May 15, 2025 • 6 mins
The nation's highest court takes up President Trump's birthright citizenship case, pro-Palestinian protestors gathered outside Israeli consulate in Boston, and autopsy doctor testifies in the Karen Read trial. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's a very foggy and wet morning in Boston right now,
sixty two degrees, heaviestuff. The rain has moved out, but
we do still have some showers. The forecast coming up.
I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening right now. The
Supreme Court is hearing arguments over President Trump's challenge to
guaranteed birthright citizenship. Here's ABC's Peter harlamboos.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive
order that sought to limit birthright citizenship to the children
of US citizens. Within weeks, federal judges in four different
states said the order was unconstitutional and blocked it from
taking effect. The Supreme Court is now stepping in to
determine if those judges overstep their authority when they issued
nationwide orders. According to Loyola Law professor Justin Levitt.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Can one district court where can several trial courts around
the country decide the scope of a rule banning the
government from doing something? Across the board.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Peter harlambus ABC News.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski is in Turkey today, where delegations
from Ukraine and Russia are holding peace talks. Now Zelensky
had challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him there
face to face. It does not appear that Putin will attend.
During his trip to the Middle East, President Trump was
asked if he was disappointed by that.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together. Okay,
And obviously he wasn't to go.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
He was going to go, but he thought I was
going to go.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
He wasn't going if I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
CBS's MTS Taijab has more.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
These talks haven't formally begun, and I have to say
it's really not going very well. We have Ukraine's President
Vladimir Zelensky accusing Russia sending what he described as stand
in props to the peace talks in Turkey, which of
course rather in Turkey's largest city, which of course is Issemble.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
After Moscow.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Confirmed, as we've been saying, President Vladimir Putin will not attend.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Secretary State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration is still
committed to seeing an end to the war in Ukraine.
Pro Palestinian protesters are outside the Israeli Consulate in downtown
Boston this hour. It's part of a worldwide movement to
mark the seventy seventh anniversary of Palestinian displacement from present
day Israel. This is what Palestinians call Knakba Day generally
(02:20):
falls around the day Israeli celebrate their independence later today.
The Palestinian Youth Movement is also planning a larger protest
at MIT. The group says MIT has been collaborating with
the Israeli military and contractors in Gaza. The group says artists, workers, students,
medical professionals, and others will come together to call for
an end to the war and, among other things, an
(02:42):
arms embargo on Israel. It is a bit rainy out
there still in parts of eastern Massachusetts. Keeping an eye
on the radar. We have some downpours coming into a
metro west and right around one twenty eight, and we
have a few moving off the south shore and into
Providence later on today, though, this fog is expected to
burn off a bit and we'll maybe have a couple
of pop up showers and storms later. Highs in the sixties,
(03:04):
a little bit warmer if you're away from the coast,
in the low seventies. For tonight, cloudy, with some more
fog developing late, the humidity quite high. Right now. We
have a lone year sixty for tomorrow. That fog will
stick around during the morning commute, that should burn off
around lunchtime. And then for the afternoon, still pretty unsettled.
Could have some afternoon showers well inland, with a high
(03:24):
in the low seventies at the coast, mid to upper
seventies inland. Some places could flirt with eighty perhaps Saturday,
not quite as warm, but still in the low seventies.
And I hate to tell you, but for the start
of the weekend yet again we have a chance of storms.
Sixty five in Framingham, sixty two in Methuin, sixty five
in Easton. In Boston it is foggy, we'll say, and
(03:47):
sixty three degrees. Karen Reid retrial on morning recess Right now.
Wbz's Drew moa Holland has details on what we've heard
so far today.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
The second witness of the day, forensic examiner doctor Erni Scortibello.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
The autopsy on mister.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
O'Keefe, crudentials established, and then Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan set
the scene of the autopsy room when.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You began the autopsy of mister O'Keefe. Do you know who,
if any representatives from the Massachusettstate Police or the Norfolk
County Attorney's Office were present. I don't remember their names.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
I do believe there were two individuals, and every person
who attends an autopsy has to sign a log.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Doctor Scuirty Bellow getting into the specific injuries and the
death of John O'Keefe.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
On his right upper eyelid, there was a small laceration.
I also observed abrasions on the anterior and the left
aspect of the nose. There was some bleeding and some swelling.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Of the eyelids of both eyes.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Body part by body part from the doctor who also
testified in the initial Karen Read trial. Today began with
State Police crime Lab exp at Maureen Hartnett finishing up
per testimony from yesterday. Drew moholland WZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It sounds a bit like something out of Antique's road Show,
but researchers have now confirmed that Harvard University possesses an
original version of one of the founding documents of democracy.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Historian David Carpenter was, as the Brits would say, gobsmacked.
When I browsed through Harvard Law School's digitized archives turned
up a thirteen hundred side original of the Magna Carta,
the first document setting limits on the powers of a king.
That's one of the rarest and most famous documents in
world constitutional history. Well, that's more, Harvard Law School had
no idea they possessed it. They bought it in nineteen
(05:39):
forty six as a later copy.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Half of the Law school had bought it for peanuts.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
Twenty seven dollars and fifty cents. In fact, it's now
worth well a lot more. Vicky Barker, CBS News and Over.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
On the West Coast, in San Francisco, a treasure hunt
that organizers expected to last months and months wrapped up
in under a day.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
It all started with a mysterious post on claiming a
twenty two pound chest was hidden somewhere in San Francisco,
filled with gold bars, artifacts, and more. That sparked a
citywide treasure hunt, But within eleven hours, organizers announced someone
had found the buried treasure, worth ten thousand dollars. The
organizers remain anonymous, but say another hunt could be coming
(06:21):
Michelle Franzen, ABC News.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Nicole Davis, WBZ and Boston's News Radio
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's a very foggy and wet morning in Boston right now,
sixty two degrees, heaviestuff. The rain has moved out, but
we do still have some showers. The forecast coming up.
I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening right now. The
Supreme Court is hearing arguments over President Trump's challenge to
guaranteed birthright citizenship. Here's ABC's Peter harlamboos.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive
order that sought to limit birthright citizenship to the children
of US citizens. Within weeks, federal judges in four different
states said the order was unconstitutional and blocked it from
taking effect. The Supreme Court is now stepping in to
determine if those judges overstep their authority when they issued
nationwide orders. According to Loyola Law professor Justin Levitt.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Can one district court where can several trial courts around
the country decide the scope of a rule banning the
government from doing something? Across the board.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Peter harlambus ABC News.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski is in Turkey today, where delegations
from Ukraine and Russia are holding peace talks. Now Zelensky
had challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him there
face to face. It does not appear that Putin will attend.
During his trip to the Middle East, President Trump was
asked if he was disappointed by that.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together. Okay,
And obviously he wasn't to go.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
He was going to go, but he thought I was
going to go.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
He wasn't going if I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
CBS's MTS Taijab has more.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
These talks haven't formally begun, and I have to say
it's really not going very well. We have Ukraine's President
Vladimir Zelensky accusing Russia sending what he described as stand
in props to the peace talks in Turkey, which of
course rather in Turkey's largest city, which of course is Issemble.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
After Moscow.
Speaker 7 (01:56):
Confirmed, as we've been saying, President Vladimir Putin will not attend.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Secretary State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration is still
committed to seeing an end to the war in Ukraine.
Pro Palestinian protesters are outside the Israeli Consulate in downtown
Boston this hour. It's part of a worldwide movement to
mark the seventy seventh anniversary of Palestinian displacement from present
day Israel. This is what Palestinians call Knakba Day generally
(02:20):
falls around the day Israeli celebrate their independence later today.
The Palestinian Youth Movement is also planning a larger protest
at MIT. The group says MIT has been collaborating with
the Israeli military and contractors in Gaza. The group says artists, workers, students,
medical professionals, and others will come together to call for
an end to the war and, among other things, an
(02:42):
arms embargo on Israel. It is a bit rainy out
there still in parts of eastern Massachusetts. Keeping an eye
on the radar. We have some downpours coming into a
metro west and right around one twenty eight, and we
have a few moving off the south shore and into
Providence later on today, though, this fog is expected to
burn off a bit and we'll maybe have a couple
of pop up showers and storms later. Highs in the sixties,
(03:04):
a little bit warmer if you're away from the coast,
in the low seventies. For tonight, cloudy, with some more
fog developing late, the humidity quite high. Right now. We
have a lone year sixty for tomorrow. That fog will
stick around during the morning commute, that should burn off
around lunchtime. And then for the afternoon, still pretty unsettled.
Could have some afternoon showers well inland, with a high
(03:24):
in the low seventies at the coast, mid to upper
seventies inland. Some places could flirt with eighty perhaps Saturday,
not quite as warm, but still in the low seventies.
And I hate to tell you, but for the start
of the weekend yet again we have a chance of storms.
Sixty five in Framingham, sixty two in Methuin, sixty five
in Easton. In Boston it is foggy, we'll say, and
(03:47):
sixty three degrees. Karen Reid retrial on morning recess Right now.
Wbz's Drew moa Holland has details on what we've heard
so far today.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
The second witness of the day, forensic examiner doctor Erni Scortibello.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
The autopsy on mister.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
O'Keefe, crudentials established, and then Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan set
the scene of the autopsy room when.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You began the autopsy of mister O'Keefe. Do you know who,
if any representatives from the Massachusettstate Police or the Norfolk
County Attorney's Office were present. I don't remember their names.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
I do believe there were two individuals, and every person
who attends an autopsy has to sign a log.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Doctor Scuirty Bellow getting into the specific injuries and the
death of John O'Keefe.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
On his right upper eyelid, there was a small laceration.
I also observed abrasions on the anterior and the left
aspect of the nose. There was some bleeding and some swelling.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Of the eyelids of both eyes.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Body part by body part from the doctor who also
testified in the initial Karen Read trial. Today began with
State Police crime Lab exp at Maureen Hartnett finishing up
per testimony from yesterday. Drew moholland WZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
It sounds a bit like something out of Antique's road Show,
but researchers have now confirmed that Harvard University possesses an
original version of one of the founding documents of democracy.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Historian David Carpenter was, as the Brits would say, gobsmacked.
When I browsed through Harvard Law School's digitized archives turned
up a thirteen hundred side original of the Magna Carta,
the first document setting limits on the powers of a king.
That's one of the rarest and most famous documents in
world constitutional history. Well, that's more, Harvard Law School had
no idea they possessed it. They bought it in nineteen
(05:39):
forty six as a later copy.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Half of the Law school had bought it for peanuts.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
Twenty seven dollars and fifty cents. In fact, it's now
worth well a lot more. Vicky Barker, CBS News and Over.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
On the West Coast, in San Francisco, a treasure hunt
that organizers expected to last months and months wrapped up
in under a day.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
It all started with a mysterious post on claiming a
twenty two pound chest was hidden somewhere in San Francisco,
filled with gold bars, artifacts, and more. That sparked a
citywide treasure hunt, But within eleven hours, organizers announced someone
had found the buried treasure, worth ten thousand dollars. The
organizers remain anonymous, but say another hunt could be coming
(06:21):
Michelle Franzen, ABC News.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Nicole Davis, WBZ and Boston's News Radio
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