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<v Speaker 1>This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning, six o'clock on a Thursday, and we're getting

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<v Speaker 2>started with sixty five degrees under partly to mostly cloudy skies.

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<v Speaker 2>The News at six brought to us by your New

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<v Speaker 2>England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Welcome

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<v Speaker 2>back on this Thursday morning. I'm Jeff Brown. We are

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<v Speaker 2>too cool for school.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I's breaking four some sunshine today.

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<v Speaker 2>Are afternoon high about seventy six in Boston. We will

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<v Speaker 2>sneak into the lulities Inland as w b Z achi

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<v Speaker 2>weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Below average temperatures again today, but

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<v Speaker 2>there's a big warm up on the way and it

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<v Speaker 2>begins tomorrow. Just like that, the Red Sox seven game

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<v Speaker 2>winning streak is now history. The Royals take the series

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<v Speaker 2>finale at Fenway. Socks are off today and then they're

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<v Speaker 2>on the road. They hit up San Diego this weekend.

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<v Speaker 2>Summer dreams for Braintreet Little leaguers continue tonight the New

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<v Speaker 2>England Regional against Bedford New Hampshire. A win Braintree and

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<v Speaker 2>it goes to the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania

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<v Speaker 2>next Foreign college applications are on the rise in other

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<v Speaker 2>nations as the Trump administration continues to clamp down on

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<v Speaker 2>migrants here through visa applications and deportations. Would be US

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<v Speaker 2>college students want to take their talents elsewhere. England is

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<v Speaker 2>ready and prime to pounds a record number of applied

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<v Speaker 2>to schools in China too. The numbers also trend higher

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<v Speaker 2>in Canada and Australia as well. Experts say the United

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<v Speaker 2>States does remain a prime destination, but schools with operations

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<v Speaker 2>here with satellite campuses elsewhere will tend to benefit the most.

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<v Speaker 2>Dancing but not exactly cheek to achieve. President Trump says

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<v Speaker 2>he plans to meet with Russia Vladimir Putin as soon

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<v Speaker 2>as next week, and now word from the Kremlin is

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<v Speaker 2>offer accepted. The Kremlin says the meeting will happen in

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<v Speaker 2>the coming days. Putin's foreign affairs advisor, Yuri Oshakov set

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<v Speaker 2>a location for the meeting has been agreed on and

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<v Speaker 2>will be announced later. It would be the first time

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<v Speaker 2>Trump and Putin have met since Trump returned to office

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<v Speaker 2>this Yeas CBS's Christopher Cruz a possible jump start to

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<v Speaker 2>cease fire talks in the war with Ukraine on the line.

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<v Speaker 2>The White House would also like a follow up meeting

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<v Speaker 2>to include Ukraine's Voladimir Zelenski. At the stroke of midnight,

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<v Speaker 2>the old US tariff slipper doesn't fit anymore, and President

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<v Speaker 2>Trump's new rates of at least fifteen percent kick in

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<v Speaker 2>on more than ninety countries all around the world. The

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<v Speaker 2>President also announces additional tariffs on India as punishment for

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<v Speaker 2>doing business with Russia, and a one hundred percent hike

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<v Speaker 2>on computer chips unless companies promise to source materials from

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<v Speaker 2>the United States. The President says tariffs have already brought

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<v Speaker 2>hundreds of billions of dollars to the United States, but

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<v Speaker 2>offers no specifics. A blast from the past keeps popping

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<v Speaker 2>up to remind us that COVID virus remains a real threat.

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<v Speaker 2>The latest variant, Stratus has just become the third most

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<v Speaker 2>common strain in a short period of time. The x

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<v Speaker 2>FG variant, also known as Stratus, goes from a virtual

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<v Speaker 2>unknown and now accounts for almost fifteen percent of new

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<v Speaker 2>cases all around the world. So a couple of things

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<v Speaker 2>as we get our Thursday morning started. The bad news

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<v Speaker 2>is that there are still some clouds in the sky.

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<v Speaker 2>The good news is that the smoke from Canadian wildfires

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<v Speaker 2>is going to begin easing its grip today and it

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<v Speaker 2>might be a little bit noticeable where you are. We

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<v Speaker 2>might actually see a blue hint to the sky. Later

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<v Speaker 2>on today there will be a mix of clouds and

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<v Speaker 2>some hazy sunshine again, though overall temperatures will stall out

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<v Speaker 2>in the mid seventies, so still a bit below average

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<v Speaker 2>for this time of year, but we're going to fix

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<v Speaker 2>that in the coming days. Overnight tonight mainly clear skies,

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<v Speaker 2>lows in the fifties and sixties again. Now Tomorrow looks

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<v Speaker 2>like it's mostly sunny sky and most of the smoke

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<v Speaker 2>will be gone tomorrow, so it looks like we will

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<v Speaker 2>see at least a shade of blue in our neighborhoods.

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<v Speaker 2>High temperatures will approach eighty decrees and over the weekend

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<v Speaker 2>that's when we really start to warm things up. We're

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<v Speaker 2>back in the mid eighties on Saturday. It could be

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<v Speaker 2>close to ninety or above on Sunday, and it looks

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<v Speaker 2>like the long range forecast indicates that we could be

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<v Speaker 2>in for it yet another heat wave coming up next week.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, in Boston, mostly Cloudy Sky sixty five. As

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<v Speaker 2>we get started on this Thursday morning at six' oh.

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<v Speaker 2>Five finding a house used to be on many of

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<v Speaker 2>our bucket, lists but many of us continue to be

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<v Speaker 2>simply priced.

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<v Speaker 1>Out the number of first time home buyers in THE

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<v Speaker 1>us hit a historic low last, year only twenty four

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<v Speaker 1>percent compared to thirty two percent the year. Before according

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<v Speaker 1>to a new, study among the worst places for someone

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<v Speaker 1>trying to plant roots Is, cambridge ranked at two hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and eighty first out of three hundred. Cities this is

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<v Speaker 1>based off several, factors including home affordability and the overall

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<v Speaker 1>health of the real estate. Market boston didn't do much,

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<v Speaker 1>better coming in at two hundred and sixty. Third Palm, Bay,

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<v Speaker 1>florida was the best for first time home buyers In.

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<v Speaker 1>Cambridge James ROJAS, Wbz boston's news. Radio rats have become

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<v Speaker 1>such a big problem In. Boston at least one woman

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<v Speaker 1>claims she's been bitten by a rabbit sized road. Prodents,

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<v Speaker 1>Now Boston city councilors want to take prevention a step.

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<v Speaker 1>Further The Boston Rodent Action plan covers plans to set

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<v Speaker 1>up a city office to oversee the rat, problem while

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<v Speaker 1>also the city councilor's pass ordinances that would make rat

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<v Speaker 1>resistant trash bins. Available this follows the lead Of New York,

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<v Speaker 1>city which has recently set up its own office with

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<v Speaker 1>a rat. Czar studies have shown that rats do carry

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<v Speaker 1>bacteria that is harmful to, us which begin with flu

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<v Speaker 1>like symptoms shortly after. Exposure new study promises new hope

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<v Speaker 1>For alzheimer's. Patients research From Harvard university says a dose

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<v Speaker 1>of lithium helps turn back the hands of time and

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<v Speaker 1>shows signs of restoring memory from the effects of the

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<v Speaker 1>brain wasting. Disease lithium is currently present in some foods and,

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<v Speaker 1>water and there are trace amounts already in our. BODIES

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<v Speaker 1>a study in the medical Journal nature finds lithium levels

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<v Speaker 1>begin to. Decrease it's part of a first sign Of,

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<v Speaker 1>alzheimer's but reintroducing small amounts of lithium helps some seven

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<v Speaker 1>Million americans for From. Alzheimer's, today The Greater Boston Trash

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<v Speaker 1>collectors strike extends well into its fifth week and there's

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<v Speaker 1>no end in. Sight Wbz's drew moholland is here with an.

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<v Speaker 1>Update good Morning, Andrew good Morning.

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<v Speaker 3>Jeff you have more than a dozen cities and towns

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<v Speaker 3>continue to make do as workers from Nearby Republic service

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<v Speaker 3>communities not affected by the work stoppage step in other

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<v Speaker 3>communities using municipal. Workers Mike collins as The commissioner Of

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<v Speaker 3>Public works And beverly cannot wait for The republic strike to.

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<v Speaker 3>End the great if we could just get back to

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<v Speaker 3>the way things should. Be, yeah simple as that. Right

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<v Speaker 3>some communities have set aside programs for self, disposal not always.

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<v Speaker 3>Easy The Team stars union Says republic is not even

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<v Speaker 3>close in its final.

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<v Speaker 2>Package this doesn't sound, good not good at. All in

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<v Speaker 2>five weeks and, counting you are now in the loop

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<v Speaker 2>for news updates throughout the. Day listen TO Wbz News

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<v Speaker 2>radio on The iHeartRadio. App I'm Jeff, BROWN, Wbz boston's

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