Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News sixty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Salsville. Here's what's happening. The manhunt continues for
Speaker 2: a fifty seven year old Vance Belter. The gunman. Excuse me?
Speaker 2: The gunman suspected of killing Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman
Speaker 2: and her husband and shooting State Senator John Hoffman and
Speaker 2: his wife. Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas described the shooting of
Speaker 2: Hortman as a politically motivated assassination. CBS's John Luriston has
Speaker 2: more on the suspect.
Speaker 3: He was wearing a light colored cowboy hat, dark long
Speaker 3: sleeved shirt, light pants, and he was carrying a dark bag.
Speaker 3: Investigators say he changed his appearance after wearing a mask
Speaker 3: and posing as a police officer during the alleged shootings
Speaker 3: at the Hoffman and Hortman Holmes. Later Saturday, police searched
Speaker 3: the Fremont Avenue house that Belter rented part time and
Speaker 3: had a roommate. His other known address was a rural
Speaker 3: home in Sibley County, southeast to the town of green Isle.
Speaker 2: Officials say they also found a hit list of names
Speaker 2: in Belter's car, mostly Democrats or people with ties to
Speaker 2: abortion rights. Politicians around the country are condemning the shootings here.
Speaker 2: In Massachusetts, Governor Morri Healy says, quote, this is not normal.
Speaker 2: It's not who we are as Americans, and we must
Speaker 2: all condemn political violence in the strongest possible terms. State
Speaker 2: Senate President Karen Spilka also expressing outrage, saying this is
Speaker 2: political violence, pure and simple, and must be condemned in
Speaker 2: the strongest possible terms by every leader in this country.
Speaker 2: The state's Democratic Party Chair Steve Kerrigan called the shootings horrific,
Speaker 2: while Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano says he's quote appalled
Speaker 2: and heartbroken. May be on a win streak, but the
Speaker 2: workers inside Fenway are growing restless.
Speaker 4: It's not really the kind of strike you're used to
Speaker 4: seeing at Fenway. A strike has been authorized at Fenway Park.
Speaker 4: The concessions workers inside the ballparker Echine closer to a strike,
Speaker 4: broadly voting in favor of a strike authorization. If the
Speaker 4: members of Unite Here Local twenty six go through with it,
Speaker 4: it will be the first hospitality strike in Fenway's history.
Speaker 4: They've been without a contract since the start of the year.
Speaker 4: The workers are concerned that increasing automation at the park
Speaker 4: is going to strip them of their jobs.
Speaker 2: When a computer takes away our jobs, it takes away
Speaker 2: income that goes back into the community.
Speaker 4: I'm a Boston resident, I lived here, my whole life
Speaker 4: started at Fenway in high school, and I want to
Speaker 4: keep this job. Natalie Greening has worked at Fenway as
Speaker 4: a beer seller for twenty years. Other workers, like warehouse
Speaker 4: worker Ramon Soarez, says the working environment has gone downhill.
Speaker 4: At first, we've seen that it was like a family thing.
Speaker 4: Now it seems like they're trying to conquer and divine us.
Speaker 4: Kyle Shaffel w BUS Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: We're continuing to watch Logan Airport as delays in Right now,
Speaker 2: flight Aware is reporting one hundred and eighty six delays
Speaker 2: for flights coming in and out of Logan. Luckily just
Speaker 2: three cancelations. More than fifty of those flights are from
Speaker 2: Jet Blue. The forecast partly cloudy tonight, low fifty five,
Speaker 2: mostly cloudy tomorrow with highs in the mid to upper sixties,
Speaker 2: some sun on Tuesday, with a high year seventy and done. Wednesday,
Speaker 2: warmer and more humid, with a thundershower early than some
Speaker 2: sun in the afternoon. We'll have a high of seventy six.
Speaker 2: Right now in Boston, it's partly sunny and sixty three degrees. Well,
Speaker 2: it's Father's Day and many dads are celebrating by heading
Speaker 2: out to the golf course. Wbz's Kyle Bray caught up
Speaker 2: with some of them.
Speaker 4: Every Day's fathers this so I'd like the golf every day.
Speaker 1: I ran into Charlie as he was giving his grandson
Speaker 1: Dean some pointers about his golf swing. He's here with
Speaker 1: his two daughters and grandkids to hit the links as
Speaker 1: a celebration of fatherhood. But while it is a day
Speaker 1: for dads, for Charlie, it's as much about his grandkids too,
Speaker 1: also the future golf. It's a stage, I said, and
Speaker 1: we're head together on us. Father's data have fun, get
Speaker 1: some lessons from Crampa.
Speaker 4: Uh maybe not, Grandpa gets a lessons from them.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes, golfers refreshing in life, and the way you play
Speaker 1: golfer is the way you handle life, so we always
Speaker 1: have fun. Meantime, Byron was walking by the golf course
Speaker 1: with his step son. He says Father's Day is very
Speaker 1: meaningful to him. As a stepdad would give me an
Speaker 1: opportunity to guide named all Jay in the right direction,
Speaker 1: make sure he lived a positive life, stay out of trouble.
Speaker 1: From Franklin Park Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: When it comes to celebrating our parents on their big days,
Speaker 2: it seems dad's get the short end of the stick.
Speaker 2: CBS's Stacy Linn explains.
Speaker 5: We spend way less for Dad on Father's Day than
Speaker 5: we spend on our moms on Mother's Day. According to
Speaker 5: the National Retail Federation, Americans will shell out about twenty
Speaker 5: four billion dollars for pops today. While that is a
Speaker 5: lot of dad dough, we spent over thirty four billion
Speaker 5: dollars last month on our mama's. Data from Retailing Not
Speaker 5: also shows the spending gap, which is only getting bigger.
Speaker 5: According to its retail surveys, we are each dropping about
Speaker 5: two hundred and thirty two bucks on this Father's Day,
Speaker 5: much less than last year and also lesson each of
Speaker 5: us spent on mom. Stacy Lenz, CBS News.
Speaker 2: Boston police are investigating an act of vandalism against the
Speaker 2: George Washington statue in the city's public garden. Police were
Speaker 2: called to the statue yesterday morning after someone noticed it
Speaker 2: had red spray paint lettering with splashes of white paint
Speaker 2: all over the granite base and on the steps around it.
Speaker 2: Police collected the lid of a red spray paint can
Speaker 2: as evidence. No word on any arrests. President Trump is
Speaker 2: scheduled to head to Canada tonight to attend the G
Speaker 2: seventh Summit. CBS's Linda Kenyon has.
Speaker 6: That leaders of the G seven industrialized nations are hoping
Speaker 6: for a quiet summit this year. It comes amid conflicts
Speaker 6: sparked by President Trump's talk of making Canada the fifty
Speaker 6: first state, along with his ongoing trade wars with the
Speaker 6: US trading partners. The US has trade deficits with all
Speaker 6: G seven nations except the UK. President Royal previous summits.
Speaker 6: In twenty eighteen, he gone Canada's then Prime Minister Trudeau
Speaker 6: dishonest and weak. In twenty seventeen, Trump clashed with Italy
Speaker 6: over climate change language in the summit's final Communicylyndy Kenyon
Speaker 6: CBS News The White House.
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Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Sosville, WBZ, Boston's news radio