1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio. We defining local news. 2 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, six o'clock, chipping away at the old work week. 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: Here it is Wednesday in Boston and we're waking up 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: under cloudy skies. It's thirty five degrees. The News at 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: six is brought to us by You're a New England 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: being here with us today. I'm Jeff Brown. You know 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: I kind of missed the wind. A drive at Churley 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: day today with cloud and some sun this morning and 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: plenty of sunshine this afternoon or high well into the forty. 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: That is WBZ Actiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Yeah, no wind today. 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: Next rain is expected on Friday. For the first time 13 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: this season, the Celtics have a winning record. There's Brown, 14 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: Scott Williams on his ship Rises stores the call on 15 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: NBC Sports Boston as the Celtics top the Nets in Brooklyn. 16 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: The Celtics will host the Nets on Friday night at 17 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: the Garden. The Lakers Lebron James becomes a record breaking 18 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: or begins a record breaking twin third NBA season as 19 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: he makes his injury delayed debut in Los Angeles, and 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: the Bruins are out West as well. Late night hockey 21 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: against the Ducks in Anaheim coming up tonight. For the 22 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: first time, a Boston restaurant gets its Michelin Star three 23 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: one one. Omakazi on Tremont Street gets the honor following 24 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 1: several secret visits by restaurant critics. The hard to find 25 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 1: hideout is small seats for about ten The average bill 26 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: is two hundred and fifty bucks. It's been next to 27 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: impossible to get a seat since it opened a couple 28 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: of years ago. Several other local restaurants get their first 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: Micheline rankings, but fall short of the coveted star. It 30 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: is a high bar to keep hitting, as Michelin reviewers 31 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: will continue to show up at all of these restaurants, 32 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: where one bad meal or experience can strip them of 33 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: the prestige. Saying bottoms up could impact your bottom line. 34 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 2: A new bill proposed on Beacon Hill calls for an 35 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 2: optional two percent excise tax on the sale of booze 36 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 2: in bars, restaurants, in liquor stores dincipalities across the state 37 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 2: to be rechanneled into addiction and recovery program for participating 38 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 2: towns and cities. 39 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: I don't think we need to be taxed anymore than 40 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: we know we already are. Seems to always be the 41 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: answer and answer. 42 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 2: This taxpayer from Foxborough supports okay with that tax and 43 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 2: you think it's a good idea as far as helping 44 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: others out. Absolutely, she's inclined to agree, but on her own. 45 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 3: Terms, it should be a choice. 46 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 4: Shouldn't be forced to have to donate money. 47 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,119 Speaker 2: Would it make you think twice about getting a drink 48 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 2: at a restaurant? Yeah, definitely, yeah, Chris Vahma WBZ Boston's 49 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: news radio. 50 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: And a new study claims to find the key to 51 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: keep you from bellying up to the bar. WBC Strew 52 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: m'holland is here. Tell me more. 53 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 4: Andrew smoking pot Jeffrey cuts back on drinking alcohol. Kind 54 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 4: of makes sense. I think I've seen this with the 55 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 4: old Drew High tests, but the research from Brown University 56 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 4: makes it formal. The work involves more than one hundred 57 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 4: and fifty students. They were told to smoke joints, then 58 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 4: we're taken to a makeshift open bar. Scientists say the 59 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 4: students then drank about one third less when compared to 60 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 4: a study in which the joints were placebos. The experts 61 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 4: say more and more young people are turning to the 62 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 4: THHC these days instead of alcohol. Where were these studies 63 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 4: when I was in. 64 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: School, Yeah, exactly, and every got a lot of students 65 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: would tell you that that was the case, and now 66 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: it's actually proven by researchers. Here you go about sunrise 67 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: in Boston on this Wednesday morning, and we're getting started 68 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: under cloudy skies. It is thirty five degrees here in 69 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: the city, so still it's a little bit of a 70 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: chill in the air this morning. We should be substantially 71 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: warmer than this for this time of year. Daytime highs 72 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: will normally get into the lower fifties and it'll be 73 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: a struggle again today. Mid to upper forties is the 74 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: best will do. But here's the thing. Today there's no wind. 75 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: The wind has finally died down, and these clouds will 76 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: give way to sunshine later on today, clear early tonight 77 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: before clouding up later on. Low's in the twenties and thirties, 78 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: and then a mix of sun and clouds tomorrow. Once 79 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: again we're in the forties. We should get back to 80 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: where we need to be this time of year in 81 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: the lower fifties on Friday afternoon. The only other thing 82 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: is is that it's going to feat clouds and our 83 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: next chance of rain moving in in the afternoon. Right 84 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: now in Boston, it is thirty five degrees and grace, guys, 85 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: coming up on sunrise here in the city six oh 86 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: five this Wednesday morning. A formality of a presidential signature 87 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: is really the only thing that stands in the way 88 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: of the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files. 89 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 3: Will pass the bill nearly unanimously. The years are four 90 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 3: hundred and twenty seven. The nays are one. Only one 91 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 3: lawmaker voted no, Republican Clay Higgins, who voiced concern about 92 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 3: the privacy of the victims and people mentioned in the 93 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 3: files who have not been criminally implicated. Higgins' writing, if 94 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 3: enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal 95 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 3: of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will 96 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 3: absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. The Senate that 97 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 3: approving the measure almost instantly. 98 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: ABC's Lionel moees now the text of the bill that 99 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: was approved by consent in the Senate will arrive in 100 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: that chamber this morning and then off to the President's desk. 101 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: Critics continue to watch for the possibility that the Justice 102 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: Department they ultimately blocked the release on grounds the documents 103 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: have become part of a federal investigation. Well, you know 104 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: what they say about payback. As Karen Reid launches her 105 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 1: revenge tour, the Mansfield woman accused and acquitted of murder 106 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: charges now turns the tables on key investigators and witnesses 107 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: during her murder trials in her continuing effort to prove 108 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: that she was framed for the killing of Boston Police 109 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: officer John O'Keefe in the winter of twenty twenty two. 110 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: Fired Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael Procter, along with his colleagues, 111 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: as well as the local Albert and McCabe families, are 112 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: among those listed in the lawsuit in Bristol Superior Court 113 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: unspecified damages, by the way, but with a call for 114 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: law enforcement to stop trampling on the innocent. In an 115 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: effort to protect their own, lawyers for Suffolk County Sheriff 116 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 1: Stephen Tompkins make a push to dismiss federal extortion charges 117 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: on claims his activity with a local cannabis company was 118 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: nothing more than politics and not a crime. Sixty eight 119 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: year old Tompkins has pleaded not guilty after prosecutors say 120 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: he built a marijuana company over which he had licensing 121 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: power out of his original investment when the terms of 122 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: that deal went sour. Tompkins has since stepped away from 123 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 1: his job while his case plays out. A fire at 124 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: Foxwood's Face forces evacuations and ignites a large scale response. 125 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: A blaze breaks out inside the David Burke Prime Steakhouse 126 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: in the Grand Tower. Three firefighters taken to the hospital. 127 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: No word and a cause of that blaze. You are 128 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. 129 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm 130 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio