My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 4/29/2008

[0:46]" And this afternoon commute is brought to you -- the most trusted name in mattresses -- the mattress professionals natural gas should soon be restored to the north end after an outage that began last weekend but. The financial district may have to wait longer. Gas lines were flooded Saturday after a water main break. The -- and the cleanup have forced old trolley tour is to suspend its old Statehouse -- John -- is a company spokesman."

[1:11]" Today it's particularly a problem because of traffic down on congress street there's backed up takes about fifteen minutes ago two blocks but the way -- drivers working really good at adapting so we considered -- of this stuff you can get out the long -- off the -- up just a few blocks."

[1:25]" More on the story from WBZ's Lisa Meyer who caught up with Mayor Menino nothing like this is ever happened before in Boston not on this scale. And while some business owners are frustrated with the delays in getting gas service the mayor is remaining patient for now."

[1:40]" I'm not -- fallen. Questions did you which -- why it -- probably solvent what's -- future."

[1:47]" And the mayors making no predictions on when things will go back to normal on the economic problems like yank it out of bring people an extra -- look at the situation. Give us an assessment. I really happened. I customer service center has been set up for merchants and residents to help with -- connection issues and questions about. Ruined appliances and equipment in South Boston Lisa Meyer WBZ Newsradio 1030 in Everett traffic is moving again on route sixteen near the infamous suites -- circle. That theory was shut down for several hours after a truck carrying oil was cut off by a car and flipped over both drivers are okay. WBZ's Carl Stevens went to the scene."

[2:25]" This happened shortly after 10 o'clock on this rainy morning state police lieutenant Bob who loses doesn't look like a woman identified -- 72 year old Darcy d'souza don't limp. May have cut off a tractor trailer going into this traffic circle the truck smashed the car the woman in serious condition. I ask the lieutenant."

[2:41]" Will there be charges do you anticipate it's still under investigation we -- collision accident and they analysis and reconstruction section is all about truck team investigating the crash."

[2:52]" This is the same traffic circle where Lester tractor trailer overturned. Leading to a series of car explosions -- apartment house fires from -- circle in Everett Carl Stevens WBZ Newsradio 1030."

[3:03]" Updating an eleven year old Leominster boy hospitalized last Friday with carbon monoxide poisoning has now been released from Mass. General. In -- the time has sent nine year old Alejandro Thomas CN. We're four Wheeling with three adults in Lunenburg on the vehicle got stuck to the children stayed inside to stay warm and were later found unconscious. Thomas -- died on Sunday. One of hundreds of young polygamous sect now Enders are taken into custody in Texas is giving birth today. Child welfare officials and state troopers are standing watch outside the maternity ward. The spokesman for the fundamentalist Norman -- Mormon Church says the teen is in labor. She's eighteen Texas officials have drawn a list of miners taken into state custody. WBZ news time for a three here's Scott Edward the Subaru dealers and New England all wheel drive traffic on the thirties and."

[4:41]" A local congressman agrees with -- what President Bush had to say today that story's coming right up on WBZ WBZ news time 46 President Bush is up on his numbers as he talks about the sad state of the economy. CBS's Mark Knoller was at today's White House news conference."

[4:57]" Joey wasn't aware of four dollar a gallon gasoline at his last news conference President Bush wanted to show Wie was fully up to speed on the price of the pump now. Past eighteen months. Gas prices have gone up by a dollar and forty cents per gallon. And they blasted the democratic congress for blocking increase production of domestic oil but refusing to allow exploration and drilling in the and -- wildlife refuge in Alaska. He also said congress should have done more to expand refinery capacity in the US Mark Knoller of CBS news the white."

[5:29]" Democratic congressman Barney frank says he agrees that new refineries need to be built."

[5:34]" Actually it is this one where the oil companies that -- the replaced haven't wanted to build new refineries because they do very well with profits from the existing ones so yes on the capability refineries I would -- over the long term. -- reduce our use of oil but that -- and two words that he did some increased refinery capacity in the short term."

[5:53]" As for the housing crisis frank says a bill in his house financial services committee aims to reduce the rate of foreclosures and it could be a vote this week. Dartmouth police looking for a man who held up -- story this morning police responding to a 911 called just before ten at MJ variety on state road. We're told by a clerk that a man in his late twenties robbed the place. A clerk says the suspect followed her inside she came back from having a cigarette flashed a handgun and told her to give him all the money. He was such a -- to tell her that he knows with a clerk lived Bolton after telling the clerk to lying on the floor. Tearful testimony on Capitol Hill relatives of those who died from a tainted blood thinner are asking congress to keep this from happening again. The AP's -- about -- has more on today's subcommittee hearing."

[6:43]" More than eighty people have died from contaminated heparin including -- Hugh -- 47 year old husband. She thought that since she's a dialysis nurse she'd be able to protect him from any mistakes in his treatment. I never thought the lifesaving medication we're relying on. Might be contaminated -- usually died a month after his mother did she also received tainted heparin at the same dialysis facility. In his prepared remarks ahead of Baxter International says it appears the drug which was made in China was deliberately contaminated. -- revoked under Capitol Hill WBZ news time now for 8. Here's the news right here. See the news that wbz1030.com. And that John ward not with a Wall Street numbers the trading is over and what they have John."

[8:18]" WBZ news time forte and we have seen a little bit of sunshine house mostly cloudy again in Boston. Here's Bob Larson with the extended WBZ AccuWeather forecast in -- clouded over again Diane it's about to rain again it's already raining -- well well west of the city I'm trying to say but. Bottom line is these leftover showers will be moving out of the area than this evening and the trend is for clearing again during the night and it's going to be cold died breezy as well that where it is certainly. Picked up the -- today and a stay that way tonight would drop to 37 of 42 a mixture of clouds sunshine tomorrow cool and breezy. At a high of 55 a mostly cleared tomorrow Diallo forty sunshine give way to clouds Thursday night 58 degrees and can be a couple of showers. On Friday with a high of 54 next whether it just ten minutes on WBZ AccuWeather meteorologist Bob Larson."

[9:06]" It's fifty degrees in Boston it feels a lot colder than that because of the winds coming out of northwest. Gusting up to about seventeen miles an hour"