This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news in Boston. Right now, it's eighty three degrees, feels more like eighty seven, a very hot and humid day. On tap well of the forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening. It's a keen moment in the push for a ceasefire in Gaza. Later on today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who is coming to Washington. While he's here,
he'll meet and die with the President Donald Trump. Both Israel and Hamas appear ready to talk about arrangements for a pause or even an end to the fighting. ABC's James Longman reports some issues still have to be ironed out.
Hamas wants the IDF to fully pull out of Gaza, and they're looking for US guarantees that this ceasefire will lead to a complete end of the war. They also want the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to cease its operations. It is a US backed initiative, but it has been accused of some major vibeas and a ceasefire, of course, cannot
come soon enough for the people of Gaza. Hamas says a surge of air strikes in just the last twenty four hours has left more than eighty people dead and more than three hundred injured.
The US proposal would pause the war for sixty days, boost much needed aid to that area for Palestinians, and release all the remaining hostages being held by Hamas eleven oh one. The fight for control between Harvard and the White House has only been getting deeper over the past
few weeks. Professors at Harvard say they don't want the school to give In The Globe reports, hundreds of professors in the school's professor union are urging leaders not to make a deal to try to restore billions of dollars in cuts to federal aid. The American Association of University Professor's chapter has been speaking out through petitions and op eds. So far, leadership at Harvard has not said much about
those talks between the school and the White House. Now the Trump administration, among other offenses, accusing Harvard of being complicit about anti Semitic violence on campus and failing to protect Jewish students. The school denies that and says it is working on the situation. Three days after a devastating downpour flooded parts of central Texas. The desperate search continues for more than forty people still unaccounted for.
The floodwaters receding that death till mercilessly rising after that early morning July fourth deluge sent a floodwave that swallowed riverside camps and communities. Up to a foot of rain, raised the Guadalupe River twenty six feet in less than an hour, and a wall of water and debris tearing through Camp Mystic, where seven hundred and fifty girls were spending July fourth. Dozens of children and councilors trapped in
their bunks as the waters coursed through the camp. Ten girls and one councilor still reported missing.
ABC's Mackupman their official say at least eighty people are considered dead and many more again are missing. Now. Help is coming in from all over the country for those impacted by the floods. The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country is rolled out a brand new effort they're trying to raise money and supplies for those in need,
called the Kerr County Flood Really Fund is see. All the money collected through the fund is going directly to trusted local organizations to get food, healthcare, shelter, and other critical needs to those in the area. Some showers out there right now if you're in southeastern Massachusetts, if you're on the capein Islands, it is wet, and we have
some downpours coming through as well in some areas. So that is going to be the situation for the rest of the day, especially in southeastern mass right there on the coast. Later on this afternoon, many of us, though away from the coast, could get up to about the mid nineties if you're right on the water, I'd say upper eighties or so, and it's going to feel like the mid to upper nineties for all of us, very
very humid out there today. We have a heat advisory form most of the state until just about eight o'clock, except for the south coast capein Islands, conveniently where all that shower activity is taking place now. For tonight, mostly cloudy, a couple of showers and storms are possible once again in southeastern mass Low in the mid seventies, so rather uncomfortable sleeping weather for tomorrow. Clouds and sun, strong storms
possible for all of us throughout the afternoon. Hi just about ninety and it will be cooler on the Capan Islands. Then Wednesday we really start to feel a change, not as humid. Couple of showers and we have a high in the seventies if you're on the coast, A little bit cooler than that. Eighty four degrees right now in Medford, west of Boston, eighty two in Framingham, eighty five in Stoton. In Boston. Right now at left No. Six, it is partly cloudy, eighty four degrees and it feels more like
eighty eight. Folks and almost two dozen communities are hoping for a speedy resolution to the sanitation workers strike as it goes into its second week.
With republic service workers on strike, Canton's town administrator and other municipal leaders are asking both parties to get back to the negotiation table. Trash pickups started back up today, with crews outside the state being called into help after hundreds of sanitation workers hit the picket line last week. Most people I talked to in Canton haven't noticed much of a difference, but Peter says he's definitely aware of it.
I live in a condo community and it's just all pile.
In a letter to Republic Services. Canton, Malden, Peabdy, Gloucester, Watertown and others are asking for better communication and better clarity on how trash pickup will resume.
It is what it is, you know, if people were God gen only should get what.
They don't deserve and Canton I'm a Friedman. W BZ, Boston's news.
Radio developers in Boston appear to be investing heavily in the upcoming mayoral race. Politico reporting late last month, almost three hundred and twenty thousand dollars was donated to Your City, Your Future pack, That is the pack that has been boosting challenger Josh Kraft. Among the donations ninety five grand from John Fish, the CEO of Suffolk Construction, and ninety thousand from Quinn House co owner Paul Edgerley. Now Mayor Michelle wou has some real estate money coming her way
as well. The Bold Boston pack supporting her recently got a boost of thirty two grand, big portion of that coming from Howard Cohen, the chair of Beacon Communities. Decades of drums and blue paint and dancing and fun have come to a close in Boston. WBC's j will that tells us why it's.
Curtains for Blue Man Group and it's Boston residency spanning thirty years. The Bald, Blue, and Nonverbal trio wrapped up their performances this past weekend. In a statement to announce their final show, the group says it played for more than four and a half million people in Boston. They say it's been an honor and privilege to play for Boston as long as they have since they first opened in nineteen ninety five at the Charles Playhouse. What's next.
The group has a Vegas residency and opens a summer tour of Japan this August. Jay Willette WBZ, Boston's News Radio, You.
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