April 13, 2025 • 7 mins
Police in Pennsylvania say an arsonist set fire to the Governor's mansion overnight, a Framingham man has been found guilty in the murder of his wife three years ago, and uncertainty still dominates as tariffs roll out. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bassis w b Z News Radio where Boston gets the
news an iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Forty four degrees with light rain in Boston at four
o'clock that Sunday afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers and we start
this hour in Boston Federal court. Groups representing Harvard professors
have filed suit against the Trump administration the Harvard chapter
of the American Association of University Professors, along with the
AAUP itself, for arguing the White House threat to cut
(00:31):
billions in Harvard funding violates the First Amendment. The Trump
administration recently announced a review of some nine million dollars
in grant in contract money, as the President's Antisemitism Task
Force sent a list of demands to Harvard, including the
elimination of DEI. Yesterday, hundreds of Harvard community members turned
(00:52):
out for a rally in Cambridge calling on school leadership
to take action. There's an update from the Trump administration.
After the Supreme Court ruled an illegally deported man must
be returned.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Over the weekend, the administration told US District Judge PAULA.
Zenis that Kilmar Obrego Garcia is quote alive and secure.
In a notorious El Salvador prison, but Garcia's lawyer, Benjamin
Osorio says that court demands for details on how they
will get him returned home haven't been followed, and there's
still no clear indication of what has been done or
was being planned. Osorio says he and Garcia's family are
(01:27):
growing impatient. I anticipate that we will ask the court
to hold the government in contempt. Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Police in Pennsylvania say an arsonist set fire to the
governor's mansion overnight, forcing Governor Josh Shapiro and his family
to evacuate. A major search effort is underway. More from
reporter Lisa Carton.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Firefighters responded to the Harrisburg residents of Governor Josh Shapiro
at about two am. The governor says his family was
home at the time, but we're able to escape unharmed.
The fire reportedly caused significant debtdamage to part of the home,
but there were no injuries. The state police are offering
a ten thousand dollars reward for information that leads to
the arrest and conviction of the person suspected of setting
(02:09):
the fire. I'm Lisa Carton, and.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
We are expecting an update on that active investigation from
Pennsylvania later on this hour. Stay with WBZ News Radio
for the very latest. A Framingham man has been found
guilty in the murder of his wife three years ago.
Thirty year old Niani Pereira Da Silva was found stabbed
to death in July twenty twenty two in her home
(02:35):
on Taylor Street in Framingham, Middlesex. Dy A Mary and
Ryan says the woman had been trying to break up
with her husband, forty two year old at Vardo Gomes
da Silva, when he attacked her, Da calling it a
tragic case of domestic violence. These days, Boston Seaport district
is a big hub for big business, and a new
(02:56):
museum shows it.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
From Wall Street to the Seaport, It's a new ch
for the Museum of American Finance. The Smithsonian affiliate has
signed a ten year lease at Boston's Commonwealth Peer. It'll
be the museum's first permanent home since leaving its Wall
Street location in twenty eighteen following a flood. Since then,
the museum's been on the road with traveling exhibits in
(03:17):
temporary installations around the country. The fifty four hundred square
foot Boston Space set to open its doors on July
first of twenty twenty six. The museum is renowned for
its educational mission and rare archive, including historic documents from
Alexander Hamilton that established the basis of our financial system.
Admission will be free. Visitors will leave the museum with
(03:39):
a greater understanding and appreciation of our nation's financial history.
Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
In the four day WBZ ACU weather forecast, will continue
to see some rain and drizzle around into this evening,
then the clearing skies tonight with low's near forty. Tomorrow
will be a lot nicer out there, sunshine mixing with
some clouds. High around sixty three degrees in Boston. Tuesday,
again we're in the low sixties, but it will be
(04:07):
mostly cloudy. Another shower to around. Some breaks of sun
also possible against sixty two for the high. Then Wednesday
is a bit chillier, fifty three and breezy, mostly cloudy.
Right now, we do have rain coming down along the
north shore, south shore, south coast, and cap pretty much
all of coastal Massachusetts. The heavier rain has been easing
(04:29):
out in the past hour or so, but it's still
steadiest down toward the south coast. Here in Boston, just
some light rain. It's forty four degrees at four h five.
Uncertainty still dominates, says tariffs roll out. There is some
expected relief with the Trump administration now announcing exceptions for
phones and other tech made in China today, though the
(04:52):
Commerce Secretary says the exception won't last long. It could
be lifted in around a month. More on the tariffs
with ABC Selena Way.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
President Trump is giving countries other than China ninety days
to negotiate a trade deal with the US, and this
week the President is meeting with the leaders of El
Salvador in Italy. But the US China trade war is
only escalating. The US has imposed one hundred and forty
five percent tariffs on many goods from China, and China
has imposed one hundred and twenty five percent tariffs on
(05:20):
goods from the US.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren had some harshworts around the tariff
rollout today. We'll have more on that coming up. At
four thirty. The woo Sox seven ounce their second ever
class for the Wooster Red Sox Hall of Fame. Three
people will make up the Class of twenty twenty five.
Ballpark planner Janet Maurice Smith, who helped design and build
(05:41):
Polar Park, JP Rishardi, the Wooster native and former Blue
Jays GM who's currently part of the Wusox broadcast team.
And finally, Red Sox outfielder Jaron Jaren Durant, who spent
three seasons with the Triple A team and was the
first ever player to take an at back at that
is as a Woo Soock. No word yet on when
(06:03):
the ceremony will be. We'll have more on sports coming
up in just a few At the movies, minecraft Mania
is running wild. A Minecraft movie has raked in more
than eighty million dollars in ticket sales in its second weekend.
That makes it the highest grossing Hollywood movie for twenty
twenty five so far, and it comes despite some poor
(06:26):
reviews from critics, lackluster reviews from fans, and lots of
reports of disorderly conduct at some screenings. To put it lightly,
the animated Christian movie The King of Kings is in
second place at the box office with nineteen million dollars
in ticket sales. It's third place for the Actions by
film The Amateur, making its debut with fifteen million.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You're now in the loop.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's
news radio
Bassis w b Z News Radio where Boston gets the
news an iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Forty four degrees with light rain in Boston at four
o'clock that Sunday afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers and we start
this hour in Boston Federal court. Groups representing Harvard professors
have filed suit against the Trump administration the Harvard chapter
of the American Association of University Professors, along with the
AAUP itself, for arguing the White House threat to cut
(00:31):
billions in Harvard funding violates the First Amendment. The Trump
administration recently announced a review of some nine million dollars
in grant in contract money, as the President's Antisemitism Task
Force sent a list of demands to Harvard, including the
elimination of DEI. Yesterday, hundreds of Harvard community members turned
(00:52):
out for a rally in Cambridge calling on school leadership
to take action. There's an update from the Trump administration.
After the Supreme Court ruled an illegally deported man must
be returned.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Over the weekend, the administration told US District Judge PAULA.
Zenis that Kilmar Obrego Garcia is quote alive and secure.
In a notorious El Salvador prison, but Garcia's lawyer, Benjamin
Osorio says that court demands for details on how they
will get him returned home haven't been followed, and there's
still no clear indication of what has been done or
was being planned. Osorio says he and Garcia's family are
(01:27):
growing impatient. I anticipate that we will ask the court
to hold the government in contempt. Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Police in Pennsylvania say an arsonist set fire to the
governor's mansion overnight, forcing Governor Josh Shapiro and his family
to evacuate. A major search effort is underway. More from
reporter Lisa Carton.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Firefighters responded to the Harrisburg residents of Governor Josh Shapiro
at about two am. The governor says his family was
home at the time, but we're able to escape unharmed.
The fire reportedly caused significant debtdamage to part of the home,
but there were no injuries. The state police are offering
a ten thousand dollars reward for information that leads to
the arrest and conviction of the person suspected of setting
(02:09):
the fire. I'm Lisa Carton, and.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
We are expecting an update on that active investigation from
Pennsylvania later on this hour. Stay with WBZ News Radio
for the very latest. A Framingham man has been found
guilty in the murder of his wife three years ago.
Thirty year old Niani Pereira Da Silva was found stabbed
to death in July twenty twenty two in her home
(02:35):
on Taylor Street in Framingham, Middlesex. Dy A Mary and
Ryan says the woman had been trying to break up
with her husband, forty two year old at Vardo Gomes
da Silva, when he attacked her, Da calling it a
tragic case of domestic violence. These days, Boston Seaport district
is a big hub for big business, and a new
(02:56):
museum shows it.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
From Wall Street to the Seaport, It's a new ch
for the Museum of American Finance. The Smithsonian affiliate has
signed a ten year lease at Boston's Commonwealth Peer. It'll
be the museum's first permanent home since leaving its Wall
Street location in twenty eighteen following a flood. Since then,
the museum's been on the road with traveling exhibits in
(03:17):
temporary installations around the country. The fifty four hundred square
foot Boston Space set to open its doors on July
first of twenty twenty six. The museum is renowned for
its educational mission and rare archive, including historic documents from
Alexander Hamilton that established the basis of our financial system.
Admission will be free. Visitors will leave the museum with
(03:39):
a greater understanding and appreciation of our nation's financial history.
Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
In the four day WBZ ACU weather forecast, will continue
to see some rain and drizzle around into this evening,
then the clearing skies tonight with low's near forty. Tomorrow
will be a lot nicer out there, sunshine mixing with
some clouds. High around sixty three degrees in Boston. Tuesday,
again we're in the low sixties, but it will be
(04:07):
mostly cloudy. Another shower to around. Some breaks of sun
also possible against sixty two for the high. Then Wednesday
is a bit chillier, fifty three and breezy, mostly cloudy.
Right now, we do have rain coming down along the
north shore, south shore, south coast, and cap pretty much
all of coastal Massachusetts. The heavier rain has been easing
(04:29):
out in the past hour or so, but it's still
steadiest down toward the south coast. Here in Boston, just
some light rain. It's forty four degrees at four h five.
Uncertainty still dominates, says tariffs roll out. There is some
expected relief with the Trump administration now announcing exceptions for
phones and other tech made in China today, though the
(04:52):
Commerce Secretary says the exception won't last long. It could
be lifted in around a month. More on the tariffs
with ABC Selena Way.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
President Trump is giving countries other than China ninety days
to negotiate a trade deal with the US, and this
week the President is meeting with the leaders of El
Salvador in Italy. But the US China trade war is
only escalating. The US has imposed one hundred and forty
five percent tariffs on many goods from China, and China
has imposed one hundred and twenty five percent tariffs on
(05:20):
goods from the US.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren had some harshworts around the tariff
rollout today. We'll have more on that coming up. At
four thirty. The woo Sox seven ounce their second ever
class for the Wooster Red Sox Hall of Fame. Three
people will make up the Class of twenty twenty five.
Ballpark planner Janet Maurice Smith, who helped design and build
(05:41):
Polar Park, JP Rishardi, the Wooster native and former Blue
Jays GM who's currently part of the Wusox broadcast team.
And finally, Red Sox outfielder Jaron Jaren Durant, who spent
three seasons with the Triple A team and was the
first ever player to take an at back at that
is as a Woo Soock. No word yet on when
(06:03):
the ceremony will be. We'll have more on sports coming
up in just a few At the movies, minecraft Mania
is running wild. A Minecraft movie has raked in more
than eighty million dollars in ticket sales in its second weekend.
That makes it the highest grossing Hollywood movie for twenty
twenty five so far, and it comes despite some poor
(06:26):
reviews from critics, lackluster reviews from fans, and lots of
reports of disorderly conduct at some screenings. To put it lightly,
the animated Christian movie The King of Kings is in
second place at the box office with nineteen million dollars
in ticket sales. It's third place for the Actions by
film The Amateur, making its debut with fifteen million.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You're now in the loop.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's
news radio
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