May 17, 2025 • 6 mins
Israel says it"s launched a major military operation in Gaza in a push to pressure Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages. A change in policy in Worcester after Police release body cam footage and audio of a controversial "ICE" opperation. Local toy sellers are feeling the pressure of Tarrifs. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's a cloudy start to this Saturday, sixty seven degrees
in Boston at eleven o'clock. Hello, thanks for being with us.
I'm Sherry. So well, here's what's happening. All right, These
clouds are going to hang around this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We'll see clouds and breaks of sunshine.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Watch for a stray afternoon or evening thunderstorm.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Highs of seventy to seventy.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Five now, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Weather Meteorologist Bill Degger will have the full forecasts coming
up in Traffic and Weather on the threes to News Now.
Israel says that it has launched a major military operation
in Gaza in a push to pressure Hamas into releasing
the remaining hostages.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh, we've been seeing this whole thing ramping up. That
have been attacks every night this week, acculmodating in the
biggest attack we've seen for several months on Friday by land,
sea and air and as well as Now said this
was the beginning of Operation Gideon's Chariots. It involves several
thousand troops on the ground, several thousand reservists have been
(00:59):
called up in recal weeks and I think what we've
seen are Israeli Grand force moving in to central and
probably parts of northern Gaza.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And that's the BBC's Weira Davis reporting Prime Minister Benjamin
Nettannyev who val excuse me vowing that is earlier in
the week to increase pressure on Hamas with the aim
of destroying the militant group that has ruled Gaza for
nearly two decades. And locally, a change in policy in
Worcester after police release bodycam footage and audio of a
(01:30):
controversial ICE operation last week, Federal agents detained a woman
as Wooster police arrested her seventeen year old daughter just
a few feet away.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
We have a crowd surrounding an officer and he's requesting
the media sistance.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
In response, Wooster City manager Eric Bautista announcing a new
policy that prohibits city employees from asking about people's immigration
status and bar's employees from treating anyone differently because of
their immigration status. Batista says that he acknowledges the significant
impact on his community, declaring that Wooster police are not
(02:04):
ICE agents and are not to perform their duties. It
was a sad night for Celtics fans. WBC's Emma Friedman
has reaction.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
A blowout game at Madison Square Garden last night.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
For the first time, you've two and a half decades
to New York Kicks, I'm going to a conference final.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
That call on ESPN as Knicks fans saying goodbye to
the Celtics after beating them in six games, putting an
end to the defending champion season. Fans outside TD Garden
telling CBS News Boston's Tammy Matassa that their heart broken
by the loss.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's a sad time for Celtics fans everywhere. But you know,
we never falter, We.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Never worried without Jason Tatum. Jalen Brown led the way
for the Celtics with twenty points but fouled out in
the third quarter. Overall season was it was a win,
but at the end, the big prize is the prize
that we need to bring home.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And it's very hard to repeat.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Back to bed.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I'm a Friedman WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The ECU weather forecast Bill Degger telling us that we're
going to see clouds and a few breaks of sunshine today,
but a stray afternoon thunder shower high seventy to seventy five.
An evening thunder shower in some areas, otherwise just turning
out partly cloudy, will drop to a low of sixty Tomorrow,
less human. It's going to be breezy, with a mix
(03:17):
of sun and clouds and afternoon shower or two again,
highs near seventy. Monday starts a little bit of a
cool down. We'll see a slight chance of a morning shower.
Otherwise just windy, cool with a mix of sun and clouds,
a high of sixty seven, and then that cool down
continues on Tuesday with a high of just fifty seven.
