Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We defining local news. Seventy two degrees in Boston. We
Speaker 2: have sunshine, a little bit of cloud cover here at
Speaker 2: six o'clock on this Friday morning. It is June twentieth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. I'm Jim McKay. Let's get you ready
Speaker 2: for the weekend. Here's what's happening. Well, a break of
Speaker 2: the weather today before that, humidity really ramps up as
Speaker 2: we head off into the weekend.
Speaker 1: Windy day today with plenty of sunshine and lowercunity with highs.
Speaker 2: In the mid eighties, and there really is a decent
Speaker 2: breeze out there as we're getting going. That is exactly
Speaker 2: weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. And it's also technically the first
Speaker 2: day of summer. You're getting excited.
Speaker 1: Mother nature got the memo that summer is here. As
Speaker 1: we look at tempts in the high eighties and the
Speaker 1: nineties over the next several days. Music to the Ears
Speaker 1: of Jesse. I think right now, like the temperature like
Speaker 1: yesterday and the day before were perfect warm, but not
Speaker 1: so much that you're dying, like, can't go outside it's
Speaker 1: so hot. Yeah, a lot of summer fun also in
Speaker 1: the forecast.
Speaker 3: Summer is just getting started, so I'm sure there will
Speaker 3: be some camping and road tripping in between.
Speaker 2: Road tripping and traveling always a popular activity this season.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are headed to North Carolina for Juneteenth, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a good time, just for a weekend.
Speaker 1: Of course, my daughter's birthdays coming up, so we got
Speaker 1: the summer plant out.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to Florida, have a good time. That's
Speaker 3: pretty much it.
Speaker 1: So you're traveling here, there, and everywhere everywhere. Yeah at
Speaker 1: Logan James Rojas w b Z Boston Snooze Radio all that.
Speaker 2: Lady's certainly got to go and I want to travel
Speaker 2: with her. At six oh one, get ready for another
Speaker 2: weekend of headaches on the Pike. Lane closures once again
Speaker 2: on the Pike eastbound and westbound all weekend long, beginning tonight,
Speaker 2: as Mass doc Cruise continue to work on the NBTA
Speaker 2: Railroad bridge between exits one twenty three and one twenty
Speaker 2: five that's Newton in Weston. Only one lane of travel
Speaker 2: is getting by in both directions. This happened, you remember
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, So make sure you give yourself
Speaker 2: plenty of time this weekend. On the Pike. Several boat
Speaker 2: owners and Charlestown are demanding answers after they spent the
Speaker 2: day cleaning up from a fireworks display. Several boats were
Speaker 2: damaged by the ashes that fell from the pyrotechnics from
Speaker 2: the Battle of Bunker Hill commemoration ceremony. Several boats were
Speaker 2: blanketed with soot and they've yet to get any answers
Speaker 2: about who's responsible if any equipment needs to be replaced.
Speaker 2: And it was fifty years ago today, June twenty, nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy five, the official release of Jaws. Wbz's Drew moholland
Speaker 2: telling us even the makers of the film had no
Speaker 2: idea what it was about to be.
Speaker 4: A legendary shark thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, hit theaters
Speaker 4: on this day fifty years ago. The movie has had
Speaker 4: documentaries made about it, books, and has even hit Broadway.
Speaker 4: The latest form at the theater was The Shark Is Broken,
Speaker 4: a play about the behind the scenes chaos and the
Speaker 4: filming of Jaws off Martha's Vineyard. I spoke with the
Speaker 4: director of The Shark Is Broken, Guy Masterson, who tells
Speaker 4: me about the infamous Broken Shark and the actor as well,
Speaker 4: not exactly loving their time together.
Speaker 1: And they're at the mercy of being called when the
Speaker 1: shoot is right.
Speaker 3: And of course some days when the Shark didn't work,
Speaker 3: they were there all day without shooting.
Speaker 1: And then when the vinid has got a bit pissed
Speaker 1: off with them, you know, being there for so long.
Speaker 4: Is that true?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: You know, nobody liked anybody at that time, But nobody
Speaker 3: knew what Jees was going to be. That's the whole
Speaker 3: thing is.
Speaker 4: And Jaws was really something, wasn't it. This summer there
Speaker 4: are dozens of Jaws fiftieth events for fans. By the way,
Speaker 4: the Shark is Broken is coming to the Martha's Vineyard
Speaker 4: Performing Arts Center starting July fifth. Drew moholland WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 4: news radio.
Speaker 2: And also tonight on NBC a special airing of Jaws
Speaker 2: in a three hour special eight o'clock tonight. Certainly an
Speaker 2: awesome time if you're a fan of that movie, and
Speaker 2: who isn't Taking a look at that forecast and this
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Speaker 2: hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. We're at seventy two right
Speaker 2: now in Boston. We do have some sunshine out there
Speaker 2: mixing in with clouds. Less humid today, but it will
Speaker 2: still be pretty warm. But do you have a nice steady
Speaker 2: breeze right now, and that's going to stick with us
Speaker 2: here to cool things off a little bit hies into
Speaker 2: the mid eighties. The humidity returns around tomorrow, could see
Speaker 2: an afternoon thunderstorm, but really just a hot summer day.
Speaker 2: And by the way, we cross over into the summer
Speaker 2: solstice just after ten thirty this evening, so we will
Speaker 2: be officially the first weekend of summer. We're looking at
Speaker 2: here Sunday, we're closen here to ninety and then the
Speaker 2: first full week of summer. We could have a potential
Speaker 2: heat wave early next week on our hands. Just get
Speaker 2: prepared for warm weather this weekend and it's going to
Speaker 2: be downright sweltering next week. Seventy two right now in
Speaker 2: Boston with a mixture of sunshine and clouds at six
Speaker 2: oh six. Well, summer arrives and the roads are about
Speaker 2: to get busy. Wbz's Matt fifth with more on the
Speaker 2: travel forecast.
Speaker 3: Here we go. More than seventy two million people will
Speaker 3: travel at least fifty miles of more over the Independence
Speaker 3: Day holiday period, which Triple A now considers June twenty
Speaker 3: eighth through July sixth.
Speaker 1: That's a nine day period. And we started this last
Speaker 1: year because we found that just looking at the July
Speaker 1: fourth weekend wasn't really giving us a good picture of
Speaker 1: how many people are actually moving around.
Speaker 3: Triple A Zaiksa Diaz says that would set another record.
Speaker 3: Five point eight million people are expected to fly over
Speaker 3: the fourth of July timeframe, which would also set a
Speaker 3: high mark. Matt Phipps WVZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And at six ZHO seven. Israel and Iran continue to
Speaker 2: trade air strikes, with the Irani officials saying they struck
Speaker 2: five hospitals in Israel. It's unclear exactly what damages were done.
Speaker 2: Iran is also saying the hospitals are not the direct targets.
Speaker 2: Israel did confirm major damage to the large Soroka Medical Center. Also,
Speaker 2: the Iranian foreign minister is going to be in Switzerland
Speaker 2: today meeting with the U leaders who are urging diplomacy
Speaker 2: as an end to this current conflict. Meantime, President Trump's
Speaker 2: campaign saying he will decide soon or that to join
Speaker 2: Israel against Iran's nuclear program.
Speaker 1: The President has repeatedly stated Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 1: but whether the US will take direct action against Iran,
Speaker 1: I will make my decision whether or not to go
Speaker 1: within the next two weeks. White House Press Secretary of
Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt reading a statement from the President and adding
Speaker 1: Iran poses a serious threat.
Speaker 2: Iran has all that it needs to achieve.
Speaker 1: A nuclear weapon, saying it would take only a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks to do that once given the go ahead
Speaker 1: from Iran Supreme Leader. Lindy Kenyon, CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: TikTok getting a three month lifeline. President Trump signing the
Speaker 2: executive order to keep the world's most popular app available
Speaker 2: in the US as the national ban was a day
Speaker 2: from going into effect. Today, a national ban was passed
Speaker 2: by Congress, upheld by the Supreme Court. It states TikTok
Speaker 2: must be sold off to an American ownership group if
Speaker 2: it is to remain available in the United States. There's
Speaker 2: been a huge interest from several billionaires in investment groups,
Speaker 2: but no concrete deal yet. They've got another ninety days.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jim McKay, WBZ, Boston's news radio