Speaker 1: This is WBT, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Eighty seven degrees in Boston, it feels more like ninety
Speaker 2: five degrees at eleven o'clock. Very sticky out there today.
Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's
Speaker 2: what's happening. Well, we are feeling the heat, but some
Speaker 2: rain is on the way.
Speaker 1: Hot in very humid today, with enough sunshine to get
Speaker 1: past ninety in places. But watch for a strong thunderstorm
Speaker 1: late today into tonight.
Speaker 2: Not ezactly Weather's Joe Lundberg. Those showers and storms will
Speaker 2: be usheringing cooler air for the rest of the week,
Speaker 2: but it will still be very humid. Render a heat
Speaker 2: advisory till eight o'clock tonight for most of the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2: The flood watch is up starting at two o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 2: More coming up in the forecast in just about two
Speaker 2: minutes now. In Central Texas, the search for victims continues
Speaker 2: in the wake of devastating flash floods, as more warnings
Speaker 2: have been posted for that part of the state. Offici'll
Speaker 2: say more than one hundred people so far have been
Speaker 2: confirmed dead, including twenty seven care in person councilors in
Speaker 2: an overnight summer camp The debate is raging in the
Speaker 2: national stage and locally over the lack of warning before
Speaker 2: the flood started. Here's ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 3: The downpour began before dawn on Friday, when people were
Speaker 3: asleep in their beds. There are vs or intents in
Speaker 3: the many campgrounds along the Guadalupe River. On Fox News,
Speaker 3: Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says.
Speaker 4: Had we had sirens along this area up and down,
Speaker 4: it's possible that that would have saved some of these lives.
Speaker 3: He intends to bring up the issue during the current
Speaker 3: special session of the state legislature with an eye toward
Speaker 3: providing state funding for Hill Country flood sirens. Jim Rily
Speaker 3: in ABC News Kerrville, Texas.
Speaker 2: At eleven oh one. Amid President Trump's latest federal funding
Speaker 2: cuts to higher education, Boston University is also taking a hit.
Speaker 4: As a part of a plan to cut the overall
Speaker 4: budget by five percent. In the school laid off one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty BU employees and eliminated one hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty vacant positions. As for the overall impact, there's still
Speaker 4: a lot of uncertainty around these cutbacks.
Speaker 1: You don't know the percentages. I mean they mentioned another
Speaker 1: twenty that they're going to, you know, change their schedule,
Speaker 1: which I assume, you know, maybe cut.
Speaker 5: Them to part time.
Speaker 4: Austin University President Melissa Gilliam said the move was essential
Speaker 4: to address financial headwinds, saying in a statement, quote, this
Speaker 4: is a day of loss for all of us. There's
Speaker 4: no way around this. We know our community may need
Speaker 4: time to adjust to these difficult changes, yet it is
Speaker 4: also a necessary step in ensuring our future.
Speaker 2: That report there from CBS News Boston's Logan Hall. There
Speaker 2: is no word on any changes to tuition in light
Speaker 2: of those cutbacks as comes as Governor Healy announces the
Speaker 2: Trump administration is withholding grant money from schools around the state.
Speaker 2: In all, one hundred eight million dollars in education grants
Speaker 2: were already earmarked by Congress from Massachusetts, but last week
Speaker 2: the Trump administration then said it would not send out
Speaker 2: the money as previously planned. The Feds now say the
Speaker 2: grants are under review to see if they align with
Speaker 2: the Trump administration's values. Governor Healey's office as the funding
Speaker 2: was set to support several things here, including bullying intervention
Speaker 2: and after school programs for kids. You walk outside right
Speaker 2: now is definitely sticky and steamy, and it's one of
Speaker 2: those days where it's only going to be warmer still
Speaker 2: for at least the next few hours. Now, when it
Speaker 2: comes to a breeze to cool you off, not much
Speaker 2: of one maybe five ten miles an hour, mostly coming
Speaker 2: from the west southwest, and later on today many of
Speaker 2: us could get up to about the mid nineties. Especially inland.
Speaker 2: On the coast, you'll stay likely in the upper eighties.
Speaker 2: And for all of us, it's going to be a
Speaker 2: very humid day. We have due points in the seventies
Speaker 2: across the board, very tropical fields. Real field temps for
Speaker 2: many of us could top one hundred degrees now. Later
Speaker 2: on this afternoon into tonight, we could have a couple
Speaker 2: of showers and storms. Those storms could be strong at times,
Speaker 2: with damaging wind gusts and flash flooding potentially. That's why
Speaker 2: we have a floodwatch up from two o'clock this afternoon
Speaker 2: through two o'clock this coming morning. And we have a
Speaker 2: load tonight in the upper sixties. Tomorrow, big changes coming.
Speaker 2: Temperature wise, high's only in the low seventies in Boston,
Speaker 2: upper seventies inland, lots of gray skies though a couple
Speaker 2: of passing showers possible, staying humid. More of the same
Speaker 2: on Thursday with some storms and we've got a high
Speaker 2: seventy five. Let's got to look at our temperatures right now.
Speaker 2: Eighty five degrees in Lawrence, feeling like ninety one, in
Speaker 2: Norwood eighty nine. It feels like ninety seven on the
Speaker 2: Cape right now. In Chatham it's seventy six and cloudy
Speaker 2: eighty two in Worcester, and in Boston it's eighty seven
Speaker 2: and it feels like ninety five. Lawmakers on Beacon Hill
Speaker 2: are trying to curb bad driving habits, and we're not
Speaker 2: talking so much about cars more agile riders here.
Speaker 1: Motorized bikes, scooters and mopeds are a very popular way
Speaker 1: to get around and are seemingly only getting more popular.
Speaker 1: But along with that comes some bad riding behavior, which
Speaker 1: these folks have seen plenty of. Oh you have pedestrians,
Speaker 1: you have the bike lanes.
Speaker 4: You have folks on.
Speaker 3: These scooters and mopeds dipping in and out of traffic.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean you just hoping that thing and
Speaker 3: you zip down. You better hope someone doesn't open that door, though,
Speaker 3: because on You're sliced.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 1: Seeleida. You know, I think it's a nuisance, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. That's why the Committee on Transportation is
Speaker 1: looking at a bill which would create a task for
Speaker 1: us to better enforce current laws steering riders in a
Speaker 1: safer and more legal direction in the back bay. James
Speaker 1: Rojas WBZ, Boston, SNOOS Radio.
Speaker 2: Eleven oh six. A volcanic eruption in Southeast Asia has
Speaker 2: led to several canceled flights. Here's ABC's Andrew Dimberg.
Speaker 6: The frightening scene is playing out overseas in Indonesia. The
Speaker 6: country's most active volcano erupted on Monday, belching out a
Speaker 6: column of superheated gas and ash as high as eleven
Speaker 6: miles into the sky. That's more than twice as high
Speaker 6: as the cruising altitude for commercial jetliners, resulting in the
Speaker 6: cancelation of at least five return flights between Australia and Bali.
Speaker 6: So far, there have been no reports of casualties.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Over at Logan Airport right now, about fifty flights have
Speaker 2: been delayed, three flights canceled, So not a bad day
Speaker 2: here in Boston. But again, if you're heading out to
Speaker 2: that part of the world. Definitely check ahead. And speaking
Speaker 2: of planes, you know, we've heard the stories before about
Speaker 2: those devices with we lithium ion batteries causing fires on flights.
Speaker 2: It has happened again, this time on a flight from
Speaker 2: Atlanta to Fort Lansdale.
Speaker 5: A Delta flight made an emergency landing in Fort Myers
Speaker 5: after a portable battery caught fire in someone's bag. Here's
Speaker 5: the pilot talking to the tower from liveatc dot net. Well,
Speaker 5: the mag mag has been contained and we think it
Speaker 5: was a lithum a battery thatlves then a containedent bag.
Speaker 5: The airline says. Flight attendants quickly extinguished the flames and
Speaker 5: all one hundred ninety one people on board were not injured.
Speaker 5: So far this year, according to the FAA, there have
Speaker 5: been thirty four incidents involving lithium batteries, eleven of which
Speaker 5: were due to battery packs. At Piper's CBS News.
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