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News fifty four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Day one of testimony at the Karen Reid read trial is now in the books. Durors at Norfolk Superior Court in Denham sent home for the day of the DC's im A freedman is here. She's not going home right now. At least she got to tell us about what happened to day in port.
Yeah, Ben, jurors, we'll be back tomorrow for more testimony. They have been sent home. The last person on the stand was Carrie Roberts, a friend of Boston police officer John O'Keefe's. Roberts went out looking for O'Keefe with Karen Reid and another woman, Jenn McCabe, after Reid called her multiple times in an early morning panic, hours before they discovered him dead.
I looked at Jen and I said she's crazy. And then I turned around and watched and she ran over to a bound of.
Snow when arted running before she got anywhere. Did you see anything at that point?
I did not?
Were you looking?
I was looking. She said, there he is so looking around to see where he is.
And you could see nothing.
I did not.
They discovered O'Keefe in the snow outside Officer Brian Alberts house in Canton, where some people had gone after a night of drinking. Prosecutors questioning Roberts on how Karen Reid knew where to look for O'Keefe during the snowy morning weather. This was in January, back in twenty twenty two. Roberts will be back in court tomorrow and on the stand for more questioning. Ben.
All right, keep you to the WBZ. We'll keep you up today. This Karen Reid trial number two continues. Don't forget you can always download the iHeartRadio app and listen to us streaming on that app. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's not going anywhere, despite another report that he shared details of a planned to US strike with relatives on a mobile app. More from ABC Stephen Portnoy, the.
Defense secretary plays down the significance of the second reported signal chat, in which he shared details of last month's Yemen strike with his wife, his brother, and his attorney.
Informal, unclassified coordinations for media coordination, other things.
That's what I've said from the beginning.
On Fox News, Pete Hegseth was asked about the men in his inner circle who've been ousted. Disgruntled former employees are peddling things to try to save their ass, but those men insist they were loyal to Hegseth and did not share information with reporters. Stephen Portnoy ABC Newist Washington.
On tapbol Hill. Secretary of State Marco Rubio unfailing a massive overhaul of the State Department in the latest effort by the Trump administration to reimagine foreign policy and downsize the federal government. The plan, which Rubio announced on social media, involves producing staff in the US by fifteen percent, while also closing and consolidating more than one hundred bureaus around
the world. There will also be a reimagined at office focused on foreign and humanitarian affairs to coordinate the aid programs overseas still left at the State Department. The Massachusetts lawmakers demanding answers about the Trump administration's immigration and deportation policies.
Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren, along with Congresswoman Anna Presley have written to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Nome and the Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, among their concerns the arrests of Ramesa oz Turk, the tough
student who has picked up in Somerville. They're asking for answers to a number of questions by May sixth, including what specific criteria led ICE to determine that no bedspace was available for oz Turk in New England, and why was oz Turk transported to New Hampshire and Vermont before being flown to Louisiana rather than being placed in a nearby facility in Massachusetts. Some clouds around, partly cloudy really as we head into the evening to night, temperatures right
around fifty or so. Tomorrow, we're gonna have more sunshine and we're gonna have a pretty nice day. Not quite as warm in the inland spots today. We get into the mid seventies, probably right around seventy tomorrow, but we will stay cooler over the Capean Island. That won't change for tomorrow. We'll have mainly clear skies tomorrow night a
forty eight and then some sunshine Thursdays sixty two. In Boston, low seventies Inland again the fifties and low sixties over the Capean Islands, and then on Friday partial sunshine a bit warmer too. Sixty eight in Boston, mid seventies. Well Inland will still be cooler, but probably mid sixties over the Capan Islands on Friday. Right now it is fifty four degrees in Boston. The winners of one hundred and twenty ninth Boston Marathon honored at an event today. W the bz's very small with more.
After night to sleep on it. The big winners of Monday's marathon recap their experiences at a press conference. My pleasure to welcome those champions to the stage. John Career of Kenya, the winner of the Professional men's division No after May withingicgo.
My team was to Cagy and do it, and my team must come too, So I'm happy in via a.
John and his brother Wesley are the only siblings to ever win Boston. Meanwhile, Sharon Lokati of Kenya won the Professional women's division, setting a course record of two hours, seventeen minutes, twenty two seconds.
You know, just being here, everything just felt so close.
Faith from the Kiku so yeah, honestly grateful.
In the wheelchair Race Americans, Susanna Scaroni was recognized for her win in the women's division, claiming her second championship, and in the men's division winner Marcel who goes Switzerland. It's his eighth Boston Marathon win. Cherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Hey Macover in Hyde Park Community Center getting a redo and help from the Red Sox.
From fresh green paint in the basement's team room to a new garden planter out front, there's this beehive of activity all around the Hyde Park Community Center.
We are thrilled to have the Boston Red Sox here today, Clover, fifty volunteers are out here.
Jennis Walker is the executive director of Rebuilding Together Boston.
The Boston Red Sox are the best. They're off to a great start this year and they have incredible volunteers, staff, people, the family, the players. Everyone coming out from the Boston Red Sox working with Rebuilding Together today.
It's terrific. Any even some players, Yes, we'll be having some players.
I'm looking forward to seeing Christian Campbell soon.
The center's director tells me. Staff and kids who use this space have been so excited for today because this shows them that they matter. In Hyde park James Rojas, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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