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This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Eighty eight degrees

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in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's

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happening. They are done for the day. Courts adjourned at Norfolk Superior Court

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in Denham, another day of tense testimony at the murdered trial of Karen Reid.

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Ter has heard from Jen McCabe and Kerry Roberts, those two women with

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Karen Reid the morning they discovered Boston police officer John o'keith Likeeless to the snow

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and Canton. The defense grilled McCabe on a Google search she made on the

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morning that O'Keefe was found, reading how long to Die in the Cold?

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Did you, in fact use a phrase to Google search how long it takes

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for someone to die of extreme temperatures? I did in the morning at the

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request of your client. And what phrase did you use? I'm not sure

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really correct I was of this. You don't know the phrase that you used

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cash hard. And there's so many lies and misconceptions on social media. There's

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some disparity over the time as McCabe did that search. McCabe saying she searched

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it after Karen read it asked her. Kerry Roberts focused on the scene that

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morning in O'Keefe's injuries the morning he was found. More students with debt are

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about to get some more help from the government, the Biden administration announcing help

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that brings total loan forgiveness approved by the administration to one hundred and sixty seven

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billion dollars for about four point seventy five million Americans. Another one hundred and

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sixty thousand student loan borrowers are receiving word they're getting debt relief from the Biden

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administration. Included in this latest round people enrolled in the administration's Save Plan,

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public service workers like teachers, firefighters, and police officers, and some borrowers

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benefiting from fixes to income driven repayment plans. President Biden says in a statement,

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each of these borrowers has received an average of over thirty five thousand dollars

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in debt cancelation. Karen Traver's ABC News Washington. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental

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Protection gets two million dollars in federal funding to clean up contaminated sites across the

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state. Some of those sites include a thread mill in Holyoake, the iron

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site in Brimfield, and other industrial locations in Chelsea and Leminster. The funding

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will help communities repurpose land for housing, commercial spaces, and community centers.

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Governor more Heilly says her administration is grateful to the White House for this partnership

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that will help pave the way for economic development in Massachusetts. Well, it's

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hot today, ninety degrees in many spots, and it may feel like the

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perfect time to go take a swim at the beach. WBC sus Nicol Davis

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with more on why you might want to reconsider that idea. At least for

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now. You're sweltering, Sweat is dripping off your brow, the sun is

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beating down. All you want to do is run and jump into the ocean

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to cool off. Trouble is, the ocean is still very cold, like

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the low fifties, and that's not super safe to swim in. National Weather

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Service forecaster Bryce Williams says things are not much warmer from the ocean. Any

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lakes and streams and rivers around here are still quite cold, no matter what

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size they are. So yes, it might be fine for a quick dip,

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but we still have some time to go before you should spend any significant

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time in the water any more. Weeks and even months for that water to

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get any warmer to where it's more like a safe temperature to be in.

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Now some DCR swimming areas, starting this weekend, we'll have lifeguard coverage at

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least part time. You're advised if you do go in to use caution and

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make sure you have safety support like a life jacket. Nicole Davis WBZ Boston's

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News Radio. Temperatures into the nineties this afternoon in a few spots, and

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well into the eighties even in places that didn't hit ninety. We will continue

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with the more humid conditions as well as we head into the evening tonight,

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partly cloudy sixty two. Tomorrow, humid temperatures into the eighties with some sun

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to start, then some clouds move in. Some thunderstorms push into the afternoon,

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and we may pick up a few nasty ones with some gusty winds,

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downpour and hail a thunderstorm in a few spots Tomorrow evening, then more comfortable,

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the humidity drops, the clouds break, and temperatures settle in the fifties

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and low sixties. On Friday. Mostly Sunday, still warm, lower humidity,

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temperatures in the low eighties, and should be all right for the Memorial

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Day weekend. Saturday, not as warm, there will be some clouds and

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sun. Temperatures about seventy in Boston, near eighty outside of one twenty eight.

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Right now we're at eighty eight degrees in Boston. The contrary to what

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you might hear in Boston, Wester's not all that far away this week.

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It even got close service we hear from wz's Matt Sirop. So basically,

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there's this portal between New York City and Dublin that's really just a live video

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conference on a giant screen. Was that somebody went then flushed? Yes,

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actually it was briefly shut down when a New Yorker, So you're not gonna

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flash us, right, But it's back now. And for one day earlier

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this week, my colleague Jay will Let and I set up a portal between Boston and Worcester and using our laptop. Woh, that was out. Yeah,

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I'm out here in Worcester. I am single. It did get a

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little flirty at times. My name is Dandelion. Oh Dandelion. Do you

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think I have the credentials of being a decent magazine model. The girl in

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the white hat. This is not a matchmaking service, to be clear,

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a once we established that it was mostly wholesome. Boston Wooster says, they

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don't like you, but I like you Alive from the portal. Mattch Shearer,

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WBZ, Boston's News Radio. Getting closer to a Memorial Day, It's

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important to remember those who gave their lives fighting for freedom. Wbz's Jared Broston's

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on Boston Common where people are doing just that. Roughly thirty seven thousand flags

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are on display in Boston Common for the annual Memorial Day Flag Guard. The

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event, run by Home Base and the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund, honors those

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that gave their lives protecting our country, but the gold Star Wives. This

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annual tradition is particularly important to me. It's honoring my husband. This is

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done to me and his memory to carry on. He always wanted to help

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other people, especially other veterans, so I feel doing things like this,

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I am helping carrying on his side. To say, each of the gold

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Star Wives lost their husbands while they were serving over you know, your friends,

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your family understand when your loved one passes, but we together, we

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call them atical assesssis, as we understand like nobody else can, because we

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all suffer the same loss, similar circumstances, and it's just very healing.

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It was very healing for me from the comment. I'm Jared Brosnan, WBZ

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Boston's News Radio. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the

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day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker,

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WBZ Boston's News Radio.