Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news while
Speaker 1: how exciting is this? It's Tuesday already or it's only
Speaker 1: Tuesday six o'clock either way, and we're starting under clear
Speaker 1: skies in sunshine fifty six here in Boston. The News
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Speaker 1: us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown at Canada Clipper Sunshine
Speaker 1: around four today that we are going to have some
Speaker 1: haze from Canadian wildfire smoke later in the day, right
Speaker 1: as WBZ AKI weather meteorologist teather' zaire Highes will be
Speaker 1: in the seventies with even warmer weather to come. Students
Speaker 1: at Hanover High School are animals. A senior prank goes
Speaker 1: off the rails after the class of twenty five Pepper's
Speaker 1: the hallways with confetti and unrolled spools of toilet paper,
Speaker 1: then adds smashed fruit to the corridors. A late night
Speaker 1: security check of the building last week reveals the damage.
Speaker 1: By the time police got there, the kids were all gone.
Speaker 1: Officials say there does not appear to be any permanent damage,
Speaker 1: but clean up costs time and money, and they say
Speaker 1: the stunt crossed the line from harmless to inappropriate behavior.
Speaker 1: It's not creative, they say, and really not all that funny. Close,
Speaker 1: but no cigar. The Red Sox dig themselves an early
Speaker 1: hole and can't emerge. They lose to the Angels at
Speaker 1: Fenway Game one of the NHL Stanley Cup finalists. Tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: Edmonton will host the Florida Panthers and the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: Game one as a night later in Oklahoma City as
Speaker 1: the Thunder take on the Indiana Pacers. A controversial and
Speaker 1: reluctant witness for the defense returns to the stand this
Speaker 1: morning in the Karen Reid trial.
Speaker 2: One, two, three, four.
Speaker 3: There's at least four different types of either bite or
Speaker 3: a combination bite in clawmox.
Speaker 1: Dog might expert doctor Marie Russell continues her testimony after
Speaker 1: telling the jury the injuries on John O'Keefe's arm were
Speaker 1: the result of dog bites. Earlier in the day, Crude
Speaker 1: text messages from former State Police trooper Michael Proctor read aloud,
Speaker 1: and another reluctant former Kenton police officer as a witness,
Speaker 1: gets into it with Reed's lawyers, who she claims has
Speaker 1: no ties to the case and accuses the Defense of
Speaker 1: trying to get hur to lie on the stand. It's
Speaker 1: back to work on Capitol Hill this week, where Senators
Speaker 1: are in a barrel. They have a big decision to
Speaker 1: make on President Trump's One Big, Beautiful Budget bill. The
Speaker 1: President himself is prodding Republicans to get on the train
Speaker 1: or under it, in a similar tactic he successfully used
Speaker 1: to get the bill over the finished line in the
Speaker 1: House following an all nighter. It is expected that the
Speaker 1: Senate will be on board, and the President expects a
Speaker 1: consolidated bill on his desk by Independence Day. The Education
Speaker 1: Department has second thoughts. Payback for student loans on hold
Speaker 1: since the early days of the pandemic are now back on,
Speaker 1: but government officials stop short of some of the most
Speaker 1: punitive actions in collecting the money. The Trump administration has
Speaker 1: not attacked Social Security benefits and says it has also
Speaker 1: not gone through with its threats to garnish paychecks just
Speaker 1: to get paid. The White House says instead it will
Speaker 1: begin an outreach program to get delinquent barers off the
Speaker 1: Schneid Coffee has its benefits, we learn, and maybe more
Speaker 1: so for women.
Speaker 2: Some may consider coffee a miracle, but it may also
Speaker 2: be the best medicine, a term we are using loosely.
Speaker 2: New research out of Harvard is suggesting women who drank
Speaker 2: two and a half cups of coffee a day over
Speaker 2: a span of thirty years had fewer chronic diseases and
Speaker 2: were considered to be aging in a healthy way. Great
Speaker 2: news for these coffee lovers. I mean, that's great.
Speaker 4: I would drink it regardless, even if you told me
Speaker 4: that I did the reverse, I would drink it regardless.
Speaker 4: I'm telling everyone I know, because everyone gives me crap
Speaker 4: for drinking coffee every day.
Speaker 5: So I'm telling everybody. Leila Eva Kam.
Speaker 2: Here the set. He says, caffeinated coffee, not tea, not DCALF,
Speaker 2: may be the factor in preserving mental and physical function Nst.
Speaker 2: James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: In fact, a beautiful day made even nicer with your
Speaker 1: morning cup of coffee. It is fifty six degrees right now, skies,
Speaker 1: sunshine this morning and pretty much all day long today,
Speaker 1: and maybe some haze later on this afternoon. That would
Speaker 1: be complements of the Canadian wildfires that have forced the
Speaker 1: evacuation of tens of thousands of people from their homes.
Speaker 1: High temperatures today in the mid seventies. We're beginning a
Speaker 1: warming trend here in Boston that will see us touch
Speaker 1: ninety degrees by Thursday afternoon before the wheels fall off.
Speaker 1: We're on a gradual progression here. Mid seventies today, low
Speaker 1: eighties tomorrow, high eighties tomorrow afternoon. This would be the
Speaker 1: time to get the air conditioners in the window, or
Speaker 1: if you have central air, flip it on. We're going
Speaker 1: to need it over the next couple of days. After that, though,
Speaker 1: things begin to go downhill, wouldn't you know it. Right now,
Speaker 1: it looks like the weekend is once again going to
Speaker 1: feature some rain, and it looks like it might arrive
Speaker 1: to with us on Friday afternoon and continue through much
Speaker 1: of the day on Saturday before we start to clear
Speaker 1: on out again. It's early. We'll keep our eyes on it.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're in good shape this morning, clear skies
Speaker 1: and fifty six here in Boston, six oh six on
Speaker 1: this Tuesday morning. This will lie come as no surprise,
Speaker 1: but much of Massachusetts has been drenched out of droughts
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: Cape Cod is the only part of the Commonwealth that
Speaker 4: is in drought status, as the drought map of Massachusetts
Speaker 4: has been steadily improving through a somewhat rainy spring. Thus
Speaker 4: far are there surrounding areas like Plymouth County and Martha's
Speaker 4: Vineyard are abnormally dry. It's important to note, though, this
Speaker 4: is the time of the year where drought concerns really
Speaker 4: start to ramp up. Hot summer days and lack of
Speaker 4: steady rainfall is a recipe to get the state back
Speaker 4: and drought status. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News radio ice.
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Speaker 5: Pop Ye or field Ship for schools state wide. The
Speaker 5: Jimmy Fun's annual Scooper Bowl begins today, dishing out dozens
Speaker 5: of ice cream flavors at City Hall Plaza. The big
Speaker 5: brands like Ben and Jerry's, Brighams and Friendlies are there
Speaker 5: to scoop same with lactate for the lactose intolerant. Ticket.
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Speaker 5: It's a fundraiser that's been around since nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 5: raising seven and a half million dollars since then. Jay
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Speaker 3: The momentous occasion comes thirty eight years after the song's release,
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio.