Speaker 1: This is w b ZE News Radio where Boston gets
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Speaker 2: Station eighty one degrees in Boston. Lots of sun, certainly
Speaker 2: humid out there today, with the full forecast coming up
Speaker 2: in just a few minutes eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm
Speaker 2: Nicole Davis, and we're watching developing.
Speaker 3: News out of Cambridge.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration now threatening to cut all federal funding
Speaker 2: from Harvard, saying it violated civil rights by failing to
Speaker 2: protect Jewish students from harassment. In a letter sent to
Speaker 2: Harvard today, a federal task force says investigators found the
Speaker 2: school was at times a quote willful participant in anti
Speaker 2: Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff, and that
Speaker 2: the campus leaders allowed anti semitism to fester. This is
Speaker 2: the latest escalation in the Trump administration's battles with Harvard
Speaker 2: is after the school rejected federal demands calling for sweeping
Speaker 2: changes to governance, admissions, hiring, and more. We've reached out
Speaker 2: to Heart v for comment. When we get more, we'll
Speaker 2: let you know here on WBZ. On Capitol Hill right now,
Speaker 2: a marathon voting session called a voteramas underway on amendments
Speaker 2: to the President's tax and spending bill. The President pressuring
Speaker 2: Republicans to pass it in time for July fourth, but
Speaker 2: not everybody is behind this.
Speaker 4: Late Saturday night, North Carolina Senator Tom Dillis was one
Speaker 4: of two Republicans who opposed moving forward with the package,
Speaker 4: concerned about potential cuts to Medicaid.
Speaker 5: Boy, why tell six hundred and sixty three thousand people
Speaker 5: and two years or three years when President Trump breaks
Speaker 5: his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid.
Speaker 4: On Sunday, the two term senator announced he would not
Speaker 4: seek reelection next year after President Trump threatened to back
Speaker 4: a potential primary challenge against him.
Speaker 2: Now as CBS's Nicole Killion, the Congressional Budget Office today
Speaker 2: saying the bill could add more than three trillion dollars
Speaker 2: to the national debt and result in the loss of
Speaker 2: healthcare for almost twelve million people over the next ten years.
Speaker 2: On Bagon Hill, the end of mandatory tenant paid broker's
Speaker 2: fees could be coming in a matter of days. That's
Speaker 2: because lawmakers have released their sixty one billion dollars state
Speaker 2: budget agreement, and the change to outlaw that mandatory fee
Speaker 2: for the tenant is part of the deal. The Globe
Speaker 2: reports Boston is the only major American city that still
Speaker 2: allows these fees. They often require prospective tenants to generally
Speaker 2: pay a month's rent on top of other fees like first, last,
Speaker 2: and security to move in. That is something advocates say
Speaker 2: is exacerbating the state's housing crisis. This new change in
Speaker 2: the budget would require the person who hires the broker
Speaker 2: to pay that fee, which generally is the landlord. And
Speaker 2: in Idaho, Polisay, a gunman is dead after intentionally setting
Speaker 2: a wildfire and ambushing the firefighters who responded.
Speaker 1: It was a cell phone signal that led teams to
Speaker 1: the shooter's body on Sunday night. The sheriff here is
Speaker 1: saying they tracked this cell signal that had not moved
Speaker 1: for a period of time and found the shooter by
Speaker 1: honing in on that signal. It's unclear if the shooter
Speaker 1: shot himself or was killed by a police bullet. The
Speaker 1: sheriff saying the firefighters were ambushed and had no chance.
Speaker 1: Flags at firehouses or today at half staff here as
Speaker 1: this community morn's a loss of two firefighters. Alec Stone
Speaker 1: ABC News quarterl Aint Idaho.
Speaker 2: So much sun out there today and it's going to
Speaker 2: be a beautiful afternoon. We've got no rain in the
Speaker 2: forecast at least for another day or so. We could
Speaker 2: have some storms tomorrow, but we'll get to that in
Speaker 2: a moment. For today, it will be humid, and we've
Speaker 2: got temperatures up to just about ninety if you're inland,
Speaker 2: eighty or so right on the coast, maybe some mid
Speaker 2: eighties if you're a little bit further away from the water,
Speaker 2: but we're talking one twenty eight at the farthest. Then
Speaker 2: for tonight, mostly cloudy, stickier out there, not really cooling
Speaker 2: off that much, down only to about seventy. For tomorrow,
Speaker 2: plenty of clouds, and then we've got showers and storms
Speaker 2: in the afternoon with the high in the mid to
Speaker 2: upper eighties. Heat does not break though. Wednesday and Thursday,
Speaker 2: both days high just about ninety, and we have afternoon
Speaker 2: storms on Thursday. Could be a little bit cooler. On Friday,
Speaker 2: four July fourth, we have low humidity in a high
Speaker 2: in the low eighties. Seventy nine degrees in Leminster, seventy
Speaker 2: six in Gloucester, eighty four right now in Wareham, and
Speaker 2: in Boston at eleven oh six. Lots of sun, a
Speaker 2: couple of story clouds, and it's eighty one. Millions of
Speaker 2: people are already hitting the road for the holiday. Wbz's
Speaker 2: drewm o'holland has more on that.
Speaker 6: And the airports for that matter. Logan is busy again
Speaker 6: today after a very busy weekend, and then again, it's
Speaker 6: always busy there, right But Triple A projects seventy two
Speaker 6: point two million people will travel at least fifty miles
Speaker 6: or more over this Independence Day holiday period. In Triple A,
Speaker 6: Zaiksa Diaz says most will be driving.
Speaker 5: We're seeing travel and record numbers because you have to
Speaker 5: remember that travel isn't just an economic and practical decision.
Speaker 4: It's also an emotional decision. People want to get away.
Speaker 6: And not be home right. Enjoy the lake, the ocean,
Speaker 6: the family with whatever you do, drumaholland, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Last week's heat waved in a number on a busy
Speaker 2: bridge on the South coast. Now officials are trying to
Speaker 2: figure out how to make sure that doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2: Mastot has to close down or had to close down
Speaker 2: the new Bedford fair Haven Bridge to vehicle traffic for
Speaker 2: almost two days. That's because the swing bridge swelled up
Speaker 2: in the oppressive heat its metal, and it had to
Speaker 2: be left open for boats, but couldn't close until the
Speaker 2: weather cooled down. The New Bedford Light reports MASTOT is
Speaker 2: working on a system to keep the almost one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty year old bridge working. Details not out just yet.
Speaker 2: They're still coming up with this plan. Here and there
Speaker 2: by the way our plans to replace the bridge, but
Speaker 2: construction is still years out from starting. And from the
Speaker 2: Bay State to the Vatican. Boston's archbishop met the Pope
Speaker 2: this weekend. You's wbz's j will Z.
Speaker 7: So greetings to the people of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Speaker 3: Boston Archbishop Richard Hanning meets with Pope Leo and Saint
Speaker 3: Peter's Basilica in Rome for the bestment of the Pallium,
Speaker 3: an honor only eight US archbishops have been privy to.
Speaker 7: I'm here in Rome. I just received the pallium stole
Speaker 7: this day, a symbol of the unity that exist between
Speaker 7: our archdiocese and the Holy Father the Holy See.
Speaker 3: The vestment is the robe worn by clergy members during service.
Speaker 3: This one is made from lamb's wool, worn for special occasions.
Speaker 3: Like this, the two embraced. The Catholic News Service captured
Speaker 3: the moment their meeting came during the Mass with a
Speaker 3: feast of Saint Peter's and Paul J. Willett WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 3: News Radio.
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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Davis WBZ and Boston's News Radio.