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Cloudy and sixty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, and thanks for joining us. I'm Suzanne Soasville. Here's what's happening. Hamas responds to the latest US broker ceasefile cease fire proposal for the war in Gaza. A senior Hamas official says they'd like to see some amendments to it, especially on the US guarantees, the timing of the release of hostages, the delivery of aid and the withdrawal of Israeli forces. Hamas says ten living hostages and
the bodies of eighteen others would be released. Israeli officials have approved the US proposal for a temporary ceasefire in the nearly twenty month war. Meanwhile, there are warnings that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to grow. ABC Ian Penell reports from Tel.
Aviv, an American back humanitarian relief operation facing huge problems in delivering aids, although it claims to have handed out two million meals so far. Meanwhile, you have a planned visit to the Palestinian Rum West Bank by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries now being blocked by Israel. In short, no sign that the suffering is easing or that pieces at hand. Despite President Trump's optimism.
New Bedford residents are rattled by a video making its way around the internet. Wbz's Emma Friedman explains the.
Video shows a car driving down the road when it comes across dozens of rats milling about. Some are alive, some dead as the car keeps driving by. There's a few similar videos and reports from neighbors taken here an industrial area on Shawmut Avenue where residents say there's a rat infestation. New Bedford City officials are blaming the ratty problem on a major fire last week at El Harvey
Waste and Recycling Services. It operates the Shamat Avenue waste transfer station, and since the fire, the rats have been pouring into the surrounding streets. Mayor John Mitchell and several city departments have visited the area. New Bedford Health's department is directing the waste management service to put out dozens of bait stations and snap traps around the property, fumigate
the boroughs, and do some cleanup. El Harvey says they've already taken action, partnering with pest control firms, doing daily inspections and working with the city. It's also investing millions to upgrade the facility. I'ma Friedman w b z B, Austin's news radio.
Primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham overwhelmingly voted to unionize. The Globe reports that doctors voted one to eighty three to twenty six yesterday to join the Service Employees International Union. It's the latest sign of frustration for physicians at the state's largest healthcare system, who say they're overworked, underpaid, and demoralized.
Mass General Brigham has opposed the union campaign and last week challenged it to the National Labor Relations Board, saying many of the doctors are in eligible to join the union because of a technicality. After yesterday's vote, Mass General Brigham said it respects the rights of employees to organize and is quote committed to ensuring that any such process complies with applicable labor law. The forecast brought to you
by some pump geeks powered by Pioneer Basements. A couple of showers this evening, then clear and a bit cooler, with a low of fifty Tomorrow, the first day of June, and it'll be breezy with a mix of sun and clouds and a high of just sixty six on Monday, partly to mostly sunny high near seventy and done Tuesday. That's when things pick up a little bit and it starts to feel more like summer is coming, mostly sunny with a high of seventy five. Right now in Boston,
it's cloudy and sixty three degrees. A new program in Boston, led by the Boston Office of Nightlife Economy, is just weeks away from opening across the city wb ZE. Charlie Bergeron has more.
The Late Night Food Truck program will provide vendors with an opportunity to set up at sites designated for late night service. Seven sites have been selected. Those sites will be located near hospitals, universities, music venues, and nightlife, providing workers and residents and patrons nighttime food options. Food truck operators will participate in an online lottery, which will take
place this coming Friday, June sixth, at four o'clock. Interested vendors should sign up online by Wednesday to ensure they're entered into the lottery. The Office of Nightlife Economy will announce the list of locations and food truck operators after the lottery. The late night food truck season will run throughout the summer and end in the fall. Charlie Birdger on WBZ Boston's news radio.
At Harvard's commencement this week, U rong Xiang, a graduate from China who studied international development, says she arrived at the school thinking she would help end hunger and poverty, but now wonders if her worldview is under threat.
We're starting to believe those who think those who think differently, vote differently, well pray differently.
But are they.
Across the ocean We're sitting right next to us.
I'm not just rom.
When mistakenly see them as evil.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
Shang's speech never directly mentioned the Trump administration nor its multi pronged attack on Harvard, but she said the turmoil and its impact on her classmates was on her mind as she delivered her speech. Meantime, Harvard is returning historic photographs of slaves to a woman who says she's their relative. The photos will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted to black history.
TA Mari Lanier has fought for fifteen years to get the haunting images of Papa Rinsy and his daughter from Harvard, and settled this week in a deal that removed them from the school's ownership. I believe that he is feeling vindicated.
I feel that he is feeling validated.
The images, made with an early photographic method, were commissioned by a Harvard biologist whose theories were once used to support slavery in the US. He took nude pictures.
These inside people were forced to disrobe, They were poked, they were prodded.
Her ancestors were used to promote black inferiority, but.
In reality, Renty and Gillier were educated people.
Renti was actually an educator. He was self taught. Allison Key, CPS News.
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