May 12, 2025 • 6 mins
The U.S. and China agree on a 90-day tariff pause, President Donald Trump to sign new executive order lowering prescription drug costs, and travel outlook ahead of Memorial Day. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Are we ready people?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Six o'clock on this Monday morning, and we've got a
sunrise in progress. It is fifty degrees right now. The
News at six brought to us by your New England
Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for
being with us on this Monday morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
Nothing to see here.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Letty of sunshine today, Breezy and pleasant this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
High seventy one to seventy five. Actually, that's quite a
lot to see here. WBZ ACI Weather Meteorologist Joe Lundberg.
We are expecting another decent day coming up tomorrow. Happening
right now. Weekend's tariff talk between the United States and
China ends with an agreement for a ninety day pause
in rates that have all but ground trade to a halt.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
As long as there is good state effort, engagement, and
constructive dialogue, then we keep moving forward.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That is US Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who says the
United States will back down to a traditional thirty percent
tariff on imports wild China resorts to its prior level
of ten percent on US exports. Now, both sides plan
to continue negotiations for a long term, sustainable and mutually
beneficial arrangement, and so far, the news of this trade
(01:22):
pause has sent the US stock markets higher. The Dow
Jones is up by about one thousand points in the
early going. This morning, President Trump is expected to sign
what he calls one of the most significant executive orders
yet this morning at the White House that promises to
lower prescription drug costs covered by Medicare. In a post
on his Truth social platform this weekend, the President says
(01:44):
this move will give the US Most Favored Nation status
and lower the cost of Medicare covered drugs to match
the lowest price anywhere else in the world. The President
says this will shave up to eighty percent of the
cost of some drugs and save Americans trillions of dollars. Critics,
it's unlikely to get anywhere close to that, at least
for now, a limited number of drugs are eligible. Celtics
(02:07):
will try to keep their mojo going in New York
City tonight, Game four against the Knicks and Madison Square
Garden coming up. The beast in the NBA's East is
pushed to the brink The Pacers smoke the Cleveland Cavaliers
to take a three games to one lead in that series,
and the Red Sox road Show continues. After taking two
of three from Kansas City, the Socks move on to
Motown in a three game set with the Tigers. Tonight,
(02:29):
No go for Jordan Hudson, the twenty four year old
model and muse of seventy three year old former Patriots
coach Bill Belichick, fails to win the Miss Maine USA pageant.
The main native and Bridgewater State University graduate has been
the focus of a media storm involving the hoodie. Hudson
instead finishes third in the pageant, falling from a second
(02:49):
place finish just last year. Americans are on the go
as summer travel season is about to heat up. Wbzast
Drew moholland this year with some impressive of numbers. Good
morning Andrew, Good morning Jeff.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You know I had full intentions of getting up to
that Miss Main pageant there and I just couldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Quite get there.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Summer travel season just about here, and even with flight
delay as a shaky economy, we're expected to shatter at
twenty year record this Memorial Day weekend triple a says
more than forty five million of us are going somewhere
this holiday, which is less than two weeks away.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Wow, we need a holiday. No, Wa'm sure that would.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Be an increase of about one point five million travelers,
topping the previous high watermark set in two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Seems like we're always breaking records on holiday weekend. Yeah,
we're going to give it another go. No getting to
the point where we want to change from a spring
fever to full on summer mode, although it doesn't seem
like we have any big warm ups in the cards
here of late. However, the weather has turned decidedly nicer
here in Boston. Another nice sunrise underway. It's fifty degrees
(03:50):
right now. We'll see high temperature is eventually getting to
around seventy today, and of course it's going to be
warmer in inland locations, a little bit cooler along the waterfront.
