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Sixty five degrees. It's eleven o'clock, lots of sun out there, a lot of pollen as well. Checked the forecast in just a few minutes. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. The defense is now cross examining key witness Jen McCabe and the Karen Reid retrial. McCabe says she has a very close family and it's a family that's heavily involved in the case where John O'Keefe's body was found outside her brother in law's house in Canton. The defense pointing out, you.
Also said that you knew and your words light Karen Reid my client on the twenty eighth of January twenty twenty two.
Correct.
Yes, but she very much is not family. Correct.
Correct. The defense is trying to make the argument that Read is a scapegoat and that the family is covering for each other in O'Keeffe's death. It is eleven o'h one and Wall Street is now waiting through a lot of red this morning. In response to new numbers suggesting the economy shrunk at the start of the year, a.
Dive into the numbers fines of forty one percent surge in imports from January to March, coinciding with President Trump's promise of sweeping tariffs on foreign goods that helped to drive the GDP into negative territory for the first time in three years. A separate report from payroll processor ADP showed job creation slowed to just sixty two thousand positions last month, about half of the Dow Jones consensus Jim Ryan ABC News.
Other numbers out today showed cooling inflation and increased spending as Americans brace for the impact of the president's tariffs. Many of those tariffs have been paused, but not the tariffs on China. ABC's Lionel moyees with the update on Washington's trade war with Beijing.
The White House says deals are in the works that will level the global trading field for American business, but so far no word of any official negotiations with China. China's Foreign ministry releasing a video vowing not to kneel down to Washington in the toy endusry growing concern about a shortage this coming holiday season, with many stores depending on China for the hot items. More than sixty percent of toy companies in the US say they've already canceled orders.
Nearly half say they could go out of business within weeks or months if the tariffs continue.
Stocks are lower across the board. Much more coming up in Bloomberg Business at eleven oh eight and at eleven oh two. This just in too the WBZ newsroom. A federal judge in Vermont has just ordered the release of a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza while studying at Columbia University. Moosa Madawi has been a legal permanent US resident for a decade. He was arrested by Ice while he was at an interview about
finalizing his US citizenship. Mdawi's lawyers have maintained he was arrested in retaliation for exercising his right to free speech. It's another warm day out there, with many of us in the mid to upper sixties right now, and it's a breezy one as well. Wind shifting a little bit from yesterday now it is coming in from the northwest at about fifteen twenty miles an hour. We will get up to about the mid seventies if you're north and west of Boston today seventy or so right on the
coast with a lot of sun. Now for tonight mostly clear, we have a low in the mid forties if you're right on the coast to upper thirties north and west. Tomorrow, sun and clouds becoming breezy with the high in the sixties. A little bit coolerround the capin Islands, staying in the mid to upper fifties. Then we start to see our next round of rain on Friday. We have the mix of sun and clouds to start. Clouds move in though into the afternoon and we have some showers, even a
couple of thunderstorms. Highs in the seventies pushing eighty north and west, low to mid sixties though, if you're on the capin Islands right now, sixty five degrees in Wareham, seeing sixty six in Lynn, sixty four in Natick, and in Boston at a Lefno. Five it is partly cloudy and sixty five. Police in Boston have now identified a group of people accused of attacking a Suffolk University student as he was walking by the common your wbz's Matt Fipps.
This took place late on Saturday night, offers found the victim bleeding from the head. He tells police a group shoved him, put him in a headlock, and broke a bottle over his head. Investigators say an image captured from a surveillance camera did yield positive IDs on the suspects, but their identities have not yet been shared. Matt phipps WBZ Boston's news radio.
Residents of Milton now giving the green light to hike their property taxes in hopes of covering budget deficits. More than fifty five hundred residents voting yesterday to approve the nine and a half million dollar hike, thirty one hundred residents voting against it. Now, both the town and school budgets need this boost. Town officials say it was a mix of factors that led them to this point, including higher costs, lower revenues, and federal pandemic funding being phased out.
Without the hike, officials say there would have been cuts to a number of services, including plowing and paving crews, the town's library, and jobs in the schools. There's a new study out this week suggesting that we humans heal a lot slower than other mammals.
Researchers found it face human cuts more than twice as long to heal as the wounds of monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees, mice or other mammals. Furry animals are covered by hair follicles, which house stem cells. When necessary, they grow new skin. Our ancestors lost many of their hair follicles, so we heal more slowly. Our skin is now packed with sweatlands, which also have some stem cells, but they're not as good at repairing wounds. Michael Wallace, CBS.
News eleven oh seven, A country superstar is making his way to the Garden in Boston. Here's wbz' s Drew moholland Yah.
It's going to be a late summer early fall show for The Chief. The Free the Machine tour will stop on Causeway Street for Eric Church September nineteenth, being made official today. Get there early as el King is opening x'es and o's for the wind Baby. Tickets go on sale to see Eric Church and el King a week from Friday. The Chief, Eric Church Boston bound in September.
And Somerville's porch Fest music festivals almost here in the list of reformers just keeps growing. Somerville Arts Council now says four hundred and ninety two acts have signed up to perform that day, May tenth. We're talking everything from solo folk singers, to rock bands, to funk groups much more. Porchfest usually draws thousands of spectators to the streets of Summerville. This year, organizers have put new safety measures in place,
including increased security and street closures. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis WBZ and Boston's News Radio