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Sixty five degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock. Plenty of some out there. We'll get the forecasts coming up. I'm Nicole Davis and here's what's happening. No testimony today in the Karen Reid murder reed trial. Now four weeks in, there is a bit of uncertainty whether two key players in the investigation will ever take the stand. 's WBC's Emma Friedman.
The name's Michael Proctor, Brian Higgins, and Brian Albert have been thrown around time and time again as the defense tries to assert Karen Reid's innocence. They all testified during the first trial, but it's up in the air if they will be called for the second.
After hearing Sergeant Buchanan testify and he was clearly testifying like on behalf of Proctor and Higgins's behavior, that made it kind of clear that the strategy was going to be to not call those who witness it.
CBS News Boston's Christina Rex says, well, we don't know for sure. It's looking unlikely. She says, the commonwealth can choose not to call them, which would essentially put the ball in the defense's court. They could be called to testify as a defense witness instead, so the defense would have to direct examine them, and that means they would have to ask open ended questions and can't lead the witness.
Let say, propped her on the stand. Alan Jackson would not be able to say, you sent that text message because you wanted to frame my client right. Instead, he would have to say, why did you send that text message?
I'm a freedman. W BZ Boston's News radio.
City Hall in Wooster closing early today in a planned city council meeting has been moved from in person to virtual. This is all in response to a planned protest this afternoon outside city Hall. This protest is demanding more pushback against ice and protection for immigrants in Wooster. This, by the way, is the second rally in the past week after the arrest of a Brazilian woman. That arrest turning into chaos in the streets as neighbors tried to stop
the agents from taking her. Two others were arrested, including the woman's daughter and a candidate for the city school committee. Eleven oh two New Number show inflation cooled for a third straight month in April, even amid turmoil sparked by President Trump's trade wars his ABC's Jim Ryan.
Overall food prices fell last month by a fraction, but some grocery items saw a dramatic decline. The cost of a dozen eggs, for example, fell more than ten percent as the effect of Avian flu.
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Still, egg prices are almost fifty percent higher than in April of last year.
Experts say the report today from the Labor Department suggests that President Trump's tariffs have yet to affect prices that much. Just yesterday, China and the United States announced a new trade deal to pause the steepest of those duties. Tariffs against other countries have been on pause for weeks and over in the Middle East, President Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince have signed several new economic agreements. President Trump is in Saudi Arabia right now for his first major
overseas trips since taking office for his second term. Today's agreements boost cooperation between the US and Saudi military's justice departments and even cultural institutions. Now later on today, the two sides are expected to sign even more agreements at an investors conference. Saudi Arabia has already committed to investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States. President Trump has been pushing for more. For the rest of
the afternoon is looking phenomenal outside. We have blue skies over the city of Boston, couple of high clouds, but again we're not really seeing much in the way of rain. There is a storm that is making its way up the east coast a little bit, but it is going to pretty much stay away from New England, so we are going to be exempt of this.
Rain.
Would have been nice if that was the case for the weekend, but we can't have everything we want. High is today in the mid sixties right by the coast, and low seventies if you're north and west. Temperatures will fall throughout the afternoon getting into the evening. Partly cloudy early tonight, but more clouds move in through the overnight, and we've got a low in the mid to upper forties for tomorrow, cloudy with a high in the mid sixties low seventies well Inland. A couple of showers at
night into Thursday. More showers are possible Thursday and Friday, with highs in the sixties seventy one degrees right now in Framingham, sixty two in Ipswich, where at sixty seven as you make your way into Brockton, and in Boston eleven o five it is partly cloudy and sixty four. School leaders around the region are on high alert thanks to a dangerous and costly trend on social media. Wbz's jimmckay explains.
People are sticking sharp objects into their chromebooks, and they're letting him on fire. Pretty much sums it up. Mike is a junior at Quincy High and he was well aware of the chromebook challenge. I've seen a few incidents. Mansfield and North Attleboro schools recently sent out warnings about it, and it's also a reminder this is not only dangerous for kids who destroy classroom chromebooks, but mom and dad are footing the bill for it, to the tune of
two hundred and fifty dollars. Dane is a parent whose son is on TikTok. She tries to stay on top of every night.
I think it's really good to be aware of things, and we know a lot of parents don't know what's going on online.
Hopefully preventing someone from getting hurt and preventing that financial hit right before the summer.
No, it's good to have a heads up and be able to have the conversation in Quincy.
Jim McKay WVZ Boston's News Radio.
A lot of grief and sorrow at Bentley University today after a senior died during a class trip to the Bahamas. School, says garav Jay Singh died on Sunday night after apparently falling off a balcony. It is not exactly clear what led up to the fall. Bentley says it's offering counseling for anybody who needs it needs it, saying the death is a quote enormous tragedy for the Bentley community. Driverless taxis are coming here to Boston. At first, though they have some help.
You could soon be seeing a car pull up to the red light beside you with no driver in sight. That's the plan for down the road as WEIMO gears up to test itself driving cars around. But before that happens, there will be a human behind the wheel for the trial period, though not everyone is ready for the future.
I really wouldn't do it, and you can't really talk to nobody, like were going the right way?
You know, can you unlock the doors if anything mechanical happened, is stuck in a car. So I don't know how I feel too much about it. I don't think I would want.
To get in one Waymotel CBS Boston that their drivers will be going through the communities of South the East, Boston, Cambrie, and Summerville starting later this month. In Summerville, James Rojas WBZ Boston, Snooze Radio.
And the New England Aquarium is confirming the state's first great white shark siding of the season. The shark was spotted Sunday off the coast of Nantucket, so it's not exactly swimming weather, but still if you want to go stick your toe in. The aquarium says this is a warning. Always be aware of your surroundings in the water. I say avoid areas with seals or large schools of fish because sharks get hungry, they need a snack and that's
where they like to feed. And if you do see a shark by the way, they say, please report it to authorities. 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, wb LEE and Boston's News Radio