This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news sixty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. It was black smoke that poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney today, indicating no pope elected on day one and the first ballot of the conclave or now. An update from CBS.
News CBS News special report the sound in Saint Peter Square as black smoke grows above the Sistine Chapel A little while ago. CBS's Bradley Blackburn was there.
Black smoke is a disappointment for the thousands gathered here in Saint Peter's Square, but it's no surprise.
No pope in modern history has been elected on the first ballot.
CBS is Tina Krause was watching TI.
This smoke comes about three hours into the first round of voting, where cardinals have been trying to reach that two thirds majority, that magic number of eighty nine to signal that they will have elected the two hundred and sixty seventh Pontiff for the Catholic Church.
The cardinals reconvene in the morning. In the meantime, Monseigneor Anthony Figurato Tel CBN. That's going to be a lot of prayer, a lot of maneuvering this evening in order to suss out those twelve candidates. One of the one hundred and thirty three men is going to walk out of the Sistine Chapel a pope, but it may take several rounds of voting for this diverse and divided body to determine just who that will be. CBS News special report on Vicky Barker back.
To conclave tomorrow in Rome. WBZ News Radio. Of course, following developments from the Vatican, we will bring you updates here on WBZ News Radio and also streaming on the iHeartRadio app. Day eleven of testimony over now at the Karen Reid retrial. The prosecution ended it with a clip of reader self.
It's me or her.
Or you are.
Prosecutor Hank Brennan has been playing clips of Reid's interviews with the media throughout the trial. The jury her testimony from digital forensics expert Jessica Hyde. She analyzed data from John O'Keeffe's phone and Jen McCabe's phone.
I analyzed her phone to see if there had been deletions of call ogus, and what I found was that there were records that were removed by the system and not recoverable from that database, but were recoverable from.
Biomes i'd also testified based on her analysis, McCabe never searched How's Long to Die in Cold at two twenty seven in the morning on January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two. She says that timestamp is from when a tab was created, not the actual time of the search. Remesa oz Turk will be headed back to Vermont Federal Appeals Court, granting a judge's order to bring the toughest doctoral student from the Louisiana Immigration Detention Center back north for hearings to
determine whether her rights were violated. It's D day and that's real ID day. Not having one won't stop you from flying domestically, but could add some wrinkles.
Real D requirements are finally here after a twenty year delay, and that means those flying within the US need the new more secure identification or face issues. As TSA's Thomas Carter.
That they could be rejected to additional enhanced screening at the checkpoint so that may cause a slight delay for them.
He says, you can use the passport if you don't have a license with real ID. Meanwhile, people have been lining up at government offices across the country to get the real ID. Flyers at Newark Airport are divided.
I've had it for.
Five years at least, so back when they first started talking about it, and it was a good idea back then.
It feels like a tax on everyday people having to upgrade their licenses and all their identification.
Following September eleventh, the real ID was supposed to enhance security. I'm Julie Walker.
We still have some showers and even some heavier thunder showers on the radar, but these are up in New Hampshire up along the ninety three corridor starting man. We do a shower that just popped up in Nashuall but these have been stretching way up into New Hampshire and through the Lakes region and up to the White Mountains, and some of these showers have launched a couple of other showers breaking away. So that's what we've been seeing
this afternoon. Right now, the only real showers we're seeing out by the Route two and four ninety five exchange out in Littleton, and then again right around just north of Nashua. We've got a little bit of a downpour. It looks like it's silver toward Merrimack at this point, so a couple of showers still out and about and around. As we head through the latter part of the afternoon, we'll mainly be partly cloudy to night fifty seven. Tomorrow's gonna be a lot like today, with maybe just a
little less shower activity. We'll see some sun followed by clouds and a couple of showers and temperatures close to seventy again a lot like today, then clouds in a couple of showers tomorrow night. Then it gets messy and kind of ugly. On Friday, they'll be rained around, it'll be breezy, Temperatures in the low fifties will feel like they're in the mid thirties to near forty, and get better on Saturday. Sties for the high rain comes to an end, some sun breaks out, and then sunshine and
the seventy degrees on Mother's Day on Sunday. Right now, sixty eight in Boston, New England is getting its own real Housewives franchise w z's book McCarthy with detail.
And may be the smallest state, but Bravo is teasing the newest branch of its popular Real Housewives series, Rhode Island. The cast of the show hasn't been announced, but in a release, Bravo says, with aspirational lives, thriving businesses, entangled family dynamics, these decade long friendships prove that in a state this small, there's no escaping your past or each other.
Local leaders are expressing enthusiasm for the new show, with Rhode Island Film and TV Office Executive Director Stephen Feinberg saying the Real Housewives of Rhode Island is ready to roll and take the world by storm. Governor Dan McKee says this is a great opportunity to support Rhode Island's economy and show off all the state has to offer. No premier date has been announced just yet. Rook McCarthy WBZ Boston's news Radio power.
To the people. When it comes to budgets. In Somerville, wbz's Madison Rogers has to ten.
Growing number of local communities are taking up participatory budgeting initiatives where locals get to pitch ideas for where a stack of taxpayer cash will go, and then put it to a vote. The votes are in in Summerville, dolding out a million dollars in total in the second year.
Four hundred thousand of that will go to build a mile of separated bike lanes, one hundred and fifty k for after school programs, one hundred twenty thousand for electric ratsapping boxes as the city continues to struggle with an infestation. There's also money for community fridges, pollinator gardens, and a public composting pilot. Mayr Contiana Ballentine says they can't wait to bring the projects to life. Around four thousand people actually voted. Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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