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News fifty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A final free trial hearing today in the Karen Reid case in Norfolk Superior Court jury impanelment is set to begin a week from today. The judge considering final motions on what can cannot be presented at the second trial that includes a prosecution request
to prevent Read's attorneys from using third party defense. They say there's not enough evidence to suggest Brian Albert, Bryan Higgins, or Colin Albert killed Boston police officer John O'Keefe, but defense attorney David Gynette says a.
Student Definan Albert was president at the scene of the crime.
It was his house Manettie also pointing out that Colin Albert was later photographed with bloody knuckles and Brian Higgins was romantically interested in Reid, who was dating the victim at the time. Meantime, Judge Beverly Canoni denied a request from prossecus Uters to include Read's texts from her or with her attorney, David Gynetti, the state had argued Red waived her attorney client privilege by talking to the media. The remains of a woman missing for five years found
in Derry, New Hampshire. The skeletal remains of Amanda Gretzuski were found near the hood Croft country Club after police received a tip. The twenty three year old was last seen in Derry on Saint Patrick's Day in twenty twenty. Police have said Grazuski was staying with a friend on Birch Street and reportedly left early in the morning without her purse, cell phone or other belongings. No word yet on a cause of death. The cases under investigation. Anybody
with information is being urged to contact Derry police. Russia and Ukraine agreeing to a limited ceasefire following meetings with US officials in Saudi Arabia. ABC's Patrick Reevel as more.
This agreement is still very far from a real ceasefire. Russia and Ukraine have agreed to hold strikes on ships in the Black Sea. It basically resurrects a previous un broken agreement from twenty two where Russia agreed to stop targeting cargo ships carrying grain from Ukrainian ports in exchange. The US has agreed to ease sanctions on some Russian companies involved in agricultural exports. Ukraine and Russia have also
agreed to work on ending strikes on energy infrastructure. Patchet Revial ABC News at the.
Foreigners intelligence officials from the Trump administration testifying before a Senate committee on global threats against the US. This comes after the editor of the Atlantic claimed he was included on a group texts that discussed plans for an attack in Yemen.
President Trump says he remains confident in his national security advisor, Mike Waltz, telling NBC News that Waltz has learned a lesson and is a good man. This after Waltz apparently added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a signal message thread where he says senior administration officials, including the Vice president and Defense Secretary, discussed highly sensitive war plans. The White
House is criticizing Goldberg, saying his reporting is incorrect. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said no war plans were discussed and no classified material was shared. Karen Travers ABC News, the White House.
Director of National Intelligence Telsea Gabbard, FBI Director Cash Bettel, and CIA director John Ratcliffe are among those testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Virginia Democrat Mark Warner says the issue of the war plans leak is not a one off. As we head into the evening, we'll turn out mostly cloudy. Temperatures are going to range from the upper thirties in Boston,
closer to thirty in the coldest northwest suburbs. Tomorrow, some rain over the Capean Islands before dawn and it may continue through the morning. Otherwise, most of us will have some clouds and some sun, and then a shower or two, and a few spots in the afternoon, temperatures in the upper forties. Thursday's partly sunny, We'll be right around fifty. There'll be a bit of a breeze around, and we may get a shower underneath all of this on Thursday
night in a few spots at least. Friday, some sun followed by increasing clouds, a little bit milder two in the afternoon. Friday's high in the low fifties. Some rain gets in here for our weekend plans. Fifty two degrees right now in Boston. I didn't coming exhibit at the he have of fine arts features around twenty works by van Go. Wbz's Carl Stevens got a preview.
This exhibition is called van Go The Ruland Family Portraits. Now, during his stay in the South of France, the artist became good friends with the local postman, Joseph Rouland, and these paintings are a testament to that friendship. This is curator Katie Hansen.
So this exhibition is called the Ruland Family Portraits because we are taking a focus on this project that van Go had of making portraits of his best friend in Oral Joseph Ruland, the postman who sorted mail at the railway station, and his wife and their three children.
The exhibition includes fourteen portraits of Rulan and his family, nine other works by van Go, as well as works by other artists like Rembrandt, who inspired van Go. This opens to the public on Sunday from the Museum of Fine Arts. Carl Stevens WBZ Boston's news.
Radio Listening to the Sounds of the Ocean, specifically the sounds of whales off the Massachusetts Coast Vision of Marine Fisheries. It's partnered with Woods Whole Oceanographic Institution to launch a passive Acoustic Monitoring Network, A network will collect near real time information about the presence of North Atlantic right whales off the coast of Massachusetts. Earlier this year, researchers deployed two buoys off the coast of Cape n and Cape
Cod Bay. The acoustic monitoring system will listen for detect classify, and report vocalizations of large whales. Acoustic analysis will be done and review the data to confirm detections and verify species. Since deployment in late February, the booees have already detected thin whales, humpback whales, and North Atlantic right whales. Native wildlife may be an issue at the twenty thirty two Olympics in Australia.
The Fitzroy River Henrockhampton has been announced as the location for Olympic rowing. It's a natural habitat fist saltwater crocodiles about three hundred miles north of the main Olympics hub in Brisbane.
Creatures below the water, Okay, are they going to come up and eat canoeists and rowers? I think that's a bit kind of hollywoodish.
Right Organizing Committee President Andrew Levraus.
The sharks in the ocean right, and we still do sailing, and we we still do surfing like in Tahiti.
Australia's Prime Minister has also questioned if it's a sensible plan. Scott Mayland for CBS News, Canberra, Australia.
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