Sonny and seventy six degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. Good Saturday Morning's June twenty First, I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. This verse full day of summer will be a hot one.
Today brings sunshine, some clouds at times, and a warm but not very humid start to the weekend with a high a round eighty five.
At you Weather Meteorologist LaTroy Thornton. The full forecast coming up, and we'll tell you about an extreme heat warning that will be in effect starting tomorrow. Governor Mora Heally offers her thoughts about the results of Karen Reid's second murder trial.
The trio ran its course, and so you know, I always reflect on the family of John O'Keefe and feel very sorry for them.
Governor Mora Healy reacting to the juries not guilty verdict in the second degree murder retrial of Karen Reid read convicted on a drunk driving charge but acquitted of second degree murder and other serious charges.
The colminal justice system has run its course and there is finality in that, and my best to members of the O'Keefe family.
The verdict leaves unanswered the question of whether there will be a new investigation into the death of Officer John O'Keefe. District Attorney Michael Morrissey has yet to respond to that question. Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's News radio right, he's.
Not off the hook. The Suffolk County DA's office planning to retry Irish firefighter Terence Crosby for rape. A mistrial was declared in his first trial yesterday. He's accused of raping a woman in a Boston hotel room last year. Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Erin Murphy says a thirty eight year old from Dublin will be retried in October. Crosby is accused of raping the woman in a room at the Omni Parker House hotel, which he shared with another
firefighter back in March of twenty twenty four. Both men in Boston for Saint Patrick's Day celebrations. We must remain here in Massachusetts, and we're a GPS monitor.
All right.
Expect some major delays on the Pike this weekend.
The Pike will be down to one lane in both directions this weekend on the Newton Weston stretch. That's Exit one twenty three to one to twenty five to be exact. It's the second phase of its kind in this bridge replacement project, and Mascot says this weekend offers the lightest traffic of the summer.
We expect that it's going to be lower volumes anyways, but really we want to get the message out.
It's going to be impactful.
Use your mapping apisodes.
They are going to help get you around.
The commuter rail and amtract will also be closed in this stretch, but bus services will replace it. Mass Doot says the first round of this a few weeks ago offer delays of over an hour, but that's mainly because people stayed off the roads. They are warning of delays of up to three hours if people don't heed the warning.
If you don't have to be traveling through there, please don't, and if you do, leave yourself a lot of extra time to get.
Where you're going.
These lane reductions are going to be in place through the weekend. Will remove them Monday morning.
At five and now the four d A WBC ACU weather forecast. It's going to be warm today, not too humid, but high's bumping to about eighty three to eighty seven degrees of our seventies to low eighties for the capein Islands tonight a low of just seventy one, and then parts of the area will have a thunderstorm late tonight and tomorrow morning. Sunday. Tomorrow, it's going to get hot
and more humid, a high of ninety four. We'll see partly sunny skies breezy, and then on Monday, more sun than clouds, very hot and humid, eighty four to eighty eight in the low to mid nineties in those western suburbs again, seventies on the Cape in the Islands Tuesday, we could break a record when it comes to the heat. We'll see, let's see ninety eight is the expected high. The record set in twenty thirteen was ninety five. Right now at seventy six in sunny and Boston at eleven
o six. Back to News Boston, rats are carrying some dangerous bacteria, potentially harmful to humans and pets. WBC's Madison Rogers to explain.
Researchers at Tough School of Veterinary Medicine put out a six year study tracking the way rats scamper through the city and what health risks may be hitching a ride. The result the first confirmation that Boston rats are spreading leptospirosis. Lepto is a potentially deadly disease for humans, dogs, and other animals. Scientists looked at hundreds of rat kidney samples from seventeen sites in Boston. Twelve of those sites had
Rodent's test positive for leptospiro bacteria. They also looked at a human lepto case from twenty eighteen and determined their strong evidence that the source was a rat. Human exposure is still uncommon, but Bostonians living on the streets are at greater risk. Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio.
The town of Milton moving cl also to compliance with the MBTA Communities Act, which is the law requiring cities in towns with t service to zone for multifamily housing in designated districts. After debating the issue over a two day period of the town voted sixty nine to thirty one percent to move forward and will comply. As many as twenty four hundred new units of housing will be made available. The MBTA Communities Act requires one hundred and
seventy seven MBTA communities to zone for multifamily housing. There are still approximately thirty communities that remain out of compliance. Iran launching new strikes on Israel overnight, but in Israeli military officials says there are no indications of any missile impacts.
About two thirty am, the air rate sirens sounded across Israel and there were reports of five ballistic missiles having been fired from Iran. We're told that they were all successfully intercepted, but that some falling shrapnel had caused some damage and had set fire to the roof of at least one building not far from Tel Aviv. So there is still an exchange of fire. There is still damage being caused, but we don't understand that where any casualties.
That's the BBC's Dan Johnson. Meanwhile, Israel says it killed three senior members of Iran's military. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio