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Speaker 1: Good morning, six o'clock and it may not be what
Speaker 1: we hope for, but bring it in Friday. You're here, finally,
Speaker 1: it's been a weekend. You don't write and you don't call,
Speaker 1: but you're here, and that's the important thing. It's raining
Speaker 1: and sixty one degrees here in Boston. The News at
Speaker 1: six is brought to us by your new England Toyota dealer,
Speaker 1: your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. So
Speaker 1: this is August.
Speaker 3: To rain and drizzle for a while this morning, then
Speaker 3: there can be a few breaks of sun.
Speaker 1: Hi today will be right around seventy degrees. Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: take it at WBZ. AKI weather meteorologist Heather's Air. Beautiful
Speaker 1: weekend though on the way, it's US tariff Day kind
Speaker 1: of sort of. The world wakes up to a new
Speaker 1: pecking order this morning. President Trump says times up for
Speaker 1: dozens of countries which did not cut a deal with
Speaker 1: the White House on trade, which now means higher rates
Speaker 1: between ten and forty one percent will kick in actually
Speaker 1: one week from today. It's designed to give more time
Speaker 1: for border agents to catch up meantime, the President cuts
Speaker 1: Mexico a break with a ninety day delay in new
Speaker 1: tariff rates south of the border, while giving Canada the
Speaker 1: cold shoulder up north and an increase in tariff's to
Speaker 1: thirty five percent effective today. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karney
Speaker 1: says negotiations will continue. America's health is at risk of decline.
Speaker 1: A new report from the CDC says vaccination rates among
Speaker 1: kindergarten students for all viruses are down for the most
Speaker 1: recent school year. This news comes as measles cases hit
Speaker 1: a thirty three year high in the US, and Health
Speaker 1: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior says getting immunizations should be
Speaker 1: a personal decision. Exemptions to vaccines among the younger crowd
Speaker 1: grew in thirty six states in the most recent school year.
Speaker 1: The Health Department maintains that getting vaccines is still the
Speaker 1: most effective way to protect kids and older generations. Those
Speaker 1: still paying for a college degree need to start digging
Speaker 1: a little deeper today.
Speaker 4: Millions of people with student loans who signed up for
Speaker 4: a Biden era repayment plan will start seeing interest accrue
Speaker 4: to their accounts starting today. According to one analysis, the
Speaker 4: change could result in an additional three hundred dollars in
Speaker 4: monthly cost for the typical borrowers.
Speaker 1: CBS's Jesse Mitchell borrowers our urge to check out four
Speaker 1: different repayment plans, all available on the federal student aid websites.
Speaker 1: Request rejected. A federal court denies a bid by convicted
Speaker 1: Boston marathon bomber Jean Ar Zarnaiyev to get the judge
Speaker 1: overseeing his death sentence appeal removed from the case. The
Speaker 1: First Circuit Court of Appeal says Judge Georgie O'Toole and
Speaker 1: Boston can remain on the job. Lawyers for Zarnaiev say
Speaker 1: O'Toole is biased and point to comments he made about
Speaker 1: the case on podcasts and at public events during appeal.
Speaker 1: Zarnaiev is currently serving a sentence at the Supermax prison
Speaker 1: in Colorado. The world of professional tennis has important business
Speaker 1: to attend to these days, and that would be the
Speaker 1: rumor Mill. Wbz's Drew moholland is year with details. Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Jeff.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: One thing that's great about the pro tennis tours the players,
Speaker 6: all the access you get if you go, but sometimes
Speaker 6: too much info gets out there. Let me take you
Speaker 6: to Montreal and mutching Coco Goff beat Veronica Kouter Motova.
Speaker 6: Good match. And then this tea from the Tennis Channel
Speaker 6: broadcasters surrounding the men's top player, twenty two year old
Speaker 6: and single Holger Rune.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard about this tea. This
Speaker 3: is totally not tennis related. Holger Rune apparently texted Kuda
Speaker 3: Mortova and she said she was too old for him
Speaker 3: and married.
