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Speaker 2: You made it four days? How on earth did you
Speaker 2: make it through four consecutive days of waking up and
Speaker 2: getting off to work? Good morning, It's Friday, finally six
Speaker 2: o'clock in Boston on this Friday morning, and we've got
Speaker 2: some clouds in the sky. Otherwise it's a mild sixty degrees.
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Speaker 2: for being with us today. I'm Jeff Brown. Might be
Speaker 2: a bad hair day. More clouds and sun today.
Speaker 3: Breezy and warmness afternoon of the shower or two high
Speaker 3: seventy four to seventy sixties for the Kepe of the Islands.
Speaker 2: Humidity is on the rise. WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg.
Speaker 2: Their rain is going to kick off the weekend. Could
Speaker 2: be a super soaker overnight tonight into the early hours
Speaker 2: tomorrow before it begins to clear out. Atlantic hurricane season
Speaker 2: is going to kick off this weekend. It starts on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Forecasters will keep their eyes in the ear peeled for Andrea,
Speaker 2: the first named stormed of the year. In the Atlantic,
Speaker 2: it is yet to form, of course, but in the Pacific,
Speaker 2: the annual hurricane season gets a two week head start,
Speaker 2: and the first named tropical storm is Alvin that bears
Speaker 2: watching in the Pacific this morning. Experts say the Atlantic
Speaker 2: hurricane season is expected to be slightly above average conditions
Speaker 2: this year, with up to nineteen named storms between now
Speaker 2: and November thirtieth rematch, It's the Oilers and the Panthers
Speaker 2: in the Stanley Cup Final. After Edmonton sends the Stars
Speaker 2: off to summer vacation, the Knicks live to see another day.
Speaker 2: In this case, it's Game six against the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 2: of the NBA's Eastern Conference Finals, and the Red Sox
Speaker 2: are on the road in hopes of stopping a four
Speaker 2: game slide with a weekend series beginning tonight in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Live Nation says everyone is saved after two superstar concerts
Speaker 2: kicking off the Fenway Summer Concert series are suddenly canceled.
Speaker 3: The structural integrity of the stage set up at Fenway
Speaker 3: failed to meet standards, so much so Shakira, Jason Eldan,
Speaker 3: and the superstar duo Brooks and Dunn were left on
Speaker 3: the bench.
Speaker 1: You wonder with the costs of everything, especially concerts, what
Speaker 1: the hell they don't have somebody building the stage, right,
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I can't imagine. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're talking millions.
Speaker 3: Ralph over here has heard of concerts getting canceled because
Speaker 3: singers get sick, lose their voice, or many other reasons,
Speaker 3: but an unsafe stage hasn't been one of them.
Speaker 1: Something they planned for three or four months or a
Speaker 1: year ahead of time, they can't pull it off. That's absurd.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, safety comes first
Speaker 3: for performers and the fans. At Benway, James Rojas w
Speaker 3: b Z, Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio, refunds for both concerts are on the way, and
Speaker 2: wbz's Drew mo'holland, who watches a lot of things regarding
Speaker 2: the music scene here in Greater Boston, you were just
Speaker 2: having conversations about these stage setups. What did you learn?
Speaker 4: So just last weekend, right, I was at Boston calling
Speaker 4: and I got to see these guys putting up these stages,
Speaker 4: and I'm just like, it is a massive project, really,
Speaker 4: and they're talking about They're like, yeah, not only you
Speaker 4: know to build these things, but also you know you
Speaker 4: got to go through these safety checks and check it
Speaker 4: time and time and time again and pass all these inspections.
Speaker 4: And it is hard, hard work. And that guy is right,
Speaker 4: that James was just talking to you there. I mean
Speaker 4: the amount of money that goes into putting these shows on.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is a massive money loss here that's
Speaker 4: going on right now, certainly is. And yeah, all this preparation.
Speaker 4: Of course, the fans all in town right.
Speaker 2: Not to mention the businesses outside Fenway Park as well.
Speaker 2: It's a tough hit for everybody. But first, of course,
Speaker 2: all right, droom, thank you. We're going to get started
Speaker 2: this Friday morning, under partly to mostly cloudy skies. It
Speaker 2: is a warm sixty degrees out the door, and it's
Speaker 2: also going to be a little bit on the sticky
Speaker 2: side today. The humidity levels will be on the rise throughout.
Speaker 2: It is going to be overall a warm day with
Speaker 2: the mostly cloudy skies, maybe some sunshine throughout the latter
Speaker 2: stages of the morning into the afternoon, but we can't
Speaker 2: rule out the possibility of a shower or two. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know the drill. If you have been in these
Speaker 2: parts for any length of time, you know that that's
Speaker 2: pretty much a daily occurrence. As we turn the weather warmer.
Speaker 2: Temperatures will be in the mid seventies today. Overnight tonight,
Speaker 2: some shower is going to move into the area. This
Speaker 2: could be a super soaker system moving in late tonight
Speaker 2: and to the early hours tomorrow. It looks like the
Speaker 2: bunk of the rain will be focused on central and
Speaker 2: western Massachusetts. However, most of the area will be seeing
Speaker 2: some precipitation tomorrow, and this will mark the eleventh or
Speaker 2: twelfth consecutive weekend that Greater Boston has seen some precipitation.
Speaker 2: You have to go back to early March for the
Speaker 2: last completely clear weekend here in the eastern part of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: But it's going to move out. The system will move
Speaker 2: out relatively early tomorrow. We will see some sunshine hopefully Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Afternoon temperatures again will be right around seventy and a
Speaker 2: much better day on Sunday to wrap up the weekend,
Speaker 2: early clouds give way to some sunshine, breezy conditions in
Speaker 2: the mid sixties. Right now in Boston, it is sixty
Speaker 2: under partly to mostly cloudy skies. At six oh six
Speaker 2: on this Friday morning, the defense gets the case the
Speaker 2: Karen Read ale. The prosecution rests after Reid's lawyers light
Speaker 2: into the state's final witness, The.
Speaker 5: Sense attorney Robert Alessi, questioned Welter about glass found near
Speaker 5: John O'Keeffe's body and on the bumper of Reed's suv.
Speaker 5: You have no basis as you sit here today to
Speaker 5: conclude that the glass on the bumper came from a
Speaker 5: drinking glass connected to mister O'Keeffe.
Speaker 6: Do you well, We have a picture of a broken
Speaker 6: glass at the scene, so I wouldn't say we have
Speaker 6: no basis.
Speaker 2: We don't necessarily have enough to conclude it's from it Thome.
Speaker 5: But then things seem to get personal between a Lessie
Speaker 5: and Welter, at least that's how Alessie took it.
Speaker 3: You're on a He.
Speaker 4: Keeps referencing my hand in saying I'm doing something when
Speaker 4: I'm not, and I think that's distracting to the jury.
Speaker 3: I'm not interrupting, don hold On.
Speaker 5: The state played one less clip of Read during a
Speaker 5: television interview before resting. It's now the defense's case. Suzanne
Speaker 5: Soosville WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Titans will clash in federal court today as Google takes
Speaker 2: on the Justice Department.
Speaker 6: Inclosing arguments, the Justice Department will ask the court to
Speaker 6: order an end to Google's lucrative deals with Apple and
Speaker 6: force the company to sell its Chrome browser. It says
Speaker 6: the company's dominant search engine is an illegal monopoly. The
Speaker 6: fight comes at a pivotal time for Google. It's dealing
Speaker 6: with the rise of artificial intelligence, which threatens to weaken
Speaker 6: the company's primary revenue source, advertising driven by search. Christopher Cruz,
Speaker 6: CBS News.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.