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It is a ridiculously warm Friday morning here in Boston. We are waking up under partly to mostly cloudy skies and sixty four degrees already here in the city. The News at six is brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel Drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. It's here.
Today's some sunshine, breezy and mild LA high sixty six.
And is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg perfect weather for opening Day at Fenway Park today. Slow start out the door this morning, though the weekend at Fenway not so much as good weather as today for the one hundred and thirteenth time, though Fenway plays balls. Is mister opening Day, my Columbar, who you can find decked out in red Sox gear on Lansdown Street next to the ticket office every season the Sox open up at Finway.
Twenty five and secutive year is still going strong.
Never once had a ticket.
Never. No, that's not the point. The point is to soak in the atmosphere.
I'm so excited for the buzz around, people walking around the Red Sox jersey's the Red Sox hats.
I can't wait for it to be back. Is it second to none?
Yes, mister Opening Day. I can't explain it.
I fell in love with it the first time I did it with my friends when I was a kid, and now it's just it.
I know what's going to be a good day, no matter what. Chris Fom WBZ, Boston's news Radio Now before the game today, the festivities as the team will pay tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of the nineteen seventy five Red Sox and especially to Red Sox Hall of Famer the late great Louis Tiant. They team in seventy five came this close to breaking the curse against the Cincinnati Reds and what many still believe was the greatest World Series ever played. Bruins continue to stumble to the regular
season finish line. They lose in Montreal, their tenth consecutive defeat. Celtics hosts the Suns tonight. College basketball's March Madness resumes with the women's Final four Yukon takes on UCLA later today. Global financial markets continue to tumble following President Trump's announcement on global tariffs. The irony is the new tax on imports has not even hit officially yet. The first wave of a more or less blanket ten percent tariff takes
place at just after midnight tonight. Additional reciprocal levies will arrive next week. Canada says it's preparing to respond. Automaker Stilantis says it's going to stop production in plants north and south of the border. Thousands of jobs will be affected there, hundreds more in the United States. Experts say we'll feel the pinch of these tariffs first with the impact of cars, clothing, and coffee. You're fired. The head of the nation's National Security and Cyber Command is out.
General Timothy Hawk has been fired as director of the National Security Agency Now. Hawk has also been removed as head of US cybersecurity at the Pentagon. Trump said he fired some national security officials, but did not say exactly who. The firings came after he met with far right activist Laura Lumer, where Lumer reportedly urged Trump to purge any
staffers that she deemed not loyal to his agenda. Lumor is known for spreading conspiracy theory Trump said he sometimes takes Lumour's advice, but denied that she was responsible for the firings.
Babc's Nicole de Antonio still the White House is not issued an official reason for the terminations. Going to be a beautiful day for baseball. The grass is a pristine green at Fenway Park this morning and all day today, We're going to be in good shape. We're starting off here in Boston under partly cloudy skies in sixty three degrees at the moment. Temperatures are going to be warming up even from here, maybe close to seventy later today. It will be a bit breezy. We will break for
some sunshine later this afternoon as well. So it's going to be a great day at Fenway Park this weekend, not so much as the Saint Louis Cardinals will remain in town over the weekend for a three game series. We're looking at some colder air moving. We're talking highs only in the forties tomorrow and it features occasional showers.
And then on Sunday we rebound nicely back to around sixty but still cloudy skies and a couple of lingering showers throughout the day as well, turn the page on a new work week, and it's back and forth we go again. Highs only in the forties on Monday. Right now in Boston, it's sixty three, partly cloudy. As we get started this Friday morning, it's six oh five with greener grass. The golf course is calling your name as well.
Yeah, this is one of those days where you may not be feeling well enough to go into work, but maybe just good enough to get in a few rounds of golf. If the chripping birds weren't a good enough indicator that spring is here, then it should be the mid to high sixty degree weather that should do the trick. However, just as quickly as the golf gods giveth, they take it away, because this weekend is now looking that great.
So swing away while you can on the green and Quinsey James Rojas w b Z Boston Snooze Radio.
Certainly is that time of year. It is also the season of sobriety checkpoints on Massachusetts roadways. Let's check in with wbz's Drew mo'hollands. Good morning, Andrew, Good.
Morning, Jeffrey, mass Steep. Please say more than a dozen suspected drunken drivers were taken off the streets during stops last weekend. More than a dozen others even either give in citations or arrested for other offenses. Officials say the checkpoints will be random but routine during this warmer weather. They come at any time of day or night, but advanced warnings will be posted. Those are the rules out there.
Two hands on the wheel, yep, both eyes on the road, focus, take it easy, all right, Drew, Thank you. Jury selection continues in the Karen Reid case in Norfolk Superior Court this morning, with ten jurors already seated. It seems the process is moving a little more rapidly than Judge Beverly Canoni had anticipated. The biggest obstacle remains getting people on the panel who either don't know about the case or
those convinced that they have no opinion about it. Meantime, lawyers for Reid have now appealed to the US Supreme Court in a motion to dismiss murder and a lesser charge from her retrial and concerns of double jeopardy. Attorneys have tried and failed with judges on several levels after it was learned verdict would have acquitted read were not divulged prior to her mistrial last summer. Well as of today, we've spent fifty years listening to this.
High school buddies, Bill Gates and Paul Allen called their company Microsoft, short for micro computer Software. They went on to develop the ms DOS operating system for IBMPC compatible personal computers. Then came Windows, a game changer that turned Gates into one of the richest people in the world. Their goal from the beginning was to put a computer on every desk and in every home. They did that and much more. Christopher Cruz, CBS News.
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