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Eighty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. If you can't stand the heat, get out of New England.
As far as our daytime high temperatures, my forecast still places us around ninety three degrees for the city, metro west points north around ninety one to ninety two degrees. It is not less necessarily going to feel like the upper nineties, at least for today, but that jet stream will remain along the northern border, and the heat is going to be building across the eastern half.
Of the country. CBS News Boston's Jason Michael a potential of a heat wave three plus days of ninety plus degree heat. Boston Mayor Michelle Woo's issued a heat emergency for the city through Wednesday. There is an air quality alert up until eleven o'clock this evening, and we are soaring, especially off to the north. Manchester, New Hampshire's at ninety five degrees right now. Even up in Bangor, Maine it is ninety four, which is a little bit hotter than
around these parts. We're at ninety two degrees in Fitchburg, eighty six in Worcester, eighty nine in Boston. We were above ninety briefly today in Boston before temperature settled back a couple degrees. We'll check things out with trafficking weather
together in just a couple of minutes. Taking aim at Washington, DC's crime problems, President Trump today highlighting certain street crimes, placing the DC Police under the control of Attorney General Pambondi and for starters, sending in eight hundred National Guard forces under.
The authorities vested in me. As the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking section seven forty of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.
Over the weekend, federal agents from various departments, including the FBI, began to patrol the streets of Washington, d C, despite some high profile incidents. For their part, district officials argue that crime is down from a high spike in twenty twenty three and the president's move is unnecessary. D c's Mayor Muriel Bowser called the President and his actions unsettling
and unprecedented, but not surprising. A federal judge of New York rules transcripts of secret grand jury testimony in the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend won't be released. The judge is should have written ruling saying releasing the transcripts would risk unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which the grand jury is premised. Killing Maxwell is serving a twenty year prison term after her conviction on sex trafficking
charges for helping to procure girls for Epstein. It's fiery hot in California, however, the fiery parts getting a little bit better.
Even though it remains hot and extremely dry here, with temperatures around and above one hundred degrees. In many areas, firefighters have made substantial progress on wildfires that worth running homes and lives. Last week, the Canyon Fire north of la is now at ninety one percent containment. The Gifford Fire, burning in a remote area of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, is huge at around one hundred twenty thousand acres, but containment has risen to thirty three percent.
Fire activity on the wildfires is way down at like STONEYBCINEWS, Los Angele.
Has promised to shut down on the MBTA's Blue Line now through Sunday. Riders on parts of that line are being told they'll have to get a ride on a shuttle bus as the TEA works to replace tracks in upgrade stations, No trains from airport to Wonderland, shuttle buses replacing train service, and the tees warning riders to add about twenty to thirty minutes to their usual commute. Not a great day to be waiting in traffic as it
is warming up quite a bit outside. We're almost back to ninety in Boston where we got earlier, or at eighty nine right now, but many spots are into the low nineties. And as you head up into parts of New Hampshire Manchester, for example, ninety five degrees right now. We're at ninety four in Conquered New Hampshire, ninety four
in Bangor, Maine. So there's plenty of warmthed in place, just a little bit a little bit cooler in these parts at least today, but the humidity is going to be on the increase and the temperatures a little bit as well. So as we head through the evening with an air quality alert until eleven clock to I will have temperatures in the low seventies in Boston, mainly clear skies, mid sixties in the outer suburbs. Here comes tomorrow in
more humidity, so it'll feel warmer. More oppressive load of mid nineties for the high temperatures tomorrow with the mid eighties over the Capean Islands mainly clear, humid Tomorrow night in near seventy and then hot and humid on Wednesday, a little more humid in fact, almost oppressive clouds and
some sunshine. Temperatures load to mid nineties only in the mid maybe upper eighties on Thursday Essay only because it's cooler, but it's still going to be humid, so it's still going to feel sticky, and there's going to be some thunderstorms we may have to dodge as the day goes on. Right now, eighty nine degrees see in Boston. Look up on the walls. It's six huge new murals in downtown Lynn. The besist Carl Stevens tells us it's part of an ongoing beyond Walls initiative.
These half dozen new murals here in downtown Lyn have just been completed over the past couple of weeks by artists from all over the world. Could I ask your name?
Yeah, my name is a speaker speaker.
Where are you from?
I'm from Italy.
Milan speaker from Italy created one of a couple murals next to each other that show a teenage girl going beyond the mindset of isolation and interacting with others.
It's important because it helps people communicate and talk who Every time people come here, they tried to reflect on what's on the wall, and then hopefully they keep the reflection on when they get into their homes, maybe talking with the families or sparks.
Communication from Lynn Carl Stevens WBC Boston's news radio.
Saying goodbye to a blues player best known for his work with guitarist Derek Clapton, Bobby Whitlock has died.
Britlock was a founding member of Derek and the Domino's. He and Clapton co wrote several songs on the band's lone studio album Layla and other assorted love songs. Clapton retorted the album because he was in love with his best friend's wife. Former beatle George Harrison that Best Friend by Wlock also contributed some keyboard on Harrison's All Things Must Pass album. Whitlock's manager said he died of cancer early Sunday morning, surrounded by his family in Texas. Bobby
Whitlock was seventy seven years old. Michael Toscano CBS News.
Hey, where's everybody going well? When it comes to mothers of young children, they are going home, leaving the workforce in droves.
The number of twenty five to forty four year old moms in the workforce has fallen to the lowest level in more than three years, according to federal data analyzed by the University of Kansas. The drop has wiped out many of the gains made by working mothers after the pandemic, when schedules were more flexible while many were able to work from home. But how many companies and government agencies
are requiring employees to come back to the office. That, combined with sweeping federal layoffs, is being blamed for the big drop. Now Stacy Lynn, CBS News.
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