Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 1: Forty eight degrees say in Boston at four o'clock, good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A federal jadge ordering
Speaker 1: Tufts of student Ramesa oz Turk to be released from
Speaker 1: ICE detention immediately. More from ABC's Stephen Portnoyd.
Speaker 2: The Tufts University student was swept off the streets by
Speaker 2: masked ICE agents in March as neighbors nervously looked on.
Speaker 2: Trump administration officials say Romesa oz Turk lost her right
Speaker 2: to remain in the US when she co wrote an
Speaker 2: op ed in her student newspaper urging Tufts to divest
Speaker 2: from firms with ties to Israel. A federal judge in
Speaker 2: Vermont is now ruled she must be released on bond
Speaker 2: from detention in Louisiana while her immigration case proceeds, saying
Speaker 2: her jailing amounted to an egregious First Amendment violation. Stephen Portnoy,
Speaker 2: ABC News, Washington.
Speaker 1: Massachusetts Senator Red Markey says the ruling is a victory
Speaker 1: for Romesa, for justice, and for our democracy. Congress Minting
Speaker 1: out of Presley writes she is so relieved Ostrk is
Speaker 1: headed home and that she should have never been detained
Speaker 1: in the first place. The thirteenth day of testimony in
Speaker 1: the Karent Reed murder trial had Massachusetts State Police Sergeant
Speaker 1: Jury Buchanic on the stand for hours being grilled by
Speaker 1: the defense. As WBZ Suzanne Sasville tells us, he admitted
Speaker 1: to some things that could create reasonable doubt.
Speaker 3: Defense attorney Alan Jackson questioned Buchanic about the initial stages
Speaker 3: of the investigation when evidence was recovered from where John
Speaker 3: O'Keeffe's body was found in the snow. He admitted that
Speaker 3: pieces of Reed's tail light weren't found initially.
Speaker 2: No tail of material was found until after that, as
Speaker 2: should be was in Massachusetts State Poe's customy.
Speaker 4: I believe the first tail life piece was found after
Speaker 4: it was in our custody.
Speaker 3: Buchanic said he later bagged pieces of plastic and glass,
Speaker 3: but admitted to not filling out the label on the
Speaker 3: evidence bag and not remembering who he handed it off to.
Speaker 3: He also said the exact coordinates of where the evidence
Speaker 3: was found were not documented.
Speaker 5: You didn't do any plotting of cross coordinates.
Speaker 6: I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 3: Readers pleaded not guilty to killing O'Keeffe, and her attorneys
Speaker 3: say she was framed. Suzanne Soolsville WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon's ordered all military leaders to pull and review
Speaker 1: all of their library books that addressed DEI. This is
Speaker 1: the most detailed directive so far of Defense Secretary Pete
Speaker 1: Hegsas's Mission against Diversity in equity programs and policies. The
Speaker 1: memos specifies books related to diversity, anti racism, or gender
Speaker 1: issues must be reviewed. The new Pope celebrating his first
Speaker 1: Mass as pontiff inside the Sistine Chapel and Vatican City,
Speaker 1: the newly elected Pope Leo the fourteenth addressed the Congregation
Speaker 1: of cardinals before is homily, giving remarks in English to
Speaker 1: bless the congregation.
Speaker 4: Peed not just with me, but with all of us,
Speaker 4: my brother cardinals, as we celebrate this morning, I invite
Speaker 4: you to recognize the marvels that the Lord has done,
Speaker 4: the blessings that the Lord continues to pour out upon
Speaker 4: all of us.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, Oh the fourteenth first public Mass will be on
Speaker 1: May eighteenth. Well, perhaps you've noticed we've had a lot
Speaker 1: of rain lately, all that water helping to improve drought
Speaker 1: conditions in Massachusetts. Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rebecca Tepper
Speaker 1: has declared the Central region downgraded from level one mild
Speaker 1: drought to a level zero normal conditions. The Northeastern Islands
Speaker 1: regions also lowered to a level one, bringing them in
Speaker 1: line with the Connecticut River Valley, Southeast, and Western regions.
Speaker 1: The worst part of the state Cape Region, which still
Speaker 1: is at a level two significant drought. And even with
Speaker 1: the improvements, it doesn't mean you can leave the Spickett open.
