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Speaker 1: afternoon on Ben Parker, Here's what's happening. Testimony's done for
Speaker 1: the day in Norfolk Superior Court. There was testimonies to
Speaker 1: day on whether or not a dog bite expert would
Speaker 1: be able to testify during Karen Reid's second criminal trial
Speaker 1: that thevc's book McCarthy has been following things and brings
Speaker 1: us the latest book.
Speaker 2: Ben.
Speaker 3: The prosecution got there termed their turn to question doctor
Speaker 3: Marie Russell, a dog bite expert for the defense. She's
Speaker 3: testified during Karen Reid's first trial saying she believes John
Speaker 3: O'Keefe was attacked by a dog and not hit by
Speaker 3: Reid's SUV. The prosecution filed the motion to try and
Speaker 3: block doctor Russell from testifying in the second trial, saying
Speaker 3: she's not qualified. At the hearing, Russell talked about her
Speaker 3: decades of experience treating dozens of people with dog bites
Speaker 3: and testifying in courts around the country. The prosecution says
Speaker 3: read hit o'keeff with her SUV and left him in
Speaker 3: the snow to die. Well the defense has a dog
Speaker 3: at the house, attacked him and she's being framed for
Speaker 3: his death. Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan questioned Russell on her
Speaker 3: experience today.
Speaker 4: What if you can't identify the animal, then then you
Speaker 4: have to go on clinical judgment and sometimes we even
Speaker 4: have to call up the word to health, but you
Speaker 4: go on clinical judgment to determine, well, what was the
Speaker 4: worst possibility.
Speaker 3: Now, after a full day of testimony, they didn't finish,
Speaker 3: so they're scheduling testimony for a later date in Judge
Speaker 3: Beverly Canoni approved Emotion earlier this week to move the
Speaker 3: second trial from January to April, and they still need
Speaker 3: to go over scheduling for the second trial. They didn't
Speaker 3: get to that today.
Speaker 1: Ben I had lots of things to still unpack here,
Speaker 1: and we'll keep following the developments for you in the
Speaker 1: Karen Read case and bring them to you. Don't forget
Speaker 1: we're always streaming for you on the iHeartRadio app. It
Speaker 1: was a mess today coming into Boston on the Expressway
Speaker 1: after a stolen car crashed. Now a couple of teenage
Speaker 1: boys are facing a host of child just after police
Speaker 1: say they crashed that stolen BMW. It was just after
Speaker 1: nine o'clock this morning when a trooper on Granted Avenue
Speaker 1: in Milton spotted the stolen vehicle. The driver tried to
Speaker 1: get away by jumping on ninety three North, and soon
Speaker 1: after that the car slammed into a pickup truck, propelling
Speaker 1: it into a state police cruiser. The pickup driver was
Speaker 1: taken to the hospital Doold to be checked out. The
Speaker 1: two fifteen year old boys a charge with unlicensed operation,
Speaker 1: negligent operation, and they'll face other charges as well. The
Speaker 1: Justice Department has reached a conclusion on whether any FBI
Speaker 1: employees helped to stop the January sixth attack at the Capitol.
Speaker 1: ABC's Stephen Portnoy with the findings.
Speaker 5: Despite the many conspiracy theories, the DOJ Inspector General says
Speaker 5: there's no evidence that FBI employees incited the Capitol riot.
Speaker 5: The report from Michael Horowitz does confirm the FBI relied
Speaker 5: on twenty six informants in DC on January sixth, but
Speaker 5: Horowitz says there's nothing to suggest that any of those
Speaker 5: FBI sources were authorized or directed to join the assault
Speaker 5: on the Capitol or to incur ridge the mob. For
Speaker 5: informants entered the building during the riot. None of them
Speaker 5: have been processing.
Speaker 1: And the report also finds that the FBI should have
Speaker 1: done more to collect intelligence on the attack before it
Speaker 1: even happened. Well for Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, kicking
Speaker 1: off a new chapter in his storied coaching career.
Speaker 6: Please welcome the new head football coach at the University
Speaker 6: of North Carolina, Coach Bill Belichick.
Speaker 7: And with that, the Bill Belichick era at UNC began.
Speaker 7: The former Pats coaches taking over a college football program
Speaker 7: for the first time in his career. But it's not
Speaker 7: something that's new to him.
Speaker 8: This is really kind of a dream come true. I
Speaker 8: grew up in college football with my dad. It's the
Speaker 8: coach of Navy for fifty years. So as a kid,
Speaker 8: all I knew it was college football, and so it's
Speaker 8: great to come back home to Carolina and you know,
Speaker 8: back in an environment that I really grew up in.
Speaker 7: His dad also coached at UNC. Belichick showed off an
Speaker 7: old sweatshirt from the school that belonged to his dad
Speaker 7: at the presser, right after he was gifted a brand
Speaker 7: new tar heels cut off hoodie. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 7: news radio we've got clear skies coming in for tonight.
Speaker 7: It is going to be chilly, and it's also going
Speaker 7: to be a bit breezy, so it'll be even chillier
Speaker 7: in the real field department. Temperature is about twenty five.
Speaker 7: Real fields will fall through the teens tonight. Tomorrow we
Speaker 7: don't warm up all that much, thirty four for the high.
Speaker 7: Still a little breezy, so real fields in the twenties
Speaker 7: at times Tomorrow night clear and cold will be in
Speaker 7: the twenties, low twenties probably in Boston, maybe even some
Speaker 7: upper teens Inland. And on Saturday, plenty of sunshine. Still
Speaker 7: a cold, let's win though, So that's nice. Thirty six
Speaker 7: on Saturday, about thirty seven or so for the high
Speaker 7: on Sunday again with some sunshine right now forty one
Speaker 7: degrees soon Boston. Well maybe you're thinking about getting a
Speaker 7: Christmas tree soon, maybe you already have one. DZ's Kyle
Speaker 7: Schaffel checked out a cellar to see how things are going.
Speaker 9: I asked Nate at the Boston Christmas Trees a lot
Speaker 9: in alsin what was probably an offensive question to somebody
Speaker 9: in his line of work.
Speaker 10: Does he prefer a plastic tree or a real one.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you can't compare plastic to a real tree.
Speaker 2: It's just not a fair comparison.
Speaker 9: Fopaside, business is more bustling than usual this year because
Speaker 9: Thanksgiving fell out late.
Speaker 2: It's been a little busier on the weekends, and I
Speaker 2: think that's just due to the season being condensed.
Speaker 10: They sell two kinds of tree here, both with their
Speaker 10: own pluses and minuses.
Speaker 2: The Balsam tends to be a little bit more fragrant,
Speaker 2: and the fraser tends to hold heavier ornaments a little
Speaker 2: bit better.
Speaker 10: Fraser firs also tend to last long.
Speaker 9: I asked Nate for advice and how to make sure
Speaker 9: your tree still has needles left by the big day.
Speaker 2: First step to keeping it alive would be not cutting
Speaker 2: it down, but the second one would be making sure
Speaker 2: it gets lots of water.
Speaker 10: Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: In just about five weeks, they'll be into administration in Washington.
Speaker 1: Some LGBT legal groups say they've been flooded with requests.
Speaker 1: As we hear from wbz's Madison Rogers.
Speaker 6: It's impossible to predict what's coming around the corner.
Speaker 11: But there's a real sense of fear in the transgender
Speaker 11: community locally and around the country.
Speaker 6: The incoming administration has promised that it will initiate changes
Speaker 6: in federal law that require people to identify only with
Speaker 6: their birth sex.
Speaker 11: Senior attorney Chris Urgel at Boston based Glad Law says
Speaker 11: many are concerned the new administration might make their transition harder,
Speaker 11: so they're rushing to update things like their legal names
Speaker 11: and gender markers on ID forms. Glad Law has a
Speaker 11: service aimed at helping people navigate the process.
Speaker 6: Last month, we saw three times as many intakes as
Speaker 6: we did the same month in the previous year.
Speaker 11: Groups like GLAD and states like Massachusetts arguaring up for
Speaker 11: potential legal fights around trans issues with the inauguration just
Speaker 11: a few weeks away. Downtown. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's
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