This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. She's home and she's speaking out. Meet them. Native astronauts Sunny william speaking out for the first time since her extended stay in space. William says she got the first thing she did when she got home.
Oh yeah, I wanted to hug my husband and hug my ducks, and I'll say that in that order.
Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore insists they weren't stranded in space. After having to stay on the International Space Station much longer than expected, like nine months, Willmore says they were just doing their job.
The plan went way off for what we had planned, but because we're in human spaceflight, we prepare for any number of contingencies.
Two also said they weren't aware of all the attention they were getting during the mission and thanked the public for their support. President Trump has referred to April second as Liberation Day.
President Trump maintains that America has been ripped off because it imports more goods than it exports. He's promising reciprocal tariffs on every nation that charges import tariffs on American goods. His goal with the new set of tariffs is to spur companies to do their manufacturing here in the US instead of overseas, which would boost the economy, but many economists say average US families would have to absorb the cost in the form of higher prices and lower incomes.
That is CBS's Stacy Lynn, the federal judge presiding over the Boston Marathon bomber's efforts to overturn his death sentence, rejects a motion for his recusal. The Globe reports lawyers for Johyz and I have had asked the judge, Georgie O'Toole, be removed from the case, arguing that his comments on podcasts and at events constituted bias. Prosecutors disagreed. O tool ruled that the defense had not met the high threshold needed to make his recusal necessary. Just one more day now.
Jury selection starts tomorrow in Norfolk Superior Court in the second murder trial of Karen Reid of the b z's book McCarthy with a previews.
Your service is complete.
I'm declaring a mistrial in this case.
After her first criminal trial ended with a hung jury last summer. Karen Reid's retrial we'll get under way tomorrow with jury selection. Norfolk County has over two hundred people ready to go for day one of jury selection, which is expected to take a few weeks. This time around, perspective, jurors will have to fill out an additional one page questionnaire about their knowledge and opinion of the case. Over one thousand people have been called to the court for
jury duty in the first week alone. Reid is accused of hitting her Boston Police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe and leaving him in the snow to die. Reid's team is expected to introduce a third party defense, saying she's being framed. Judge Beverly Canoni ruled today that the defense can't call a former FBI agent to testify on police policies when it comes to how the crime scene was handled. Brook McCarthy, WBZ Boston's news.
Radio Okay with w BZ News Radio will follow developments in the Karen Reids second trial and bring them to you right here on WBZ and of course always streaming on the iHeartRadio app Well, here we go again. Heads up on the tee some changes on the Ashemont branch of the MBTA Redline service will be suspended starting tomorrow
for construction work. The t says free shuttle bus service will replace Redline service between jfk U Mass and Ashmond from April first to the ninth, and then from April tenth to the thirtieth, shuttle trains will provide service between those stops. The closure will accommodate track work on the Ashmont branch and Mattapan line, and the agency says they'll take time to do improvements on things like walkways and
track and power upgrades as well. Coming up on WZ one local chocolate shop getting ready for a major Jewish holiday. As we checked the four day WZ active weather forecast, where on the rain right now, We've had a couple of sprintzes around. It's about it. The cloud's just hanging tough through this day and into the evening. Eventually later tonight we will bring in some rain. Some of it could cause some ponding on roads, could even be a
rumble of thunder around. Temperatures mainly in the mid forties or so, breezy Tomorrow, there will be some sunshine breaking out, temperatures in the low fifties, partly cloudy, colder. Tomorrow night will be near freezing, maybe even a few degrees below that in some of the coldest spots. Wednesday we only get to about forty for a high with a mix of sun and clouds. Clouds at night will bring some
rain Wednesday night. Thursday, we'll have some rain around, but we will get milder temperatures climbing into the low to mid sixties. Right now fifty nine degrees. See in Boston, it's another big candy holiday season. In Summerville, a chocolate tear is whipping up treats for a holiday with some very tight rules. As we hear from wz's Hyle Shaffles.
Sarah Shapiro is standing over a counter holding a twenty five pound brick of chocolate. Okay, have you ready? The owner of Wild Child Chocolate, she's hard at work pumping out luxury chocolate bars with top quality cocoa. But this chocolate is particularly special.
It's a big financial leap for any business to become kosher for pass.
Passover rules are even stricter than normal kosher food. Nothing can ever touch grains or lagoons.
Everything that you have in the kitchen has been cleaned again, so make sure that there isn't even a crumb passover.
Chocolate tends to be low quality. It's just not worth it for top chocolate makers to go through the effort. But slowly Sarah is trying to change that.
We've learned the language of wine in the last twenty years for coacher keepers, but chocolate wasn't really part of that conversation.
Kyle Scheffeld to be busy Boston's News Radio.
May tenth is the date for Somerville's porch Fest this year, and a lot of people and jam streets in twenty twenty four means some new rules for twenty twenty five. The Somerville Arts Council for starters change the application process and says to ensure public safety, there may be certain streets where bands will not be able to play. There are some restricted streets. Another information on the Arts Council's website. Applications,
by the way for Porchfest open until April tenth. Hoop dreams continue for just a handful of college basketball teams these days. Among those dreams that are still alive Yukon women. They look a bunch of Final four ticket tonight. Wbzi's Drewmalholland tells us this is a time of year when losing can be well tough on everyone.
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The women's basketball coach for LSU, legendary head coach Kim Molkie saw her Tigers lose to UCLA this weekended. In the press conference, a reporter from the student run radio station at LSU asked coach Melky a question or was about to.
Jadan Smith Kalistry Sports coaches the second straight year, you guys could eliminated in the Elite eight.
How many found fours you play in?
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None, so it's probably pretty good.
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Right, all right.
She gave a wink and was smiling though having a little fun with young Jaden. After a tough loss for LSU, March madness rolls on. We're getting to the end here, Drew moholland, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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