Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news eighty
Speaker 1: one degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The fire chief and Fall
Speaker 1: River calls the fire that killed nine people at an
Speaker 1: assisted living facility last night an unfathomable tragedy. Now, the
Speaker 1: International Association of Firefighters says understaffing and limited resources gave
Speaker 1: limited rescue efforts and cost more lives. The fire broke
Speaker 1: out about nine to thirty last night on Oliver Street, Covina.
Speaker 1: Borie Healy visiting the seat of the fire this morning
Speaker 1: and says, despite the tragedy, many people were rescued.
Speaker 2: This is a fairly massive structure, massive facility.
Speaker 3: It housed nearly seventy people.
Speaker 2: And you know, thank god, the vast, vast majority of
Speaker 2: them were able to be taken out.
Speaker 1: Nearly three dozen people were taken to hospitals, including five firefighters.
Speaker 1: They have since been released. No where are the cause
Speaker 1: of the fire, and we've reached out to the city
Speaker 1: of Fall River for common After the Trump administration halted
Speaker 1: billions in education grant money, Massachusetts send more than twenty
Speaker 1: other states. Our suing.
Speaker 3: At the start of the month, the Trump administration froze
Speaker 3: more than one hundred million dollars in DOE funds for Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: Were sadly, just a few weeks away from the start
Speaker 4: of the new school year. In this chaos and confusion
Speaker 4: doesn't help to ensure that there's a smooth transition for everybody.
Speaker 3: Alongside other Democratic Attorneys General, mass A g Andre Campbell
Speaker 3: announced their latest lawsuit, calling the freeze debilitating helping.
Speaker 4: Our students meet our education standards here at Massachusetts, supporting
Speaker 4: English language learners, offering after school programming and extracurricular activities.
Speaker 3: The White House says a review is needed to purge waste, fraud,
Speaker 3: and abuse, while the AGS argue it's crossing constitutional lines.
Speaker 4: Our students, our families, our schools, and our communities will
Speaker 4: absolutely suffer.
Speaker 3: Madison Rogers w b Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: President Trump says, punish Russia if that country doesn't end
Speaker 1: the war with Ukraine within fifty days.
Speaker 5: I'm disappointed in President Putin.
Speaker 6: President Trump shared his frustration towards the Russian leader while
Speaker 6: meeting with NATO's Secretary General Mark Ruda at the White House.
Speaker 6: Ruda said European allies will buy US military equipment, including
Speaker 6: Patriot missile defense batteries and transferred to Ukraine. And President
Speaker 6: Trump made this threat of Russia continues its war.
Speaker 2: We're going to be doing secondary tariffs if we don't.
Speaker 6: Have a deal on fifty days. Secondary tariffs mean targeting
Speaker 6: Russia's trading partners. The President said his actions will raise
Speaker 6: tariffs to one hundred percent. Wenty July CBS News.
Speaker 1: President Trump's proposed fifty percent tariffs on Brazilian goods might
Speaker 1: affect how many of us start our.
Speaker 7: Day if there is no agreement between the US and
Speaker 7: Brazil by August, first, two staples of the American morning diet,
Speaker 7: coffee and orange juice, could be impacted. Brazil is the
Speaker 7: world's top coffee producer, and thirty percent of the American
Speaker 7: market comes from there. On orange juice, it's forty percent.
Speaker 7: Americans are already paying more at the store. The average
Speaker 7: price of a pound of ground roast coffee is up
Speaker 7: two dollars from this time last year. Matt Piper, CBS News.
Speaker 1: We've got the sunshining in some places and the clouds
Speaker 1: blocking the sun in other places. As we head through
Speaker 1: the afternoon, and into the early evening tonight, we've got
Speaker 1: to watch for some rain and or thunder showers. They
Speaker 1: may not make it to Boston, we'll see. We have
Speaker 1: some to the north, not much, just a little shower activity,
Speaker 1: maybe an embedded downpourt over toward Haveril. There is one
Speaker 1: little cell pushing up toward West Newbury as well, and
Speaker 1: that one cell near Haveral a little bit of rain
Speaker 1: on four ninety five, if you're up in that neck
Speaker 1: of the woods to watch out for. Then we have
Speaker 1: the heavier stuff, a little bit of rain out along
Speaker 1: the Root Tour Corridor out towards Fitzburg and Gardener, and
Speaker 1: then heavier precipitation, some causing some flooding issues out into
Speaker 1: the western part of the state, outward the quabbin Hardwick
Speaker 1: where belter Town getting a bit of rain. Here another
Speaker 1: batches pushing into Amherst as well, So that area has
Speaker 1: gotten rain a couple of times this afternoon. And then
Speaker 1: some more rain down towards parts of Connecticut. Keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on these showers as we head into the evening
Speaker 1: when it'll be sticky temperatures in the low seventies Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: We're going to make a run toward ninety, may not
Speaker 1: get there, but close, and it'll feel like it's in
Speaker 1: the nineties with the very humid conditions. Wednesday, we may
Speaker 1: very well hit ninety and feel like we're in the
Speaker 1: mid nineties with sunshine and the humid conditions, and same
Speaker 1: deal on Thursday. Right now, it is eighty one in Boston.
Speaker 1: It's Shark and Ray Awareness Day, and the New England
Speaker 1: Aquarium is celebrating. Wbz's Ema Friedman has more with Shark.
Speaker 2: Week coming up. Most people think of the great whites
Speaker 2: and the bull sharks, but there's so much more than that,
Speaker 2: Especially in New England, we do.
Speaker 5: Somewhort right here in Boston Harbor, like literally right off
Speaker 5: the dock outside here, or in the Gulf of Maine
Speaker 5: or around the sort of Nantucket area.
Speaker 2: Emily Jones as a scientific program officer and researcher with
Speaker 2: the New England Aquarium. She's helping kids get a glimpse
Speaker 2: into the world of shark tagging and research using virtual
Speaker 2: reality headsets.
Speaker 3: All the virtual.
Speaker 5: Reality experiences that they're looking at are actually like field
Speaker 5: projects that we've done where we've taken the cameras out
Speaker 5: with us, we leave them running so that the guests
Speaker 5: can see exactly what we see when we're out in
Speaker 5: the field, and it's just a way for us to
Speaker 5: bring our research into the main building without anybody having
Speaker 5: to get wet or get on a boat.
Speaker 2: Researchers tag sharks and set them free to track them
Speaker 2: and learn more. The first tagging of the season is
Speaker 2: happening on Thursday in Boston. I'm a Freedman, WBZ Boston's
Speaker 2: News Radio.
Speaker 1: Grand Canyon's North Rim is on fire and flames spread
Speaker 1: rapidly over the weekend, destroying an historic lodge and visitors center.
Speaker 1: The fire started July fourth from a lightning strike. Firefighters
Speaker 1: are working to slow it down. The area is less
Speaker 1: popular than others, hosting only about ten percent of the
Speaker 1: park's millions of visitors. You are now in the loop
Speaker 1: for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News
Speaker 1: Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's
Speaker 1: news Radio.