1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:06,439 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local. 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 2: News twenty seven degrees in Boston. Right now, it's eleven o'clock. 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Nicole Davis, and we start with the 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: latest on the war in the Middle East. Much of 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,240 Speaker 2: the fighting is still centered around the Strait of Horror Moves. 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 2: The flow of oil through the Strait has been slowed 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 2: to a trickle and Americans are paying the price price 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: at the gas pump. The US is now targeting missile sites, 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,639 Speaker 2: it says pose a risk to that waterway. Here's CBS's 10 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 2: Jesse Mitchell. 11 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 3: Sitcom says American bombers dropped multiple five thousand pounds deep 12 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 3: penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites. CBS News military 13 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 3: analyst Jeff mccauslin. 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 4: What the Iranians have done is using the mountainous terrain 15 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 4: to build storage areas for ballistic anti ship missiles, probably 16 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 4: deep tunnels that they could then bring the missile out 17 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 4: lost it against ships while protecting the balance of the 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 4: weapons in between. 19 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 3: International arbitration attorney Mahamoud Abba Wassel says the shipping to 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 3: disruptions could soon impact grocery stores. 21 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: Synthetic fertilizers spiked by thirty percent. 22 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 3: Jesse Mitchell, CBS News. 23 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 2: Now, President Trump is still feuding with NATO countries that 24 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 2: so far have been unwilling to send warships into the 25 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: Strait to help. Some have said they don't want to 26 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 2: enter a war they didn't start, especially given how critical 27 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: of the NATO Alliance President Trump has been on social media. Today, 28 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: the President said US allies need to quote get a 29 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 2: grip to help reopen the Strait. Meantime, Iran has suffered 30 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 2: another blow to leadership. Israel says it has killed the 31 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 2: country's intelligence minister, Iranian state media now confirming that death. 32 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 2: This comes a day after Israel said it had killed 33 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 2: Iran's top security official and a leader in the Revolutionary Guard. 34 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 2: Funerals held today in Tehran for those men. Israel is 35 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 2: also launching more strikes in Beirut as it steps up 36 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: its offensive against the Iranian backed militant group has Belave. 37 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 5: This was a huge explosion that was heard across the city. 38 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 5: The fifteen story building completely collapsed, Israeli military saying that 39 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 5: this was a building being used by Hesbola, but again 40 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 5: a residential area in central Beirut away from the southern 41 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 5: suburbs known as the Dahia, where Hezbollah is based. And 42 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 5: I think this adds to the filling of many Lebanese 43 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 5: that nowhere is safe. We're seeing these attacks and also 44 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 5: these targeted assassinations that have been happening with no warning. 45 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: That is Hugo Butchega from the BBC the Washington Post 46 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 2: reporting today more than a million people have been forced 47 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: to flee their homes in Lebanon since Israel ramped up 48 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 2: its strikes. Some of Hesbolah's political base is starting to 49 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: turn against that militant group. And as we're watching, the 50 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 2: Federal Reserve is wrapping up its two day meeting today 51 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 2: and it's not looking likely they'll cut interest rates. 52 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 6: Econom has anticipated a three tenths of one percent rise 53 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 6: in the producer price index four February. The number from 54 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 6: the Bureau of Labor Statistics has come in at more 55 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 6: than double that compared to a year earlier. Core prices, 56 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 6: stripping out volatile food and the energy costs were up 57 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 6: three point nine percent, the biggest jump since January of 58 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 6: twenty twenty five. 59 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: BC's Jim Ryan the Fed will announce their decision at 60 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 2: two o'clock today We'll get you that decision as soon 61 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: as it comes down right here on WBZ streaming on 62 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. Over to the forecast now, we are 63 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 2: looking at a pretty good day outside today, although it 64 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: is going to certainly be on the chili side. Sun 65 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 2: mixing with clouds. We've get a high in the mid 66 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 2: thirties for tonight, partly to mostly cloudy, low in the 67 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: mid twenties near twenty Inland. Cloud's limiting sun tomorrow with 68 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 2: a high in the low to mid forties, some increasing 69 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 2: clouds on Friday, a little bit warmer high near fifty, 70 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 2: could be seeing fifty five if you're in some spots Inland, 71 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 2: and we could have some showers later Friday night into 72 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 2: early Saturday, but we will be dry to start the weekend. 73 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 2: On Saturday, mostly cloudy with a high in the low fifties. 74 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: Right now twenty nine degrees in Natick south of Boston, 75 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 2: thirty one in Abington north of Boston, twenty nine in 76 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 2: North Reading, and in Boston at eleven oh five partly 77 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: cloudy and twenty seven degrees. Well, another year has gone 78 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 2: by and investigators are still searching for answers after the 79 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 2: Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum. Heis You's wbz's Mike Macklin. 80 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 7: Thirty six years later, museum security director Anthony Abori is 81 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 7: still searching for the missing art work. 82 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 8: I think it's likely that the pieces are either altogether 83 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 8: or amongst confederates. I think that they're close by what 84 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 8: happens to art when it's stolen. Paintings stolen in the 85 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 8: United States stay in the United States. 86 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 7: The museum is during completion of a three year restoration 87 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 7: of the Dutch Room Gallery, where six of the stolen 88 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 7: works of art were on display. Museum director of Conservation 89 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 7: Holly Salmon, we. 90 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 3: Do anticipate that moment when these works come back, so 91 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: we are restoring this whole gallery in anticipation of that moment. 92 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 7: Mike mclin WBZ Boston's news radio. 93 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 2: Over a year after a Dudley crash between a helicopter 94 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: and a plane near Washington, d c over the Potomac River, 95 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 2: the FAA is rolling out new safety protocols. Your CBS 96 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: is Michael Wallace. 97 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 9: Air traffic controllers are now required to use radar to 98 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 9: keep planes in helicopter separated, not leave it up to 99 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 9: the pilots to steer clear of each other. The change 100 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 9: comes fourteen months after sixty seven people died in a 101 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 9: collision between an airliner and an Army black Hawk helicopter 102 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 9: near Reagan National This was NTSB Chair Jennifer Hammandy in 103 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 9: late January. 104 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 3: Commercial airlines have called me to say the next midair 105 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:20,799 Speaker 3: is going to be at Burbank. 106 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 9: Two weeks ago, a plane in a helicopter had a 107 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 9: near miss at Hollywood Burbank Airport. Michael Wallace, CBS News. 108 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: And six members of the Skating Club of Boston were 109 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: among those killed in last year's crash. Attorney General Pambondi 110 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 2: is the latest public figure to be subpoenaed by the 111 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 2: House Oversight Committee as as part of its probe and 112 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 2: to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Here's ABC Stephen Portnoy. 113 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 10: The subpoena directs the Attorney General to appear for a 114 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 10: closed door deposition in four weeks. A cover letter signed 115 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 10: by the House Oversight Chairman says the panel has questions 116 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 10: about the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein cases 117 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 10: and the Epstein files themselves. The Department pushes back in 118 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 10: a statement saying the subpoena is completely unnecessary, noting that 119 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 10: Pam Bondy and her deputy Todd Blanche are set to 120 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 10: hold a private briefing for the committee. 121 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 2: And that briefing is happening today. Other public figures who've 122 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 2: been subpoena include former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary 123 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 2: of State Hillary Clinton. And before we take a look 124 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 2: at business, steps are finally underway to get the ball 125 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 2: rolling toward World Cup matches at Gillette. 126 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: At long last, the Foxborough select Board grant SPIFA and 127 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: the Craft Group the entertainment license needed for the World 128 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: Cup matches, which are now just a few months away. 129 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: There was a long running refusal by the town to 130 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: grant that license until a security payment from the World 131 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: Cup Organizing Group Boston twenty six was hashed out. Jay 132 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: Willett WBZ Boston's News Radio. 133 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 2: You are now in the loop for news updates throughout 134 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,799 Speaker 2: the day. Listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. 135 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,119 Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis wb LEE, Boston's News Radio.