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News sixty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock at afternoon, I'm Suzanne Salsville. Here's what's happening. The manhunt continues for a fifty seven year old Vance Belter. The gunman. Excuse me? The gunman suspected of killing Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband and shooting State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas described the shooting of Hortman as a politically motivated assassination. CBS's John Luriston has more on the suspect.
He was wearing a light colored cowboy hat, dark long sleeved shirt, light pants, and he was carrying a dark bag. Investigators say he changed his appearance after wearing a mask and posing as a police officer during the alleged shootings at the Hoffman and Hortman Holmes. Later Saturday, police searched the Fremont Avenue house that Belter rented part time and had a roommate. His other known address was a rural home in Sibley County, southeast to the town of green Isle.
Officials say they also found a hit list of names in Belter's car, mostly Democrats or people with ties to abortion rights. Politicians around the country are condemning the shootings here. In Massachusetts, Governor Morri Healy says, quote, this is not normal. It's not who we are as Americans, and we must
all condemn political violence in the strongest possible terms. State Senate President Karen Spilka also expressing outrage, saying this is political violence, pure and simple, and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms by every leader in this country. The state's Democratic Party Chair Steve Kerrigan called the shootings horrific, while Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano says he's quote appalled
and heartbroken. May be on a win streak, but the workers inside Fenway are growing restless.
It's not really the kind of strike you're used to seeing at Fenway. A strike has been authorized at Fenway Park. The concessions workers inside the ballparker Echine closer to a strike, broadly voting in favor of a strike authorization. If the members of Unite Here Local twenty six go through with it, it will be the first hospitality strike in Fenway's history. They've been without a contract since the start of the year.
The workers are concerned that increasing automation at the park is going to strip them of their jobs.
When a computer takes away our jobs, it takes away income that goes back into the community.
I'm a Boston resident, I lived here, my whole life started at Fenway in high school, and I want to keep this job. Natalie Greening has worked at Fenway as a beer seller for twenty years. Other workers, like warehouse worker Ramon Soarez, says the working environment has gone downhill. At first, we've seen that it was like a family thing. Now it seems like they're trying to conquer and divine us. Kyle Shaffel w BUS Boston's News Radio.
We're continuing to watch Logan Airport as delays in Right now, flight Aware is reporting one hundred and eighty six delays for flights coming in and out of Logan. Luckily just three cancelations. More than fifty of those flights are from Jet Blue. The forecast partly cloudy tonight, low fifty five, mostly cloudy tomorrow with highs in the mid to upper sixties, some sun on Tuesday, with a high year seventy and done. Wednesday, warmer and more humid, with a thundershower early than some
sun in the afternoon. We'll have a high of seventy six. Right now in Boston, it's partly sunny and sixty three degrees. Well, it's Father's Day and many dads are celebrating by heading out to the golf course. Wbz's Kyle Bray caught up with some of them.
Every Day's fathers this so I'd like the golf every day.
I ran into Charlie as he was giving his grandson Dean some pointers about his golf swing. He's here with his two daughters and grandkids to hit the links as a celebration of fatherhood. But while it is a day for dads, for Charlie, it's as much about his grandkids too, also the future golf. It's a stage, I said, and we're head together on us. Father's data have fun, get some lessons from Crampa.
Uh maybe not, Grandpa gets a lessons from them.
Oftentimes, golfers refreshing in life, and the way you play golfer is the way you handle life, so we always have fun. Meantime, Byron was walking by the golf course with his step son. He says Father's Day is very meaningful to him. As a stepdad would give me an opportunity to guide named all Jay in the right direction, make sure he lived a positive life, stay out of trouble. From Franklin Park Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
When it comes to celebrating our parents on their big days, it seems dad's get the short end of the stick. CBS's Stacy Linn explains.
We spend way less for Dad on Father's Day than we spend on our moms on Mother's Day. According to the National Retail Federation, Americans will shell out about twenty four billion dollars for pops today. While that is a lot of dad dough, we spent over thirty four billion dollars last month on our mama's. Data from Retailing Not also shows the spending gap, which is only getting bigger.
According to its retail surveys, we are each dropping about two hundred and thirty two bucks on this Father's Day, much less than last year and also lesson each of us spent on mom. Stacy Lenz, CBS News.
Boston police are investigating an act of vandalism against the George Washington statue in the city's public garden. Police were called to the statue yesterday morning after someone noticed it had red spray paint lettering with splashes of white paint all over the granite base and on the steps around it. Police collected the lid of a red spray paint can as evidence. No word on any arrests. President Trump is scheduled to head to Canada tonight to attend the G
seventh Summit. CBS's Linda Kenyon has.
That leaders of the G seven industrialized nations are hoping for a quiet summit this year. It comes amid conflicts sparked by President Trump's talk of making Canada the fifty first state, along with his ongoing trade wars with the US trading partners. The US has trade deficits with all G seven nations except the UK. President Royal previous summits. In twenty eighteen, he gone Canada's then Prime Minister Trudeau
dishonest and weak. In twenty seventeen, Trump clashed with Italy over climate change language in the summit's final Communicylyndy Kenyon CBS News The White House.
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