Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good morning,
Speaker 1: party people, six o'clock on a Tuesday, kind of foggy
Speaker 1: and otherwise cloudy here in Boston, but warm and muggy too.
Speaker 1: It is seventy degrees as we get going this Tuesday morning,
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown. Welcome aboard. It's soupy. It's swampy in Boston.
Speaker 1: Clowns and breaks of sun with a few showers and
Speaker 1: thunderstorms around, especially from midday into the evening. This WBZ
Speaker 1: achi weather meteorologist Heather's are high. Temperatures will be near
Speaker 1: ninety today. As America is about to turn two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty nine years old, millions of us are going places.
Speaker 2: Always get out of town a couple of days before
Speaker 2: the fourth that's a safe protocol for sure.
Speaker 3: It's a solid game plan, as Brian and his family
Speaker 3: are not the only ones here a logan getting away
Speaker 3: for the holiday weekend. But can I ask, what were you guys heading.
Speaker 2: On Lusia celebrate you know, in warm weather and on
Speaker 2: the beach.
Speaker 3: Also going to a beach our Jack and Lily.
Speaker 1: We're gonna Newport Beach, California.
Speaker 4: How that listen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I play by her a little bit. Did you
Speaker 3: book today knowing that I'll try to beat the.
Speaker 1: Rush from No, we didn't the cheapest flight. We're almost
Speaker 1: being the rush.
Speaker 3: So it's good thinking about this morning. Nationwide, the TSA
Speaker 3: expects to screen over eighteen million travelers between today and
Speaker 3: July sixth. At Logan, James Rojas WBZ Boston's news radio
Speaker 3: and if.
Speaker 1: You are at Logan Airport this morning, you might need
Speaker 1: to cool your jets a little bit. Flight Aware is
Speaker 1: reporting about fifty delays and cancelations on the board. At
Speaker 1: this moment, summer jobs for teenagers might be a thing
Speaker 1: of the past. The signs are there, with teenage unemployment
Speaker 1: this summer at more than thirteen percent. That rivals a
Speaker 1: decade old high of close to eighteen percent back in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Teenagers say they're lured in by help wanted
Speaker 1: signs only to learn the jobs in questions sometimes don't exist,
Speaker 1: or someone else got the job. Oftentimes an adult economic
Speaker 1: uncertainty also leaves many teenagers with nothing to do. This summer,
Speaker 1: not two weeks since being acquitted. HEREO zero zero one
Speaker 1: is not quilty and zero zero three not quilty.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Karen Reid goes Hollywood. The forty five year old Mansfield
Speaker 1: woman cuts a deal to bring her story to Tinsiltown.
Speaker 1: Reid continues her business relationship with lead attorney Alan Jackson
Speaker 1: to do this deal with LBI Productions. Officials with the
Speaker 1: company says Reed's story is not just a legal thriller,
Speaker 1: It's about what happens when a single voice refuses to
Speaker 1: be silenced. Well, this changes everything. Today is the first
Speaker 1: day that the NCAA will allow colleges and universities to
Speaker 1: begin paying student athletes. The landmark ruling from a federal
Speaker 1: judge now creates a revenue sharing opportunity between schools and athletes.
Speaker 1: The settlement, approved last month forces the organization to pay
Speaker 1: two point eight billion dollars over the next decade. The
Speaker 1: Power five conferences and other schools which opt in will
Speaker 1: again at more than twenty million dollars this year, with
Speaker 1: increases scheduled in years to come. Those payments are on
Speaker 1: top of scholarships and other student benefits. Red Sox fire
Speaker 1: Away on the Reds too late the call on Nessen.
Speaker 1: It's a record setting night for Willier Abray you at
Speaker 1: Fenway Socks and Cincinnati will go again first pitch at
Speaker 1: seven ten tonight and the Celtics are shape shifting before
Speaker 1: our eyes. Is another link to banner number eighteen Hits
Speaker 1: the Road. What you see is what you get this morning.
