Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: The committities down is a beautiful sunny day, seventy four
Speaker 2: degrees right now in the city at eleven o'clock on
Speaker 2: this fourth of July. Thanks for being with us. I'm
Speaker 2: Sherry Small. Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: A major win for President Trump's contentious budget bill after
Speaker 2: it passed by a narrow margin in the House yesterday.
Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Brandon Truet has more on the impact
Speaker 2: to local nonprofits.
Speaker 3: Step into Daniel's table in framing him, and you'll find
Speaker 3: Sandra Montecito, faced with empty shelves and a growing need.
Speaker 3: It's way down. Donations have been really down for the
Speaker 3: past decade. The organization has been helping the food and secure.
Speaker 3: The donations have dropped more than fifteen percent, and they're
Speaker 3: worried this new bill will make it worse. These cuts
Speaker 3: are going to have a significant impact to Daniel's table.
Speaker 3: When President Donald Trump's signature, Big Beautiful Bill passed on Thursday,
Speaker 3: it significantly increased spending for border security, immigration enforcement, and defense.
Speaker 3: It also extends the twenty seventeen tax cuts from the
Speaker 3: president's first term, increases the child tax credit, ends tax
Speaker 3: on tips and overtime pay. Democrats unanimously voting against the bill,
Speaker 3: citing changes and steep cuts to safety net programs, including
Speaker 3: SNAP and Medicaid. The non partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates
Speaker 3: Medicaid could be cut by nine hundred and thirty billion dollars,
Speaker 3: with nearly twelve million people at risk of losing healthcare.
Speaker 2: And President Trump is expected to sign the bill at
Speaker 2: a ceremony at the White House later today. The Boston
Speaker 2: Pops firework Spectacular will feature some of the city youngest artists.
Speaker 2: Here's WBC's Jared Brosnan with more on that.
Speaker 4: Griffith at soundcheck first time.
Speaker 5: We've been with the Pops for this event since twenty fourteen,
Speaker 5: so we're really excited to be here to bring a
Speaker 5: bit of youth and fun and hope.
Speaker 4: It's not just the Pops and the BCC reuniting.
Speaker 5: One of the songs we're singing after the Storm, and
Speaker 5: that'll be with Leslie Odom Junior. We're super excited to
Speaker 5: reconnects with him. We haven't performed with him for a
Speaker 5: little while, but he's familiar to BCC. We're really excited
Speaker 5: to welcome him back to Boston and to have that
Speaker 5: partnership there.
Speaker 4: He says. The kids couldn't be more excited to take
Speaker 4: that hatch shell stage.
Speaker 5: It's a very special moment, an opportunity for our city
Speaker 5: to come together and are really glad that Boston's Social
Speaker 5: Scores gets to be ambassadors of hope and harmony for
Speaker 5: our city.
Speaker 4: For Boston and jere Brows and w b Z Boston.
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Speaker 2: Security is beefed up across the country this fourth with
Speaker 2: law enforcement bracing for possible attacks.
Speaker 1: The nation's police on high alert, increasing security in the air,
Speaker 1: on the streets, and the waterways. The FBI and Homeland
Speaker 1: Security warns the potential for lone wolf attacks on Independence Day.
Speaker 1: Bultants reveal authorities are concern that lone wolf attackers might
Speaker 1: conduct mass shootings or use cars or even drones as weapons,
Speaker 1: authorities reacting to a stunning pace of high profile attacks
Speaker 1: in recent months.
Speaker 2: That's ABC's Thomas reporting there no specific plots have been uncovered,
Speaker 2: but police say they are taking no chances. It's a
Speaker 2: beautiful day today. Highs eighty three, upper seventies to near
Speaker 2: eighties on the Cape and the islands, and the humidity
Speaker 2: is dialed down as well, so beautiful, mainly clear skies
Speaker 2: tonight with the low of sixty four in the city.
Speaker 2: Fifties is the low in most of the suburbs. Tomorrow Saturday,
Speaker 2: it's a dry day, a mix of sun and clouds,
Speaker 2: highs eighty four to eighty eight, closer to eighty once
Speaker 2: again for the Cape and the islands. We warm up
Speaker 2: even more on Sunday, mix of sun and clouds with
Speaker 2: the high of ninety two. That's the exact same carbon
Speaker 2: copy for Monday, and then looking ahead, the heat breaks
Speaker 2: for Tuesday will bring the high down to settling mainly
Speaker 2: in the eighties, and we'll add a couple of thunderstorms
Speaker 2: as well. Right now in the city, we have sunny
Speaker 2: skies and seventy four degrees. In Boston it's eleven oh five,
Speaker 2: all right. Triple A is predicting seventy two million Americans
Speaker 2: are traveling for four for the holiday. CBS's Dave Melkoff
Speaker 2: has details from Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta.
Speaker 6: American Airlines predicts that they will see the most customers
Speaker 6: ever during this travel period. United says that expects to
Speaker 6: fly five hundred and sixty thousand people every single day
Speaker 6: of the fourth of July travel period. That's something like
Speaker 6: three takeoffs per minute.
Speaker 2: According to fly to ware. So far today, there have
Speaker 2: been seventy six flights delayed and ten flights canceled. The
Speaker 2: nation's unemployment rate fell to four point one percent. That's
Speaker 2: down a tick from a four point two percent back
Speaker 2: in May, but CBS's Joe link Kent tells us you
Speaker 2: have to look behind the headlines.
Speaker 7: What you need to understand about that, though, is labor
Speaker 7: force participation rate. That's a nerdy way of saying some
Speaker 7: people who were looking for a job stopped looking, and
Speaker 7: so that means they don't feel confident in the job
Speaker 7: market to continue. So that actually isn't a great number.
Speaker 7: And labor force participate was actually at its lowest since
Speaker 7: twenty twenty two, so that is certainly a flat.
Speaker 2: And economists expect growth to slow in the second half
Speaker 2: of the year. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said
Speaker 2: that tariffs could start to hobble economic activity and drive
Speaker 2: up inflation this summer. At a gathering of central bankers
Speaker 2: in Portugal earlier this week, Powell said that the FED
Speaker 2: has held off on lowering interest rates this year because
Speaker 2: of President Trump's tariffs. UPS is offering buyouts to delivery
Speaker 2: drivers as part of what the company is calling a reconfiguration.
Speaker 8: In a statement, UPS as full time drivers can get
Speaker 8: a generous financial package for leaving the company, along with
Speaker 8: any earned retirement benefits. The union that represents drivers calls
Speaker 8: the plan an illegal violation of a contract agreement to
Speaker 8: create more than twenty two thousand jobs. Instead, UPS announced
Speaker 8: in April it plans to cut twenty thousand jobs to
Speaker 8: lower costs and improve efficiency. I'm Tammy Trhio.
Speaker 2: A local volunteer, has found a massive Lishnist era document
Speaker 2: while searching American Baptist church archives in Groton. The nearly
Speaker 2: one hundred eighty year old scroll is five feet long
Speaker 2: and includes a handwritten declaration signed by more than one
Speaker 2: hundred New England ministers saying they disapprove and abhor the
Speaker 2: system of American slavery. Document was signed two years after
Speaker 2: the Southern Baptist Convention was formed to uphold the institution
Speaker 2: of slavery. You are now in the loop. For news
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