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Partly cloudy eighty four degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock on this Thursday morning. Hello, thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right. This just into the WBZ newsroom. The Bristol County DA's office says another person has now died from last weekend's fire at the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River. The sixty six year old Brenda Cooper had been in critical condition since the fire. She died late last night. That
brings the death toll now up to ten. Investigators still looking into how that fire started, but so far they say they do not think that anyone set the fire on purpose. The Senate passing a spending cuts package overnight, pulling back billions of dollars already allocated for public broadcasting in four and AID. We get that from CBS's Stacy Lynn.
On this vote, the Ya's are fifty one, the nays are forty eight, and on this vote the bill is amitted as passed. Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted against the package. Mitch McConnell opposed it earlier, but ended up voting in favor of it. The bill now goes back to the House, where it faces a Friday deadline for a final vote before it hits President Trump's desk for his signature. Stacy Lynn CBS News Washington.
Demonstrators plan to take to the streets of Boston this evening. It's all part of nationwide day of events in honor of John Lewis, the late civil rights leader and congressman. March scheduled to depart from Copley Square at five PM, with a rally at the Liberty Mall on Boston Common at six. It's all part of the Good Trouble Lives On protests planned across the country. Among the organizers is the group Public Citizen.
The Trump administration has guided the Civil Rights Office at the Department of Justice. It's just pushed through a bill in Congress that will strip healthcare, and it's pushing an authoritarian agenda evidence perhaps most aggressively in its mass deportation and vicious anti immigrant policy.
The ACLU of Massachusetts, Embrace Boston, and Boston Indivisible are just some of the groups organizing the event Locally. Say lawmaker pleading not guilty to OUI charges in Boston court this morning. Representative John Lawn, a Democrat from Watertown, arrested early yesterday morning, and Boston police say a witness who flagged down police saw Lawn hit a parked pickup truck near the State House and then take off. This was at around one am. Lawn was pulled over. Lawn was
released on his own recognents after this morning's arraignment. He's been ordered not to drive and we'll be back in court on August first. Now, the eguather forecast unfortunately, another hot and humid day today. The heat advisory remains in effect through seven pm. That excludes the Cape in the Islands, where it's much cooler. Hies in the city eighty eight degrees, but real field temps will be in the nineties for the Cape in the Islands, high seventy eight to eighty two.
We're going to see a mix of sun and clouds, breezy, a shower thunderstorm in places. Already. We're seeing in western and central masts some spotty showers to not heavy, gusty thunderstorm in places. Partly cloudy, breezy, a low of seventy one. That humidity is going to hang on overnight, but hang on just a little bit longer, because Friday is going to be much more pleasant, more sun than clouds, breezy. A high eighty four Saturday, sun and clouds eighty to
eighty four are the high. Sunday again, a high of eighty four, but that's when a couple of showers and a thunderstorm enter the mix. It's eighty four, partly sunny, partly cloudy, whichever way you choose. In Boston at eleven oh five because of the humidity, the real field fields ten degrees warmer. Back to news, the Beverly Teachers Union now facing a lawsuit brought on by parents.
The teachers union is being sued by two families who claim their twelve strike last year financially cost parents and caused emotional distress. Part of the lawsuit includes the fact that it is technically illegal under state law in Massachusetts for public employees to go on strike, despite efforts on Beacon Hill to change the long standing law with exceptions
for public safety workers. The parents are suing for seventeen million dollars and are asking the courts to rescind the collective bargaining agreement that teachers praise as a massive victory. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio, all Right.
A troubling sign about the cost of housing here in Greater Boston. New data says the median price of a single family home in Greater Boston has now surpassed a million dollars for the first time in history. According to the Greater Boston Association of Realtors, prices in June were up two point four percent from the previous month and
up four and a half percent from June of last year. Meanwhile, Greater Boston's condo market remained much steadier in June, the median price reaching seven high hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. President Trump lashing out at members of his own party over growing criticism of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
President Trump snapping at his own supporters who have criticized his administration's handling of the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
There's stupid people.
As Republicans pressed the Justice Department to release additional files, President calling it all a hoax, writing on social media, my past supporters had bought in hook line and Sinker, saying, let these weaklings continue forward because I don't want their support anymore.
And that's ABC's Rachel Scott reporting there the controversy. It all started last week when the Justice Department issued a memo saying that they found no client list and no evidence at Epstein had blackmailed powerful people. 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