Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: It is forty one degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock
Speaker 2: and good Thursday morning. We're following some developing news as
Speaker 2: the Celtics are sold. The buyer is William Chisholm, a
Speaker 2: Georgetown native who runs a private equity firm called Symphony
Speaker 2: Technology Group based out of California. Chisholm paying six point
Speaker 2: one billion dollars for the team. That's the highest sum
Speaker 2: ever paid for a North American sports franchise. Co owner
Speaker 2: Wick Grausbeg will keep his job as the team's governor
Speaker 2: through the twenty twenty seven to twenty eight season. His
Speaker 2: family bought the Celtics in two thousand and two. President
Speaker 2: Trump is expected to sign an executive order this afternoon
Speaker 2: to shut down the Department of Education.
Speaker 3: Administration is already laid off half the department's staff. Sources
Speaker 3: say the Education Secretary will now be directed to dissolve
Speaker 3: the agency while keeping critical services and programs in place elsewhere.
Speaker 3: The order comes after Trump vowed to return education authority
Speaker 3: to the States.
Speaker 2: That is, ABC's Andrea Fuji. Workers at the doe's Boston
Speaker 2: office were among those included in large scale layoffs last week,
Speaker 2: The Massachusetts Teachers Association said the layoffs jeopardized federal funding
Speaker 2: that supports things like special education programs and meal services.
Speaker 2: Though President Trump has said that he does want to
Speaker 2: shut down the department, he can't do that completely without
Speaker 2: congressional approval. The Israeli military is still striking targets inside Gaza.
Speaker 2: Earlier this week, Israel broke the ceasefire that began in
Speaker 2: January in an attempt to force Hamas into submission. Your
Speaker 2: CBS's Raimian Asensio.
Speaker 4: Israel's military said it has restarted ground operations in central Gaza,
Speaker 4: retaking a key corridor dividing the north and south of
Speaker 4: the Strip, warning gozzen's to evacuate areas turning into combat zones.
Speaker 4: Around five hundred people have reportedly been killed well since
Speaker 4: Israel's shocked air strikes before dawn Tuesday, more than a
Speaker 4: hundred of those believed to be children.
Speaker 2: Israel has threatened total destruction in Gaza if the remaining
Speaker 2: hostages aren't released and if mus isn't expelled. The Trump
Speaker 2: administration is just one more hour to provide more information
Speaker 2: about deportation flights over the weekend and whether they violated
Speaker 2: a judge's order. Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.
Speaker 5: The court giving the Trump administration until noon to turnover
Speaker 5: information about those hasty deportation flights carrying hundreds of Venezuelan migrants,
Speaker 5: who the White House says are violent gang members, but
Speaker 5: so far the administration has been stonewalling. Judge James Boseburg
Speaker 5: says he wants specifics about when exactly the flights took
Speaker 5: off and left US airspace after the administration ignored his
Speaker 5: verbal directive to turn the planes around and return the
Speaker 5: migrants to the US immediately.
Speaker 2: The judges order Saturday blocked the Trump administration from deporting
Speaker 2: non citizens under the Alien Enemies Act, eighteenth century law
Speaker 2: that lets the president's speed up deportations when the country
Speaker 2: is at war. He declared an invasion by the Venezuelan gang. Okay,
Speaker 2: And looking at the four day forecast, we will have
Speaker 2: some areas of fog and spotty drizzle moving out and
Speaker 2: then moving back in for this evening. We'll top out
Speaker 2: around fifty one to fifty five degrees this afternoon. Again,
Speaker 2: some wet stuff starting tonight, developing into a steadier rain
Speaker 2: late forty three for the low. We are expecting rain
Speaker 2: at times tomorrow morning as clouds break for some afternoon sunshine.
Speaker 2: It does become windy out there. Forty nine for the high.
Speaker 2: Milder Saturday, fifty seven to sixty one with clouds and
Speaker 2: sun mostly sunny. Sunday buck cooler, quite breezy, with tempts
Speaker 2: in the mid forties. Right now, it's forty one degrees
Speaker 2: in Boston, clouds overhead and a bit of fog around.
Speaker 2: At eleven oh five. The Karen Reid case is back
Speaker 2: in court right now. The judge considering a defense motion
Speaker 2: to allow the jury to.
Speaker 6: Know that the ar Cca crash experts were hired by
Speaker 6: federal investigators, and it led to a tense exchange between
Speaker 6: the judge and defense attorney David Yannetti.
Speaker 7: If I allow, and I'd be very surprised if I
Speaker 7: did mention that this was a federal grand jury and
Speaker 7: that the federal how does that not open the door
Speaker 7: to all the testimony that mister Brennan just brought up
Speaker 7: that he'd be able to get into.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, first of all, and this is later in
Speaker 1: my argument.
Speaker 2: We're not asking you no, could you answer that now?
Speaker 7: And then saying, you just said it's late. Hold on,
Speaker 7: you just said it's later in the I know, but
Speaker 7: I said.
Speaker 4: You interrupted me, and I was just about to say,
Speaker 4: but I'll address it now.
Speaker 2: Cannettie arguing the jury shouldn't have to speculate on who
Speaker 2: hired the experts, but Prosecutor Hank Brennan says.
Speaker 5: Respectfully, the Commonwealth does not look to hide the truth.
Speaker 7: The reality is if the jury is going to hear information,
Speaker 7: they should hear the entire truth.
Speaker 2: It was brought to the court's attention that the defense
Speaker 2: wasn't upfront about their communications with the ARCA witnesses. The
Speaker 2: trial is set to begin April first for jury selection,
Speaker 2: this despite arguments from the defense and prosecution to delay it.
Speaker 2: It's a sure sign of spring March madness is here,
Speaker 2: and wbz's Drew Mamaholland tells us brackets are fixing to
Speaker 2: be busted.
Speaker 8: By the time you hit the pillow tonight, you would
Speaker 8: have had the chance to watch parts of sixteen basketball games.
Speaker 2: Streh.
Speaker 8: Yes, it's one of the most wonderful times of the
Speaker 8: year for the sports fan, especially the college basketball fan.
Speaker 8: And you think you can predict a perfect bracket. Do
Speaker 8: you punk? Well, the odds of predicting all sixty three
Speaker 8: NCAA tournament games correctly are one in nine point two quintillion.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me there's a chance.
Speaker 8: You have a better chance of getting hit by space
Speaker 8: Read what who writes this stuff? Drew Mohollan, WZ Boston's
Speaker 8: News Radio.
Speaker 2: S it is the first day of spring today, So
Speaker 2: what exactly does that mean? From a scientific standpoint? Mark
Speaker 2: Mayfield explains.
Speaker 1: At this point in the planet's annual orbit, the Sun
Speaker 1: appears directly over the equator, producing essentially the same amount
Speaker 1: of time in daylight and darkness over today's twenty four hours. Then,
Speaker 1: for the northern half of the planet, daylight hours steadily
Speaker 1: increase until the longest day of the year, the summer
Speaker 1: solstice in June. Time in daylight will then start to
Speaker 1: decline again, eventually reaching the autumnal equinox this fall. I'm
Speaker 1: Mark Mayfield.
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