Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News, sunny in eighty three degrees in Boston at eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock good Wednesday morning, is July sixteenth. I'm Cherry Small.
Speaker 2: Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening. The Blue
Speaker 2: Line up and running once again, after yesterday's commute ended
Speaker 2: with hundreds of passengers being evacuated. Our wbz's James Rojas
Speaker 2: is at Boston Harbor with more.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that I didn't get stuck on the train.
Speaker 1: Joe may not have gotten stuck on the train that
Speaker 1: stopped midway between Aquarium and Maverick stations, but he was
Speaker 1: among the many affected. Afterwards, I had to take a
Speaker 1: Silver Line, so I'll probably added maybe like about an
Speaker 1: hour to my way.
Speaker 3: Home, a huge hour and a half delay for someone
Speaker 3: who just didn't expect. So it was like two hours
Speaker 3: compared to like forty minutes, so it was a pretty
Speaker 3: long commute.
Speaker 1: Who had a worse were the folks who were on
Speaker 1: the stall train and they had to walk through the
Speaker 1: tunnel to get out thanks to a down communications cave.
Speaker 3: And I see just this massive crowd of like five
Speaker 3: six other people.
Speaker 1: Service has been restored and folks are hoping for a
Speaker 1: less eventful commute at aquarium station. James Rojas wb Z
Speaker 1: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: The City of Pebty calling on billionaire Bill Gates to
Speaker 2: take action in the ongoing sanitation workers strike. Gates is
Speaker 2: a principal owner of Cascade Investment, which is a major
Speaker 2: shareholder in Republic services. The city council says it wants
Speaker 2: Gates to use his influence and urge Republic to return
Speaker 2: to the negotiating table and address the striking workers demands.
Speaker 2: Republic has brought in trash collectors from out of state,
Speaker 2: but meanwhile some trash continues to pile up beneath the
Speaker 2: hot summer sun. The city says the situation poses a
Speaker 2: serious public health risk. The union says a federal mediator
Speaker 2: told them that Republic would not agree to any further
Speaker 2: negotiation sessions. WBC News Radio has reached out to Republic
Speaker 2: and Cascade Investment for comment. House Speaker Mike Johnson joins
Speaker 2: the growing chorus of voices supporting the release of more
Speaker 2: information about Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump had promised during his
Speaker 2: campaign to be more transparent about the investigation into the
Speaker 2: notorious sex offender, but recently his administration declared it would
Speaker 2: not release any more information on the case. ABC's Jonathan
Speaker 2: Carl with the latest.
Speaker 4: Trump, like many other New York celebrities, had some association
Speaker 4: with Epstein. When Epstein was arrested in twenty nineteen, Trump
Speaker 4: said that he had previously had a falling out with
Speaker 4: him and had not spoken to him in fifteen years.
Speaker 4: The President told ABC's Catherine Falters that Bondi had briefed
Speaker 4: him on the Justice Department's review of the Epstein files.
Speaker 5: Did she tell you what all.
Speaker 1: That your name appeared in the god.
Speaker 6: She's given us just a very quick briefing, and in
Speaker 6: terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen.
Speaker 4: Some Trump supporters are now calling for the Attorney General's resignation, and.
Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson commented on the situation while speaking with right
Speaker 2: wing podcaster Benny Johnson. Now, the ACU weather forecast Sunday
Speaker 2: to partly cloudy today, but it's going to be hot,
Speaker 2: highs ninety to ninety four, real field temps approaching one
Speaker 2: hundred eighty to eighty five for much of the Cape
Speaker 2: in the Islands, partly to mostly cloudy tonight, cooling down
Speaker 2: to only seventy five, so it's going to be hot,
Speaker 2: sticky night. Thursday, a mix of sun and clouds, a
Speaker 2: thunderstorm or two that's happening in the afternoon and evening hours.
Speaker 2: Those could be strong and gusty. Highs eighty four to
Speaker 2: eighty eight again, Reel feels much warmer in the nineties. Friday,
Speaker 2: sun and some clouds, it'll be breezy. Eighty four to
Speaker 2: eighty eight is the high on Saturday. It looks like
Speaker 2: the weekend will be in the seventy seventy eight with
Speaker 2: sunny skies on Saturday. Right now in the city, we're
Speaker 2: looking at eighty three degrees in sunny skies at eleven
Speaker 2: oh five. As the mercury rises, Boston calls for a
Speaker 2: heat emergency.
Speaker 7: Public health and safety is the top priority. Is Mayor
Speaker 7: wou declares a heat emergency in the city, we.
Speaker 8: Have you pulling and missing tents. There are now fifteen
Speaker 8: city pools that are open, with more scheduled to be
Speaker 8: opened over the next couple of weeks. As we've finished
Speaker 8: some of the final repairs on certain projects. We have
Speaker 8: eighty splash pads in parks and playgrounds across the city.
Speaker 7: The city continuing to work on getting all the municipal
Speaker 7: pools across Boston repaired and reopened.
Speaker 8: By the end of the year, we will have renovated
Speaker 8: more than half of all the city pools, and we
Speaker 8: have a couple more degard just to fix them up
Speaker 8: and make sure that we're maintaining them properly.
Speaker 7: Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: A Dracot woman facing federal charges accused of leaking confidential
Speaker 2: grand jury information in the Karen Reid case. Thirty four
Speaker 2: year old Jessica Leslie sat on a federal grand jury
Speaker 2: investigating the state's handling of the Reed murder case. Prosecutors
Speaker 2: claimed that she disclosed sealed information including witness names, testimony details,
Speaker 2: and other evidence, between August of twenty twenty two and
Speaker 2: March of twenty twenty four. She's charged with criminal contempt
Speaker 2: and has agreed to plead guilty those charges, announced yesterday.
Speaker 2: A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled. The plea
Speaker 2: deal does come with a recommendation that she be sentenced
Speaker 2: to time served. Another day. Another volcanic eruption in Iceland.
Speaker 2: Here CBS's Vicky Barker.
Speaker 6: Live media images showed the volcano belching smoke, with hot,
Speaker 6: yellow and orange lava flowing from the fissures in the earth.
Speaker 6: Flights are still going in and out of the main
Speaker 6: airport Requivic, but Iceland's famous geothermal blue Lagoon spot has
Speaker 6: been evacuated, and those residents of the nearby town of
Speaker 6: Grindovic who didn't leave when this latest series of eruptions
Speaker 6: began two years ago have also been told to get out.
Speaker 6: Vicky Barker, CBS News London.
Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder stomps out a long standing rumor here CBS
Speaker 2: is Devor Rodriguez with the tails ba.
Speaker 7: God.
Speaker 5: Stevie Wonder stopped a concert in Cardiff, Wales and commented
Speaker 5: on claims he can see the.
Speaker 4: Truth is shortly after in my birth and became.
Speaker 5: The seventy five year old singer calls his blindness a blessing.
Speaker 7: It's a loud me CP doing this period of the thing.
Speaker 1: Now, how they look, what color they are?
Speaker 5: Last year, in an episode of the Wonder of Stevie audiobook,
Speaker 5: he shared that his mother would cry every night after
Speaker 5: he was diagnosed. He says he assured her God might
Speaker 5: have had something bigger in store for him. Deborah Rodriguez,
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