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Eighty six degrees in Boston, it feels like ninety two right now at eleven o'clock on Friday morning. Good to be with you. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. It's another scorcher to end the week. And you know what they say, It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Right, Sunshine and building clouds at a breezy, hot and humid with a high of ninety one to ninety five. The record of ninety six was set in eighteen eighty two in Acuia. The real field temperature will approach one hundred. You'll stay in the eighties on the Cape and the islands.
Not ezakly Weather's Joe Lundberg. We could be seeing some strong to severe storms later on this morning and afternoon as well. We will get the full forecast coming up in just a few minutes eleven oh one, one hour to go until concession workers at Fenway Park and the MGM Music Hall potentially hit the picket line. W bz's Jeremy Russ has more on that.
The workers are employed by Aaron Mark. Among their demands, city wide standard wages and guardrails against automation, something fans like Hannah can get on board with.
It's weird, like, just keep the people there.
We like the people better than the robots.
The strike is set to last three days. The union is asking fans not to buy any concessions during that time. A lot of fans I talked to said, that's a worthy sacrifice.
Absolutely, You and your man thing might as well, you know, share the wealth.
Look at a cost of living Boston past for years, kind of difficult for them to kind of survive on that era.
Mark says it has contingency plans in place to make sure the fan experience doesn't suffer during the work stoppage. The Red Sox, meanwhile, aren't party to the negotiations, but they've said they're monitoring the situation closely, and the union has even sent a letter asking owner John Henry to intervene. Jeremy Russ WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Charges now for a Rentham team accused of recording employees at a Low's in Milford who were using the bathroom. The two employees at the Lows Unfortune Boulevard told Milford police they were using the bathroom at separate times when a man entered the next stall and put a cell phone on the ground with a camera then pointing into to their stall. Officers were able to identify the man
using camera footage from the store and Uber records. They say eighteen year old John Kelly front them admitted to recording the employees. He has now been charged with two counts of photographing an unsuspecting nude person. For the rest of the afternoon into the evening, we do have a pretty strong chance of seeing some storms come through. These will not be consistent, they're scattered, but they will be severe at times. So this is going to be one
of those days. You want to keep it tuned to BZ. If you are heading out to go camping or off to the beach house and you're not going to be by the car radio, grab your phone, download the iHeartRadio app. Takes all of two minutes and you can have us no matter where you are, and we have got the forecast for you every ten minutes. Now for the rest of the day, we've got very hot and humid conditions. That is what is potentially fueling these storms. We have
a heat advisory up through eight o'clock tonight. This excludes the south coast, Capan Islands and the Berkshire's west of I ninety one, so we'll have a real feel about one hundred degrees today his in the low to mid nineties. After the storms come through tonight, we'll have partly cloudy skies breaking up the humidity by daybreak and alone Year seventy partly sunny tomorrow with a heigh year eighty in Boston eighty five Inland. Sunday could have a couple of
storms in the evening and a high near eighty. Right now, it's eighty seven degrees in Brockton, eighty six, in Auburn, north of Boston eighty six, as well in Peabody. In Boston right now it is partly cloudy, eighty seven degrees and it feels like ninety three now. As these temps rise, so are the tempers of those affected by the trash collectors strike at Republic Services. Wbz's Kendle Bule has more from Gloucester.
Bloster's DPW has been working overtime picking up the trash, but there's only so much they can do, and residents are responsible for their own recycling.
I had to put my recycle on in my car, which wasn't fun well.
Some residents say their weight at the recycling station has been measured in minutes. Others report waiting hours. That says this local coffee shop owner has put some people on edge.
There's been some hostility down there just because you know, people are frustrated and impatient and him.
At this other time, as a matter of fact, a local manage being arraigned to dan several charges coming from a confrontation at the transfer station with a deep BW worker. But by and large, Gloucester residents have been giving high marks to those workers for keeping the trash off the streets during these scorching summer weeks.
Bab, I'm really good of all giving the trash for sure.
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Humanitarian aid group say a starvation crisis is happening right now in Gaza. The Hamas Run Health Ministry says so far this month, more than forty people have died of hunger, including sixteen kids.
Women clamor for food at a US back to eight point but dozens of people have reportedly starved to death in the region over the last few weeks, according to the Hamas run Ministry of Health, holding his emaciated son. This father says the child is suffering from lack of food and drink. A doctor with the American based aid group med Global says they're worried there will be more deaths.
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French President Emmanuel Macrone has announced that France and September will formally recognize Palestine as a state. He says they plan to do this at the UN General Assembly. France is the largest and most powerful European country to do this recognize a Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who condemning the announcement, saying a move quote rewards terror
and risks creating another Iranian proxy. This announcement coming the same day that US Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff, said the US is cutting short Gaza ceasefire talks in cutter A highly anticipated art exhibit has been canceled at the Smithsonian in Washington, Your CBS's debut.
Rodriguez, the artist who painted Michelle Obama's White House portrait, has canceled a show at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Amy Cheryld says she made the decision after she found out the museum was considering pulling her painting of a transgender statue of liberty so as not to provoke President Trump. Cherald says the Smithsonian proposed replacing it with a video of people reacting to the work. The show, American Sublah,
was set to open in September. It would have been the first by a black contemporary artist at the Portrait Gallery. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
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