Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Lots
Speaker 1: of sun, of beautiful breeze out there in Boston right now,
Speaker 1: sixty four degrees. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning. I'm Nicole Davis,
Speaker 1: and here's what's happening. Starting in Debtim at the Karen
Speaker 1: Reid retrial for the third day. The defense has State
Speaker 1: Police Sergeant you'ur E Buchanic on the stand right now.
Speaker 1: He is reciting derogatory text messages sent by fired trooper
Speaker 1: Michael Proctor. Buchanic was Proctor's supervisor. The text messages were
Speaker 1: sent in a group chat that Buchanic was in. Defense
Speaker 1: is questioning why he did not intervene. At leven oh one,
Speaker 1: we're watching developing news overseas. The family of the last
Speaker 1: surviving Israeli American hostage, Eadon Alexander is eagerly awaiting as
Speaker 1: Hama says, he will be released sometime soon, potentially in
Speaker 1: the next few hours. Your CBS is Ramy and Assensia.
Speaker 2: This family released a statement of joy. They got the
Speaker 2: news yesterday that was Mother's Day. They said, Today, on
Speaker 2: Mother's Day, we received the greatest gift, imaginable news that
Speaker 2: our son dan Is returning home after nearly six hundred days.
Speaker 2: They thanked President Trump, but then again demanded their own government,
Speaker 2: the Israeli government, get all of those hostages home, living
Speaker 2: and dead. They are believed to be fifty nine and
Speaker 2: in total.
Speaker 1: Hamas did agree to release Alexander in the hopes of
Speaker 1: securing a cease fire deal. Alexander's parents flying from New
Speaker 1: Jersey over to Israel to greet him and President Trump
Speaker 1: at the White House today signing a new executive order,
Speaker 1: he says, we'll lower the cost of prescription drugs. The
Speaker 1: order sets a thirty day deadline to get the costs down.
Speaker 1: It also calls on HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Junior to
Speaker 1: broker a deal. If a deal is not reached by
Speaker 1: the deadline, that's when a new rule would kick in,
Speaker 1: tying the price of what the US pays for medications
Speaker 1: to lower prices paid by other countries.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The President tried to institute a similar order during his
Speaker 1: first term, but that was blocked by the courts when
Speaker 1: the pharmaceutical lobbies pushed back. Some prescription drug prices were
Speaker 1: lowered during the last administration. The Biden administration, with the
Speaker 1: passage of the Inflation Reduction Act that allowed Medicare to
Speaker 1: negotiate lower prices for certain drugs. Wall Street happy today
Speaker 1: is the US and China make a giant leap toward
Speaker 1: ending their ongoing trade war.
Speaker 4: Under this agreement, the US would drop its tariff down
Speaker 4: to thirty percent and China would lower its rate to
Speaker 4: ten percent. And this, of course will come as welcome
Speaker 4: news to many US companies who had suspended orders from
Speaker 4: China and shipments to West Coast ports had been slowing
Speaker 4: dramatically over the past few weeks.
Speaker 1: BBS Kaitlyn Huey burns there. Chinese officials say the two
Speaker 1: sides agree to what they call a trade consultation mechanism.
Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Assent says more details will be coming
Speaker 1: later on today on that potential deal. Dal Jones up
Speaker 1: almost one thousand points, Nastack up more than three and
Speaker 1: a half percent. And what a gorgeous day it is
Speaker 1: out there right now. We're seeing sunny skies across the Commonwealth,
Speaker 1: Temperatures in the mid to i'd say mid to upper
Speaker 1: sixties at this point, getting up to the low to
Speaker 1: mid seventies today, little breeze out there from the south
Speaker 1: right now about fifteen miles an hour, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of moving the trees around a little bit, not enough
Speaker 1: to really blow the car around on the road, but
Speaker 1: kind of nice if you're outside walking around now. Later
Speaker 1: on tonight we will have clear to partly cloudy skies,
Speaker 1: low in the mid fifties on the coast and in
Speaker 1: Boston a little bit cooler if you're inland, forty eight
Speaker 1: to fifty or so. Then for tomorrow we start to
Speaker 1: see some more clouds move in and the breeze will
Speaker 1: kick up a bit. Still plenty of sun though, with
Speaker 1: a high in the low sixties on the coast, close
Speaker 1: to seventy inland. If you're Wednesday, rather cloudy with a
Speaker 1: high in the mid sixties, low seventies inland, and Thursday
Speaker 1: mostly cloudy with a couple of showers moving through and
Speaker 1: high in the mid sixties. Right now, sixty four degrees
Speaker 1: in Plymouth, where it's sixty one in Worcester, sixty five
Speaker 1: in Nashua, New Hampshire, and in Boston eleven oh five.
Speaker 1: It is sunny, it is gorgeous and sixty four degrees. Well.
Speaker 1: Celtics fans are getting pretty hyped for the pivotal Game
Speaker 1: four tonight in New York. You're still many bz's Jim McKay.
Speaker 3: Some fans still can't get past the first two games
Speaker 3: of this series.
Speaker 4: Just the shots weren't going in.
Speaker 1: It was tough.
Speaker 4: They just couldn't hit shots.
Speaker 3: The Green went down two games to nothing, but on
Speaker 3: Saturday they had a convincing win on the road at
Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden, and tonight they're hoping for a repeat.
Speaker 3: It went by ten tonight. Ron from Lynn heading to
Speaker 3: work at North Station. He thinks the Jays will come
Speaker 3: alive tonight and the Celtics talent will prevail.
Speaker 5: I think Game five will swing back in our fava.
Speaker 3: If the Celtics win tonight, it then becomes a best
Speaker 3: of three series, with Game five set for Wednesday night
Speaker 3: right here at the Garden. But before that, the Celtics
Speaker 3: still need to get a w don't think it home
Speaker 3: againstick as well. Chip off for Game four tonight at
Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden is at seven thirty on Cosway Street.
Speaker 3: Jim McKay WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: Former Boston Mayor Tominino passed away about ten years ago,
Speaker 1: but his wife has stayed active In local politics, Angela
Speaker 1: Menino is once again now offering up per endorsement for
Speaker 1: Mayor Michelle Wou she did when Wu first ran for
Speaker 1: mayor back in twenty twenty one. In a new statement
Speaker 1: out today, Minino says Mayor Wu, during her time in office,
Speaker 1: has continued her husband's legacy by showing up, taking care
Speaker 1: of the small things, and building trust to get things done.
Speaker 1: Minino says Wu has worked hard to make Boston home
Speaker 1: for everyone, and she believes her late husband also would
Speaker 1: have endorsed her. Wu is facing several challengers, most notably
Speaker 1: Josh Kraft. Summer travel records expected to really heat up
Speaker 1: for Memorial Day weekend. Here's wbz's Drew mo'holland.
Speaker 3: Wire up the grill, baby.
Speaker 5: Memorial Day is two weeks away.
Speaker 1: Stay's done, I think so.
Speaker 5: They keeps cooking even if it dropped the flame. The
Speaker 5: jusis yep, Tony soprano. When you're right, you are right,
Speaker 5: and we're gonna shatter a twenty year travel record this
Speaker 5: time around. Triple A says more than forty five million
Speaker 5: of us are going to go somewhere Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 5: It's an increase of about one point five million travelers,
Speaker 5: which tops the previous high water mark set back in
Speaker 5: two thousand and five. Drew maholland WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: And fishing game officials in New Hampshire or searching for
Speaker 1: a man caught on camera poaching a wounded turkey after
Speaker 1: shooting in a cemetery where people were visiting. Has happened
Speaker 1: yesterday around ten am in the town of Loudon, New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: Fish'll say the man was seen on camera getting dropped
Speaker 1: off by somebody in a black pickup truck before shooting
Speaker 1: the bird, breaking the law in the process, as in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire it is illegal to hunt in a cemetery.
Speaker 1: Video then shows the wounded bird flailing, flapping and kicking
Speaker 1: as the man wrestled it violently into the woods. If
Speaker 1: you have any information on the hunter involved here, you're
Speaker 1: asked to give New Hampshire Fishing getting a call. You
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