Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Speaker 2: Hazy sunshine out there in Boston right now. It's eighty
Speaker 2: one degrees at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening on your Wednesday. Another blast of heat
Speaker 2: and humidity is in store for us today, but we
Speaker 2: also have some stormy weather coming later on.
Speaker 1: Good chance for thunders from the latest afternoon of this evening,
Speaker 1: especially north and west of the city where any thunders
Speaker 1: from cabrus downpours and gusty winds.
Speaker 2: Man Ezachi Weather's Joe Lundberg. We do have a heat
Speaker 2: emergency in effect for the city of Boston through the
Speaker 2: rest of the day. We have the full forecast coming
Speaker 2: up in just a few minutes. Tropical storm Erin still
Speaker 2: gaining strength in the Atlantic. ABC Chief Meteorologist Ginger z
Speaker 2: says the storm is likely going to pass north of
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico, but the exact track is still a bit uncertain.
Speaker 3: Here as it hugs that Bermuda high The closer it
Speaker 3: gets to Bermuda, the farther it is from the east coast,
Speaker 3: we want that front to kind of squeeze it between
Speaker 3: and no nobody gets hit, that would be ideal, but
Speaker 3: we're still more than a week away from that happening,
Speaker 3: so we'll be watching carefully. There's plenty of fuel out
Speaker 3: there four to five degrees warmer than average in the
Speaker 3: waters that that will go into.
Speaker 2: We just got the latest update last hour from the
Speaker 2: National Hurricane Center. Aarin is about thirteen hundred miles east
Speaker 2: of the Northern Leeward Islands. The storm is still a
Speaker 2: tropical storm max sustained winds forty five miles an hour,
Speaker 2: but this thing is definitely hauling to the west at
Speaker 2: about seventeen eighteen miles an hour, So again, we're expecting
Speaker 2: this to become a powerful hurricane by the weekend. If so,
Speaker 2: it would be the first of this year's Atlantic hurricane season.
Speaker 2: The city of Boston is working to cut off the
Speaker 2: so called food buffet for rats. Here's wbz's James Rojas
Speaker 2: in the South End.
Speaker 1: Part of Boston's plan to rain in the wrap population
Speaker 1: is to install censors around the city to gather information
Speaker 1: about rodent movements, also looking at ways to change how
Speaker 1: trash is collected, Thus cutting off rats from a free
Speaker 1: food buffet coot it out of the street. You know,
Speaker 1: close style, infeed them clean. You get it, But not
Speaker 1: everyone is convinced that the city's rode An action plan.
Speaker 1: It will work the rats out of bag. Don't mind
Speaker 1: the cat they're bigger than the cats.
Speaker 4: Now, you're never gonna get rid of it.
Speaker 1: You only can maintain it.
Speaker 4: But flaha log.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the city recommends to call three poet one if
Speaker 1: someone sees a problem with rats or trash in the
Speaker 1: South End. James Rojas w b Z BOSTON'SNOOS radio.
Speaker 2: And in the nation's capital, National Guard troops are on
Speaker 2: patrol for the first time since President Trump launched his
Speaker 2: crackdown on crime.
Speaker 5: It comes as Washington DC's crime statistics face new scrutiny.
Speaker 5: The head of the police union claims city officials are
Speaker 5: exaggerating the recent drop in crime.
Speaker 2: We're still averaging around two hundred homicides. Frankly, the city
Speaker 2: is dangerous.
Speaker 4: It continues to be dangerous.
Speaker 3: Anyone that operates in the city, who lives in the
Speaker 3: city knows that.
Speaker 5: Washington, DC's attorney general firing back, saying the police union
Speaker 5: chairman has his facts wrong.
Speaker 2: That is ABC's Nicole D'Antonio. The President has also played
Speaker 2: the DC police force under federal control. According to The
Speaker 2: Washington Post, Those police say they have yet to receive
Speaker 2: any new orders from the Trump administration. The forecast brought
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Speaker 2: slash heart. We have temperatures in the upper seventies, low
Speaker 2: eighties out there right now. Plenty of sun, still staying dry,
Speaker 2: but as we get into the afternoon that will likely
Speaker 2: not be the case. We will have some thunderstorms and
Speaker 2: a couple of showers from time to time. Some of
Speaker 2: these storms could be strong at times, flooding downpours, damaging winds.
Speaker 2: This especially will be the case north and west of Boston,
Speaker 2: so we often see the really tough storms coming through
Speaker 2: that part of the state. We'll keep an eye throughout
Speaker 2: the afternoon right here on WBZ. Be sure to stay
Speaker 2: with us, and we've got Ben Parker Madison Rogers taking
Speaker 2: you home. Check in with them. We will have weather
Speaker 2: of course every ten minutes, as we do later on tonight,
Speaker 2: all this will move out. We have a low near
Speaker 2: seventy two for tomorrow. Out's breaking for some sun, a thunderstorm,
Speaker 2: and spots mostly in the afternoon, and we have a
Speaker 2: high year eighty Plenty of sun on Friday with a
Speaker 2: high in the mid seventies, little bit warmer as you
Speaker 2: make your way inland. Right now our temperatures eighty five
Speaker 2: in Danvers, seventy nine in Weymouth, where it's seventy eight
Speaker 2: in Natick. In Boston right now at eleven oh five,
Speaker 2: lots of sun and it's eighty one. A five alarm
Speaker 2: fire in Lawrence has forced at least twenty people out
Speaker 2: of their homes. Here's WBZ Sherry Small So.
Speaker 4: I hope nobody was hurd the my car, Soung was.
Speaker 6: That's Gene. He works for a property management company that
Speaker 6: manages a building right next door to where Tuesday evenings
Speaker 6: fire broke out.
Speaker 4: This one escaped Lucky, so but I checked everything out.
Speaker 4: Everything was fine.
Speaker 1: Just the water damage, that's it.
Speaker 6: The fire didn't touch that building, but the basement is
Speaker 6: flooded from the runoff from the water used to fight
Speaker 6: the fire. Five other multifamily buildings, including a restaurant worn
Speaker 6: as Lucky. The Fire Department says at least two buildings
Speaker 6: appear to be a total loss. Fire broke out at
Speaker 6: three twenty four Lowell Street and quickly spread. Julio lives
Speaker 6: nearby and came to the scene where.
Speaker 4: It came closer. Then I see it was four houses
Speaker 4: on fire. Hey, well he was five houses of fire.
Speaker 4: The guys no, no bit than you heard.
Speaker 6: In Laurence Sherry Small w BZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Some new deep dives into the finances of the Suffolk
Speaker 2: County Sheriff's Department show cards connected to the office spend
Speaker 2: tens of thousands of dollars on trips and food and
Speaker 2: lodging this past fiscal year. The Globe reports people connected
Speaker 2: to the office. It's not clear who used a procurement
Speaker 2: card to pay for ride shares, hotel stays, and expensive meals,
Speaker 2: all to the tune of more than sixty grand now.
Speaker 2: At times the card was used for trips around the
Speaker 2: country that were likely connected to industry conferences, but there
Speaker 2: were also purchases made in places like the Bahamas. All
Speaker 2: this comes as Sheriff Stephen Tompkins faces federal extortion charges.
Speaker 2: He's accused of extorting a national cannabis company that was
Speaker 2: trying to open up in Boston. He's currently out on
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars bond, but has to come back
Speaker 2: to Massachusetts by Friday for his arraignment, and the Trump
Speaker 2: administration now says it's doing a thorough review of all
Speaker 2: the exhibits at the Smithsonian Museums and the museums themselves.
Speaker 7: A White House letter to Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
Speaker 7: Lonnie Bunch, follows up on President Trump's March executive order
Speaker 7: calling for the removal of what he termed improper ideology.
Speaker 7: It's timed with next year's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 7: of the Declaration of Independence in mind. The letter states
Speaker 7: the aim is to celebrate American exceptionalism and remove what
Speaker 7: it calls partisan or divisive narratives. The Smithsonian says it
Speaker 7: remains committed to factual history and is reviewing the letter.
Speaker 7: Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
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