Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local.
Speaker 2: News seventy one degrees and we are just starting to
Speaker 2: see some sunshine. It is six o'clock. Congratulations, you made
Speaker 2: it to Friday morning. It is August fifteenth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Jim McKay
Speaker 2: and here's what's happening. Well, we all know it is
Speaker 2: the dog days of summer, but we're trying to say
Speaker 2: goodbye to that muggy weather, even if it's just for
Speaker 2: a day. We've got it on this Friday, clearing out
Speaker 2: with much more comfortable air race weather.
Speaker 3: We'll finish out the work weekend, start us off into
Speaker 3: the weekends.
Speaker 2: And that is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist Heather's air shaped
Speaker 2: up to be pretty good Saturday, and then it looks
Speaker 2: like that heat's going to return on Sunday. We'll have
Speaker 2: more on that in the four day forecast coming up.
Speaker 2: But first, at six p'inho one, a showdown in Alaska.
Speaker 2: President Trump set to depart the White House at about
Speaker 2: forty five minutes, getting ready for a long flight to
Speaker 2: Alaska to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2: A hope that progress can be made in Russia's invasion
Speaker 2: of Ukraine despite the lack of Ukrainian representation.
Speaker 1: The negotiations will not be easy. This is going to
Speaker 1: be tough going for President Trump. Beth Noble is a
Speaker 1: professor at Fordham University in the former Moscow bureauchy for
Speaker 1: CBS News. She knows firsthand that Putin is a skilled negotiator.
Speaker 1: Seen him be very charming President Putin, and I have
Speaker 1: seen him be very very tough President Putin, adding, whichever
Speaker 1: one shows up, President Trump would be well advised to
Speaker 1: be on his guard about everything that President Putin has
Speaker 1: to say. Linda Kenyon, CBS News the White House.
Speaker 2: And that meeting gets under way at three o'clock this afternoon.
Speaker 2: The two leaders are expected to have a joint news
Speaker 2: conference after the summit. Of course, full coverage all day
Speaker 2: on WBZ news radio and the iHeartRadio app at six
Speaker 2: ZHO two. They are still alive, but it was a
Speaker 2: rough story for those Brainchtree Little leaguers. Their first game
Speaker 2: of the Little League World Series on Thursday, they lost
Speaker 2: thirteen to nothing to a very tough South Carolina team.
Speaker 2: It is, however, double elimination, though so the play again
Speaker 2: on Saturday against Richmond, Texas. It's winner go home the
Speaker 2: rest of the way. To make it to the championship game,
Speaker 2: they would need to win five games in a row
Speaker 2: over the course of six days. Market Basket officially secured
Speaker 2: a civil restraining order against two former executives. Somebody thinks
Speaker 2: that either mister Gordon or myself were just going to
Speaker 2: go away at this point is solely mistaken.
Speaker 3: That sound from just a few weeks ago is Firetop
Speaker 3: execs Tom Gordon and Joe Schmidt slam the board outside
Speaker 3: of Market Basket and now so.
Speaker 1: I'm going to allow the injunction.
Speaker 3: Allw Superior Court judge says the parent needs to stay away.
Speaker 3: The company says they visited more than twenty stores, harassing
Speaker 3: employees and kept at it despite being told several times
Speaker 3: to stay off the property.
Speaker 1: That statement to them was clear and unequivocal.
Speaker 3: Schmidd and Gordon are key allies of ousted CEO Arthur T.
Speaker 3: De Mulis. As a power struggle can continues to play out.
Speaker 3: Their lawyer argued employees let them in and wanted them there.
Speaker 3: The judge said he doesn't think they were trying to
Speaker 3: harm the business, but on its face, it's not a
Speaker 3: good look. Madison Rogers w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And a spokesperson for Arthur T. Demoula, saying the order
Speaker 2: is based on misconceptions, but they will respect it. Looks
Speaker 2: like this forecast is shaping up to be pretty solid
Speaker 2: here on this Friday. We're just getting our first glimpses
Speaker 2: of that sunshine on this Friday morning. We've got a nice,
Speaker 2: comfortable day ahead of us. We're looking at a projected
Speaker 2: hive around seventy five degrees in Boston. You gotta be
Speaker 2: a bit warmer as we head north and west of town,
Speaker 2: and then were mainly clear. Lows down around sixty three
Speaker 2: degrees for tonight for your Saturday tomorrow sun much of
Speaker 2: the day. Hies up around eighty degrees for tomorrow. So
Speaker 2: again we're pretty comfortable in the beautiful starts of the weekend.
Speaker 2: Then by Sunday we could have some showers and thunderstorms
Speaker 2: rolling in. We're gonna have highs up around ninety and
Speaker 2: it's not going to be one of those conditions where
Speaker 2: we're going to have heat on Sunday and it's going
Speaker 2: to be sticking around. We're actually cooling off as we
Speaker 2: begin next week. Right now, seventy one degrees with a
Speaker 2: pretty nice sun rise Here in Boston. It is six
Speaker 2: oh five, one of the world's richest men, giving local
Speaker 2: health research a boost after it gets battered by funding cuts.
Speaker 4: Virtually every week we hear about more federal grant freezes
Speaker 4: and cancelations and medical research around Boston. Now many local
Speaker 4: orgs are getting some of that money back courtesy of
Speaker 4: one Bill Gates.
Speaker 5: And I think this is the opposite of what's going
Speaker 5: on with the administration.
Speaker 4: Doctor ken Meyer is medical research director at Fenway Health.
Speaker 4: The Gates Foundation gave the Queer Friendly Health provider two
Speaker 4: hundred grand to do a series of papers and sexual
Speaker 4: and reproductive health.
Speaker 5: So the idea is to bring the best information together.
Speaker 5: So to help help advance the field.
Speaker 4: Gates anuns a two point five billion dollar initiative to
Speaker 4: help shore up women's health research, with millions of that
Speaker 4: going to places in Boston. The doctor says, even Bill
Speaker 4: Gates can't do everything, but every little bit helps.
Speaker 5: We've done a pretty good job of maintaining what we have.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: The concern is for the next three and a half
Speaker 5: years about what the future of this kind of research.
Speaker 4: Is Kyle straffeld WBZ Boston News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, nearly a dozen cities in towns in Massachusetts are
Speaker 2: now at high risk for West Nile's according to the
Speaker 2: state public health officials who are reporting the areas currently
Speaker 2: at high risk. City of Boston, You've got acton Bedford,
Speaker 2: Bill Ricca, Brookline, then Carlyle Chelms for Drake at Lowell
Speaker 2: and Newton. So far, there have been no human cases
Speaker 2: of West nile this year in Massachusetts. Well, does anybody
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