Speaker 1: Seventy three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening right now in Texas.
Speaker 1: President Trump and First Lady Malania Trump getting a first
Speaker 1: hand look at the devastation from the historic floods in Kerrville.
Speaker 1: At least one hundred and twenty people have been killed there,
Speaker 1: dozens more remain missing. Right now. The President's speaking after
Speaker 1: meeting with first responders and victims families, so all across
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 2: American's heartsy h added, I had to be here as president.
Speaker 1: First Lady wanted to be here.
Speaker 2: All the beautiful souls, and we're filled with grief and devastation.
Speaker 1: Is the loss of life, i'll The President has praised
Speaker 1: the federal response to the disaster, despite calls to face
Speaker 1: out FEMA. A deal for an accused that nine to
Speaker 1: eleven mastermind has been tossed.
Speaker 3: A divided federal appeals panel has thrown out a deal
Speaker 3: that would have allowed college Sheik Mohammad to plead guilty
Speaker 3: and be spared the risk of execuscution. The decision undoes
Speaker 3: a bid to end more than two decades of military prosecution.
Speaker 3: Prosecutors and the Pentagon's top official for Guantanamo Bay approved
Speaker 3: the deal last year, but then Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
Speaker 3: rejected it. Defense lawyers argued the deal was already legally
Speaker 3: in effect. A judge and a military appeals panel agreed,
Speaker 3: but after more legal wrangling, the Federal Appeals Court has
Speaker 3: found Austin acted within his authority and has thrown out
Speaker 3: the deal. Sagur Magani at the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh is stepping down.
Speaker 1: Walsh decided to step down for personal reasons after more
Speaker 1: than four decades of leadership in the healthcare sector, but
Speaker 1: will remain involved as an advisor to the Healey administration.
Speaker 1: Governor Healey meantime, has appointed doctor Keyami Mahnaya to take over.
Speaker 1: The doctor served for nearly all of Walsh's time in
Speaker 1: office as Under Secretary of Health. With rising tariffs raising
Speaker 1: the ire of many cut trees around the world, President
Speaker 1: Trump is defending his decision to impose fifty percent trade
Speaker 1: tariffs on imports from Brazil.
Speaker 2: The tariffs against Brazil suggest politics rather than economics at play.
Speaker 2: Speaking to reporters before heading to Texas, the presidents at
Speaker 2: former Brazilian President Bolsonaro should not be on trial for
Speaker 2: trying to overturn his election loss.
Speaker 1: YE treating President Bolsonaro very unfairly.
Speaker 2: The President considers Bolsonaro a personal friend.
Speaker 1: He's a very honest man.
Speaker 2: Imposing fifty percent tariffs against Brazil seems contrary to the
Speaker 2: President's stated policy of correcting trade imbalances, since the US
Speaker 2: has a trade surplus with Brazil of more than seven
Speaker 2: billion dollars. Lindy Kenyon CBS News the White.
Speaker 1: House concerns about Canadian tariffs sending the stock market lower
Speaker 1: on this Friday. The Dow lost two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: nine points in both the S and P five hundred,
Speaker 1: and Nasdaq fell so no records there. Today, another summer
Speaker 1: weekend approaching and some three dozen Massachusetts beaches are closed.
Speaker 1: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health published their dashboard with
Speaker 1: a list of beaches that have issues and following yesterday's
Speaker 1: heavy rain, summer closed today in part because of water runoff.
Speaker 1: Coming up on WBZA, a local ihop is getting a
Speaker 1: shout out thanks to a Boston native who is now
Speaker 1: a star. Still watching some of these showers around here
Speaker 1: that could get into our Neck of the Woods over
Speaker 1: a period of time. Still out in western mass out
Speaker 1: around Northampton, we've got some showers and some downpours. Right
Speaker 1: along the Eye ninety one corridor, there is a cell
Speaker 1: that has slid its way down into Key, New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: another one that's come out of Hillsboro, maybe landing in
Speaker 1: Manchester shortly, and there's another one up toward the Brookline,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire. These are moving a little bit east and
Speaker 1: a little bit south, and so they could push into
Speaker 1: Massachusetts a little bit later if they hold together. We
Speaker 1: do have that instability of humidity in the air as
Speaker 1: we go through the afternoon muggies. Tonight it's sixty eight
Speaker 1: for the low clouds and some sunshine. Tomorrow seventy seven
Speaker 1: in Boston, mid eighties Inland, and then Sunday pretty much
Speaker 1: the same deal will be cooler over the Cape and
Speaker 1: islands both to days and Monday. Some clouds, some sun,
Speaker 1: some humidity, and maybe a thunderstorm as well. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's seventy three in Boston. An actress from Dorchester who
Speaker 1: has won many awards, is reflecting on her beginnings south
Speaker 1: of Boston.
Speaker 4: On the Cone, and O'Brien needs a Friend podcast, The
Speaker 4: Bear and Abbott. Elementary actress Iowa Debris says she was
Speaker 4: emotional in the Randolph ihop, confessing to her parents that
Speaker 4: she was switching majors from teaching to the arts.
Speaker 2: So then we're there and I'm like not talking to them.
Speaker 1: In the car and they're like like they're like are
Speaker 1: you like like are you dying or like what's going on?
Speaker 3: Then I just started busting, like I burst.
Speaker 4: Out crying and I was like, I'm so sorry, like
Speaker 4: I changed my major with that tone. I'm gonna study
Speaker 4: play writing like I want to pursue the arts.
Speaker 3: And literally they're like eating like a like a short stack,
Speaker 3: like could not could not care.
Speaker 4: She's won a Golden Globe. Now it's funny for her
Speaker 4: to look back at how nervous she was.
Speaker 2: They were like if if you're good, and we're good,
Speaker 2: and I feel like the moment that they could also
Speaker 2: kind of start to brag.
Speaker 1: Jay Well WBZ Boston's news radio, it's here justin Bieber's
Speaker 1: new album. He the Beabs releasing Swag, his seventh studio album.
Speaker 1: The twenty one track release arrived today just hours after
Speaker 1: bieber Teasday was coming through a series of billboards and
Speaker 1: social media posts. The album's track list includes this one
Speaker 1: All I Can Take, along with songs called Dad's Love
Speaker 1: and Forgiveness. Def Jam Recording says the album was inspired
Speaker 1: by Bieber's devotion as a husband and father and that's
Speaker 1: led to a deeper perspective and more reflective sound, and
Speaker 1: they say it resulted in some of his most personal
Speaker 1: music yet. You are now in the loop. For news
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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio