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Eighty two degrees in Boston right now. It is four o'clock. It feels more like eighty seven when you walk outside. It's going to be a hot one. Look at the forecast coming up. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Take your cliche, but either way, the next few days are just going to be kind of uncomfortable.
From South Dakota down to Mississippi. From Mississippi to Massachusetts, we're dealing with widespread summer heat sizzling across the area, as well as allowing for more heat advisories as well.
Now as CBS News Boston meteorologist Jason Michael that heat advisory up for most of the state except for the Capan Islands and the Berkshires till eight o'clock on Wednesday night. Much more in the forecast coming up in a matter of minutes. A Boston federal judge has now blocked the Trump administration from cutting medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. ABC Stephen Portnoy says this funding move is part of the president's spending bill.
The massive tax policy bill included a provision that was written to prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal Medicaid
funds even when abortions aren't provided. In ordering the funds to keep flowing, Massachusetts based federal Judge Indira Telwani says the new law likely violates the Constitution in three ways, first by stepping on Planned Parenthood's First Amendment rights, second by violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment, and thirdly by amounting to an unconstitutional bill of attainder, the kind of law that singles out an entity for punishment.
Judge Tallwani says patients are likely to suffer adverse health effects when care is disrupted. Overseas, President Trump announcing a new trade deal with the European Union. The leaders of the EU mixed on their reaction. Here, CBS's Jason.
Brooks the trade deal with the EU lowers the tariff on European imports in the US from thirty to fifteen percent, and that would be a big help for automakers who've been dealing with a twenty seven and a half per cent tariff. With Volkswagon last week reporting that tariff's cost it one and a half billion dollars in the first
half of this year. The EU also agreed to buy seven hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of US energy, and as a result of that, shares are surging hire for liquefied natural gas companies, including Shaneer and Venture Global.
Now the market's on Wall Street disclosing for the day, the Dow Jones losing just about two tenths of a percent, the SMP five hundred, Nasdaq up a bit. We'll get more coming up in Bloomberg Business at four oh eight, But at four two, new data shows only three communities here in Massachusetts meet national staffing standards when it comes to their fire departments. The Globe reports the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts recently did a staffing survey after the deadly
fire at a Fall River assisted living home. They found only Boston, Brookline, and New Bedford met the standard set by the National Fire Protection Association. That standard requires four on duty members at a minimum for each engine. They say, on average, here in Massachusetts, each engine only has about two and a half firefighters, ladders only have about two. Union President Rich McKinnon's as a major contributor here is our big budget cuts to public safety On the local level,
like fire and ems response. We are certainly feeling the heat and humidity out there across the Commonwealth. If you're by the water, we have nice breeze coming off the water at about ten fifteen miles an hour, so it's not as oppressively hot as it could be and as it is on the inland side of things. But we have a heat advisory up until eight o'clock on Wednesday night except for the Capan Islands and the western part of the Berkshires. That's because we have this very sticky weather.
The humidity is rather high, back to oppressive levels. You do the math here, and tonight we're only getting down to about seventy five on the coast and mid to upper sixties for inland suburbs. We have clear skies, so that's a plus, but that makes it really tough sleeping weather. Hopefully the ac is still kicking and doing okay for tomorrow, sun and clouds, very hot and humid, could hit record
highs tomorrow. We have a high record of ninety seven in Boston that was set back in nineteen thirty three. We will be feeling like one hundred plus for most of the afternoon because of that humidity, so we'll keep an eye on that. And again that heat advisory means if you're sensitive to the heat, definitely take it easy tomorrow. Spend as much time inside as you can. For Tomorrow night warm and humid, with some patchy clouds alone near
seventy two in Boston, sixties if you're inland. Then Wednesday another hot one, and we've got some strong storms coming through later in the day and at night, and we have a high in the nineties. Real feels of about one hundred degrees. Ninety one in Sudbury right now, seventy eight in Rockport south of Boston, eighty seven in Bridgewater, and in Boston at four oh six it is partly cloudy eighty one degrees and it feels more like eighty six. Well,
life is certainly stressful at times. Some people west Boston are dancing it out.
It's eleven pm in Newton. The streets are quiet, but inside this unmarked storefront with curtained off windows, we're trumping. Maybe you even get involved. Crump. That's crash with a cave. The guy who invited me here and this is his brother, big rip to uplift on each other. Kingdom, radically, uplifting, mighty praise. That's what CRUMP stands for. As for what it looks like, hey I look crazy, lots of stomping,
punching the air, pumping your chest. You would think whatever, but we're healing, healing culturally but also personally.
And one day they'll come into sad or crying or something.
And I'm like, yo, it's up, and they're yobrogen need the dance. I'm like, turn out, who's going. I'm with you Because we don't always have the words to tell our story, but we always have body language. And yes, I tried it.
I didn't think it was going to be good.
That's year WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
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PayPal is called and Get Paid with Crypto and says the news service will allow consumers to use many types of cryptocurrencies to complete their purchases, as well as to use wallets like Coinbase. After shoppers pay and Crypto, the payments will automatically convert to Fiat or stable coin. The California based company says the news service will simplify cross border commerce, increased merchants profit margins, and reduce transaction fees
associated with international credit card processing. Matt Piper CBS.
News and new data out this week from u Hall shows a lot of people are leaving Massachusetts for other cities, but we're also a pretty hot place for people out of state to move to. When it comes to so called origin states, Massachusetts is in the top ten for many of the nation's largest cities, like New York and Philadelphia. As for people coming into Boston, u Hall says most are coming in from other parts of the Northeast, like
New York, Providence in Washington. Overall, u Hall says people are starting to head back to large metro areas after leaving during the height of the COVID pandemic. You are now in the Loup. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis. Wb Z and Boston's news radio,