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Sixty three degrees and Breezyan Boston on this home opener at Fenway Park Friday, Good afternoon or morning. Still, I'm Madison Rogers getting ahead of myself. Let's start this hour on Wall Street. Stock seeing major losses in a second day of tariff turmoil. The downsdown more than thirteen hundred points, the S and P and NASTAC both down between four and five percent, and the trade war escalates. CBS's Michael Wallace, as America's biggest trading partner, is firing back.
China is imposing thirty four percent tariffs on all US goods, matching the reciprocal tariffs Trump slapped on Chinese imports. China's tariffs will take effect April tenth. China's finance ministry says Trump's tariffs are inconsistent with international trade rules and a danger global economic development and the stability of the production and supply chain.
Wall Street is seeing the worst numbers since the dawn one of the pandemic. For his part, President Trump says he saw this coming.
President Trump sounding unbothered by the plunge on Wall Street after his sweeping tariffs upended the world economy.
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On Air Force one, the President laying out a timetable, I'd.
Always say it would take a year and a half.
To two years, but he did not explain what would happen to alleviate pain in the interim, or acknowledge that American businesses will likely pay more to build products here than overseas.
That's ABC's Mary Bruce reporting. And while Wall Street is painting a dark picture of the economy, the jobs report out today is lifting some spirits.
The job market was stronger than expected in March. The US economy added two hundred and twenty eight thousand jobs in the month of March. It was the strongest performance this year. There was a downward revision to the past two months of forty eight thousand, but still this report was far better than expected.
Unemployment did tick up to four point two percent. And will have more news coming up from the business world with Bloomberg in just a few This justin to the WBZ newsroom. Actor and comedian Russell Brand is now facing rape and sexual assault charges in the United Kingdom. Police in London say the alleged offenses took place between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and five. Brand denying all
the allegations. He says his relationships were always consensual. He's now due before a judge in London early next month. Comedian John Oliver is facing a new lawsuit over an episode of his HBO show last week Tonight.
It was a show about Medicaid. There's long lost, massive flow with all Medicaid systems. It showed clips of doctor Brian Mobley. He alleges in a lawsuit they were taken out of context to make him the face of a predatory system. He says the episode that aired last year wrongfully implied that he had illegally denied services to patients. The segment centered on a severely disabled patient in Iowa whose Medicaid care had been cut off. A representative for
last week Tonight called the lawsuit meritless. Steve Kaithan, CBS News and.
Checking the four day forecast, it's a mix of sun and clouds This afternoon high around sixty six degrees. Tonight is partly cloudy to start. We have more clouds building late and low around forty one. Saturday's cloudy with some rain and drizzle at times. Forty three to forty seven for the high mid upper fifties for Sunday, but it is mostly cloudy with a few showers around. Lingering showers
are possible for Monday, mostly south of town. Otherwise some limited sunshine may return and it's a high around forty two. Right now, it is sixty three and cloudy in New Bedford fifty eight and sunny in Worcester, sunshine north of town as well, sixty two. Right now in Danvers. In Boston it is partly sunny, sixty three degrees and a big gusty at ten oh six. We are just a few hours away now from watching the Red Sox take the field at Fenway for the first time in twenty
twenty five. WBZ s Drewmaholland has everything we need to know.
The socks on the field for one hundred and thirteenth time. Levin Reid, how's the weather.
And pulling all to this unbrellaup like nerdy pop.
I remember that from four years ago, our good friend Levin Reid from CBS News Boston had a tough day in the driving rain covering the opener.
Had to fix my unbrell up given printfer scripts, which are now you've called subs the paper.
Ah poor lev the weather's better today. They canceled that game. The Red Sox also postponed their home opener back at two thousand and three, but not before Ray Charles came out and sang America the beautiful Ray Charles was booked, show had to go on, and then the game was postponed.
The White House is turning up the pressure on Harvard. School officials have been sent a list of demands by the Trump administration to avoid losing out on billions in funding. The letter, obtained by The Globe, calls for changes to biased program that fuel antisemitism, an end to DEI, and commitment to full cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies. A number of schools are also
facing similar demands from the White House. The news comes after the Trump administration announced it would be reviewing some nine billion dollars in federal money earmarked for Harvard. Karen Reid is making an appeal to the US Supreme Court. Her attorneys argue the retrial now underway violates double jeopardy, and jurors from the first trial had come forward to say there was consensus behind closed doors to a quit read of murder and leaving the scene that would leave
only the manslaughter charge. Supreme Court justices will now decide whether or not to take up the case. First trial ended last summer with a hung jury. Right now, a new jury selection process is underway and ten jurors have been picked. As of right now, they'll be weighing whether Reid is guilty of killing Boston Police officer John O'Keefe three years ago in Canton. You're now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News
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