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Hello and thanks for being with us on this Saturday morning. It's eleven o'clock. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. A State trooper is in the hospital after being hit with a moped in Revere last night. Stinkily say it happened while authorities for multiple communities responded to a crowd of people on Thornton Street. Please say that the trooper suffered non life threatening injuries when a moped drove right through the crowd. A suspect is under arrest, facing charges including
assault with a dangerous weapon. And this is the second time a state trooper has been heart in Revere in recent weeks. Last month, a lieutenant was injured in a hit and run that allegedly involved a stolen motorcycle. At least two dozen people are confirmed dead in devastating flooding in central Texas, with an urgent search continuing for more than twenty girls missing from a summer camp that was destroyed by the raging waters. ABC's Maria Viareal reports from Kerrville, Texas.
Helicopters hovering over trees performing urgent rescues crew members picking someone out of the branches in nearby Hunt, Texas families urgently trying to find their loved ones at Camp Mystic, an all girls' summer camp of seven hundred and fifty children. More than twenty campers still missing. The camp was evacuated after flooding hit the Waterloopa River, and while some parents have been reunited with their children, others continue to wait for answers.
And the situation in the Texas Hill Country likely to get worse with more rain in the forecast. We get more on that from ABC meteorologists Cheryl Scott.
More flooding expected throughout the morning into the afternoon, just catastrophic damage in this region. More rain on the way, and that's why we do have alerts up in effect for parts of central Texas. We have that flash flood emergency which has been issued for parts of Travis and Burnet calt throughout the morning with an additional five to ten inches of rainfall in this area, so more flash flooding and destructive flooding will be a concern throughout the day today.
And at least ten inches of rainfalling overnight, Tens of millions of Americans who hit the road for the Fourth of July or seeing some good prices at the pump.
The record number of Americans traveling for the Fourth of July holiday, including C. J. Kennedy, are enjoying a break from high gas prices.
It's been up and down sometimes. Parts of the years has been very low and has been very economical to travel, and then sometimes it can get up there when the gas prices rise. But it hadn't been too bad. It's been pretty steady over these past couple months in my travels, so.
Triple A say's average gas prices are at their lowest for this time of the year since twenty twenty one. Jim Chrysula, CBS News, Hillsville, Virginia.
And Triple A reporting the average price for a gallon of regular unletted here in Massachusetts is around three oh seven a gallon. The weather, it's going to be a nice day to day, warm of the human will hold off a mix of sun and clouds. Highs eighty two to eighty six in the city for the Cape and the Islands, closer to eighty tonight, partly cloudy, dropping to sixty nine tomorrow. That's when it turns hot and more humid. In fact, a heat advisory will kick in tomorrow morning
Sunday morning at seven am and will last until eight pm. Monday, a high of ninety three in the city, a mix of sun and a few clouds, mainly eighties for the Cape and the Islands. And then again on Monday, hot and humid with sunshine some clouds, a high of ninety two in the city, near eighty five for the south coast, around eighty for the capin Islands. And then Tuesday we get a reprieve, not as hot, more clouds around, but we will see a couple of thunderstorms returning to the
area and highs around eighty degrees in the city. Right now, it's seventy six and partly sunny at eleven oh six. Back to news, Governor Morehey signing a sixty one billion dollars stay budget plan on the fourth of July, covering the new fiscal year that began on July first, Tuesday, the governor trimming one hundred and thirty million dollars in spending before signing it into law. Some of that money cut would have gone to pay for coverage for obesity
drugs for state employees. Also cut was a fund to expand mass health nursing home rates, and the governor also filed a bill that would give her office the authority to make more spending cuts during the fiscal year. All Right, the fourth of July is come and gone. Now the rush to get home is on.
TSA spokespirston Jessica Meilee says, security checkpoints are prepared for the surge of flyers trying to get home. I think sometimes the departures are spread out, but that return is a little more concentrated.
So if you're flying on Sunday.
July six, pretty much anywhere across the country, make sure you give yourself plenty of time. Meantime, Triple A spokesman Robert Sinclair says noon to six pm is going to be the worst time to be on the roads, as a majority of the sixty one the one million people driving try to return home.
And that's Navlie Migliore reporting taking quick look at Boston Logan. According to Flight Toware, so far today there have been fifty six flights delayed, four flights canceled. Meatheads in the UK have a reason to rejoice.
All four original members of Black Sabbath. They're promising satisfaction today with the greatest heavy metal show ever. Geezer Butler, Tommy Iomi bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne, who's fought multiple health battles including Parkinson's, are reuniting in their native Birmingham, England for one final gig. It's a twenty year dream come true for rock fans who thought the quartet, with a combined age of three hundred and three, would never
play together again. Proceeds will go to charities including Sure Parkinson's.
Deborah Rodriguez CBS News. You are now in for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio