May 13, 2025 • 7 mins
Boston City Council tries to remove Tania Fernandes-Anderson from her post, new witness to take the stand in the Karen Ready re-trial, and Waymo test drives in Boston. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We defining local news. Greetings and salutations at six o'clock
on this Tuesday morning in Boston. We are getting started
under partly cloudy skies, although it's a decent sunrise and
fairly mild at fifty five degrees. The News at six
brought to us by you're a New England Toyota dealer,
(00:24):
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with
us this Tuesday morning. I'm Jeff Brown, and it's location location, location,
breezy and cooled it yesterday with a high nut far
from sixty in Boston and along the coast, but low
seventies for the warmest inland sumburb that is wez Achi
weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg mix the sun in clouds today.
More rain awaits us later this week. Check please Ti
(00:47):
of his heart? Heard ms down? Who wants a time out?
Heard of?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It is so much pain?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh ESPN with the call as the Celtics blow another
late lead and are pushed to the brink in the
NBA playoffs, and then there's that injury to Tatum.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
This Celtics fan tells me I'm optimistly, but after Boston
blew a third double digit second half lead in this
series to the Knicks and falling down three to one
to New York and seeing superstar Jason Tatum wheeled into
the locker room at Madison Square Garden after he collapsed
on the court with an apparent leg injury.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh man, this is kind of disheartening.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The card shure seems stacked against the Green, stacked high.
But this fan still has hope.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I think they can, you know, sustain the loss of
a player here and there for a little while. Do
you think they can come back win the series.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I we'll see.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm polling for them.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Chris Fau, I'm a WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Tatum will have an MRI today as the team and
its fans prepare for the worst but hope for the best.
Game five is tomorrow nights at the Garden. Boston City
councilors will try to move them ountain. This week. They'll
take up a non binding resolution to remove disgraced colleague
Tanya Fernandez and from the panel. Fernandez Anderson has vowed
(02:02):
to resign following a guilty plea on federal corruption charges,
but she's still serving and has made it clear she
does not want to talk about her pending resignation. The
resolution was blocked during last week's meeting. Fernandez Anderson will
only say she anticipates stepping down sometime next month. Vehicles
with an empty driver's seats are coming to Boston.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You could soon be seeing a car pull up to
the red light beside you with no driver in sight.
That's the plan for down the road as Waymo gears
up to test its self driving cars around. But before
that happens, there will be a human behind the wheel
for the trial period, though not everyone is ready for
the future. I really wouldn't do it, this woman says.
Even regular ride share options are too much.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I don't take UVA or anything because I don't trust
them at all.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Waimotel CBS Boston that their drivers will be going through
the communities of Southey, East Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville starting
later this month. In Somerville. James throw WBZ Boston'snoosradio. It's
going to be another relatively decent day here in Greater Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
This morning. We are getting started with some clouds at sunrise.
It is fifty five degrees Right now, we'll see temperatures
ranging anywhere from the low sixties here in Boston and
along the waterfront to the mid seventies well inland in
locations there. This afternoon mix of sun and clouds also
on the way, turning out mostly cloudy overnight. Tonight, we'll
drop back into the forties, and it looks like an
(03:27):
unsettled weather pattern is right on our doorstep. Tomorrow appears
to be mainly dry during the daylight hours, however, cloudy
with high temperatures in the low to mid sixties for
most of us, again in the low seventies and inland locations.
Looks like the best chance of rain comes tomorrow night
into Thursday, and we'll see a shower or two. These
are hit or miss variety, not the consistent rain we
(03:48):
experienced this past weekend. HIGs mainly will be in the
mid to upper sixties for the rest of this work week,
and that includes Friday, with a couple of showers hanging around,
and we cannot rule out the possibility of showers. This
would be a tenth consecutive weekend here in Greater Boston
with some precipitation coming down on Saturday and Sunday as well.
Right now in Boston, it is partly cloudy skies in
(04:09):
fifty five. As we get our engines started on this
Tuesday morning, it is six ozh five. At the Karen
Reid trial, defense attorneys begin to outline a third party
culprit's strategy. CBS News Boston's Christina Rex has detailed.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Newly released video inside and around the Canton Police station
shows Brian Higgins around one point thirty in the morning
the night of John O'Keefe's death. After leaving thirty four Fairview,
he starts some parked cars. It appears to use his
cell phone. This video one new piece of evidence from
two full days of cross examination of State Trooper Ury Buchanic.
(04:42):
The defense grilled him about the investigation and how we
handled the text messages of his subordinate, Michael Proctor.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That in your view, Michael Proctor handled himself in this
investigation with integrity.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That's what you said, correct, That's correct. Do you stand
by that testimony investigation was handled with integrity and honor.
That text message does not show integrity.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Brian Higgins is an ATF agent and exchanged flirtatious text
messages with red before she cut him off, leading to
speculation by the defense that Higgins could be a prime
suspect in O'Keefe's death. A new witness is expected to
take the stand when testimony resumes this morning. The House
of Representatives on Capitol Hill unleashes the kraken on President
Trump's tax cut extension and expansion, and it comes at
(05:28):
a steep multi trillion dollar cost to taxpayers. It's the
elephant in the room that no one wants to talk
about on Capitol Hill, but must. The plan would extend
tax cuts and brakes from the president's first term and
add additional breaks to tipped workers and Social Security recipients.
A key part of the plan is to raise the
tax rates on college endowments to twenty one percent. That's
(05:50):
a fivefold increase and many fear will bite college students
who are attending school on grants and financial aid. Doctor
say Former President Joe Biden is being a value this
morning following a small nogule found on his prostate. Experts
say this is not unusual for an eighty two year
old man to have prostate issues. The discovery was made Friday.
(06:10):
No new information has been released. In February, a year ago,
mister Biden was determined fit to serve following his routine
physical then a poor debate performance ultimately led him to
drop out of the presidential race with just weeks to
go till election day. Kim Kardashian takes the stand in
a Paris courtroom today to face the ten men accused
of holding her captive, zip tied and at gunpoint following
(06:34):
a multi million dollar jewelry.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Heights and lawyers say Kim Kardashian was determined to testify
in person about the ninth she was bound and robbed
at gunpoint in a Paris hotel. That's causing security headaches
at the courthouse, where hundreds of journalists and members of
the public will vy for a glimpse of the celebrity.
The masked gang who dressed as police and escaped on
bicycles were dubbed the Grandpa Robbers, as most were in
(06:59):
their sixty at the times. The ten million dollars dualized.
Elaine Cobb, CBS News Paris.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We defining local news. Greetings and salutations at six o'clock
on this Tuesday morning in Boston. We are getting started
under partly cloudy skies, although it's a decent sunrise and
fairly mild at fifty five degrees. The News at six
brought to us by you're a New England Toyota dealer,
(00:24):
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with
us this Tuesday morning. I'm Jeff Brown, and it's location location, location,
breezy and cooled it yesterday with a high nut far
from sixty in Boston and along the coast, but low
seventies for the warmest inland sumburb that is wez Achi
weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg mix the sun in clouds today.
More rain awaits us later this week. Check please Ti
(00:47):
of his heart? Heard ms down? Who wants a time out?
Heard of?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It is so much pain?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh ESPN with the call as the Celtics blow another
late lead and are pushed to the brink in the
NBA playoffs, and then there's that injury to Tatum.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
This Celtics fan tells me I'm optimistly, but after Boston
blew a third double digit second half lead in this
series to the Knicks and falling down three to one
to New York and seeing superstar Jason Tatum wheeled into
the locker room at Madison Square Garden after he collapsed
on the court with an apparent leg injury.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Oh man, this is kind of disheartening.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The card shure seems stacked against the Green, stacked high.
But this fan still has hope.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I think they can, you know, sustain the loss of
a player here and there for a little while. Do
you think they can come back win the series.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I we'll see.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm polling for them.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Chris Fau, I'm a WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Tatum will have an MRI today as the team and
its fans prepare for the worst but hope for the best.
Game five is tomorrow nights at the Garden. Boston City
councilors will try to move them ountain. This week. They'll
take up a non binding resolution to remove disgraced colleague
Tanya Fernandez and from the panel. Fernandez Anderson has vowed
(02:02):
to resign following a guilty plea on federal corruption charges,
but she's still serving and has made it clear she
does not want to talk about her pending resignation. The
resolution was blocked during last week's meeting. Fernandez Anderson will
only say she anticipates stepping down sometime next month. Vehicles
with an empty driver's seats are coming to Boston.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
You could soon be seeing a car pull up to
the red light beside you with no driver in sight.
That's the plan for down the road as Waymo gears
up to test its self driving cars around. But before
that happens, there will be a human behind the wheel
for the trial period, though not everyone is ready for
the future. I really wouldn't do it, this woman says.
Even regular ride share options are too much.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I don't take UVA or anything because I don't trust
them at all.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Waimotel CBS Boston that their drivers will be going through
the communities of Southey, East Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville starting
later this month. In Somerville. James throw WBZ Boston'snoosradio. It's
going to be another relatively decent day here in Greater Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
This morning. We are getting started with some clouds at sunrise.
It is fifty five degrees Right now, we'll see temperatures
ranging anywhere from the low sixties here in Boston and
along the waterfront to the mid seventies well inland in
locations there. This afternoon mix of sun and clouds also
on the way, turning out mostly cloudy overnight. Tonight, we'll
drop back into the forties, and it looks like an
(03:27):
unsettled weather pattern is right on our doorstep. Tomorrow appears
to be mainly dry during the daylight hours, however, cloudy
with high temperatures in the low to mid sixties for
most of us, again in the low seventies and inland locations.
Looks like the best chance of rain comes tomorrow night
into Thursday, and we'll see a shower or two. These
are hit or miss variety, not the consistent rain we
(03:48):
experienced this past weekend. HIGs mainly will be in the
mid to upper sixties for the rest of this work week,
and that includes Friday, with a couple of showers hanging around,
and we cannot rule out the possibility of showers. This
would be a tenth consecutive weekend here in Greater Boston
with some precipitation coming down on Saturday and Sunday as well.
Right now in Boston, it is partly cloudy skies in
(04:09):
fifty five. As we get our engines started on this
Tuesday morning, it is six ozh five. At the Karen
Reid trial, defense attorneys begin to outline a third party
culprit's strategy. CBS News Boston's Christina Rex has detailed.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Newly released video inside and around the Canton Police station
shows Brian Higgins around one point thirty in the morning
the night of John O'Keefe's death. After leaving thirty four Fairview,
he starts some parked cars. It appears to use his
cell phone. This video one new piece of evidence from
two full days of cross examination of State Trooper Ury Buchanic.
(04:42):
The defense grilled him about the investigation and how we
handled the text messages of his subordinate, Michael Proctor.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
That in your view, Michael Proctor handled himself in this
investigation with integrity.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That's what you said, correct, That's correct. Do you stand
by that testimony investigation was handled with integrity and honor.
That text message does not show integrity.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Brian Higgins is an ATF agent and exchanged flirtatious text
messages with red before she cut him off, leading to
speculation by the defense that Higgins could be a prime
suspect in O'Keefe's death. A new witness is expected to
take the stand when testimony resumes this morning. The House
of Representatives on Capitol Hill unleashes the kraken on President
Trump's tax cut extension and expansion, and it comes at
(05:28):
a steep multi trillion dollar cost to taxpayers. It's the
elephant in the room that no one wants to talk
about on Capitol Hill, but must. The plan would extend
tax cuts and brakes from the president's first term and
add additional breaks to tipped workers and Social Security recipients.
A key part of the plan is to raise the
tax rates on college endowments to twenty one percent. That's
(05:50):
a fivefold increase and many fear will bite college students
who are attending school on grants and financial aid. Doctor
say Former President Joe Biden is being a value this
morning following a small nogule found on his prostate. Experts
say this is not unusual for an eighty two year
old man to have prostate issues. The discovery was made Friday.
(06:10):
No new information has been released. In February, a year ago,
mister Biden was determined fit to serve following his routine
physical then a poor debate performance ultimately led him to
drop out of the presidential race with just weeks to
go till election day. Kim Kardashian takes the stand in
a Paris courtroom today to face the ten men accused
of holding her captive, zip tied and at gunpoint following
(06:34):
a multi million dollar jewelry.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Heights and lawyers say Kim Kardashian was determined to testify
in person about the ninth she was bound and robbed
at gunpoint in a Paris hotel. That's causing security headaches
at the courthouse, where hundreds of journalists and members of
the public will vy for a glimpse of the celebrity.
The masked gang who dressed as police and escaped on
bicycles were dubbed the Grandpa Robbers, as most were in
(06:59):
their sixty at the times. The ten million dollars dualized.
Elaine Cobb, CBS News Paris.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
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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