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Speaker 2: At is six o'clock on this Tuesday morning, and we've
Speaker 2: got him some hazy sunshine as we get started this
Speaker 2: morning right now at sixty nine.
Speaker 1: Degrees here in the city.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown, and once again smoke gets in our eyes.
Speaker 3: The mix of cloud for the easy Sunday not as
Speaker 3: warm as yesterday with the highest seventy four in Boston.
Speaker 1: You're eighty Inland.
Speaker 2: That is WBZ after weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Canada's wildfires
Speaker 2: will make another impact here today and again tomorrow. In fact,
Speaker 2: right through Thursday. It appears little leaguers in Braintree continue
Speaker 2: to live late summer dreams. They are now one win
Speaker 2: away from a trip to the Little League World Series
Speaker 2: with a big victory over Vermont. They'll next play on
Speaker 2: Thursday night for that right to go to Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Red Sox Bats are smoking Boston wins at sixth in
Speaker 2: a row. This time over the Royals to remain in
Speaker 2: the driver's seat for an American League playoff spot. Another
Speaker 2: strike could be in the works at Fenway Park. Concession workers,
Speaker 2: fed up with a lack of progress in union contract
Speaker 2: talks with their bosses at Aramark may walk out again
Speaker 2: as soon as tomorrow, fresh off a three day weekend
Speaker 2: job action. The workers with Unite Here Local twenty six
Speaker 2: want an expedited settlements. Aramark says it respects its workers'
Speaker 2: rights and looks forward to continuing to bargain in good faith.
Speaker 2: On this date, forty four years ago, it was the
Speaker 2: end of the line for more than eleven thousand air
Speaker 2: traffic controllers who ticked off President Ronald Reagan, who ended
Speaker 2: up firing more than eleven thousand of them after they
Speaker 2: defined his orders to go back to work on strike
Speaker 2: for just a couple of days looking for better pay
Speaker 2: and a shorter work week. President Reagan delivers on a
Speaker 2: threat the second they walked out the door, bringing the
Speaker 2: nation's airports to a screeching halt. The move, called extreme
Speaker 2: by many, slowed air traffic control for months. The decision
Speaker 2: also imposed a lifetime ban on the air traffic controller's
Speaker 2: re employment with the FAAA, what's in our kitchen is
Speaker 2: keeping us? Most of us up at night. New research
Speaker 2: today finds a majority of Americans say the price of
Speaker 2: groceries is a major source of stress for families. The
Speaker 2: latest Associated Press poll finds more than half of American
Speaker 2: voters feel the pinch either big time or at least
Speaker 2: is a minor concern. Fourteen percent say what stress. The
Speaker 2: latest survey also reveals housing costs and a lack of
Speaker 2: money and bank accounts also big pressure points, most frequently
Speaker 2: experienced by younger Americans. Much of the stress is traced
Speaker 2: to fears over an uncertain economy and President Trump's trade
Speaker 2: and tariff policies. New research shows too much of a
Speaker 2: bad thing is certainly not good for our love handles,
Speaker 2: and the obese lose twice as much weights. Wbz's Drew
Speaker 2: m'holland has more on that adding too.
Speaker 4: Many ultra processed foods gets in the way of a
Speaker 4: healthy lifestyle. The study in this week's medical journal Nature
Speaker 4: Medicine finds cutting highly processed foods out, even if those
Speaker 4: foods are considered healthy, speeds up metabolism and helps us
Speaker 4: lose more weight at twice the rate Health Secretary RFK
Speaker 4: Junior has long maintained that these foods are poisoning Americans.
Speaker 4: There have been many observational studies that find ultra processed
Speaker 4: foods have long been linked to a rising obesity epidemic
Speaker 4: in this country. Drumahaal and WBZ Boston's news idea.
Speaker 2: Hazy skies in Boston once again this morning, and an
Speaker 2: air quality alert has not been posted, however, that the
Speaker 2: Canadian wildfire smoke may reduce our air quality at times,
Speaker 2: not only today but right through Thursday. As a matter
Speaker 2: of fact, at sixty nine degrees in the haze this
Speaker 2: morning here in Boston, we are going to see hazy
Speaker 2: sunshine and a little bit cooler today than yesterday, with
Speaker 2: high speaking in the mid to upper seventies. Pretty Much
Speaker 2: the same story coming up tomorrow and then on Thursday
Speaker 2: as well. Once we turn the page on Friday, the
Speaker 2: air seemingly clears, we'll see plenty of sunshine, warmer temperatures,
Speaker 2: highs in the low to mid eighties, and we could
Speaker 2: flirt with ninety degrees coming up of the long range
Speaker 2: forecast this weekend. No rain in the immediate future though
Speaker 2: right now in Boston sixty nine degrees and hazy skies
Speaker 2: here in the city at six oh five this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2: Red tape and regulations. What's putting a line in the
Speaker 2: sand for a local pot shop.
Speaker 5: This time from Air Wellness, who's laying off more than
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty employees at their cultivation center in Milford,
Speaker 5: and eventually they will be closing. Air is based down
Speaker 5: of Florida, and they have cannabis locations across several states
Speaker 5: where it's been legalized. Massachusetts has been a focused state
Speaker 5: for AIR as they operate facilities elsewhere in Boston, Needham, Summerville,
Speaker 5: and Watertown. The layoffs in Milford are part of their
Speaker 5: restructuring strategy where they're selling off assets across a number
Speaker 5: of states and downsizing. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio
Speaker 5: arranged from his hospitals at The suspect in a wild
Speaker 5: carjacking that involved a stolen trash truck last week pleads
Speaker 5: not guilty to charges. Thirty three year old Admilson Viskno
Speaker 5: is accused of leading police on a wild, multi city
Speaker 5: chase after prosecutors say he ripped off the Republic Services
Speaker 5: trash truck at a gas station in Medford, then later
Speaker 5: crashed it not far from the Encore Casino in Everett.
Speaker 5: Taken to the hospital in critical condition, Viscaino is well
Speaker 5: enough to answer to charges now from Malden District Court.
Speaker 5: A dangerousness hearing is scheduled next in court for next week.
Speaker 5: Disgraced former Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael Proctor wants his
Speaker 5: job back. An appeals hearing is scheduled for a month
Speaker 5: for Monday for Proctor, who lost his job months after
Speaker 5: being forced to read crude text messages from the witness
Speaker 5: stand during the Karen Reid trial. To see those messages
Speaker 5: he sent to colleagues and friends during his role as
Speaker 5: lead investigator, Proctor was placed on leave, then an internal
Speaker 5: investigation led to his termination. His lawyer says Proctor's firing
Speaker 5: lacks just cause he's been treated unfairly compared to his colleagues.
Speaker 5: Another hearing is sent for later this month. Another pharmacy
Speaker 5: in Boston closes its doors.
Speaker 3: There's been concerns about Boston becoming a pharmacy desert, which
Speaker 3: is sure to grow as the Walgreens here on Washington
Speaker 3: Street is permanently shutting down. On September tenth, This comes
Speaker 3: after another Walgreens in Dorchester closed its doors in April.
Speaker 3: Customers are being told that they may need to refill
Speaker 3: their prescriptions at two other locations, one over a mile
Speaker 3: away and another two miles away. It's been Walgreens plan
Speaker 3: to eventually close around twelve hundred stores nationwide over the
Speaker 3: next several years. In Codman Square, James Rojas, WBZ Boston's
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