Speaker 1: Sonny and seventy six degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Good Saturday Morning's June twenty First, I'm Sherry Small. Here's
Speaker 1: what's happening. This verse full day of summer will be
Speaker 1: a hot one.
Speaker 2: Today brings sunshine, some clouds at times, and a warm
Speaker 2: but not very humid start to the weekend with a
Speaker 2: high a round eighty five.
Speaker 1: At you Weather Meteorologist LaTroy Thornton. The full forecast coming up,
Speaker 1: and we'll tell you about an extreme heat warning that
Speaker 1: will be in effect starting tomorrow. Governor Mora Heally offers
Speaker 1: her thoughts about the results of Karen Reid's second murder trial.
Speaker 3: The trio ran its course, and so you know, I
Speaker 3: always reflect on the family of John O'Keefe and feel
Speaker 3: very sorry for them.
Speaker 2: Governor Mora Healy reacting to the juries not guilty verdict
Speaker 2: in the second degree murder retrial of Karen Reid read
Speaker 2: convicted on a drunk driving charge but acquitted of second
Speaker 2: degree murder and other serious charges.
Speaker 3: The colminal justice system has run its course and there
Speaker 3: is finality in that, and my best to members of
Speaker 3: the O'Keefe family.
Speaker 2: The verdict leaves unanswered the question of whether there will
Speaker 2: be a new investigation into the death of Officer John O'Keefe.
Speaker 2: District Attorney Michael Morrissey has yet to respond to that question.
Speaker 2: Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's News radio right, he's.
Speaker 1: Not off the hook. The Suffolk County DA's office planning
Speaker 1: to retry Irish firefighter Terence Crosby for rape. A mistrial
Speaker 1: was declared in his first trial yesterday. He's accused of
Speaker 1: raping a woman in a Boston hotel room last year.
Speaker 1: Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Erin Murphy says a thirty eight
Speaker 1: year old from Dublin will be retried in October. Crosby
Speaker 1: is accused of raping the woman in a room at
Speaker 1: the Omni Parker House hotel, which he shared with another
Speaker 1: firefighter back in March of twenty twenty four. Both men
Speaker 1: in Boston for Saint Patrick's Day celebrations. We must remain
Speaker 1: here in Massachusetts, and we're a GPS monitor.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Expect some major delays on the Pike this weekend.
Speaker 5: The Pike will be down to one lane in both
Speaker 5: directions this weekend on the Newton Weston stretch. That's Exit
Speaker 5: one twenty three to one to twenty five to be exact.
Speaker 5: It's the second phase of its kind in this bridge
Speaker 5: replacement project, and Mascot says this weekend offers the lightest
Speaker 5: traffic of the summer.
Speaker 6: We expect that it's going to be lower volumes anyways,
Speaker 6: but really we want to get the message out.
Speaker 3: It's going to be impactful.
Speaker 1: Use your mapping apisodes.
Speaker 6: They are going to help get you around.
Speaker 5: The commuter rail and amtract will also be closed in
Speaker 5: this stretch, but bus services will replace it. Mass Doot
Speaker 5: says the first round of this a few weeks ago
Speaker 5: offer delays of over an hour, but that's mainly because
Speaker 5: people stayed off the roads. They are warning of delays
Speaker 5: of up to three hours if people don't heed the warning.
Speaker 2: If you don't have to be traveling through there, please don't,
Speaker 2: and if you do, leave yourself a lot of extra
Speaker 2: time to get.
Speaker 6: Where you're going.
Speaker 5: These lane reductions are going to be in place through
Speaker 5: the weekend. Will remove them Monday morning.
Speaker 1: At five and now the four d A WBC ACU
Speaker 1: weather forecast. It's going to be warm today, not too humid,
Speaker 1: but high's bumping to about eighty three to eighty seven
Speaker 1: degrees of our seventies to low eighties for the capein
Speaker 1: Islands tonight a low of just seventy one, and then
Speaker 1: parts of the area will have a thunderstorm late tonight
Speaker 1: and tomorrow morning. Sunday. Tomorrow, it's going to get hot
Speaker 1: and more humid, a high of ninety four. We'll see
Speaker 1: partly sunny skies breezy, and then on Monday, more sun
Speaker 1: than clouds, very hot and humid, eighty four to eighty
Speaker 1: eight in the low to mid nineties in those western
Speaker 1: suburbs again, seventies on the Cape in the Islands Tuesday,
Speaker 1: we could break a record when it comes to the heat.
Speaker 1: We'll see, let's see ninety eight is the expected high.
Speaker 1: The record set in twenty thirteen was ninety five. Right
Speaker 1: now at seventy six in sunny and Boston at eleven
Speaker 1: o six. Back to News Boston, rats are carrying some
Speaker 1: dangerous bacteria, potentially harmful to humans and pets. WBC's Madison
Speaker 1: Rogers to explain.
Speaker 4: Researchers at Tough School of Veterinary Medicine put out a
Speaker 4: six year study tracking the way rats scamper through the
Speaker 4: city and what health risks may be hitching a ride.
Speaker 4: The result the first confirmation that Boston rats are spreading leptospirosis.
Speaker 4: Lepto is a potentially deadly disease for humans, dogs, and
Speaker 4: other animals. Scientists looked at hundreds of rat kidney samples
Speaker 4: from seventeen sites in Boston. Twelve of those sites had
Speaker 4: Rodent's test positive for leptospiro bacteria. They also looked at
Speaker 4: a human lepto case from twenty eighteen and determined their
Speaker 4: strong evidence that the source was a rat. Human exposure
Speaker 4: is still uncommon, but Bostonians living on the streets are
Speaker 4: at greater risk. Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: The town of Milton moving cl also to compliance with
Speaker 1: the MBTA Communities Act, which is the law requiring cities
Speaker 1: in towns with t service to zone for multifamily housing
Speaker 1: in designated districts. After debating the issue over a two
Speaker 1: day period of the town voted sixty nine to thirty
Speaker 1: one percent to move forward and will comply. As many
Speaker 1: as twenty four hundred new units of housing will be
Speaker 1: made available. The MBTA Communities Act requires one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy seven MBTA communities to zone for multifamily housing. There
Speaker 1: are still approximately thirty communities that remain out of compliance.
Speaker 1: Iran launching new strikes on Israel overnight, but in Israeli
Speaker 1: military officials says there are no indications of any missile impacts.
Speaker 6: About two thirty am, the air rate sirens sounded across
Speaker 6: Israel and there were reports of five ballistic missiles having
Speaker 6: been fired from Iran. We're told that they were all
Speaker 6: successfully intercepted, but that some falling shrapnel had caused some
Speaker 6: damage and had set fire to the roof of at
Speaker 6: least one building not far from Tel Aviv. So there
Speaker 6: is still an exchange of fire. There is still damage
Speaker 6: being caused, but we don't understand that where any casualties.
Speaker 1: That's the BBC's Dan Johnson. Meanwhile, Israel says it killed
Speaker 1: three senior members of Iran's military. You are now in
Speaker 1: the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to
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