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We defining local news. Eighty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock that afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. One more day with the head done, a little longer, with the humidity, afraid of your friends.
We now have two point temperatures in the lower seventies, and this is oppressive territory and we're extrecting even more humidity tomorrow.
So tomorrow is going to be the most humid day we can expect over the next five to seven days. Nic CBS News Boston's Jason Michael. We're also watching some thunderstorms that are rumbling through New England as we speak, up or around northern New Hampshire, southern parts of New Hampshire too, off to the west around Keene, also into Vermont. The Berkshire's getting a little bit of action and a little bit back down toward Connecticut. So plenty of it
out there on the radar, nothing nearby, not yet. We'll keep you posted. President Trump is looking to extend his federal takeover of the DC Police. ABC Stephen Portnoy with more.
The law President Trump is invoked allows him to direct the DC police for up to thirty days. In less Congress acts to extend the emergency he's declared, Trump says he'll ask lawmakers to do it long.
Term extensions, because you can't have thirty days.
He shrugs off the concerns of critics who say the president is imposing his will on the city. Instead of saying he's a dictated they should say we're going to join him and make Washington say. Trump spoke at the Kennedy Center, which he says he's planning to renovate, and where he says he'll host the Kennedy Center Honors this December. Stephen port Noy, ABC News Washington.
The president of France says President Trump was very clear in a meeting with European leaders that the US wants to achieve a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine at his summit with Russian President Putin and Alaska on Friday. Speaking after today's virtual meeting between Trump and Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky along with other European leaders, President Emmanuel Macrone said the US was prioritizing a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Taking
a closer look at the Smithsonian. The Trump administration says it'll review their museums and exhibits.
Twenty twenty six, the nation will celebrate.
Commemorate White House. Letter to Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie's Bunch, follows up on President Trump's March executive order calling for the removal of what he termed improper ideology.
It's time.
With next year's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in mind.
Twenty twenty six is a moment to inspire a greater understanding of our nation's history and all its beauty and complexity.
The letter states.
The aim is to celebrate American exceptionalism and remove what it calls partisan or divisive narratives. The Smithsonian says it remains committed to factual history and is reviewing the letter.
Be a part of this moment with your National Museum of American History.
Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
We can't wait for you to join us.
True Matter. Accused of using phony money to buy jewelry, Devin Johnson arraigned on July twenty second in one count of larceny over twelve hundred dollars. The Suffolk County. DA says he and another man paid one hundred and sixty thousand dollars in cash for multiple Rolex watches changed another jewelry at a jewelry store in downtown Crossing. When putting it through a money counter. Two days later, the employees realized that money was fake. Detectives say it looked more
like movie prop bills. Police identified both men from video surveillance footage and obtained a warrants for their arrest. Checking the Ford a w's a ACCU weather forecast. We've got humidity in place and it's going to stay here for another day and change. We do have some thunderstorms that are firing off this afternoon, and most of them off to the north and the west, and a few off toward Connecticut as we speak, coming across the New York border.
And we have that one cell moving off toward Rhode Island. It came out of Hartford with some pretty hefty rain and gusty winds. It's lost a little punch, but still has a little kick to it. Mc burke shear's getting it on. Some rain now and some more rain and showers and some thunderstorm activity just off to the north of Keene, New Hampshire. A few more cells further off to the south and east in near Peterborough and Jaffrey,
New Hampshire. So we're watching these cells and keeping an eye on them as they move closer and closer to our area through the evening hours. Probably won't get into Boston. They could, A little bit of them could, but most of them will stay off to the north and west. But we will watch them for you, because that's what we do. Eighty degrees to high tomorrow, with more humidity and maybe some more thunderstorms, more muggy conditions tomorrow night,
but then we get much better Friday Saturday. Lower humidity, mostly sunny, mid seventies in Boston on Friday, probably eighty on Saturday. We may get back into the upper eighties on Saturday. Right now, it's eighty seven degrees in Boston. There's that old adage about the grass always being greener on the other side. How about the asphalt being greener on the other side of the parking lot in Waltham It is as we hear from wz's Kyle Bray.
Right now, it just looks like two freshly paved parking spots but in the future, this spot could be the first domino to fall in a green revolution. A British company called Uberbinder had some of its new green asphalt laid on the road for the first time ever. CEO Jet Yang says, it's all about the glue they used to keep the asphalt rocks together.
Over one hundred years, we've been using fossil oil based between binders as glue to build, the repair and maintain our vast paved road network, and so we need to find a sustainable, scalable alternative.
Their new system uses sulfur, the fifth most abundant element on the planet. They basically created a new molecule that can help cut the greenhouse impact of asphalt by more than twenty five percent. Mass mobility helped organize this whole thing. Executive director Jamie Tesler says, it's one small step to changing the world.
Pavement is everywhere, and if we can do it better, then we can do it cleaner. This is really important.
From Waltham, Kyle Bray, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Reindeer could be getting closer to becoming a figment of Santa's imagination.
Reindeer populations are projected to decline up to eighty percent by the year twenty one hundred due to climate change, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances.
Examining fossils, ancient DNA, and computer models, researchers studied reindeer populations over the last twenty one thousand years, and while the species have some many episodes of Arctic warming in the past, the results suggest the expected losses in the coming decades will be the most severe unless greenhouse gas emissions are severely reduced and there's a strong investment in wildlife management and conservation. Tracy Wolf, CBS News.
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