Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Speaker 2: How maybe me do this? I don't want to do this.
Speaker 2: It's Monday, all of a sudden here in Boston, and
Speaker 2: if you looked outside, it's disgusting. It is dreary, it's foggy,
Speaker 2: and it's raining. It is also fifty one degrees. The
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Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us this Monday morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 2: It's back to reality. Periods of rain today, it'll be
Speaker 2: breezy and much cool with the recent days.
Speaker 1: Hi just fifty two to fifty six.
Speaker 2: It's WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Not much better.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid tomorrow either. A high level admissions official at
Speaker 2: Emmanuel College in Boston will be in Boston federal court today.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine year old Jacob Riquez is accused of sex
Speaker 2: trafficking charges. Federal prosecutors say on Riquez used the application
Speaker 2: forms to get contact information of the victims, one of
Speaker 2: whom as a seventeen year old girl. School officials now
Speaker 2: refer to Henriquez as a former employee, and in a statement,
Speaker 2: says the safety and well being of all of its
Speaker 2: students is a priority. A school is also said to
Speaker 2: be cooperating with authorities. Jury's selection begins this morning in
Speaker 2: the federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Colmes.
Speaker 2: The one time music mobigule, known most recently as Diddy,
Speaker 2: is at risk of spending the rest of his life
Speaker 2: in prison if convicted. Prosecutor say Combs took advantage of
Speaker 2: several women during his sex themed parties known as freak offs.
Speaker 2: The fifty five year old goes on trial after rejecting
Speaker 2: a plea deal with prosecutors last week. Official say opening
Speaker 2: statements could begin as soon as next week. More tariffs
Speaker 2: are on the way, this time affecting Hollywood. President Trump
Speaker 2: says he'll save the industry with levies on foreign made films.
Speaker 2: Other natures, A lot of them I've stolen.
Speaker 3: I'm moving in this.
Speaker 4: He blames other nations tax incentives for drawing production away
Speaker 4: from US locations. Films often shot and produced in multiple
Speaker 4: countries for business reasons or location authenticity. America's top grossing
Speaker 4: film so far this year, The Beautiful World and Everything,
Speaker 4: in It Will Withering Die, a Minecraft movie made in
Speaker 4: New Zealand and Canada and partly produced by Warner Brothers,
Speaker 4: took in almost four hundred million dollars here. American films
Speaker 4: often make their biggest slice of profits in overseas markets,
Speaker 4: making them vulnerable to a tariff trade war. Michael Toscano,
Speaker 4: CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: President says he's still got a sweet spot for TikTok
Speaker 2: and says he would be willing to further extend a
Speaker 2: deadline on the owners of the social media site to
Speaker 2: sell its US operations or risk being shut down in
Speaker 2: the United States by the federal government. NBC's Meet the
Speaker 2: Press this weekend. The President says he'd be willing to
Speaker 2: give Byte Dance more leeway if it cannot reach a
Speaker 2: deal by the June nineteenth deadline, which otherwise would put
Speaker 2: the online habits of some one hundred and seventy million
Speaker 2: Americans in jeopardy. The NHL Draft is lottery is tonight.
Speaker 2: The Bruins are guaranteed a top ten pick. Red Sox
Speaker 2: off today. The homestand resumes tomorrow night at Fenway when
Speaker 2: the Rangers come to down and we've been waiting for
Speaker 2: this Celtics Knicks Game one of the NBA Eastern Conference
Speaker 2: Semifinals tonight at the Garden. This fan is all in
Speaker 2: on the seas tonight and in this series against the Knicks.
Speaker 1: Beautiful chances. I like their chances. Well, this dude's a
Speaker 1: little bit more cautious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it'll be a six game series.
Speaker 1: But the Celtics will ultimately prevail.
Speaker 4: Well hopefully, And as this loyal Green teamer points out,
Speaker 4: Boston's the defending champs.
Speaker 2: Trust I think since we won it last year, I
Speaker 2: think the team deserves a little bit of faith in them.
