Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Rain,
Speaker 1: some of it heavy, scattered here and there all over Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Right now, it is seventy six degrees in Boston at
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock morning. I'm Kendlebule. Here's what's happening. The Massachusetts
Speaker 1: Senate set to vote today on a statewide cell phone
Speaker 1: ban in public schools, a formal session getting underway right
Speaker 1: now on Beacon Hill. The legislation would require K through
Speaker 1: twelve public school districts to have policies on the books
Speaker 1: before the twenty twenty six to twenty seven academic year
Speaker 1: banning the use of cell phones and personal electronic devices
Speaker 1: during school days. Students would be allowed to use the
Speaker 1: devices in certain cases, and each district's policy would need
Speaker 1: to allow at least one method for students to communicate
Speaker 1: with parents and guardians during the day. Many districts already
Speaker 1: have their own cell phone bans in place. The House
Speaker 1: has already passed their version of a statewide ban. The
Speaker 1: family of alleged Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffrayes speaking out
Speaker 1: after President Trump said Epstein stole Geuffrey from our a Lago.
Speaker 1: The family also urging the President not to pardon Epstein's
Speaker 1: associate Zeelen Maxwell, who hired Jeufrey to be a missuse
Speaker 1: for Epstein, which allegedly led to Epstein's sexually abusing her.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jonathan carl has the latest.
Speaker 2: Maxwell is currently serving a twenty year prison sentence and
Speaker 2: is pushing for clemency. President Trump hasn't ruled out granting
Speaker 2: Maxwell clemency or even a pardon, but Guphray's family said quote,
Speaker 2: she must remain in prison. Anything less would go down
Speaker 2: in history as being one of the highest travesties of justice.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey herself committed suicide earlier this year, President Trump blasting
Speaker 1: a senator in his own party for supporting a bill
Speaker 1: that would ban stock trading by members of Congress. ABC's
Speaker 1: as well as the President and Vice President. ABC's j
Speaker 1: O'Brien has more for.
Speaker 3: By Senator Josh Hawley that just yesterday cleared a key
Speaker 3: Senate committee, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,
Speaker 3: that would seek to ban members of Congress from trading
Speaker 3: individual stocks to try to crack down that even appearance
Speaker 3: of potential impropriety, and it would also ban the president
Speaker 3: and the vice president from doing the same, but in
Speaker 3: that case it would only apply to the next administration.
Speaker 1: President Trump wrote on social media yesterday that Holly was
Speaker 1: a second tier senator and accused him of being a
Speaker 1: pawn for voting with Democrats to advance the bill. No
Speaker 1: injuries amazingly from the collapse of part of a brick
Speaker 1: facade on the busy Roslindale Street last night. Happened on
Speaker 1: Poplar Street around eight pm, a pile of bricks toppling
Speaker 1: onto the sidewalk outside the Felix barbershop. No one was
Speaker 1: walking by at that moment. Inspectors who rushed to the
Speaker 1: scene not long after first responders say there's concern more
Speaker 1: chunks of that building could come down. Scattered raincloud, some
Speaker 1: of them heavy. I want to continue throughout the day
Speaker 1: and tonight just a bit cooler, the mercury dropping down
Speaker 1: into the upper sixties during the day, down to around
Speaker 1: sixty degrees overnight, and we could see some flash flooding
Speaker 1: overnight when some of that rain is expected to be
Speaker 1: the heaviest. And don't forget there could be a thunderstorm
Speaker 1: or two in there as well. It's going to continue
Speaker 1: through early tomorrow before the rain goes away, we still
Speaker 1: just have a whole lot of clouds. And then Saturday Sunday, well,
Speaker 1: we got a really nice weekend ahead of us. We're
Speaker 1: talking plenty of sunshine, temperatures and the mid seventies on Saturday,
Speaker 1: low eighties on Sunday. Right now in Boston, we're seeing
Speaker 1: rain scattered here and there, moderates Outside our Medford studios
Speaker 1: right now, the temperature is at seventy six degrees. Sports
Speaker 1: betting making headlines for all the long reasons, from a
Speaker 1: betting scandal with pitchers a Major League based ball to
Speaker 1: a Boston based online sports titan facing a six figure fine.
Speaker 1: People having second thoughts about this controversial vice. Wbz's Jim
Speaker 1: McKay is finding.
Speaker 4: Out this really is a topic that gets varied opinions.
Speaker 4: What I'm asking people if they support sports gambling on
Speaker 4: the common I think it's cool.
Speaker 1: I think you know, you should always be able to
Speaker 1: do whatever you want on.
Speaker 2: Your phone, just for me.
Speaker 5: I think it's also a little bit of a risk.
Speaker 4: Daniel used to bet online when it first got the okay,
Speaker 4: but he said he was quick to realize just how
Speaker 4: easy it is for a few bets to turn into
Speaker 4: a bigger problem.
Speaker 1: You don't see the money leaving your account.
Speaker 5: You don't really see the money changing hands.
Speaker 4: Boston based DraftKings was recently fined nearly a half million
Speaker 4: dollars for accepting credit card funds on bets. Now a
Speaker 4: second pitcher on the Cleveland Guardians being investigated by Major
Speaker 4: League Baseball over suspicion of betting on games. Daniel says
Speaker 4: he's done with sports betting.
Speaker 1: He learned his lesson. I may not know until the
Speaker 1: end of the month while I took this loss from betting, but.
Speaker 4: The tax revenue is now vitally important to states like Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: Jim mcka WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Tensis thousands of soccer fans coming to Massachusetts for the
Speaker 1: World Cup next summer. A new poll from acxio's Boston
Speaker 1: finds it most of its readers are on board with
Speaker 1: this plan. Fifty six percent like the idea the Bay
Speaker 1: state hosting the World Cup, forty three percent oppose it.
Speaker 1: Seven matches are already set to happen at Chelllette Stadium
Speaker 1: in Foxboro, and Boston's even hosting a party those in
Speaker 1: favor city. It's a great opportunity to show Boston is
Speaker 1: a world class city. Others are concerned about the potential
Speaker 1: troubles on the tee, the Republic trash collectors strike, and
Speaker 1: Greater Boston goes on and on. Here's wbz's Drew will Holland.
Speaker 5: The Teamsters Union Local twenty five job action is now
Speaker 5: in week five, and it is putting a strain on
Speaker 5: city workers who are picking up the slack. Those workers,
Speaker 5: also almost across the board, are getting rave reviews from
Speaker 5: residents and Beverly Commissioner of Public Works Mike Collins, Well,
Speaker 5: he's been busy and he seems to have the right
Speaker 5: demeanor for the job.
Speaker 3: There's always something going wrong, so why not a strike?
Speaker 3: You know, Like you said, a lot of raising from
Speaker 3: the people in the line. They're grateful for the health,
Speaker 3: they understand that everybody knows what's happening.
Speaker 5: And everybody appreciates the work Mike and his workers are doing.
Speaker 5: And this driver waiting to drop off some Beverly trash
Speaker 5: reminds me they've been That's true.
Speaker 3: Worse we just had to strike the teacher strike, so
Speaker 3: this is on top of that.
Speaker 1: But I think that was worse than this.
Speaker 5: All about perspective right in Beverly Drew maholland WBZ Boston's
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