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Sixty seven degrees in Boston. It is four o'clock on your Thursday afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. We are following some major traffic problems in Summerville and Everett. We're ninety nine shut down in both directions. Wbz's Gina Tempesta. She's here now live from the twenty four hour Traffic Network. What's going on, Gina?
Well, Nicole, we have a crash involving a track trash truck actually in a large fuel spill. This is on the Alfred Street Bridge, So ninety nine bolt north and southbound shutdown. Northbound is shutdown between Sullivan Square and the bridge. We have a large police activity there. We have detours in f fact, and that southbound right slow is going to be shut down as well. Ninety nine between Hancock Sweet Street and a Sweetser Circle.
That's Route sixteen.
Nicole, All right, Gina, back to you in just a few minutes in traffic and weather together. But again avoid that part of Sullivan's Square getting into Everett, right by the casino if you can meantime, at four A one, cell phones are one step closer to becoming banned during school time in Massachusetts classrooms. This after a bill was passed today by the Senate. Here's Stallbz's Jay will.
Lett distraction portals in the pockets of everyone spelled trouble for public school students. That's the message from proponents of a bill state senators took up on Beacon Hill. If passed, it would ban cell phones statewide in public schools. Of course, the House still needs to sign off on it too. Governor Morri Heli and ag Andrea Campbell have back this bill. Boston has gone ahead and used similar tactics already, with pouches kids used to lock up their phones. Mayor Michelle Wu says to.
Make sure that students don't have the distraction and can not only focus on what's being taught in the classroom, but have real in person interaction with their classmates.
The bill, however, if pass does, leave it up to the local districts to decide how they want to enforce it.
Maybe they can set.
Times that they can use them instead of just use them all day.
On Beacon Hill, Jay will Let be BZ Boston's News Radio.
Quincy police say an eighteen year old has now been accused of vandalizing more than sixty vehicles over the weekend. Dozens of these vehicles were found damaged in North Quinsy back on Saturday. Neighbors say the suspect had been seen walking down the street and scratching them up with a rock, as happened along Commander Shay Boulevard, Quincy Shore Drive, Newberry Street, Hancock Street, and Oakridge Road. Police say the teen was arrested yesterday and is now facing sixty three counts of
defacing or damaging property. His identity has not been released. President Trump saying he is granting Mexico a ninety day extension on their current twenty five percent tariffs. He made the announcement after a call from the Mexican President, Claudia Schinbaum.
Tomorrow marks is deadline for countries to avoid a major hiking tariffs if they don't have a trade deal in place, But the AP Sauger mcganey reports, when it comes to our neighbors to the north, the President is threatening to slap some teriffs on them.
Over foreign policy, President Trump says reaching a trade deal with Canada will be very hard. After an announcement Canada's leader yesterday on CTV.
Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's statement led to the president's threat. It earlier suggested a thirty five percent tariff on Canada if there is no trade deal by tomorrow. It's a shift from the President's stands after other nations announce they'll formally recognize Palestinian statehood. From the UK, we have no view on that. To France Roy, the President's threat to Canada is another example of him using a trade war to try to coerce nations on unrelated issues. Sager Magani, Washington.
It is certainly very wet out there right now if you're north and west of Boston. Not quite in the city proper, but we have a lot of heavy rain coming through and that rain is going to keep making its way to the south and east through the rest of the afternoon into the evening. Temperatures are dropping as well.
We've got temperatures in southeastern mass where it's not raining in the seventies, but if you are where it is raining and in some cases pouring right now, you're seeing temperatures in the low to mid sixties for tonight, all of us getting down to sixty with that heavy rain
at times. Then tomorrow the rain moves out by the i'd say lunchtime hour, and then it's just going to be a really nice kind of early fall, feeling like day with a high in the mid sixties for tomorrow night down to fifty or fifty five or so if you're inland. Sixty in Boston under clear skies Saturday and Sunday. The weekend looking good, low humidity, nice and dry. We've got a high seventy five on Saturday and eighty or
so on Sunday. Heavy rain right now through Sudbury at sixty five degrees, a bit of a stormy situation in Danvers where it's sixty two. South of Boston right now cloudy and Pembroke and seventy one, and in Boston at four oh six it's overcast and sixty six now. Sunscreen is important to make sure your kids don't get a sunburn, but you might not have known that in some cases here in Massachusetts it's actually illegal for them to use it.
It's been more flinch Crusade for seven years closing a legal loophole you might not have ever heard of.
The more I speak with people, the more I find out this surprise.
Everybody has the same reaction.
Are you kidding me?
That's on hearing that it's illegal to let kids in schools and camps put sunscreen on themselves without a doctor's note.
Flynn is the president of the Melanoma Action Coalition. Technically speaking, sunscreen isn't over the counter drug, so nurses aren't allowed to give it out or even let people use it without written permission.
What it does is it allows students to have access to sunscreen without a prescription or a very formal.
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A House speaker pro tem Kate Hogan would create a sunscreen carve out. Advocates have tried this before on the hill, but it often dies on the vine.
The problem with skin cancer it doesn't happen right away, and so people don't realize what damage they've done.
Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's news radio.
Whether experts say we're seeing hotter summers these days, in those oppressive conditions, they're doing damage to our health.
The study in the journal Scientific Advances tracked them urgency room visits in California over eleven years and found those visits steadily increased as temperatures did. High heat has been linked to cardiovascular deaths and respiratory and kidney failure. Doctor Larry Kenny runs Penn State University's heat lab. When our body temperature goes up and we can't get rid of that heat, it puts a strain on the cardiovascular system. Our heart, kidneys and other organs have to work harder,
raising the risk of them breaking down. Michael Wallace, CBS News.
We're also learning more about what led to the death of Hall of Fame wrestler Hulk Hogan. New documents from the local medical examiner in Florida show Hogan, whose real name was Terry Blea, died of a heart attack. He reportedly had a history of atrial fibrillation and also suffered from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which had not been revealed to the public before now. The WWE icon's death was overall ruled to be of natural causes. The document show after
he passed, he was cremated. You are now in Mali. For news updates throughout the days, to wb News Radio on the iHeartRadio app, I'm Nicole Davis w b RE, Boston's news radio