1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: Thirty one degrees and Sonny with a Real Feel of 3 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 2: eighteen in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Kyle Bray. 4 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us, and here's what's happening. Four 5 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 2: people are being charged in connection to a State Police 6 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: trooper recruits death at the Massachusetts State Police Academy and 7 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 2: New Braintree. Wbz's Emma Friedman has more. 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 3: I take no personal satisfaction none from where these facts 9 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 3: have led. 10 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 4: After an independent investigation into Police Academy trainee Enrique Degotta 11 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 4: Garcia's death, attorney David Myers has four people with the 12 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 4: State Police Academy's Defensive Tactics Unit, a supervisor and three 13 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 4: full time trainers committed a series of reckless acts. 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 3: The wanton and reckless conduct resulted in Enrique Delgado Garcia 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 3: suffering concussion like symptoms as the result of unauthor unapproved, 16 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 3: and unsupervised boxing related sparring exercises that occurred during academy 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 3: training activities on Wednesday, September eleventh, twenty twenty four. 18 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 4: Sergeant Jennifer Penton and three troopers are facing involuntary manslaughter 19 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 4: and other charges. Meyer also saying the supervisor sergeant penton 20 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 4: light under oath perjuring herself. While investigating. He says he 21 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 4: found no reason to believe that Delgatto Garcia was targeted 22 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 4: in any way. I'm a freedman. 23 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 5: W b Z Boston's news. 24 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,839 Speaker 2: Radio investigators in Arizona saying, now over a week into 25 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 2: the search for Nancy Guthrie, they have no idea where 26 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 2: she could be and they don't know if she is 27 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 2: dead or alive. 28 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: Tonight is a second deadline in a ransom note said 29 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 1: last week, and that is a focus for investigators, But 30 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: sources are telling ABC News it's still not clear whether 31 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: either of two notes or even authentically from the person 32 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: who took Nancy Guthrie, but it's one of the few 33 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: leads they have, so they and the family have been 34 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: focused on the notes in case they are real. At 35 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: this point, investigators say they have no suspects, no person's interest, 36 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: and no vehicles of interest. There have been no signs 37 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: that Nancy Guthrie is alive or dead. Alex Stone absins 38 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: we now know the cause of Catherine O'Hara's death. The 39 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 1: actress died from a pulmonary embolism, according to her death certificate. 40 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 1: Documents released by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office 41 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: says O'Hara died within hours of the onset of symptoms, 42 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: and she was diagnosed with rectal cancer months earlier. O'Hara 43 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: was well known for her comedic roles that span decades, 44 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: including Moibra Rose on Shit's Creek and Kate McCallister in 45 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: the Christmas classic Home Alone. She died at the age 46 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: of seventy one late last month. It's time now for 47 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: the four to awbz ACU weather forecast. Tonight, We'll start 48 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: to see the breeze die out as we head into 49 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: the evening. Otherwise I'll be clear to partly cloudy and cold. 50 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: We'll have a low of eighteen in Boston, will have 51 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 1: single digits in many inland suburbs. Tomorrow's sun will start 52 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: to give way towards clouds. We'll have a high of 53 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: thirty four. Well, if some snow late in the afternoon 54 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: and evening that can accumulate one to three inches. Untreated 55 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: surfaces may become quite slippery. Tomorrow night it will be 56 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: cloudy with a chance of lingering snow. Or flurries, will 57 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: have a low of twenty eight. Wednesday will have clouds 58 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: and some sun with a stray snow shower around. It 59 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: will be breezy and a high of thirty eight. Thursday 60 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: will have times of sun and clouds. It'll be breezy 61 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: again and a high of thirty six. Right now in 62 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: Boston it is sunny thirty one degrees with a real 63 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: feel of eighteen. Some faculty members that Harvard want to 64 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: make it harder to get an A. Wbz's Madison Rodgers 65 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: has more. 66 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 6: It's a push in the name of academic rigor, and 67 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 6: it's getting a lot of push back from students. A 68 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 6: proposal from Harvard's Office of Undergraduate Education would put a 69 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 6: cap on how many a's students can get at twenty 70 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 6: percent of a class, with professors able to hand out 71 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 6: a few more. The school paper The Crimson obtained the proposal, 72 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 6: which would need to go to a full faculty vote. 73 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 6: It comes months after a dean's report found more than 74 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 6: sixty percent of undergraduate with grades at Harvard were a's 75 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 6: and deemed that damaging to the university's academic culture. Several 76 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 6: students tell the paper they think the changes would hurt 77 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 6: the culture and question why faculties surprised that some of 78 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,119 Speaker 6: the top students in the country are getting a's. Most 79 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 6: professors do already have caps in place. If these stricter 80 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 6: limits are approved, they would take effect this fall. Madison 81 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 6: Rogers WBZ, Boston's News. 82 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 2: Radio Pleading the Fifth Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Gallaine Maxwell 83 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 2: and uses her Fifth Amendment right in a brief appearance 84 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 2: before the House Oversight Committee. ABC. Stephen Portnoy has more. 85 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 5: The witness appeared remotely from her prison camp in Texas. 86 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 5: She didn't offer any testimony. 87 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 4: Obviously, it's very disappointing. 88 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 6: We had many questions to ask about the crime she 89 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 6: and Epstein committed. 90 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 5: House Oversite Chairman James Comerce's Glene Maxwell's attorney told the 91 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 5: panel she would have provided testimony if she'd been granted 92 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 5: clemency by President Trump. Comer said it's his view she's 93 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 5: not worthy. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington. 94 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 2: Meantime, the Epstein files continue to make ripples across the pond. 95 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: The leader of the Scottish Labor Party is now calling 96 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 2: on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. Might make marking 97 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 2: the most senior Labor Party figure to do so. An 98 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 2: As Sarwar called on Starmer to step down over details 99 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: about the relationship between British Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelsson 100 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 2: and Epstein. Sarwar says the distraction needs to end and 101 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: leadership at Downing Street needs to change. Starmer's office says 102 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 2: he does not plan to resign. Medal winners at the 103 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 2: Olympics are encouraging their fellow medalists to tone down their 104 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 2: celebrations a bit. This comes after several medals have broken 105 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 2: for athletes during their celebrations, with the medals falling right 106 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 2: off of the ribbons called Medalist skier Breezy Johnson is 107 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 2: encouraging her fellow winners to not jump while wearing them. 108 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 2: US figure skater Alissa Leu posted her broken metal on TikTok, 109 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 2: saying she don't need the ribbon. You are now in 110 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 2: the loop For news updates throughout the day. 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