Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: in a few clouds in Boston and some sunshine. At
Speaker 1: six o'clock, it is sixty six degrees.
Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Charlie Burger on Here's What's happening. Texas
Speaker 2: Governor Greg Abbott signing a disaster declaration following catastrophic flooding.
Speaker 2: At least twenty four are dead, hundreds are missing. Authorities
Speaker 2: promising to work around the clock on search and rescue efforts.
Speaker 2: CBS Austin's Andrew Freeman from Kerville.
Speaker 3: Texas Governor Greg Abbott called this mass casualty event totally unpredictable,
Speaker 3: with not even the National Weather Service forecasting how much
Speaker 3: rain we actually received. The Guadaloupe River rose twenty six
Speaker 3: feet in less than an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: So far, nearly two hundred and forty people have been rescued.
Speaker 2: On top of the twenty four confirmed casualties, there are
Speaker 2: at least twenty three girls who are missing from a
Speaker 2: summer camp. A fourth of July picnic on the White
Speaker 2: House lawn the backdrop for President Trump to sign his
Speaker 2: tax and Spend bill into law. ABC senior White House
Speaker 2: correspondents Lina Wang breaks down what it took for the
Speaker 2: president to get it to his desk.
Speaker 4: The nearly one thousand page bill the cornerstone of Trump's agenda.
Speaker 4: Republicans in Congress narrowly passing it after Trump arm twisted
Speaker 4: and charmed holdouts in his own party. All but two
Speaker 4: House Republicans ended up voting for the bill, despite anger
Speaker 4: that it could add three point four trillion dollars to
Speaker 4: the debt over the next decade and estimates that steep
Speaker 4: cuts to Medicaid could force eleven point eight million Americans
Speaker 4: to lose their health insurance.
Speaker 2: Democrats hoping to use passage of the bill to motivate
Speaker 2: voters for the twenty twenty six midterms. Governor Morri Hally
Speaker 2: signing a sixty one billion dollar state budget planned yesterday
Speaker 2: for the fiscal year, which began on Tuesday. The governor
Speaker 2: trimming one hundred and thirty million dollars in spending before
Speaker 2: adding her signature. Some of that money will would have
Speaker 2: gone to pay for coverage for obesity drugs for state employees.
Speaker 2: Also cut was a fund to expand mass health nursing
Speaker 2: home rates. The governor also filing a bill that would
Speaker 2: give her Office the authority to make spending cuts during
Speaker 2: the upcoming fiscal year. A Hollywood a lister celebrates the
Speaker 2: fourth of July in Arlington, where he has a revolutionary ancestor.
Speaker 2: He WBC's Mike Macklin that day, that.
Speaker 5: Moment the world changed.
Speaker 6: Actor Kurt Russell looks around the Jason Russell House at Arlington,
Speaker 6: the historic colonial homestead where, on April nineteenth, seventeen seventy five,
Speaker 6: his eighth generation ancestor, Jason Russell, was killed in battle
Speaker 6: fighting British troops retreating from Lexington and Concrete on the
Speaker 6: first day of the American Revolution.
Speaker 5: What's interesting is that when you get to understanding some
Speaker 5: of it, it leads you to where who these people
Speaker 5: were and why they had the attitude they had on
Speaker 5: both sides.
Speaker 6: Jason Russell was shot and bayonetted to death on his
Speaker 6: doorstep defending family and freedom.
Speaker 5: And the tragedy yes finished there, but it's that stuff
Speaker 5: that we that we think about. And I look at
Speaker 5: that and say, it's the things that led up to
Speaker 5: it that I'd like.
Speaker 6: To really know about it, know about and perhaps make
Speaker 6: a movie about.
Speaker 2: That movie is.
Speaker 5: The one that I would want to see.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't mind playing.
Speaker 5: Jason Foss.
Speaker 6: In Arlington. Mike Maclin, WBZ Boston's news radio, thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's check the four day WBZ at you weather forecast
Speaker 2: that Troy Thornton tells us. Today will be warm, but
Speaker 2: again the humidity expected to remain low. Another nice day,
Speaker 2: sun cloud's high eighty two to eighty six, closer to
Speaker 2: eighty or a high on the Cape, partly cloudy's sixties
Speaker 2: overnight tonight, and then we flipped the switch tomorrow. A
Speaker 2: heat advisory goes into effect tomorrow morning at seven o'clock
Speaker 2: continues until eight o'clock on Monday night. So Tomorrow a hot,
Speaker 2: humid day, sunclouds, high ninety three. Monday pretty much the
Speaker 2: same deal, low nineties in Boston, even eighty five for
Speaker 2: the South Coast and eighty for the Cape and the Islands.
Speaker 2: On Monday Tuesday a little bit better of some clouds
Speaker 2: and maybe a thunderstorm and a high only only eighty
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, sixty six right now in Boston at six
Speaker 2: oh five. So now that the fourth of July is over,
Speaker 2: the rush to get home will heat up tomorrow.
Speaker 7: TSA Spokespirst in Jessica Meylee says security checkpoints are prepared
Speaker 7: for the surge of flyers trying to get home.
Speaker 8: I think sometimes the departures are spread out, but that
Speaker 8: return is a little more concentrated. So if you're flying
Speaker 8: on Sunday, July six, pretty much anywhere.
Speaker 6: Across the country, make sure you give yourself.
Speaker 2: Plenty of time.
Speaker 7: Meantime, Triple A spokesman Robert Sinclair says noon to six
Speaker 7: pm is going to be the worst time to be
Speaker 7: on the roads as a majority of the sixty one
Speaker 7: million people driving try to return home.
Speaker 2: Tens of millions will hit the road for the fourth
Speaker 2: The good news is the prices at the gas pump
Speaker 2: are better.
Speaker 8: The record number of Americans traveling for the Fourth of
Speaker 8: July holiday, including c. J. Kennedy, are enjoying a break
Speaker 8: from high gas prices.
Speaker 1: It's been up and down.
Speaker 3: Sometimes parts of the years has been very low and
Speaker 3: it has been very economical to travel, and then sometimes
Speaker 3: it can get up there used when the gas prices rise,
Speaker 3: but it.
Speaker 1: Hadn't been too bad.
Speaker 5: It's been pretty steady over these past couple months in
Speaker 5: my travels, so.
Speaker 8: Triple A says average gas prices are at their lowest
Speaker 8: for this time of the year since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 8: Jim Chrysula, CBS News, Hillsville, Virginia.
Speaker 2: And Triple A says the average price for a gallon
Speaker 2: of regular unleaded gas in Massachusetts just a little over
Speaker 2: three dollars at three oh seven. Metal heads are so
Speaker 2: happy history in the UK.
Speaker 9: All four original members of Black Sabbath. They're promising satisfaction
Speaker 9: with the greatest heavy metal show ever. Geezer Butler, Tommy Iomi,
Speaker 9: bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne, who's fought multiple health battles,
Speaker 9: including Parkinson's, are reuniting in their native Birmingham, England for
Speaker 9: one final gig. It's a twenty year dream come true
Speaker 9: for rock fans who thought the quartet, with a combined
Speaker 9: age of three hundred and three, would never play together again.
Speaker 9: Proceeds will go to charities, including Pure Parkinson's. Deborah Rodriguez
Speaker 9: CBS News.
Speaker 2: Two CVS locations could soon be in the process of
Speaker 2: making way for some upscale housing in Boston, The Globe
Speaker 2: reporting the twenty four hour CVS pharmacy on Charles Street
Speaker 2: could soon be replaced by a five story apartment building.
Speaker 2: A real estate investment group has met with the Beacon
Speaker 2: Hill Civic Association about the project, but it has not
Speaker 2: been proposed to the Boston Planning Board. There will be
Speaker 2: retail space available, but no word as to whether CBS
Speaker 2: will stay, and the Boston Business Grneral reports construction began
Speaker 2: last month on a two hundred and six unit apartment
Speaker 2: building at the former CBS at twelve seventy COMAPB in Folston.
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Speaker 2: I'm Charlie Berger on WBZ, Boston's news radio