Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News sixty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A full jury has
Speaker 2: not been seated for Karen Reid's second trial. After nearly
Speaker 2: two weeks of jury selection in Denham, eighteen jurors have
Speaker 2: been seated, evenly split among men and women. Nearly six
Speaker 2: hundred potential jurors had been called to Norfolk Superior Court
Speaker 2: over the course of ten days. Sixteen jurors were already
Speaker 2: chosen last week. That's the minimum a mount needed. Judge
Speaker 2: Beverly Canoni, though wanted more in case any issues came
Speaker 2: up in what is expected to be a lengthy trial.
Speaker 2: Motions hearings will be held tomorrow. Opening statements are now
Speaker 2: set for next Tuesday. Reads accused of hitting her Boston
Speaker 2: Police boyfriend John O'Keefe with the SUV and leaving him
Speaker 2: to die in the snow they read. Defense says she
Speaker 2: was framed Boston, marking a tragic day in the city's history.
Speaker 2: Of the vz's Jared Boston has more from Boylston Street.
Speaker 3: Standing near the Boston Marathon finish line where twelve years
Speaker 3: ago today, a terrorist attack killed three people and injured hundreds.
Speaker 3: Do you remember where you were when you found out.
Speaker 2: The number exactly where it was?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Actually, now you said something that really brought up
Speaker 1: some passion.
Speaker 3: For Bostonians like Mark.
Speaker 1: It feels like it was just yesterday.
Speaker 4: Me and my wife were with kids at the playground
Speaker 4: and someone came up to us and said, did you
Speaker 4: hear what happened?
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'll never forget it. It was shocked.
Speaker 3: Today is One Boston Day, in honor of the victims
Speaker 3: and recognizing the city's resiliency, generosity, and strength. Mayor Michelle
Speaker 3: Woo was encouraging Bostonians to participate in service and acts
Speaker 3: of kindness. On Saturday morning, a One Boston Day cleanup
Speaker 3: will take place at Franklin Park, and on Marathon Monday,
Speaker 3: there will be a blood drive at Keptmore Square from
Speaker 3: Boyleston Street. I'm Jared Brosnan, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: So some new legal action over President Trump's tariffs, and
Speaker 2: the White House is now reacting.
Speaker 5: The White House is dismissing a lawsuit filed by a
Speaker 5: group of small business owners who say the President doesn't
Speaker 5: have the power to impose tariffs. The group urged the
Speaker 5: federal court to declare the tariffs unlawful, saying the national
Speaker 5: emergency the President used to justify this action as a
Speaker 5: quote figment of his own imagination. The White House says
Speaker 5: the president's tariff policy quote levels the playing field for
Speaker 5: businesses and workers and addresses a quote national emergency of
Speaker 5: chronic trade deficits. Karen Traver's ABC News, The White House.
Speaker 2: MIT's president says, so far, nine students would tie to
Speaker 2: the university have had their visas revoked. WZ Sherry Small
Speaker 2: with details in the wake of.
Speaker 6: The Trump administration student deportation drive. MIT president doctor Sally
Speaker 6: Cornblooth sent a letter to the MIT community on Monday
Speaker 6: with an update confirming since April fourth, nine members of
Speaker 6: the MIT community, students, recent graduates in postdocs have had
Speaker 6: their visas and immigration status unexpectedly revoked. One of those
Speaker 6: individuals has now filed suit against the federal government. Doctor
Speaker 6: Cornblooth says that MIT is not party to that student's suit,
Speaker 6: which is being brought by independent counsel representing the student.
Speaker 6: Unexpected visa in student status revocations are occurring in more
Speaker 6: than a dozen local colleges and universities. Doctor Cornblue says
Speaker 6: this threat will make it less likely the top talent
Speaker 6: from around the world will come to the US, and
Speaker 6: says that will damage American competitiveness and scientific leadership for
Speaker 6: years to come.
Speaker 1: Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Unholded Harvard the federal government's freezing more than two billion
Speaker 2: dollars in grants and contracts to Harvard University. It comes
Speaker 2: after Harvard announced they would not comply with demands from
Speaker 2: the Trump administration. Watching this shower and thunderstorm activity that's
Speaker 2: dancing around the suburbs here, well north and west of
Speaker 2: the city, but close enough it could affect some folks
Speaker 2: ride home. We have some showers and storms up into
Speaker 2: southern New Hampshire. These aren't terribly far from havel and
Speaker 2: four ninety five. We've got Atkinson getting a little bit
Speaker 2: of a storm right now, sand Down, New Hampshire. Also
Speaker 2: up to Brentwood. We had a little bit of activity
Speaker 2: over towards Manchester earlier and then a little bit further
Speaker 2: to the west in southern New Hampshire. We're still dealing
Speaker 2: with some showers and storms and those stretch backed out
Speaker 2: into northern Worcester County out into the Winchet in an
Speaker 2: Afoll area. These are all moving off mainly to the
Speaker 2: north and east, so we'll have to see how far
Speaker 2: they can travel and weather anymore pop up. But nonetheless,
Speaker 2: we do have this front coming through, firing off some
Speaker 2: showers and or storms. It'll also fire off some wind
Speaker 2: as we head through the evening tonight. Temperatures tonight will
Speaker 2: fall to about forty, feeling like it's in the thirties.
Speaker 2: A windy, chilly day Tomorrow fifty for the high. Not bad,
Speaker 2: but the wind will make it feel like it's closer
Speaker 2: to forty. Partially cloudy tomorrow night, about thirty nine for
Speaker 2: the low temperature. SunShot on Thursday making a run towards
Speaker 2: sixty of the warmest spots, and then sun and clouds
Speaker 2: on Friday into the low to mid sixties. Right now
Speaker 2: sixty two degrees in Boston. A surprise gift for a
Speaker 2: Norton woman who is battling cancer. The gift lifting a
Speaker 2: little weight off her shoulders. As we hear from WBC's
Speaker 2: Aile Shaffle.
Speaker 4: Carrie Foster covered her face with their hands, overcome with
Speaker 4: the motion as former pants lineman Joe and drewsy murmured
Speaker 4: the good news in her ear. He's telling this Norton
Speaker 4: mom and cant a patient that his foundation, along with
Speaker 4: Stop and Shop, we're giving her free food for a year.
Speaker 4: To celebrate A giant Stopping Shop truck parked in front
Speaker 4: of the Foster house and started unpacking a picnic. Carrie
Speaker 4: had no idea this was coming, she spoke to reporters
Speaker 4: just after.
Speaker 3: You know, cancer itself is a heavyweight, and you know
Speaker 3: all of the things that it brings, and you know,
Speaker 3: just not having to worry about food is huge.
Speaker 4: Foster has been battling cervical cancer and has been unable
Speaker 4: to work as she takes care of two kids with
Speaker 4: her husband and Juicy. Started the foundation after getting and
Speaker 4: beating cancer in two thousand and seven. Kyle Schaffel WBZ
Speaker 4: Bostonton's radio.
Speaker 2: After making an exit stage left in January, former President
Speaker 2: Joe Biden returns to center stage today.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden returns to the national stage today.
Speaker 2: It's in the.
Speaker 4: Honor of my life serving your president.
Speaker 1: Like most recent ex presidents, he's largely avoided speaking in
Speaker 1: public since leaving office. Incompetent Joe Biden even as his
Speaker 1: successors often attacked him. Today, Biden's expect did to fight
Speaker 1: back during a speech in Chicago focused on Social Security,
Speaker 1: an issue that could defy next year's mid term elections.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration has slashed the program's workforce and advisory
Speaker 1: Elon Musk has called social Security the biggest Ponzi scheme ever.
Speaker 1: Saga Magani Washington.
Speaker 2: You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout
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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio