Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get this party started on a Wednesday morning in
Speaker 1: Boston at six o'clock. And we're getting started under cloudy
Speaker 1: skies and hazy conditions. Again, it's sixty five degrees in Boston.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 1: It is a different day, but it's the same old smoke.
Speaker 2: We'll see clouds in some hazy sun today with the
Speaker 2: high seventy four in Boston but approaching eighty inl That.
Speaker 1: Is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Boston finally gets
Speaker 1: to clear the air. By the end of this week,
Speaker 1: hate crimes approach a record high in the United States.
Speaker 1: Wbz's Drew moholland has some numbers.
Speaker 3: SBI has been keeping tractor reveal it's second largest total
Speaker 3: for twenty twenty four, with more than eleven thousand, five
Speaker 3: hundred criminal hate crime cases. While this is a disturbing trend,
Speaker 3: officials also say overall hate crimes are down one point
Speaker 3: five percent from an all time high a year before,
Speaker 3: but bias is still right for targets in the Jewish community,
Speaker 3: Muslim Americans, and the LGBTQ community, all of which represent
Speaker 3: more than half of all hate crimes. Drew moholland wb
Speaker 3: Z Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: A familiar face will be at Karen Reid's side during
Speaker 1: her upcoming civil lawsuit. Alan Jackson says the legal team
Speaker 1: and Reed have a few more chapters to write in
Speaker 1: her saga, and says he's proud to continue defending Reed's
Speaker 1: relentless pursuit of justice. In an upcoming wrongful death lawsuit
Speaker 1: in Plymouth Superior Court. Reed's defense team has filed a
Speaker 1: motion to dismiss the case filed by the family of
Speaker 1: John O'Keefe. Reid was acquitted of all major charges in
Speaker 1: a recently concluded murder trial of her one time boyfriend.
Speaker 1: No date has been set for the civil suit, but
Speaker 1: the next court hearing is scheduled for late next month.
Speaker 1: You can make it seven wins in a row for
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, who beat the Royals again at Fenway Park.
Speaker 1: They'll go for the sweep tonight. First pitch is seven
Speaker 1: to ten. Later this morning, new faces in Foxborough as
Speaker 1: the Patriots begin joint practices with Washington in advance of
Speaker 1: Friday nights pre season opener, Big Day, and a big
Speaker 1: money deal for the NFL and ESPN Sports Network will
Speaker 1: acquire the rights to the NFL Network and the NFL
Speaker 1: Red Zone, not to mention its fantasy property as well.
Speaker 1: It's a landmark deal that will give the league a
Speaker 1: ten percent stake in ESPN. Terms of the agreement or
Speaker 1: not yet finalized, that will need the approval of NFL owners,
Speaker 1: not to mention federal regulatory approval as well. Boston well
Speaker 1: known as the walking City, and apparently we're getting our
Speaker 1: daily steps in faster than ever.
Speaker 4: By analyzing video footage from nineteen eighty to twenty ten
Speaker 4: with AI MIT, researchers found pedestrians in Boston, New York,
Speaker 4: and Philly are walking at a faster rate fifteen percent faster. However,
Speaker 4: we're lingering less in public spaces by fourteen percent. Not
Speaker 4: surprising for some.
Speaker 5: That's definitely true because I feel like everyone's in a
Speaker 5: rush to get to where they're going, and I feel
Speaker 5: like before you'd want to like linger, whether you go
Speaker 5: to like the boss public library, go to the common
Speaker 5: like now, there's just like, I don't know about that
Speaker 5: any kind of litay, go find some more self like
Speaker 5: a cafe.
Speaker 4: It's funny that Vanessa mentioned a cafe because researcher suggests
Speaker 4: there's been a shift in people socializing more and indoor
Speaker 4: venues like coffee shops rather than outdoor public spaces.
Speaker 5: That's obviously why I'm sitting in South Asians. I don't
Speaker 5: kind of want to go anywhere else, and I was like,
Speaker 5: I'm just going to come here for now.
Speaker 4: In downtown Boston. James Rojas WBZ Boston, some News Radio.
Speaker 1: More smoke from Canadian wildfires will reduce air quality from
Speaker 1: time to time in much of Massachusetts. Again today, we're
Speaker 1: going to be dealing with this smoke through tomorrow at
Speaker 1: the very least, before we finally start to clear the air.
Speaker 1: So the details today are mainly that we're under cloudy
Speaker 1: skies in much of the area. We do have some
Speaker 1: very thick, hazy sunshine elsewhere as well. Temperatures again a
Speaker 1: little bit cooler than normal in the mid to upper
Speaker 1: seventies today, It's going to be a little bit warmer
Speaker 1: away from the water. In inland locations will top eighty
Speaker 1: overnight tonight partly to mostly cloudy lows in the fifties
Speaker 1: and sixties again. Tomorrow looks like we're going to do
Speaker 1: this all one more time with the smoky Hayes again
Speaker 1: with highs in the seventies. And then on Friday we
Speaker 1: finally start to look at some blue sky and some
Speaker 1: sunshine returning too. Highs will be in the upper seventies
Speaker 1: to low eighties. That's going to set the stage for
Speaker 1: what looks to be a pretty decent looking weekend as well.
Speaker 1: Right now in Boston it's sixty five and smokey Hayes.
Speaker 1: Here in the city once again, it's six oh five
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday morning. A new survey shows your lifestyle
Speaker 1: isn't getting the credit it deserves.
Speaker 2: A new report from bankrate dot com is found having
Speaker 2: a so called subprime credit score of six hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty or lower, we'll cost an average of thirty four
Speaker 2: hundred dollars more per year for financial services than someone
Speaker 2: with a credit score of seven hundred or higher.
Speaker 6: Your credit score basically predicts your likelihood of paying loans back,
Speaker 6: and even one blemish can have a really big impact.
Speaker 2: Ted Rossman is a financial analyst with bankrate dot Com
Speaker 2: Jim Chrysuli sibis new.
Speaker 1: The disaster of the titan submersible on a mission to
Speaker 1: explore the Titanic was preventable. That's the ruling from the
Speaker 1: US Coast Guard with it, which is out with its
Speaker 1: report on the disappearance and implosion of that vessel two
Speaker 1: years ago. The tragedy cost all five on board their lives,
Speaker 1: whose story resonated around the world. The Coastguard says owner
Speaker 1: Ocean Gates safety procedures were critically flawed, which revealed themselves
Speaker 1: in glaring disparities between safety protocols and actual practices. The
Speaker 1: disaster wound woods up and wound up in several lawsuits
Speaker 1: and tighter regulations for private deep sea exploration. It was
Speaker 1: eighty years ago today and which brought the surprising end
Speaker 1: of World War II and ushered in the beginnings of
Speaker 1: the Cold War when President Harry Truman orders Theonola gay
Speaker 1: to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Speaker 1: It killed eighty thousand instantly and tens of thousands more
Speaker 1: later due to the fallout. A second atomic bomb hit
Speaker 1: Nagasaki days later, which ultimately brought the unconditional surrender of Japan.
Speaker 1: The US had been working on this Manhattan project for
Speaker 1: years in secret. Only Jay, Robert Oppenheimer and a handful
Speaker 1: of others knew full well the extent of the operation
Speaker 1: and its deadly impact, while more than one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: others worked on it unwittingly. Blue Light Specials find deals
Speaker 1: with younger diners these days.
Speaker 6: It's not necessarily a credo, but a growing trend.
Speaker 7: Sure, I'd say earlier dinners better.
Speaker 6: That seems to be the new way of gen z
Speaker 6: who are gobbling up early dinner reservations these days, rather
Speaker 6: than times previously considered fashionable seven, eight, even nine pm.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, maybe have drinks, take our time. It's very relaxed,
Speaker 7: laid back, and then it leaves you more time to
Speaker 7: maybe go to a bar afterwards.
Speaker 6: It also makes things easier, she says, when it's time
Speaker 6: to head home for the.
Speaker 7: Night, you're always conscious of like, how am I going home?
Speaker 7: What's the last tram, what's the last train? I need
Speaker 7: to be on it? So I'm avoiding any taxi costs
Speaker 7: at all possible.
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