Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: It's eleven o'clock right now in Boston. It is eighty
Speaker 2: four degrees, very humid out there. It feels like close
Speaker 2: to ninety forecasts coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2: Sim Nicole Davis, Thanks for joining us. Here is what's happening.
Speaker 2: We start this hour on the banks of the Charles River,
Speaker 2: where preparation preparations are underway for the annual Boston Pops
Speaker 2: Fireworks Spectacular tomorrow night. Part of Sturo Drive is already
Speaker 2: closed off. We'll talk about that coming up in traffic
Speaker 2: on the threes, but it's also worth noting that tomorrow's
Speaker 2: event will take place under a different schedule than usual.
Speaker 2: If you're wbz's Jeremy Russe the.
Speaker 3: Show, We'll start with a concert featuring guests like Grammy
Speaker 3: singer ly Anne Rhymes and Hamilton star Leslie Odom Junior
Speaker 3: at seven o'clock tomorrow night, which is an hour earlier
Speaker 3: than last year. The fireworks will also start a bit early,
Speaker 3: closer to nine forty instead of ten to thirty per usual.
Speaker 3: It's all happening at the Hatshell on the Charles River.
Speaker 1: Esplanade.
Speaker 3: You'll have to get there early, very early if you
Speaker 3: want the best seats. The Oval, which is the grassy
Speaker 3: area near the hatshell, opens at noon. Jeremy Russ WBZ,
Speaker 3: Boston's News Radio, and.
Speaker 2: Again we're going to keep an eye on those closures
Speaker 2: in traffic and weather. Together will take a look coming
Speaker 2: up next in about two minutes. Over to Capitol Hill,
Speaker 2: where the House Minority leader has been holding the floor
Speaker 2: for six hours and counting. Congressman Hakim Jeffries using a
Speaker 2: tactic here to try to delay a final vote on
Speaker 2: the President's massive budget bill is after overnight Republican holdouts
Speaker 2: allowed it to proceed.
Speaker 4: I feel the obligation, mister Speaker, to stand on this
Speaker 4: House floor and take my sweet time to tell the
Speaker 4: stories of the American people. And that's exactly what I
Speaker 4: intend to do. Take my sweet time on behalf of
Speaker 4: the American people on behalf of their healthcare, on behalf
Speaker 4: of their Medicaid, on, behalf of their new tres No assistance, on,
Speaker 4: behalf of veterans, on, behalf of farmers, on, behalf of children,
Speaker 4: on behalf of seniors.
Speaker 2: Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose
Speaker 2: three votes to get this bill passed. President Trump wants
Speaker 2: that bill on his desk. Note later than tomorrow. The
Speaker 2: final vote is set to take place at any point.
Speaker 2: Will update you as it all plays out on WBZ.
Speaker 2: And we're learning more this morning about a confrontation that
Speaker 2: played out between two Northendover police officers as one of
Speaker 2: them was served a restraining order. According to The Globe,
Speaker 2: that order came from the fiance of officer Kelly Fitzsimmons,
Speaker 2: who says he was concerned about the safety of their
Speaker 2: infant son. In the order, he mentioned fitz Simmons hurt
Speaker 2: herself repeatedly while she was pregnant and threatened to kill
Speaker 2: both herself and the baby once he was born. She'd
Speaker 2: also been hospitalized for postpartum depression soon after the birth.
