame. You know.
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people personally affected by it.
Speaker 1: I know researchers who can't do research.
Speaker 3: I almost I have a research job.
Speaker 4: I almost didn't get the job.
Speaker 6: At the crack of dawn. The President says in his
Speaker 6: truth social account that he will rescind Harvard's tax exempt status,
Speaker 6: saying it's what they deserve. The Crimson responds in a
Speaker 6: statement saying, not only does the Commander in Chief not
Speaker 6: have the legal basis to do so, the move would
Speaker 6: swipe billions in financial aid and research funding.
Speaker 1: Some of my money is being paid for privately by
Speaker 1: a Professor's.
Speaker 6: Battle began not long after President Trump regained the office.
Speaker 6: He accuses Harvard of doing little to condemn anti semitism
Speaker 6: on campus. In Cambridge, JWILLTWBZ Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1: President Trump's twenty twenty six budget plan would slash non
Speaker 1: defense domestics spending by one hundred and sixty three billion dollars,
Speaker 1: while national security spending would increase. It's according to statements
Speaker 1: released by the White House today, the budget shows a
Speaker 1: desire to reign in diversity programs and initiatives to address
Speaker 1: climate change. However, the administration has yet to release details
Speaker 1: on what it wants income taxes, tariffs, or the budget
Speaker 1: deficit to be. It's been a tough flu season and
Speaker 1: more deadly than it's been in the past fifteen years,
Speaker 1: especially for children.
Speaker 5: The CDC says two hundred and sixteen children died of
Speaker 5: the flu this season, the highest number since the swine
Speaker 5: flu pandemic in twenty nine to ten. The number could
Speaker 5: go even higher. Last year's flu season wasn't counted fully
Speaker 5: until autumn. Pediatricians say one big reason for fatalities is
Speaker 5: fewer kids are getting flu shots. Less than half of
Speaker 5: all children got vaccinated against the flu this season, down
Speaker 5: from sixty four percent five years ago.
Speaker 1: That is ABC's Sherry Preston. Beginning Wednesday, history gets underway
Speaker 1: in Vatican City, the College of cardinals will meet in
Speaker 1: conclave to select a new pope. Preparations today going up
Speaker 1: in smoke, so to speak, the installation of the chimney
Speaker 1: out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal AA or
Speaker 1: nay when it comes to the election of the new Pope.
Speaker 1: And mostly cloudy skies as we head into the evening tonight.
Speaker 1: There could be a straight thundershower later on. Not much
Speaker 1: around here now in terms of precipitation, in fact, nothing
Speaker 1: at all. The precipitation is back off into New York State,
Speaker 1: so anything that does survive the trip will take a
Speaker 1: while to get here. There's some precipitation that's crossed over
Speaker 1: into Vermont now, but that's a little bit further up
Speaker 1: to the north, so we'll see how the night progresses.
Speaker 1: Most of us will stay dry most of the time,
Speaker 1: at least sixty for the low tonight, and then intervals
Speaker 1: of clouds at sun Tomorrow. It will be breezy, it
Speaker 1: will be warm, it will be humid. Temperatures will get
Speaker 1: into the eighties and the warmest spots and will fire
Speaker 1: off a couple of thundershowers and storms in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Some of those could have flooding downpours and strong gusty winds.
Speaker 1: Temperatures will be only in the sixties over the south
Speaker 1: coast Capean Islands, and then close to sixty for the
Speaker 1: low Tomorrow night with a couple of showers lingering. Someday
Speaker 1: we're in the mid sixties in Boston, maybe close to
Speaker 1: seventy inland with clouds and some showers, and then Monday
Speaker 1: a chill in the air fifty two to fifty six
Speaker 1: for the high clouds with some rain and drizzle. Right
Speaker 1: now it is seventy one degree see in Boston. A
Speaker 1: musician from the South Shore hits the road with family
Speaker 1: on his mind. W Buzy's DRUMO Holland with the tail.
Speaker 3: J Pisarros is as good as it gets around these parts.
Speaker 3: Little piece on tour right now with the band sticks,
Speaker 3: playing sold out venues in the Midwest. But he has
Speaker 3: been reluctant to tour in recent weeks because last month
Speaker 3: he went to check in on his dad and found
Speaker 3: him on the floor. Dad had had a freak accident
Speaker 3: a fall and broke his neck and been laying there
Speaker 3: for fourteen hours. Weeks later, now, mister Passaros has got
Speaker 3: some feeling back at his feet, his grip is showing
Speaker 3: signs of life. Jay's mother and others have told Jay
Speaker 3: to get back out there play your music. Mister Pesaro's
Speaker 3: is a fighter and actually the guy's more used to
Speaker 3: acting as his son's roady tour in the country. Needless
Speaker 3: to say, the two are very close. Jay calls him
Speaker 3: as Superman. J Pisaros would like to thank everybody for
Speaker 3: the support and just asked that everyone out there hugged
Speaker 3: their loved ones. J Pisaros, the Pasaro's family thinking about
Speaker 3: you all here and pulling for dad. Drue moholland WBZ
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Speaker 3: Joe's making it.
Speaker 1: Starbucks is making changes with its sales slowing.
Speaker 4: The coffee chain is cutting back on automation and we'll
Speaker 4: hire more baristas instead to give its restaurants a more
Speaker 4: human touch. Starbucks has been testing new technology called Siren
Speaker 4: at some of its stores to make it easier for
Speaker 4: employees to make drinks and food, but the chain has
Speaker 4: decided adding baristas will work better. The company is also
Speaker 4: working on a new algorithm to lower its in store
Speaker 4: and drive through way times to less than four minutes
Speaker 4: Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Speaker 1: An art piece by Banksy is being uncovered after more
Speaker 1: than a decade in storage. The slab of Brooklyn wall
Speaker 1: covered with graffiti is going to be auctioned off later
Speaker 1: this month. Some proceeds will be going to the American
Speaker 1: Heart Association. The family that owns the piece, called Battle
Speaker 1: to Survive a Broken Heart, says they are honoring their father,
Speaker 1: who died of a heart attack. He worked in a warehouse,
Speaker 1: the warehouse where Banksy stenciled that image in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's News Radio