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Eighty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Welcome back summer. The heat and humidity are back. We're a limited engagement around these parts. Maybe some storms tomorrow. The coolest down.
Heat and storms for tomorrow afternoon, and they will be likely feels like temperatures in the upper nineties as well as the low one hundreds. Win damage and also hail will to be two major threats for us this Friday evening.
That is CBS News Boston meteorologist Jason michael as for today, a heat advisory in effect. In fact, it's in effect till eight o'clock tomorrow night except for the South Coast Capean Islands. We've gotten into the low nineties today, will be in the mid to upper nineties tomorrow, and we'll fill in with trafficking weather together in just a couple of minutes. It was former President Joe Biden's right hand
man for years. Today he testified before a House committee investigating former present in Biden's health.
He served as White House Chief of Staff for the first half of Joe Biden's term, and rather than pleading the fifth as Biden's doctor and other top aids have, ron Klain is providing answers to the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer.
I certainly appreciate the ones that are coming in and answering questions.
So far ron Klag has done that.
Comer's committee is probing whether the Biden White House used an auto pen to affix the president's signature without his knowledge. Biden insists he consciously made every decision while in office. Stephen Portnoy, ABC News Washington.
It doesn't happen often, but the President is expected to visit Federal Reserve this hour.
The rare presidential trip to the traditionally independent Fed comes as administration officials were to inspect the Central Bank's expensive building renovations. They and the President have used cost overruns to rip Howell's decision making.
When you spend two and a half billion dollars on really a renovation, I think it's pretty distressedful.
Past the last week. If the price tag could be rounds for firing Powell, I think it could have is. But dismissing the chairman could be illegal. The president has said he has no plans to do it, but has urged Powell to step down. The FED chair has insisted he will serve until his term ends next May. Saga Magani at the White House.
A wrestling legend, has died. He made his mark over some three decades in the ring. CBS's Jen Clark has more.
The WWE has confirmed that Hulk Hogan has died at the age of seventy one. Hogan, whose real name was Terry Belia, was born in Georgia and raised in Florida. He was discovered by the Briscoe Brothers wrestling team in nineteen seventy six while playing in a show with his band. Hogan stood at a menacing six feet seven inches tall and went on to win six WWE championships throughout his thirty year wrestling career. In a statement, the WWE said
Hogan is one of pop culture's most recognizable figures. He's credited but taking WWE to a global stage in the nineteen eighties. Jen and Clark CBS.
News, We've got the heat in place and a heat advisory in place until eight o'clock tomorrow night, except for the South Coast Capean Islands that's where it will be the least uncomfortable. Speaking of uncomfortable, probably a little bit so for sleeping tonight seventy two with the humid conditions
tonight under mainly clear skies. Tomorrow it's going to be hotter than today and more humid too, as we continue to funnel in that those do points ninety three to ninety seven for the high might squeeze an extra degree or two out as you head into the inland suburbs, and certainly will be feeling like it's more than one hundred degrees tomorrow afternoon with those real fields eighties over the Cape and islands tomorrow, and then some thunderstorms will
rumble on through as we head into tomorrow evening. Eventually by Saturday we're less humid, cooler eighty to eighty five with partly sunny skies, temperatures only around eighty on Sunday am, blind of clouds and sun, and a little bit more humidity and maybe a thunderstorm. Right now, we're at eighty nine degrees in Boston. Maybe you've got to do a double take when you go to the town of Stow today, Well, what used to be the town of Stowe for.
The past three years.
Haley's life in Stow has.
Been absolutely miserable.
Worst experience in my life.
That's because they lost both of their Duncan locations in a matter of weeks. My reporting on that original story went viral.
Because I've been traveling further away to go to Duncan Donuts.
Yeah, you already have to travel now a mile.
And a half.
Well, today is a new day. The sun shined on great road as these words rang through the BA.
Were officially ending our Duncan desert at State Rep.
Kate Hogan speaking to a crowd of hundreds in front of the newest Duncan location, which is not exactly in Stow.
Welcome everyone to the town of Duncan, Massachusetts.
Yeah, they changed the name of the town to Duncan for one day, which Haley says is not enough.
I wish you would stay like this forever.
And what time did you get here today?
One thirty in the morning.
She was in line for eight and a half hours for the record in Duncan, Massachusetts. Matt Sheer, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Hid a blueberry season is a US and that is a particularly sweet time this year. Wbz's hile.
Shaffle explains, I talk for a living, so it's not often.
I'm lost for words.
Oh my god, Well, that's the biggest blueberry I've ever seen.
That is the biggest. Come on.
Jane and Paul Newton run Jane and Paul's farm in Norfolk. They're showing me. Blueberries is wide around us golf balls. They've been in the business forty years and haven't seen a season like this ever. The bushers are so heavy with berries that the branches would touch the ground if they weren't held up. This style of no frills blueberry farm is common in southeastern mess.
I enjoy it being simple, subbing retired. You want it simpled out here.
In many other places they just give you a bucket and let you have at it. No hay rides or bouncy houses.
To speak up.
Paul dispelled some blueberry miss while we were there.
A lot of people think the green ones are going to turn blue at home like a tomato. Yes, and they're picking blue and green and you have to say no, you gotta just pick the blue ones.
Kyle Shaffle w BUS Boston's news radio.
Tack your towel, maybe some lunch and some patients. If you're heading to Revere Beach, the Revere Beach International Sculpting Festival is back this weekend. Starting today, some street closures. There'll be more parking bands and street closures tomorrow. The three day festival brings about hundreds of thousands of people to the beach to watch more than a dozen sand sculptors compete for prizes. They'll also be fireworks Saturday night
at nine. You know that whole saying about a journey starting with the first step, Well, it turns out maybe fewer steps will hit the magic number for better health.
Ten thousand steps a day has been seen as a goal to hit for better health. Some do more. I'm currently on twelve thousand today.
I aim for twelve and a half thousand a day.
But in the Lancet doctor Barbara Jeffris found benefits at seven thousand daily steps.
People who did two thousand steps a day, which is a really low number, compared to seven thousand steps a day, the mortality risk was nearly.
Halved, and those who were more active at seven thousand.
Steps finding at that level a reduced risk for dementia, heart disease, depression, type two diabetes, and cancer. Steve Kaithan, CBS News.
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