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Fifty eight degrees under a blue sky in Boston. It's eleven o'clock. Good Wednesday morning. I'm Madison Rodgers, and let's start off in debt U. Right now, Karen Reid's second murder trial is coming back from a morning break. Carrie Roberts still on the stand answering questions from prosecutors. She was with Reid when they found the body of Boston officer John o'keef, and Robert says she helped dig her friend's body out of the snow and picked up his cell phone.
What did you do with John Pollen when you picked it up from the ground.
I put it in my pocket and gave it to a first responder when they came over, All right, I handed it off to a first responder.
Before the break. The prosecution also played police dash cam footage from the scene. Keep it right here or stream us on the iHeartRadio app for the very latest. Elon Musk says he's taking a step back from his work with the Department of Government Efficiency. ABC's Rachel Scott has more on that.
The World's richest Man insisting he will stay with the Trump administration at least part time, but will focus on his business starting.
Next month, yet allocating far more of my time to Tesla.
His remarks coming after his company, Tesla, announced a nine percent drop in revenue from January to March and a staggering seventy one percent drop in profits in the first quarter the electric car gi and blaming the growing trade war and quote changing political sentiment which could have a meaningful impact on demand for our products in the near term.
Tesla stocks have seen major gains this morning in the wake of that announcement. In fact, we're seeing major gains across the major markets right now. Will have the very latest coming up with Bloomberg Business. A man charged with murder in Alston is due back in court this hour. Miss harrowing details emerge. On Monday, officials believe twenty six year old Omar Rians attacked an elderly female family member
with a baseball back and a sword, killing her. After a search, the suspect was arrested allegedly trying to steal a car a few blocks away. Riaz yesterday was charged with murder, armed carjacking, and resisting arrest. He's been ordered held without bail, pending a competency hearing, which should be starting in about a half hour in Brighton. It's an active information with anyone with information strongly urged to contact
Boston Police. At the Vatican, mourners are filing through Saint Peter's Basilica paying their final respects to the late Pope Francis.
A solemn ceremony in Vatican City. Pope Francis brought to Saint Peter's Basilica to lion state the Pope's simple wooden coffin, carried by white glove paul bearers, escorted by the Papal Swiss Guard, and there were splendent uniforms cardinals joining the procession as it made its way from the chapel of the Santa Marta Guesthouse just after nine am in Vatican City.
That's ABC's Harry Moran. The Pope's funeral is set for Saturday. There will be a period of morning before cardinals gather to choose the Pope's successor in the coming weeks. Looking at the four day forecast, now, it's going to stay mostly sunny and get quite a bit warmer out there. This afternoon. We're expecting a high year seventy in Boston, mainly clear skies. Tonight low around forty eight in the city, cooler inland spots should see a low in the low forties.
Then Thursday is another very nice one, breezy, up to sixty four in Boston, but into the mid seventies for some of us inland. Sixty four again Friday with partial sun and then Saturday, again we're in the mid sixties, but it's cloudier with a few showers around, drying out and turning windier on Sunday, partly sunny with a high near sixty. Right now it is sixty two degrees in Norwood.
It's fifty eight in Peabody, fifty eight here in Boston too though with that sunshine feeling like the low sixties. It's easy, breezy, and somewhat sneezy. High tree pollen levels right now. Five one of the biggest video sharing platforms on the planet, is turning twenty years old today. Wlebz's Jim McKay has more these days.
When you run it too some young people and ask about their favorite social media you'll get an array of responses.
I like TikTok, Instagram, Instagram, I'm probably TikTok amidst.
The TikTok at instagrams, I was able to find someone who enjoys the app that's turning twenty today YouTube. Cliff is a junior at Quincy High only knows a world where YouTube has always been here. But lest we forget, it was on this date in two thousand and five the first grainy video was posted to YouTube. It's been entertaining us ever since.
I posted videos to make my friends laugh. It's pretty fun and it is.
Always so good about never taking itself too seriously. Hence their twentieth birthday video they posted on the official YouTube channel a rick Roll to celebrate YouTube's twentieth and here's to twenty more and Quincy Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's news radio and.
You can find us on at WBZ News Radio Boston. Today would have been a very special birthday for the great playwright from Stratford upon Avon. Oh that this.
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This would have been Shakespeare's four hundred and sixty first birthday. In his honors. Sotheby's has just announced the sale of the first four editions of his collected works.
How's the Winter of our Discom attendance.
It'll be the first time since nineteen eighty nine that a set of the first, second, third, and fourthfolios are offered at auction as a single lot. It's expected to sell or up to six million dollars on May twenty third. By the way, today is also the anniversary of Shakespeare's death in sixteen sixteen. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
Massachusett's residence filing for jobless benefits can now count on assistance for a little while longer. Unemployment recipients can now receive benefits for a maximum of thirty weeks. That's up from a max twenty six weeks. This extension is triggered by rising unemployment rates, specifically when one of the state's metro areas tops five point one percent across a twelve month average. New federal data show the Springfield area just
hit five point two percent for their unemployment rate. A business lobbying organization, the n FIB, is calling for reform, arguing the state's current system is putting too much strain on local businesses. Another streaming service is about to crack down on password.
Sharing subscribers to max, We'll start getting subtled and not so subtle warnings if multiple users are sharing account passwords outside the home.
And then as we go through twenty five, you're going to see the filters get tighter and tighter. We think that's a meaningful growth driver, likely more and so begins to kick in in the back half of twenty five and into twenty six.
JB. Perett is head of Streaming at Warner Brothers Discovery and discuss the strategy at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit. Disney Plus and Hulu are also conducting a crackdown on password sharing. Rory O'Neil WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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