This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news seventy one degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon on Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Following some developments in Washington. According to multiple reports, President Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky soon. However, on exact date for that meeting is not known. This comes after Special Envoy Steve Wikoff met with Vladimir Putin
in Moscow today. President Trump's been pushing to end the fighting between Russia and Ukraine. He'd given Russia until Friday to agree to a cease fire deal or be sanctioned. Hiding in plain sight for Democratic representatives from Texas. They have fled their state over a vote they don't want to take. And one of the states they've been rallying in is Massachusetts. They're here to protests proposed redistricting plans back home.
You're at the Massachusetts State House. Texas Democrats were joined by lawmakers from Massachusetts, Virginia, Missouri, California. And that's just to name a few. Because they say what's happening in Texas can happen anywhere. They're manipulating maps because they cannot
manipulate the will of the people. Symbolically held on the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, state legislatures from across the country accusing Texas Republicans of pandering to President Trump's request that Texas redraw voting districts to give Republicans five more seats ahead of the twenty twenty.
Six midterm elections.
Texas Democrats have been in Boston and other cities like Chicago and Denver, preventing Texas lawmakers from legally meeting and voting on this newly.
Proposed map at is CBS News Boston's Penny commit meantime, ICE is responding after some state lawmakers propose a ban on law enforcement masking. A number of lawmakers from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York a backing legislation. It would ban law enforcement, including federal immigration officers, from wearing man asks during most operations. Massachusetts State rap Jim Hawkins, author of the Massachusetts version of the bill, says they're coming in with out of
state plates, no identification, disguising themselves and taking people. Hawkins said, while immigration in immigration enforcement falls under federal jurisdiction. State lawmakers are hoping their push will increase pressure on ICE to change its ways. In a statement, ICE says these are repulsive massaging messaging bills that stoke dangerous anti ICE rhetoric for cheap political points and fundraising emails. They say a suspects in custody after as shooting at a Georgia
Army base this morning. We get details from the AP's Lisa Dwyer.
I have a soldiers for shot and an active shooter incident and the second Armored Brigade Combat Team area on Fort Stewart. All soldiers were treated on site and were hospitalized for further treatment. Law enforcement was dispatched for a possible shooting at ten fifty six a m. The shooter was apprehended at eleven thirty five am. The investigation is ongoing. I'm list it to wire.
Official say the suspected shooter is an Army sergeant. One of Chelsea's deputy fire chiefs is on paid administrative leave after he was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, over the weekend. The city says Deputy fire Chief Mike Masuki was arrested on misdemeanor and felony charges. A city spokesperson says paid administrative leave is a neutral procedural action that allows for a full and fair review while preserving the due process
rights afforded to all public employees. Coming up on WBZ, the owner of a local wildlife rescue says she can't afford to live here anymore. As we look at the four day ACTU weather forecast, we're still dealing with this Canadian wildfire smoke. Though it will slowly dissipate eventually that sky will look blue again. Remember that from your childhood we have the hazy sunshine. Today, we'll have some hayes around tonight with most of the cloudy skies and temperatures
near sixty. Tomorrow a mix of clouds and the hazy sun. Temperature is about seventy four in the city, near eighty inland. And then Friday, how about this a little better, The hayes is pushing away, mostly warmer eighty four in the Inland suburbs, close to eighty near the harbor, probably mid seventies on Saturday near the harbor at least seventy one. Right now in Boston, a person who specializes in rehabilitating animals in Salem is calling it quits. Well, at least
in Salem. Helly the busies James Rojas tells us the cost of livings getting too high there.
Benny the Bunny wasn't exactly the clientele that Jess Reese will normally work with. The Salem police called me saying they found a domestic bunny dumped in a park eating with the wild rabbits. I took him in as a favor to bring him to the shelter.
The next day, he didn't make it to the shelter.
I kept him as the owner of Salem Wildlife Rescue. She's been rehabilitating wild animals over the past four years, but come September, she's packing up her belongings and Benny and her cats and moving to North Carolina. Costs of living have been going up like crazy.
It's I have to close down everything I've built.
She is concerned about how her absence will add to the already limited number of people in her field. I know there's not a lot of us, so who's going to fill that gap? Meanwhile, Jess will come to I knew her animal rehab work in North Carolina and Salem, James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio.
There's a deal in the NFL. This one thoughs not on the field, but on your TV.
ESPN has reached an agreement to buy the NFL network and other media assets from the league, including the frenetic Red Zone channel.
Jalen Hurtspiel throws and incomplete.
And the kick is no good in the Green Bay game.
The NFL gets a ten percent stake in ESPN, which currently airs Monday night games. I'm Joe Buck, that's the Hall of Famer Torey aig Mint. A separate deal includes other content and intellectual property. ESPN's chairman Jimmy Petaro says it will create what he calls a premier destination for football fans. Steve Kathan CBS News.
It is being called a record breaking sports memorabilia heist. Now some new information and a suspect in custody. He's identified as a former police officer.
A retired Miami police officer has been arrested faces federal charges after authorities say he stole and sold millions of dollars worth of official Miami heat memorabilia, believed to be the largest sports theft ever investigator say sixty two year old Marcos Thomas Perez, a twenty five year Miami PD veteran, worked as a security officer for the Heat from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one and used his arena security clearance to access an equipment room in the Cassea Center
to steal more than four hundred Game warn jerseys intended for a future team museum.
That is ABC's Andrew Dimbert. 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