This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news Friday. A little devil get in here. Good morning. It is six o'clock, clear skies for the most part. It's forty degrees in Boston. The news at six rot to us buy your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us today. I'm Jeff Brown. Don't count these spring chickens before they hatch, so it's going to be mild today. We've got chilly and wet
weather in store for this weekend. Is WBZ Achi weather meteorologist heather Sare Sunshine, mid fifties today, rain tomorrow. That's the spirits, Hi fly shut deep into the hell of it's way back there. Oh great, I guess so good. The call on nesson Red Sox win late on opening day in Texas, Socks and Rangers will go again tonight. It is opening day for the Woo Socks today. First
pitch at Polar Park in Wooster just after three o'clock. Alabama, Florida Duke and Texas Tech move on to college Basketball's
Elite eight. Four more games in March Madness scheduleds for later today federal Judge James Boseburg launches into another national controversy with an order that Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and other top level intelligence officials retain the records of the signal messaging exchange, which revealed plans of attack on Houthy rebels in Yemen and included
the editor in chief of The Atlantic. The judge is also the center of the Trump administration's decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members in defiance of the court. The administration has a Monday deadline now to show that they have saved the signal records. Vice President j. D. Vance and his wife Usha are in Greenland today, though
Greenland doesn't want them. The second family will tour a US military base and stay largely out of the public's eye, while Greenland's Prime Minister maintains this visit is meant to intimidate his people. A majority of Greenlanders say they do not want to be annexed by the United States, while President Trump says we'll get it one way or another.
Greenland has long been the fascination of the United States for security purposes and Greenland's minerals with at least five discussions and attempts to purchase or take over the region beginning in the eighteen sixties. Time to move on.
The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and type security and military cooperations is over.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says the United States can no longer be a reliable partner on trade, and his nation is ready to move on. The newly installed prime minister, who faces a snap election next month, says Canadian industries are looking elsewhere now to blunt the force of twenty five percent tariffs President Trump has promised will take place next week. Carney, a one time goalie for the Harvard hockey team, says his nation plans retaliatory levels next week
as well. Not a bad start to Friday morning in Boston. This, by the way, feels like it may be the longest week ever, doesn't it? Forty degrees right now in Boston. We do have some clouds. Otherwise, well, let's call it partly cloudy skies. How about that forty degrees At the moment, it's going to be a relatively nice day today with a mixture of clouds and sunshine throughout. Highs will be in the mid fifties, a bit breezy as well, things
go downhill. I'm afraid from here overnight tonight the clouds are in full force and maybe a couple of showers hanging around. This weekend is not a very good one. I want to just forget about this in early spring. It's not going to be a typical postcard type of weather weekend. We're expecting to see clouds both Tomorrow and Sunday, chilly air, two highs only in the forties, and some rain from time to time in both days as well. So if we skip right over that and get back
to work on Monday, still cloudy and still some rain. However, Monday's high temperatures will be in the low sixties. Right now in Boston, it's forty degrees, partly cloudy, skies coming up on sunrise here in the city six five This Friday, Aday morning, Boston drills down on safe Streets.
The one Downtown Task Force will be focused on all of downtown Boston and surrounding neighborhoods with the goal of improving public safety. This follows a summit where members of the community, city and state officials, and law enforcement agreed that more needs to be done to address drug use, crime, and homelessness. Now, those who live and work around here have some suggestions. Fix the shelters.
I know a lot of sober homeless people don't go to shelters because the shelters have a lot of drug use in them.
So fix up the shelters, make them nicer.
The shelters that there are aren't particularly safe. You know, I've worked in shelters doing like GMT work.
I wouldn't stay there.
I would choose to stay outside. The task force is expected to operate through the fall in downtown Crossing James Rojas w b Z Boston's news.
Radio Happening right now. Powerful earthquakes hit Southeast Asia, more than a dozen believed dead. A seven point seven magnitude quake triggers the Temblers. According to the usg allow Logical Survey, the shaking centered in me and Marr, but felt as far away as the capital city of Thailand. Official say evacuations are underway in both cities. Bangkok is home to some seventeen million people, many of whom live in high rises one of which is believed to have collapsed in Bangkok.
At least three people are believed dead in that city. Survey says Americans are down on their lock. A new CBS News Yugov poll finds we're more pessimistic in recent days about the US economy, and many of us fear the US is headed for an economic slowdown or maybe a recession in the next year. Concern of President Trump's tariff talk, which even he says will likely be painful,
gives us a glasses half empty attitude. The survey shows many Americans paychecks are not keeping up with inflation now, even though at least half say they're doing fairly well financially today. Jay Willett WBZ Boston's news radio Hollywood loves a comeback story, but its own industry is not delivering.
The report shows jobs in television and movie production have not recovered from last year's entertainment strikes, which at the time of the walkouts were struggling to come back following the pandemic through in recent wildfires. It is a recipe for disaster brewing in Tinseltown. The report from the Otis College of Art and Design finds jobs in the industry are twenty five percent below a peak three years ago
as shooting days for projects continued to dwindle. In Los Angeles, Strumohall and WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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