Speaker 1: Eighty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The Sat talai's sergeant
Speaker 1: who supervised the Karen Read investigation and testified at her trial,
Speaker 1: has been reassigned from the Norfolk District Attorney's Office to
Speaker 1: the Division of Standards and Training. State Police tell WBC
Speaker 1: News Radio Urin Buchanic's reassignment was effective yesterday, and in
Speaker 1: a statement, they say the sergeant Buchanic will perform a
Speaker 1: variety of administrative functions in support of the division's daily operations.
Speaker 1: Citing State Police Colonel Jeffrey Nobles comments after Read's second trial,
Speaker 1: press Relely says, the events of the last three years
Speaker 1: have challenged our department to thoroughly review our actions and
Speaker 1: take concrete steps to deliver advanced investigative training, insure appropriate oversight,
Speaker 1: and enhance accountability. The death toll in Texas it's about
Speaker 1: ninety people now after massive flash floods over the weekend.
Speaker 1: CBS's Matt Piper tells us most of the deaths are
Speaker 1: in Kirk County, Texas. J'or Phil Swiers is with the
Speaker 1: Kerr County Salvation Army the hardest hit area.
Speaker 2: For us.
Speaker 3: This is the first major event that we've had. It's different.
Speaker 3: It's our home and people are hurting.
Speaker 1: He says two of US employees lost their homes in
Speaker 1: the floods.
Speaker 3: We are feeding the over one thousand emergency workers that
Speaker 3: have joined our county. For us, it's long hours, but
Speaker 3: at the same time, we also realize, you know, we
Speaker 3: have a bed to go home to and a family
Speaker 3: that's hugging us, and there's just so many in our
Speaker 3: community right now that just have lost everything.
Speaker 1: Matt Piper CBS News. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is
Speaker 1: calling for an investigation into the flood alert system in Texas.
Speaker 1: He says staffing cuts at the National Weather Services Office
Speaker 1: in San Antonio may have contributed to delayed flood warnings.
Speaker 1: Lighthouse Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, reacting that the warnings were delayed,
Speaker 1: calling the floods an act of God.
Speaker 4: Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie
Speaker 4: and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning.
Speaker 1: Levitt also says President Trump will likely visit the devastated
Speaker 1: areas in Texas on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin deck
Speaker 1: Yahoo heads to the White House this evening for cease
Speaker 1: fire talks with the President.
Speaker 4: This will be a dinner to talk about Operation Midnight Hammer,
Speaker 4: which was incredibly successful, to talk about peace and Gaza
Speaker 4: and ending that conflict.
Speaker 5: Press Secretary Caroline Lovett says that's the most important priority
Speaker 5: for the President right now, ending the war in Gaza
Speaker 5: and returning all the hostages.
Speaker 4: A agreeable and appropriate ceasefire proposal has been sent to Hamas.
Speaker 5: And she says Special Envoy Widkoff will be traveling to
Speaker 5: Doha later this week where he will continue to engage
Speaker 5: in these discussions. Stacy Lynne, CBS News the White House.
Speaker 1: The health of kids in America has been getting worse.
Speaker 1: A new study shows the health of US children has
Speaker 1: deteriorated over the past seventeen years. Kids today are more
Speaker 1: likely to experience obesity, chronic diseases, and other problems. The
Speaker 1: research is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Speaker 1: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Juniors. Brought children's health to
Speaker 1: the forefront of the National policy conversation coming up on WBZ.
Speaker 1: A Norton Animals shell has gone empty thanks to the
Speaker 1: work of a local police officer. Advisory remains in effect
Speaker 1: until eight o'clock tonight. It's not the heat, it's the humidity,
Speaker 1: and today that's kind of true. Temperatures for the most
Speaker 1: part have been in the eighties to around ninety, but
Speaker 1: that humidity has had the heat indexes ninety five and
Speaker 1: then a little bit above that in some areas, so
Speaker 1: it's just been a bit of a sweltery kind of day.
Speaker 1: There's also been some shower activity around, so that's something
Speaker 1: to watch out for. It's nothing overly concerning at this point.
Speaker 1: We had some showers and even some rumbles down toward
Speaker 1: the south Shore. This afternoon, there's another little batch of
Speaker 1: some showers that have now made its way into southern
Speaker 1: Worcester County up to about Spencer just outside of Worcester,
Speaker 1: and then down along the Turnpike out towards I eighty four.
Speaker 1: We've got some rain and that stretches down into Connecticut.
Speaker 1: So as we head into the evening, maybe a couple
Speaker 1: of thunderstorms, especially south of the city. We'll have the
Speaker 1: sticky conditions. Over nigh, temperatures will be in the mid seventies.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's another hot and humid day close to ninety for
Speaker 1: the high warmer than that with the humidity and some
Speaker 1: gusty thunderstorms may fire off as we go through the
Speaker 1: day tomorrow, and we could get some flooding downpours and
Speaker 1: localized damaging winds from that. So certainly it'll be something
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on tomorrow. By Wednesday and even Thursday,
Speaker 1: we're only in the seventies. We'll have some clouds. We'll
Speaker 1: have the chance of a few showers around as well.
Speaker 1: Right now, it is eighty three degrees in Boston. Call
Speaker 1: it water music or music on the water. A special
Speaker 1: concert on old iron sides.
Speaker 6: A typical Monday on the USS Constitution sounds something like
Speaker 6: this because Mondays are usually reserved for restoration on the
Speaker 6: two hundred and twenty eight year old ship, but today
Speaker 6: it sounded more like this because the two hundred and
Speaker 6: fifteenth Army Band from Fall River came aboard for a
Speaker 6: special show.
Speaker 3: So we decided that we would take a day and
Speaker 3: just much along the Freedom Trail.
Speaker 1: Fife and Drum.
Speaker 6: Group commander of the band, Chief Warren Officer Stephen Martin's
Speaker 6: This was part of some training for the band and
Speaker 6: it coincided with one of the hotter days of this summer.
Speaker 6: Certainly not ideal weather to be wearing head to toe
Speaker 6: fatigues and playing Revolutionary War era instruments, but Martin's and
Speaker 6: the rest of the band were hardly faced.
Speaker 1: Hot weather with thunderstorms, right, so we won't we won't
Speaker 1: do the thunderstorms, but we'll do the hot weather.
Speaker 6: Jeremy Rot's WBZ Bostin's News.
Speaker 1: Radio Lieutendant Governor Kim Drisco marching into the governor's duties
Speaker 1: this week. Governor more Healy going out of state. Heallly's
Speaker 1: office says she is away with her family for the
Speaker 1: week and Driscool will be in charge for the time being.
Speaker 1: A Norton police officer couldn't stand seeing dogs in the
Speaker 1: local shelter, so she took matters into her own hands.
Speaker 1: Of the BC Suzanne Salsville with the story.
Speaker 7: We were up to I think about six or seven
Speaker 7: at our most in the last couple weeks.
Speaker 2: That's a lot for a small town like Norton.
Speaker 7: Angel in particular has been here for two years. She
Speaker 7: was surrendered at five months old, and I think one
Speaker 7: of the biggest problems we were facing were that not
Speaker 7: a lot of people knew the animal shelter existed.
Speaker 2: In town, so Officer Taylor Cross figured what better way
Speaker 2: to get the word out than social media.
Speaker 7: Sharing posts here on our Facebook page has kind of
Speaker 7: helped everybody get some of that acknowledgment in the exposure
Speaker 7: that the shelter.
Speaker 2: Needed, and it worked. All the dogs, even Angel, found
Speaker 2: their forever homes and Officer Cross couldn't be happier.
Speaker 7: I am over the moon.
Speaker 2: In Norton's Suzanne Sasville, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio.