Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio re defining local.
Speaker 2: News right now in Boston where at eighty eight degrees
Speaker 2: partly cloudy skies, it is hazy out there, though it
Speaker 2: is four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Nicole Davis and here's
Speaker 2: what's happening. An immigration judge in Chelmsford has granted bond
Speaker 2: for detained Milford High School student Marcelo Gomez. The eighteen
Speaker 2: year old was arrested on Saturday by ICE agents as
Speaker 2: he was driving to volleyball practice. Immigration officials say his
Speaker 2: father was the original target of the operation, but they
Speaker 2: arrested Gomez after discovering his student visa had expired. He's
Speaker 2: being held in Plymouth after he was transferred from Burlington.
Speaker 2: He will be released if he can post the two
Speaker 2: thousand dollars bond. To the Middle East at four oh one,
Speaker 2: where Israel says the bodies of two Israeli American hostages
Speaker 2: have now been recovered from Gaza. The hostages were among
Speaker 2: the hundreds kidnapped during the Hamasata On October seventh, of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. AMASA is still holding fifty six hostages.
Speaker 2: Only about a third are still believed to be alive. Meantime,
Speaker 2: Overnight Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least three people,
Speaker 2: including three journalists, and President Trump appears to be optimistic
Speaker 2: when it comes to reaching a trade deal with China.
Speaker 2: Your CBS is Lynda Kenyon.
Speaker 3: President Trump says the US and China are in what
Speaker 3: he called very good shape.
Speaker 2: We have a deal with China, as you know, but
Speaker 2: we were straightening out some of the points having to.
Speaker 3: Do mostly with rare earth in the President's first phone
Speaker 3: call with Chinese President she since he returned to the
Speaker 3: Oval Office. Trump described the conversation as a very good talk.
Speaker 3: This very complex stuff, and we straighten it out. Treasury
Speaker 3: Secretary Scott Bessen will lead upcoming trade talks in hopes
Speaker 3: of breaking an impasse over tariffs that has stalled an
Speaker 3: agreement for weeks. The time and location still to be determined.
Speaker 3: Lynda Kenyon CBS News the White House.
Speaker 2: The President also doubling down on his new travel ban
Speaker 2: at the White House this afternoons. It cannot quote comes
Speaker 2: soon enough. The ban, which takes effect come Monday, has
Speaker 2: a full restriction on people from twelve countries. Those countries
Speaker 2: include Haiti, Sudan, and Afghanistan. There are also restrictions for
Speaker 2: people from seven other countries. These include Venezuela and Sierra Leone.
Speaker 1: There are some exceptions to President Trump's travel ban. Dual
Speaker 1: citizens who have citizenship in America and one of the
Speaker 1: banned countries will still be allowed into the US. So
Speaker 1: will Green card holders, immigrants who seek visas through American relatives,
Speaker 1: refugees who have been granted asylum, Iranians fleeing religious persecution,
Speaker 1: and Afghans who helped the US during the war. Certain
Speaker 1: athletes and coaches will also be exempt from the ban.
Speaker 1: The US will host Soccer's World Cup next year and
Speaker 1: the Summer Olympics in Los.
Speaker 2: Angeles in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Michael Wallace CBS News.
Speaker 2: The President also signing a new executive order banning most
Speaker 2: foreign students from coming into the United States, specifically to
Speaker 2: study at Harvard. He did so citing national security concerns.
Speaker 2: Harvard accusing the administration of trying to deprive it of
Speaker 2: its right to free speech, saying it will protect its
Speaker 2: international students. And it's very hot outside and that is
Speaker 2: why you're not hearing any updates on the Karen Reid
Speaker 2: retrial today. Judge Beverly Canoni announcing yesterday at the end
Speaker 2: of testimony that there are concerns about court officers not
Speaker 2: being able to hear witnesses with the ac on. She said,
Speaker 2: the retrial is ahead of schedules, so they just gave
Speaker 2: the jury the day off. Heat is expected to break
Speaker 2: by tomorrow, so a full day of testimony is on
Speaker 2: the schedule, okay. And when it comes to the forecast
Speaker 2: for the rest of the afternoon, it is going to
Speaker 2: be a steamy one. Many of us are already in
Speaker 2: the mid two in some cases pushing upper nineties. We're
Speaker 2: seeing some ninety fives. Ninety six is out there, and
Speaker 2: we are definitely dealing with that very humid, sticky air.
