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<v Speaker 1>This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

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<v Speaker 2>The committities down is a beautiful sunny day, seventy four

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<v Speaker 2>degrees right now in the city at eleven o'clock on

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<v Speaker 2>this fourth of July. Thanks for being with us. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>Sherry Small. Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening.

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<v Speaker 2>A major win for President Trump's contentious budget bill after

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<v Speaker 2>it passed by a narrow margin in the House yesterday.

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<v Speaker 2>CBS News Boston's Brandon Truet has more on the impact

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<v Speaker 2>to local nonprofits.

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<v Speaker 3>Step into Daniel's table in framing him, and you'll find

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<v Speaker 3>Sandra Montecito, faced with empty shelves and a growing need.

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<v Speaker 3>It's way down. Donations have been really down for the

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<v Speaker 3>past decade. The organization has been helping the food and secure.

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<v Speaker 3>The donations have dropped more than fifteen percent, and they're

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<v Speaker 3>worried this new bill will make it worse. These cuts

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<v Speaker 3>are going to have a significant impact to Daniel's table.

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<v Speaker 3>When President Donald Trump's signature, Big Beautiful Bill passed on Thursday,

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<v Speaker 3>it significantly increased spending for border security, immigration enforcement, and defense.

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<v Speaker 3>It also extends the twenty seventeen tax cuts from the

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<v Speaker 3>president's first term, increases the child tax credit, ends tax

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<v Speaker 3>on tips and overtime pay. Democrats unanimously voting against the bill,

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<v Speaker 3>citing changes and steep cuts to safety net programs, including

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<v Speaker 3>SNAP and Medicaid. The non partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates

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<v Speaker 3>Medicaid could be cut by nine hundred and thirty billion dollars,

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<v Speaker 3>with nearly twelve million people at risk of losing healthcare.

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<v Speaker 2>And President Trump is expected to sign the bill at

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<v Speaker 2>a ceremony at the White House later today. The Boston

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<v Speaker 2>Pops firework Spectacular will feature some of the city youngest artists.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's WBC's Jared Brosnan with more on that.

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<v Speaker 4>Griffith at soundcheck first time.

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<v Speaker 5>We've been with the Pops for this event since twenty fourteen,

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<v Speaker 5>so we're really excited to be here to bring a

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<v Speaker 5>bit of youth and fun and hope.

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<v Speaker 4>It's not just the Pops and the BCC reuniting.

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<v Speaker 5>One of the songs we're singing after the Storm, and

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<v Speaker 5>that'll be with Leslie Odom Junior. We're super excited to

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<v Speaker 5>reconnects with him. We haven't performed with him for a

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<v Speaker 5>little while, but he's familiar to BCC. We're really excited

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<v Speaker 5>to welcome him back to Boston and to have that

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<v Speaker 5>partnership there.

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<v Speaker 4>He says. The kids couldn't be more excited to take

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<v Speaker 4>that hatch shell stage.

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<v Speaker 5>It's a very special moment, an opportunity for our city

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<v Speaker 5>to come together and are really glad that Boston's Social

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<v Speaker 5>Scores gets to be ambassadors of hope and harmony for

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<v Speaker 5>our city.

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<v Speaker 4>For Boston and jere Brows and w b Z Boston.

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<v Speaker 4>So Here's radio.

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<v Speaker 2>Security is beefed up across the country this fourth with

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<v Speaker 2>law enforcement bracing for possible attacks.

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<v Speaker 1>The nation's police on high alert, increasing security in the air,

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<v Speaker 1>on the streets, and the waterways. The FBI and Homeland

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<v Speaker 1>Security warns the potential for lone wolf attacks on Independence Day.

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<v Speaker 1>Bultants reveal authorities are concern that lone wolf attackers might

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<v Speaker 1>conduct mass shootings or use cars or even drones as weapons,

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<v Speaker 1>authorities reacting to a stunning pace of high profile attacks

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<v Speaker 1>in recent months.

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<v Speaker 2>That's ABC's Thomas reporting there no specific plots have been uncovered,

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<v Speaker 2>but police say they are taking no chances. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>beautiful day today. Highs eighty three, upper seventies to near

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<v Speaker 2>eighties on the Cape and the islands, and the humidity

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<v Speaker 2>is dialed down as well, so beautiful, mainly clear skies

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<v Speaker 2>tonight with the low of sixty four in the city.

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<v Speaker 2>Fifties is the low in most of the suburbs. Tomorrow Saturday,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a dry day, a mix of sun and clouds,

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<v Speaker 2>highs eighty four to eighty eight, closer to eighty once

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<v Speaker 2>again for the Cape and the islands. We warm up

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<v Speaker 2>even more on Sunday, mix of sun and clouds with

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<v Speaker 2>the high of ninety two. That's the exact same carbon

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<v Speaker 2>copy for Monday, and then looking ahead, the heat breaks

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<v Speaker 2>for Tuesday will bring the high down to settling mainly

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<v Speaker 2>in the eighties, and we'll add a couple of thunderstorms

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<v Speaker 2>as well. Right now in the city, we have sunny

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<v Speaker 2>skies and seventy four degrees. In Boston it's eleven oh five,

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<v Speaker 2>all right. Triple A is predicting seventy two million Americans

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<v Speaker 2>are traveling for four for the holiday. CBS's Dave Melkoff

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<v Speaker 2>has details from Hartsfield Jackson Airport in Atlanta.

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<v Speaker 6>American Airlines predicts that they will see the most customers

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<v Speaker 6>ever during this travel period. United says that expects to

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<v Speaker 6>fly five hundred and sixty thousand people every single day

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<v Speaker 6>of the fourth of July travel period. That's something like

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<v Speaker 6>three takeoffs per minute.

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<v Speaker 2>According to fly to ware. So far today, there have

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<v Speaker 2>been seventy six flights delayed and ten flights canceled. The

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<v Speaker 2>nation's unemployment rate fell to four point one percent. That's

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<v Speaker 2>down a tick from a four point two percent back

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<v Speaker 2>in May, but CBS's Joe link Kent tells us you

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<v Speaker 2>have to look behind the headlines.

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<v Speaker 7>What you need to understand about that, though, is labor

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<v Speaker 7>force participation rate. That's a nerdy way of saying some

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<v Speaker 7>people who were looking for a job stopped looking, and

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<v Speaker 7>so that means they don't feel confident in the job

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<v Speaker 7>market to continue. So that actually isn't a great number.

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<v Speaker 7>And labor force participate was actually at its lowest since

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<v Speaker 7>twenty twenty two, so that is certainly a flat.

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<v Speaker 2>And economists expect growth to slow in the second half

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<v Speaker 2>of the year. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has said

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<v Speaker 2>that tariffs could start to hobble economic activity and drive

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<v Speaker 2>up inflation this summer. At a gathering of central bankers

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<v Speaker 2>in Portugal earlier this week, Powell said that the FED

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<v Speaker 2>has held off on lowering interest rates this year because

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<v Speaker 2>of President Trump's tariffs. UPS is offering buyouts to delivery

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<v Speaker 2>drivers as part of what the company is calling a reconfiguration.

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<v Speaker 8>In a statement, UPS as full time drivers can get

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<v Speaker 8>a generous financial package for leaving the company, along with

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<v Speaker 8>any earned retirement benefits. The union that represents drivers calls

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<v Speaker 8>the plan an illegal violation of a contract agreement to

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<v Speaker 8>create more than twenty two thousand jobs. Instead, UPS announced

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<v Speaker 8>in April it plans to cut twenty thousand jobs to

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<v Speaker 8>lower costs and improve efficiency. I'm Tammy Trhio.

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<v Speaker 2>A local volunteer, has found a massive Lishnist era document

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<v Speaker 2>while searching American Baptist church archives in Groton. The nearly

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred eighty year old scroll is five feet long

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<v Speaker 2>and includes a handwritten declaration signed by more than one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred New England ministers saying they disapprove and abhor the

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<v Speaker 2>system of American slavery. Document was signed two years after

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<v Speaker 2>the Southern Baptist Convention was formed to uphold the institution

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<v Speaker 2>of slavery. You are now in the loop. For news

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