Speaker 6: Yes, I think he was supporting her tennis somehow, I
Speaker 6: felt that it was something a little different.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's a match going on there by the way, did.
Speaker 6: You hear the other guy? He's like, ah, yeah, apparently no.
Speaker 1: There it is. It's just sixty one degrees in Boston
Speaker 1: on this Friday morning, and we haven't seen this kind
Speaker 1: of temperature in seemingly weeks. I'm sure we've seen it
Speaker 1: in between then and now, but it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a rude awakening this morning. Not only that it's raining,
Speaker 1: it's coming down to a pretty good clip in most
Speaker 1: of eastern Massachusetts, although we're starting to wring ourselves out
Speaker 1: in portions of central mass and certainly the entire Berkshire's
Speaker 1: area is starting to clear out this morning. We are
Speaker 1: seeing a widespread area where at least two inches of
Speaker 1: rain has fallen over the past twenty four hours or so,
Speaker 1: and we are expected to see a couple more hours
Speaker 1: of this rain before it clears on out of here.
Speaker 1: And once the rain goes away, there's a pretty decent
Speaker 1: chance we're going to see some sunshine later this afternoon.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be very warm by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination. It is August and we're going to
Speaker 1: struggle to get above seventy degrees today. I think we'll
Speaker 1: take it. After what we've been through overnight tonight clearing
Speaker 1: low temperatures in the fifties and sixties. This weekend looks
Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful with sunshine both days. We're in the seventies
Speaker 1: tomorrow and in the eighties on Sunday. Right now in Boston,
Speaker 1: sixty one and raining here in the city at six
Speaker 1: oh six this Friday morning. Boston, You're my home. But
Speaker 1: now we may not love that dirty water.
Speaker 2: No swimming, fishing, or boating on or in the t
Speaker 2: that's thanks to this big cyanobacteria algae bloom. The Boston
Speaker 2: Public Health Commission says, toxins are running downstream of massab
Speaker 2: and Harvard Bridge, so folks and our furry companions are
Speaker 2: being advised to not splash in the water as it
Speaker 2: can irritate skin and eyes and a mess of other
Speaker 2: problems if ingested recent warm temperatures. Maybe it'll blame for
Speaker 2: this high level of blue green algae that could last
Speaker 2: for weeks in Cambridge. James Rojas w b Z, Boston's.
Speaker 1: News radio meanstwhile at the bar, Boston wants to step
Speaker 1: up its game.
Speaker 7: Our small businesses make Boston Boston.
Speaker 5: Under new state legislation bundled in the budget, restaurants can
Speaker 5: soon upgrade their beer and wine licenses to an all
Speaker 5: alcohol liquor license.
Speaker 7: That's in addition to the two hundred and twenty five
Speaker 7: new liquor licenses that started going out and became available
Speaker 7: earlier this year because of record landmark legislation that introduced
Speaker 7: the most new liquor licenses to Boston since prohibition.
Speaker 5: Boosting a press conference at a bar stocked full of
Speaker 5: Soju Dynasty Cantonesetery here in Chinatown is one of the
Speaker 5: spots that benefits the City of Boston has been the
Speaker 5: first one to take the baton chair of the House
Speaker 5: Committee on Ways and Means. Aaron michael Witz helped push
Speaker 5: this through Mary Michelle, who says the city is filing
Speaker 5: an ordnance to opt in for the upgrade program, something
Speaker 5: that will happen in a matter of days. From Chinatown,
Speaker 5: jilllet WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: We're gonna need a bigger tree. An insect just recently
Speaker 1: discovered in Australia is enough to make you do a
Speaker 1: double take, or right, maybe a triple take. It's a
Speaker 1: supersized stick insect. It has been found swinging from high
Speaker 1: altitude branches. It checks in at more than fifteen inches long.
Speaker 1: That's fifteen inches long. Researchers say the stick insect was
Speaker 1: so high up they had to use a long stick
Speaker 1: to get it down. Experts say the insect gets so
Speaker 1: big because it lives so high. You are now in
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