Speaker 1: As you open the blinds, you're going to see it's
Speaker 1: very foggy in some areas and otherwise just a low
Speaker 1: blanket of clouds here in Boston this morning. We're expecting
Speaker 1: some shower activity, although the radar right now is pretty
Speaker 1: quiet here in Boston this morning. It's going to fire
Speaker 1: up a little bit later on today with some showers
Speaker 1: and thunderstorms moving through the area. We might even see
Speaker 1: some breaks of sun along the way. This is one
Speaker 1: of those shaky summer days that almost anything goes. The
Speaker 1: atmosphere is unstable because we do have a lot of
Speaker 1: humidity in the air. High temperatures today will be right
Speaker 1: around ninety degrees. It is going to continue to be
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable overnight to night, lows only in the lower seventies.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow promises to be a slightly quieter day with partly
Speaker 1: sunny skies and high temperatures once again in the mid eighties.
Speaker 1: Very warm Fourth of July week continues on Thursday, with
Speaker 1: partly sunny skies ninety for a high and on the
Speaker 1: holiday itself, it looks like it's going to be just
Speaker 1: a spectacular day with high temperatures right around eighty five.
Speaker 1: Right down in Boston, it is seventy clouds and fog
Speaker 1: this morning in the city six six this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: Senators on Capitol Hill continue to burn the midnight oil
Speaker 1: as the VODA rama continues on hundreds of amendments to
Speaker 1: President Trump's Big, Beautiful Budget bill plods along.
Speaker 4: The bill includes roughly four trillion dollars in tax cuts
Speaker 4: for the wealthy, along with new funding for immigration enforcement
Speaker 4: and fulfill some campaign pledges like no taxes on tips
Speaker 4: and overtime. It also guts biden era clean energy initiatives
Speaker 4: and slashes Medicate, something so Trump promised he would not do.
Speaker 1: ABC's Mary Bruce. The President has delivered a self imposed
Speaker 1: deadline of the fourth of July to get a bill
Speaker 1: back to his desk, but he is willing to grant
Speaker 1: some wiggle room if passed by the Senate. A return
Speaker 1: trip to the House is up next, and time is
Speaker 1: simply running short. Well, if the Big Beautiful Budget Bill
Speaker 1: does pass, Elon Musk promises he'll be out for revenge.
Speaker 1: He promises to launch a Third America Party with the
Speaker 1: sole purpose of targeting Republican candidates up for reelection. Musk
Speaker 1: says the budget still stinks and eliminates much of the
Speaker 1: savings that his Doge team accomplished. The Congressional Budget Office
Speaker 1: says more than ten million Americans will lose health coverage
Speaker 1: through Medicaid over the years, and the nation's debt will
Speaker 1: increase by more than three trillion dollars in the coming
Speaker 1: years as well.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: At one point, we thought we were so cool forty
Speaker 1: six years ago today, but he Bz's Drew mo'holland is
Speaker 1: here with a walk down memory Lane.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Andrew, Good morning Jeffrey. The Sony Walkman, the
Speaker 2: what the Kid? Yeah, come on now, you don't know
Speaker 2: what that is, right?
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: This was a game changer when it made its debut.
Speaker 2: At the time, The Walkman revolutionized the way we listen
Speaker 2: to music. The Sony Walkman.
Speaker 1: There's a tiny stereo cassette player with truly incredible sound. Hey, hey, son,
Speaker 1: I try it out.
Speaker 2: Imagine music on the go, Jeffrey with our headphone.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that?
Speaker 2: The Walkman went from concept to sale in just a
Speaker 2: few months. The first ones needed custom made batteries, just
Speaker 2: three thousand sales in the first month, but marketing people
Speaker 2: did their thing and turned the tide on the walk.
Speaker 1: And then the headphones. I don't know if you remember,
Speaker 1: they were just they weren't very comfortable, and they didn't
Speaker 1: have great sound quality. I'm sure for the times we
Speaker 1: thought that was the coolest.
Speaker 2: Thing ever, but it was beautiful.
Speaker 1: We've come so far. You are now in the loop.
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