1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:09,799 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty 2 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Hey. Dire warning from President 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: Trump as the clock is ticking for it a possible 5 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 1: big US attack on Iran. 6 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: President Trump posted on social media send quote, A whole 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 2: I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. Unquote. 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 2: This follows a weekend posting peppered with expletives that said quote, 10 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 2: Tuesday will be power plant Day and bridge Day, all 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 2: wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 2: like it. Quote. The threat, which said bombing will begin 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 2: at eight pm Eastern Time, comes as the White House 14 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 2: rejects claims that Vice President jd Vance implied nuclear weapons 15 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: might be used against Iran. Linda Kenyon, CBS News the 16 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: White House. 17 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: Meantime, some local politicians are calling for President Trump to 18 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: be in each WBC's Kyle Bray with. 19 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 3: Mark Congressman Seth Moulton says the declaration from the President 20 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 3: is not tough talk or the art of the deal. 21 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 3: It's the rhetoric of a madman. In a post on X, 22 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 3: the congressman and former marine says the president is fundamentally 23 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 3: unfit to hold the nuclear codes or the lives of 24 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 3: service members in his hands, calling for Congress to return 25 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 3: to session and impeach the president. Senator Ed Markey goes 26 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 3: a step forward as he calls for the twenty fifth 27 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 3: Amendment to be invoked, when the vice president and the 28 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 3: cabinet can remove the president if they deem them unfit. 29 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 3: He also wants Congress to get back to work. 30 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 4: We need to assert congressional authority and stop this illegal 31 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 4: war in Iran. But Trump is clearly a war hungry madman. 32 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 4: At odds with the American people, impeachment is the top priority. 33 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 3: Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's News Radio. 34 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: Oil prices, as you know, have been soaring since the 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: war where the ran began. But it isn't just gas prices. 36 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 5: We looked at the FAO Food Price Index that's a 37 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 5: global measure of food commodities, and it rose two point 38 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 5: four percent overall just in March and narrowing in nearly 39 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 5: every major crop reported price increases on that index too. Sugar, 40 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 5: for example, jump seven point two percent because of expectations 41 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 5: that countries will need to use more sugar cane to 42 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 5: make alternative biofuels. Palm, sunflour and soy oil all rose 43 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 5: for similar reasons. And then there's also the impact of 44 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 5: higher fertilizer prices and rising diesel prices, which of course 45 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 5: is the main fuel that's used in farming and trucking. 46 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 1: That is CBS's Bradley Blackburn, a Duxbury mother accused of 47 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: killing her three children, is said to be open to 48 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: admitting her guilt, details from wbz's Amanda Keane. 49 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 6: According to new court documents, Lindsay Clancy is willing to 50 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 6: admit that she killed her three children in twenty twenty 51 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 6: three in a fit of postpartum psychosis. She will even 52 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 6: agreed to discuss the details of what happened that day 53 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 6: if she can get a second trial to determine if 54 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 6: she can serve her time in a mental hospital instead 55 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 6: of jail. Clancy is pushing for two trials in her case. 56 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 6: One trial would determine if she did it, another would 57 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 6: determine if she was criminally responsible, something that judge denied 58 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 6: last week, saying it would be too confusing for the jury. 59 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 6: According to Belie, she strangled her three children, ages five, three, 60 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 6: and eight months old. Clancy then tried to end her 61 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 6: own life that day, but instead was paralyzed and has 62 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 6: been held at a Tewksbury mental hospital ever since. Amanda 63 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 6: Keen WBZ, Boston's news radio. 64 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,119 Speaker 1: Things will start to improve from west to east as 65 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: we go through the latter part of the afternoon and 66 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: into the evening. Any leftover sprinkles or showers or precipitation 67 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: that does come through as the temperatures fall could come 68 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: down as a few snowflakes, nothing to really be concerned about, 69 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: but they're out there. In fact, Western Massachusetts, northern Berkshire's 70 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: getting a little bit of snowflake activity right now. As 71 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: we head through the evening, we will eventually turn out 72 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: mainly clear and temperatures will hang mainly in the twenties. 73 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: A chilly day tomorrow, probably forty forty one in Boston, 74 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: but some temperatures could get into the upper forties well 75 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: Inland tomorrow, and the sunshine will be out, but again 76 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: it won't warm us up all that much. Thursday, it'll 77 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: warm us up a little more fifty two to fifty 78 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: six for a hide with the sun chillier over the 79 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: Capan Islands, probably only in the fifties Capan Islands on Friday, 80 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: but inland sections could get into the upper sixties with 81 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: some sunshine around and into the sixties. It looks like 82 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: for Saturday as well. Right now forty two degrees in Boston. 83 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: Massachusetts is moving to add a new layer of security 84 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: to EBT cards in order to protect consumers, merchants, and 85 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: taxpayers from being ripped off. 86 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 7: Massachusetts will become the third state in the nation to 87 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 7: adopt EBT cards with an embedded computer chip to prevent 88 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 7: theft and ensure the taxpayer dollars are protected. The chip 89 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 7: and pin enabled cards will debut later this year across 90 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 7: the system, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance or SNAP program. 91 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 7: John Hurst of the mass Retailers Association says, retail merchants 92 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 7: welcome the news. 93 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 8: For credit card frauday, it's money out of your own 94 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 8: pocket as a consumer who means higher prices means higher 95 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 8: fees for your credit cards. You know if you look 96 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 8: at food stamps, same type of thing. 97 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 7: Alabama and California are already using the upgraded technology, and 98 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 7: several other states are moving in the same direction at 99 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 7: the State House Mike Maclin WBZ Boston's news radio. 100 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: According to the Food Access Report by the Greater Boston 101 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 1: Food Bank, food insecurity in Massachusetts reached a record high 102 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 1: in the last year, and they believe it's because of 103 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: the housing and utility costs that are piling onto rising 104 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: bills that have put families struggling to put food on 105 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: the table. The report says forty percent of households experienced 106 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 1: food insecurity at some point over the past year, and 107 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: that's about one point one million people. The report calls 108 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: for boosting funding for the Massachusetts Emergency Food Assistance Program. 109 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: Things aren't going well for the Red Sox these days. 110 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: The Hometown nine have won just two of their first 111 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: ten games, and outside Fenway Park there are some troubles 112 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: as well. 113 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 9: With chance of selling the team directed at John Henry 114 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 9: Ringing all over Fenway Park and the Red Sox playing 115 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 9: bad ball you go outside the ballpark there are issues 116 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 9: there too. Game on very popular pregame spot is in 117 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 9: trouble for serving alcohol to minors. They now have to 118 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 9: go dry for several days as a penalty, and the 119 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 9: timing is not good for four days beginning on April twentieth, 120 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 9: no liquor license it is suspended. That hurts because that 121 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,799 Speaker 9: means the Marathon Monday game against the Tigers, no alcohol 122 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 9: can be served. And then you get a three game 123 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 9: homestand with the Yankees, no booze. 124 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: Ouch. 125 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 9: Several of the underage drinkers tell inspectors that bouncers let 126 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 9: them in the place after slipping them twenty bucks. Old 127 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 9: school move. Drewmahal and WZ Boston's News Radio. 128 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,679 Speaker 1: You are now in the loop for news updates throughout 129 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. 130 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio.