Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Mostly clear in Boston. Right now, it is seventy six
Speaker 2: degrees at eleven o'clock and you have made it to Friday.
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: Watching breaking news into the WBZ news room. The Suffolk
Speaker 2: County sheriff has now been indicted on federal charges. Let's
Speaker 2: get the very latest from wbz's Ben Parker Sureff.
Speaker 1: Stephen Tompkins is charged with extortion involving the purchase of
Speaker 1: an equity interest in a Boston based cannabis company. A
Speaker 1: sixty seven year old sheriff was indicted by a federal
Speaker 1: grand jury on two counts of extortion under color of
Speaker 1: official right. He was taken into custody this morning in
Speaker 1: the Southern District of Florida and eventually we'll appear in
Speaker 1: federal court in Boston at a later date. Tompkins is
Speaker 1: alleged to have extorted fifty thousand dollars from the owner
Speaker 1: of a national cannabis retailer seeking to do business in Boston.
Speaker 1: US Attorney Leah Foley says elected officials, particularly those in
Speaker 1: law enforcement are expected to be ethical, honest, Laura Biding
Speaker 1: not self serving. His alleged actions, she says, are an
Speaker 1: affront to the voters and taxpayers who elected him to
Speaker 1: his position, and to many dedicated and honest public servants
Speaker 1: at the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department. Ben Parker WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: News Radio Other.
Speaker 2: News at eleven oh one. Some cancer patients in England
Speaker 2: are reporting miraculous results from a trial using mRNA technology.
Speaker 2: But it's the same technology that the FEDS recently stopped
Speaker 2: funding for. Here CBS's Vicki Barker.
Speaker 3: This patient has been pronounced cancer free two years after
Speaker 3: he was told his case was hopeless.
Speaker 4: They gave me a future, they gave me hope, and
Speaker 4: I am living my best life now.
Speaker 3: The trials now being expanded across the National Health Service
Speaker 3: in England, using mRNA technology to retrain each patient's immune system,
Speaker 3: focusing for now on patients whose head and neck cancers
Speaker 3: have spread, but it's hoped many other cancers will eventually
Speaker 3: be treated, even cured this way. Vicki Barker, CBS News, London.
Speaker 2: Braintree little league players are on their way to the
Speaker 2: Little League World Series. What a night last night. Here's
Speaker 2: wbz's Jim McKay.
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Speaker 6: Call last night on ESPN from Bristol, Connecticut, a dramatic
Speaker 6: play at the plate as Braintree steals home on a
Speaker 6: pass ball and extra innings to beat Bedford New Hampshire
Speaker 6: three to two and eight innings. Braintree takes home the
Speaker 6: New England regional title for the first time ever. And
Speaker 6: we'll represent New England at the Little League World Series
Speaker 6: in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Their first game is this upcoming Thursday
Speaker 6: at three o'clock, taking on the Southeast Region. All games
Speaker 6: will be broadcast on ESPN. Jim McKay WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Now, there's a preseason football game in Foxborough tonight, but
Speaker 2: a lot of attention is focused not so much on
Speaker 2: the game, but more on a giant veiled statue hidden
Speaker 2: underneath a deep blue sheet over to let sits the
Speaker 2: new bronze Tom Brady Statue. This is about to be
Speaker 2: unveiled before the game tonight against the Washington Commanders. Both
Speaker 2: Number twelve and Robert Craft are going to be there
Speaker 2: for the ceremony, and reports do say that Brady hasn't
Speaker 2: seen this yet, so it's going to be surprised for
Speaker 2: all of us. If you can't make it to that game,
Speaker 2: you can also watch the ceremony on the Patriots website.
