Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 1: Eighty six degree is involved at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. President Trump is giving
Speaker 1: some more updates on feelings about tomorrow's summit with Russian
Speaker 1: President Vladimir Putin. CBS is Linda Kenyon with more.
Speaker 2: I would say that tomorrow, if all I want to
Speaker 2: do is set the table for the next meeting, which
Speaker 2: should happen.
Speaker 3: Shortly, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump
Speaker 3: said this meeting, aimed at ending the war in Ukraine,
Speaker 3: could really go either way.
Speaker 2: We're going to find out where everybody stands, and I'll
Speaker 2: know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes,
Speaker 2: who are five minutes like we tend to find out
Speaker 2: whether or not we're going to have a good meeting
Speaker 2: or a bad meeting.
Speaker 3: Earlier, the President said he expects to speak with Ukrainian
Speaker 3: President Zelensky as soon as he wraps up his discussions
Speaker 3: with President Putin. Linday Canyon, CBS News. The White House
Speaker 3: closing in on a deal. Harvard University and the Trump
Speaker 3: administration reportedly are getting close to it that would require
Speaker 3: the school to pay five hundred million dollars to regain
Speaker 3: access to federal funding and end investigations. According to a
Speaker 3: person familiar with the matter, the framework is still being
Speaker 3: sorted out with significant gaps. However, both sides have agreed
Speaker 3: on the financial figure and a settlement could be finalized
Speaker 3: in the coming weeks. The agreement would end a battle
Speaker 3: that's been going on for months that has tested the
Speaker 3: boundaries of the government's authority over America's universities. Protests have
Speaker 3: begun in Washington, d C. Over the ramped up presence
Speaker 3: of federal law enforcements.
Speaker 4: A new ice checkpoint on d C's fourteenth Street Northwest
Speaker 4: prompted protesters to urge drivers to avoid the masked agents.
Speaker 5: Seen two people get to team, one by Ice, one
Speaker 5: by the police.
Speaker 4: With the President asserting federal control of DC, police Chief
Speaker 4: Pamela Smith has issued new directives to officers that they
Speaker 4: can assist federal immigration enforcement during traffic stops. She's also
Speaker 4: ordered a new eight pm weekend curfew for teens in
Speaker 4: the Navy Yard neighborhood, a popular dining district that includes
Speaker 4: the ballpark where the Nats play. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington.
Speaker 1: What's thought to be the first lawsuit related to the
Speaker 1: July fourth flash floods in central Texas I have now
Speaker 1: has been filed. Maybc's Jim Ryan with more probation.
Speaker 6: Officer Jada Floyd and her police officer fiancee Bailey Martin
Speaker 6: were staying in a recreational vehicle at campground alongside the
Speaker 6: Guadalupe River on July fourth. When the river rose out
Speaker 6: of its banks, the RV was washed away, taking Floyd
Speaker 6: and Martin with it. Floyd's family is seeking over a
Speaker 6: million dollars, accusing the campground, its owners, and its general
Speaker 6: manager of failing to warn yes of the potential risk
Speaker 6: of flooding. Jim Rowing in ABC News Dallas.
Speaker 1: The woman accused of killing a Border Patrol agent in
Speaker 1: Vermont last January, has been indicted on murder charges and
Speaker 1: is now eligible for the death penalty. Teresa young Blood
Speaker 1: is a member of a cult like group called the Tissians,
Speaker 1: which has been linked to six different killings. Young Blood
Speaker 1: is accused of shooting agent David Mayland during a traffic
Speaker 1: stop January twentieth, after a Vermont hotel employee reported seeing
Speaker 1: young Blood and her companion, carrying guns and wearing black
Speaker 1: tactical gear. She was initially charged with using a deadly
Speaker 1: weapon against law enforcement and discharging a firearm. It's a
Speaker 1: few thunderstorms in our forecast for tonight, probably not as
Speaker 1: widespread as last night. Right now, we're relatively quiet. We
Speaker 1: still got some rain over the Cave. This has faded away.
Speaker 1: It was pretty heavy rain around Sandwich, but now as
Speaker 1: this little blob that's what it is, makes its way
Speaker 1: over to Dennis, it's more like some showers, so not
Speaker 1: much to worry about. Another shower just off to the
Speaker 1: east of Abington, and then we've got a couple of
Speaker 1: little spritzes and sprinkles around.
Speaker 7: That's it. The heaviest stuff right now is out around
Speaker 7: Agawam along I ninety one and Route five if you're
Speaker 7: familiar with the area, so some heavy downpours there that
Speaker 7: could cause some ponding on the roads, but that's about it.
Speaker 7: We may get under a thunderstorm more too, or even
Speaker 7: just a heavier downpour tonight, with temperatures in the mid
Speaker 7: sixties to near seventy still a little muggy, so the
Speaker 7: muggies go away though as we get into tomorrow, lower humidity,
Speaker 7: comfortable feel seventy four in Boston, eighty well Inland under
Speaker 7: mostly sunny skies, unshot on Saturday. In fact, this looks
Speaker 7: like a real nice day with the lower humidity. Will
Speaker 7: be into the eighties and then Sunday more humidity, We
Speaker 7: get back to about ninety degrees in some places, a
Speaker 7: mix of sun and clouds, and maybe an afternoon thunderstorm.
Speaker 7: Right now at eighty six degrees in Boston, Braintree Baseball
Speaker 7: do can get out in the Little League World Series.
Speaker 7: Their hometown fans are cheering them on. As we hear
Speaker 7: from w BC's Jawi.
Speaker 8: Lette, Braintree has no shortage of fans here at the
Speaker 8: Tree Bar and Lounge.
Speaker 6: The pig what they intended on throwing, so they're in
Speaker 6: the show.
Speaker 8: Whether their friend's family are just looking for a way
Speaker 8: to get off work. Early fans are pumped at this
Speaker 8: watch party to see the boys take their bases on
Speaker 8: the diamond in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Do you think these kids
Speaker 8: got what it takes?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, definitely, they got great.
Speaker 6: They got hired.
Speaker 9: That's what you need.
Speaker 8: Walter is wearing a Braintree jersey from nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 8: He was born and raised.
Speaker 1: Here, still in the house.
Speaker 9: I was brought up in.
Speaker 8: It's double elimination. Bar co owner Dave Fernando tells me
Speaker 8: people came early to nab a bar stool.
Speaker 7: It's huge.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you it's the whole world.
Speaker 3: I mean, these twelve year olds are going to play
Speaker 3: for this town against the whole world in Braintree.
Speaker 8: J Will at WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Right now, the news is not good for the folks
Speaker 1: from Braintree. It is the bottom of the second in Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: and the Southeast team, which is that team from South Carolina,
Speaker 1: leading Braintree eight to nothing. A parade in the sky
Speaker 1: Six planets hanging out in the sky this month in
Speaker 1: what is known as a planetary parade. This one is
Speaker 1: the last of the year, an event where several planets
Speaker 1: appear to line up in the night sky all at once. Venus, Jupiter, Saturn,
Speaker 1: and a faint Mercury are visible this month to the
Speaker 1: naked eye. Best chances to spot them are over the
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Neptune and Urinus can only be glimpsed through binoculars or
Speaker 1: telescopes to spot the parade of planets. Go out on
Speaker 1: a clear morning, shortly before sunrise and take a look
Speaker 1: to the east. The sky is falling. Checking little was right,
Speaker 1: well sort of in this case, it was a media rite,
Speaker 1: and they paid a visit to a Massachusetts couple.
Speaker 9: Jim Dolan says he and his wife were in their
Speaker 9: Gloss townhouse at the time. We just assure this, bam, this,
Speaker 9: this pow.
Speaker 4: And I jumped up and I said, what the heck
Speaker 4: was that?
Speaker 9: They found some strange rocks that smelled of sulfur on
Speaker 9: their deck and some damage to the corner of their house.
Speaker 9: Boston College geophysicist John Ebele believes it was a media rite.
Speaker 6: Every day and every night there are media rights coming
Speaker 6: into the atmosphere.
Speaker 9: But he says the odds of one hitting your house
Speaker 9: are like winning the lottery. Michael Wallace, CBS.
Speaker 1: News Finally back Home, wz's Jumal Holland tells us the
Speaker 1: FBI's returned to five hundred year old stolen document to
Speaker 1: Mexico signed by a Spanish explorer.
Speaker 5: Or Non Cortes, so famous he was the subject of
Speaker 5: the Neil Young song.
Speaker 9: Cortes the Killer.
Speaker 5: Brought about the end to the Aztec Empire a killer
Speaker 5: and help paid the way for the Spanish colonization of
Speaker 5: the Americas. The manuscript page was penned in fifteen twenty
Speaker 5: seven and is one of fifteen pages thought to have
Speaker 5: been swiped from Mexico's national archives between nineteen eighty five
Speaker 5: and nineteen ninety three. The theft itself was discovered in
Speaker 5: ninety three. Word unwhere and how exactly this document was found,
Speaker 5: we do know what was written after Cortes had been
Speaker 5: made the governor of New Spain by the Spanish crown.
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