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Mid Day Report: Monday, May 19, 2025

May 19, 20257 min
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Testimony back underway this week in the Karen Read trial, Former President Joe Biden makes his first public statement since his cancer diagnosis, President Trump's budget clears a big hurdle. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1

And very windy out there. A few high clouds can have a shower later. We'll take a look at the forecast in just a few minutes. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. Starting in Dedham, where testimony continues in the Karen Reid murder Reed trial. Week five now underway. A digital forensics expert who analyzed data from Reed's SUV the night that John O'Keeffe died is on the stand.

W BZ Suzanne Saalsville has more coming up in the news at eleven fifteen meantime, at eleven oh one, former President Biden has put out his first public statement since announcing he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. ABC Stephen Portnoy has that.

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On social media, the former president posts a picture of himself smiling, sitting on a couch next to his wife Jill, who looks on unsmiling holding their cat Willow. Biden writes, cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. This month marks ten years since the death of Biden's son bo from a brain tumor in a.

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Truth social post last night, President Trump wrote he and the First Lady were quote sat in to hear about the former president's diagnosis. In the posts, they add that they extend their warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family and wishing for President Biden's successful recovery. Meantime, President Trump's tax cut and budget bill has cleared a big hurdle on its way through the House. Last night,

it squeaked through the Budget Committee. This bill, if passed, would continue tax cuts from the president's first term, increase spending on the military, and bring cuts to Medicaid that Democrats say would result in millions losing health coverage. Your CBS is Caitlin Huey.

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Burns Speaker Mike Johnson says he wants a full vote on the floor this Thursday, and he can really only afford to lose a couple of votes, So the President is starting to apply that pressure now.

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Even if this bill passes the House, it still has to go through the US Senate, where one Republican over there compared it to the titane.

Speaker 1

And some hardline Republicans in the House say the bill doesn't cut spending enough. Meantime, before we take a look at traffic. Some officials are seeing trouble in the forecast now for the nation's meteorologists here CBS's Jim Cursula.

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The National Weather Service has been an around the clock operation for at least half a century, but that may soon change because of Trump administration budget cuts. The agency's Official Employees Association says four of its one hundred and twenty two field officers don't have enough meteorologists to staff an overnight shift, and several more forecast officers are expected to soon stop staffing an overnight shift.

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One of these short staffed National Weather Service offices is in eastern Kentucky, where those deadly storms hit over the weekend. It is gusty out there, for sure. We have the wind howling right now from the northwest about twenty five miles an hour, gusting in many places up to about the mid thirty mile an hour range, So keep that

in mind for the rest of the afternoon. Might want to bring a sweater or a jacket just in case, because even though we're getting into the sixties for a high today, it is likely not going to feel quite that warm. We could also have a couple of showers in spots throughout the afternoon. Now for tonight we clear out whatever showers we might have, and we'll have a couple of clouds. It'll be chilly and breezy, a low in the upper forties. For Tomorrow, breezy, cloudy, and even cooler,

with a high only in the upper fifties. Now Wednesday, considerable clouds, rain is possible late southwest of Boston and chillier still with a high only in the mid fifties. Then Thursday feeling more like fall, windy, chilly, periods of rain, and we have a high year fifty. Our temperatures right now fifty nine in Needum, we're at sixty one degrees

in Lowell, sixty one is well in Marshfield. And in Boston at eleven oh five it is fifty nine, partly sunny, and that wind from the northwest right now at about twenty five miles an hour. Now, when people share concerns about artificial intelligence in the classroom, mostly they're worried about students using it to cheat, but what about teachers using it?

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Seeing AI as the progression of technology, but also being worried about AI.

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Talking to parents and quinsy about their thoughts on AI in the classroom. Most degree kids are excited to use it all, especially the technology you already have.

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Definitely, definitely, especially how they are like the kids are like so enamored with like Alexa.

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Both students and teachers like using it, in fact a little bit too much. Recently, a student at Northeastern alleged their professor was using chat GPT and now they are suing to get their tuition money back. Interesting flip of the script when it comes to AI in education, and it's cool.

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You know, it's a great concept, but it's also like it kind of takes away some of the creativity.

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Another angle of analysis into how this amazing technology can be used for both students and teachers alike. In Quincy, Jim mcka WBZ Boston's news radio.

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Police in Boston, so they need your help to track down a man involved in a violent road rate attack right by Packard's Corner. It's a Friday night around eleven forty five. The suspect was allegedly chasing the victim's vehicle and that caused the victim to crash right by ten thirty two comav. The suspect was then caught on camera getting out of a pickup truck with a hatchet, attacking the victim, then smashing the victim's windshield and windows with

the hatchet before running down Babcock Street toward Brookline. Please say the suspect is a white man in his mid twenties, brown hair, is short beard. We have photos of the truck and the man on our website wbzaneosradio dot com. And just days before the Memorial Day travel rush, another close called a major airport here in the US, A plane at LaGuardia in New York had to stop takeoff to avoid a potential disaster.

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LaGuardia air traffic controller gave an American Eagle flight operated by Republic Airways the go ahead for takeoff and then abruptly telling them to cancel because the United plane was taxing on that same runway shop the two planes coming shockingly close to each other before the Republic Airways flight reduced speed. The planes were just zero zero point two seven miles away from each other, according to flight Radar twenty four and.

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As ABC's Gio Benitez as comes, of course, after a series of air traffic control issues at Newark Airport, not far from LaGuardia, United Airlines, and others have had to cut down on flights to and from Newark because of it. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, wb ZE, Boston's news radio

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