Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Speaker 2: Seventy two degrees in Boston right now, partly cloudy at
Speaker 2: four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: President Trump has ordered two US nuclear submarines to be
Speaker 2: positioned around parts of Russia, although it's not exactly clear where.
Speaker 2: He says on social media. This is in response to
Speaker 2: former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev making quote highly provocative statements,
Speaker 2: going on to say words can often lead to unintended consequences.
Speaker 2: Medvedev this week responding to President Trump cutting down the
Speaker 2: deadline for a deal to end the war in Ukraine,
Speaker 2: saying each new ultimatum is a threat. This comes as
Speaker 2: the federally funded nonprofit that supports public broadcasters is officially
Speaker 2: shutting down.
Speaker 3: Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established by Congress in nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty seven to fund the nation's non commercial radio and
Speaker 3: television stations, but with Congress acting at the President's request
Speaker 3: to pull back the next two years worth of funding,
Speaker 3: CPB CEO says the entity now faces the difficult reality
Speaker 3: of having to shut down. Most staff positions will be
Speaker 3: eliminated at the end of the fiscal year. On September thirtieth,
Speaker 3: a statement says a small team will stay through next
Speaker 3: January to close out operations.
Speaker 2: You PC Stephen Portnoy with that update. President Trump's Mid
Speaker 2: East Envoy, Steve Wickcoff, was in Gaza today for a
Speaker 2: time with Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel. They
Speaker 2: visited some food distribution sites. This comes as international pressure
Speaker 2: ramps up on President Trump, the US, and Israel to
Speaker 2: do more to get much needed food and medicine to
Speaker 2: starving Palestinians. The UN says hundreds of people have been
Speaker 2: killed at or near these distribution sites since May as
Speaker 2: they try to get food for their families. International experts
Speaker 2: say widespread death is imminent in the region and a
Speaker 2: quote worst case scenario of femine is playing out in Gaza.
Speaker 2: It's four h two and President Trump is not happy
Speaker 2: with the latest jobs report. In response, he has now
Speaker 2: told US team to fire the stout's chief over the
Speaker 2: Labor Department. The report was weaker than expected this time around,
Speaker 2: mister Trump claiming without evidence, the staffer has been manipulating
Speaker 2: numbers for political purposes. This comes as leaders around the
Speaker 2: world scramble to figure out how to respond to his
Speaker 2: new tariffs.
Speaker 1: His executive order sets tariff rates on sixty six countries,
Speaker 1: the European Unions, twenty seven members, Taiwan and the Falkland Islands.
Speaker 1: It came amid a flurry of agreements with nations seeking
Speaker 1: to avoid being on his list.
Speaker 4: We're making a lot of deals.
Speaker 1: Some saw their terif rate lowered, like Taiwan, which wants
Speaker 1: it down even further. Others like New Zealand, are dealing
Speaker 1: with a boost.
Speaker 5: It appears New Zealand has been impacted by a very
Speaker 5: blunt formula.
Speaker 1: In Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry says there are no
Speaker 1: winners in a trade war. China does have an extension
Speaker 1: to keep negotiating a deal and for now is not
Speaker 1: being hit with new tariffs. You would. It's the same
Speaker 1: in Mexico, where President Clodia Shanebaum says her strategy worked.
Speaker 1: Sager Maganie Washington.
Speaker 2: The weekend forecast is looking phenomenal and even this afternoon
Speaker 2: getting into this evening, not that humid at all. Lots
Speaker 2: of sunshine. We are looking good across the board. We've
Speaker 2: got temperatures in the low seventies, a couple of upper
Speaker 2: sixties right by the coast, getting down to about sixty
Speaker 2: on the coast tonight, and in Boston fifties in the
Speaker 2: suburbs under mostly clear skies, not that humid. Tomorrow either,
Speaker 2: are plenty of sunshine, beautiful day, a high year seventy
Speaker 2: five Tomorrow night clear with a lone year sixty in Boston,
Speaker 2: fifties inland and then Sunday a little bit warmer, but
Speaker 2: still plenty of sunshine out there and still not that humid.
