1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news. 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 2: Eighteen degrees in Boston right now. It feels like six 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 2: when you walk outside. Lots of sun though. At eleven o'clock. 4 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 2: Happy Friday. I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening. Well, 5 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 2: if you have to work outside today, layering up is 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: the name of the game. You're gonna need a sweater, hat, gloves, 7 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: all the layers. It is downright frigid, and we're not 8 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 2: moving up the thermometer all that much today. 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,279 Speaker 1: This is one of those days where many of us 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: are asking ourselves, Damn, I gotta get up read for real. 11 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: It is cold, which means it's a function over fashioned 12 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: kind of day. 13 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 3: Sweated jacket and fumi just some jeez, that's it, and 14 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 3: a sche mess. 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: I said, you gotta keep check your neck. This bone 16 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: chilling windy weather will have many of us focused on 17 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: just one thing. 18 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 4: Getting back from the house as quick as possible as 19 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 4: our clock out less Right there with you in Chinatown, 20 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 4: James Rojas, wb Z Boston's news radio. 21 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 2: And we're following breaking news this morning. A short time ago, 22 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: as CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee voted to end a long 23 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: standing recommendation that all babies born in the United States 24 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 2: get the hepatitis B vaccine the day they're born. The 25 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 2: new recommendation now calls for the birth dose only for 26 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,639 Speaker 2: babies who's mother's test positive. ABC Chief Medical Correspondent doctor 27 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 2: Tara Narula says some medical officials are worried about this. 28 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 5: This is about becoming a safety net that very first dose. 29 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 5: You know, even though we screen pregnant women for hepatitis, 30 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 5: we may miss some of those women who don't get 31 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 5: prenatal care. Some of those women may have false negative results. 32 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 5: They may never get their test results back, they may 33 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 5: never get treated, they may get infected with hepatitis B 34 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 5: between the time they get tested and the time they deliver. 35 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 5: So there are babies that are going to be vulnerable. 36 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 2: State leaders and public health officials here in Massachusetts, they 37 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: will continue to recommend that baby's born in the Bay 38 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 2: State get the shot within twenty four hours of birth. 39 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 2: A former student at Harvard University filed an anti semitism 40 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: lawsuit against the school, a suit which has now been dismissed. 41 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 3: Joof Sagev claimed he was harassed for being Jewish during 42 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 3: a campus protest in twenty twenty three, two weeks after 43 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 3: the October seventh Hamas attack on Israel. In a viral 44 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 3: video that caught Washington's attention, Segev tried to walk through 45 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 3: a group of pro Palestinian protesters on campus. The protesters 46 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 3: surrounded and jostled him while yelling. Shane Segev accused Harvard 47 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 3: of failing to take any action against the protesters, but 48 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: the judge ruled Segev failed to show he experienced severe 49 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 3: and pervasive racial harassment. Michael Wallace, CBS. 50 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 2: News and Meta. Transit police are investigating after a woman 51 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: was pushed onto the Green Line tracks at North Station. 52 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: Has happened about one o'clock yesterday afternoon. Police say the 53 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: woman in her sixties was standing on the westbound platform. 54 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 2: A man came up behind her, pushed her, and she 55 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: fell onto the tracks. Transit Police says she did have 56 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: some shoulder pain after this happened. An unhoused person who 57 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 2: tends to frequent North Station is being considered as a suspect, 58 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: although it's not clear why the person might have pushed 59 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 2: that woman. And for the weekend forecast, we'll get to 60 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 2: that in a minute, but let's start with today. Because 61 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: my goodness, it is so chilly out there. Temperatures right 62 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: now struggling to make it toward twenty. We are seeing 63 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: some twenties on the capin islands. Otherwise, if you're inland, 64 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 2: we are seeing mostly teens and the wind chill is 65 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 2: down in these single digits. A couple of areas still 66 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 2: below zero when it comes to that wind chill in 67 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: the Berkshires in southern Vermont. So again, we've got a 68 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 2: lot of sun today, but it's not going to really 69 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: be able to do much to beat that polar chill. 70 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 2: We have a high only in the mid twenties. Then 71 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 2: tonight we could have some flurries or spotty freezing drizzle late, 72 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: especially south of Boston. We do have this storm that's 73 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 2: making its way through the del Marva region snowing in 74 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 2: DC right now. We'll get kind of grazed by this 75 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 2: tonight with a lone near twenty five, and then we 76 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: could see some snow or drizzle tomorrow, with a high 77 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 2: in the mid thirties mid forties on the capin islands. 78 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 2: Sunday up the weekend, early sun gives way to clouds 79 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 2: and we've got highs in the mid thirties, twenty five 80 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 2: degrees in Chatham right now sixteen in Newburyport, west of Boston, 81 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: sixteen in Worcester. In Boston at eleven oh five, it 82 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 2: is partly cloudy where it's sixteen degrees and it feels 83 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 2: more like five. Another day of testimony underway in the 84 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 2: Brian Walsh murder trial, and as of just a few 85 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: moments ago, they are now on morning break. The jury 86 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 2: has been hearing today from a state Police trooper named 87 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 2: Connor Keif. He did some work as well on the 88 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 2: Karen Reid case. Trooper Keif has been facing cross examination 89 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 2: from the defense, looking for context about tracking on Brian 90 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 2: Walsh's iPhone device and searches he made. 91 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 6: Now. 92 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 2: Walsh, of course, has played guilty to two of the 93 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 2: lesser charges against him, including disposing of his wife's body 94 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 2: and line to investigators. Will update you throughout the day 95 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 2: here on WBZ and streaming on the iHeartRadio app. In 96 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,559 Speaker 2: just about an hour, we're going to get our first 97 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 2: look at who's playing who in the group stage of 98 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 2: the upcoming World Cup, and that means we're going to 99 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 2: find out more of out who could come to play 100 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: at Gillette Stadium. WBZ is Kyle Bray has a previous well. 101 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 2: The schedule won't be finalized until tomorrow. Today's draw does 102 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 2: offer a sneak peek at which nations we may see 103 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: take the field at Jolette Stadium next summer for the 104 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 2: twenty twenty six World Cup. Foxborough will be hosting seven 105 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 2: games during the World Cup, including five group stage games 106 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: along with a Round of thirty two and a quarter 107 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 2: final knockout game. Today, the qualified teams will learn who 108 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 2: they'll face off against during the group stages. Each team 109 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: in the groups of four will play each other once 110 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 2: to decide who moves on. So far, we know teams 111 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: from Group C, I and L will be playing games 112 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 2: in Foxborough. Round of thirty two game will feature the 113 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: winners of Group E versus a third place finisher from 114 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 2: either Group ABCD or F. The first game at Giallette 115 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 2: is set for June thirteenth. Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's News 116 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 2: Radio Kyle, Brian Antonelli, the rest of our sports crew 117 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 2: watching this closely. When that info comes in, we'll update 118 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 2: you here on WBZ, and of course, no matter where 119 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 2: you are, we're streaming always on the iHeartRadio app. Now 120 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 2: Speaking of sports, the Patriots are off this weekend for 121 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 2: a bye week, but it is going to be a 122 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 2: busy one. In Foxborough, We've got a full slate of 123 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: high school super Bowl games. 124 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 6: Thursday saw Cohasset and fair Haven winning their respective super 125 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 6: Bowl titles. For today, the Division five super Bowl Foxborough 126 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 6: taking on Shasheen Tech at five pm, followed by the 127 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 6: Division III Final North Attleborough and King Philip. Then a 128 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 6: full slate of games for tomorrow, Randolphin West Boylston at 129 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 6: ten am representing Division eight, Division four Tewksbury in Situate, 130 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 6: followed by Bishop Fien and cm for D two. Then 131 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 6: the Division IE High School super Bowl Final Saturday night, 132 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 6: Zaverian and Saint John's Prep live from Gillette Stadium. Jim 133 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 6: McKay w b Z Boston's News Radio. 134 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 2: You are now in Mali. For news updates throughout the day, 135 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, 136 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 2: w b Z Boston's News Radio