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Letty of sunshine today, Breezy and pleasant this afternoon.
High seventy one to seventy five. Actually, that's quite a lot to see here. WBZ ACI Weather Meteorologist Joe Lundberg. We are expecting another decent day coming up tomorrow. Happening right now. Weekend's tariff talk between the United States and China ends with an agreement for a ninety day pause in rates that have all but ground trade to a halt.
As long as there is good state effort, engagement, and constructive dialogue, then we keep moving forward.
That is US Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who says the United States will back down to a traditional thirty percent tariff on imports wild China resorts to its prior level of ten percent on US exports. Now, both sides plan to continue negotiations for a long term, sustainable and mutually beneficial arrangement, and so far, the news of this trade pause has sent the US stock markets higher. The Dow Jones is up by about one thousand points in the
early going. This morning, President Trump is expected to sign what he calls one of the most significant executive orders yet this morning at the White House that promises to lower prescription drug costs covered by Medicare. In a post on his Truth social platform this weekend, the President says this move will give the US Most Favored Nation status and lower the cost of Medicare covered drugs to match
the lowest price anywhere else in the world. The President says this will shave up to eighty percent of the cost of some drugs and save Americans trillions of dollars. Critics, it's unlikely to get anywhere close to that, at least for now, a limited number of drugs are eligible. Celtics will try to keep their mojo going in New York City tonight, Game four against the Knicks and Madison Square
Garden coming up. The beast in the NBA's East is pushed to the brink The Pacers smoke the Cleveland Cavaliers to take a three games to one lead in that series, and the Red Sox road Show continues. After taking two of three from Kansas City, the Socks move on to Motown in a three game set with the Tigers. Tonight, No go for Jordan Hudson, the twenty four year old model and muse of seventy three year old former Patriots coach Bill Belichick, fails to win the Miss Maine USA pageant.
The main native and Bridgewater State University graduate has been the focus of a media storm involving the hoodie. Hudson instead finishes third in the pageant, falling from a second place finish just last year. Americans are on the go as summer travel season is about to heat up. Wbzast Drew moholland this year with some impressive of numbers. Good morning Andrew, Good morning Jeff.
You know I had full intentions of getting up to that Miss Main pageant there and I just couldn't.
Quite get there.
Summer travel season just about here, and even with flight delay as a shaky economy, we're expected to shatter at twenty year record this Memorial Day weekend triple a says more than forty five million of us are going somewhere this holiday, which is less than two weeks away.
Wow, we need a holiday. No, Wa'm sure that would.
Be an increase of about one point five million travelers, topping the previous high watermark set in two thousand and five.
Seems like we're always breaking records on holiday weekend. Yeah, we're going to give it another go. No getting to the point where we want to change from a spring fever to full on summer mode, although it doesn't seem like we have any big warm ups in the cards here of late. However, the weather has turned decidedly nicer here in Boston. Another nice sunrise underway. It's fifty degrees
right now. We'll see high temperature is eventually getting to around seventy today, and of course it's going to be warmer in inland locations, a little bit cooler along the waterfront. Mostly sunny and breezy conditions throughout the day. Continued clear to partly cloudy overnight Tonight, low's in the fifties. Tomorrow some sunshine to start, Clouds on the increase once again,
high in the upper sixties to low seventies. We're looking at our next possibility of some showers moving in though on Wednesday, with a high in the middle sixties, and that looks like it's going to be the beginning of an unsettled stretch of weather coming up to take us through the tail end of this work week. Right now, all systems go. This Monday morning in Boston, it is fifty degrees, clear skies and bright sunshine six oh six
on this Monday morning. Trouble for air travel in the United States will mean slow downs in the coming weeks that could affect flights from coast to coast.
There sure are a lot of happy people flying out of Logan, specifically for those who are not flying to Newark flights and Newark. I know, no, God, no, are you flying to Newark? Fining chance, No, not anywhere but Newark. That's the overall feeling here at Terminal B. This comes after the New Jersey Airport faced its third technical problem in two weeks this weekend. A telecommunications issue grounded flights
for forty five minutes. Now, official safe flights in and out of Newark are going to be reduced over the next few weeks to cut down on delays and cancelations at Logan Games rowhas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Testimony resumes in the Karen Reid trial once again this morning in Norfolk Superior Court. Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Yuri Buchanic is expected to return to the stand for a third day of testimony. Sergeant Buchennick has been reading flirtatious text messages hinting of a budding romance between Red and ATF agent Brian Higgins, just as things started to go south in her relationship with Boston Police officer John O'Keefe.
Buchenck also shared text messages sent by former trooper Michael Proctor, who has since been fired for those inappropriate texts. Buchanic was also stripped of a week of vacation days and an internal investigation that found he failed to properly oversee Proctor's behavior with this investigation while on the job. Opening statements are expected today. In New York, the sex trafficking federal trial of Sean Diddy coombe.
It's twelve people who will decide whether he's guilty or expected to be seated first thing Monday, after lawyers make cuts from a pool of more than forty prospective jurors. Once the jury has sworn, attorneys will deliver opening statements and the first witnesses will testify, among them Combs's ex girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, one of the women federal prosecutors say was coerced into drugged up sex marathons known as Freakouts. Allegations Combs did not.
At ABC's Aaron Katerski, and if convicted on all charges, Combs could potentially get a lifetime in prison. 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.