Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio re defining local news, seventy.
Speaker 2: Four degrees in Boston, partly cloudy. It's eleven o'clock on
Speaker 2: Wednesday morning. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Dave sn
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. Starting in Dedham, where day twenty two
Speaker 2: of testimony and the Karen Reid murder retrial is officially underway.
Speaker 2: The defense now cross examining doctor Judson Welcher, a crash
Speaker 2: reconstruction expert. He testified earlier that based on his testing,
Speaker 2: John O'Keefe was hit by an SUV. Wbz's Emma Friedman
Speaker 2: has more coming up in the news at eleven fifteen. Meantime,
Speaker 2: the State Department is putting a stop to scheduling new
Speaker 2: student visa appointments while new guidelines are established. Among these
Speaker 2: new changes is toughening up the review of a student's
Speaker 2: online presence, their use of social media. Your CBS's Nancy Cordus,
Speaker 2: As you.
Speaker 3: Can imagine, that's pretty labor intensive to go through the
Speaker 3: social media of every single person who applies for a
Speaker 3: student visa every year. So are they going to get
Speaker 3: more resources to do that? And exactly how soon would
Speaker 3: that happen, and will it be in time to enable
Speaker 3: everyone who's been accepted at a US university for the
Speaker 3: fall to actually get their visas and get here to
Speaker 3: the United States.
Speaker 2: This's the latest move in the ongoing battle between the
Speaker 2: Trump administration and universities including Harvard it believes to be
Speaker 2: allowing anti semitism now. Elon Musk has been backing away
Speaker 2: from politics in the past few weeks to focus more
Speaker 2: on Tesla. Appearing on CBS's Sunday Morning, he was asked
Speaker 2: about President Trump's tax bill.
Speaker 4: President Trump's bill includes tax cuts and extensions and a
Speaker 4: proposal to create one thousand dollars Trump accounts for babies
Speaker 4: born during his second administration. It does not cut spending enough,
Speaker 4: say Republicans who have voted against it. Elon Musk was
Speaker 4: asked about the bill for CBS Sunday Morning.
Speaker 5: You know, I was like disappointed to see the massive
Speaker 5: spending bill. Frankly, which increases the bunch deeps that not
Speaker 5: doesn't decrease it, and our reminds the work that the
Speaker 5: Noch team is doing.
Speaker 4: Some conservatives in the Setate say they won't sign off
Speaker 4: on legislation that would add to the country's dead, Matt Piper,
Speaker 4: CBS News.
Speaker 2: And that is not his only disappointment, as yesterday the
Speaker 2: launch of one of his SpaceX rockets wound up spinning
Speaker 2: out of control and exploding.
Speaker 6: From the new officially named City of Star based Texas.
Speaker 6: SpaceX's starship successfully lifted off, but flew into trouble minutes later.
Speaker 6: As the booster returned to Earth, a flash of flame erupted.
Speaker 6: People watching from Texas beaches could see the booster explode
Speaker 6: in the air. Then more problems showed up. About thirty
Speaker 6: minutes into the flight.
Speaker 4: We did spring a leak in some of the fuel
Speaker 4: tank systems inside of starship.
Speaker 6: Engineers lost the ability to control the starship's movements and
Speaker 6: it broke apart over the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 2: Afterwards. Musk posted on X the latest setback will not
Speaker 2: delay the SpaceX program and he expects new launches every
Speaker 2: three to Another sunny day out there, which we're not
Speaker 2: complaining about. It is quite nice. We have a breeze
Speaker 2: coming in from the south about eight to ten miles
Speaker 2: an hour, so just enough to sway the trees a
Speaker 2: little bit and kind of rustle your hair. But it's
Speaker 2: not all that cool. We've got temperatures in the mid
Speaker 2: to upper seventies now if you're inland, a little bit
Speaker 2: cooler right on the coast, but we are getting up
Speaker 2: to the upper seventies on the coast and low eighties
Speaker 2: if you're away from the water. Then tonight more clouds
Speaker 2: move in and we have a bit of rain through
Speaker 2: the overnight hours and a low in the mid fifties.
