Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio Rea defining local news.
Speaker 2: Sunny in eighty degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon.
Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Saalsville. Here's what's happening. The Senate votes to
Speaker 2: move forward with President Trump's tax and spending bill after
Speaker 2: a late night session. Republican lawmakers were at a standstill
Speaker 2: for several hours, with leaders working behind the scenes to
Speaker 2: rein in a few of the holdouts. CBS's Michael Tuscano
Speaker 2: has more.
Speaker 3: Finally, just after eleven pm Eastern time, the a's are
Speaker 3: fifty one, the na's are forty nine. Senate Majority leader
Speaker 3: John Thune was ready to move right to debate.
Speaker 1: Aston sent the reading be dispensed with.
Speaker 3: But Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said, not so fast.
Speaker 4: Democrats are going to force this chamber to read it
Speaker 4: from start to finish by redesignating paragraph four as paragraph
Speaker 4: five and this, and by inserting after paragraph three the
Speaker 4: following new paragraph.
Speaker 3: And that is what reading out loud, a nine hundred
Speaker 3: and forty page bill sounds like. Hour after hour.
Speaker 1: Michael Toscano section seven zero five zero seven.
Speaker 3: CBS News Washington and Today.
Speaker 2: After voting no North Carolina Republican Tom Tillis says he
Speaker 2: will not run for re election. A two term Senator,
Speaker 2: Tillis was opposed to President Trump's budget bill because of
Speaker 2: its reductions to Medicaid. Among the proposed cuts and President
Speaker 2: Trump's budget bill or cuts to renewable energy incentives. Opposing
Speaker 2: Democrats say the cuts would put hundreds of solar projects
Speaker 2: at schools at risk. The Globe reports Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey,
Speaker 2: along with Senators Chuck Schumer and Ron Wyden, compiled the
Speaker 2: list of schools with solar installations in the works. The
Speaker 2: list includes seven solar panel projects at elementary schools in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: including in Brookline, New Bedford, Winchester, and Westwood. Tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of Iranians gather over the weekend for a series
Speaker 2: of state funerals in the wake of Israeli and US
Speaker 2: strikes honey Iran's nuclear program. ABC's Marcus Moore reports we.
Speaker 4: Saw extraordinary pictures of the crowds filling the streets of
Speaker 4: Tehran on Saturday. There were morning the deaths of those
Speaker 4: top Irani and military commanders and nuclear scientists to cripple
Speaker 4: Iran's nuclear program. But there are conflicting intelligence assessments on
Speaker 4: just how much the US strikes set back Iran's nuclear program.
Speaker 4: President Trump dismissed an earlier leaked Pentagon intel report that
Speaker 4: said the program was only set back a few months.
Speaker 2: President Trump is also dismissing the notion that Iran might
Speaker 2: have moved some of its enriched uranium before the US strikes.
Speaker 2: He appeared on Fox News this morning. Plus, we didn't
Speaker 2: give much notice because they didn't know we were coming
Speaker 2: until just you know then, And nobody thought we'd go
Speaker 2: after that site because everybody said that site is impenitraed.
Speaker 1: Well, you can't, you know, you're.
Speaker 3: Not going to be this way. It is at the
Speaker 3: bottom of a mountain.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has suggested
Speaker 2: that Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again
Speaker 2: in a matter of months, contradicting President Trump's claims that
Speaker 2: Iran's nuclear facilities were totally obliterated. The forecast mainly clear
Speaker 2: skies overnight, with a low of sixty seven Tomorrow, mostly
Speaker 2: sunny and warm eighty five in the city, around ninety
Speaker 2: further inland. On Tuesday, a mix of sun and clouds
Speaker 2: and very humid. Showers and thunderstorms do return in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: We'll see a high of eighty eight on Wednesday, Partly
Speaker 2: sunny and very warm, but less humid, with a high
Speaker 2: near ninety. Right now in Boston, it's mostly sunny and
Speaker 2: seventy nine degrees. Authorities make an arrest in a deadly
Speaker 2: stabbing in Middleborough yesterday. The Plymouth County DA's office says
Speaker 2: it happened at a home on Fairview Street. The victim
Speaker 2: is said to be sixty six year olds Paul Palmer
Speaker 2: Lou who was pronounced dead at the hospital. Officials say
Speaker 2: the suspect, Andrew Horseman, has been charged with murder. Police
Speaker 2: say the victim was in a long term relationship with
Speaker 2: Horseman's mom. With the Toronto Blue Jays playing at Fenway
Speaker 2: Park this weekend, there are quite a few people from
Speaker 2: Canada in Boston, despite the tensions between Canada and the US.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Carl Stevens spoke with some Canadian tourists at Fanuel Hall.
Speaker 1: Harry Cudson from Nova Scotia was walking around Fannel Hall
Speaker 1: here wearing a Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap. He says
Speaker 1: he's here on a tour that he paid for before
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was elected president, creating some tension between the
Speaker 1: US and Canada. And I asked him if he'd have
Speaker 1: booked it after that all started, would have I would give.
Speaker 3: It more thought.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was no question about it. We're friends, We
Speaker 5: even traveling for some time, and that the option to
Speaker 5: come up, so we decided that we would do this
Speaker 5: as another tour.
Speaker 1: He says, they've I had a good visit and despite
Speaker 1: a few second thoughts, he sounded like he made the
Speaker 1: right decision to visit this part of America.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm seventy four years old and I'm get a
Speaker 5: short time, right, So you ever know when next to
Speaker 5: the moral might not come.
Speaker 1: From Fannel Hall Carl Stevens WBC Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Another day, another scam.
Speaker 6: Boston Police say they've gotten two reports of a scam
Speaker 6: targeting local businesses. Here's how it works. A suspect calls
Speaker 6: stores posing as a delivery company. The scammer tells the
Speaker 6: manager they're lay on a payment and the only way
Speaker 6: to make right is by depositing money from the store
Speaker 6: safe into a bitcoin ATM. Police say this is a scam.
Speaker 6: How do you know? Because real delivery companies won't demand
Speaker 6: payment via cryptocurrency. Businesses can protect themselves by telling their
Speaker 6: employees to keep an ear out for suspicious calls and
Speaker 6: to report them to the police. Jeremy Russ, WBZ Boston's
Speaker 6: News Radio.
Speaker 2: It's an ice cream caper and Salem, New Hampshire police
Speaker 2: are searching for two mass suspects who broke into Moose
Speaker 2: Place ice cream during the overnight hours on Thursday. Police
Speaker 2: have released surveillance photos of the suspects on their social media.
Speaker 2: They're asking anyone who recognizes the pair or has any
Speaker 2: information about the incident to contact them. You are now
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Speaker 2: Boston's news radio.