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News eighty four degrees in Boston at four o'clock that afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. We are learning some more about the Iranian missile attack on a US military base in Cutter. We get an update now from CBS News.
CBS News special report. Aron Supreme Leader posts on x we didn't harm anyone and we will not accept any harassment from anyone under any circumstances. It comes after i Ron launch dimssial attack on a US base and Cutter corresponded Charlie Daggada.
This is not only one of the biggest base, but it's also one of the best defended. So it might be symbolic that the Iranians is saying, look, we're going to hit you right where you live, right at your central command headquarters in the Middle East.
CBS is Olivia, gazis.
If this is as contained as it has been. If there it is the case that there are no US casualties, it is an important indication that Iran has done what it needs to do in order to save face, and that is reopening the door to a diplomatic solution.
For says CBS News military consultant Jeff mccauslin's, or it goes.
The other direction, and it goes vertical, in which case you could see an expanded level of violence, more attacks against the US bases in the region, perhaps directly or indirectly drawing in other countries.
CBS News special report I'm at Piper.
Massachusetts Governor Moore Healy says she was briefed by Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome about the heightened thread environment due to the ongoing conflict with Iran on social media. The governor says, while there are no specific threats to Massachusetts at this time, we are continuing to coordinate with state, local, and federal partners to closely monitor the situation. In case there was any doubt that summer was here, it is.
There's an extreme heat morning through eight o'clock tomorrow night, except for the Cape and islands. Although there's a heat advisory for the Cape starting at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, where temperatures will push ninety the sweltering conditions won't get much better, at least for a couple of days. Tomorrow it gets even hotter, and with the humidity sticking around, it's going to feel even how to We're looking at feels like temperatures into the one hundreds in several spots,
even down towards the coast. Tomorrow, I had is CBS News Boston meteorologist Alexei O'Connor. Most of us will be into the nineties, some of the temperature's heat index in excess of one hundred degrees today. Tomorrow, those heat indexes could push one hundred and ten degrees, and the record of ninety five tomorrow set in twenty thirteen, could fall. A mash shooting is halted at a church outside Detroit
yesterday morning. The gunman killed after security and a parishioner teamed up to take down Brian Anthony Browning CBS's Nikki Batiste with more past Point Community Church.
They have an active shooter situation in the parking lot.
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Police say the suspected gunman was wearing a tactical vest and was armed with a rifle and a handgun when he got out of his car. That's what a parishioner hit the alleged shooter with their truck to church members then shot and killed Browning, who managed to shoot one of them in the leg. We are grateful for the heroic actions of the church's staff members who undoubtedly save many lives.
Please say the suspect's mother was a church member. There extreme heat warning through eight o'clock tomorrow evening, with a heat advisory going up for the Cape starting at ten tomorrow morning. It has been cooler on the Cape today and certainly on the islands. Tomorrow we may hit ninety degrees much of the Cape and eighty for the islands.
Ninety eight is what we're looking for tomorrow in Boston, with a record of ninety five last reached in twenty thirteen, so if this is correct, then a record will fall tomorrow. Tonight'll be uncomfortable in the mid seventies most places, with the humidity around, and more humidity tomorrow night. Mainly clear skies and temperatures seventy five to eighty. By Wednesday, we start to settled down a little. We'll still be humid.
Temperatures will still make a run well into the eighties, but we will start to push the temperatures down ever so slightly, and then astray thaunderstorm comes through late in the day or in the evening on Wednesday, and then we cool down Thursday, noticeably cooler, less humid. Still, the chance of a shower storm. Temperature is only around seventy. It's eighty four right now in Boston, but I'll let that for you. That's because of the way the wind's
blowing off the water. We are well into the nineties in inland suburbs this afternoon. Ninety six degrees right now in Fitchburg, ninety three in Worcester. There's apparently a lot of demand to enter the building trades in Massachusetts. However, the unions here say there's not many places to get experience. Wbz'shile Shaffle with.
More a bill that would require apprentices on most public job sites as making its way across Beacon Hill.
We can take in all the apprentices in the world, but unless we've got job sites to put them onto, it's a problem.
Christy Lynch is the head of the Massachusetts afl CIO, which is strongly in favor of the bill. She says there's been a gigantic upswell of interests in the trades in the last decade or so. The problem is those trainees need practical experience and classroom training only goes so far. There's comparatively few job sites to go around. The bill would make contractors on projects worth more than a million dollars put those apprentices to work.
The demand to get into these training center is we can't. We can't even It's hard to articulate how big of a pool we're getting, how diverse that pool of applicants is.
That bill was hurting committee this month. Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's News radio.
If you haven't cut the cable cord, get ready to pay more for that cable. Massachusetts is set to box you in with more taxes.
That's right. I'm talking to all the people who did not cut the cord as if your cable bill wasn't expensive enough, you'll soon be paying a sales tax on those cable boxes inside of your home.
This is going to be more money out of our pockets. It's the reality of you want to watch TV. It's a shame.
How to put tacks a well.
Obviously, people around Quincy Center were not too happy to hear this. Last week, the state Revenue Director signed a directive that slaps a six point twenty five sales tax on all modern cable boxes, so if you want to keep them, you'll be forking over more lot to Uncle Sam.
To be honest, like, there's nothing I can do about it. I mean, it's just ridiculous.
And streaming is once an affordable way to cut down on costs, but to keep up with all your channels and live sports, even streaming services are flirting with cable prices and Quincy Jim mcka, WBZ Boston's News Radio, You are.
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