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Speaker 1: is good morning Friday. Welcome. We're waking up out cloudy skies.
Speaker 1: It's damp feel here in Boston, but it's still raining
Speaker 1: over the Cape and islands this morning, and it's a
Speaker 1: bit windy as well. Sixty four here in the city.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. So
Speaker 1: where'd my summer go? Rather cloudy with a gusty wind
Speaker 1: and periods of brain are hi today sixty five to
Speaker 1: sixty nine. That is w b Z Achi weather meteorologist
Speaker 1: Joe Lundberg. A coastal flood advisory is in effect for
Speaker 1: high tides today. Much of the rain, though we'll be
Speaker 1: confined to south of Boston. A New York mugging throw
Speaker 1: good move and despite hanging on to the shirt into
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Speaker 1: The Patriots get pummeled by the Jets and the worst
Speaker 1: loss to their rivals in twenty five years, but is
Speaker 1: that game the start of a new era?
Speaker 2: It wasn't quite Gerald Ford taking over for Richard Nixon,
Speaker 2: but Drake May did make his NFL debut last night
Speaker 2: against the Jets.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know that early.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear about that.
Speaker 4: I didn't even I just what quarter, fourth quarter on
Speaker 4: the team's last drive, And if you were up late
Speaker 4: enough to watch the beginning of the game, it went
Speaker 4: about as well as things went for starter Jacoby Brissett
Speaker 4: al Michael's on prime.
Speaker 1: May under pressure and gets sacked.
Speaker 2: One of seven sacks allowed by a leaky at best
Speaker 2: offensive line and a game that was nowhere near as
Speaker 2: close as the final score may indicate.
Speaker 5: It didn't look too good.
Speaker 6: Not really what I wanted to see.
Speaker 3: I mean strate to say hopeful, but.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Chris Fauma WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Doesn't get any easier for the Patriots. Next up, San Francisco,
Speaker 1: a Senate committee votes to approve civil and criminal contempt
Speaker 1: of Congress charges against the head of bankrupt Stewart Healthcare,
Speaker 1: Ralph Delatory is taken to the woodshed for his refusal
Speaker 1: to testify to the panel under subpoena. Lawyers for Delatory
Speaker 1: say he's being made a scapegoat for the hospital chain's
Speaker 1: financial failures, while senators want to know why he and
Speaker 1: others with the company continue to live lives of the
Speaker 1: rich and famous. The full Senate will take up the
Speaker 1: matter next meantime, State and regulatory approvals continue in hopes
Speaker 1: of approving sales of Stewart's remaining six hospitals in Massachusetts
Speaker 1: due by the end of this month, and a new
Speaker 1: report with some alarming findings on social media and your
Speaker 1: privacy is house.
Speaker 6: Self regulation has been a failure. That's one of the
Speaker 6: main findings in a one hundred and twenty nine page
Speaker 6: report by the Federal Trade Commission. It accuses social media
Speaker 6: companies like Meta, YouTube, and TikTok of a vast surveillance
Speaker 6: of their users, including children, while failing to protect their
Speaker 6: privacy and personal information. Jelena Kahn says the companies collect
Speaker 6: enormous amounts of personal data and make billions of dollars
Speaker 6: off it every year. FTC says it's time for Congress
Speaker 6: to pass the legislation to protect privacy and young users online.
Speaker 6: Daria alving Er.
Speaker 1: ABC News Summer's Last Gasp is underway. Final full day
Speaker 1: of summer is tomorrow. It's not going to feel like
Speaker 1: it looks like the season's already packed its bags and
Speaker 1: left us. We've got a cool northeasterly breeze today as
Speaker 1: temperatures will remain in the mid sixties. It's the best
Speaker 1: we'll do in fact, right now out the door at
Speaker 1: sixty four, but it feels a little bit on the
Speaker 1: humid side. It's a damp field to the air as well.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of rain drops here in the Greater
Speaker 1: Boston area. Most of the rain this morning is confined
Speaker 1: over the Cape and the islands, and there is some
Speaker 1: choppy water as well. We do have a high surf
Speaker 1: advisory in place this morning and a coastal flood advisory
Speaker 1: for the times of some astronomical high tides throughout the
Speaker 1: day today. Again, most of this rain is going to
Speaker 1: be confined to the south shore, the Cape and the islands,
Speaker 1: and that's the way it's going to be looks like
Speaker 1: over the weekend. With an unsettled weather pattern settling in.
Speaker 1: We've got temperatures mainly in the sixties. Some sunshine will
Speaker 1: help us round out the weekend on Sunday. Right now
Speaker 1: in Boston, cloudy skies and damp at sixty four here
Speaker 1: in the city six oh five on this Friday morning.
Speaker 1: The head of the correction officers union at a maximum
Speaker 1: security prison in Massachusetts says this week's inmate attack on
Speaker 1: members is attempted murder.
Speaker 3: Tensions are high inside and outside the Suza Baranowski Correctional
Speaker 3: Center that remains in lockdown with tighter security at the entrance.
Speaker 3: Two corrections officers were violently stabbed by inmates in a
Speaker 3: housing unit, and their union wants answers, calling it a hit.
Speaker 5: We're going to try and kill this officer. Fortunately, this
Speaker 5: officer fought his way past it and threw it, and
Speaker 5: now we're lucky that we're not talking and having a
Speaker 5: different conversation right now.
Speaker 3: One officer was stabbed twelve times in the back and remains.
Speaker 1: Hospitalizedwdbztv's Beth Germano also tells us four of the other
Speaker 1: officers have been treated and released from a nearby hospital.
Speaker 1: It is a month and a half till election. Can
Speaker 1: you believe that Donald Trump takes his campaign to Arizona
Speaker 1: and Nevada today, while Kamala Harris will be in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: for a rally mail in voting is already underway in
Speaker 1: a number of states. You can add Minnesota and Virginia
Speaker 1: to that list today and Vermont jumps on board tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Also today, the first early in person voting begins in Virginia,
Speaker 1: South Dakota, and Minnesota, home state of Democratic vice presidential
Speaker 1: nominee Tim Walls. Mail in and early in person voting
Speaker 1: gets underway in Massachusetts next month. Your coffee comes with
Speaker 1: a bit of an additional jolts up.
Speaker 7: Bright green pod is set up in a parking lot,
Speaker 7: and when you drive up, we.
Speaker 5: Put your order in the window and that window opens
Speaker 5: and then it's right there.
Speaker 7: Good old coffee with a science fiction feel. Rob Witten
Speaker 7: started ping alongside his partner. You order on the app
Speaker 7: and turn on Bluetooth to make the magic happen. Right now,
Speaker 7: they're still inside the pod making sure things go smoothly.
Speaker 7: But the goal of this pilot is complete automation. Rob says.
Speaker 7: The feedback's been.
Speaker 1: Good or no way? Or is that really my drink?
Speaker 1: You know it's and it's all freshly made.
Speaker 7: Who knows. Maybe robo baristas are the way of the future.
Speaker 7: And Lowell, I'm Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: You like that morning cup of coffee, do you well? Good,
Speaker 1: because it's about to cost you an arm and a leg.
Speaker 8: Brazilian coffee farmers are grappling with above average temperatures as
Speaker 8: the country, the world's largest coffee producer, faces its worst
Speaker 8: drought in more than seven decades. Vietnam, the second largest
Speaker 8: coffee producer, is also experiencing heat and drought affecting its
Speaker 8: coffee crops. That's causing crops shortages, which are now expected
Speaker 8: to send coffee prices positively percolated. Michael Toscano, CBS News.
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