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We defining local news thirty eight degrees see in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parkner. Here's what's happening. Day two of jury selection in Denham at Karen Reid's murder reed trial. Yesterday, the first two jurors were seated. Two more were seated today, according to the CBS News Boston. In all, seventeen jurors are needed. Reid faces charges of second degree murder, manslaughter while operating under the influence of alcohol,
and leaving the scene of personal injury and death. Her first trial ended at a mistrial with a hung jury. President Trump soon expected to announce a sweeping new round of terriffs.
Trump is set to unveil his plan for another round of tariffs. He'll speak this afternoon in the Rose Garden, but so far the White House hasn't revealed any details of what he's going to announce. The President has said for weeks the so called reciprocal tariffs are aimed at balancing trade deficits the US has with countries around the world, but economists are warning that American consumers will feel an impact.
Prices going up on cars, clothing, food, and electronics. The White House says Americans should trust the president in how he handled trade and tariff policies in his first term. Karen Travers, ABC News the White.
House President Trump has called today Liberation Day to overseas trading partners. Though it feels anything.
But I'm Vicky Barker at the Foreign desk in London. European Central Bank President Christine Lagard warns that Trump's tariffs quote will unsettle the trade world as we know it. Germany has repeated its plea that trade wars hurt both sides, and the EU has warned it plans to respond in kind to any new tariffs before the end of April. Vicky Barker, CBS News, London case dismissed.
The case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams for corruption gets thrown out.
Federal judge dismisses the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Judge Daleo granting the Justice Department's extraordinary request to set us up criminal charges so the mayor could aid President Trump's immigration crackdown, but the judge denied prosecutors the ability to potentially bring the criminal case back
after the mayoral election. The order to dismiss the case with prejudice spares Adams from having to govern in a way that pleases Trump or potentially risk having the charges revived. The Justice Departments pushed to and the case caused a rift between its leadership in Washington and prosecutors in New York, who resigned. Adams had pled not guilty to the charges, including bribery Julie Walker, New York.
The City of Cambridge's upping fees for its electric vehicle charging stations beginning April fifteenth, City owned charging stations will be nine cents more per kilowatt hour. The city has forty public charging ports and says the fee increases reflect rising electricity rates. The city says its goal is to reach one hundred public charging ports by twenty twenty seven. A bit of a colorful radar. We look at the ACCU weather radar this afternoon. It's not here though. Here
it's just nothing. The reds and the yellows, and the greens and the blues and the pinks all out into New York State and into Pennsylvania. That is our rain, and even some mixed precipitation that'll be heading our way as we head through the evening tonight and certainly overnight, so we'll have clouds building in and then the rain gets in here later tonight overnight could mix with some snow and sleep at least for a time, especially north
and west of the city. Even a bigger concern up into parts in New Hampshire where there is a winter weather advisory posted starting at eight o'clock tonight. Slick roads certainly a possibility wherever some of the sleet or snow does mix in, but it'll be short lived because by the time we get to tomorrow, we'll be seeing temperatures rise, eventually landing in the low sixties with the rain and drizzle in the morning and clouds around in the afternoon.
Tomorrow night, some showers may pop back up fifty three for the low tomorrow night, and then back into the sixties on Friday. We'll have clouds early, but we'll break for some sunshine in a pretty decent day for opening day at Fenway Park thirty eighth right now in Boston at Fenway Park, speak of it the Cruz they're working to put all the finishing touches in place ahead of Friday's opening Day in wbz's Kyle Bray takes a look at what you can expect.
First pitch on Friday isn't until two ten, but the party gets started a lot earlier. The team is encouraging fans to be in their seats by one thirty for the usual home opener pomp and circumstance, but there will be some special guests there as well. Chief Experience Officer Sarah McKenna says the Treble All Stars from Boston Arts Academy will be there to sing.
The anthem will be sung by just some kids from across the street from Boston Arts Academy, some high school students, extremely talented kids over there that are just doing wonderful things in the Boston school system.
After that, there will be a flyover with fighter jets in a refueling plane, but the main event will be a tribute to the nineteen seventy five Pennant winning Red Sox team. Members of the team will be there to celebrate and remember the life of Socks legend Louis ti On, who died last October. From Fenway Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
A local investor strikes hit big I should say, an inventor gets some investors and then strikes hit big. It's a do hickey that helps feed a flock of chickens. BBC style shaffle with more on what brought him there.
Ah, man, my heart was in my stomach.
You know, right before the doors opened, I was standing mind the doors there thinking about that song from Eminem Lose Yourself.
But Westbridgewater local Eric Didrickson wasn't about to throw down a sick freestyle. He was on Shark Tank pitching famous business personalities on the passion project that's become his life, a new way to feed chickens. I gotta tell you it was pretty crazy.
I mean, when those doors open, you only you only get one take.
Most of the sharks were out pretty much instantly, but Damon John bought in three hundred grand for a twenty percent steak in riverbend resources. Since the show aired, Eric says, there was a huge boom in sales.
You know, my initial envision was, you know, essentially just this product, a chicken feeder, a better chicken feeder, and now it's kind of like evolving into this like poultry company. He says.
Alkins are the third most popular pet in America and with high end prices only growing. Kyle Shaffele, WBZ Boston's News.
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