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It's thirty six degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock, good Wednesday morning. I'm Madison Rodgers and we start this hour at the White House. This afternoon, President Trump is expected to announce a barrage of new tariffs that could have a huge impact on consumers and the economy.
President Trump is set to unveil his plan for another round of tariffs. He'll speak this afternoon in the Rose Garden, but so far, the White House hasn't revealed any details of what he's going to announce. The President has said for weeks these so called reciprocal tariffs are aimed at balancing trade deficits the US has with countries around the world, but economists are warning that American consumers will feel an impact prices going up on cars, clothing, food, and electronics.
The White House says Americans should trust the President in how he handled trade and tariff policies in his first term. Karen Traver's ABC News the White House.
And that announcement is expected late this afternoon. So for the very latest, stay tuned right here on WBZ News Radio or pull us up any time on the iHeartRadio app movement in Boston, federal courts, and the iced attention of atop's PhD student. The Trump administration is arguing a federal District court judge in Boston doesn't have the power to decide whether Ramesa os Turk's arrest was illegal because by the time a challenge was filed in court, she'd
already been taken out of state. Oz Turk was arrested by masked ICE agents in Somerville last week. Yesterday, hundreds in Boston protested for the Turkish national to be released, joined by local leaders including Mehor Wu. She had spoken out protesting the war in Gaza and has been accused of supporting Hamas. Israel's defense minister says the military plans on taking large areas of Gaza and expanding its military operation.
Defense Mines Israel Katz announced when day that the IDF would be expanding operations in Gaza, saying that troops will move to clear areas of quote, terrorists and infrastructure, as well as capture extensive territory that will be added to the State of Israel security areas. It comes after Palestinian media reported a large wave of air strikes overnight around Rafa and carn Unis, as well as IDF troops advancing in the south. The operation comes almost a month since
a delicate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas broke down. The Defense Minister also called on Palestinians to overthrow Hamas and return Israeli hostages. Trent Murray Tel Aviv.
One group representing families of Israeli hostages, has put out a statement saying it is horrified by the news. More allegations are being made against National Security Advisor Mike walt A new report says he and his staff have reportedly been conducting government business on Gmail.
Sources tell The Washington Post Waltz had a schedule and other work documents sent to his Gmail. One if his senior aides use Gmail to discuss sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict, His colleagues responded, using government issued accounts, Gmail is far less secure than the Signal app, which Waltz and other Cabinet members recently used to discuss military operations in Yemen. Michael Wallace CBS News.
Looking at the four day forecast, now it stays breezy out there this afternoon with sunshine followed by some increasing clouds. It's a high around forty in Boston, more like forty five. Heading Inland tonight, it's cloudy and breezy with some rain and spots. Watch for that to potentially mix in with some snow and sleep for a time, especially to the north and west of town. Thirty six for the low. Tomorrow's starts out with some rain and drizzle. It stays cloudy,
but it is milder out there. Sixty two for the high. Sixty two to sixty six is what we're looking at for Friday, and clouds will break for some sunshine. Unfortunately, it's not quite so nice for the weekend. Looks like rain for Saturday, with temperatures somewhere in the forties. Right now in Boston thirty six degrees and mostly sunny at eleven oh five. It is tariff time for the Trump administration.
The President is getting ready to roll out sweeping tariffs with trade partners around the globe, and locally, people are bracing for impact. As WBC's Jim McKay reports.
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President Trump has been referring to today as Liberation Day. However, a twenty five percent tariff on avocados doesn't exactly sound too liberated.
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Let's get a fig us in a living from the grocery aisle to the car lot clothing or to the liquor store. We could be in for a wild and expensive ride as we head into the spring and hand over Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
A new video game console that's sure to be on a whole lot of Christmas lists now has a launch date.
Wbz'sjwilllette, The Nintendo Switch to releases June fifth, coming out eight years after its predecessor. You may be asking yourself what's new about this Nintendo. According to the company, it boasts a bigger screen, more storage space, higher video resolution. Game chat and game share, which allows players to play on the same copy of a title across multiple systems. As for the games themselves, We're getting a new Mario kard as a launch title, and later this summer a
new three D Donkey Kong game. Whether it's birthdays or holidays, get ready to see it on the wish list. J Willette WBZ Boston's News Radio.
It is day two of Karen Reid's murder retrial in Dedham, and the jury selection process continues this morning. CBS News Boston's Christina Rax says today there are close to ninety prospective jurors there, and nearly half of them say they have already formed opinions in the case. Yesterday there were two jurors picked. Meantime, the buffer zone keeping protesters away from Norfolk Superior Court is now the subject of a lawsuit.
The Center for American Liberty just filed a civil suit against Judge Beverly Cononi, accusing her of trying to silence her critics. Family members confirm actor Val Kilmer has died.
Val Kilmer was born in Los Angeles and Hollywood was in his blood.
I'm not the first guy of fell in Love with the girl he met in the restaurant, who then.
Making his featured debut in the nineteen eighty four spy movie spoof Top Secrets. Later roles had him playing Elvis Presley on Doors Icon Jim Morrison. He was paired with Tom Cruise in Top Gun.
You're Everyone's problem.
That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe.
And immortalized as Doc Holiday with three words, I'm a Huckelbert Kilmer was diagnosed with throw cancer in twenty fourteen, but recovered. His daughter says he succumbed to pneumonia. Jim Ryan ab Seniors.
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