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All right, here we go six o'clock in Boston, and you may have noticed it is a Thursday morning, and it is a little bit chillier than we've grown accustomed to. Just forty six right now in the city under partly cloudy skies. The News at six is brought to us by You're a New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Welcome aboard this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. We're just doing a little flippin' and floppin'.
Times of sun and clouds. Today it'll become breezy with a heighthier sixty in Boston low seventies and some Western at is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg only in the fifties though today if your travels take you to the Cape or Islands, court is not in session today in the Karen Reid case in Dedham. CBS News Boston's Christina Rex has been following this case and says a former friend has just taken the stand.
The full day of Jen McCabe on the stand, as she told prosecutors among the frantic and Canton on January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, where John O'Keeffe's lifeless body lie.
She started yelling and pulling Amy to google hypothermia and google how long it takes for somebody you know to die in the cold.
Had you ever ever attempted to search about hypothermia anytime before that moment? That morning now or that day now?
Karen, did you tell Jen to make that Google search that morning at six twenty three?
I did not tell Jen to make a Google search. I certainly didn't tell her to make the one at two twenty seven either.
The Cabe is expected to return to the stand when court resumes tomorrow morning. Right next door, the noted Karen Reid's supporter and blogger known as Turtle Boy, is told he's skating on thin ice by another judge in Norfolk Superior Court, prosecutors won Aiden Kearney's bail on witness intimidation charges revoked on allegations that he's violating the terms of that bail. The judge seems to be focused on Kearney's repeated quest for revenge against the family of a Canton
cop for comments Kearny believes are against Reed's defense. A decision on bail is expected in the next couple of weeks. She's already agreed to resign, but pressed on when Boston City Councilor Tanya Fernandez Anderson takes offense. This comes to a head when a fellow councilor this week brings up procedure for a vacancy on the panel. Fernandez Anderson has agreed to plead guilty on federal corruption charges and says she'll step down. A plea hearing is expected next week.
There has been a push to avoid a special election in the city on concerns that it would be an inconvenience and confusing to voters heading to the polls, which would happen likely just weeks before the general election coming up in November. Red Sox need the Heimlich maneuver. In Toronto, Socks get pansed after taking a big lead over the Blue Jays. They lose an extra innings and the Celtics get to watch tonight as the New York Knicks battle the Pistons. A win by the Knicks will bring them
to the Garden for Game one Monday. A loss will bring Game seven to that series. Parking becomes a bigger problem on the South Boston waterfront. Unsustainable. That's how counselor Ed Flynn describes the parking situation in Southey.
South Boston. Residents consistently poured a large number of out of state plates and cause lacking a residential parking permit. With the neighborhood having become a destination for many young people on the weekends.
He says, visitors often park for several days from Friday morning through Monday evening, taking away precious space from locals. That's why he wants to extend permit parking through the weekend.
There are no resident parking only restrictions to speak of.
Neighborhoods like the North End to currently have resident permit parking seven nights a week in Southee. James Rojas w b Z Boston's news radio.
We're under partly cloudy skies. It is forty six degrees, so a little bit chillier than it's been the past couple of days. And let's take a moment if we can, to review the month of April. This is the first of May, so April's now in the books. And despite what you may have originally been led to believe or even thought as we were experiencing it. It's going to go down as one of the top twenty warmest aprils
on record here in Boston. I know, despite a lot of rain and cool temperatures, especially earlier in the month, we certainly made up for it towards the tail end. However, kicking off may will be a little bit on the cool front, especially if you're closer to the water. Today this afternoon, high temperatures will be in the low to mid sixties. Inland locations will push seventy, and on the
Capan Islands we're stuck in the fifties. Nonetheless, there's going to be a nice looking day, even by spring standards.
We're in good shape with a mix of sun and clouds and continue a bit breezy overnight, more clouds than notts, with a shower around later on and tomorrow, it looks like it's going to be a mostly cloudy day, but it's also going to be warm, and it will be quite humid as well, with temperatures approaching eighty degrees and we do have a chance of showers in the afternoon, and it looks like occasional showers, especially in the afternoon on Saturday, So that's easing up a little bit on
prior forecasts. Right now in Boston forty six and partly cloudy at six oh six on this Thursday morning here in Boston, A different take on beer literally might make us drink to our health.
It took several years, a number of different formulas, and some not so great taste tests for entrepreneur Samara Austar to create Melli, a Lowell based beer made entirely from keenwah.
We didn't know anything about recipes or formulation or process, so we kind of were just starting from scratch basically when we started this.
Samara says, they're the first to do this, teaming up with two food scientists at MIT to make her vision a reality. She says she was inspired by her travels in South America when she tried a beer partially brewed from keenwah.
It didn't even occur to me at the time that keenwa comes from all these different countries and parts of the world. There is red keenwa, there's black Keywah, there's a white Kingwa. So we had to pinpoint what the right ingredients actually were.
You can find Melly in local liquor stores, Trader Joe's and pretty soon Whole Foods. Brook McCarthy WBS Boston's News Radio.
Six o seven and the oldest person on the plant has now died.
Sister I Know. Lucas became the oldest person in the world in January at one hundred and sixteen years old. The Brazilian nun was from Rio Grande Soul and was twenty six when she took her vows to become a nun. Born on June eighth, nineteen oh eight, Lucas became the world's oldest person following the death of a Japanese woman earlier this year. Lucas was the second oldest nun in documented history and the twentieth oldest person and recorded history too.
The Congregation of Tarisian Sisters says she died Wednesday. Lucas had previously said her long life was thanks to the Lord, calling him this secret of life. Matt Piper CBS News two dolls instead of thirty. President Trump says he's going to stick to his tariff script, even if it means coal in our kids Christmas stockings.
Retailers, especially smaller ones, are in a jam order holiday inventory now that could be subjected to high tariffs, or wait and hope that policies change.
And that's what people are waiting on, ordering the holiday goods, toys, holiday apparel, a variety of categories, and waiting for some guidance on what are the price implications going to be.
Matthew Say at the National Retail Federation TELCNBC, the Trump administration understands the urgency and he hopes that some trade deals could be announced soon to provide certainty to the markets. Rory O'Neil, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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