Speaker 2: Is rain sticking round into tomorrow morning with a bit
Speaker 2: of heavy rain at time, some drizzle. A'll tapering to
Speaker 2: an afternoon shower. So bring the umbrella tomorrow you will
Speaker 2: need it, or at least the poncho. We have a
Speaker 2: high in the low to mid sixties. Then Friday, mix
Speaker 2: of sun and clouds with another couple of showers around
Speaker 2: and a high in the low seventies. Hey to be
Speaker 2: the bearer of bad news here, but yep, another Saturday
Speaker 2: where we're going to have some showers and storms, and
Speaker 2: we've got a high in the mid sixties. Seventy two
Speaker 2: in Marlborough right now, seventy four in Haveril where seventy
Speaker 2: one in Bridgewater, and in Boston at eleven oh five
Speaker 2: it is partly cloudy and seventy four. How's your social
Speaker 2: circle these days? For more and more of us in
Speaker 2: the digital age, it's getting smaller and smaller, and in
Speaker 2: many cases, leading to dangerous levels of loneliness.
Speaker 3: The difference is not having somebody next to you.
Speaker 7: Elizabeth from Plymouth has been a single person for many
Speaker 7: years now, explaining how hard loneliness can be. Over twenty
Speaker 7: percent of people in a recent study found their social
Speaker 7: circles were smaller than just three years ago. A proactive
Speaker 7: approach is the best way to break the lonely cycle.
Speaker 2: I think we need things like this to get our
Speaker 2: social engines working again.
Speaker 7: Ryan just completed his freshman year at college. He volunteers
Speaker 7: on campus at four seas.
Speaker 2: It's like talking with the stranger and getting to know
Speaker 2: them definitely takes certain skills.
Speaker 8: Even for young people. It's not easy, intimidating to develop
Speaker 8: face to.
Speaker 7: Face conversation and connection is necessary for all of us.
Speaker 7: In Plymouth, jimmikatabvs Vosston News Radio.
Speaker 2: Now, Texas has become the second state to expand parental
Speaker 2: control over kids' phones. Wbz's James Rojas is asking locals
Speaker 2: if Massachusetts should.
Speaker 8: Do the same starting next year. Miners in Texas would
Speaker 8: need to have parental permission to download apps. The new
Speaker 8: law is opposed by both Apple and Google, but many
Speaker 8: I'm talking to say they think it's a good idea
Speaker 8: and Massachusetts should consider it. Also, parents control all kinds
Speaker 8: of things, what the kids do. I think that makes
Speaker 8: good sense.
Speaker 2: You know, when we hand our kids a cell phone,
Speaker 2: we're handing them the world, right so, and I think
Speaker 2: any kind of protection of security we can put on that,
Speaker 2: I'm all for it.
Speaker 8: It doesn't sound like a terrible idea. It sounds like
Speaker 8: a pretty good idea. But some think age verification and
Speaker 8: extra parental control is too much.
Speaker 3: It shouldn't be a.
Speaker 1: Law to force parents to do whatever they want, whatever
Speaker 1: parenting style they want.
Speaker 2: To their kids, and I don't think we should do
Speaker 2: it here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 8: Utah was the first state to pass a similar law.
Speaker 8: In Boston, James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio and.
Speaker 2: New lawsuit has been filed against the City of Quinsy
Speaker 2: and its mayor over two statues of Catholic saints. These
Speaker 2: statues are bronze ten feet tall and were personally commissioned
Speaker 2: by the mayor, Thomas Coke, without public input. They're expected
Speaker 2: to cost about eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
Speaker 2: be installed at the new Public Safety Building. The American
Speaker 2: Civil Liberties Union filing the suit on behalf of residence
Speaker 2: from a wide range of faiths, and they say the
Speaker 2: statues violate the state Constitution by promoting a specific religion
Speaker 2: or faith at a government building. One of the plaintiffs,
Speaker 2: Gilly Rosenthal, saying, quote, it's about keeping government neutral so everyone,
Speaker 2: regardless of what they believe, feels equally welcome and protected.
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