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Speaker 2: Sixty seven degrees in Boston. It is four o'clock on
Speaker 2: your Thursday afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. We are following some major traffic problems
Speaker 2: in Summerville and Everett. We're ninety nine shut down in
Speaker 2: both directions. Wbz's Gina Tempesta. She's here now live from
Speaker 2: the twenty four hour Traffic Network. What's going on, Gina?
Speaker 3: Well, Nicole, we have a crash involving a track trash
Speaker 3: truck actually in a large fuel spill. This is on
Speaker 3: the Alfred Street Bridge, So ninety nine bolt north and
Speaker 3: southbound shutdown. Northbound is shutdown between Sullivan Square and the bridge.
Speaker 3: We have a large police activity there. We have detours
Speaker 3: in f fact, and that southbound right slow is going
Speaker 3: to be shut down as well. Ninety nine between Hancock
Speaker 3: Sweet Street and a Sweetser Circle.
Speaker 1: That's Route sixteen.
Speaker 2: Nicole, All right, Gina, back to you in just a
Speaker 2: few minutes in traffic and weather together. But again avoid
Speaker 2: that part of Sullivan's Square getting into Everett, right by
Speaker 2: the casino if you can meantime, at four A one,
Speaker 2: cell phones are one step closer to becoming banned during
Speaker 2: school time in Massachusetts classrooms. This after a bill was
Speaker 2: passed today by the Senate. Here's Stallbz's Jay will.
Speaker 4: Lett distraction portals in the pockets of everyone spelled trouble
Speaker 4: for public school students. That's the message from proponents of
Speaker 4: a bill state senators took up on Beacon Hill. If passed,
Speaker 4: it would ban cell phones statewide in public schools. Of course,
Speaker 4: the House still needs to sign off on it too.
Speaker 4: Governor Morri Heli and ag Andrea Campbell have back this bill.
Speaker 4: Boston has gone ahead and used similar tactics already, with
Speaker 4: pouches kids used to lock up their phones. Mayor Michelle
Speaker 4: Wu says to.
Speaker 5: Make sure that students don't have the distraction and can
Speaker 5: not only focus on what's being taught in the classroom,
Speaker 5: but have real in person interaction with their classmates.
Speaker 4: The bill, however, if pass does, leave it up to
Speaker 4: the local districts to decide how they want to enforce it.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can set.
Speaker 4: Times that they can use them instead of just use
Speaker 4: them all day.
Speaker 6: On Beacon Hill, Jay will Let be BZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Quincy police say an eighteen year old has now been
Speaker 2: accused of vandalizing more than sixty vehicles over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Dozens of these vehicles were found damaged in North Quinsy
Speaker 2: back on Saturday. Neighbors say the suspect had been seen
Speaker 2: walking down the street and scratching them up with a rock,
Speaker 2: as happened along Commander Shay Boulevard, Quincy Shore Drive, Newberry Street,
Speaker 2: Hancock Street, and Oakridge Road. Police say the teen was
Speaker 2: arrested yesterday and is now facing sixty three counts of
Speaker 2: defacing or damaging property. His identity has not been released.
Speaker 2: President Trump saying he is granting Mexico a ninety day
Speaker 2: extension on their current twenty five percent tariffs. He made
Speaker 2: the announcement after a call from the Mexican President, Claudia Schinbaum.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow marks is deadline for countries to avoid a major
Speaker 2: hiking tariffs if they don't have a trade deal in place,
Speaker 2: But the AP Sauger mcganey reports, when it comes to
Speaker 2: our neighbors to the north, the President is threatening to
Speaker 2: slap some teriffs on them.
Speaker 1: Over foreign policy, President Trump says reaching a trade deal
Speaker 1: with Canada will be very hard. After an announcement Canada's
Speaker 1: leader yesterday on CTV.
Speaker 4: Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine.
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Carney's statement led to the president's threat.
Speaker 1: It earlier suggested a thirty five percent tariff on Canada
Speaker 1: if there is no trade deal by tomorrow. It's a
Speaker 1: shift from the President's stands after other nations announce they'll
Speaker 1: formally recognize Palestinian statehood. From the UK, we have no
Speaker 1: view on that. To France Roy, the President's threat to
Speaker 1: Canada is another example of him using a trade war
Speaker 1: to try to coerce nations on unrelated issues. Sager Magani, Washington.
Speaker 2: It is certainly very wet out there right now if
Speaker 2: you're north and west of Boston. Not quite in the
Speaker 2: city proper, but we have a lot of heavy rain
Speaker 2: coming through and that rain is going to keep making
Speaker 2: its way to the south and east through the rest
Speaker 2: of the afternoon into the evening. Temperatures are dropping as well.
Speaker 2: We've got temperatures in southeastern mass where it's not raining
Speaker 2: in the seventies, but if you are where it is
Speaker 2: raining and in some cases pouring right now, you're seeing
Speaker 2: temperatures in the low to mid sixties for tonight, all
Speaker 2: of us getting down to sixty with that heavy rain
Speaker 2: at times. Then tomorrow the rain moves out by the
Speaker 2: i'd say lunchtime hour, and then it's just going to
Speaker 2: be a really nice kind of early fall, feeling like
Speaker 2: day with a high in the mid sixties for tomorrow
Speaker 2: night down to fifty or fifty five or so if
Speaker 2: you're inland. Sixty in Boston under clear skies Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2: The weekend looking good, low humidity, nice and dry. We've
Speaker 2: got a high seventy five on Saturday and eighty or
Speaker 2: so on Sunday. Heavy rain right now through Sudbury at
Speaker 2: sixty five degrees, a bit of a stormy situation in
Speaker 2: Danvers where it's sixty two. South of Boston right now
Speaker 2: cloudy and Pembroke and seventy one, and in Boston at
Speaker 2: four oh six it's overcast and sixty six now. Sunscreen
Speaker 2: is important to make sure your kids don't get a sunburn,
Speaker 2: but you might not have known that in some cases
Speaker 2: here in Massachusetts it's actually illegal for them to use it.
Speaker 7: It's been more flinch Crusade for seven years closing a
Speaker 7: legal loophole you might not have ever heard of.
Speaker 3: The more I speak with people, the more I find
Speaker 3: out this surprise.
Speaker 2: Everybody has the same reaction.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 7: That's on hearing that it's illegal to let kids in
Speaker 7: schools and camps put sunscreen on themselves without a doctor's note.
Speaker 6: Flynn is the president of the Melanoma Action Coalition. Technically speaking,
Speaker 6: sunscreen isn't over the counter drug, so nurses aren't allowed
Speaker 6: to give it out or even let people use it
Speaker 6: without written permission.
Speaker 3: What it does is it allows students to have access
Speaker 3: to sunscreen without a prescription or a very formal.
Speaker 1: Note a bil b.
Speaker 6: A House speaker pro tem Kate Hogan would create a
Speaker 6: sunscreen carve out. Advocates have tried this before on the hill,
Speaker 6: but it often dies on the vine.
Speaker 2: The problem with skin cancer it doesn't happen right away,
Speaker 2: and so people don't realize what damage they've done.
Speaker 6: Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Whether experts say we're seeing hotter summers these days, in
Speaker 2: those oppressive conditions, they're doing damage to our health.
Speaker 8: The study in the journal Scientific Advances tracked them urgency
Speaker 8: room visits in California over eleven years and found those
Speaker 8: visits steadily increased as temperatures did. High heat has been
Speaker 8: linked to cardiovascular deaths and respiratory and kidney failure. Doctor
Speaker 8: Larry Kenny runs Penn State University's heat lab. When our
Speaker 8: body temperature goes up and we can't get rid of
Speaker 8: that heat, it puts a strain on the cardiovascular system.
Speaker 8: Our heart, kidneys and other organs have to work harder,
Speaker 8: raising the risk of them breaking down. Michael Wallace, CBS News.
Speaker 2: We're also learning more about what led to the death
Speaker 2: of Hall of Fame wrestler Hulk Hogan. New documents from
Speaker 2: the local medical examiner in Florida show Hogan, whose real
Speaker 2: name was Terry Blea, died of a heart attack. He
Speaker 2: reportedly had a history of atrial fibrillation and also suffered
Speaker 2: from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which had not been revealed to
Speaker 2: the public before now. The WWE icon's death was overall
Speaker 2: ruled to be of natural causes. The document show after
Speaker 2: he passed, he was cremated. You are now in Mali.
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