Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Eighty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. If you can't stand
Speaker 2: the heat, get out of New England.
Speaker 3: As far as our daytime high temperatures, my forecast still
Speaker 3: places us around ninety three degrees for the city, metro
Speaker 3: west points north around ninety one to ninety two degrees.
Speaker 3: It is not less necessarily going to feel like the
Speaker 3: upper nineties, at least for today, but that jet stream
Speaker 3: will remain along the northern border, and the heat is
Speaker 3: going to be building across the eastern half.
Speaker 2: Of the country. CBS News Boston's Jason Michael a potential
Speaker 2: of a heat wave three plus days of ninety plus
Speaker 2: degree heat. Boston Mayor Michelle Woo's issued a heat emergency
Speaker 2: for the city through Wednesday. There is an air quality
Speaker 2: alert up until eleven o'clock this evening, and we are soaring,
Speaker 2: especially off to the north. Manchester, New Hampshire's at ninety
Speaker 2: five degrees right now. Even up in Bangor, Maine it
Speaker 2: is ninety four, which is a little bit hotter than
Speaker 2: around these parts. We're at ninety two degrees in Fitchburg,
Speaker 2: eighty six in Worcester, eighty nine in Boston. We were
Speaker 2: above ninety briefly today in Boston before temperature settled back
Speaker 2: a couple degrees. We'll check things out with trafficking weather
Speaker 2: together in just a couple of minutes. Taking aim at Washington,
Speaker 2: DC's crime problems, President Trump today highlighting certain street crimes,
Speaker 2: placing the DC Police under the control of Attorney General
Speaker 2: Pambondi and for starters, sending in eight hundred National Guard
Speaker 2: forces under.
Speaker 4: The authorities vested in me. As the President of the
Speaker 4: United States, I'm officially invoking section seven forty of the
Speaker 4: District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what that is,
Speaker 4: and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, federal agents from various departments, including the FBI,
Speaker 2: began to patrol the streets of Washington, d C, despite
Speaker 2: some high profile incidents. For their part, district officials argue
Speaker 2: that crime is down from a high spike in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three and the president's move is unnecessary. D c's
Speaker 2: Mayor Muriel Bowser called the President and his actions unsettling
Speaker 2: and unprecedented, but not surprising. A federal judge of New
Speaker 2: York rules transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the
Speaker 2: sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend won't be released.
Speaker 2: The judge is should have written ruling saying releasing the
Speaker 2: transcripts would risk unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which
Speaker 2: the grand jury is premised. Killing Maxwell is serving a
Speaker 2: twenty year prison term after her conviction on sex trafficking
Speaker 2: charges for helping to procure girls for Epstein. It's fiery
Speaker 2: hot in California, however, the fiery parts getting a little
Speaker 2: bit better.
Speaker 1: Even though it remains hot and extremely dry here, with
Speaker 1: temperatures around and above one hundred degrees. In many areas,
Speaker 1: firefighters have made substantial progress on wildfires that worth running
Speaker 1: homes and lives. Last week, the Canyon Fire north of
Speaker 1: la is now at ninety one percent containment. The Gifford Fire,
Speaker 1: burning in a remote area of Santa Barbara and San
Speaker 1: Luis Obispo counties, is huge at around one hundred twenty
Speaker 1: thousand acres, but containment has risen to thirty three percent.
Speaker 1: Fire activity on the wildfires is way down at like STONEYBCINEWS,
Speaker 1: Los Angele.
Speaker 2: Has promised to shut down on the MBTA's Blue Line
Speaker 2: now through Sunday. Riders on parts of that line are
Speaker 2: being told they'll have to get a ride on a
Speaker 2: shuttle bus as the TEA works to replace tracks in
Speaker 2: upgrade stations, No trains from airport to Wonderland, shuttle buses
Speaker 2: replacing train service, and the tees warning riders to add
Speaker 2: about twenty to thirty minutes to their usual commute. Not
Speaker 2: a great day to be waiting in traffic as it
Speaker 2: is warming up quite a bit outside. We're almost back
Speaker 2: to ninety in Boston where we got earlier, or at
Speaker 2: eighty nine right now, but many spots are into the
Speaker 2: low nineties. And as you head up into parts of
Speaker 2: New Hampshire Manchester, for example, ninety five degrees right now.
Speaker 2: We're at ninety four in Conquered New Hampshire, ninety four
Speaker 2: in Bangor, Maine. So there's plenty of warmthed in place,
Speaker 2: just a little bit a little bit cooler in these
Speaker 2: parts at least today, but the humidity is going to
Speaker 2: be on the increase and the temperatures a little bit
Speaker 2: as well. So as we head through the evening with
Speaker 2: an air quality alert until eleven clock to I will
Speaker 2: have temperatures in the low seventies in Boston, mainly clear skies,
Speaker 2: mid sixties in the outer suburbs. Here comes tomorrow in
Speaker 2: more humidity, so it'll feel warmer. More oppressive load of
Speaker 2: mid nineties for the high temperatures tomorrow with the mid
Speaker 2: eighties over the Capean Islands mainly clear, humid Tomorrow night
Speaker 2: in near seventy and then hot and humid on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: a little more humid in fact, almost oppressive clouds and
Speaker 2: some sunshine. Temperatures load to mid nineties only in the
Speaker 2: mid maybe upper eighties on Thursday Essay only because it's cooler,
Speaker 2: but it's still going to be humid, so it's still
Speaker 2: going to feel sticky, and there's going to be some
Speaker 2: thunderstorms we may have to dodge as the day goes on.
Speaker 2: Right now, eighty nine degrees see in Boston. Look up
Speaker 2: on the walls. It's six huge new murals in downtown Lynn.
Speaker 2: The besist Carl Stevens tells us it's part of an
Speaker 2: ongoing beyond Walls initiative.
Speaker 5: These half dozen new murals here in downtown Lyn have
Speaker 5: just been completed over the past couple of weeks by
Speaker 5: artists from all over the world. Could I ask your name?
Speaker 6: Yeah, my name is a speaker speaker.
Speaker 5: Where are you from?
Speaker 6: I'm from Italy.
Speaker 5: Milan speaker from Italy created one of a couple murals
Speaker 5: next to each other that show a teenage girl going
Speaker 5: beyond the mindset of isolation and interacting with others.
Speaker 6: It's important because it helps people communicate and talk who
Speaker 6: Every time people come here, they tried to reflect on
Speaker 6: what's on the wall, and then hopefully they keep the
Speaker 6: reflection on when they get into their homes, maybe talking
Speaker 6: with the families or sparks.
Speaker 5: Communication from Lynn Carl Stevens WBC Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Saying goodbye to a blues player best known for his
Speaker 2: work with guitarist Derek Clapton, Bobby Whitlock has died.
Speaker 7: Britlock was a founding member of Derek and the Domino's.
Speaker 7: He and Clapton co wrote several songs on the band's
Speaker 7: lone studio album Layla and other assorted love songs. Clapton
Speaker 7: retorted the album because he was in love with his
Speaker 7: best friend's wife. Former beatle George Harrison that Best Friend
Speaker 7: by Wlock also contributed some keyboard on Harrison's All Things
Speaker 7: Must Pass album. Whitlock's manager said he died of cancer
Speaker 7: early Sunday morning, surrounded by his family in Texas. Bobby
Speaker 7: Whitlock was seventy seven years old. Michael Toscano CBS News.
Speaker 2: Hey, where's everybody going well? When it comes to mothers
Speaker 2: of young children, they are going home, leaving the workforce
Speaker 2: in droves.
Speaker 8: The number of twenty five to forty four year old
Speaker 8: moms in the workforce has fallen to the lowest level
Speaker 8: in more than three years, according to federal data analyzed
Speaker 8: by the University of Kansas. The drop has wiped out
Speaker 8: many of the gains made by working mothers after the pandemic,
Speaker 8: when schedules were more flexible while many were able to
Speaker 8: work from home. But how many companies and government agencies
Speaker 8: are requiring employees to come back to the office. That,
Speaker 8: combined with sweeping federal layoffs, is being blamed for the
Speaker 8: big drop. Now Stacy Lynn, CBS News.
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