Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News fifty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. President Trump says there
Speaker 2: will be a nearly one month tariff delay on most
Speaker 2: products from both Canada and Mexico. The President's signing an
Speaker 2: executive order just a short time ago in the Oval Office.
Speaker 2: It delays tariffs on all goods under the United States
Speaker 2: Mexico Canada Agreement. This agreement makes the three North American
Speaker 2: nations a free trade zone. The terroriffs are delayed until
Speaker 2: April second. The President said he still plans to impose
Speaker 2: reciprocal tariffs. Then it comes after the President put an
Speaker 2: exemption on auto terriffs from the two countries yesterday. Also,
Speaker 2: Representatives has voted to center Texas Democrat Al Green two
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty four to one ninety eighth the vote
Speaker 2: after he disrupted President Trump's addressed to Congress this week.
Speaker 2: All Republicans, along with ten Democrats, voted in favor of
Speaker 2: Before the vote, Speaker Mike Johnson said the resolution was necessary.
Speaker 3: We take no pleasure in this. I gave repeated warnings
Speaker 3: to Representative Green to stand down and to sit down,
Speaker 3: and he refused to do it. He chose to deliberately
Speaker 3: violate House rules in a manner that we think is
Speaker 3: probably unprecedented in history.
Speaker 2: House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, though voted no.
Speaker 4: Republicans are playing political and partisan games with their censor
Speaker 4: resolutions because they are on the run.
Speaker 2: Green is the fifth member of Congress to be centered
Speaker 2: this decade. For now, Democratic states have a leg up.
Speaker 2: In a case brought by several states, a federal judge
Speaker 2: is issued in order blocking the Trump administration from pausing
Speaker 2: federal funding.
Speaker 5: In issuing this nationwide injunction blocking January's funding pause, where
Speaker 5: an Island based federal judge, John McConnell accused the executive
Speaker 5: branch of putting itself above Congress imposing a categorical mandate
Speaker 5: over spending. Lawmakers have already approved McConnell's ruling. Sites the
Speaker 5: Eight Year War, the Founders fought quote against a monarch's
Speaker 5: cruel reign, reminding readers that the system the Framers devised
Speaker 5: gives the House and Senate the power of the purse.
Speaker 2: That is ABC Stephen Portnoy claims for jobless benefits took
Speaker 2: a dipp last month, even more than expected.
Speaker 1: Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week. Jobless filings
Speaker 1: dropped by twenty one thousand for a total of two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one thousand, significantly fewer than analysts expected.
Speaker 1: It's another sign the labor market remained steady before an
Speaker 1: expected purge of federal government employees. The jobless claims are
Speaker 1: considered a proxy for layoffs, and some analysts expect the
Speaker 1: federal workforce slashing ordered by Elon Musk's doze effort will
Speaker 1: show up in the report in coming weeks or months.
Speaker 1: The government will release last month's jobs report tomorrow. Saga Magani, Washington.
Speaker 2: We do have a wind advisory that goes up at
Speaker 2: seven o'clock this evening for areas in eastern Massachusetts, but
Speaker 2: we do have a high wind warning for parts of
Speaker 2: central Massachusetts where the winds could gust north of fifty
Speaker 2: sixty miles an hour later on tonight. The winds will
Speaker 2: start to pick up this evening. You'll feel them and
Speaker 2: perhaps hear them shaking the house a shower or too
Speaker 2: early this evening, mostly Capean Islands. Before we clear out
Speaker 2: temperatures near thirty in the city, some upper twenties in
Speaker 2: the suburbs, and the real fields with those winds as
Speaker 2: they start to whip around, will fall back into the teens.
Speaker 2: A very windy day Tomorrow, despite plenty of sunshine, we'll
Speaker 2: only get into the low to mid forties, and with
Speaker 2: the wind it'll feel at least early like it's in
Speaker 2: the teens and twenties. Blustery Tomorrow, night thirty one for
Speaker 2: the low sun and some clouds. On Saturday, still windy,
Speaker 2: temperatures in the low forties Sunday, partly to mostly sunny
Speaker 2: high of forty two. Right now it is fifty three
Speaker 2: degrees see in Boston in a galaxy far far away
Speaker 2: now just kidding, it's in Summerville. A death star worth
Speaker 2: of Star Wars memorabilias given away. Wbz's Matt Sheer introduces
Speaker 2: us to the force behind the Big Gift.
Speaker 6: It seems like almost every Star Wars toy you could
Speaker 6: imagine is boxed up here in James Kelly's basement.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like an old guy with all this
Speaker 2: stuff and it's gotta go.
Speaker 6: Gotta go because of something involving his landlord. You didn't
Speaker 6: want to go into details.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 6: Rather than sell everything and almost certainly make big bucks.
Speaker 2: Money is an illusion.
Speaker 6: Anyway, he had a better idea.
Speaker 1: We just had that wildfire in California.
Speaker 2: I'm show a lot of those people lost their stuff.
Speaker 6: Two problems though, one shipping and two distributing. So a
Speaker 6: few days later I went back to his place with
Speaker 6: an army of stormtroopers and Jedi.
Speaker 1: Oh, you guys have blown him.
Speaker 6: We had some good news. DHL offered to ship everything
Speaker 6: for free, and we found a group called the Lost
Speaker 6: Stuffy Project, who distribute toys to kids who lost everything
Speaker 6: in La.
Speaker 5: We go to hear, We're gonna make people's lives better.
Speaker 6: This is one of my high points in life in Summerville.
Speaker 6: Matt shear WBZ Boston's.
Speaker 2: News radio, and we can say more of Matt's adventures
Speaker 2: on our Instagram and TikTok WBZ News Radio. The Massachusetts
Speaker 2: RMV is reminding you to get the real ID starting
Speaker 2: May seventh. Those flying domestically have to present a real
Speaker 2: ID or a passport. The registry says it's over fifty
Speaker 2: percent of the state already has gotten their real ID.
Speaker 2: You can only get a real ID after an in
Speaker 2: person appointment. The RMV says you can go online to
Speaker 2: see which documents are required. The R and V says
Speaker 2: you should schedule unappoyment at least three weeks before your
Speaker 2: flight in order to get that real ID on time.
Speaker 2: It's the off season for Santa, but toys, well, they're
Speaker 2: always in season. CBS's Michael George is at the International
Speaker 2: Toy Fair checking out some of the hot items that'll
Speaker 2: likely be on wish lists this year.
Speaker 4: Kids are expected to flip out for this toy Panda Cocoa,
Speaker 4: which responds to touch like a tickle. This Barbie fashion
Speaker 4: set allows kids to pick out an outfit and then
Speaker 4: use an app to create a digital character. Retro toys
Speaker 4: are also in high demand, with updated takes on products
Speaker 4: first popular decades ago. In the Memory game, Simon now
Speaker 4: has a footpad so players can repeat what Simon says.
Speaker 4: Kids can try to score a bullseye with a series
Speaker 4: of new NERF Blasters Zoe, a toy many kids may
Speaker 4: be adding to their wish lists for a blast this
Speaker 4: holiday season.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker WBZ, Boston's news radio