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Mostly cloudy and sixty seven degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Suzanne Salsville. Here's what's happening. It's day three of jury deliberations in the Karen Reid murder retrial, and right now the lawyers are returning to the courtroom to hear a question from the jury. Wbz's Kyle Schaffel is there and joins us now live, Hile, what's going on?
Yes, Suzanne, I'm outside the courthouse. There must be two hundred and fifty can Reed supporters out here stretching down probably three blocks, and like you just said, there's some consternation spreading through the crowd. As we've heard the jury has a question for Judge Canoni. This will be the first insight we get into what the jury is thinking. So far. Here outside the crowd has set up folding chairs, blankets, tents,
anything you can imagine around the Deadham Court complex. Plenty of anxiety here as a jury deliberates for a third day. People checking their phones, tapping their fingers, wondering when the verdict will come down. More people are walking up all the time, and some have been here in lawn chairs since the pre dawn hours.
Four thirty this morning, woke up at three with palpitations, got up, get out of bed, said I'm heading Nova.
The crowd here is relatively quiet. A court mandated buffer zone prevents cheering and chanting, and a sign here, says Karen Read's defense team has asked for quiet. This crowd grew to hundreds of people yesterday every day of deliberations last year too, so we need to see how many people eventually show up. File Shaffle, BBS Boston's News Radio.
President Trump is expected to meet with his National Security Council this morning to discuss the conflict between Israel and Iran. The President abruptly left the G seven summit in Canada yesterday to deal with the growing crisis. ABC's Mary Bruce has the latest.
Sources tell ABC News the President raced back to try and make one last big diplomatic push. But on Air Force one, the President disputing claims by French President Macrone that he's looking for a ceasefire, stressing he wants a lasting nuclear deal Mariland.
Not a ceasefire, and for.
Giving up entirely.
But adding they should have done the deal.
I told him do the deal. So I don't know.
I'm not too much interpot to negotiating.
So he is signaling he's considering sending the Vice president and his middiast envoy to negotiate with the Iranians.
Israel and Iran, meanwhile are trading strikes for a fifth straight day. The Senate is that the Senate is expected to vote today on a crypto bill that's received bipartisan support. However, some Democrats are concerned that the bill does not do enough to address the president's personal financial interests in the crypto industry. ABC's j O'Brien has more.
According to recently released disclosure forms, the president made fifty seven million last year from a crypto firm co founded by his adult sons, and the Trump family recently promoting another crypto business, a new company called American Bitcoin focused on bitcoin mining. As the president rolls back enforcement against crypto companies and boosts legislation to help the industry.
The bill, called the Genius Act, will establish guard rails and consumer protections for cryptocurrency known as stable coins that are pegged to the US dollar. The forecast mostly cloudy today, with a shower or some drizzle in spots. Highs in the mid to upper sixties. Cloudy tonight with a couple of showers, low near sixty. Tomorrow warmer and more humid, with some sun and a possible thunderstorm. Highs near eighty.
On Thursday, it gets hot with a high near ninety and humid, a mix of sun and clouds, with a thunderstorm late in the day. Friday seems to be the pick of the week, a mix of sun and clouds and less humid, with a high of eighty two, possible thunderstorm in the afternoon. Right now in Boston, it's partly sunny and sixty nine degrees. Local lawmakers speak out about political violence in the wake of the shootings in Minnesota over the weekend. Vance Belter faces state and federal charges
in the shootings, which left Minnesota State rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband dead and State Senator John Hoffman and his wife injured. Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton and Congress and Congresswoman Catherine Clark spoke with Logan Hall from CBS News Boston about the attack.
Lawmakers that we spoke to today say that death threats and political violence are an unfortunate reality of the job.
It has become part of the fabric of our jobs, which is a very dangerous and sad commentary on political life in this country. You should be able to have a delivery come to your door that is a mistake, and not have it set this dread that this could be someone at your door trying to harm your family.
The connection here between the rise and political violence and the start of this big trend in twenty sixteen. But we need to keep setting the example of how we can bring people together not further to.
Buy this country authority. Say Belter had a list of other targets and even visited the homes of two other lawmakers. State House and Senate lawmakers reach agreement on how to divvy up more than one point three billion in surplus income. Transportation gets the most with seven hundred and sixteen million, with seventy five percent of that used for improvements to the MBTA, Education getting nearly five hundred and ninety four million.
The bill could reach Governor Healey's desk as soon as tomorrow, when the House and Senate plan to meet informal sessions. The money comes from the dates surtax on household income. It might be time to rethink your.
Passwords birthday's dog names. Turns out almost half of us are using passwords that are not very challenging to crack. A new survey from cnet finds about a quarter of us use the same passwords over and over again for multiple accounts. What's your password? Password? Now?
What is your password?
Password? The work spelled out password. You're the head of security and your password is password spider Man. And with that, about two hundred million logins and passwords have been hacked in the past year. The silver lining about twenty five percent are using random passwords, you know, the tough ones with all the numbers and exclamation points and all that. You probably eventually memorize it, but yeah, not as easy as the dog's name. Drewmahaland WBZ Boston's News Radio, You are now.
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