This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The bell. It is a ringing on Wall Street that means today is over. And what a day it was. Stock's spinning back downward today after a day of historic gains Yesterday. Facy Junkie is at Bloomberg trying to digest this undigestible mess.
Absolutely, Ben, Well, yesterday it's just had. It was a huge stock buying wave, pretty much the biggest in years. Today the tide definitely turned again in a pattern of extremes that is starting to look a little too familiar. That Dow dropped one fifteen points, the Nasdaq fell seven thirty eight, the SMP down eighty nine. One trader told us that investors woke up with the realization that the
President's a ten percent based tariffs are still here. His ninety day pause on most of the higher import taxes could just fly by, and in China is fighting back hard.
Ben, all right, there is one more day in the trading week. We'll see how things shake out tomorrow. To end the week, keep a tune to WBZ News Radio and always streaming on the iHeartRadio Apple keep you posted on the tariffs and the trade wars and the market disaster. We are following some developing news out of New York this afternoon as well. And emergency response is underway after a helicopter crashes into the Hudson River. Law enforcement sources
telling ABC News fatalities have been reported. Fire officials say at least four people were on board that helicopter. The Coastguard is stopping boat traffic in the area. Emergency boats are on the scene. This is a developing story. Will continue to bring you updates throughout the afternoon and evening. The House has approved President Trump's Big, Beautiful budget Bill, sliding by with a vote of two sixteen to two fourteen. Stacy Lynne with the tails OH.
Speaker Mike on It is pleased they were finally able to clear the Senate adopted framework of the budget bill.
I do hope and believe that.
The vote today is a very strong signal to the markets, to investors, the Congress is going to get us one on foot.
Moving the legislation forward. Is a significant win for the President and GOP leaders like Johnson, who promised that dozens of Republican holdouts they would seek at least one and a half trillion dollars in spending cuts to safety net programs in the final package. Stacey Lynn's CBS News Washington.
Today was day eight of jury selection in Karen Reid's second criminal trial at Norfolk Superior Court. It's over now, wbz's Brook McCarthy as the latest.
Jury selection will continue on Monday. In Karen Reid's retrial, sixteen jurors have been seated so far, eight men and eight women. According to CBS News Boston. On day eight of jury selection, three new jurors were added in two were excus The court had wanted to seat sixteen jurors, twelve that would deliberate and four alternates, but what the trial expected to last six to eight weeks, opening statements begin,
they want to have as many jurors as possible. Read's first trial ended in a mistrial, and she is appealing to the US Supreme Court to try and get two of the three charges against her dropped on the grounds of double jeopardy. Reid is accused of hitting her Boston Police officer boyfriend John O'Keeffe with her SUV and leaving him in the snow to die. She says she's being framed. Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
A played at Reaga National Airport bumps into the wings of another today. WUSA TV says their wordo injuries reported a Long Island Republican Congressman Nick Loto was on board the jet that was hit. He said on social media that this was one of the ontce of a lifetime experiences of serving in Congress. Reagan National has been under tighter's scrutiny since the mid air collision, the deadly one earlier this year. We've got the clouds that have been
building in through the afternoon. They'll continue to build in tonight, although we still have some peaks of sunshine around, so not everybody's getting under as much cloudiness as others are, but we'll all have clouds later. Will stay dry for much of the early evening around these parts, and then rain gets in here and some wet snow does too. North and west of the city. Temperatures in the mid thirties in the inland spots about thirty seven right along
the coast. Some of the distant suburbs closer to freezing. A little rain or snow early tomorrow, otherwise cloudy, brisk, chili temperatures in the mid forties, and then some rain gets back in here late tomorrow night, that too could be mixed with some snow north and west of Boston, with temperatures in the thirties, and then Saturday and Sunday will be mainly in the forties and probably no higher than the mid forties, with some rain and or drizzle and a bit of a breeze. It is forty three
degrees right now in Boston. An award winning actress from Dorchester is back in Boston, inspiring students the story from wz's Emma Friedman.
She's back at her old stomping grounds, except this time she's the one on the stage.
It's such a specifific experience going to the school.
The seniors are sort of nodding their heads instead of answering questions Mayorwu was asking them. Sitting down with winning actress Iowa Debris at Boston Ladden, almost twelve years after she walked the holes.
Is like a rigor that I have, I think, and a level of care that I think that I have that would not be possible if that.
Having gone to the school.
She talked about her own experience at Boston Ladden and how it shaped her TV career.
My safety year had a rolling backpack, so.
Right, okay, so that's all same.
Meyr Wu also proclaiming April ten to be ioa debris day in the city of Boston. I'm a Freedman, w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Back to the past for fans of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's early work. The movie Dogma hits theaters nationwide in June to honor the twenty fifth addiversary. However, Kevin Smith, the director, will also host screenings and a national tour. That tour will land in Boston at Boston Common nineteen on May third. Tickets going fast. I always thought I was going to win, and I never did. Huh. Now they're not winning a million dollar sweep stage company for Chapter eleven.
At one point, you couldn't escape the commercials that were on TV constantly.
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A van pulling up, somebody getting out carrying a giant check for some unsuspecting couple. But that van is now out of gas publisher's clearinghouse, which says it gave away more than half a billion dollars in its sweepstakes, is filed for bankruptcy, saying it'll no longer push magazine subscriptions and instead focus on digital ads. As Cherry preston ABC News.
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