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Speaker 2: News seventy five partly Sonny Definitely Hazy in Boston. It's
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock on this Monday morning, August fourth. Hello, I'm
Speaker 2: Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. There's still no end in
Speaker 2: site for the sanitation workers strike. Our wbz's James Rojas
Speaker 2: is in Wakefield with very latest.
Speaker 3: These trash bands out on the curb are going to
Speaker 3: be picked up, but not by union members, says. The
Speaker 3: strike between or Public Services employees and the company goes
Speaker 3: into week five. This comes after a ninety three percent
Speaker 3: of vote in favor of holding the picking line. The
Speaker 3: move has the support of Tony from Wakefield and this
Speaker 3: union guy from Manchester. Stay with it, stay with it,
Speaker 3: you get what you want, try and get what you want.
Speaker 3: I hope so I wish from Marble Walk in the world.
Speaker 4: You should fight whatever for whatever they want.
Speaker 1: I support you, and so I'm a part.
Speaker 5: Of a union.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Republic Services says it's disappointed in the vote, adding
Speaker 3: it remains ready to meet with union leadership when they're
Speaker 3: serious about reaching an agreement. In Wakefield, James Rojas WBZ
Speaker 3: Boston Snows Radio.
Speaker 2: Boston could become the new home of the Connecticut Sun.
Speaker 2: That's if the WNBA approves the deal. A group led
Speaker 2: by Boston Celtics minority owner Steve Paliuca has reached a
Speaker 2: deal to buy the Connecticut Sun for a record three
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five million and move the team out
Speaker 2: of the Mohegan Sun area and relocate it here in Boston.
Speaker 2: In a statement, though, the league emphasized that relocation decisions
Speaker 2: are made by the WNBA Board of Governors, not by
Speaker 2: individual teams, So we're going to have to wait a
Speaker 2: little longer on approval before celebrating, and if the sale
Speaker 2: does get approved, the team wouldn't play in Boston until
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty seventh season. The Sun has played one
Speaker 2: regular season game at ted Garden each of the last
Speaker 2: two years, including one against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.
Speaker 2: In July, President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff met with
Speaker 2: hostage families over the weekend. We get the latest on
Speaker 2: that from ABC's Ian Pannell from Tel Aviv.
Speaker 4: What he told them was, we are very very close
Speaker 4: to a solution to end this war. What does that mean.
Speaker 4: He says that Hamas has said that they are prepared
Speaker 4: to demilitarize, which is frankly mystifying because publicly, at least,
Speaker 4: that's not what they're saying. He also says that there's
Speaker 4: a plan to bring all hostages home at once again
Speaker 4: mystifying because they're struggling to bring even small groups home.
Speaker 4: An Israeli official also Telegabc News that Prime Minister nets
Speaker 4: and Yahoo is pushing to expand the military operation to
Speaker 4: release the hostage through a military.
Speaker 2: Solution, and Hamas says it will allow the Red Cross
Speaker 2: to visit the hostages if Israel opens humanitarian corridors across
Speaker 2: all of Gaza and stops bombing during the Red Cross visits. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Russian officials sending a veiled warning to President Trump without
Speaker 2: naming names.
Speaker 5: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters quote, everybody should be very,
Speaker 5: very cautious with nuclear rhetoric. This in response to President
Speaker 5: Trump's announcement that he's deployed two US nuclear submarines to
Speaker 5: quote appropriate regions. That move itself followed a threatening tweet
Speaker 5: from former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev Vicki Barker, CBS News, London.
Speaker 2: Now here's the fort a WBZ achu weather forecast. That
Speaker 2: haze that you may have been noticing in the air
Speaker 2: last couple days again today is due to Canadian wildfire smoke.
Speaker 2: It's also triggering an air quality alert that's in effect
Speaker 2: through midnight tonight. Sunshine but hazy ive eighty five today,
Speaker 2: closer to ninety inland, near eighty for the Cape. In
Speaker 2: the Islands, mainly clear Tonight, we'll cool off to sixty
Speaker 2: seven in the city, near sixty for some of those
Speaker 2: inland suburbs. All right Tomorrow partly sunny. Seventy six is
Speaker 2: the high in the city, so we'll cool down into
Speaker 2: the low to mid eighties for the inland areas. Wednesday
Speaker 2: pretty much a carbon coffee of Tuesday. Thursday, clouds breaking
Speaker 2: for some sunshine. Highs could reach about eighty and if
Speaker 2: we look at the extended forecast for Friday, more sunshine
Speaker 2: and highs could reach the mid eighties. Right now, partly
Speaker 2: sunny and seventy five in Boston, it's eleven oh five.
Speaker 2: Back to News, an unfortunate sign of summer coming to
Speaker 2: an end. Sunsets are now happening before eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: The sun's already been setting earlier and earlier, but once
Speaker 1: we hit this point, it really starts to feel real.
Speaker 1: There's now only eight weeks left of summer, and the
Speaker 1: thought of the summer slipping away leaves many people feeling blue.
Speaker 6: Makes me sad.
Speaker 3: I love being out so late.
Speaker 5: It's a depressing thought, if I'm going to be honest.
Speaker 2: The night calendar turns to August first, it always brings
Speaker 2: a little bit of sadness about the sun and the
Speaker 2: school year coming.
Speaker 1: But folks like Michelle are trying to focus on the
Speaker 1: bright side while it's still bright.
Speaker 2: Out bed great summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the weather's been great.
Speaker 1: Lots of activities.
Speaker 2: The Red Sox are doing well that I can't complain
Speaker 2: at all. Now.
Speaker 1: Even Lawrence wants to make the most of his chaotic
Speaker 1: summer days. I got a four month o these days,
Speaker 1: so my days kind of all feel like a blur, honestly.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll try to plan something and you know, maybe be
Speaker 1: more outdoors.
Speaker 3: So we'll see it from the common.
Speaker 1: Kyle Brady WBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio Right blood is thicker than a regular paycheck. The
Speaker 2: Salem News reporting the daughter and son fired market basket
Speaker 2: exec Joe Schmidt are leaving the company. Twenty year old
Speaker 2: Julius Schmidt has worked at the bakery at a Nashvielle
Speaker 2: Market basket store for five years. Sixteen year old Jacob
Speaker 2: has been a bagger for the last year, both submitting
Speaker 2: letters of resignation to the company's board of directors. Their
Speaker 2: father worked for the grocery chain for thirty nine years.
Speaker 2: He and another longtime exec were fired in July for insubordination.
Speaker 2: Several others are on suspension, including CEO Arthur T. Demulis,
Speaker 2: who scheduled for a mediation session with the board on
Speaker 2: September third. All right. President Trump defending his decision to
Speaker 2: fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 6: President Trump pledging to announce a new head for the
Speaker 6: Bureau of Labor Statistics after he fired Commissioner Erica Macintarfer
Speaker 6: on Friday, claiming without evidence that the latest jobs numbers
Speaker 6: were manipulated to make him look bad.
Speaker 1: We had no confidence.
Speaker 3: I mean, the numbers were ridiculous.
Speaker 6: But he has yet to provide any concrete evidence of that.
Speaker 6: The President's top economic advisor's adamant Trump isn't shooting the
Speaker 6: messenger in the wake of the poor jobs report, but
Speaker 6: they say he does want his own appointee in place.
Speaker 2: And that's ABC's Mary Bruce reporting now. The report showed
Speaker 2: seventy three thousand jobs were added in July, which was
Speaker 2: much lower than what was expected. You are now in
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