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Speaker 2: Eleven o'clock this Tuesday morning, Good Morning on Laurie Kirby.
Speaker 2: Karen Read is back in Norfolk Superior Court in debt,
Speaker 2: a month before her second murder trial is set to begin,
Speaker 2: and Judge Beverly Cononi is considering whether or not to
Speaker 2: allow testimony from defense witness doctor Marie Russell in April's retrial.
Speaker 2: Doctor Russell argues that former Boston police officer John O'Keefe
Speaker 2: was attacked by a dog and not hit by Reed's SUV,
Speaker 2: but the prosecution argues she's not qualified to make that call.
Speaker 3: You've never gone into court and testified as an accident
Speaker 3: reconstruction expert, a reconstruction expert.
Speaker 2: No, but I've testified about vehicle accidents.
Speaker 3: You've never gone to court and testified as a dog
Speaker 3: by before this case. Yes, I was never asked.
Speaker 2: Read is charged with running over O'Keefe with her SUV
Speaker 2: in leaving him to die in the snow after their
Speaker 2: romantic relationship had soured. Now her first murder trial ended
Speaker 2: in a mistrial. We are your breaking news station. When
Speaker 2: we have any kind of update on this story, we'll
Speaker 2: bring it to you here and of course streaming on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. Prison elect Donald Trump's legal team is
Speaker 2: trying to stop the release of the Special Council Report
Speaker 2: into the election interference and classified documents cases ABC Stephen
Speaker 2: Portnoy report.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump's defense lawyers, also now his nominees to hold
Speaker 3: major posts in the Justice Department, say they've reviewed a
Speaker 3: draft of Jack Smith's final report at his office here
Speaker 3: in Washington. They call it one sided, and they say
Speaker 3: releasing it to the public would harm the transition and
Speaker 3: damage the Justice Department's reputation. They're urging Attorney General Merrick
Speaker 3: Garland to keep it confidential. Trump's co defendants and the
Speaker 3: Classified Documents case want Judge Ailean Cannon to order it blocked.
Speaker 3: In a court filing, Jacksmith confirms his two volume report
Speaker 3: is nearly done.
Speaker 2: Smith writes in his briefing that if Garland does release
Speaker 2: that report, it would be no earlier than ten am
Speaker 2: on Friday. The late former president Jimmy Carter is en
Speaker 2: route to Washington, d C. After lying in repose for
Speaker 2: three days in Atlanta, Georgia. Mister Carter's casket is flying
Speaker 2: to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where it will land
Speaker 2: this afternoon and then be taken to the US Navy
Speaker 2: Memorial in recognition of his military service. After that, a
Speaker 2: horse drawn carriage will carry mister Carter's casket to the
Speaker 2: US Capitol, where lawmakers will pay their final respects at
Speaker 2: three o'clock. Will be a special service. We'll love more
Speaker 2: and ABC Steve Osensambia is more on the rest of
Speaker 2: the week.
Speaker 1: The state funeral is Thursday, where President Biden will deliver
Speaker 1: a eulogy and we expect every living president to be
Speaker 1: in attendance. Then he'll be flown home for private burial
Speaker 1: at his home. For family that has had to share
Speaker 1: him with the rest of the world for so long,
Speaker 1: this will be a moment that they have to themselves.
Speaker 1: He will be buried outside his home in a spot
Speaker 1: that he picked out with his wife before she died.
Speaker 2: The Navy will conduct a ceremonial flyover over mister Carter's
Speaker 2: home before his interment, just one more tribute to his
Speaker 2: service as a lieutenant and commander in chief. Clouding up
Speaker 2: a little bit out there, and I was seeing some
Speaker 2: snow flurries. I would say the western part of Central
Speaker 2: Mass right now we are seeing some snow. We're seeing
Speaker 2: some snow also in Vermont. So no snow in Boston,
Speaker 2: but certainly the wind is a continuing challenge. It's been
Speaker 2: impacting flights as well. Checking Flaware right now we have
Speaker 2: seventy one total delays, twenty seven cancelations. And again we
Speaker 2: saw a bunch of snow in the Baltimore area, in Washington,
Speaker 2: DC area as well. Tonight's going to be incredibly cold,
Speaker 2: the real feel well below zero. And then Tomorrow Wednesday,
Speaker 2: just like today, windy and sunny and cole Thursday, we
Speaker 2: start to warm up slightly, but we're still not even
Speaker 2: freezing yet. Friday thirty seven, that's our warmest day, you
Speaker 2: can imagine, and then we're tracking the potential storm for
Speaker 2: this weekend that could bring some snow. It's eleven oh five.
Speaker 2: We get this every year, traffic reports about Boston and
Speaker 2: you probably are saying it's got to be bad. Well,
Speaker 2: you're right, wdbc's Drew Mholland with this year's survey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's still top ten kind of bad. An annual
Speaker 4: survey from traffic monitoring company Inrix finds Boston has the
Speaker 4: fourth worst traffic in the nation.
Speaker 3: Good Dade d pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess how you look at it, Larry David Right.
Speaker 4: Boston now trails New York City, Chicago, and LA with
Speaker 4: the longest waits on the road. Boston was number one
Speaker 4: as the traffic worst not long ago. We now falled
Speaker 4: a twelfth worst in the world as well. Boston drivers
Speaker 4: lose about eighty hours of life stuck in traffic per year.
Speaker 4: To put that in perspective, that's more than three entire days.
Speaker 4: You do the math.
Speaker 3: I think I'm just going to turn around and go home,
Speaker 3: so you'll be a little late. Yeah, I can't sit
Speaker 3: in traffic. I'm going to turn around.
Speaker 4: Well, I listen to the radio. I don't know some music.
Speaker 4: Some people enjoy their time in traffic. Right, No, not
Speaker 4: so much, drumaholland WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Massachusetts consumers were cheated by not one, but three United
Speaker 2: healthcare insurance companies the Cord Rule. They use deceptive sales
Speaker 2: schemes into tricking local consumers into buying supplemental health insurance.
Speaker 2: Attorney General Campbell announcing her office is ordered Health Markets,
Speaker 2: the Chesapeake Life Insurance Company, and Insphere Insurance Solutions to
Speaker 2: pay one hundred and sixty five million in restitution. Campbell
Speaker 2: says for years they prayed upon financially vulnerable people. Prosecutors
Speaker 2: in the deadly shooting of the CEO of United Healthcare
Speaker 2: ask for more time to prepare their case.
Speaker 5: Wish granted in in order of continuance, The defense team
Speaker 5: for lled shooter Luigi Mangioni agreed with prosecutors to push
Speaker 5: court proceedings to the middle of next month. This gives
Speaker 5: both sides an extra thirty days to prepare for pre
Speaker 5: trial proceedings and the trial itself. Mangioni has pled not
Speaker 5: guilty to several state charges, including murder and furtherance of terrorism,
Speaker 5: in connection to the December shooting that left United Healthcare
Speaker 5: CEO Brian Thompson debt in front of a Manhattan hotel.
Speaker 5: I'm Natalie Migniori.
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