Afternoon Report: Monday, November 17, 2025

Jury selection begins Tuesday in the Brian Walshe murder trial. The government plans next month  to announce new dietary guidelines. President Trump plans to meet with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is w Bezy, Boston's news radio. We defining local
news forty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening in Norfolk Superior Court.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Brian Walsh murder case

(00:21):
go over ground girls for his trial today. Walsh is
accused of killing and dismembering his wife Anna in twenty
twenty three. Her remains have never been found. CBS News
Boston's Penny Commit reports from.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Devilcol hassettfather walking into court this morning in handcuffs, waving
and smiling at his mother. Her name is Diana Walsh.
Diana Walsh is accused of hiring a private investigator to
catch her son's wife Anna, having an affair, and originally
she did not appear on the witness list, but today
the defense asked to add her. We also learned today

(00:54):
that the man Anna is accused of having an affair
with is expected to testify, along with a frie that
she allegedly confided in Jess before her death, saying she
planned to take her kids to Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
D C. Jerry's selection begins tomorrow. The Department of Health
and Human Services is planning to release some new dietary
guidelines next month. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior says
the guidelines are going to stress the importance of protein
and saturated fats, increase oversight into baby formula, and incentivize
the reduction in petroleum based food dies. Kennedy believes it

(01:27):
will revolutionize the food system. A u turn from President
Trump when it comes to his position on the Jeffrey
Epstein files, He's now saying, set them free.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Trump had been fighting the proposal as more Republicans supported
the release of the files, but that changed Sunday night.
Writing on social media, Trump said, quote, we have nothing
to hide. Trump's statement followed a fierce fight within the
GOP over the files, including a nasty split with Georgia
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, who had long been one of

(01:59):
his fierce's support orders. Democrats and some Republicans have been
pushing a measure that would force the Justice Department to
make public more documents from the case. The president shift
is an implicit acknowledgment that they have enough votes to
pass the House, although the measure's future in the Senate
is uncertain. Mike Kemp in Washington. They are pretty much

(02:21):
political polar opposites. But President Trump says he plans to
meet with New York City's mayor elect, Zoran Mamdani.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
The mayor of New York. I will say, would like
to meet with us and we'll work something out. But
he would like to come to Washington and meet and
we'll work something out. We want to see everything work
out well for New York. President Trump has been much
of the campaign trading political barbs with then candidate Mumdanni
and threatened to withhold any extra federal funds allotted to
New York if the assemblyman won. New York Governor Kathy Hokel, meantime,

(02:51):
says she has spoken to the mayor or elect about
how she tries to connect with the president, saying that
he is a New Yorker at heart. Don has previously
said in a relationship with the White House is critical
for the city's success. We've got a chill in the
air and then some The air itself is chillier than
we really should be this time of year, a little

(03:12):
below average, and with the wind around, it really feels
chilly today. Temperatures twenties thirties, depending on where you are.
As we got into the low forties tonight, we'll get
into the low thirties in Boston, upper twenties Inland, and
it'll feel like the teens in some spots as the
wind blows around. Mostly Sunday tomorrow, and that gusty chili
breeze remains forty seven for the high but feeling chillier,

(03:35):
some sunshine, some clouds on Wednesday forty seven, some sunshine
and some clouds on Thursday with a chill in the air.
It's forty five for the high. Then right now it
is forty two degrees in Boston. Well, it just keeps
rolling along and rolling along. A seventy year old New
Hampshire man is twirling and rolling his way into the
hearts of gen z Waz's Matt Shearer took a spin

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with him.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Roller World in Sagas looks and smells exactly the same
as it did when you were a kid. And if
you happen to be there in the last twenty years, Keith,
you probably skated with Keith Carlyle. Yeah, because I stand out,
so they you know, they, Oh, it's got to be
something wrong with that guy stands out because he's seventy
years old and he's doing the figure skating.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
If somebody told me comment was how many agreements he
got locked up in his basement?

Speaker 4 (04:17):
And the guy that's saying that probably in his basement.
But Heckler's aside, most people just watch in awe or
take out their phones.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I know some people, Oh, you inspire man, I look
for it is.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Nice and oftentimes those clips go viral with comments like
that guy's been here since my thirteenth birthday party. I'm
now thirty. And for Keith, that's what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's kind of like my call and this is what
I'm supposed to do. I feel like this is what
I'm supposed to do.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
His full story is up on our Instagram and TikTok,
but be warned, it's a bit of a roller coaster.
Nash Sheer w BEAZ Boston's news radio.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Hey everybody, welcome back. Well, the show did pause for
a while. The government shutdown saw to that All Smithsonian museums, though,
and the National Zoo are now back open to the public.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Several reopened over the weekend after being forced to shut
their doors when they ran out of money October twelve.
That meant the National Zoo's annual Halloween event, Boo at
the Zoo, was canceled, but zoo reps have confirmed that
Zoo lights for the holidays will open as scheduled on
November twenty first and run through January third. Stacey Lynz,
CBS News, Washington.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
New York. Jets players in critical but stable condition after
a weekend shooting.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
The NYPD says officers found a twenty nine year old
man shot in the abdomen early Sunday morning in midtown. Manhattan.
Mayor Eric Adams later confirmed Jets cornerback Chris Boyd as
a victim. A statement from the Jets said they were
aware of the situation involving Boyd, but had no further comment.
Sources have told CBS News New York the shooting followed
a verbal dispute that escalated. Jennifer Kuiper CBS News.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Someone in Georgia won a nearly billion dollar Mega Million's
jackpot on Friday, but fear not, there's still more than
half a billion dollars up for grabs in a jackpot
denied Powerball sits at five hundred and seventy million dollars
after no one hit the top prize again on Saturday.
The jackpot has not been hit since September. You want
a little pocket change, The Massachusetts Megabucks not been one
in a while. It's worth seven point twenty five million

(06:14):
dollars to night, and by the way, Mega Millions tomorrow
sits at just fifty million dollars after resetting with the winner.
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