This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty one degrees in Boston at four o'clock, Good afternoon on Ben Parker, Here's what's happening. Testimony's done for the day in Norfolk Superior Court. There was testimonies to day on whether or not a dog bite expert would be able to testify during Karen Reid's second criminal trial that thevc's book McCarthy has been following things and brings us the latest book.
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The prosecution got there termed their turn to question doctor Marie Russell, a dog bite expert for the defense. She's testified during Karen Reid's first trial saying she believes John O'Keefe was attacked by a dog and not hit by Reid's SUV. The prosecution filed the motion to try and block doctor Russell from testifying in the second trial, saying she's not qualified. At the hearing, Russell talked about her decades of experience treating dozens of people with dog bites
and testifying in courts around the country. The prosecution says read hit o'keeff with her SUV and left him in the snow to die. Well the defense has a dog at the house, attacked him and she's being framed for his death. Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan questioned Russell on her experience today.
What if you can't identify the animal, then then you have to go on clinical judgment and sometimes we even have to call up the word to health, but you go on clinical judgment to determine, well, what was the worst possibility.
Now, after a full day of testimony, they didn't finish, so they're scheduling testimony for a later date in Judge Beverly Canoni approved Emotion earlier this week to move the second trial from January to April, and they still need to go over scheduling for the second trial. They didn't get to that today.
Ben I had lots of things to still unpack here, and we'll keep following the developments for you in the Karen Read case and bring them to you. Don't forget we're always streaming for you on the iHeartRadio app. It was a mess today coming into Boston on the Expressway after a stolen car crashed. Now a couple of teenage boys are facing a host of child just after police say they crashed that stolen BMW. It was just after nine o'clock this morning when a trooper on Granted Avenue
in Milton spotted the stolen vehicle. The driver tried to get away by jumping on ninety three North, and soon after that the car slammed into a pickup truck, propelling it into a state police cruiser. The pickup driver was taken to the hospital Doold to be checked out. The two fifteen year old boys a charge with unlicensed operation,
negligent operation, and they'll face other charges as well. The Justice Department has reached a conclusion on whether any FBI employees helped to stop the January sixth attack at the Capitol. ABC's Stephen Portnoy with the findings.
Despite the many conspiracy theories, the DOJ Inspector General says there's no evidence that FBI employees incited the Capitol riot. The report from Michael Horowitz does confirm the FBI relied on twenty six informants in DC on January sixth, but Horowitz says there's nothing to suggest that any of those FBI sources were authorized or directed to join the assault on the Capitol or to incur ridge the mob. For informants entered the building during the riot. None of them have been processing.
And the report also finds that the FBI should have done more to collect intelligence on the attack before it even happened. Well for Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, kicking off a new chapter in his storied coaching career.
Please welcome the new head football coach at the University of North Carolina, Coach Bill Belichick.
And with that, the Bill Belichick era at UNC began. The former Pats coaches taking over a college football program for the first time in his career. But it's not something that's new to him.
This is really kind of a dream come true. I grew up in college football with my dad. It's the coach of Navy for fifty years. So as a kid, all I knew it was college football, and so it's great to come back home to Carolina and you know, back in an environment that I really grew up in.
His dad also coached at UNC. Belichick showed off an old sweatshirt from the school that belonged to his dad at the presser, right after he was gifted a brand new tar heels cut off hoodie. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio we've got clear skies coming in for tonight. It is going to be chilly, and it's also going to be a bit breezy, so it'll be even chillier in the real field department. Temperature is about twenty five.
Real fields will fall through the teens tonight. Tomorrow we don't warm up all that much, thirty four for the high. Still a little breezy, so real fields in the twenties at times Tomorrow night clear and cold will be in the twenties, low twenties probably in Boston, maybe even some upper teens Inland. And on Saturday, plenty of sunshine. Still
a cold, let's win though, So that's nice. Thirty six on Saturday, about thirty seven or so for the high on Sunday again with some sunshine right now forty one degrees soon Boston. Well maybe you're thinking about getting a Christmas tree soon, maybe you already have one. DZ's Kyle Schaffel checked out a cellar to see how things are going.
I asked Nate at the Boston Christmas Trees a lot in alsin what was probably an offensive question to somebody in his line of work.
Does he prefer a plastic tree or a real one.
Well, yeah, you can't compare plastic to a real tree. It's just not a fair comparison.
Fopaside, business is more bustling than usual this year because Thanksgiving fell out late.
It's been a little busier on the weekends, and I think that's just due to the season being condensed.
They sell two kinds of tree here, both with their own pluses and minuses.
The Balsam tends to be a little bit more fragrant, and the fraser tends to hold heavier ornaments a little bit better.
Fraser firs also tend to last long.
I asked Nate for advice and how to make sure your tree still has needles left by the big day.
First step to keeping it alive would be not cutting it down, but the second one would be making sure it gets lots of water.
Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's news radio.
In just about five weeks, they'll be into administration in Washington. Some LGBT legal groups say they've been flooded with requests. As we hear from wbz's Madison Rogers.
It's impossible to predict what's coming around the corner.
But there's a real sense of fear in the transgender community locally and around the country.
The incoming administration has promised that it will initiate changes in federal law that require people to identify only with their birth sex.
Senior attorney Chris Urgel at Boston based Glad Law says many are concerned the new administration might make their transition harder, so they're rushing to update things like their legal names and gender markers on ID forms. Glad Law has a service aimed at helping people navigate the process.
Last month, we saw three times as many intakes as we did the same month in the previous year.
Groups like GLAD and states like Massachusetts arguaring up for potential legal fights around trans issues with the inauguration just a few weeks away. Downtown. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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