Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local
Speaker 1: news in Boston. Right now, it's eighty three degrees, feels
Speaker 1: more like eighty seven, a very hot and humid day.
Speaker 1: On tap well of the forecast coming up in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here is
Speaker 1: what's happening. It's a keen moment in the push for
Speaker 1: a ceasefire in Gaza. Later on today Israeli Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanya, who is coming to Washington. While he's here,
Speaker 1: he'll meet and die with the President Donald Trump. Both
Speaker 1: Israel and Hamas appear ready to talk about arrangements for
Speaker 1: a pause or even an end to the fighting. ABC's
Speaker 1: James Longman reports some issues still have to be ironed out.
Speaker 2: Hamas wants the IDF to fully pull out of Gaza,
Speaker 2: and they're looking for US guarantees that this ceasefire will
Speaker 2: lead to a complete end of the war. They also
Speaker 2: want the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to cease its operations. It
Speaker 2: is a US backed initiative, but it has been accused
Speaker 2: of some major vibeas and a ceasefire, of course, cannot
Speaker 2: come soon enough for the people of Gaza. Hamas says
Speaker 2: a surge of air strikes in just the last twenty
Speaker 2: four hours has left more than eighty people dead and
Speaker 2: more than three hundred injured.
Speaker 1: The US proposal would pause the war for sixty days,
Speaker 1: boost much needed aid to that area for Palestinians, and
Speaker 1: release all the remaining hostages being held by Hamas eleven
Speaker 1: oh one. The fight for control between Harvard and the
Speaker 1: White House has only been getting deeper over the past
Speaker 1: few weeks. Professors at Harvard say they don't want the
Speaker 1: school to give In The Globe reports, hundreds of professors
Speaker 1: in the school's professor union are urging leaders not to
Speaker 1: make a deal to try to restore billions of dollars
Speaker 1: in cuts to federal aid. The American Association of University
Speaker 1: Professor's chapter has been speaking out through petitions and op eds.
Speaker 1: So far, leadership at Harvard has not said much about
Speaker 1: those talks between the school and the White House. Now
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, among other offenses, accusing Harvard of being
Speaker 1: complicit about anti Semitic violence on campus and failing to
Speaker 1: protect Jewish students. The school denies that and says it
Speaker 1: is working on the situation. Three days after a devastating
Speaker 1: downpour flooded parts of central Texas. The desperate search continues
Speaker 1: for more than forty people still unaccounted for.
Speaker 3: The floodwaters receding that death till mercilessly rising after that
Speaker 3: early morning July fourth deluge sent a floodwave that swallowed
Speaker 3: riverside camps and communities. Up to a foot of rain,
Speaker 3: raised the Guadalupe River twenty six feet in less than
Speaker 3: an hour, and a wall of water and debris tearing
Speaker 3: through Camp Mystic, where seven hundred and fifty girls were
Speaker 3: spending July fourth. Dozens of children and councilors trapped in
Speaker 3: their bunks as the waters coursed through the camp. Ten
Speaker 3: girls and one councilor still reported missing.
Speaker 1: ABC's Mackupman their official say at least eighty people are
Speaker 1: considered dead and many more again are missing. Now. Help
Speaker 1: is coming in from all over the country for those
Speaker 1: impacted by the floods. The Community Foundation of the Texas
Speaker 1: Hill Country is rolled out a brand new effort they're
Speaker 1: trying to raise money and supplies for those in need,
Speaker 1: called the Kerr County Flood Really Fund is see. All
Speaker 1: the money collected through the fund is going directly to
Speaker 1: trusted local organizations to get food, healthcare, shelter, and other
Speaker 1: critical needs to those in the area. Some showers out
Speaker 1: there right now if you're in southeastern Massachusetts, if you're
Speaker 1: on the capein Islands, it is wet, and we have
Speaker 1: some downpours coming through as well in some areas. So
Speaker 1: that is going to be the situation for the rest
Speaker 1: of the day, especially in southeastern mass right there on
Speaker 1: the coast. Later on this afternoon, many of us, though
Speaker 1: away from the coast, could get up to about the
Speaker 1: mid nineties if you're right on the water, I'd say
Speaker 1: upper eighties or so, and it's going to feel like
Speaker 1: the mid to upper nineties for all of us, very
Speaker 1: very humid out there today. We have a heat advisory
Speaker 1: form most of the state until just about eight o'clock,
Speaker 1: except for the south coast capein Islands, conveniently where all
Speaker 1: that shower activity is taking place now. For tonight, mostly cloudy,
Speaker 1: a couple of showers and storms are possible once again
Speaker 1: in southeastern mass Low in the mid seventies, so rather
Speaker 1: uncomfortable sleeping weather for tomorrow. Clouds and sun, strong storms
Speaker 1: possible for all of us throughout the afternoon. Hi just
Speaker 1: about ninety and it will be cooler on the Capan Islands.