(03:37):
And in Boston right now it is cloudy, sixty seven
degrees in the city at eleven oh five. Back to news,
Local toy sellers say they're feeling the pressure of tariffs,
and one Massachusetts senator is taking action.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Instead of toys for tots, Trump is delivering tariffs for talks.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Step into the newest location for the Henry Bear Park
toy chain and Cambridge and Senator Ed Markey is surrounded
by plush lobsters, lava lamps, and bouncy balls, saying President
Trump's tariffs had gone too far.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Toy stores like one here today saw mockups of one
hundred and fifty percent on their products.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Senator Markey announces the Small Business Liberation Act, a bill
to exempt retailers like this one from sweeping international tariffs
and the unpredictability of pauses.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It impacts pricing, product availability, selection, and also our decisions
related to investment and growth.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Owner of the toy chain cash sharem us as it's
a difficult decision whether to push the rising costs on
to customers or eat them on every puzzle or board
game they sell right off Massachusetts Avenue. J Willett WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Newly released recordings from a twenty twenty three interview show
then President Biden having trouble recalling important dates during an
interview with federal investigators.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The audio, obtained by Axios comes from Special Counsel Robert
Hir's interview regarding classify documents found at the Biden home
their long pauses. Biden appears confused by things like dates,
for example, when his son died listen carefully as happening,
though amaze her decline to prosecute Biden, saying the jury
(05:24):
would find him a quote sympathetic, well meaning elderly man
with poor memory. Peter King's CBS.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
News It's eleven oh seven. The second jewel of horse
racing's triple crown is upper grabs this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
A field of nine horses will be racing in the
one hundred and fiftieth Preakness Stakes later today at Pimlico Park.
Unlike the sloppy muddy course at this year's Kentucky Derby,
Racing Biz publisher Frank Vesby's expecting the track conditions to
be perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That's that's the ideal.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
You want, sort of a fair track that everybody's kind
of run on before, where they can give you their
best effort.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not be racing Derby runner up.
Journalism is the morning Line. Favorite post time is seven
oh one. Eastern Erica Herskowitz for CBS News Underway Now.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Former State Representative Byron Rushing is offering tours of Boston
based on the Green Book that was a travel guide
for black road trippers. The Green Book dates back to
nineteen thirty six, listing safe hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and
barber shops where black travelers were welcome during an era
of Jim Crow segregation and racial discrimination. It began at
(06:34):
the Union United Methodist Church on Columbus Avenue in the
South End and ends at Slade's Bar and Grill on
Tremont Street, which is one of the few Green Book
locations still in business. You are now in the loop.
For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ News
Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ
(06:55):
Boston's news Radio
It's a cloudy start to this Saturday, sixty seven degrees
in Boston at eleven o'clock. Hello, thanks for being with us.
I'm Sherry. So well, here's what's happening. All right, These
clouds are going to hang around this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We'll see clouds and breaks of sunshine.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Watch for a stray afternoon or evening thunderstorm.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Highs of seventy to seventy.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Five now, thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Weather Meteorologist Bill Degger will have the full forecasts coming
up in Traffic and Weather on the threes to News Now.
Israel says that it has launched a major military operation
in Gaza in a push to pressure Hamas into releasing
the remaining hostages.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Oh, we've been seeing this whole thing ramping up. That
have been attacks every night this week, acculmodating in the
biggest attack we've seen for several months on Friday by land,
sea and air and as well as Now said this
was the beginning of Operation Gideon's Chariots. It involves several
thousand troops on the ground, several thousand reservists have been
(00:59):
called up in recal weeks and I think what we've
seen are Israeli Grand force moving in to central and
probably parts of northern Gaza.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And that's the BBC's Weira Davis reporting Prime Minister Benjamin
Nettannyev who val excuse me vowing that is earlier in
the week to increase pressure on Hamas with the aim
of destroying the militant group that has ruled Gaza for
nearly two decades. And locally, a change in policy in
Worcester after police release bodycam footage and audio of a
(01:30):
controversial ICE operation last week, Federal agents detained a woman
as Wooster police arrested her seventeen year old daughter just
a few feet away.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
We have a crowd surrounding an officer and he's requesting
the media sistance.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
In response, Wooster City manager Eric Bautista announcing a new
policy that prohibits city employees from asking about people's immigration
status and bar's employees from treating anyone differently because of
their immigration status. Batista says that he acknowledges the significant
impact on his community, declaring that Wooster police are not
(02:04):
ICE agents and are not to perform their duties. It
was a sad night for Celtics fans. WBC's Emma Friedman
has reaction.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
A blowout game at Madison Square Garden last night.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
For the first time, you've two and a half decades
to New York Kicks, I'm going to a conference final.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
That call on ESPN as Knicks fans saying goodbye to
the Celtics after beating them in six games, putting an
end to the defending champion season. Fans outside TD Garden
telling CBS News Boston's Tammy Matassa that their heart broken
by the loss.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's a sad time for Celtics fans everywhere. But you know,
we never falter, We.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Never worried without Jason Tatum. Jalen Brown led the way
for the Celtics with twenty points but fouled out in
the third quarter. Overall season was it was a win,
but at the end, the big prize is the prize
that we need to bring home.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And it's very hard to repeat.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Back to bed.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I'm a Friedman WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The ECU weather forecast Bill Degger telling us that we're
going to see clouds and a few breaks of sunshine today,
but a stray afternoon thunder shower high seventy to seventy five.
An evening thunder shower in some areas, otherwise just turning
out partly cloudy, will drop to a low of sixty Tomorrow,
less human. It's going to be breezy, with a mix
(03:17):
of sun and clouds and afternoon shower or two again,
highs near seventy. Monday starts a little bit of a
cool down. We'll see a slight chance of a morning shower.
Otherwise just windy, cool with a mix of sun and clouds,
a high of sixty seven, and then that cool down
continues on Tuesday with a high of just fifty seven.
(03:37):
And in Boston right now it is cloudy, sixty seven
degrees in the city at eleven oh five. Back to news,
Local toy sellers say they're feeling the pressure of tariffs,
and one Massachusetts senator is taking action.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Instead of toys for tots, Trump is delivering tariffs for talks.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Step into the newest location for the Henry Bear Park
toy chain and Cambridge and Senator Ed Markey is surrounded
by plush lobsters, lava lamps, and bouncy balls, saying President
Trump's tariffs had gone too far.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Toy stores like one here today saw mockups of one
hundred and fifty percent on their products.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Senator Markey announces the Small Business Liberation Act, a bill
to exempt retailers like this one from sweeping international tariffs
and the unpredictability of pauses.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It impacts pricing, product availability, selection, and also our decisions
related to investment and growth.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Owner of the toy chain cash sharem us as it's
a difficult decision whether to push the rising costs on
to customers or eat them on every puzzle or board
game they sell right off Massachusetts Avenue. J Willett WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Newly released recordings from a twenty twenty three interview show
then President Biden having trouble recalling important dates during an
interview with federal investigators.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The audio, obtained by Axios comes from Special Counsel Robert
Hir's interview regarding classify documents found at the Biden home
their long pauses. Biden appears confused by things like dates,
for example, when his son died listen carefully as happening,
though amaze her decline to prosecute Biden, saying the jury
(05:24):
would find him a quote sympathetic, well meaning elderly man
with poor memory. Peter King's CBS.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
News It's eleven oh seven. The second jewel of horse
racing's triple crown is upper grabs this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
A field of nine horses will be racing in the
one hundred and fiftieth Preakness Stakes later today at Pimlico Park.
Unlike the sloppy muddy course at this year's Kentucky Derby,
Racing Biz publisher Frank Vesby's expecting the track conditions to
be perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That's that's the ideal.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
You want, sort of a fair track that everybody's kind
of run on before, where they can give you their
best effort.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty will not be racing Derby runner up.
Journalism is the morning Line. Favorite post time is seven
oh one. Eastern Erica Herskowitz for CBS News Underway Now.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Former State Representative Byron Rushing is offering tours of Boston
based on the Green Book that was a travel guide
for black road trippers. The Green Book dates back to
nineteen thirty six, listing safe hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and
barber shops where black travelers were welcome during an era
of Jim Crow segregation and racial discrimination. It began at
(06:34):
the Union United Methodist Church on Columbus Avenue in the
South End and ends at Slade's Bar and Grill on
Tremont Street, which is one of the few Green Book
locations still in business. You are now in the loop.
For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ News
Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ
(06:55):
Boston's news Radio
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