Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio.
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Speaker 1: By Monday morning. Kind of creeps up on you rather quickly,
Speaker 1: doesn't it, especially in the summertime. Sixty five degrees under
Speaker 1: hazy and mostly cloudy skies as we get started this morning,
Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. At six o'clock. The news
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Speaker 1: your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. It's
Speaker 1: smoke from a distant fire.
Speaker 2: Let's see easy sunshine today and it will be very warm.
Speaker 1: But not all that human. That is wbz ACU weather
Speaker 1: meteorologist Joe Lumberg. And air quality alert has been posted
Speaker 1: effective right now until midnight tonight. That's due to the
Speaker 1: wildfire smoke from Canada. It'll be in the eighties later
Speaker 1: on today. Capitol Hill is quiet this morning as the
Speaker 1: Senate joins the House on a summer break, and it's
Speaker 1: month long recess leaves a lot of untended business and
Speaker 1: ticks off President Trump, who blasts Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer and tells him to go to hell for putting
Speaker 1: up roadblocks to the Republican majority's agenda. The break now
Speaker 1: leaves the GOP scrambling with a promise to establish new
Speaker 1: rules to pick up the pace of confirmations after Democrats
Speaker 1: deny consent votes and insist on roll calls. And now
Speaker 1: there's some talk of some recess appointments, the so called
Speaker 1: nuclear option in the Senates. Back home, nothing is off
Speaker 1: limit for scammers, even your search for home suite home.
Speaker 1: Boston police are out with a warning over a phone
Speaker 1: scheme that targets renters looking for local apartments. The callers
Speaker 1: pose as landlords featuring a great piece of real estate.
Speaker 1: Police say, really does not exist. The plot involves you
Speaker 1: sending money up front with wire transfers, gift cards or
Speaker 1: other types of payment. The plot twist you never get
Speaker 1: to see the space. Got to act fast. Boston Police say,
Speaker 1: do your research and if any deal sounds too good
Speaker 1: to be true, you know it likely is. Well. This
Speaker 1: year is showing signs of the worst year for home buyers.
Speaker 1: CBS's Chanel call with.
Speaker 3: More logan motorshaw Mee House Wire argues this slowdown is
Speaker 3: actually healthy. This is the best medicine for the housing
Speaker 3: market currently because home price is escalated out of control.
Speaker 1: Price growth cooling down as a positive.
Speaker 3: For everyone, and with builder confidence taking up in July,
Speaker 3: he says more inventory could boost sales, but once the
Speaker 3: man picks up, we need more housing out there, and
Speaker 3: lower ritz.
Speaker 1: Could facilitate interest rates and inflation or moving the needle here,
Speaker 1: but it's next to impossible also for many families to
Speaker 1: afford the price tag of a single family home, which
Speaker 1: in Greater Boston now carries a median price tag of
Speaker 1: more than one million dollars. Well, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Stevie Nicks is not coming to Boston. Wbz's Drew moholland
Speaker 1: with late details.
Speaker 4: Good morning Andrew, Good morning Jeffreyeah the legend she is.
Speaker 4: Stevie Nicks has to put her tour on hold. The
Speaker 4: former Fleetwood max Star fractured her shoulder and she will
Speaker 4: put all shows in August and September on the shelf.
Speaker 4: The plan is for the October shows to go on
Speaker 4: as scheduled. Nick, who is seventy seven, was scheduled to
Speaker 4: play the Game guarding a week from tomorrow, but due
Speaker 4: to that injury, the Boston show Jeff has now been
Speaker 4: moved to November twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: All right, Drew, thank you. At least she's going to
Speaker 1: be here to make up for that lost time. Absolutely
Speaker 1: in sixty five degrees since we get started this Monday morning,
Speaker 1: and it looks like mostly cloudy skies, but it's an
Speaker 1: awful lot of haze in the atmosphere, and that haze
Speaker 1: is the smoke from the Canadian wildfires which has been
Speaker 1: traveling south over the past couple of days, and it's
Speaker 1: really going to affect our air today. In fact, an
Speaker 1: air quality alert has been posted for all day. It
Speaker 1: expires officially at midnight tonight, so it might be a
Speaker 1: rough day to be outside if you have any respiratory issues.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, it is going to be very warm today,
Speaker 1: not all that humid, with daytime highs between eighty five
Speaker 1: and ninety today, mainly clear, Still the wildfire smoke in
Speaker 1: the atmosphere, you'll certainly see it and may be able
Speaker 1: to smell it as well. With temperatures tonight dropping into
Speaker 1: the sixties. Tomorrow looks like another decent day with some sunshine,
Speaker 1: highs in the mid to upper seventies. Wednesday looks good too,
Speaker 1: same story, seventies and lower eighties. And then on Thursday,
Speaker 1: we're switching the script a little bit with more clouds
Speaker 1: than sun, with highs again right around eighty. Right now
Speaker 1: in Boston, it's sixty five degrees here in the city
Speaker 1: and hazy skies at six oh five on this Monday morning,
Speaker 1: the Greater Boston trash strike is not over, and it's
Speaker 1: not even close.
Speaker 2: Disappointed, that's how Republic Services describes the feeling. After ninety
Speaker 2: three percent of union members voted to stay on strike.
Speaker 2: The company says it's non union employees and support staff
Speaker 2: will continue service and customers in the Greater Boston area,
Speaker 2: which includes Wakefield, where Tony has noticed.
Speaker 5: In Wakefield, I saw two new trash structures had rent
Speaker 5: me on them, so I know the scabs are working
Speaker 5: for them, so I don't go for that.
Speaker 2: The union leadership, meanwhile, says Republic is being disrespectful to
Speaker 2: employees who continue to fight for higher wages and better benefits.
Speaker 2: The strike is going into week five. In Wakefield. James
Speaker 2: drohas w b Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Thousands of workers at Boeing are on strike this morning.
Speaker 1: More than thirty two hundred of them walk off the
Speaker 1: job from plants in the Midwest where fighter jets are made.
Speaker 1: The workers say enough's enough. After rejecting a recent offer
Speaker 1: that would have raised their pay by twenty percent over
Speaker 1: four years. Meantime, and for the first time in its
Speaker 1: ninety year history, workers at every single casino on the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Strip are now union members. This after employees
Speaker 1: at the Venetia and Fontainebleau become the latest certified by
Speaker 1: the Culinary Union, which now dominates Vegas with some sixty
Speaker 1: thousand members well in this year's pan Mass Challenge now
Speaker 1: in the books. More money this weekend goes to a
Speaker 1: great cause.
Speaker 2: There's no better feeling than crossing the finish line.
Speaker 3: It was the most amazing Sunday PMC ever, through perfect conditions,
Speaker 3: couldn't have been better.
Speaker 2: PMC founder Philly Starr I shark great behaviors.
Speaker 1: Ready to add it to big success.
Speaker 2: We gotta raise money. That's what we're hit it too.
Speaker 2: Every dollar raised in the ride goes to cancer research
Speaker 2: at Data Farvard, with this year's goal set at seventy
Speaker 2: six million.
Speaker 1: Dollars CBS News Boston's Logan Hall and by all accounts,
Speaker 1: it was a smash hit this year. Since it start
Speaker 1: forty five years ago, the Penmass Challenge has raised more
Speaker 1: than one billion dollars for cancer research. Celtic's owner Steve
Speaker 1: Pagliuca says the WNBA's Connecticut sun belong in Boston, and
Speaker 1: his record breaking price tag for the team backs it up.
Speaker 1: In his first statement since reaching a deal with the
Speaker 1: Mohegan Tribe, Pagliuca says it's now in the league's hands,
Speaker 1: which has been hesitant to sign off on the deal.
Speaker 1: Pagliuca says this deal is best for the WNBA, the team,
Speaker 1: and its fans. While the league reiterates that the deal
Speaker 1: is subject to its approval and not the team's approval,
Speaker 1: Boston remains far down the list of possible expansion cities
Speaker 1: for the league. You are now in the loop For
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