Speaker 2: The Hayes is also something to worry about. We have
Speaker 2: some air quality alerts up in parts of New England
Speaker 2: because of the Hayes from the Canadian wildfires. So later
Speaker 2: on this afternoon, getting into the evening, we could see
Speaker 2: some thunderstorms popping up. As of now, the radar is clear,
Speaker 2: but then later on tonight it's just going to be
Speaker 2: a warm and muggy situation, partly cloudy otherwise, and a
Speaker 2: lone near seventy for tomorrow, not nearly as warm, still humid,
Speaker 2: with a few showers and some strong storms in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Hi just about seventy five downtown eighty Inland. Tomorrow night
Speaker 2: mostly cloudy with a chance of storms and a lone
Speaker 2: near sixty. Saturday, believe it or not, yet another Saturday
Speaker 2: where it's going to rain. Could have some storms and
Speaker 2: spots and a high in the mid seventies. Eighty nine
Speaker 2: degrees right now in Worcester seeing ninety five in nashaua
Speaker 2: south of Boston eighty eight New Bedford, and in Boston
Speaker 2: at four oh six it is hazy and partly cloudy
Speaker 2: and eighty nine degrees. It's official. The Bruins have announced
Speaker 2: their next head coach, and he's a very familiar face
Speaker 2: at the Garden.
Speaker 4: It's good.
Speaker 1: That'd be better than Joe Sachel.
Speaker 4: The Boston Bruins announced Marco Sturm as head coach and
Speaker 4: in their off season, fans hope they put in the work.
Speaker 1: We'll see what they get in the draft. They got
Speaker 1: to reside in Geeky and them we'll go from there.
Speaker 4: He's a former player, skating his left wing for Boston
Speaker 4: between five twenty ten, but he's got experience without a
Speaker 4: stick on the bench.
Speaker 3: Marco Stain was a good player.
Speaker 2: I was a big fan of his.
Speaker 4: I met him once. Who's super nice guy. So I
Speaker 4: guess we'll see.
Speaker 1: I'll go.
Speaker 4: Most recently, Sturm coached Ontario's AHL team. Prior to that,
Speaker 4: he was assistant coach to the Los Angeles Kings. Fans
Speaker 4: at TD Garden with love some of that champ winning energy.
Speaker 1: I hope. So they need to get younger and they
Speaker 1: got to get better.
Speaker 4: Drafted and Development from Cosway Street Jable at WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 4: news radio.
Speaker 2: New data shows some growing problems with the state's primary
Speaker 2: care system. Health officials have released an updated version of
Speaker 2: the primary Care Dashboard. It says the latest numbers should
Speaker 2: inform lawmakers to make different policy changes. The latest analysis
Speaker 2: finds growing racial disparities and access to care, a declining
Speaker 2: number of doctors available, and reduced insurance investments. A state
Speaker 2: task force is currently making plans to improve the system,
Speaker 2: and the local beer scene is shrinking again with another merger,
Speaker 2: this time on the Cape. According to the Cape Cod Times,
Speaker 2: the newly formed Triton Beverage Group has acquired Cape Cod
Speaker 2: Beer in Hyennas Now. Cape Cod Beer has been around
Speaker 2: for about twenty years, owner Beth Marcus telling the paper
Speaker 2: they were not actively trying to sell, but she wants
Speaker 2: more time to spend with her kids. Other breweries in
Speaker 2: the group include Plymouth's Mayflower Brewing and Orleans's Hog Island.
Speaker 2: No word on financials. You are now in the Loup.
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