This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news thirty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.
Another day on the stock market slide, although today felt a whole lot more like a roller coaster. In fact, we may even finally land up on at least one of the markets. Bloomberg's Tracy Junkie is here with us. I know these numbers got to settle, but the Nasdaq may have escaped with a wind today.
It just might have been fifteen points higher as we watch for the settle. The Dell, however, down three hundred and fifty, yes, down twelve points. The dew at the worst, however, was down seventeen hundred points. Investors heard it from the President himself last hour there will be no pressing pause
on the sweeping tariffs set to begin on Wednesday. Rumors of a ninety day pause earlier had powered in a state founding twenty six hundred point in Dow swing to the upside, and though we did see some losses return, the market definitely did not abandon all hope.
Ben all right a better day, even though two of the three finished down will have more reaction coming up throughout the afternoon on WBZ. Meantime at the White House is rarely. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is there meeting with President Trump. Netanyahu says he is going to tear down trade barriers with the US.
We will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States.
We intend to do it very quickly. We think it's the right thing to do.
Then Yahoo adds Israel wants to be a close trading partner with the US. President Trump says the tariffs will soon make America wealthier and stronger. The President also saying he's communicated directly with Iran and says Orreny in fact, militia groups need to disarm immediately.
I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious, and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with, or frankly, that isuer ones to be involved with if they can avoid it. So we're going to see if we can avoid it.
President Trump has hinted at military action is if a deal is not struck. Following the revocation of visas of three Harvard international students and two recent grads. The universities out with a statement saying they deeply value the international students and scholars who travel here to learn and grow. Those who had visas revoked had not been publicly identified.
The school says they learned of the revocations during the routine records check and says we are not aware of the tales of the revocations or the reasons for them. The Trump administration has said it may target foreign born students if they are considered a threat to national security. In several of the reported cases detailed, students have not been charged with a crime, supporters arguing their only offense
appears to concern their activism. Speaking of the students, Harvard says the talent they bring to campus each day increases our ability to advance world class discovery in fields that have meaningful impacts on people's lives. A couple of agency board members fired by the president can return to work for now, so says a court.
The seven to four ruling comes from an appeals court regarding the status of Merit Systems Protection Board member Kathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynn Willcox. Government lawyers say President Trump has the final say on firing such board members and reinstating them undermines his authority. The case will likely head to the Supreme Court when Needel that CBS News.
Court's over for the day. In Denham, jury selection continues in the Karen Reid case. CBS News boss and says no new jurors were added today, which means there are still ten jurors seated out of the sixteen needed for opening statements to begin. There's been some rain and showers
around out the western part of the state. Have been some snowflakes mixed in, and that may be the deal for some of the even closer suburbs later tonight, north and west of the city, where temperatures may be just cold enough to bring us a snow shower or two. There'll be some showers of the regular nature around as well. Thirty six. The low downtown will be in the lower thirties. In some of the inland suburbs. Tomorrow, it's a mostly
cloudy morning. There'll be a little bit of rain shower activity, maybe a snow shower in a few spots. The wind's going to start to pick up and blow around pretty good as well as we head into the afternoon. There'll be some clouds in sun then temperatures though only in the low forties, mainly cleared chilly Tomorrow night thirty in Boston, but mid twenties and the colder suburbs. We get a little better on Wednesday with some sunshine, temperatures in the
upper forties, some sun giving way to clouds. Thursday near fifty. Right now forty nine degrees in Boston. Did I say forty nine? I wish thirty nine degrees in Boston. It's dinner with the side of nostalgia in Shrewsbury, one restaurant back in business.
Maybe you lived it or just heard the stories, but in the eighties and nineties it was all about munching on popcorn and peanuts while watching cartoons. And now, after a decade long hiatus, the ground around his back.
Post photos of whatever it may be, and say remember when and when someone did it with the ground round, there would be thousands of comments on it.
Nagie and Joseph shared the new owners here at the restaurant off Route nine. Right now, they're serving up dinner ahead of a grand opening later this month, and it's very different from the local ground round that we had in terms of infrastructure itself, but somehow it still felt like a ground round The place satisfies that nostalgic itch walking in the door to see a vintage popcorn machine, but with some updates showing a sign at the times on.
The old days they played black and white cartoons, we are playing like eighties nineties cartoons because the way we look at it, the generation that was there as kids, that's the cartoons they would.
Have watched in Shrewsbury. Emma Friedman WBZ, Boston's news radio.
All Lives will be on Springfield in September. The latest Basketball Hall of Fame class will get enshrined. Then a Smith Basketball Hall of Fame announcing not inductees that will be celebrated on September fifth and sixth. That one of the inductees is actually more than one, really the two thousand and eight US Olympic Men's basketball team. Sports teams retire jersey numbers based on how good the players were. Hurricanes get retired depending on how bad the storms were.
Several storm names from the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins are retired after the destruction they caused. In twenty twenty four.
Retired names include Beryl, Helene, Milton, and John replaced by Brianna, Holly, Maguil and Jake. The twenty twenty four Atlantic hurricane season marked the ninth consecutive year of above average activity, and the year ahead could bring more dangerous storms, as experts predict seventeen named storms, nine hurricanes, and four of them are expected to be Category three or stronger. The above average activity is anticipated due to warmer Atlantic waters and uncertain al Nino conditions.
That is CBS's Jesse Mitchell If You're Happy and you Know It, Somerville wants to know the cities twenty twenty five Happiness Survey Launching today. The Happiness Survey has helped us shape the city's policies and programs since twenty eleven. It measures residents satisfaction with life and Someerville city services, neighborhoods,
and other things. This month and next, nearly seventeen thousand randomly selected households will receive either a postcard or a survey packet inviting one household member to participate online or on paper. The city is encouraging all selected households to participate. Participation is anonymous survey. Results will be shared later this year, you are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio