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Station eighty one degrees in Boston. Lots of sun, certainly humid out there today, with the full forecast coming up in just a few minutes eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis, and we're watching developing.
News out of Cambridge.
The Trump administration now threatening to cut all federal funding from Harvard, saying it violated civil rights by failing to protect Jewish students from harassment. In a letter sent to Harvard today, a federal task force says investigators found the school was at times a quote willful participant in anti Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff, and that
the campus leaders allowed anti semitism to fester. This is the latest escalation in the Trump administration's battles with Harvard is after the school rejected federal demands calling for sweeping changes to governance, admissions, hiring, and more. We've reached out to Heart v for comment. When we get more, we'll let you know here on WBZ. On Capitol Hill right now, a marathon voting session called a voteramas underway on amendments
to the President's tax and spending bill. The President pressuring Republicans to pass it in time for July fourth, but not everybody is behind this.
Late Saturday night, North Carolina Senator Tom Dillis was one of two Republicans who opposed moving forward with the package, concerned about potential cuts to Medicaid.
Boy, why tell six hundred and sixty three thousand people and two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid.
On Sunday, the two term senator announced he would not seek reelection next year after President Trump threatened to back a potential primary challenge against him.
Now as CBS's Nicole Killion, the Congressional Budget Office today saying the bill could add more than three trillion dollars to the national debt and result in the loss of healthcare for almost twelve million people over the next ten years. On Bagon Hill, the end of mandatory tenant paid broker's fees could be coming in a matter of days. That's because lawmakers have released their sixty one billion dollars state budget agreement, and the change to outlaw that mandatory fee
for the tenant is part of the deal. The Globe reports Boston is the only major American city that still allows these fees. They often require prospective tenants to generally pay a month's rent on top of other fees like first, last, and security to move in. That is something advocates say is exacerbating the state's housing crisis. This new change in the budget would require the person who hires the broker
to pay that fee, which generally is the landlord. And in Idaho, Polisay, a gunman is dead after intentionally setting a wildfire and ambushing the firefighters who responded.
It was a cell phone signal that led teams to the shooter's body on Sunday night. The sheriff here is saying they tracked this cell signal that had not moved for a period of time and found the shooter by honing in on that signal. It's unclear if the shooter shot himself or was killed by a police bullet. The sheriff saying the firefighters were ambushed and had no chance. Flags at firehouses or today at half staff here as
this community morn's a loss of two firefighters. Alec Stone ABC News quarterl Aint Idaho.
So much sun out there today and it's going to be a beautiful afternoon. We've got no rain in the forecast at least for another day or so. We could have some storms tomorrow, but we'll get to that in a moment. For today, it will be humid, and we've got temperatures up to just about ninety if you're inland, eighty or so right on the coast, maybe some mid eighties if you're a little bit further away from the water,
but we're talking one twenty eight at the farthest. Then for tonight, mostly cloudy, stickier out there, not really cooling off that much, down only to about seventy. For tomorrow, plenty of clouds, and then we've got showers and storms in the afternoon with the high in the mid to upper eighties. Heat does not break though. Wednesday and Thursday, both days high just about ninety, and we have afternoon
storms on Thursday. Could be a little bit cooler. On Friday, four July fourth, we have low humidity in a high in the low eighties. Seventy nine degrees in Leminster, seventy six in Gloucester, eighty four right now in Wareham, and in Boston at eleven oh six. Lots of sun, a couple of story clouds, and it's eighty one. Millions of people are already hitting the road for the holiday. Wbz's drewm o'holland has more on that.
And the airports for that matter. Logan is busy again today after a very busy weekend, and then again, it's always busy there, right But Triple A projects seventy two point two million people will travel at least fifty miles or more over this Independence Day holiday period. In Triple A, Zaiksa Diaz says most will be driving.
We're seeing travel and record numbers because you have to remember that travel isn't just an economic and practical decision.
It's also an emotional decision. People want to get away.
And not be home right. Enjoy the lake, the ocean, the family with whatever you do, drumaholland, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Last week's heat waved in a number on a busy bridge on the South coast. Now officials are trying to figure out how to make sure that doesn't happen again. Mastot has to close down or had to close down the new Bedford fair Haven Bridge to vehicle traffic for almost two days. That's because the swing bridge swelled up in the oppressive heat its metal, and it had to be left open for boats, but couldn't close until the
weather cooled down. The New Bedford Light reports MASTOT is working on a system to keep the almost one hundred and thirty year old bridge working. Details not out just yet. They're still coming up with this plan. Here and there by the way our plans to replace the bridge, but construction is still years out from starting. And from the Bay State to the Vatican. Boston's archbishop met the Pope this weekend. You's wbz's j will Z.
So greetings to the people of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Boston Archbishop Richard Hanning meets with Pope Leo and Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome for the bestment of the Pallium, an honor only eight US archbishops have been privy to.
I'm here in Rome. I just received the pallium stole this day, a symbol of the unity that exist between our archdiocese and the Holy Father the Holy See.
The vestment is the robe worn by clergy members during service. This one is made from lamb's wool, worn for special occasions. Like this, the two embraced. The Catholic News Service captured the moment their meeting came during the Mass with a feast of Saint Peter's and Paul J. Willett WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
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