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A rainy Saturday afternoon in Boston. It's forty two degrees at four o'clock. Good afternoon, and let's start this hour downtown where Mayor Michelle wou just made a big announcement.
I am so proud to stand before you as we launch officially our reelection campaign.
Speaking in the South End, the mayor pitched a fights against the White House.
We face serious challenges in this moment, and now is not the time for a mayor who needs on the job training.
She faces an election coming up in September, with her main opponent so far being philanthropist and billionaire Josh Kraft. Huge crowds gathered downtown this afternoon in a protest aimed at the White House. Wbz's Mike Macklin in the crowds.
Thousands arched from Boston Common to City Hall Plaza, as cities across the nation demonstrated in opposition to President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. This isn't a Democrat issue, this is an American issue.
It's for all of us to stand up.
Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll addressed the crowd on Boston Common.
Government works best when we have checks and balances, when we have a Congress that actually.
Is really going to check the power of the most powerful person in America.
That's how it's supposed to work.
On City Hall Plaza, Mayor Michelle wou drove home the message that she delivered to a Republican led Congressional committee in Washington.
Boston has never and will never back down to Bullie. This is our city and.
You will not break us. More than twelve hundred hands off demonstrations were planned in all fifty states across the country. On City Hall Plaza, Mike macklum WBZ Boston's.
News baseline ten percent import taxes are now in effect on all goods coming into the country. It was an absolute meltdown to end the week on Wall Street.
The Dow plummeted more than two thousand, two hundred points. The S and P five hundred, which we know is tied to many people's retirement funds, slid more than three hundred, while the NASDAK tumbled nearly one thousand points, now officially in a bear market, meaning it is down twenty percent from its record high. Investors dump stocks as recession talk now heats up. JP Morgan now raising the odds of a recession this year to sixty percent.
That's ABC's Alexis Christophoris. President Trump has vowed the new taxes will lead to a renaissance for American manufacturing, but that could take a while. We have more wet weather coming up in the four day forecast. Rain at times Tonight, maybe a rumble of thunder down toward the South Coast and Cape. The lows around thirty nine degrees. It is milder Tomorrow, fifty five to fifty nine for the high, but another mostly cloudy with a few showers around, especially
early in the day, lingering rain and drizzle. On Monday early in the day again, otherwise it's mostly cloudy, brisk and colder, forty two for the high. Then Tuesday a possible rain shower to start, maybe even mixing in with some snow and some colder spots. Otherwise, clouds break for some sunshine. It is pretty chilly, though still high just forty four. Right now it is rain from Boston out
to the Berkshars. Here in the city forty two degrees and feeling like thirty At four oh six, a week of jury selection, and the Karen Reid retrial is now in the books. And in South Boston, a judge heard arguments around the buffer zone in Denham. Wbz's Charlie Bergeron has.
That supporters of Karen Reid claiming the buffer zone is a violation of their First Amendment rights. Judge Beverly Canoni says the presence of protesters outside the courthouse could influence jurors. The judge expanding the buffer zone, which regionally prohibited demonstrations within two hundred feet at the courthouse during the last year's trial. Attorney Mark Rendaza, representing some of the plaintiffs, asking how a judge has the right to have any
say with what's happening outside the courthouse. Plaintiffs say the buffer zone is so big now they can't get their message across. The only people who see or hear them are residents in the neighborhood. Rendaza stating that there should not even be a buffer zone, but its clients are willing to compromise. No decision made it yesterday's hearing. Both sides will continue to argue their case next Thursday, back at the Federal courthouse. Charlie Burger on WBZ Boston's news radio.
In marsh Madness, it is Final four action for the men tonight in San Antonio, and on the sidelines, it's man versus Machine, a million dollar wager between a pro gambler and an AI program will come down to the Duke Houston game. Both gambler Sean Perry and the Site four s predictions have picked all final four teams correctly and have done very well over the first sixty games
of the tournament. Perry, the Human wants Duke's Blue Devils to win, the bot picking the Cougars before that game, Florida will take on Auburn, and on the women's side, Yukon in South Carolina won their final four games yesterday. Now they'll face off for the title tomorrow afternoon. You're now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's news radio