Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news Radio Rea defining local.
Speaker 2: News seventy three degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning.
Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Union concession workers at
Speaker 2: Fenway Park and MGM Music Hall plan to rally at
Speaker 2: Fenway before the Red Sox game tonight. They say they're
Speaker 2: doing this to send a message to Arara Mark and
Speaker 2: Fenway Sports Group.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Last month, the workers walked off the job for a
Speaker 2: three day strike while the Dodgers were in town. I
Speaker 2: told fans go to the game, but don't buy any
Speaker 2: souvenirs or concessions. In a release, the workers say since
Speaker 2: that last strike, Ara Mark has not reached out to
Speaker 2: them or scheduled any bargaining dates, and now they might
Speaker 2: strike again for longer. In a statement to WBZ News Radio,
Speaker 2: Era Mark says it respects the worker's right to strike
Speaker 2: and looks forward to continuing to bargain in good faith.
Speaker 2: It's eleven oh one and the Trump administration has canceled
Speaker 2: almost half a billion dollars in contract connected to mRNA
Speaker 2: vaccine Research. Your CBS is Steve Kathan.
Speaker 1: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior calls the mRNA technology
Speaker 1: too risky, even though it's been widely used for COVID
Speaker 1: and flu vaccines. CBS News Medico contributor doctor Selene Gounder
Speaker 1: what the.
Speaker 4: Advantage of mRNA is is it's much faster to make
Speaker 4: than a protein vaccine. It's much more efficient, and so
Speaker 4: when you're in the middle of an emergency like a
Speaker 4: COVID pandemic, you want the fastest thing possible, something that
Speaker 4: you don't have to wait years to develop.
Speaker 1: Kennedy says the government is now prioritizing the development of
Speaker 1: what he calls safer, broader vaccine strategies. Steve Kaith and
Speaker 1: CBS News one of the top.
Speaker 2: Companies researching these mRNA vaccines is Maderna, which is based
Speaker 2: in Cambridge. We reached out to ask them if they're
Speaker 2: impacted at all by this. They told us they're not
Speaker 2: aware of any new contract cancelations involving their company, but
Speaker 2: it's bird flu vaccine contract was canceled back in May.
Speaker 2: ABC News reporting this morning, Vice President jd Vance is
Speaker 2: said to host ten Trump administration officials tonight over dinner.
Speaker 2: They're going to talk about their strategy regarding the Epstein case.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration is considering releasing the transcript from the
Speaker 2: Department of Justice interview with Gilaine Maxwell. She's the convicted
Speaker 2: accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein. Meantime, we're hearing from the brother
Speaker 2: and sister in law of one of Epstein's.
Speaker 3: Victims, Virginia Giufray, one of the most vocal victims of
Speaker 3: Epstein and Maxwell, took her own life in April. Her
Speaker 3: sister in law, Amanda Roberts, tell CBS Mornings Gilaine Maxwell
Speaker 3: was a monster who took part in the abuse, and
Speaker 3: she should not have been moved to a minimum security
Speaker 3: prison camp while she appeals her conviction.
Speaker 4: It is a slap in the face the idea that
Speaker 4: she could potentially get.
Speaker 1: A part in Sky.
Speaker 3: Roberts says they will continue to fight for justice for
Speaker 3: his sister.
Speaker 2: She was a powerful voice in the survivor community.
Speaker 3: She allowed survivors to have a platform. Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Speaker 2: It is still certainly smoky out there in some areas
Speaker 2: today from the Canadian wildfires, and we don't exactly have
Speaker 2: an air quality alert in place. We do if you're
Speaker 2: west of I ninety one in the Berkshires from the
Speaker 2: National Weather Service. But here in Boston it is just
Speaker 2: a bit hazy out there, although not as densely as
Speaker 2: it was yesterday. We can actually see a little bit
Speaker 2: through the haze today. Later on we'll get up to
Speaker 2: about seventy five if you're on the coast, and eighty
Speaker 2: if you're inland. For tonight, partly to mostly cloudy. We
Speaker 2: have a lone year sixty for tomorrow. The smoke will
Speaker 2: continue to move out of our neck of the woods,
Speaker 2: mix of sun and clouds and a high near seventy
Speaker 2: five on the water, eighty inland. Then warmer on Friday,
Speaker 2: with mostly sunny skies seventy eight to eighty at the harbor,
Speaker 2: up to eighty five if you're inland. Temperatures right now
Speaker 2: seventy two in Framingham north of Boston, seventy three in
Speaker 2: Newburyport south of Boston, a bit warmer on the south coast,
Speaker 2: where it's seventy five in Mattapoiset, and in Boston at
Speaker 2: eleven oh five it is hazy and seventy five degrees.
Speaker 2: An infant is now fighting for her life after she
Speaker 2: was bitten by a tick on Martha's vineyard. WBC's Jim
Speaker 2: McKay reports, health officials think this could be a case
Speaker 2: of powassan virus use. Every time we're out and about.
Speaker 5: Lydia comes to great Esco Park in Weymouth with her
Speaker 5: children on nice summer days. Tick safety always on her
Speaker 5: mind as a mom with two kids and two dogs.
Speaker 5: Poason virus only adding to those concerns.
Speaker 2: That's quite concerning as we got a lot of kids
Speaker 2: and animals. Yeah, it's too bad, especially right now.
Speaker 5: Carol from Hingham heard about the case involving the newborn
Speaker 5: from Martha's vineyard potentially contracting powasen, which has symptoms that
Speaker 5: range from brain seizures to encephalitis and other severe sickness.
Speaker 5: Unlike other tick born illnesses, poasen is no vaccine nor
Speaker 5: a specific.
Speaker 1: Treatment for Lydia.
Speaker 5: She has her thorough routines.
Speaker 1: After a good.
Speaker 5: Walk, we do a thorough check of the children in Weymouth.
Speaker 5: Jimmycka to Believe VS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: President Trump threatening new action after a former Dose staffer
Speaker 2: was beaten up by a group of teens. Here's ABC
Speaker 2: Stephen Portland if.
Speaker 6: DC police reports as the incident happened Sunday morning, around
Speaker 6: three am, officers said they saw a group of about
Speaker 6: ten teens surrounding a vehicle assaulting a man who said
Speaker 6: he was protecting his girlfriend. As police approached, the young
Speaker 6: assailants took off on foot. Two were arrested. The victim
Speaker 6: was identified as nineteen year old Edward Korstein, who was
Speaker 6: a top Dog staffer when the effort was led by
Speaker 6: Elon Musk. President Trump posted a picture of the bloodied
Speaker 6: man as he vowed to take federal control of the
Speaker 6: city if DC doesn't quote get its act together and quickly.
Speaker 2: And former Doge Haad Elon Musk also talking about this
Speaker 2: on x saying it is time to federalize Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: City of Quincy says it wants a judge to dismiss
Speaker 2: a lawsuit over a plan to install a pair of
Speaker 2: giant statues outside the new public Safety building. Fifteen residents
Speaker 2: of various faiths teaming up with the ACLU and other
Speaker 2: advocacy groups for the suit, which claims the statues of
Speaker 2: Saint Michael and Saint Florian promote a certain religion over others.
Speaker 2: That is something that government agencies are not allowed to
Speaker 2: do here in Massachusetts. Patriot Ledger reports Mayor Thomas Kocou's
Speaker 2: Catholic maintains the statues are meant to boost morale and
Speaker 2: promote good over evil. The city also claims the ten
Speaker 2: foot tall bronze statue use have no religious purpose. The
Speaker 2: city also says in the motion to try to dismiss
Speaker 2: the suit that not installing the statues at this point
Speaker 2: will amount to anti Catholic discrimination and dissociating and scrolling
Speaker 2: endlessly on your phone is not just causing problems to
Speaker 2: your mental health, it's also not doing you any favors physically.
Speaker 3: The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart
Speaker 3: Association says ten to eighteen year olds who spent more
Speaker 3: time on devices or at higher risk for high blood pressure,
Speaker 3: high cholesterol, and insulin resistance. The association's doctor Amanda Marma
Speaker 3: Perik says those kids moved less and slept less. Coding
Speaker 3: or doing research on screens could be beneficial, but not
Speaker 3: more passive activities.
Speaker 4: Like social media and YouTube and those kinds of short videos.
Speaker 3: The researchers found ten year olds or on devices three
Speaker 3: hours a day on average, eighteen year olds are on
Speaker 3: them six hours a day.
Speaker 1: Michael Wallace, CBS News.
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