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News seventy five partly Sonny Definitely Hazy in Boston. It's eleven o'clock on this Monday morning, August fourth. Hello, I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. There's still no end in site for the sanitation workers strike. Our wbz's James Rojas is in Wakefield with very latest.
These trash bands out on the curb are going to be picked up, but not by union members, says. The strike between or Public Services employees and the company goes into week five. This comes after a ninety three percent of vote in favor of holding the picking line. The move has the support of Tony from Wakefield and this union guy from Manchester. Stay with it, stay with it, you get what you want, try and get what you want. I hope so I wish from Marble Walk in the world.
You should fight whatever for whatever they want.
I support you, and so I'm a part.
Of a union.
Meanwhile, Republic Services says it's disappointed in the vote, adding it remains ready to meet with union leadership when they're serious about reaching an agreement. In Wakefield, James Rojas WBZ Boston Snows Radio.
Boston could become the new home of the Connecticut Sun. That's if the WNBA approves the deal. A group led by Boston Celtics minority owner Steve Paliuca has reached a deal to buy the Connecticut Sun for a record three hundred and twenty five million and move the team out of the Mohegan Sun area and relocate it here in Boston.
In a statement, though, the league emphasized that relocation decisions are made by the WNBA Board of Governors, not by individual teams, So we're going to have to wait a little longer on approval before celebrating, and if the sale does get approved, the team wouldn't play in Boston until the twenty twenty seventh season. The Sun has played one regular season game at ted Garden each of the last two years, including one against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.
In July, President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff met with hostage families over the weekend. We get the latest on that from ABC's Ian Pannell from Tel Aviv.
What he told them was, we are very very close to a solution to end this war. What does that mean. He says that Hamas has said that they are prepared to demilitarize, which is frankly mystifying because publicly, at least, that's not what they're saying. He also says that there's a plan to bring all hostages home at once again mystifying because they're struggling to bring even small groups home.
An Israeli official also Telegabc News that Prime Minister nets and Yahoo is pushing to expand the military operation to release the hostage through a military.
Solution, and Hamas says it will allow the Red Cross to visit the hostages if Israel opens humanitarian corridors across all of Gaza and stops bombing during the Red Cross visits. Meanwhile, Russian officials sending a veiled warning to President Trump without naming names.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters quote, everybody should be very, very cautious with nuclear rhetoric. This in response to President Trump's announcement that he's deployed two US nuclear submarines to quote appropriate regions. That move itself followed a threatening tweet from former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev Vicki Barker, CBS News, London.
Now here's the fort a WBZ achu weather forecast. That haze that you may have been noticing in the air last couple days again today is due to Canadian wildfire smoke. It's also triggering an air quality alert that's in effect through midnight tonight. Sunshine but hazy ive eighty five today, closer to ninety inland, near eighty for the Cape. In the Islands, mainly clear Tonight, we'll cool off to sixty seven in the city, near sixty for some of those
inland suburbs. All right Tomorrow partly sunny. Seventy six is the high in the city, so we'll cool down into the low to mid eighties for the inland areas. Wednesday pretty much a carbon coffee of Tuesday. Thursday, clouds breaking for some sunshine. Highs could reach about eighty and if we look at the extended forecast for Friday, more sunshine and highs could reach the mid eighties. Right now, partly sunny and seventy five in Boston, it's eleven oh five.
Back to News, an unfortunate sign of summer coming to an end. Sunsets are now happening before eight o'clock.
The sun's already been setting earlier and earlier, but once we hit this point, it really starts to feel real. There's now only eight weeks left of summer, and the thought of the summer slipping away leaves many people feeling blue.
Makes me sad.
I love being out so late.
It's a depressing thought, if I'm going to be honest.
The night calendar turns to August first, it always brings a little bit of sadness about the sun and the school year coming.
But folks like Michelle are trying to focus on the bright side while it's still bright.
Out bed great summer.
Yeah, the weather's been great.
Lots of activities.
The Red Sox are doing well that I can't complain at all. Now.
Even Lawrence wants to make the most of his chaotic summer days. I got a four month o these days, so my days kind of all feel like a blur, honestly.
So we'll see.
We'll try to plan something and you know, maybe be more outdoors.
So we'll see it from the common.
Kyle Brady WBZ Boston's news.
Radio Right blood is thicker than a regular paycheck. The Salem News reporting the daughter and son fired market basket exec Joe Schmidt are leaving the company. Twenty year old Julius Schmidt has worked at the bakery at a Nashvielle Market basket store for five years. Sixteen year old Jacob has been a bagger for the last year, both submitting letters of resignation to the company's board of directors. Their father worked for the grocery chain for thirty nine years.
He and another longtime exec were fired in July for insubordination. Several others are on suspension, including CEO Arthur T. Demulis, who scheduled for a mediation session with the board on September third. All right. President Trump defending his decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
President Trump pledging to announce a new head for the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he fired Commissioner Erica Macintarfer on Friday, claiming without evidence that the latest jobs numbers were manipulated to make him look bad.
We had no confidence.
I mean, the numbers were ridiculous.
But he has yet to provide any concrete evidence of that. The President's top economic advisor's adamant Trump isn't shooting the messenger in the wake of the poor jobs report, but they say he does want his own appointee in place.
And that's ABC's Mary Bruce reporting now. The report showed seventy three thousand jobs were added in July, which was much lower than what was expected. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm sharing small WBZ, Boston's news radio