1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: fifty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening with the eyes of 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: the Trump administration on this region. Police announced the results 5 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: of a statewide operation against so called street takeovers. WBC's 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: Hyles Schaffele has details. 7 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 2: Colonel Jeffrey Nobles says this isn't really a new problem. 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 3: To be clear, the mass Date Police has been, along 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 3: with our partners, has been tracking street takeovers as an 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 3: issue for for quite some time. 11 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 2: They came away with seven arrests and gave out more 12 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 2: than two hundred tickets. A giant Boston takeover earlier this 13 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 2: month ended in violence, with a police cruiser being set 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: on fire. Reporters were quick to ask Governor Morri Heally 15 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: if this stepped up enforcement had anything to do with 16 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 2: the President's threats to take away World Cup games from 17 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: Massachusetts next year, if the takeovers don't stop, or if 18 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: the President even has the authority to do that. 19 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 4: Oh God, come on, I you know that's just more 20 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 4: political theater. I don't really pay that too much, mind, 21 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 4: I don't know I don't think so. I think it 22 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 4: doesn't make any sense. 23 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: The governor, ending on a rather stern note. 24 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 4: I would like for it to be that we don't 25 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 4: need men and women out on the streets to deal 26 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 4: with this anymore, because people have enough sense to not 27 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 4: do it. 28 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 2: Kyle shraffle WBZ, Boston's News Radio. 29 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: On this the sixteenth day of the federal government shutdown, 30 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: a standoff continues between Democrats and Republicans. 31 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 5: Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Democrats demanding protection for 32 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 5: Affordable Care Act tax credits and the Senate Majority leader. 33 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 2: I met with Leader Thun and he offered to Chuck 34 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 2: Schumer a vote on Obamacare subsidies, and Schumer said. 35 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 5: No, Thun publicly saying the same thing the Democratic Senate leader. 36 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: We're not negotiating in public, plane and simple, and Leader 37 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: Thun has not come to me with any proposal at 38 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: this point. 39 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 5: Democrats also want Medicaid cuts restored. 40 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: Night as ABC's Chuck Siewert sit and President Trump's got 41 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: a new warning for Hamas. 42 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 6: Posting on social media, President Trump wrote, if fighting to 43 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 6: continues among factions of Hamas quote, we will have no 44 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 6: choice but to go in and kill them. The President 45 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 6: did not elaborate on how that might happen. The comments 46 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 6: come as Hamas has yet to turn over all of 47 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 6: the bodies of the Israeli hostages. White House Press Secretary 48 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 6: of Caroline Leavitt reiterated this is no easy task. 49 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 5: These bodies, unfortunately, are very deep underground, and so it's 50 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 5: going to take some time and some special equipment to 51 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 5: actually retrieve these bodies and bring them back to Israel, adding. 52 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 6: The administration is fully committed to seeing this through. Lynda 53 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 6: Kenyon CBS News the White. 54 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: House ahead of a meeting tomorrow in Washington with the 55 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: Ukraine's president, President Trump opens up the lines of communication 56 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: today with Russia and a phone call with Vladimir Putin. 57 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 7: President Trump's phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted 58 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 7: more than two hours, and he says he believes quote 59 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 7: great progress was made. They agreed there would be high 60 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 7: level US Russia meetings next week. Secretary of State Mark 61 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 7: Rubio will lead the US delegation. The President also said 62 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 7: he and Putin will then meet in Hungary to see 63 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 7: if they can bring the war to an end, but 64 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 7: he doesn't say when that meant. Eating would take place 65 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 7: as if the President believes conditions have changed to make 66 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 7: a second meeting with Putin more successful than their Alaska 67 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 7: summit in August. White House pres Secretary Caroline Levitt said 68 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 7: the President is quote always willing to take a chance 69 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 7: a diplomacy. Karen Traver's ABC News the White House. 70 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: The evening tonight, we'll have partly cloudy skies, breezy conditions, 71 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: and temperatures you're going to start to get pretty chilly, thirties, 72 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: low thirties in some of the suburbs where some frost 73 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: could be around forty four in Boston. Tomorrow. It's a 74 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: good deal of sunshine, still a little breezy, so we 75 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: may feel a little chillier, even though we'll be a 76 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: little warmer tomorrow, with temperatures near sixty. Mostly clear Tomorrow night, 77 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: mid forties, a little cooler in the suburbs, and then 78 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: some sunshine around on Saturday sixty two. More sunshine Sunday 79 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: in the mid to upper sixties. Once we get past 80 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: the weekend, it looks like we'll bring in some rain 81 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: for the start of next week. Right now, it is 82 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: fifty three degrees in Boston. Are you looking for a 83 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: new home for your next vacation escape. Perhaps, how about 84 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: an island home conveniently located in Massa. How about one 85 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: that was once visited by Music Royalty. 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Matthew Farwell's trials now 105 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: scheduled for October fifth of next year, expected to last 106 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: four weeks. Farwell faces a charge of killing a witness 107 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: or victim. He's pleted not guilty. Farwell was arrested last year, 108 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: later indicted in the strangulation death of Birchmore and staging 109 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: her death to look like a suicide. The twenty three 110 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: year old was three months pregnant at the time. Birchmore 111 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: met Farwell when she joined the Stoton Police Explorers Academy 112 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: at the age of twelve. The detectives accused of initiating 113 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: relationship with her when she was fifteen. Heads up in 114 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: the Hoosier State. There's an ancient discovery. It's a skull. 115 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 8: It's proof people have been walking around Fayette County, Indiana 116 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 8: for millennia. The county coroner has determined part of a 117 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 8: human skull found along the banks of the Whitewater River 118 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 8: in suburban Indianapolis in June dates back to twenty three 119 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 8: hundred BC. He says it belonged to an adult, but 120 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 8: it's unclear if it was a man or a woman. 121 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 8: Also undetermined the indigenous tribal affiliation. The Miami Tribe of 122 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 8: Oklahoma is working on that one. The coroner says there 123 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 8: are several possibilities, including the Shawnee, poto Wootomi, Delaware, and Cherokee. 124 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 8: Deborah Rodriguez CBS News. 125 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 1: Three quarters of a century ago, Secrets get revealed that 126 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: a new world explored the Lion, The Witch and the 127 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: Wardrobe was first published. 128 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 6: Between the dark tree trunks, she could see the open 129 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 6: doorway of the wardrobe. 130 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 9: A girl called Lucy walks through wardrobe and into another 131 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 9: magical world. There are wizards in talking animals and battles. 132 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 9: But at the heart of the Narnia books by C. S. 133 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 9: Lewis is Oslan, a loving, merciful, all powerful lion willing 134 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 9: to die for his subjects. Sound familiar. This is gearing 135 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 9: up your imagination to think of this as an adventure story. 136 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,239 Speaker 5: Into introducers Christianity as a kind of adventure story. 137 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 9: Rowan Williams, a former Archbishop of Canterbury who's seen how 138 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 9: the Narnia books have become a portal for generations to 139 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 9: encounter the Christian faith. Vicky Barker, CBS News, London. 140 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: You are now in the loop for news updates throughout 141 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: the day. 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