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It's eleven o'clock on Friday morning. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. We start in Canton this hour, where the Karen Reid Jerry is visiting thirty four Fairview Road. That is the place where the body of Boston Police officer John O'Keefe was found in the snow more than three years ago. Yesterday, the jury was sent home early after seeing text messages between Red and O'Keeffe that were sent just hours before he died.
Reid is accused of hitting O'Keeffe with her RESUV and leaving him to die in the snow after a night of drinking. Her attorneys says she's being framed as part of a cover up. Love more from the trial as it continues right here on WBZ News Radio. Of course, you can stream us anytime anywhere on the iHeartRadio app for that coverage At eleven oh one in New York today, Luigi Mangioni is set to be arraigned on federal murder charges. Mangioni's accused of murdering a health insurance company CEO in
broad daylight on the streets of Manhattan. Last year, ABC's Eric Tursky.
Mangioni allegedly stalked and then shot and killed United Healthcare chief Brian Thompson outside the Hilton Hotel in Midtown and overnight. Prosecutors told the court Mangioni deserves the death penalty because he sought to provoke broad based resistance to the entire insurance industry, but he said they found words associated with insurance claims on some of the shell casings. Deny Delay deposed.
The Justice Department, calling the killing a quote premeditated, cold blooded assassination. Mangioni also facing state murder charges in the killing. And developing news this half hour, FBI Director Cash Pattel now sayscount of Wisconsin County judge has been arrested for allegedly helping a man avoid immigration enforcement. Pattel says Judge Hannah Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the men who was supposed to be arrested at her Courtouse. Pattelsa
Dukean's actions allowed the men to evade arrest. This is the latest development in the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown. Last month, a Tuft's PhD student was arrested by Ice agents in Somerville, and the Trump administration has admitted to deporting a Maryland man by mistake. And Special Envoy Steve Wikoff is meeting
with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this morning. This comes as the US tries to negotiate peace between Ukraine and Russia, President Trump saying it won't happen without Ukraine giving up some territory. Here's CBS's Michael Wallace.
I the President tells Time magazine Ukraine will need to give up Crimea, which Russia seized in twenty fourteen. Trump says everyone understands that strategic peninsula along the Black Sea has been with Russia for a long time. Trump also says as part of any peace deal, Ukraine will have to drop its attempt to join NATO. He was asked which concessions Russia may.
Make stopping the war, stopping taking the whole country.
Pretty big concession, Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Meantime in Russia.
In Moscow, Russian officials claiming a car bomb killed a high ranking Russian military general It comes as Russian launches another drone strike across Ukraine, just one day after targeting Kiev and one of the deadliest attacks on the capitol in months. President Trump posting on social media Vladimir Stop, urging him to get the peace deal done.
That is ABC's Rachel Scott with that update. We have showers out there right now across much of eastern and central Massachusetts. These should start to move out throughout the afternoon and temperatures will rise into the seventies for most of us, a little bit cooler in southeastern Massachusetts, but again high near seventy on the coast, Meanto, upper seventies if you're north and west.
For tonight, a.
Couple of showers around late, we have a low in the mid fifties with some clouds otherwise, and then when you're looking ahead to the weekend, it's gonna be one of those weekends where one day is probably better than the rest, and Saturday is not going to be that day. We have some heavy rain to start the weekend, even a couple of thunderstorms possible, high in the low to mid sixties, windy, with a bit of sun on Sunday. That is the pick of the weekend at this point
and a high in the mid fifties. It's raining in Westford right now and sixty five degrees, light showers and situate sixty two, getting over toward Milford and Northbridge at sixty nine with some clouds. And in Boston right now at eleven oh five, light rain and sixty two degrees. The MBTA is considering new ways to try and keep drivers in their own lane.
The MBTA is working on new regulations to punish drivers who are legally use bus lanes.
It doesn't matter if what gear the car is in or whether the car's occupied, it's you.
Know, it's caught on camera automated cameras which will be mounted on buses when the program rolls out, which MBTA Director of Transit Priority Alexandra Hallowell told the agency's Board of Directors multiple times during a recent meeting.
Again early, we're early in the planning.
The idea is to start with a small fleet of buses by the end of the year and add more cameras in twenty twenty six. All violations will first be reviewed by a human says Hallowell, and finds which range from twenty five to one hundred and twenty five bucks can be appealed. Chris Vom, a WBZ Boston's news radio.
Meantime, MBTA general manager Philip Bang says he wants an explanation from Keiolis after a series of service disruptions on the new South Coast Rail extension. Cancelations of weekend trains have been going on on the Fall River New Bedford commuter rail line almost since it started. Many passengers have been stranded or scrambling to jump on a shuttle bus. So far, the MBTA has imposed more than fifty thousand
dollars in fines for the disruptions against Kolis. They blame the poor performance on staffing issues and say they've got a plan to fix it. More and more people are still getting sick amid a growing measles outbreak in Texas. So far this year, hundreds of confirmed cases around the country. Researchers say if people stop getting the measles vaccine, things could go from bad to much worse.
New research from Stanford says the US will hit millions of measles cases over the next twenty five years if vaccine rates dropped just ten percent. At current state level, vaccination rates Their model predicts that measles could become entrenched to resist altering in what the researchers say would be hundreds of thousands of cases where deaths are commonplace and
hospitalizations are happening all the time. The study says an uptick in measles vaccination of five percent would prevent a huge increase in cases.
BBS's Matt Piper there The study is published in the journal JAMMA.
Now.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, has in the wake of this outbreak urged Americans to go get the measles vaccine, but in the past has also cast doubt on the vaccine's testing. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis WBZ and Boston's News Radio