Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Eighty two degrees in Boston, it feels more like eighty nine.
Speaker 2: At eleven o'clock, it's Thursday morning. Great to be with
Speaker 2: you as always, I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: Boston's North End is glowing with yellow lights and lots
Speaker 2: of decorations. It's all for the one hundred and fifteenth
Speaker 2: annual Fisherman's Feast, which kicks off today. WBC's James Rojas
Speaker 2: is there with a look.
Speaker 1: Folks from near and far are looking forward to visiting
Speaker 1: the many food vendors that have taken over Fleet North
Speaker 1: and Lewis Streets.
Speaker 3: You love, you know Italian food in terms of you
Speaker 3: love sausage, you love meatballs.
Speaker 4: Meatballs, the ice cream sandwich.
Speaker 5: That woman's got a good thing going.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the Cannoli's and fried kalamari. But though the
Speaker 1: food may be a big selling point, locals like Ramonic
Speaker 1: say it's about community.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed the families together and enjoy the festival. Everything
Speaker 6: is so beautiful, especially on Tuesday, so it's perfect. I
Speaker 6: live across the stream at the front of my home
Speaker 6: from my wind, I can see the whole festual, the kids,
Speaker 6: you know, playing around in the history.
Speaker 1: The festival kicks off today and runs through Sunday in
Speaker 1: the North End. James Rojas WBZ fosson snows Radio.
Speaker 2: At eleven oh one. As it makes its way west,
Speaker 2: Tropical Storm Erin is getting stronger. Forecasters at the National
Speaker 2: Hurricane Center expected to get to hurricane strength by tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We just got a brand new advisory from the NHC.
Speaker 2: They say right now the storm is located about eight
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands.
Speaker 2: It is getting stronger. It is now up to sixty
Speaker 2: mile an hour max sustained winds. It's moving to the
Speaker 2: west about seventeen miles an hour, so again it's putting along,
Speaker 2: making its way toward our neck of the woods. It
Speaker 2: is expected to slide north of Puerto Rico, and ABC's
Speaker 2: chief meteorologist Ginger Z says a couple of systems could
Speaker 2: keep it away from our neck of the woods.
Speaker 4: Take close attention as we see updates because every dvation
Speaker 4: west and east will.
Speaker 2: Impact you differently.
Speaker 4: But I can assure everyone along the East coast we
Speaker 4: will have really high surf and rip Currens.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, mark's President Trump and Russian President Putin's High Stake
Speaker 2: summit in Alaska, that you will talk about a potential
Speaker 2: end to the war in Ukraine, but Ukrainian President Vladimir
Speaker 2: Selensky won't be there for weeks.
Speaker 3: Putin has ignored repeated warnings from Trump to stop the violence,
Speaker 3: and Russian airstrikes on Ukraine have only intensified, taking a
Speaker 3: massive toll, the President admitting he probably will not be
Speaker 3: able to stop Russia from killing Ukrainian civilians.
Speaker 4: I've had a lot of good conversations with him.
Speaker 3: Then I go home and I see that a.
Speaker 4: Rocket hit a nursing home or a rocket hit an
Speaker 4: apartment building, and people are laying dead in the street.
Speaker 3: The President now saying tomorrow's summit is about setting the
Speaker 3: table for another meeting, this time with both Putin and Zelensky.
Speaker 2: Now, this ABC's Rachel Scott reporting there. The big story
Speaker 2: otherwise today is that it is very humid outside. It
Speaker 2: is rather sticky, and we've got temperatures in the eighties
Speaker 2: for most of us, So it is just going to
Speaker 2: feel like one of those days that's oppressively tropically hot,
Speaker 2: and even though we're not getting up into the nineties again,
Speaker 2: it's just enough to make it super uncomfortable. We have
Speaker 2: a mix of sunning clouds for the rest of the day,
Speaker 2: maybe a couple of storms this afternoon and evening. Some
Speaker 2: could be custody at times, with a high in the
Speaker 2: mid eighties close to eighty though if you're on the
Speaker 2: capein Islands and I'm seeing right now most of you
Speaker 2: on the capein Islands are in the seventies then at
Speaker 2: for tonight, partly cloudy, low seventy, mid sixties for the
Speaker 2: inland suburbs. Friday mostly sunny, with the high year seventy
Speaker 2: five in Boston, low eighties inland. Looking ahead to the weekend,
Speaker 2: sun much of the time on Saturday, highs in the eighties.
Speaker 2: A little bit warmer on Sunday, with some storms later
Speaker 2: in the day and a high in the nineties. Right
Speaker 2: now seventy nine at the Cape cog Canal in Bourne,
Speaker 2: west of Boston, eighty two in Sudbury north of Boston.
Speaker 2: In Seabrook, New Hampshire, it's eighty two, and in Boston
Speaker 2: at eleven oh five it is mostly cloudy and eighty
Speaker 2: three Taylor Swift is giving us more details about her
Speaker 2: brand new album. This is the record I've been wanting
Speaker 2: to make for a very long time.
Speaker 4: So many people one point three million tuned into Swift's
Speaker 4: first appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelcey's New Heights podcast
Speaker 4: to promote the Life of a show Girl. The live
Speaker 4: stream dropped out an hour and forty five minutes in.
Speaker 4: Among the reveals, Swift sobbed when she found out she
Speaker 4: would get her master recordings back.
Speaker 2: I just very.
Speaker 6: Dramatically hit the floor for real, like honestly just.
Speaker 2: Starting in a long time bawling my eyes out.
Speaker 4: The album's cover art is a shot of Swift in
Speaker 4: a bathtub wearing a glittery Vegas style Brought Up or
Speaker 4: twelfth studio album will be released October third. Deborah Rodriguez,
Speaker 4: CBS News and Today's the day.
Speaker 2: The Braintree American Little League team in Pennsylvania this afternoon.
Speaker 2: They're taking on players from all over the country. But
Speaker 2: the aim here is to win the World Series. Ten
Speaker 2: teams in all from around the nation are in Williamsport.
Speaker 2: There's a ton of excitement back here at home to
Speaker 2: support the boys from the South Shore several watch parties
Speaker 2: planned as the Brain Tree team takes on South Carolina.
Speaker 2: First pitch is set for three o'clock on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2: Some House Democrats are demanding answers from Attorney General Pam
Speaker 2: Bondi as after child sex trafficker Glene Maxwell was transferred
Speaker 2: to a minimum security prison.
Speaker 5: Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sent Bondi a letter
Speaker 5: on Wednesday expressing concern about Maxwell, a close associate of
Speaker 5: the late Jeffrey Epstein. The transfer came two days after
Speaker 5: interviews between Maxwell and a top Justice Department official. Democrats
Speaker 5: say it looks like the Trump administration maybe trying to
Speaker 5: tamper with a witness by getting Maxwell to conceal President
Speaker 5: Trump's relationship with Epstein. They want the Justice Department to
Speaker 5: turn over everything related to the transfer and Maxwell's interviews
Speaker 5: by August twenty sixth. I'm Tammy Trichio.
Speaker 2: And King Richard's Fair recently moved, but a scammer didn't
Speaker 2: seem to get the memo. Police in Carver say this
Speaker 2: person has been advertising vendor space for this year's fare
Speaker 2: at the old address on Main Street. The fair recently
Speaker 2: moved over to the site of what used to be
Speaker 2: the Eaedeville Railroad theme Park on Pine Street. Officials say, look,
Speaker 2: if you see these ads, verify the website, and even better,
Speaker 2: just call King Richard's Fair directly and make sure this
Speaker 2: is a legitimate vendor offer. You are now in the Loup.
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