Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We defining local news six o'clock and welcome aboard the
Speaker 2: fry yay train Here in Boston. We are waking up
Speaker 2: under cloudy skies. This won't last though. It is sixty
Speaker 2: four degrees, very warm, and pretty sticky. This morning The
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Speaker 2: being with us this Friday morning. I'm Jeff Brown, and yeah,
Speaker 2: things are starting to look up.
Speaker 3: A writer and dryer and warmer day. Today is low
Speaker 3: clouds and fog give way to some sunshine at is
Speaker 3: WBZ Acky weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Very muggy though today
Speaker 3: and right through tomorrow. Some rain is expected tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 3: Time for the beach baby. Starting today, the state's water
Speaker 3: quality Dashboard will be up and running. The Department of
Speaker 3: Public Health updates conditions at dozens of public beaches every
Speaker 3: day and sometimes several times a day, to determine which
Speaker 3: one might be off limits due to algae blooms or
Speaker 3: other conditions which can cause you to keep your fun
Speaker 3: in the sand and away from the waves. It's time
Speaker 3: to go to bed. TikTok says, so.
Speaker 1: TikTok wants to help users wind down and relax. That's
Speaker 1: why it's rolling out of feature that after ten pm
Speaker 1: automatically guides those younger than eighteen to meditation exercises. It
Speaker 1: also pushes alerts encouraging users to go to bed. Ophelia
Speaker 1: from Cambridge thinks it's a great idea because.
Speaker 4: It's too much stimulation Chris for little kids, especially being
Speaker 4: on online. So I think that's a really good thing
Speaker 4: for them to just decompress before bed.
Speaker 1: John over here has some recommendations to help kids disconnect.
Speaker 2: Read a book, live in the moment. Just be present, John,
Speaker 2: I from Boston to read from flying back to Alaska
Speaker 2: right now Alaska.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good way to connect. Also, the meditation
Speaker 1: feature will also be available for adults by switching to
Speaker 1: the sleep hour setting. James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The SS red Sox come back to Fenway Park to
Speaker 2: they'll open a weekend series with the Atlanta Braves. The
Speaker 2: New City connect Monster green colored uniforms will make their
Speaker 2: debut tonight, and it's opening day for the WNBA's regular season.
Speaker 2: The Connecticut Sun however, will open on Sunday, and it's
Speaker 2: a big night for the Celtics. It's another must win
Speaker 2: Game six in the NBA's Eastern Conference Final against the Knicks.
Speaker 2: WBC's Drew moholland is here holding out any hope. I
Speaker 2: got a little hope. I think this is looking good.
Speaker 2: I actually think this is looking I might not.
Speaker 5: Put it in the good category, but I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 5: keeping the faith. But I do have one question for you, Jeffrey, and.
Speaker 4: To ask yourself one question.
Speaker 6: Do I feel lucky?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: To me?
Speaker 1: You hope?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: All right? So by the numbers here, jeff Right, the
Speaker 5: Celtics they've actually come back from three to one series
Speaker 5: deficits twice nineteen sixty eight, some of you might remember
Speaker 5: that out there, all right, and then again in nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty one. So there's been like thirteen teams in the
Speaker 5: NBA who have come back from three one.
Speaker 2: Series that the Celtics or two of them.
Speaker 5: And they're two of them.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: And actually the Dallas Mavericks did it twice during the
Speaker 5: COVID season in twenty when they were in the bubble. Yep,
Speaker 5: they did it twice at the same playoff runs so
Speaker 5: there's that. And if you're wondering, you know, you want
Speaker 5: to put a little wager or something on this. If
Speaker 5: you bet one hundred dollars on the Celtics to win
Speaker 5: the series, it means two games. They're gonna win two games.
Speaker 5: They're at plus two twenty seven. So one hundred dollars
Speaker 5: wins you two hundred and twenty in the Celtics.