Speaker 1: Secretary Tepper says, with the growing season underway and several
Speaker 1: regions still facing long term dry conditions, let's continue, she says,
Speaker 1: to do our part by following local water restrictions. We
Speaker 1: do have some pretty heavy downpours that have been hanging
Speaker 1: on Connecticut and Rhode Island specifically, but some of this
Speaker 1: has been wrapping up and around, so we've got some
Speaker 1: heavier rains down toward the south, sure, Boston call it
Speaker 1: moderate rain. Same deal off to the west out to
Speaker 1: about one twenty eight, little bit heavier stuff out into
Speaker 1: central Massachusetts. And this is the deal we're going to
Speaker 1: be under for the next twelve fourteen, fifteen hours, where
Speaker 1: various degrees of rain, some of it heavy at times,
Speaker 1: and some of it could cause some ponding on area
Speaker 1: roadways and flooding. In fact, the floodwatches up for areas
Speaker 1: west of four ninety five until eight o'clock tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: It's after that period we'll start to see the rain
Speaker 1: taper off and we'll start to think about sunshine, and
Speaker 1: by afternoon we may very well be seeing some sunshine.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow sixty two for the high, partly cloudy tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: low fifty three, and then on Mother's Day Sunday, some sunshine.
Speaker 1: Temperatures near seventy. We are right now at forty eight degrees.
Speaker 1: Stuck at forty eight degrees in Boston, a central Massachusetts
Speaker 1: golf course has gone viral for shaking up the golf world.
Speaker 1: Of thebc's Jared Brosnan has more from Harvard.
Speaker 7: Just regular golfers coming by, filming it, posted it, and
Speaker 7: the thing just goes crazy with organic legs.
Speaker 6: That's Fred Curtis, the owner of Shaker Hills Country Club.
Speaker 6: At heart, the only place where you can find a
Speaker 6: golf cart drive through.
Speaker 7: Really just set up for the thirsty golfer. We have
Speaker 7: over twenty different types of Beers over here, soft drinks
Speaker 7: on this side, Hamburg's and huck Dogs. Next level, Baby, you.
Speaker 6: Just pull right in, grab your stuff, and drive through
Speaker 6: to the next hole where you tee off from a roof.
Speaker 7: All the grass teaser intact, or you can choose to
Speaker 7: mix it up with the inspiration of roofshot, which plays
Speaker 7: to a double t box at two Downhill Part threes.
Speaker 6: Since buying the course about a decade ago, Curtis tells
Speaker 6: me he's always looking for ways to excite golfers.
Speaker 7: I saw a lot of meat that was on the
Speaker 7: table that the original architect had missed, and I thought
Speaker 7: I could do something with it.
Speaker 6: From Harvard, I'm Jared Brosnan WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: They call him the Truth, and former Celtics star Paul
Speaker 1: Pierce told the truth and stuck with his word. After
Speaker 1: his former team lost again to the Knicks this week, the.
Speaker 5: Fox Sports one analyst said he would walk twenty miles
Speaker 5: to work in his bathrobe if his former team lost
Speaker 5: to the Knicks in Game two of their playoff series
Speaker 5: winsday night. They lost, so Pierce got up before dawn,
Speaker 5: fired up his Instagram Live and started hooking.
Speaker 1: It Okay, I got a long after day.
Speaker 5: After seven hours, he jokingly arrived on the Senate Fox
Speaker 5: in a wheelchair. Hobody, that's gonna aspire my Celtics and
Speaker 5: we can get back in this series, man Pow.
Speaker 4: This series out.
Speaker 5: Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Speaker 1: Mother's Day is Sunday, and a popular scam is targeting
Speaker 1: those trying to celebrate the day. Boston scam trackers say
Speaker 1: they've received several reports from shoppers who paid for grand
Speaker 1: floral arrangements online to receive nothing in return. They say
Speaker 1: the last minute orders do show up sometimes, but are
Speaker 1: often damaged or look nothing like the picture. To avoid
Speaker 1: getting scammed, research the seller, they say, and see if
Speaker 1: they have an accreditation, and read customer reviews and review
Speaker 1: the seller's photos and dads, well, you can get mom
Speaker 1: nothing for Mother's Day. Sure that'd go over big. You
Speaker 1: are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day,
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Speaker 1: Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio