Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Eighty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Welcome back summer. The
Speaker 2: heat and humidity are back. We're a limited engagement around
Speaker 2: these parts. Maybe some storms tomorrow. The coolest down.
Speaker 3: Heat and storms for tomorrow afternoon, and they will be
Speaker 3: likely feels like temperatures in the upper nineties as well
Speaker 3: as the low one hundreds. Win damage and also hail
Speaker 3: will to be two major threats for us this Friday evening.
Speaker 2: That is CBS News Boston meteorologist Jason michael as for today,
Speaker 2: a heat advisory in effect. In fact, it's in effect
Speaker 2: till eight o'clock tomorrow night except for the South Coast
Speaker 2: Capean Islands. We've gotten into the low nineties today, will
Speaker 2: be in the mid to upper nineties tomorrow, and we'll
Speaker 2: fill in with trafficking weather together in just a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes. It was former President Joe Biden's right hand
Speaker 2: man for years. Today he testified before a House committee
Speaker 2: investigating former present in Biden's health.
Speaker 4: He served as White House Chief of Staff for the
Speaker 4: first half of Joe Biden's term, and rather than pleading
Speaker 4: the fifth as Biden's doctor and other top aids have,
Speaker 4: ron Klain is providing answers to the House Oversight Committee
Speaker 4: Chairman James Comer.
Speaker 5: I certainly appreciate the ones that are coming in and
Speaker 5: answering questions.
Speaker 2: So far ron Klag has done that.
Speaker 4: Comer's committee is probing whether the Biden White House used
Speaker 4: an auto pen to affix the president's signature without his knowledge.
Speaker 4: Biden insists he consciously made every decision while in office.
Speaker 4: Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington.
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen often, but the President is expected to
Speaker 2: visit Federal Reserve this hour.
Speaker 6: The rare presidential trip to the traditionally independent Fed comes
Speaker 6: as administration officials were to inspect the Central Bank's expensive
Speaker 6: building renovations. They and the President have used cost overruns
Speaker 6: to rip Howell's decision making.
Speaker 2: When you spend two and a half billion dollars on
Speaker 2: really a renovation, I think it's pretty distressedful.
Speaker 6: Past the last week. If the price tag could be
Speaker 6: rounds for firing Powell, I think it could have is.
Speaker 6: But dismissing the chairman could be illegal. The president has
Speaker 6: said he has no plans to do it, but has
Speaker 6: urged Powell to step down. The FED chair has insisted
Speaker 6: he will serve until his term ends next May. Saga
Speaker 6: Magani at the White House.
Speaker 2: A wrestling legend, has died. He made his mark over
Speaker 2: some three decades in the ring. CBS's Jen Clark has more.
Speaker 7: The WWE has confirmed that Hulk Hogan has died at
Speaker 7: the age of seventy one. Hogan, whose real name was
Speaker 7: Terry Belia, was born in Georgia and raised in Florida.
Speaker 7: He was discovered by the Briscoe Brothers wrestling team in
Speaker 7: nineteen seventy six while playing in a show with his band.
Speaker 7: Hogan stood at a menacing six feet seven inches tall
Speaker 7: and went on to win six WWE championships throughout his
Speaker 7: thirty year wrestling career. In a statement, the WWE said
Speaker 7: Hogan is one of pop culture's most recognizable figures. He's
Speaker 7: credited but taking WWE to a global stage in the
Speaker 7: nineteen eighties. Jen and Clark CBS.
Speaker 2: News, We've got the heat in place and a heat
Speaker 2: advisory in place until eight o'clock tomorrow night, except for
Speaker 2: the South Coast Capean Islands that's where it will be
Speaker 2: the least uncomfortable. Speaking of uncomfortable, probably a little bit
Speaker 2: so for sleeping tonight seventy two with the humid conditions
Speaker 2: tonight under mainly clear skies. Tomorrow it's going to be
Speaker 2: hotter than today and more humid too, as we continue
Speaker 2: to funnel in that those do points ninety three to
Speaker 2: ninety seven for the high might squeeze an extra degree
Speaker 2: or two out as you head into the inland suburbs,
Speaker 2: and certainly will be feeling like it's more than one
Speaker 2: hundred degrees tomorrow afternoon with those real fields eighties over
Speaker 2: the Cape and islands tomorrow, and then some thunderstorms will
Speaker 2: rumble on through as we head into tomorrow evening. Eventually
Speaker 2: by Saturday we're less humid, cooler eighty to eighty five
Speaker 2: with partly sunny skies, temperatures only around eighty on Sunday am,
Speaker 2: blind of clouds and sun, and a little bit more
Speaker 2: humidity and maybe a thunderstorm. Right now, we're at eighty
Speaker 2: nine degrees in Boston. Maybe you've got to do a
Speaker 2: double take when you go to the town of Stow today, Well,
Speaker 2: what used to be the town of Stowe for.
