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Mid Day Report: Tuesday, June 24, 2025

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Boston sweats it out under the high temps, Uber announces a new partnership to make drivers go electric, the latest on a ceasefire in the Middle East. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1

This is WBZ, Boston's news radio re defining local news.

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Ninety four degrees in Boston, it feels more like one hundred and two. It is eleven o'clock. Good morning. I'm Nicole Davis, and here's what's happening. Oh boy, the sun is doing its job today. It is already hot, and it's only going to get hotter.

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It is brutal already and there's no place to go but up today, up toward the century mark, and there's really no escaping this heat.

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Now exactly where there's Joe Lundberg now again the record in Boston ninety five degrees. We are very close to that at this point, could be potentially close to the hottest day we have ever seen in the city. Most of the state except for the Cape and the Berkshires, under an extreme heat warning until tonight, timsm Boston could be hitting one hundred plus real feels as high as

one hundred and ten. We'll have much more in the forecast coming up in a matter of minutes here on WBZ meantime, at eleven oh one, present than Trump on his way to the Hague, but earlier before he left, he spoke out against both Israel and Iran both are accused of firing missiles at one another overnight despite a ceasefire being in effect. He's get more in the CBS News special report.

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President Trump has declared the brand new ceasefire he brokeered between Israel and Iran is in effect despite apparent violations by both sides.

Speaker 1

I think what both violated it?

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Well, I don't think. I'm not sure they did it intentionally.

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They couldn't range people back.

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I don't like the fact that Israel went out this morning at all.

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Speaking to reporters as he left the White House for an overseas trip, he scolded both countries, saying neither knows what the expletive they're doing. Correspond in at O'Keefe is at the Hague, where mister Trump will attend a NATO summit.

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The President later boorn in Air Force one and appears to be conducting some diplomacy from the sky, trying to stavage the ceasefire, and he spoke with the Israeli Prime Minister. He's also been using his true social account to speak out, saying, in part, Israel is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, and nobody will be hurt the ceasefire is in effect.

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Mister Trump also says he does not want to see regime change in Iran because he says it would cause chaos. CBS News special report, I'm Deborah Rodriguez.

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And in Gaza, health officials say at least twenty five people were killed earlier today as Israeli forces in drones opened fire on hundreds of Palestinians waiting for aid. Witnesses say the soldiers started to fire from drones and tanks as people approach trucks delivering food to a distribution site. The IDF says it is reviewing this incident. This is the latest instance of deadly violence at these sites run by an American contractor with support from the Israelis and

the US government. The IDF claims it fires warning shots to quell desperate crowds. Palestinians say the fire is often directed into the crowds of these people trying to get much needed food, water, and medicine. It is going to be one of those days where we could likely break a record when it comes to the heat in Boston and otherwise. We have an extreme heat warning which is up for most of the Commonwealth up until about eight o'clock tonight if you're in the berks shears or on

the cap. But it's going to be warm out there today, don't get me wrong, but not quite as intense. And you add this tropical humidity. We have dew points in the upper sixties, low seventies. You put the two together and you have some dangerous conditions out there. We've got heat index potentially in many parts of the area up to about one hundred and ten degrees today. So if you do have to be outside again, pace yourself a lot of water out there today if you need to,

and also staying in the shade, air conditioning. If you possibly can listen to your body it knows what you need. Now. Later on tonight it will be very warm and sticky, and we've got a low only in the upper seventies under mostly clear skies. Then tomorrow we start to see a slight cool down with the high only in the low to mid nineties. Could have some storms in the afternoon and in the evening. Very sticky yet again, and we'll have temperatures falling closer to the coast in the

afternoon Thursday. That's when you really feel the difference sharply cooler, not as humid, A couple of showers and a high only in the seventies right now ninety two degrees in Patucket, Rhode Island, ninety four as you make your way into Amherst, very warm in the Springfield area north of Boston ninety two in Nashville, New Hampshire. And in Boston on the coast right now at Logan Airport, ninety four degrees and

it feels like one hundred and one. Uber rolling out a new partnership and it's pushed to persuade drivers to go electric. Here's wbz's Jim McKay.

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I may definitely give you a try because the guests priscidedly higher. Antonio is an Uber driver in Boston. I caught up with him outside of South Station. He's about to get a new car and he's heavily weighing an option for an EV. Right as Uber announces a partnership with c forty Cities, an urban climate group that is

heavily invested in having cities turn to evs. They have a charger network and are now going to offer Uber drivers exclusive access in Boston for a boost instead of those old fashioned gas guzzlers.

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If it's gonna save me one of you on guests, if it'll be for my own advantage.

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Uber says, at one point, startup costs for the number one reason why their drivers didn't want to changed to an EV.

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Now it's making.

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Chargers more accessible. They're hoping this partnership can help. I'll give it this right in Boston, jim Ack WVZ Boston's news.

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Radio, state lawmakers on Beacon Hill killing an effort to ban transgender athletes from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity. Its effort had been included in an amendment to a spending bill for education and the MBTA. It did not make it into the final version of the bill negotiated last week. The lawmaker behind the amendment, Republican Rep. John Gasky, says he is not giving up

on this. State Senator Julian Sear of Provincetown says it was dead on arrival in the Senate, and the Supreme Court rules the Trump administration can deport some migrants to countries other than their homelands. Here's ABC's Andrew Dimber.

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The ruling overturns a lower court order which blocked the deportation of several detainees to South Sudan. Three liberal justices sharply dissented, saying the decision is rewarding lawlessness. Justice Sonya Sotomayor saying the Trump administration had already acted in violation of unambiguous lower courts. She added, this is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to non compliance,

nor I fear will it be the last. A Homeland Security official calls the ruling of victory for the safety and security of the American people.

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Meantime, back at home, the Trump administration says it will direct federal resources toward new immigration detention centers in Florida.

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Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam announced FEMA will help fund the new facilities. In a video on his ex account, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer touted a proposed site at an abandoned airfield in the Everglades. Deportation flights could leave straight from there.

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As I call it alligator alcatraz.

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Ughmeyer says, if any detainee tried to escape, they'd face alligators and pythons. Immigration attorney Roberto Hernandez is appalled.

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It keeps reinforcing this hatred towards immigrants.

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Michael Wallace, CBS News, you are now in Malu. For news updates throughout the day. Listened to wb ZS Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, w b Z and Boston's News Radio

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