Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Partly cloudy eighty four degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock
Speaker 2: on this Thursday morning. Hello, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right. This just
Speaker 2: into the WBZ newsroom. The Bristol County DA's office says
Speaker 2: another person has now died from last weekend's fire at
Speaker 2: the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River. The
Speaker 2: sixty six year old Brenda Cooper had been in critical
Speaker 2: condition since the fire. She died late last night. That
Speaker 2: brings the death toll now up to ten. Investigators still
Speaker 2: looking into how that fire started, but so far they
Speaker 2: say they do not think that anyone set the fire
Speaker 2: on purpose. The Senate passing a spending cuts package overnight,
Speaker 2: pulling back billions of dollars already allocated for public broadcasting
Speaker 2: in four and AID. We get that from CBS's Stacy Lynn.
Speaker 3: On this vote, the Ya's are fifty one, the nays
Speaker 3: are forty eight, and on this vote the bill is
Speaker 3: amitted as passed. Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted against
Speaker 3: the package. Mitch McConnell opposed it earlier, but ended up
Speaker 3: voting in favor of it. The bill now goes back
Speaker 3: to the House, where it faces a Friday deadline for
Speaker 3: a final vote before it hits President Trump's desk for
Speaker 3: his signature. Stacy Lynn CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: Demonstrators plan to take to the streets of Boston this evening.
Speaker 2: It's all part of nationwide day of events in honor
Speaker 2: of John Lewis, the late civil rights leader and congressman.
Speaker 2: March scheduled to depart from Copley Square at five PM,
Speaker 2: with a rally at the Liberty Mall on Boston Common
Speaker 2: at six. It's all part of the Good Trouble Lives
Speaker 2: On protests planned across the country. Among the organizers is
Speaker 2: the group Public Citizen.
Speaker 4: The Trump administration has guided the Civil Rights Office at
Speaker 4: the Department of Justice. It's just pushed through a bill
Speaker 4: in Congress that will strip healthcare, and it's pushing an
Speaker 4: authoritarian agenda evidence perhaps most aggressively in its mass deportation
Speaker 4: and vicious anti immigrant policy.
Speaker 2: The ACLU of Massachusetts, Embrace Boston, and Boston Indivisible are
Speaker 2: just some of the groups organizing the event Locally. Say
Speaker 2: lawmaker pleading not guilty to OUI charges in Boston court
Speaker 2: this morning. Representative John Lawn, a Democrat from Watertown, arrested
Speaker 2: early yesterday morning, and Boston police say a witness who
Speaker 2: flagged down police saw Lawn hit a parked pickup truck
Speaker 2: near the State House and then take off. This was
Speaker 2: at around one am. Lawn was pulled over. Lawn was
Speaker 2: released on his own recognents after this morning's arraignment. He's
Speaker 2: been ordered not to drive and we'll be back in
Speaker 2: court on August first. Now, the eguather forecast unfortunately, another
Speaker 2: hot and humid day today. The heat advisory remains in
Speaker 2: effect through seven pm. That excludes the Cape in the Islands,
Speaker 2: where it's much cooler. Hies in the city eighty eight degrees,
Speaker 2: but real field temps will be in the nineties for
Speaker 2: the Cape in the Islands, high seventy eight to eighty two.
Speaker 2: We're going to see a mix of sun and clouds, breezy,
Speaker 2: a shower thunderstorm in places. Already. We're seeing in western
Speaker 2: and central masts some spotty showers to not heavy, gusty
Speaker 2: thunderstorm in places. Partly cloudy, breezy, a low of seventy one.
Speaker 2: That humidity is going to hang on overnight, but hang
Speaker 2: on just a little bit longer, because Friday is going
Speaker 2: to be much more pleasant, more sun than clouds, breezy.
Speaker 2: A high eighty four Saturday, sun and clouds eighty to
Speaker 2: eighty four are the high. Sunday again, a high of
Speaker 2: eighty four, but that's when a couple of showers and
Speaker 2: a thunderstorm enter the mix. It's eighty four, partly sunny,
Speaker 2: partly cloudy, whichever way you choose. In Boston at eleven
Speaker 2: oh five because of the humidity, the real field fields
Speaker 2: ten degrees warmer. Back to news, the Beverly Teachers Union
Speaker 2: now facing a lawsuit brought on by parents.
Speaker 5: The teachers union is being sued by two families who
Speaker 5: claim their twelve strike last year financially cost parents and
Speaker 5: caused emotional distress. Part of the lawsuit includes the fact
Speaker 5: that it is technically illegal under state law in Massachusetts
Speaker 5: for public employees to go on strike, despite efforts on
Speaker 5: Beacon Hill to change the long standing law with exceptions
Speaker 5: for public safety workers. The parents are suing for seventeen
Speaker 5: million dollars and are asking the courts to rescind the
Speaker 5: collective bargaining agreement that teachers praise as a massive victory.
Speaker 5: Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio, all Right.
Speaker 2: A troubling sign about the cost of housing here in
Speaker 2: Greater Boston. New data says the median price of a
Speaker 2: single family home in Greater Boston has now surpassed a
Speaker 2: million dollars for the first time in history. According to
Speaker 2: the Greater Boston Association of Realtors, prices in June were
Speaker 2: up two point four percent from the previous month and
Speaker 2: up four and a half percent from June of last year. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Greater Boston's condo market remained much steadier in June, the
Speaker 2: median price reaching seven high hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: President Trump lashing out at members of his own party
Speaker 2: over growing criticism of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Speaker 1: President Trump snapping at his own supporters who have criticized
Speaker 1: his administration's handling of the investigation into convicted sex offender
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 4: There's stupid people.
Speaker 1: As Republicans pressed the Justice Department to release additional files,
Speaker 1: President calling it all a hoax, writing on social media,
Speaker 1: my past supporters had bought in hook line and Sinker, saying,
Speaker 1: let these weaklings continue forward because I don't want their
Speaker 1: support anymore.
Speaker 2: And that's ABC's Rachel Scott reporting there the controversy. It
Speaker 2: all started last week when the Justice Department issued a
Speaker 2: memo saying that they found no client list and no
Speaker 2: evidence at Epstein had blackmailed powerful people. You are now
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Speaker 2: Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio