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Speaker 1: It is six o'clock on this Friday morning, finally in Boston,
Speaker 1: and we're waking up with some heat and humidity today
Speaker 1: seventy two right now in the city. The News at
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Speaker 1: your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. As
Speaker 1: summer deals another hothand sunshine and building clouds at a
Speaker 1: breezy hot that qmub A high of ninety one to
Speaker 1: ninety five is WBZ achiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. The air
Speaker 1: index temperatures will be in excess of one hundred degrees.
Speaker 1: The air will clear however overnight tonight for a pretty
Speaker 1: good look in weekend, time is almost up for a
Speaker 1: concession workers at Fenway Park to cut a deal with
Speaker 1: their bosses at vendor Aramark at noontime. Strike seems like
Speaker 1: a sure bet at this hour, and just hours before
Speaker 1: the Red Sox are expected to host the Dodgers this weekend.
Speaker 1: The union hope's fans will turn their backs on the
Speaker 1: concession stands, but Aramark says it has a contingency plan
Speaker 1: for what would be the park's first ever concession strike. Well,
Speaker 1: he turned professional wrestling inside outac.
Speaker 2: Is it a running wall off in.
Speaker 3: The Boston Garden, So there's no way out of my tungle.
Speaker 1: Van Hulk Hogan is dead.
Speaker 4: Hulk Hogan was professional wrestling, and Terry Bellay is over
Speaker 4: the top persona transformed the sport into a mainstream juggernaut,
Speaker 4: appearing in films like Rocky three, from the Loops and
Speaker 4: of course, the very first WrestleMania in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4: It wasn't always smooth sailing. In nineteen ninety four, he
Speaker 4: admitted to using steroids for thirteen years. Then twelve years
Speaker 4: later he was kicked out of the WWE Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame the result of a sex tape scandal.
Speaker 2: Matt Wolf CBS News.
Speaker 1: Will Cogan died at his home in Florida after first
Speaker 1: responders recalled there on concerns of cardiac arrest. Hul Cogan
Speaker 1: was seventy one. A done deal, the FCC blesses CBS
Speaker 1: parent company Paramount's merger with entertainment and media giant sky
Speaker 1: Dance for eight billion dollars. This is the deal that
Speaker 1: has caused so much uproar at CBS. The company settled
Speaker 1: a recent lawsuit of by President Trump over what it
Speaker 1: claims was a manipulated interview by sixty minutes with one
Speaker 1: time presidential rival Kamala Harris. The settlement of sixteen million
Speaker 1: dollars and then canceled Stephen Colbert and the Late Show franchise.
Speaker 1: Critics say the payoffs are a veiled bribe. All right,
Speaker 1: settle down as life returns to normal. This hangout continues
Speaker 1: to rock a Metro Westworld for the past three years.
Speaker 1: Haley's life in Stow has been absolutely miserable.
Speaker 2: Worst experience in my life.
Speaker 5: That's because they lost both of their Duncan locations in
Speaker 5: a matter of weeks. My reporting on that original story
Speaker 5: went viral.
Speaker 6: Because I've been traveling further away to go at Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you already have to travel now a mile and
Speaker 5: a half. The sun shined on great road as these
Speaker 5: words rang through the PA. We're officially ending our Duncan
Speaker 5: Desert at State Rep. Kate Hogan speaking to a crowd
Speaker 5: of hundreds in front of the newest Duncan location, which
Speaker 5: is not exactly in Stoved.
Speaker 6: Welcome everyone to the town of Duncan, Massachusetts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they changed the name of the town to Duncan
Speaker 5: for one day, which Haley says is not enough.
Speaker 2: I wish you would stay like this forever. And what
Speaker 2: time did you get here today? One thirty in the
Speaker 2: morning where she.
Speaker 5: Was in line for eight and a half hours for
Speaker 5: the record in Duncan, Massachusetts. Matt Shearer, WBZ, Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be one of the hottest
Speaker 1: days of the season in a summer that has piled
Speaker 1: hot days one on top of the other. It seems
Speaker 1: seventy two and increasingly muggy this morning. A heat advisory
Speaker 1: remains in effect until eight o'clock tonight. We'll see some
Speaker 1: sunshine this morning, building clouds throughout the day and the
Speaker 1: afternoon thread of showers and thunderstorms as temperatures rise well
Speaker 1: into the nineties. The record is ninety six, set more
Speaker 1: than a one hundred and forty years ago. We'll get
Speaker 1: very close to that today if not eclipse it, and
Speaker 1: the heat index will top one hundred degrees. We'll see
Speaker 1: those showers and thunderstorms rumble through the area later today
Speaker 1: and then the air starts to clear out overnight tonight,
Speaker 1: which is going to set the stage for a pretty
Speaker 1: decent looking weekend with the mix of sun and clouds
Speaker 1: both Tomorrow and Sunday, with daytime highs right around eighty
Speaker 1: before we start to warm things right back up as
Speaker 1: we head back to work on Monday. Right now in
Speaker 1: Boston its seventy two and some hazy skies here in
Speaker 1: the city at six oh six this Friday morning. It's
Speaker 1: a great day at the beach for adults to play
Speaker 1: in the sands.
Speaker 2: They'll not finish. The sand sculptures and the craftsmanship behind
Speaker 2: them are leaving folks in awe.
Speaker 3: I'm amazed. I can't believe what they could do with
Speaker 3: Seand I was really good when I was little at
Speaker 3: digging holes at the beach, but not so much.
Speaker 2: Building castles tell me from Revere is getting a good
Speaker 2: look long before the large crowds show up, which have
Speaker 2: seemingly been getting larger each year.
Speaker 3: They never used to shut this bore down here now
Speaker 3: they do, and they're very strictation, so I would come early.
Speaker 3: But it's exciting. I love seeing the little kids. I
Speaker 3: used to seeing the little kids' faces.
Speaker 2: His advice for those coming down take public transportation.
Speaker 3: You're not going to find a new wheel to park.
Speaker 2: At Revere Beach. James Rojas w b Z, Boston'snoos Radio.
Speaker 1: It literally smells like death and people are going to
Speaker 1: flock to its stench. A rare blooming of the noted
Speaker 1: corpse flower is about to take place in Wellesley. It
Speaker 1: takes about ten years from seed to bloom, and this
Speaker 1: is the weekend at Wheaton College. To breathe it in,
Speaker 1: experts say the corpse flower will be gone in a flash, too.
Speaker 1: Better hurry. The bloom only lasts for about twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's been a great year so far.
Speaker 5: Down on the farm, that's the biggest blueberry I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 6: Jane and Paul Newton run Jane and Paul's farm in Norfolk.
Speaker 6: They're showing me blueberries as wide around as golf balls.
Speaker 6: They've been in the business forty years and haven't seen
Speaker 6: a season like this ever. The bushers are so heavy
Speaker 6: with berries that the branches would touch the ground if
Speaker 6: they weren't held up. This style of new frills blueberry
Speaker 6: farm is common in southeastern mess I.
Speaker 7: Enjoy it being simple. Somebody retired. You want to simple
Speaker 7: out here.
Speaker 6: In many other places, they just give you a bucket
Speaker 6: and let you have at it. No hay rides or
Speaker 6: bouncy houses.
Speaker 7: To speak up.
Speaker 6: Paul dispelled some blueberry miss while we were there.
Speaker 7: A lot of people think the green ones are going
Speaker 7: to turn blue at home like a tomato. Yes, and
Speaker 7: they're picking blue in green and you have to say no,
Speaker 7: you got to just pick the blue one.
Speaker 6: Kyle Schaffel, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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