Speaker 2: We have a high to rather on Sunday in the
Speaker 2: low eighties. Seventy four degrees in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Right
Speaker 2: now seeing seventy two in Newport, Rhode Island, getting over
Speaker 2: toward the Berkshars if you're heading out west. Were at
Speaker 2: seventy five in Great Barrington, and in Boston at four
Speaker 2: oh five it is partly cloudy and seventy two. The
Speaker 2: mayoral race in Framingham is catching the attention of national
Speaker 2: media outlets well because of a very unfortunate name.
Speaker 4: Jeffrey Epstein is running for mayor of Framingham.
Speaker 1: Let's go meet him for Hey, Jeffrey, how are you so?
Speaker 4: It's actually Jeffrey with a G, but he prefers to
Speaker 4: go by.
Speaker 5: Jeff epsteng perfect and I'm running for mayor in Framingham.
Speaker 4: In the last week, he's been making national headlines from Politico,
Speaker 4: huff Post, Daily Beast, News Nation, even Jimmy Fallon get
Speaker 4: in on the fund. I'm not sure what's worse that
Speaker 4: his last name is Epstein or that he spells Jeffrey.
Speaker 5: With a G. I see nothing wrong with my name. Actually,
Speaker 5: I'm an alive astrident. I'm not a dead American.
Speaker 4: But the comments on his Facebook ad campaign might have
Speaker 4: you questioning that.
Speaker 5: Show me the list, you know, it's like now, So.
Speaker 4: In that regard, the name might be a bit of
Speaker 4: an annoyance, but there's a major silver lining.
Speaker 5: Cause you can get people's attention with this. But for me,
Speaker 5: the important thing is to try and illuminate the issues
Speaker 5: of the very real forbody who lives here.
Speaker 4: Matt Sheer WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: You can go see Jeffrey and Matt on our TikTok
Speaker 2: and Instagram feeds us on both of those at WBZ
Speaker 2: News Radio four six. In Fall River, the owner of
Speaker 2: the Gabriel House assisted living facility is being sued for
Speaker 2: a second time. This latest suit was filed on behalf
Speaker 2: of three people who survived last month's fire at the facility.
Speaker 2: Ten people were killed dozens more were hurt. In the lawsuit,
Speaker 2: they claimed the owner didn't do enough to enforce a
Speaker 2: no smoking policy and the owner should have known residents
Speaker 2: were smoking in their rooms at times near oxygen. Fire
Speaker 2: officials say that combination is likely what caused the violent
Speaker 2: fire that tore through the building, not the resident filed
Speaker 2: a separate lawsuit last week claiming negligence on the facilities.
Speaker 2: Part owner Dennis Etscorn, has declined to comment, a spokesman
Speaker 2: saying he has yet to see that lawsuit. Many roads
Speaker 2: here in the Bay State are going to be packed
Speaker 2: full of bike riders this weekend, some seven thousand of
Speaker 2: them taking part in the Panmass Challenge, including a member
Speaker 2: of the WBZ news radio family.
Speaker 6: The race offers more than a dozen roots, and some
Speaker 6: of them are really long too. One of the good
Speaker 6: guys in our newsroom is riding again this year, the
Speaker 6: second ride for Z reporter Jay will Lette. He's doing
Speaker 6: one of the long ones, one hundred and sixty two miles.
Speaker 6: Woo Jay rides for his dad John and for Dana Farber.
Speaker 6: John died from melanoma in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 7: You know, it started out with raising money because my
Speaker 7: father passed, but then it went on to be kind
Speaker 7: of a collective.
Speaker 6: I'm from Duxbury. It's spread team Willpower. That's who you
Speaker 6: want to look for on the course. And this year,
Speaker 6: Jay says, one of the focuses is on family friend
Speaker 6: Kyle Donahue. She's gone through chemo round after chemo round
Speaker 6: fighting brain cancer. She's in a good spot right now.
Speaker 6: Nice going, Kyle. As for Jay will Lett, well, hey,
Speaker 6: try and avoid that flat tire issue you had last year.
Speaker 1: True story.
Speaker 7: It's funny people treat me like an expert because I've
Speaker 7: done it. The one time you look like a biker,
Speaker 7: you do you get the whole long build.
Speaker 1: I can reach the pedals.
Speaker 7: It's great.
Speaker 6: A great New England Weekend tapeard. Thank you, Jay will Let,
Speaker 6: Drew Mahalan WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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