Speaker 2: It is eleven oh four. Looking over at the forecast
Speaker 2: for the next few days, it is going to be
Speaker 2: phenomenal outside. We have nothing but sun. All that wildfire
Speaker 2: smoke is out of our neck of the woods now
Speaker 2: we have moved on from that for the time being,
Speaker 2: and really looking ahead for the rest of the day,
Speaker 2: it's going to be very quiet, mostly sunny. We have
Speaker 2: a high in the mid to upper seventies if you're
Speaker 2: right on the coast, eighty five inland, and then tonight
Speaker 2: clear skies with a lone near sixty in Boston. Fifties
Speaker 2: if you're in the suburbs. Then for the weekend, of course,
Speaker 2: we have to know what it's like at the beach
Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. Plenty of sun for tomorrow,
Speaker 2: high near seventy five on the coast, mid eighties inland,
Speaker 2: mostly sunny. On Sunday a little bit more with a
Speaker 2: high in the mid to upper eighties and looking closer
Speaker 2: to eighty right on the Capan Islands. Then as we
Speaker 2: move into Monday, it's going to be very sunny, but
Speaker 2: the humidity is going to start creeping back up, and
Speaker 2: we have highs again in the low to mid nineties.
Speaker 2: So a hot stretch is coming our way in a
Speaker 2: matter of days. Seventy six degrees in Easton, where it's
Speaker 2: seventy five in Hudson, seventy eight in Boxford, and in
Speaker 2: Boston at eleven oh five it is clear outside, gorgeous
Speaker 2: blue skies and seventy six degrees.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: The state's sales tax holidays this weekend, but not everybody's
Speaker 2: too excited about it. Here's wbz's James Rohas.
Speaker 5: There's a long list of things that will be exempt
Speaker 5: from the six point twenty five percent sales tax, things
Speaker 5: like shoes, school supplies, furniture, sporting goods, and electronics. But
Speaker 5: not everyone is enticed by the guarantee of saving money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no it doesn't, because you know, I already have
Speaker 2: all those things already, so it's nothing for me.
Speaker 5: Then there are some who are just sour over the
Speaker 5: idea of the whole thing.
Speaker 3: If they should basically knock it off. You know, with
Speaker 3: the taxes, we get tax way too much.
Speaker 4: It's here, but I'm not gonna go crazy for it
Speaker 4: because i can just drive right over the border.
Speaker 5: Yeah sor right. So clearly not for everybody, but saving
Speaker 5: any amount of money this weekend could be a big
Speaker 5: deal for those in need of a big deal in Metford.
Speaker 5: James Rojas, WBZ, Boston, SNOOS Radio.
Speaker 2: Israel's Security Cabinet has now approved plans to take over
Speaker 2: Gaza City. The decision stops short here of seizing control
Speaker 2: of the entire territory. That is what Israeli Prime Minister
Speaker 2: Benjamin Netanya, who is pushing for here. CBS's Tina Krause.
Speaker 7: Families of hostages still held by Hamas, protested outside Netanyahu's
Speaker 7: office in Chains, saying Israel's expanding military offensive puts their
Speaker 7: loved ones in even more danger. The UN warns a
Speaker 7: complete military takeover would risk catastrophic consequences for hostages and
Speaker 7: Palestinian civilians. The Security Cabinet also adopted five princes for
Speaker 7: ending the war, including disarming Hamas, returning all hostages living
Speaker 7: and dead, demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, Israel maintaining security control
Speaker 7: and the establishment of a civilian government that's not controlled
Speaker 7: by either Hamas or the Palestinian authority.
Speaker 2: Hamas has condemned the plan, calling in a quote, full
Speaker 2: fledged war crime that they say will come at a
Speaker 2: high cost. And a new feature on Instagram is causing
Speaker 2: some concern and confusion among users.
Speaker 4: Instagram friend map let's users share their live location with
Speaker 4: a select group of friends, rolled out this week, but
Speaker 4: it did have some users worrying about privacy and security.
Speaker 4: The head of Instagram is clarifying that you do have
Speaker 4: to opt into this feature. It will not automatically share
Speaker 4: your location. Your location will only be shared if you
Speaker 4: choose to share it, and that if you do, it
Speaker 4: will only be shared with the group that you choose.
Speaker 2: Nonos. ABC's Rebecca Jarvis with that update. You are now
Speaker 2: in Maloup. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to
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