Speaker 1: Then Wednesday we really start to feel a change, not
Speaker 1: as humid. Couple of showers and we have a high
Speaker 1: in the seventies if you're on the coast, A little
Speaker 1: bit cooler than that. Eighty four degrees right now in Medford,
Speaker 1: west of Boston, eighty two in Framingham, eighty five in Stoton.
Speaker 1: In Boston. Right now at left No. Six, it is
Speaker 1: partly cloudy, eighty four degrees and it feels more like
Speaker 1: eighty eight. Folks and almost two dozen communities are hoping
Speaker 1: for a speedy resolution to the sanitation workers strike as
Speaker 1: it goes into its second week.
Speaker 4: With republic service workers on strike, Canton's town administrator and
Speaker 4: other municipal leaders are asking both parties to get back
Speaker 4: to the negotiation table. Trash pickups started back up today,
Speaker 4: with crews outside the state being called into help after
Speaker 4: hundreds of sanitation workers hit the picket line last week.
Speaker 4: Most people I talked to in Canton haven't noticed much
Speaker 4: of a difference, but Peter says he's definitely aware of it.
Speaker 5: I live in a condo community and it's just all pile.
Speaker 4: In a letter to Republic Services. Canton, Malden, Peabdy, Gloucester,
Speaker 4: Watertown and others are asking for better communication and better
Speaker 4: clarity on how trash pickup will resume.
Speaker 5: It is what it is, you know, if people were
Speaker 5: God gen only should get what.
Speaker 4: They don't deserve and Canton I'm a Friedman. W BZ,
Speaker 4: Boston's news.
Speaker 1: Radio developers in Boston appear to be investing heavily in
Speaker 1: the upcoming mayoral race. Politico reporting late last month, almost
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty thousand dollars was donated to Your City,
Speaker 1: Your Future pack, That is the pack that has been
Speaker 1: boosting challenger Josh Kraft. Among the donations ninety five grand
Speaker 1: from John Fish, the CEO of Suffolk Construction, and ninety
Speaker 1: thousand from Quinn House co owner Paul Edgerley. Now Mayor
Speaker 1: Michelle wou has some real estate money coming her way
Speaker 1: as well. The Bold Boston pack supporting her recently got
Speaker 1: a boost of thirty two grand, big portion of that
Speaker 1: coming from Howard Cohen, the chair of Beacon Communities. Decades
Speaker 1: of drums and blue paint and dancing and fun have
Speaker 1: come to a close in Boston. WBC's j will that
Speaker 1: tells us why it's.
Speaker 5: Curtains for Blue Man Group and it's Boston residency spanning
Speaker 5: thirty years. The Bald, Blue, and Nonverbal trio wrapped up
Speaker 5: their performances this past weekend. In a statement to announce
Speaker 5: their final show, the group says it played for more
Speaker 5: than four and a half million people in Boston. They
Speaker 5: say it's been an honor and privilege to play for
Speaker 5: Boston as long as they have since they first opened
Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety five at the Charles Playhouse. What's next.
Speaker 5: The group has a Vegas residency and opens a summer
Speaker 5: tour of Japan this August. Jay Willette WBZ, Boston's News Radio, You.
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