This is w b Z Boston's news radio redefining local news sixteen degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening at the Karen Reid retrial. The jury's been hearing testimony for hours from medical examiner doctor Irene Scordi Bellow. She determined that John O'Keefe's death was caused by blunt force trauma and hypothermia, but she did not determine a manner of death. During cross examination, the defense asked her about injuries to O'Keefe's arm.
Is it correct that you, in your autopsy report did not determine the cause of those wounds to mister O'Keefe's radar.
That's correct.
The defense argues that the injuries could have been from a dog bite. The Supreme Court's heard arguments over the authority of judges to block President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship. The order would deny citizenship to children born in the US to parents here illegally. ABC Steven Portnoy has more.
The immediate question for the justices is whether district court judges should have the power to block the President's order nationwide, or whether more opponents should have to file more lawsuits. Liberal Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, So the administration appears to be playing catch me if you can, where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order
for the government to stop violating people's rights. Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared to worry about the implications of a win for the administration.
They're going to be suits filed all over the place seeking class wide treatment.
Stephen Portnoy ABC News Washington. There are new estimates from the Census Bureau. The Joe, Massachusetts population grew by nearly seventy thousand from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four. It's partly due to record levels of internal migration. Secretary of State Bill Gavin says it illustrates the importance of ensuring all residents are counted in the next federal census.
Because of the state's largest immigrant population in the city of Revere, experience the most population gross tount that sought decreases, mostly in western Massachusetts and Barnstable County. American consumers were spending last month trying to beat the price hikes expected to come from the President's tariffs on imported goods.
Retail sales last month came in a tenth of a percent above March, according to the Census Bureau, down from the one point four percent surge in February. Sales of cars and trucks slew dramatically from one month to the next. Separately, the Labor Department reports that weekly jobless claims were unchanged last week after a substantial decline the week before.
His ABC's Jim Ryan. A proposal in Washington to trim food Aid could increase the Massachusetts share of the program's costs by hundreds of millions of dollars a year, so says Governor Morri Healey, who warned members of Congress in a letter. The governor wrote to leaders of the House Agriculture Committee, contending that potential changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, would shift significant costs to states
that they did not plan for and cannot afford. The Agriculture Committee this week advanced a bill that could cut up the three hundred billion dollars in federal spending on SNAP. We've been watching all of this rain and shower activity. There's been a few breakaway showers that have gotten closer to Boston, but most of the activities off to the west. As promised. There was this cell that popped up and
ran through Boston Harbor. Well, we said it would hit in the hot and lin and it is now hitting the hot and linn and swamps good with a little bit of rain. It's not a big cell, but nonetheless, if you're under it, maybe the umbrella needs to come up. It's out to the west where we're really seeing some heavy downpours Wayland, Natick, Framingham, Ashland. Back towards Southborough and Molborough,
there's been some heavier rain. Not going to name all the towns of course you know where you live, but there is some rain, shower activity and even some heavier stuff back toward Worcester. A lot of this is lifting off to the north. There's still a bunch of heavier rain out along the Turnpike and Brimfield stir Bridge out toward the eighty four exchange, but this is pushing off this precipitation again to the north, up toward Levenster, Fitchbury,
up along the Route two corridor. So something to watch out for here four ninety five corridor, especially the more central part of it has been under some of this rain, so that's what we're dealing with this afternoon. Eventually we'll stop dealing with it and just have some clouds and fog. Tonight fifty eight for the low. Tomorrow, we're into the seventies. There'll be some clouds and fog to start. There'll be
some clouds hanging on through the day. There may be a stray afternoon shower as well, and then a rather cloudy night Tomorrow night as stray shower as possible. Saturday, some sunshinel breakout. We'll get in on some pretty okay weather for a while, but still some thundershower activity that may get in here, especially afternoon on Saturday. Temperatures near seventy, mid seventies for some of us on Sunday, with some sun and some clouds and still the risk of a
scattered shower. Right now, we're at sixty degrees in Boston. A ceremony at the State House honoring some graduates of the Massachusetts University System who went on to become educators. Wz's Carl Stevens would moore.
There are nine campuses in the state university system, and this educator alumni Awards ceremony was to honor nine educators who graduated from the system's teacher Preparation program. One of those honored was Geene Wallace, a mass College of Art graduate, has been teaching art to students of all ages for more than twenty years. Her advice to any young would be teachers.
You really have to love what you're doing to be good, because if you cannot underestimate the amount of effort and time that goes into teaching outside of the classroom time and so you have to be invested. You have to really really want that.
You have to love what you're doing, Love what you're doing well. The eight others honored have different fields of expertise, they all have that one thing in common, a love for teaching. From the State House, Carl Stevens WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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