Speaker 6: The past three years.
Speaker 8: Haley's life in Stow has.
Speaker 6: Been absolutely miserable.
Speaker 4: Worst experience in my life.
Speaker 8: That's because they lost both of their Duncan locations in
Speaker 8: a matter of weeks. My reporting on that original story
Speaker 8: went viral.
Speaker 4: Because I've been traveling further away to go to Duncan Donuts.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you already have to travel now a mile.
Speaker 4: And a half.
Speaker 8: Well, today is a new day. The sun shined on
Speaker 8: great road as these words rang through the BA.
Speaker 3: Were officially ending our Duncan desert at State Rep.
Speaker 8: Kate Hogan speaking to a crowd of hundreds in front
Speaker 8: of the newest Duncan location, which is not exactly in Stow.
Speaker 7: Welcome everyone to the town of Duncan, Massachusetts.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they changed the name of the town to Duncan
Speaker 8: for one day, which Haley says is not enough.
Speaker 1: I wish you would stay like this forever.
Speaker 6: And what time did you get here today?
Speaker 4: One thirty in the morning.
Speaker 8: She was in line for eight and a half hours
Speaker 8: for the record in Duncan, Massachusetts. Matt Sheer, WBZ Boston's
Speaker 8: News Radio.
Speaker 2: Hid a blueberry season is a US and that is
Speaker 2: a particularly sweet time this year. Wbz's hile.
Speaker 9: Shaffle explains, I talk for a living, so it's not often.
Speaker 6: I'm lost for words.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, Well, that's the biggest blueberry I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: That is the biggest. Come on.
Speaker 9: Jane and Paul Newton run Jane and Paul's farm in Norfolk.
Speaker 9: They're showing me. Blueberries is wide around us golf balls.
Speaker 9: They've been in the business forty years and haven't seen
Speaker 9: a season like this ever. The bushers are so heavy
Speaker 9: with berries that the branches would touch the ground if
Speaker 9: they weren't held up. This style of no frills blueberry
Speaker 9: farm is common in southeastern mess.
Speaker 5: I enjoy it being simple, subbing retired. You want it
Speaker 5: simpled out here.
Speaker 9: In many other places they just give you a bucket
Speaker 9: and let you have at it. No hay rides or
Speaker 9: bouncy houses.
Speaker 5: To speak up.
Speaker 9: Paul dispelled some blueberry miss while we were there.
Speaker 5: A lot of people think the green ones are going
Speaker 5: to turn blue at home like a tomato. Yes, and
Speaker 5: they're picking blue and green and you have to say no,
Speaker 5: you gotta just pick the blue ones.
Speaker 9: Kyle Shaffle w BUS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Tack your towel, maybe some lunch and some patients. If
Speaker 2: you're heading to Revere Beach, the Revere Beach International Sculpting
Speaker 2: Festival is back this weekend. Starting today, some street closures.
Speaker 2: There'll be more parking bands and street closures tomorrow. The
Speaker 2: three day festival brings about hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 2: to the beach to watch more than a dozen sand
Speaker 2: sculptors compete for prizes. They'll also be fireworks Saturday night
Speaker 2: at nine. You know that whole saying about a journey
Speaker 2: starting with the first step, Well, it turns out maybe
Speaker 2: fewer steps will hit the magic number for better health.
Speaker 1: Ten thousand steps a day has been seen as a
Speaker 1: goal to hit for better health. Some do more. I'm
Speaker 1: currently on twelve thousand today.
Speaker 6: I aim for twelve and a half thousand a day.
Speaker 1: But in the Lancet doctor Barbara Jeffris found benefits at
Speaker 1: seven thousand daily steps.
Speaker 3: People who did two thousand steps a day, which is
Speaker 3: a really low number, compared to seven thousand steps a day,
Speaker 3: the mortality risk was nearly.
Speaker 4: Halved, and those who were more active at seven thousand.
Speaker 1: Steps finding at that level a reduced risk for dementia,
Speaker 1: heart disease, depression, type two diabetes, and cancer. Steve Kaithan,
Speaker 1: CBS News.
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