Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 1: A mix of sun and clouds in Boston right now,
Speaker 1: sixty two degrees. It is eleven o'clock on Wednesday. Great
Speaker 1: to have you with us. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's
Speaker 1: happening over to Dedham now where Staple Lee Sergeant Zachary
Speaker 1: Clark is on the stand and the Karen Reed murder
Speaker 1: re trial. Right now, he's answering the prosecution prosecution's questions
Speaker 1: about the investigation into the death of John o'keef. Earlier,
Speaker 1: O'Keefe's niece was on the stand. Her testimony was not
Speaker 1: recorded as she is a minor. Wbz's Emma Friedman has
Speaker 1: more coming up at eleven fifteen. Meantime, in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: President Trump meeting today with the new leader of Syria.
Speaker 2: President Trump met with Syria's president Ahmed al Sharah on
Speaker 2: the sidelines of the summit with Gulf leaders, saying of
Speaker 2: his decision to lift US sanctions against Syria gives.
Speaker 3: Them a chance for great The sanctions were really crippling.
Speaker 2: It was the first encounter between a US and Assyrian
Speaker 2: leader in a quarter century, and what a leader A
Speaker 2: man once branded a terrorist by the US, now restoring
Speaker 2: stability to Syria. Next step, Trump suggested normalizing relations between
Speaker 2: the two countries. Thicky Barker, CBS News London.
Speaker 1: Now President Trump is over in Cutter today signing new
Speaker 1: deals between Cutter and Boeing. Boeing will be selling billions
Speaker 1: of dollars worth of planes to Cutter, and the President
Speaker 1: also saying the Department of Defense will sell Cutter top
Speaker 1: tier drones. The trip is already shrouded in controversy because
Speaker 1: of mister Trump's decision to accept a gift from Cutter
Speaker 1: of luxury jet that he could use as Air Force
Speaker 1: one and then keep for his personal use after he
Speaker 1: leaves office. That is not the only ethical concern swirling
Speaker 1: around the White House today. However, a tiny company says
Speaker 1: it will make a major investment in the President's cryptocurrency
Speaker 1: your SABC's Mary Bruce.
Speaker 4: Gend Culture Group, a small technology company with ties to
Speaker 4: China that operates on TikTok, announcing plans to purchase up
Speaker 4: to three hundred million of the Trump Bitcoin. They are
Speaker 4: just the latest business with foreign ties to jump into
Speaker 4: the President's cryptocurrency business. And all of this is coming
Speaker 4: as the President is working on a deal to allow
Speaker 4: TikTok to continue operating in the US. Ethics experts are
Speaker 4: sounding the alarm about conflicts of interest, but the White
Speaker 4: House insists the President is following the law.
Speaker 1: Now profits from this crypto venture go directly to the
Speaker 1: Trump family, the president launching the coins shortly before he
Speaker 1: was inaugurated, its value surging briefly before it crashed, and
Speaker 1: another round of Israeli airstrikes raining down on the people
Speaker 1: of Gaza today. Here's ABC's Tom Sufi Burridge.
Speaker 5: Jays roll overnight launching a series of deadly strikes in Gaza,
Speaker 5: killing around seventy people and more than twenty children, according
Speaker 5: to their mass run Gaza Health Ministry now follow separate
Speaker 5: is Ready strikes on two Gaza hospitals Tuesday, and is
Speaker 5: Ready official saying one attack tug is it a top
Speaker 5: ha Math leader.
Speaker 1: It is not clear if Israel was successful in killing
Speaker 1: that leader, Mohammed Sinwar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who
Speaker 1: says his forces are just days away from escalating fighting
Speaker 1: in Gaza. He says there is quote no way Israel
Speaker 1: will stop fighting until Hamas is defeated. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the forecast. For the rest of the afternoon, it
Speaker 1: will be a little bit up and down. We have
Speaker 1: some clouds from time to time, some showers in western Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Right now here in the Boston area, though, we have
Speaker 1: a bit of sun making its way through the clouds.
Speaker 1: Right now, temperatures from most of us in the mid
Speaker 1: sixties up to about seventy if you're inland today, maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit warmer in some other areas. For tonight,
Speaker 1: clouds with a couple of showers and a low in
Speaker 1: the mid fifties. For Tomorrow, mostly cloudy with some showers
Speaker 1: at times, high in the sixties, warmer inland. And Friday,
Speaker 1: we start off with some fog and low clouds that
Speaker 1: burns off throughout the morning, and for the rest of
Speaker 1: the afternoon it'll be cloudy with a couple of spotty showers.
Speaker 1: Highs in the seventies but upper seventies north and west.
Speaker 1: Right now sixty six degrees in Franklin, where it's sixty
Speaker 1: eight in Wareham, sixty seven in dan rather in Peabody,
Speaker 1: and right now in Boston at eleven oh five it
Speaker 1: is partly cloudy and sixty two degrees. The Boston city
Speaker 1: councils said to meet today starting around noon, and during
Speaker 1: this meeting they're expected to focus on the future of
Speaker 1: one of their colleagues. Two councilors Ed Flynn and Aaron
Speaker 1: Murphy have introduced a non binding resolution calling on the
Speaker 1: council to quote formally address the future of Tanya Fernandez Anderson.
Speaker 1: She is the councilor for District seven, which is including Roxbury, Dorchester,
Speaker 1: Fenway and part of the South End. She also recently
Speaker 1: pled guilty to federal corruption charges and has agreed to resign. However,
Speaker 1: Fernandez Anderson has not made it clear when that will happen,
Speaker 1: even though calls are growing for her to leave office.
Speaker 1: The Globe reports President Ruth zie Luis Jan recently asked
Speaker 1: a city lawyer if Fernandez Anderson could be forced out,
Speaker 1: the lawyer confirming she cannot be removed. Before her sentencing
Speaker 1: in late July. We haven't even hit Memorial Day, but
Speaker 1: a sign of summer is already here. Illegal backyard fireworks.
Speaker 1: WBC's Jim McKay says, for many people and a lot
Speaker 1: of dogs, they're just a nuisance. Well, the fireworks kind
Speaker 1: of go on a long long time.
Speaker 3: If Barbara lives in Plymouth. Then she heard the barrage
Speaker 3: of fireworks that were let off last night in town.
Speaker 3: She doesn't really care unless it goes on too long,
Speaker 3: but nevertheless, it is illegal, and especially on weeknights, it
Speaker 3: can really be bothersome to your neighbors.
Speaker 2: Honestly, for me, the dog really the fireworks really bothered
Speaker 2: the dog.
Speaker 3: Leslie has a lab mix named Oreo, and Oreo is
Speaker 3: no fan of the fireworks.
Speaker 1: So that makes it more difficult for me to enjoy them.
Speaker 3: It is illegal to possess and set them off. For Leslie,
Speaker 3: she loves this time of year for neighborhood celebrations, but
Speaker 3: the fireworks can take a hike.
Speaker 5: And generally like seeing the.
Speaker 3: People have, but not the fireworks exactly. Jim McKay WBZ
Speaker 3: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: At eleven oh seven. More legal trouble now for a
Speaker 1: blogger known as turtle Boy Aiden Carney, indicted yesterday and
Speaker 1: witness intimidation charges. Is we're connected to an incident involving
Speaker 1: two members of the Albert family who testified in the
Speaker 1: first Karen Reed trial. Carney is accused of walking up
Speaker 1: to a Canton pizza shop owned by Chris Albert back
Speaker 1: in March, staring into the window and talking about the
Speaker 1: death of John O'Keefe and Albert's son, Colin McCarney has
Speaker 1: been charged with witness intimidation in the read case. In
Speaker 1: the past, he has pled not guilty. On social media,
Speaker 1: he says prosecutors have already tried and failed to revoke
Speaker 1: his bail over the incident, and quote, everything is cool.
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Speaker 1: I'm Nicole Davis, w b Z and Boston's News Radio