This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news fifty degrees in Boston at four o'clock that afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Court's over for the day in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham. Several witnesses took the stand at the Karen Reid re trial. Among them retired Canton Police Lieutenant Paul Gallagher, who testified about how law enforcement investigated the scene, including the use of red solo cops to
collect blood. Things became tense when the defense asked him about working with state police.
You accompanied Proker and used card sheeted to document.
Meeting.
They were documenting Fairview Road.
It's not clear. The report's not clear.
They were going to document Fairbey Road, not me.
So you just said something that I would have follow upon.
Okay, the report's not clear. Correct, that's correct. So that's an inaccurate report. I wouldn't call it inaccurate at all. I'm just saying you're misinterpreting the wording I see, and I'm misinterpreting it even though I just read it directly from the report.
Yes, sometimes sentences have different beatings.
Yes, you are Okay, earlier testimony from Canton firefighter Katie and Gloughlin, who said she heard Karen Reid say I hit him multiple times at the scene. An update now, Boston City Councilor Tanya Fernandez Andersson has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and theft involving federal funds. This comes a month after the city councilor said she would sign a
plea deal and announced plans to resign. Fernandez Anderson is accused or was accused, of giving a bonus payment to a relative she hired than taking some of that money for herself. In exchange compleading guilty, prosecutors drawn four of the charges against her. President Trump's offering details of his administration's plan to pay illegal immigrants if they leave the United States. ABC's Karen Trappers has more.
President Trump Monday, speaking about his administration's plan to offer money to undocumented immigrants to self deport.
We're going to pay each one a certain amount of money, and we're going to get him a beautiful flight back to where they came from.
The Department of Homeland Security announced those who want to self deport must use the CBP home app return to their home country. And then they'll receive a one thousand dollars stipend.
Maybe someday, with little work, they can come back in if they're good people.
Karen Traver's ABC News The White House.
The US Army has paused training flights for helicopters near Washington, DC's Reagan National Airport. ABC Steven Portnoy explains the pause.
In training missions follows an incident last week in which an Army black Hawk deviated from its planned landing at the Pentagon. Air Traffic controllers told two civilian jets to execute go arounds before they landed at nearby Reagan National. Until a preliminary investigation is complete, the Army says it will not conduct training missions around the airport or the Pentagon.
The FAA changed helicopter routes near Reagan National after January's collision over the Potomac, a crash that left sixty seven people dead.
That January crash was the worst US mid air disaster in more than two decades. Tomorrow morning, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals we'll hear arguments on whether a federal judge's order to transfer Tough doctoral student rom Asa oz Turk to Vermont should be granted or further delayed. Hearing is set for ten o'clock in the morning in New York. Oz Turk was arrested in Summerville in March by ice agents.
So keeping an eye on this rain. And yes, there is still rain around, not in Boston, though we do have a lot of fog. The city's pretty much socked in here with that fog around, and we are dealing with rain and showers, especially outside of the city down to the south coast. There's been some rain around parts of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and then back out into parts of central Massachusetts, especially north central Mass and western Mass
where we're seeing most of the rain. The precipitation pushing off generally to the north, and there's this long trail of precipitation going all the way down the coast out over the ocean. So we've got these waves of precipitation coming in and they will continue to do so and continue to make us wet. And later on tonight, even closer to the city, we'll see some rain falling forty eight for the low tomorrow periods of rain, some of it will be heavy with a thunderstorm, could be some
flooding rains in poor drainage area. Temperatures about sixty or so. Some more showers tomorrow night, some more showers on Wednesday, and a thunderstorm possible with temperatures close to seventy. It gets a little better Thursday and as we get a little bit of sunshine around, but we also still stand the risk of shower. Temperatures right around seventy. Right now,
it's fifty one degrees in Boston. A local animal control officer dismayed to see dogs behind the wheel, well not really driving, but nonetheless there behind the wheel.
When police pull people over for distracted driving, it's usually texting, eating, or maybe even doing your makeup. But now there's a new contender.
It was just shocking because every time I turned around, there was a dog hanging out of a window on a driver's lap.
Denim Animal control officer Denny Goldman says she's seeing more and more people driving around with their dogs sitting right there in the driver's seat. She spotted seven people doing this on one day last month. I saw a labrador, like a full grown yellow lab on somebody's lab draped across them with their chin on the open window. The problem being of course that you're supposed to be paying attention to the road, not your furry friend behind the wheel.
Gouldman says this is as bad as any other form of distracted driving, and the police have wide discretion to give you a ticket.
A dog, obviously being a distraction, would fall under that category.
Kyle schaffeld to be Busy Boston's snows Radio.
And then there's another problem with dogs. Fakes, well, not fake dogs, that'd be silly service dogs.
They can be life savers for so many, but fake service animals are becoming way too common nationwide. People bring in there not a service dog dog into the coffee shop or wherever. With that, we have an increase in biting incidents and other stuff. And what are we doing here?
People?
Michelle Williams is with Canine Companions, which provides service dogs to adults. She has heard from the business owners much on a daily basis, and they have their hands full.
They're questioning legitimate service dog users more skeptically because they've had these poorly trained pets in their businesses causing problems.
And we know that poorly trained is not something associated with actual service dogs. So this really hurts the actual service dog owners, the people that rely on these dogs to get by in day to day life. A recent survey of those people reveals that forty one percent of them say they've been questioned about the legitimacy of their companion when they walk into a place, which makes it tough on them. Drew Mohall and WBZ Boston's News Radio.
When you got to Go, you got to go, and when you got to Go. A Massachusetts rest stop is one of the best in the country to go at. That's according to a survey from the American River Wellness Recovery. It ranked the Charlton Service Plaza thirteenth on its list of best public restrooms in America. Stop on the mass Turnpike is joined on that list by the Kittery Welcome Center in Maine and the Salem Welcome Center in New Hampshire. More than three thousand drivers voted for the best place
to stop and go. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parkner, WBZ Boston's News Radio