April 18, 2025 • 8 mins
Pope Francis still recovering amid Holy Week, deadline day for Karen Read's lawyer ahead of her murder retrial, and preparations underway for the Boston Marathon. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, re defining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Friday. Finally, get in here, you little devil. You haven't
been around for seven whole days, and you don't call,
you don't write, but you're here.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Bring it in. Good start to the day.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Clear sky's forty one degrees as we get going on
this Friday morning. The News at six is brought to
us by your new England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all
wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being here today. I'm Jeff Brown,
and Boston is on an Easter egg roll Son.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We'll give way to increasing clouds today.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We'll have a breezy, mild afternoon with a high around
sixty five degrees.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This WBZ achi weather meteorologist Heather's are near eighty tomorrow afternoon.
America loves a winner, and the Easter Bunny will be
revered even more this weekend if he pops Reese's Peanut
butter eggs in your basket. This weekend once again ranked
America's favorite Easter candy the annual Instacart survey fine will
spend more than three billion dollars on candy this year.
(01:03):
This holiday Easter is the second most popular candy. Holiday,
of course, following Halloween and Easter is not just for
kids anymore either. More than six and ten adults say
they would like an Easter basket this year, and chocolates
must be included. Pope Francis won't take center stage during
Holy weekend celebrations at the Vatican, but he's certainly not
(01:24):
being sidelined.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
The tradition is to wash the feet of those prisoners,
something he couldn't do because he is still recovering from
a serious case of life threatening double pneumonia. He was
only released from the hospital last month and was given
strict doctors' orders not to mingle with the people and
to limit his public appearances, but so far that does
(01:46):
not seem to be working. He has made several public
appearances and indeed mingled with people in the last ten days,
specifically right now during Holy Week. Chris Livesay, CBS News Rome.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's a holiday weekend here in Greater Boston and the
city is already buzzing with days to go till Marathon Monday.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
The scene is set. Everywhere you look around the Back
Bay in Copley Square, you see Boston Marathon banners, posters
and places to get merch. Jeff works at Burris, a
finness center not too far away from the finish line.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Excitement is top notch on a lot of high energy
and great community.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, he says, people have been coming in all week
and getting ready.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
For the big day.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Don't overpace in the beginning, don't go too fast. I
think a lot of people get so hyped in the
beginning that they go a little over their normal case
and then like end up having a hard time in
the end. But let's really just have fun and let
the crowd give you the hype and the energy.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
His advice for runners visiting Boston is stop by the
North End and carb up in the back bay. James
rohas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Red Sox finally back in action tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Every time the Red Sox are off for baseball fans,
it feels like there's a night with nothing to do.
The back at Fenway Park. Tonight, they'll kick off a
weekend series with the White Sox. Saturday mornings just won't
be the same. ESPN's College Game Day is about to
get a new and different look. WBC's drewm o'holland is
here with details. Morning Andrew.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Good morning, Jeffrey. The eighty nine year old Lee Corso
is beloved by fans, but he's gonna retire. He's been
known for Donn and the school mascot. You know, he
wears the head there picks a winner every Saturday while
on the road with the ESPN crew. He started that
tradition decades ago. Corso's health has been failing and he's
missed several Saturdays in recent years, so you think you'll
never see him again on TV.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Not so fast, you guys over there.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Not so fast, my friend, not so fast.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Not so fast, my friend, not so fast.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
My friend, not so fast, my friend.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Lee Corso's last appearance on college game Day will come
on Kicked Off weekend August.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Thirtieth this year. Wow, what a tradition. He's the best.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He will be missed a long holiday weekend here in Boston,
and for some the holidays begin today.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's good Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
In fact, Wall Street has closed today and it's a
beautiful day on We've got clear skies at sunrise in
the city. And by the way, this is the first
sunrise of the year that occurs before six o'clock, so
we're in good shape.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
As we head into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Today is going to be beautiful with plenty of sunshine
mixing with clouds later on in the day. High temperature
is going to be in the mid sixties today, cloudy,
with a slight risk of a passing shower overnight Tonight
lows in the fifties, so relatively comfortable and for sleeping weather.
Tonight Tomorrow is going to feel more like summer than
early spring. Temperature is going to jump way into the
(04:32):
mid seventies at the very least, and maybe into the
low eighties, and inland locations it's going to be breezy
with a mixture of clouds and sun. Easter Sunday also
looks pretty nice with some sunshine, breezy conditions, more seasonable
temperatures with highs in the sixties. And Marathon Monday looks
okay too, with some sunshine to begin, some clouds creeping
in later in the day, and the possibility of showers
(04:54):
by nightfall, but daytime highs will be in the fifties
and maybe the low sixties for the runners. Now in
Boston it is forty one degrees and clear skies. Sunrise
in the city at six oh six on this Friday morning.
The rat race is keeping most Americans up at night,
but workers here in Massachusetts managed to get some shut
eye and some easing stress.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
When it comes to work related stress, Massachusetts surprisingly ranks
in the lower half of all states in the US.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Really, that's crazy. That's crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I took today off just to get away from the
stress and TGIF.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
But not everybody has such luxury and the anxiety starts early.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, I guess it can.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Be stressful a lot of the times.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It could be related to the alarms going off.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
But new numbers place the base date in the top
ten for least amount of sleep related stress and top
twenty in the US when it comes to pressure brought
on by job security, income, and yeah, even commuting.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Maybe it's because all the marijuana stores that are open.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Maybe that's keeping everybody stable.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Chris Vaum a WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Even with a day off, in Norfolk, Superior courts its
deadline day for Karen Reid's lawyers to respond to a
court order to give prosecutors more information about two lightning
rod witnesses set to testify for the defense. Judge Beverly
Canoni wants team reed to turn over any and all communication,
including letters, invoices and bills to crash reconstruction. Witnesses who
(06:20):
prosecutors say were paid for their testimony during Reid's first trial,
not only that any oral agreements must be exchanged by
clothes of business today. The pair of witnesses were first
retained during a federal investigation that has since been dropped.
Opening statements in Reid's retrial are set for Tuesday. Boston
City councilors meet in emergency session this morning to discuss
(06:41):
a proposal that would leave an expected vacant seat on
the panel empty until the general election this November. City
councilor Tanya Fernandez Anderson says she plans to resign her
seat and has been seen removing items from her office
in recent weeks following a guilty plea on federal kickback
Chargesial say of stage a special election so close to
(07:02):
the general election is confusing and a hardship for local voters.
Lawmakers on Beacon Hill would need to grant a home
rule petition to allow Boston to change its city charter.
TikTok says, dance like no one is watching. Picture this
someone is dancing to Chapel roone on TikTok. The video
has five million views and the dancer is sixty years old.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
The doctors telling me I needed hip replace with him
ten years ago.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Kevin full Janeti is his name, but to his half
million followers, he's unbothered.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
keV.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
No one thought I was gonna make it, and I
made it.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
He was born and raised just outside of Worcester and Paxton,
Mass but his life hasn't always been this glamorous.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I had spent ten years living a life of debauchery.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I was Pattio.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
So to help him stay sober, he needed a new
creative outlet.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I was the guy at the wedding that was over dancing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It looked like it.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Sorry, what the hep Now every day he posts a
fifteen second video of himself dancing, either in his kitchen,
on the side of the road, really anywhere that the
mood strikes, and Jen's is eating it up.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm here to tell you that I've made it.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Hell yeah, I'm with TikTok stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
His new goal is to be the commencement speaker at UMass.
Matt Sheer WBZ Boston's.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
News radio, You are now in the loop for news
updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on
the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, re defining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Friday. Finally, get in here, you little devil. You haven't
been around for seven whole days, and you don't call,
you don't write, but you're here.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Bring it in. Good start to the day.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Clear sky's forty one degrees as we get going on
this Friday morning. The News at six is brought to
us by your new England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all
wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being here today. I'm Jeff Brown,
and Boston is on an Easter egg roll Son.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We'll give way to increasing clouds today.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We'll have a breezy, mild afternoon with a high around
sixty five degrees.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This WBZ achi weather meteorologist Heather's are near eighty tomorrow afternoon.
America loves a winner, and the Easter Bunny will be
revered even more this weekend if he pops Reese's Peanut
butter eggs in your basket. This weekend once again ranked
America's favorite Easter candy the annual Instacart survey fine will
spend more than three billion dollars on candy this year.
(01:03):
This holiday Easter is the second most popular candy. Holiday,
of course, following Halloween and Easter is not just for
kids anymore either. More than six and ten adults say
they would like an Easter basket this year, and chocolates
must be included. Pope Francis won't take center stage during
Holy weekend celebrations at the Vatican, but he's certainly not
(01:24):
being sidelined.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
The tradition is to wash the feet of those prisoners,
something he couldn't do because he is still recovering from
a serious case of life threatening double pneumonia. He was
only released from the hospital last month and was given
strict doctors' orders not to mingle with the people and
to limit his public appearances, but so far that does
(01:46):
not seem to be working. He has made several public
appearances and indeed mingled with people in the last ten days,
specifically right now during Holy Week. Chris Livesay, CBS News Rome.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's a holiday weekend here in Greater Boston and the
city is already buzzing with days to go till Marathon Monday.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
The scene is set. Everywhere you look around the Back
Bay in Copley Square, you see Boston Marathon banners, posters
and places to get merch. Jeff works at Burris, a
finness center not too far away from the finish line.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Excitement is top notch on a lot of high energy
and great community.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, he says, people have been coming in all week
and getting ready.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
For the big day.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Don't overpace in the beginning, don't go too fast. I
think a lot of people get so hyped in the
beginning that they go a little over their normal case
and then like end up having a hard time in
the end. But let's really just have fun and let
the crowd give you the hype and the energy.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
His advice for runners visiting Boston is stop by the
North End and carb up in the back bay. James
rohas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Red Sox finally back in action tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Every time the Red Sox are off for baseball fans,
it feels like there's a night with nothing to do.
The back at Fenway Park. Tonight, they'll kick off a
weekend series with the White Sox. Saturday mornings just won't
be the same. ESPN's College Game Day is about to
get a new and different look. WBC's drewm o'holland is
here with details. Morning Andrew.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Good morning, Jeffrey. The eighty nine year old Lee Corso
is beloved by fans, but he's gonna retire. He's been
known for Donn and the school mascot. You know, he
wears the head there picks a winner every Saturday while
on the road with the ESPN crew. He started that
tradition decades ago. Corso's health has been failing and he's
missed several Saturdays in recent years, so you think you'll
never see him again on TV.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Not so fast, you guys over there.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Not so fast, my friend, not so fast.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Not so fast, my friend, not so fast.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
My friend, not so fast, my friend.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Lee Corso's last appearance on college game Day will come
on Kicked Off weekend August.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Thirtieth this year. Wow, what a tradition. He's the best.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He will be missed a long holiday weekend here in Boston,
and for some the holidays begin today.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It's good Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
In fact, Wall Street has closed today and it's a
beautiful day on We've got clear skies at sunrise in
the city. And by the way, this is the first
sunrise of the year that occurs before six o'clock, so
we're in good shape.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
As we head into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Today is going to be beautiful with plenty of sunshine
mixing with clouds later on in the day. High temperature
is going to be in the mid sixties today, cloudy,
with a slight risk of a passing shower overnight Tonight
lows in the fifties, so relatively comfortable and for sleeping weather.
Tonight Tomorrow is going to feel more like summer than
early spring. Temperature is going to jump way into the
(04:32):
mid seventies at the very least, and maybe into the
low eighties, and inland locations it's going to be breezy
with a mixture of clouds and sun. Easter Sunday also
looks pretty nice with some sunshine, breezy conditions, more seasonable
temperatures with highs in the sixties. And Marathon Monday looks
okay too, with some sunshine to begin, some clouds creeping
in later in the day, and the possibility of showers
(04:54):
by nightfall, but daytime highs will be in the fifties
and maybe the low sixties for the runners. Now in
Boston it is forty one degrees and clear skies. Sunrise
in the city at six oh six on this Friday morning.
The rat race is keeping most Americans up at night,
but workers here in Massachusetts managed to get some shut
eye and some easing stress.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
When it comes to work related stress, Massachusetts surprisingly ranks
in the lower half of all states in the US.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Really, that's crazy. That's crazy to me.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I took today off just to get away from the
stress and TGIF.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
But not everybody has such luxury and the anxiety starts early.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, I guess it can.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Be stressful a lot of the times.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It could be related to the alarms going off.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
But new numbers place the base date in the top
ten for least amount of sleep related stress and top
twenty in the US when it comes to pressure brought
on by job security, income, and yeah, even commuting.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Maybe it's because all the marijuana stores that are open.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Maybe that's keeping everybody stable.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
Chris Vaum a WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Even with a day off, in Norfolk, Superior courts its
deadline day for Karen Reid's lawyers to respond to a
court order to give prosecutors more information about two lightning
rod witnesses set to testify for the defense. Judge Beverly
Canoni wants team reed to turn over any and all communication,
including letters, invoices and bills to crash reconstruction. Witnesses who
(06:20):
prosecutors say were paid for their testimony during Reid's first trial,
not only that any oral agreements must be exchanged by
clothes of business today. The pair of witnesses were first
retained during a federal investigation that has since been dropped.
Opening statements in Reid's retrial are set for Tuesday. Boston
City councilors meet in emergency session this morning to discuss
(06:41):
a proposal that would leave an expected vacant seat on
the panel empty until the general election this November. City
councilor Tanya Fernandez Anderson says she plans to resign her
seat and has been seen removing items from her office
in recent weeks following a guilty plea on federal kickback
Chargesial say of stage a special election so close to
(07:02):
the general election is confusing and a hardship for local voters.
Lawmakers on Beacon Hill would need to grant a home
rule petition to allow Boston to change its city charter.
TikTok says, dance like no one is watching. Picture this
someone is dancing to Chapel roone on TikTok. The video
has five million views and the dancer is sixty years old.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
The doctors telling me I needed hip replace with him
ten years ago.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Kevin full Janeti is his name, but to his half
million followers, he's unbothered.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
keV.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
No one thought I was gonna make it, and I
made it.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
He was born and raised just outside of Worcester and Paxton,
Mass but his life hasn't always been this glamorous.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I had spent ten years living a life of debauchery.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I was Pattio.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
So to help him stay sober, he needed a new
creative outlet.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I was the guy at the wedding that was over dancing.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It looked like it.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Sorry, what the hep Now every day he posts a
fifteen second video of himself dancing, either in his kitchen,
on the side of the road, really anywhere that the
mood strikes, and Jen's is eating it up.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm here to tell you that I've made it.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Hell yeah, I'm with TikTok stuff.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
His new goal is to be the commencement speaker at UMass.
Matt Sheer WBZ Boston's.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
News radio, You are now in the loop for news
updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on
the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio
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