Speaker 2: The fiance is a North Endover firefighter. He also mentioned
Speaker 2: in that order that recently, while they were in Maine,
Speaker 2: Fitzsimmons had assaulted him. It's still not exactly clear how
Speaker 2: it all played out, but say a quote armed confrontation
Speaker 2: took place while she was being served. That Simmons is
Speaker 2: in stable condition at a hospital in Boston and for
Speaker 2: the weekend. We are looking phenomenal, but we do have
Speaker 2: to get through the rest of the day today and
Speaker 2: it will be a very kind of an uneven, volatile,
Speaker 2: sort of stormy day that we're looking forward to. We're
Speaker 2: already seeing some storms and parts of western Massachusetts those
Speaker 2: are developing right now and coming along Brute too, and
Speaker 2: also in parts of southern Vermont. Later on today we
Speaker 2: will see more of these storms popping up in places
Speaker 2: like southern New Hampshire and also getting into central and
Speaker 2: eastern Massachusetts. High is today just about ninety, but with
Speaker 2: the humidity, it will feel like the mid to upper nineties,
Speaker 2: cooler on the capin islands. Once the storms move out tonight,
Speaker 2: the humidity will start to break. We have a low
Speaker 2: near sixty five or so in Boston, upper fifties if
Speaker 2: you're north and west tomorrow for the fourth gorgeous beautiful
Speaker 2: barbecue weather or beach day. High in the mid eighties,
Speaker 2: close to eighty on the capin islands, and humidity is
Speaker 2: going to be very low Saturday and say mix of
Speaker 2: sun and clouds both days. On Saturday we have a
Speaker 2: high in the mid eighties and on Sunday high near
Speaker 2: ninety right now eighty two in Lemonster, right now seventy
Speaker 2: nine on the beach in Gloucester, eighty four in Taunton,
Speaker 2: and in Boston at eleven oh five it is partly cloudy,
Speaker 2: eighty five degrees and it feels like ninety one. W
Speaker 2: bz's James Rojas is at the beach today checking in
Speaker 2: before the crowd show up.
Speaker 5: Wallison Beach is primed for visitors from near and far
Speaker 5: looking to make the most of the great weather and
Speaker 5: holiday weekend. Combo Roger is out here most days and
Speaker 5: is looking forward to some company.
Speaker 1: Sets to suit people are having thought.
Speaker 5: He thinks this will be a popular destination as the
Speaker 5: waters are clean and swimmable. See the ACURL has done
Speaker 5: very well for the past two years improving the ewardss
Speaker 5: of and everything that made the beach ocular super Bowl,
Speaker 5: so people can assume here. So do you hope it
Speaker 5: isn't a too crowded because you want to.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your your time. Well, it's okay, good.
Speaker 5: Ull Now, there are plenty of great beach options around here,
Speaker 5: just make sure they are open by checking the state's
Speaker 5: water quality dashboard online at Wallason Beach. James Rojas WBZ
Speaker 5: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court has now agreed to take up a
Speaker 2: case about which school sports teams transgender athletes should be
Speaker 2: able to join. The case comes out of Idaho and
Speaker 2: West Virginia, where lower courts have ruled in favor of
Speaker 2: the athletes. It's the latest high profile legal battle involving
Speaker 2: transgender rights, as last month, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's
Speaker 2: ban on gender affirming care from minors. Earlier this week,
Speaker 2: the University of Pennsylvania settled a civil rights case brought
Speaker 2: by the Trump administration. The school agreed to change some
Speaker 2: of its athletics records and apologize to female athletes. Doctor
Speaker 2: Phil's entertainment company has now filed for bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: Merritt Street Media was launched less than two years ago.
Speaker 4: You truly think it's the love story of the century.
Speaker 1: Really, The television and entertainment company filed for bankruptcy protection
Speaker 1: just weeks after laying off forty employees in a second
Speaker 1: wave of job cuts. A third of the staff was
Speaker 1: let go last August. Doctor Phil's platform launched in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three with ambitions of becoming one of the most
Speaker 1: widely distributed startup networks in modern history. According to a
Speaker 1: company announcement, the network offers TV personalities including Doctor Phil
Speaker 1: Nancy Grace and Steve Harvey, Steve Kaith and CBS News.
Speaker 2: And don't be surprised if you happen to notice a
Speaker 2: few more military aircraft flying over the New Hampshire Sea coast.
Speaker 2: A massive military training exercise is taking place right now
Speaker 2: from Maine to North Carolina called Atlantic Alliance twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Official safe forces from the Marines and Navy are taking
Speaker 2: part in this. That's what you might notice a little
Speaker 2: bit more activity near the airport in Portsmouth. You'll say
Speaker 2: they're going to try and do most of this during
Speaker 2: the day to cut down on noise. You are now
Speaker 2: in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen
Speaker 2: to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis
Speaker 2: WBZ and Boston's News Radio.