Speaker 2: Chris Fauma, WBZ, Boston's News Radio. This is not a
Speaker 2: good look on a Monday morning after a weekend that
Speaker 2: actually turned out to be okay for much of the region.
Speaker 2: We're gonna see rain pretty much on and off all
Speaker 2: day today, and much cooler air too, is dominating. It's
Speaker 2: fifty one degrees right now and really not much warmer
Speaker 2: than this all day today, and not much brighter than
Speaker 2: this either. We'll see periods of rain throughout the entire day,
Speaker 2: with highes in the middle sixty. Periods of rain continue
Speaker 2: over night to night, lows in the forties and let's
Speaker 2: do this all again tomorrow, with more showers expected, high
Speaker 2: temperatures a little bit milder into the lower sixties. We
Speaker 2: might even hear the rumble of thunder at some point tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Wednesday looks like we start to turn a little bit
Speaker 2: of a corner, with mostly cloudy skies but sunny breaks,
Speaker 2: especially in the afternoon, high temperatures approaching seventy degrees. But
Speaker 2: looking ahead towards the rest of this work week, it's
Speaker 2: rather unsettled. Continued at least right through Friday. Right now
Speaker 2: in Boston fifty one and raining here in the city
Speaker 2: at six oh five on this Monday morning. Sayinara. Skype,
Speaker 2: the internet based phone and video services shutting down operations
Speaker 2: effective today, was over before it began. The manbzis Drew
Speaker 2: moholland is sere with details. Good morning Andrew, Good morning Jeffrey.
Speaker 2: After twenty two years and fourteen years after Microsoft bought
Speaker 2: the service for eight point five billion dollars in cash,
Speaker 2: Skype is out. Remember the connection sound? Yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: when nobody would answer either, and that sound just keep
Speaker 2: playing the memory. Skype was a way to make free
Speaker 2: calls worldwide.
Speaker 1: It was used by tens of millions and it's con today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, Zoom just took over, right crazy, just
Speaker 2: came in and said I'm in charge. Yeah, all right, Drew,
Speaker 2: thank you. Testimony resumes this morning in the Karen Reid
Speaker 2: case in Norfolk Superior Court. Prosecutors and defense lawyers have
Speaker 2: taken turns grilling Reid's old friend Jennifer McCabe for three
Speaker 2: days on the witness stand, after which Reid says McCabe
Speaker 2: is the quarterback of a plot to frame her. Reid
Speaker 2: accuses McCabe of collusion by enlisting the makings of a
Speaker 2: cover up on a group chat the night that John
Speaker 2: O'Keefe was found dead outside a home in Canton more
Speaker 2: than three years ago. We can fire in a Boston
Speaker 2: office supply warehouse causes an estimated one million dollars in damages.
Speaker 2: The WB Mason building on Summer Street goes up in flames.
Speaker 2: No injuries reported, and investigation is underway into the cause
Speaker 2: of that fire. Go big and buy small, mom and
Speaker 2: pop shops rejoice, Small business steals this ship.
Speaker 1: Oh Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of this week Small Business
Speaker 1: Week all have different themes related to food and drink
Speaker 1: here in Chelsea. The head of the Chelsea Chamber of Commerce,
Speaker 1: Jennifer Herself, says today Cinco de Mile is Margarita and
Speaker 1: Mohedo Monday, and then tomorrow.
Speaker 3: On Tuesday is Taco Tuesday. Once again, Chelsea probably has
Speaker 3: your best selection of tacos in the area. We're really
Speaker 3: proud of the restaurants that we have in our small,
Speaker 3: little two point mile radius.
Speaker 1: Within this small radius of various culinary delights, Wednesday is
Speaker 1: Pasta La Vista with the focus on pizza and pasta.
Speaker 1: And finally Thursday is Thursday Thursday. Different days, different events,
Speaker 1: different restaurants, all with the same goal in mind, supporting
Speaker 1: local small businesses from Chelsea. Carl Stevens WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio.