This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. So I suppose it shouldn't surprise me when go time arrives, but somehow it always does. And here it is Friday, finally in Boston. It is six o'clock and we've got mostly cloudy skies. It is a very muggy seventy four degrees here in the city. The News at six brought to us by your Toyota You're New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being here on this Friday morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
The party is apparently over well. I have intervals of clowns and sunshine today.
Not as warm as yesterday, but still humid. As w b Z Achi weather meteorologist Heather's aire. We're talking about temperatures mainly in the mid to upper seventies, but showers and thunderstorms, and a floodwatch has been posted for parts of Greater Boston. Later today, a buzzer beater in the nation's heartland, it's wud threat touts of a second the meeting Tyres Halliburton does it again and love them in Indiana.
The call on ESPN as the Pacers break the Thunder's hearts in Oklahoma City with a last second Game one win. As the NBA Finals gets under way, Red Sox are back in action tonight. They will visit the Evil Empire for a weekend series, their first series with the New York Yankees so far this season. Testimony resumes in the
Karen Reid trial this morning in Norfolk Superior Court. Day off yesterday, when Judge Beverly Canoni decides the already high heat of the courtroom would be unbearable to take with
ninety degree temperatures outside. When last we met, the jury heard from a snowplow driver who says he never saw a body in the snow outside of Canton home more than three years ago, and testimony from a friend of Karen Reid who says she saw Reid at a bar hours before John O'Keeffe's death and claims Reid was not drunk, but also appeared to be very much in love with the Boston police officer. Another former girl friend of Sean Diddy Combs, takes the stand at Comb's federal sex trafficking
and racketeering trial in New York City. The woman known only as Jane to the jury, speaks in hush tones and claims that Combs forced her to take part in hundreds of sex parties known as freak coughs, and says her relationship with a hip hop mogul change for the worse during a party at a Los Angeles hotel several years ago. Jane says, despite her fears, she felt obligated to Playcate Colmbs. The fifty five year old faces up to a lifetime in prison if convicted, but he denies
all of the charges. A short lived White House bromance falls apart when both President Trump and Elon Musk say it's not me, it's you. The falling out spirals out of control in real time.
An advisor to President Trump told CBS News that Musk, who is deeply involved with his SpaceX rocket company, is angry the nomination of his preferred pick to run NASA was pulled. Trump withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman to head NASA without explanation last Saturday. Musk was also agitated, the advisor says, when government support for electric cars was pulled from the budget bill, potentially chipping away at the
bottom line of his car company. Tesla Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
Both go at it on social media yesterday, but both sides seem to have cooler heads prevail. Late last night, lost in the drama of the White House selon Musk soap opera, President Trump and China's President Chijingpang meet on the phone and spend an hour and a half talking about the kids, the family, and yes, jump starting trade talks. President Trump says the business end of the phone call results in a plan to immediately resume those discussions.
The Commerce and Treasury Secretary and the Trade representative will be meeting with their Chinese counterparts in the near future, and also indicated that things were going to be improving when it comes to the rare earth minerals that the United States has accused China on slow walking the export of those things in recent weeks. That was the big impetus for the President dropping Chinese tariffs from one hundred down to thirty percent.
Both President Trump and President she also exchange invites to each other to meet face to face. Ezy sunshine through otherwise what looks to be a cloudy sky for the most part here in Greater Boston, it is a very sticky seventy four degrees as we get started this morning. The temperatures will be warm and muggy once again today,
with highs approaching eighty and many inland spots. But we are going to need to be keeping an eye to the sky, say around noontime and thereafter, we've got the very real possibility of seeing showers and some potent thunderstorms rumbling through the area. In fact, a flood watch is in effect for portions west of Boston later on today as well. Unfortunately, this rain is going to linger through the overnight hours and will extend into the early stages
of tomorrow. Saturday kicks off the weekend with a few more showers and thunderstorms. Otherwise, it looks like a mostly cloudy, warm day tomorrow with highs in the mid seventies. The end of the weekend on Sunday looks a whole lot better, with a mix of sun and clouds and high temperatures in the middle seventies as well. Right now, we're already there at seventy four here in Boston and a very sticky start to the day at six oh six this
Friday morning. Today is National Donut Day and a local man says pedal power to the people and a day long mission between Boston City Line.
First Munchkins, Here we go.
Adam Bigeow of Cambridge is fueling up for a long day and bike ride ahead of him. He's here at the Duncan on Bennington Street, the first of ninety two Duncans he's riding to today.
My girlfriend was diagnosed with MSS last year and so I wanted to do something. I'm doing a fundraising ride later this month, and I wanted to do something fun to raise awareness that I was doing it. There's nothing more Boston than Duncan, So here I am.
Duncan is helping him with the logistics and with Munchkins to keep him energized.
So they've also given me some gift cards. So if you can find me in the wild, it's like a scavenger hut. If you can find the guy with the propoller, you can get some some gift cards in free swag.
Today his girlfriend was here at the Duncans starting line of seeing Adam off and snapping a photo at every stop. An East James Rojas w b Z Boston, some news radio in.
South Boston and police storm the beach law enforcement called the Carson Beach in Southea on reports that youths are causing a rucus. State and Boston police presence also includes the Marine Unit just offshore. Two teenagers ultimately detained as cops break up some fights. No serious injuries reported, and today marks the eighty first anniversary of the Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy. It's d Day and anniversary
celebrations are going to continue all morning long. In France, a Milford High school student wakes up in his own bed this morning after an immigration judge freeze eighteen year old Marcelo Gomes da Silva from an ice lock up. The young man was swept away after being stopped by agents while on his way to volleyball practice last weekend, in a raid that even the government admits was intended
to take his father into custody. Gomes da Silva tell the crowd he hadn't showered since landing in lock up, had very little to eat, and was forced to sleep on the floor. His next hearing is pending, though it will be, but with a backlog in the courts, there's no telling when that hearing might actually be. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's news radio