Speaker 2: That's so you're telling me, yeah, there's the check.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Drew. I don't mean to add
Speaker 2: to your honeydeo list this weekend, but you might want
Speaker 2: to think about popping the AC's in the window. It's
Speaker 2: very muggy this morning in Boston. We do have that
Speaker 2: Florida feel out the door sixty four in the city
Speaker 2: right now. We've got a thick blanket of clouds and
Speaker 2: some thick, patchy fog in areas this morning, both of
Speaker 2: which will burn off. We will see some increasing amounts
Speaker 2: of sunshine later on today. Temperatures are going to be
Speaker 2: very close to eighty degrees and inland locations load to
Speaker 2: mid seventies even along the waterfront today and will be
Speaker 2: very humid as well. Cloudy overnight tonight, and a couple
Speaker 2: of spotty showers through the area. Lose once again in
Speaker 2: the sixties. Tomorrow is not a washout, but at the
Speaker 2: same time, we need to keep at least one eye
Speaker 2: to the sky, especially later in the afternoon when a
Speaker 2: line of potentially severe thunderstorms rolls through. It looks like
Speaker 2: we will see some sunshine along the way tomorrow and
Speaker 2: high temperatures will be in the low to mid seventies.
Speaker 2: Looks like it's a slightly calmer day to rind up
Speaker 2: the weekend on Sunday, with the mixture of sun and clouds,
Speaker 2: breezy conditions, and the possibility of a shower again. High
Speaker 2: temperatures in the seventies. Right now, it's already sixty four
Speaker 2: but cloudy skies in Boston six oh six this Friday morning.
Speaker 2: A closer look at deadly injuries at the Karen Reid trial.
Speaker 6: So on his right eyelet there was a small laceration.
Speaker 6: I also observed abrasions on the anterior and the left
Speaker 6: aspect of the nose.
Speaker 2: The medical examiner explains her autopsy results of John O'Keefe.
Speaker 2: The pictures not easy to see.
Speaker 4: Judge Beverly connote set the tone early for what would
Speaker 4: be a difficult day for the jury looking at graphic
Speaker 4: photos from the autopsy on the body of John O'Keefe,
Speaker 4: photos so graphic that at one point the judge called
Speaker 4: a recess at the request of a juror. The medical
Speaker 4: exabitor who conducted the autopsy testified she concluded O'Keeffe died
Speaker 4: from blunt impact injuries to the head in hypothermia, but
Speaker 4: the doctor could not determine how those injuries were sustained.
Speaker 4: At the courthouse and debt of Mike Macklin WVZ Boston's
Speaker 4: news radio, where there's.
Speaker 2: Smoke, there might be fire, The La County Sheriff's office
Speaker 2: opens a criminal investigation into legendary Motown singer Smokey Robinson
Speaker 2: after several women come forward with allegations of sexual assault,
Speaker 2: all of them former employees, who want fifty million dollars
Speaker 2: in damages in a civil lawsuit. They claim Robinson attacked
Speaker 2: them when his wife was out of the house. Lawyers
Speaker 2: for Robinson deny the allegations. Officials with the Sheriff's departments
Speaker 2: say the civil claims by the four Jane Does is
Speaker 2: enough to warrant their investigation, which is in the early stages,
Speaker 2: and no further details are being released. New clues this
Speaker 2: morning about the mysterious impact of the condition known as
Speaker 2: long COVID.
Speaker 7: Doctors say they're getting closer to understanding the brain fog
Speaker 7: many long COVID patients experience. A study by Corwell Health
Speaker 7: found people who experience brain fog have more inflammation in
Speaker 7: their brain than other patients. Up until now, doctors have
Speaker 7: had challenges understanding why some patients develop brain fog and
Speaker 7: others don't.
Speaker 2: CBS's Michael George. Some twenty million Americans have been diagnosed
Speaker 2: with the condition long COVID. Meantime, US health officials are
Speaker 2: about to release some guidelines that might put some severe
Speaker 2: restrictions on this fall's anticipated COVID vaccine, if one is
Speaker 2: available at all. Officials say they want a streamline and
Speaker 2: simplify what they call a complicated FDA approval system, with
Speaker 2: the potential recommendation that only those with chronic conditions be
Speaker 2: advise to get the shot in the coming months. You
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