Mostly sunny and breezy conditions throughout the day. Continued clear
to partly cloudy overnight Tonight, low's in the fifties. Tomorrow
some sunshine to start, Clouds on the increase once again,
high in the upper sixties to low seventies. We're looking
(04:10):
at our next possibility of some showers moving in though
on Wednesday, with a high in the middle sixties, and
that looks like it's going to be the beginning of
an unsettled stretch of weather coming up to take us
through the tail end of this work week. Right now,
all systems go. This Monday morning in Boston, it is
fifty degrees, clear skies and bright sunshine six oh six
on this Monday morning. Trouble for air travel in the
(04:31):
United States will mean slow downs in the coming weeks
that could affect flights from coast to coast.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There sure are a lot of happy people flying out
of Logan, specifically for those who are not flying to
Newark flights and Newark. I know, no, God, no, are
you flying to Newark? Fining chance, No, not anywhere but Newark.
That's the overall feeling here at Terminal B. This comes
after the New Jersey Airport faced its third technical problem
(04:58):
in two weeks this weekend. A telecommunications issue grounded flights
for forty five minutes. Now, official safe flights in and
out of Newark are going to be reduced over the
next few weeks to cut down on delays and cancelations
at Logan Games rowhas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Testimony resumes in the Karen Reid trial once again this
morning in Norfolk Superior Court. Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Yuri
Buchanic is expected to return to the stand for a
third day of testimony. Sergeant Buchennick has been reading flirtatious
text messages hinting of a budding romance between Red and
ATF agent Brian Higgins, just as things started to go
(05:36):
south in her relationship with Boston Police officer John O'Keefe.
Buchenck also shared text messages sent by former trooper Michael Proctor,
who has since been fired for those inappropriate texts. Buchanic
was also stripped of a week of vacation days and
an internal investigation that found he failed to properly oversee
Proctor's behavior with this investigation while on the job. Opening
(05:58):
statements are expected today. In New York, the sex trafficking
federal trial of Sean Diddy coombe.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It's twelve people who will decide whether he's guilty or
expected to be seated first thing Monday, after lawyers make
cuts from a pool of more than forty prospective jurors.
Once the jury has sworn, attorneys will deliver opening statements
and the first witnesses will testify, among them Combs's ex girlfriend,
Cassie Ventura, one of the women federal prosecutors say was
coerced into drugged up sex marathons known as Freakouts. Allegations
(06:25):
Combs did not.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
At ABC's Aaron Katerski, and if convicted on all charges,
Combs could potentially get a lifetime in prison. 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. We defining local news.
Are we ready people?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Six o'clock on this Monday morning, and we've got a
sunrise in progress. It is fifty degrees right now. The
News at six brought to us by your New England
Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for
being with us on this Monday morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
Nothing to see here.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Letty of sunshine today, Breezy and pleasant this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
High seventy one to seventy five. Actually, that's quite a
lot to see here. WBZ ACI Weather Meteorologist Joe Lundberg.
We are expecting another decent day coming up tomorrow. Happening
right now. Weekend's tariff talk between the United States and
China ends with an agreement for a ninety day pause
in rates that have all but ground trade to a halt.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
As long as there is good state effort, engagement, and
constructive dialogue, then we keep moving forward.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That is US Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who says the
United States will back down to a traditional thirty percent
tariff on imports wild China resorts to its prior level
of ten percent on US exports. Now, both sides plan
to continue negotiations for a long term, sustainable and mutually
beneficial arrangement, and so far, the news of this trade
(01:22):
pause has sent the US stock markets higher. The Dow
Jones is up by about one thousand points in the
early going. This morning, President Trump is expected to sign
what he calls one of the most significant executive orders
yet this morning at the White House that promises to
lower prescription drug costs covered by Medicare. In a post
on his Truth social platform this weekend, the President says
(01:44):
this move will give the US Most Favored Nation status
and lower the cost of Medicare covered drugs to match
the lowest price anywhere else in the world. The President
says this will shave up to eighty percent of the
cost of some drugs and save Americans trillions of dollars. Critics,
it's unlikely to get anywhere close to that, at least
for now, a limited number of drugs are eligible. Celtics
(02:07):
will try to keep their mojo going in New York
City tonight, Game four against the Knicks and Madison Square
Garden coming up. The beast in the NBA's East is
pushed to the brink The Pacers smoke the Cleveland Cavaliers
to take a three games to one lead in that series,
and the Red Sox road Show continues. After taking two
of three from Kansas City, the Socks move on to
Motown in a three game set with the Tigers. Tonight,
(02:29):
No go for Jordan Hudson, the twenty four year old
model and muse of seventy three year old former Patriots
coach Bill Belichick, fails to win the Miss Maine USA pageant.
The main native and Bridgewater State University graduate has been
the focus of a media storm involving the hoodie. Hudson
instead finishes third in the pageant, falling from a second
(02:49):
place finish just last year. Americans are on the go
as summer travel season is about to heat up. Wbzast
Drew moholland this year with some impressive of numbers. Good
morning Andrew, Good morning Jeff.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You know I had full intentions of getting up to
that Miss Main pageant there and I just couldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Quite get there.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Summer travel season just about here, and even with flight
delay as a shaky economy, we're expected to shatter at
twenty year record this Memorial Day weekend triple a says
more than forty five million of us are going somewhere
this holiday, which is less than two weeks away.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Wow, we need a holiday. No, Wa'm sure that would.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Be an increase of about one point five million travelers,
topping the previous high watermark set in two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Seems like we're always breaking records on holiday weekend. Yeah,
we're going to give it another go. No getting to
the point where we want to change from a spring
fever to full on summer mode, although it doesn't seem
like we have any big warm ups in the cards
here of late. However, the weather has turned decidedly nicer
here in Boston. Another nice sunrise underway. It's fifty degrees
(03:50):
right now. We'll see high temperature is eventually getting to
around seventy today, and of course it's going to be
warmer in inland locations, a little bit cooler along the waterfront.
Mostly sunny and breezy conditions throughout the day. Continued clear
to partly cloudy overnight Tonight, low's in the fifties. Tomorrow
some sunshine to start, Clouds on the increase once again,
high in the upper sixties to low seventies. We're looking
(04:10):
at our next possibility of some showers moving in though
on Wednesday, with a high in the middle sixties, and
that looks like it's going to be the beginning of
an unsettled stretch of weather coming up to take us
through the tail end of this work week. Right now,
all systems go. This Monday morning in Boston, it is
fifty degrees, clear skies and bright sunshine six oh six
on this Monday morning. Trouble for air travel in the
(04:31):
United States will mean slow downs in the coming weeks
that could affect flights from coast to coast.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There sure are a lot of happy people flying out
of Logan, specifically for those who are not flying to
Newark flights and Newark. I know, no, God, no, are
you flying to Newark? Fining chance, No, not anywhere but Newark.
That's the overall feeling here at Terminal B. This comes
after the New Jersey Airport faced its third technical problem
(04:58):
in two weeks this weekend. A telecommunications issue grounded flights
for forty five minutes. Now, official safe flights in and
out of Newark are going to be reduced over the
next few weeks to cut down on delays and cancelations
at Logan Games rowhas WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Testimony resumes in the Karen Reid trial once again this
morning in Norfolk Superior Court. Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Yuri
Buchanic is expected to return to the stand for a
third day of testimony. Sergeant Buchennick has been reading flirtatious
text messages hinting of a budding romance between Red and
ATF agent Brian Higgins, just as things started to go
(05:36):
south in her relationship with Boston Police officer John O'Keefe.
Buchenck also shared text messages sent by former trooper Michael Proctor,
who has since been fired for those inappropriate texts. Buchanic
was also stripped of a week of vacation days and
an internal investigation that found he failed to properly oversee
Proctor's behavior with this investigation while on the job. Opening
(05:58):
statements are expected today. In New York, the sex trafficking
federal trial of Sean Diddy coombe.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It's twelve people who will decide whether he's guilty or
expected to be seated first thing Monday, after lawyers make
cuts from a pool of more than forty prospective jurors.
Once the jury has sworn, attorneys will deliver opening statements
and the first witnesses will testify, among them Combs's ex girlfriend,
Cassie Ventura, one of the women federal prosecutors say was
coerced into drugged up sex marathons known as Freakouts. Allegations
(06:25):
Combs did not.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
At ABC's Aaron Katerski, and if convicted on all charges,
Combs could potentially get a lifetime in prison. 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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