Mid Day Report: Saturday, December 6, 2025

Week one of testimony in the Brian Walshe murder trial wrapped up yesterday, the Supreme Court agrees to review whether President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship is constitutional or not, and Christmas comes early in Chelsea. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thirty five degrees Cloudy Sky's in Boston at eleven o'clock
on this Saturday. It is December sixth. I'm Sherry Small.
As always, thanks for tuning in. Let's get you caught up.
Here's what's happening in news. Week one of testimony in
the Brian Walsh murder trial wrapping up early yesterday with
a half day of testimony. Jurors hearing about a hack

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saw and other tools prosecutors claim were found in a dumpster,
along with testimony centered on cell phone records. Walsh accused
of killing his wife Anna and dismembering her body almost
three years ago. Prosecutors say she was last seen on
New Year's Day twenty twenty three. Yesterday, the judge says
that she expects testimony to last another two weeks. The

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Supreme Court agrees to review President Trump's bid to end
birthright citizenship. The court expected to hear oral arguments early
next year.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
If the Trump perspective prevails, then I think what you
see is frankly in the short term and administrative mess
in the sense of trying to figure out who is
a citizen and who is not. What is the status
of newborn's parents? Can you prove that when you go
into I mean, this is a bit of an exaggeration,
but can you prove when you go into labor and

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delivery that in fact both parents are US citizens or
have legal status.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
And that CBS News Legal analyst Jessica Levinson A ruling
is expected in June. A third day of talks set
for today in Miami on a ceasefire in the Russia
Ukraine War. This happening as Russia continues to target Ukraine's
transportation and energy infrastructure.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Another massive strike with more than seven hundred drones and
missiles targeting transport links and energy infrastructure across the country
and many of them shot down by a defense A
heat and power facility were hit in eight regions from
east to west to south, causing blackouts and what has
been a relentless weekly attacks designed to debilitate the country's

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energy supply.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
And that is CBS is brit ABC's Britt Clinet reporting there.
The latest attacks by Russia occurred as Ukraine prepared to
mark Armed Forces Day. The investigation continues into the fatal
crash in East Boston. That happened early yesterday morning. The
victim pronounced dead at the scene. Police called to four

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to sixty seven Chelsea Street near the Sunnaco fuel supply terminal,
locating a burnt out car that apparently had rear ended
a motor coach bus on the side of the road.
And now let's check the ECU weather forecast. Mostly cloudy today,
not as cold though, but there will be a bit
of snow around early then tapering off to some spotty
rain or drizzle. A high today thirty nine. That's around

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the city. For the Cape and the Islands, it's going
to be in the mid forties and there it will
just be all rain Tonight, turning out partly cloudy, cooling
down to thirty in Boston Tomorrow Sunday, early sunshine will
give way to clouds. We'll see I have thirty eight
and maybe a flurry or two tomorrow night, but that's
happening mainly north of Boston. Monday, back to work, it's

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gonna be a blustering cold day. Sunshine and some clouds,
but heis near thirty. Tuesday, some sunshine will give way
to more afternoon clouds than maybe some rain or snow
around on Tuesday night, highs around the freezing mark. All right,
right now, it is thirty five degrees, cloudy sky's in
Boston at eleven oh five. Christmas comes early to Chelsea

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the Boston Bruins and professional firefighters handing out winter coats
to kids in need.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
It was a bitterly cold December day in Chelsea, but
members of the Boston Bruins and the Professional Firefighters of
Massachusetts teamed up to answer the call to duty. This
is our kickoff for Operation walm Will we Patner with
the Bruins Foundation, and we're going to give out nineteen
hundred coats cross Massachusetts, two kids.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
That need them.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Firefighter Rich McKinnon and his colleagues headed out two hundred
coats to kids at the Jordan Boys and Girls Club,
backing the buff Bruins defenseman Mike Callahan and Jordan Harris
along with retired center iceman Bob Sweetey of the Bruins Foundation.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
For us, that's always been a big, big part of
our job as Bruins and as as former players and
current players.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
To get back Operation war will deliver winter coats to
kids at ten boys and Girls clubs across Massachusetts between
now and Christmas. In Chelsea, Mike maclum WBZ, Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Rent on the rise on average across America.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
In the fifty largest city is the rent for a
one bedroom apartment climbed an average of four hundred and
fifty seven dollars a month for forty one percent to
more than fifteen hundred dollars between twenty twenty and twenty
twenty five. That's according to an analysis from the loan
marketplace lending Tree. Two bedroom rents have surged thirty seven
percent over the same period. Rents continue to rise faster

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than wages on average. Nationally. New York, San Diego, and
Miami have seen the largest monthly rental increases since twenty twenty,
on average by more than eight hundred dollars a month.
Steve Kaith and CBS News.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
And taking a look at the average rent for one
bedroom apartment in Boston that huffs around twenty eight hundred
to thirty three hundred, of course, varying by neighborhood. For
some popular areas like Back May and Downtown, that rent
can exceed four thousand dollars. It's eleven oh seven all right.
A major media merger and inflation data dominate yesterday's stock market.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Netflix is seventy two billion dollar deal by Warner Brothers.
Discovery is running into early opposition, with CNBC reporting that
the Trump administration views the deal with skepticism, while Senator
Elizabeth Warren said that consumers could be forced to pay
higher prices with fewer viewing options. Federal over deserve rate
cut odds at next week's meeting got another boost when
the Fed's preferred inflation gage rose less than expected. In September,

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the Dow rallied one hundred four points to forty seven,
nine hundred and fifty five than ASDAK gained seventy three
points to twenty three thousand, five hundred seventy eight, and
the S ANDP up thirteen points to sixty eight seventy
b SLP's fourth consecutive winning session. Jason Brooks CBSDN.

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