This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news. Eighty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening bad. They say some like it hot and then some like in humid. Well, welcome to New England in the summerh the heat's on, and so here's the humidity. We've been porching ninety degrees. And yeah, with the humidity it feels even worse. Maybe some bonus wetness too.
One thing we'll watch for into the afternoon is with the heat and humidity, we could bubble up and see a sprinkle here or there. But I think all things considered, it's a mainly dry day for most of us.
That is CBS News Boston mediapologist Jacob wye Coop. There are a couple of showers out in the western part of the state. One is bubbled up around I ninety one out toward Sunderland, another one north of Bathol out along the Row Order. So we'll watch these as well. That heat advisory in effect until seven o'clock tomorrow night. At least it's got the stickies written all over it. We're hearing today from fire officials after a deadly fire and Fall River Sunday night. It killed nine people at
an assisted living home. Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon praised firefighters for saving as many lives as they could and also addressed concerns raised by the union and lives were lost because of inadequate staffing at the fire department.
I don't know if lies could have been saved or who to change the incident at all. I'm focusing my firefighters on the fifty plus lives that were saved at that incident based on their heroic efforts, and that's what I need to focus on for my mental health and their mental health to get through this.
There's been no cause released in the fire at the Gabriel House, but authorities did say the cause does not appear to be suspicious at this time. Pink slips are coming for some workers at the US Department of Education now that the Supreme Court set aside lower court orders preventing layoffs. Hundreds of being shown the door. What might that mean for students and for schools.
The Education Department doesn't direct curricula. States and school districts do that, but it does distribute an enormous amount of federal money, and it enforces civil rights laws. The Trump administration appears interested in spinning off various parts of the department to other agencies. Student loans, for instance, could be given over to Treasury. Aid for students with disabilities could
become the responsibility of HHS. Many school administrators across the country are nervous about the ramifications, but White House allies argue the Education Department's bureaucracy is too bloated and it needs to be wound down.
That is ABC's Stephen Portnoy. The United Nations says hundreds of Palestinians have been killed near aid sites run by a US and Israeli backed organization in Gaza.
The need to be investigations in each and every killing.
Tamine El Katana, the UN Human Rights Office, says the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has bypassed traditional aid systems while the violence only grows.
As of the thirteenth of July, we have recorded eight hundred and seventy five people killed in Gaza while trying to get food. Six hundred and seventy four of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites.
In the meantime, the UN says one in ten children in Gaza are malnourished.
That is cbsys Kemmy McCormick. Health officials at the UN estimate that more than fourteen million children did not receive a single vaccine last year. The World Health Organization and UNICEF says about eighty nine percent of children under the age of one got a first dose of the diphtheriate tetnis and whooping cough in twenty twenty four, the same as a year earlier, and about eighty five percent completed a three dose series, up one tick from twenty twenty three.
The heat advised me up until seven o'clock tomorrow, even Thursday evening, I should say, and we have just gotten word of an air quality alert in effect starting at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. It is kind of uncomfortable, sticky, unhealthy for sensitive groups of people as well. Now they're saying starting tomorrow morning, with that ground O zone level, we've got the heat
and humidity in place. It's just an uncomfortable feel and some of the real field temperatures in the mid and upper nineties. As we head through each day of the week. This week, Tonight, it's not going to be overly comfortable, but it will be cooler seventy one if you like that, sunshine and a few clouds. Tomorrow is still humid, near ninety Thursday close to ninety. We may not make it, but will certainly feel like we're in the nineties most
places with the humidity around. A couple of thunderstorms possible Thursday in the afternoon, same deal on Friday. Right now, it's eighty five degrees in Boston. Cars a ban from parking on the streets of Newton at night for half the year, and a couple of native Newtonians are trying to reverse that. W Busy's Heile Shaffle with the tails.
Hitterclaves of Newton as a personal crusade that he's been fighting for years.
It's illegal to park on the street between the hours of two am and six am from December first through April first.
Newton's overnight parking band has been in force in one form or another for almost ninety years, but Peter wants this to be its last. He's co head of the growing campaign to overturn the van, which he says has become a major headache for many residents.
Usually the people that you know don't don't have driveways and that don't have parking are the people that you know certainly won't be able to afford a twenty five dollars ticket.
He says he's met dozens of people who have moved out of Newton because they have no place to put their car at night. Supporters of the ban argue it incentivizes taking public transit or bikes over owning a car, but Peter says it's unrealistic.
The infrastructure is just not there yet for living a car free lifestyle.
A measure to repeal the ban will be on the ballot November. Kyle Schaeffel WBZ, Boston's News.
Radio, well, I missed the boat again. A high endis Port home, the Taylor Swift purchase during her romance with Connor Kennedy, has now been sold. The Globe reports the home on marchand Avenue is off the market. It fetched twelve point three million dollars. The price tag makes it the highest residential sale on Cape Cod this year to date.
So how much money you want to make? Conversations with the boss about salary could be tough and A new pay confidence gap report by Payscale shows those trying to look at how much they deserve nerv probably are looking in the wrong place.
It reports as workers are walking into pay negotiations armed with the wrong info found on social media, and in many cases, walking out and disappointed or ready to quit.
Roughly one in five employees turned to AI assistance like chat GPT for compensation insights. In return, employers have found a rise in employees using AI to shape salary expectations.
Lulu Cyclic is with Payscale.
What we tell folks all the time is you got to look for data you can trust.
Matt Piper, CBS News. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News radio