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Speaker 2: Cloudy and sixty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, and thanks for joining us. I'm Suzanne Soasville.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. Hamas responds to the latest US broker
Speaker 2: ceasefile cease fire proposal for the war in Gaza. A
Speaker 2: senior Hamas official says they'd like to see some amendments
Speaker 2: to it, especially on the US guarantees, the timing of
Speaker 2: the release of hostages, the delivery of aid and the
Speaker 2: withdrawal of Israeli forces. Hamas says ten living hostages and
Speaker 2: the bodies of eighteen others would be released. Israeli officials
Speaker 2: have approved the US proposal for a temporary ceasefire in
Speaker 2: the nearly twenty month war. Meanwhile, there are warnings that
Speaker 2: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to grow. ABC Ian
Speaker 2: Penell reports from Tel.
Speaker 3: Aviv, an American back humanitarian relief operation facing huge problems
Speaker 3: in delivering aids, although it claims to have handed out
Speaker 3: two million meals so far. Meanwhile, you have a planned
Speaker 3: visit to the Palestinian Rum West Bank by Saudi Arabia
Speaker 3: and other Arab countries now being blocked by Israel. In short,
Speaker 3: no sign that the suffering is easing or that pieces
Speaker 3: at hand. Despite President Trump's optimism.
Speaker 2: New Bedford residents are rattled by a video making its
Speaker 2: way around the internet. Wbz's Emma Friedman explains the.
Speaker 4: Video shows a car driving down the road when it
Speaker 4: comes across dozens of rats milling about. Some are alive,
Speaker 4: some dead as the car keeps driving by. There's a
Speaker 4: few similar videos and reports from neighbors taken here an
Speaker 4: industrial area on Shawmut Avenue where residents say there's a
Speaker 4: rat infestation. New Bedford City officials are blaming the ratty
Speaker 4: problem on a major fire last week at El Harvey
Speaker 4: Waste and Recycling Services. It operates the Shamat Avenue waste
Speaker 4: transfer station, and since the fire, the rats have been
Speaker 4: pouring into the surrounding streets. Mayor John Mitchell and several
Speaker 4: city departments have visited the area. New Bedford Health's department
Speaker 4: is directing the waste management service to put out dozens
Speaker 4: of bait stations and snap traps around the property, fumigate
Speaker 4: the boroughs, and do some cleanup. El Harvey says they've
Speaker 4: already taken action, partnering with pest control firms, doing daily
Speaker 4: inspections and working with the city. It's also investing millions
Speaker 4: to upgrade the facility. I'ma Friedman w b z B,
Speaker 4: Austin's news radio.
Speaker 2: Primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham overwhelmingly voted to unionize.
Speaker 2: The Globe reports that doctors voted one to eighty three
Speaker 2: to twenty six yesterday to join the Service Employees International Union.
Speaker 2: It's the latest sign of frustration for physicians at the
Speaker 2: state's largest healthcare system, who say they're overworked, underpaid, and demoralized.
Speaker 2: Mass General Brigham has opposed the union campaign and last
Speaker 2: week challenged it to the National Labor Relations Board, saying
Speaker 2: many of the doctors are in eligible to join the
Speaker 2: union because of a technicality. After yesterday's vote, Mass General
Speaker 2: Brigham said it respects the rights of employees to organize
Speaker 2: and is quote committed to ensuring that any such process
Speaker 2: complies with applicable labor law. The forecast brought to you
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Speaker 2: of showers this evening, then clear and a bit cooler,
Speaker 2: with a low of fifty Tomorrow, the first day of June,
Speaker 2: and it'll be breezy with a mix of sun and
Speaker 2: clouds and a high of just sixty six on Monday,
Speaker 2: partly to mostly sunny high near seventy and done Tuesday.
Speaker 2: That's when things pick up a little bit and it
Speaker 2: starts to feel more like summer is coming, mostly sunny
Speaker 2: with a high of seventy five. Right now in Boston,
Speaker 2: it's cloudy and sixty three degrees. A new program in Boston,
Speaker 2: led by the Boston Office of Nightlife Economy, is just
Speaker 2: weeks away from opening across the city wb ZE. Charlie
Speaker 2: Bergeron has more.
Speaker 5: The Late Night Food Truck program will provide vendors with
Speaker 5: an opportunity to set up at sites designated for late
Speaker 5: night service. Seven sites have been selected. Those sites will
Speaker 5: be located near hospitals, universities, music venues, and nightlife, providing
Speaker 5: workers and residents and patrons nighttime food options. Food truck
Speaker 5: operators will participate in an online lottery, which will take
Speaker 5: place this coming Friday, June sixth, at four o'clock. Interested
Speaker 5: vendors should sign up online by Wednesday to ensure they're
Speaker 5: entered into the lottery. The Office of Nightlife Economy will
Speaker 5: announce the list of locations and food truck operators after
Speaker 5: the lottery. The late night food truck season will run
Speaker 5: throughout the summer and end in the fall. Charlie Birdger
Speaker 5: on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: At Harvard's commencement this week, U rong Xiang, a graduate
Speaker 2: from China who studied international development, says she arrived at
Speaker 2: the school thinking she would help end hunger and poverty,
Speaker 2: but now wonders if her worldview is under threat.
Speaker 4: We're starting to believe those who think those who think differently,
Speaker 4: vote differently, well pray differently.
Speaker 1: But are they.
Speaker 2: Across the ocean We're sitting right next to us.
Speaker 1: I'm not just rom.
Speaker 2: When mistakenly see them as evil.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't have to be this way.
Speaker 2: Shang's speech never directly mentioned the Trump administration nor its
Speaker 2: multi pronged attack on Harvard, but she said the turmoil
Speaker 2: and its impact on her classmates was on her mind
Speaker 2: as she delivered her speech. Meantime, Harvard is returning historic
Speaker 2: photographs of slaves to a woman who says she's their relative.
Speaker 2: The photos will be transferred to a South Carolina museum
Speaker 2: devoted to black history.
Speaker 1: TA Mari Lanier has fought for fifteen years to get
Speaker 1: the haunting images of Papa Rinsy and his daughter from Harvard,
Speaker 1: and settled this week in a deal that removed them
Speaker 1: from the school's ownership. I believe that he is feeling vindicated.
Speaker 5: I feel that he is feeling validated.
Speaker 1: The images, made with an early photographic method, were commissioned
Speaker 1: by a Harvard biologist whose theories were once used to
Speaker 1: support slavery in the US. He took nude pictures.
Speaker 4: These inside people were forced to disrobe, They were poked,
Speaker 4: they were prodded.
Speaker 1: Her ancestors were used to promote black inferiority, but.
Speaker 4: In reality, Renty and Gillier were educated people.
Speaker 1: Renti was actually an educator. He was self taught. Allison Key,
Speaker 1: CPS News.
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