Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Thirty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening, thoughts. Taking it on
Speaker 2: the Chin today on Wall Straight after President Trump says
Speaker 2: tariffs against Mexico and Canada will start tomorrow, Bloomberg's Tracy
Speaker 2: Junkie joins us as the markets have just rung the
Speaker 2: closing bell, We're off the lows that the closed, Tracy,
Speaker 2: but whoop de doo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a difference between nine hundred point
Speaker 3: loss for the Dell and what we have at the
Speaker 3: closed six hundred and forty nine. It is a large
Speaker 3: loss either way. Nasda's down four ninety seven, the SMP
Speaker 3: down one oh five. And like you said, it's clear
Speaker 3: that many of the market had been hoping for an
Speaker 3: eleventh hour change of heart from President Trump and that
Speaker 3: triffs of twenty five percent on Canada and Mexico and
Speaker 3: this plan to double his tariffs on China would not
Speaker 3: go into effect. Instead, the President has signed an order
Speaker 3: sending the Chinese tariffs at twenty percent, and he says
Speaker 3: the Canadian, ad Mexican tariffs. We'll kick in as scheduled tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Ben, all right, we'll keep tabs on the terraff issues.
Speaker 2: Of course, we'll get back to Tracy shortly as Wall
Speaker 2: Street kind of falls on its face this afternoon. Meantime,
Speaker 2: a major investment into semiconducting manufacturing in the US. ABC's
Speaker 2: Karen Travers has more on an announcement from the White House.
Speaker 4: President Trump today is announcing a one hundred billion dollar
Speaker 4: investment in the US over the next four years by
Speaker 4: a chip maker. Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company TSMC first announced
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty it would break ground on a semiconductor
Speaker 4: manufacturing facility in Arizona. It has since pledged sixty five
Speaker 4: billion dollars in investments in that state, calling it the
Speaker 4: largest foreign direct investment in Arizona's history. It's not immediately
Speaker 4: clear how much of the one hundred billion the company's
Speaker 4: announcing today is part of previous commitments. TSMC also benefited
Speaker 4: from a six point six billion dollar grant from the
Speaker 4: Biden administration last year from the Chips and Science Act.
Speaker 4: Karen Travers ABC News the White House.
Speaker 2: US Cyber Command is being told to hold on orders
Speaker 2: are being given to back off Russian targets.
Speaker 1: Several US officials tel CBS News the order came from
Speaker 1: Defense Secretary Pete hagshith no cyber planning or offensive digital
Speaker 1: actions against Russia. What's not known right now is how
Speaker 1: long it will last, nor what the motivation behind the
Speaker 1: move is. High ranking Republican lawmaker and the president's national
Speaker 1: security advisor both say they were unaware of the order,
Speaker 1: which comes as President Trump tries to negotiate an end
Speaker 1: to Russia's war with Ukraine. Peter King's CBS News Health
Speaker 1: Secretary Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior is now promoting the measles vaccine as that
Speaker 2: virus spreads in Texas.
Speaker 5: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior wrote
Speaker 5: an opinion piece published by Fox News in which he
Speaker 5: says he's deeply concerned about the recent measles outbreak. He wrote,
Speaker 5: vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also
Speaker 5: contribute to community immunity. The outbreak is in the Southwest,
Speaker 5: mostly in Texas, with an unvaccinateed child dying last week.
Speaker 5: Kennedy is dismiss critics who say he is anti vaccine,
Speaker 5: claiming is used were mischaracterized and insisting he was advocating
Speaker 5: for common sense policies. Matt Piper, CBS News, It's going to.
Speaker 2: Remain chilly tonight, temperature about twenty five in Boston, upper
Speaker 2: teens for many of the inland suburbs, clear to partly cloudy.
Speaker 2: Sky's light breeze. There'll be a light breeze tomorrow with
Speaker 2: times of clouds and sun will be milder though in
Speaker 2: the afternoon as we get into the upper forties in
Speaker 2: many places. Partly cloudy Tomorrow night thirty eight and then
Speaker 2: Wednesday a real warm up, mid to upper fifties. There
Speaker 2: will be clouds around. There will be a couple of
Speaker 2: showers around as well, and as we get into Wednesday
Speaker 2: night there'll be some heavier rain passing through the area
Speaker 2: and perhaps a thunderstorm war two as well. Thursday, we'll
Speaker 2: have some clouds, we'll have peaks of sunshine, We'll have
Speaker 2: a leftover shower in temperatures in the mid fifties right
Speaker 2: now thirty two degrees in Boston. The last thing you
Speaker 2: want when you get off a long flight is to
Speaker 2: be held up at customs or at the baggage claim.
Speaker 2: Wbsy's Nicol Davis tells US a traveler had to deal
Speaker 2: with a whole different problem after she got to Boston
Speaker 2: last night.
Speaker 6: It was about seven point thirty when State Pelay a
Speaker 6: woman was making her way through customs at Terminal E,
Speaker 6: the International terminal at Logan Airport. Officials say when she
Speaker 6: was gathering her luggage, she was somehow stung by a scorpion.
Speaker 6: Now police say the woman was taken to the hospital
Speaker 6: for treatment. We don't know how severely she was hurt.
Speaker 6: We don't know where the scorpions stung her. We also
Speaker 6: don't know how the scorpion got there in the first place,
Speaker 6: whether it was in her luggage or in somebody else's.
Speaker 6: Now experts say scorpions are rare in this part of
Speaker 6: the world, but you can find them on almost every
Speaker 6: single continent save for Antarctica. Stings can be painful and
Speaker 6: potentially deadly. Officials say they could lead to problems with
Speaker 6: your heart, neurological issues, or organ problems, but the CDC
Speaker 6: says most stings from scorpions are not that serious. Nicole
Speaker 6: Davis WBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio burning the Midnight Oil at a Cambridge cafe. The
Speaker 2: or he is staying open late for Ramadan Wdbz's and
Speaker 2: a Freedman with details.
Speaker 7: So there's a fistop platic so basically it's cookie butter
Speaker 7: with chistop.
Speaker 8: Saw Luxer Cafe opened in Harvard Square almost a year ago,
Speaker 8: bringing wal food and Egyptian classics to the neighborhood.
Speaker 7: We have some traditional dishes that are however she it's
Speaker 7: like a minced ground beef stuffed in feeder bread or
Speaker 7: kipdo which is like a liver sandwich.
Speaker 8: And for Ramedan owner up to Kalman Hassan is keeping
Speaker 8: the place open until two am, modeling it off of
Speaker 8: the cafes you'd find in Egypt.
Speaker 7: You'll meet people, you'll hang out with people. It'll be
Speaker 7: like a place to play card games. You just make
Speaker 7: friends there.
Speaker 8: After fasting all day, Muslims share a meal before prayer
Speaker 8: and then normally they don't have anywhere to go since
Speaker 8: most places are closed. Hassan says staying openly gives people
Speaker 8: celebrating Ramadan a place to meet up with friends.
Speaker 7: I think it's important for to have this kind of
Speaker 7: space for Muslims or non Muslims or anyone interested. It
Speaker 7: kind of gives you an idea of what you would
Speaker 7: expect at a different country.
Speaker 8: In Cambridge, Emma Freedman, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: There are laser printers, laser hair removal, laser light shows,
Speaker 2: lasers for lots of medical procedures. How about lasers for turkeys.
Speaker 2: Some turkey farmers are using lasers as a new weapon
Speaker 2: against bird flu.
Speaker 9: It sounds like something out of an Austin Powers movie
Speaker 9: by the lights, but the president of the Minnesota Turkey
Speaker 9: Growers Association, Jake Vlaminck, says, the lasers work.
Speaker 2: To me, it's been a big difference and I've seen
Speaker 2: it results throughout the state.
Speaker 9: Farmers install the lasers atop their barns and windmills, and
Speaker 9: the green streaks of lights scare away ducks and geese,
Speaker 9: the main carriers of bird flu.
Speaker 2: We've been able to cut our mortality down in about half,
Speaker 2: and I want to tribute a lot of that to
Speaker 2: these lasers.
Speaker 9: Michael Wallace, CBS News.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio