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Speaker 2: Good morning, six o'clock on a Thursday, and we're getting
Speaker 2: started with sixty five degrees under partly to mostly cloudy skies.
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Speaker 2: back on this Thursday morning. I'm Jeff Brown. We are
Speaker 2: too cool for school.
Speaker 1: Well, I's breaking four some sunshine today.
Speaker 2: Are afternoon high about seventy six in Boston. We will
Speaker 2: sneak into the lulities Inland as w b Z achi
Speaker 2: weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Below average temperatures again today, but
Speaker 2: there's a big warm up on the way and it
Speaker 2: begins tomorrow. Just like that, the Red Sox seven game
Speaker 2: winning streak is now history. The Royals take the series
Speaker 2: finale at Fenway. Socks are off today and then they're
Speaker 2: on the road. They hit up San Diego this weekend.
Speaker 2: Summer dreams for Braintreet Little leaguers continue tonight the New
Speaker 2: England Regional against Bedford New Hampshire. A win Braintree and
Speaker 2: it goes to the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania
Speaker 2: next Foreign college applications are on the rise in other
Speaker 2: nations as the Trump administration continues to clamp down on
Speaker 2: migrants here through visa applications and deportations. Would be US
Speaker 2: college students want to take their talents elsewhere. England is
Speaker 2: ready and prime to pounds a record number of applied
Speaker 2: to schools in China too. The numbers also trend higher
Speaker 2: in Canada and Australia as well. Experts say the United
Speaker 2: States does remain a prime destination, but schools with operations
Speaker 2: here with satellite campuses elsewhere will tend to benefit the most.
Speaker 2: Dancing but not exactly cheek to achieve. President Trump says
Speaker 2: he plans to meet with Russia Vladimir Putin as soon
Speaker 2: as next week, and now word from the Kremlin is
Speaker 2: offer accepted. The Kremlin says the meeting will happen in
Speaker 2: the coming days. Putin's foreign affairs advisor, Yuri Oshakov set
Speaker 2: a location for the meeting has been agreed on and
Speaker 2: will be announced later. It would be the first time
Speaker 2: Trump and Putin have met since Trump returned to office
Speaker 2: this Yeas CBS's Christopher Cruz a possible jump start to
Speaker 2: cease fire talks in the war with Ukraine on the line.
Speaker 2: The White House would also like a follow up meeting
Speaker 2: to include Ukraine's Voladimir Zelenski. At the stroke of midnight,
Speaker 2: the old US tariff slipper doesn't fit anymore, and President
Speaker 2: Trump's new rates of at least fifteen percent kick in
Speaker 2: on more than ninety countries all around the world. The
Speaker 2: President also announces additional tariffs on India as punishment for
Speaker 2: doing business with Russia, and a one hundred percent hike
Speaker 2: on computer chips unless companies promise to source materials from
Speaker 2: the United States. The President says tariffs have already brought
Speaker 2: hundreds of billions of dollars to the United States, but
Speaker 2: offers no specifics. A blast from the past keeps popping
Speaker 2: up to remind us that COVID virus remains a real threat.
Speaker 2: The latest variant, Stratus has just become the third most
Speaker 2: common strain in a short period of time. The x
Speaker 2: FG variant, also known as Stratus, goes from a virtual
Speaker 2: unknown and now accounts for almost fifteen percent of new
Speaker 2: cases all around the world. So a couple of things
Speaker 2: as we get our Thursday morning started. The bad news
Speaker 2: is that there are still some clouds in the sky.
Speaker 2: The good news is that the smoke from Canadian wildfires
Speaker 2: is going to begin easing its grip today and it
Speaker 2: might be a little bit noticeable where you are. We
Speaker 2: might actually see a blue hint to the sky. Later
Speaker 2: on today there will be a mix of clouds and
Speaker 2: some hazy sunshine again, though overall temperatures will stall out
Speaker 2: in the mid seventies, so still a bit below average
Speaker 2: for this time of year, but we're going to fix
Speaker 2: that in the coming days. Overnight tonight mainly clear skies,
Speaker 2: lows in the fifties and sixties again. Now Tomorrow looks
Speaker 2: like it's mostly sunny sky and most of the smoke
Speaker 2: will be gone tomorrow, so it looks like we will
Speaker 2: see at least a shade of blue in our neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: High temperatures will approach eighty decrees and over the weekend
Speaker 2: that's when we really start to warm things up. We're
Speaker 2: back in the mid eighties on Saturday. It could be
Speaker 2: close to ninety or above on Sunday, and it looks
Speaker 2: like the long range forecast indicates that we could be
Speaker 2: in for it yet another heat wave coming up next week.
Speaker 2: Right now, in Boston, mostly Cloudy Sky sixty five. As
Speaker 2: we get started on this Thursday morning at six' oh.
Speaker 2: Five finding a house used to be on many of
Speaker 2: our bucket, lists but many of us continue to be
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Speaker 1: us hit a historic low last, year only twenty four
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Speaker 1: Cambridge James ROJAS, Wbz boston's news. Radio rats have become
Speaker 1: such a big problem In. Boston at least one woman
Speaker 1: claims she's been bitten by a rabbit sized road. Prodents,
Speaker 1: Now Boston city councilors want to take prevention a step.
Speaker 1: Further The Boston Rodent Action plan covers plans to set
Speaker 1: up a city office to oversee the rat, problem while
Speaker 1: also the city councilor's pass ordinances that would make rat
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Speaker 1: For alzheimer's. Patients research From Harvard university says a dose
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Speaker 1: collectors strike extends well into its fifth week and there's
Speaker 1: no end in. Sight Wbz's drew moholland is here with an.
Speaker 1: Update good Morning, Andrew good Morning.
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