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Hazy sunshine out there in Boston right now. It's eighty one degrees at eleven o'clock. Good morning, I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening on your Wednesday. Another blast of heat and humidity is in store for us today, but we also have some stormy weather coming later on.
Good chance for thunders from the latest afternoon of this evening, especially north and west of the city where any thunders from cabrus downpours and gusty winds.
Man Ezachi Weather's Joe Lundberg. We do have a heat emergency in effect for the city of Boston through the rest of the day. We have the full forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Tropical storm Erin still gaining strength in the Atlantic. ABC Chief Meteorologist Ginger z says the storm is likely going to pass north of Puerto Rico, but the exact track is still a bit uncertain.
Here as it hugs that Bermuda high The closer it gets to Bermuda, the farther it is from the east coast, we want that front to kind of squeeze it between and no nobody gets hit, that would be ideal, but we're still more than a week away from that happening, so we'll be watching carefully. There's plenty of fuel out there four to five degrees warmer than average in the waters that that will go into.
We just got the latest update last hour from the National Hurricane Center. Aarin is about thirteen hundred miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands. The storm is still a tropical storm max sustained winds forty five miles an hour, but this thing is definitely hauling to the west at about seventeen eighteen miles an hour, So again, we're expecting this to become a powerful hurricane by the weekend. If so, it would be the first of this year's Atlantic hurricane season.
The city of Boston is working to cut off the so called food buffet for rats. Here's wbz's James Rojas in the South End.
Part of Boston's plan to rain in the wrap population is to install censors around the city to gather information about rodent movements, also looking at ways to change how trash is collected, Thus cutting off rats from a free food buffet coot it out of the street. You know, close style, infeed them clean. You get it, But not everyone is convinced that the city's rode An action plan. It will work the rats out of bag. Don't mind the cat they're bigger than the cats.
Now, you're never gonna get rid of it.
You only can maintain it.
But flaha log.
Meanwhile, the city recommends to call three poet one if someone sees a problem with rats or trash in the South End. James Rojas w b Z BOSTON'SNOOS radio.
And in the nation's capital, National Guard troops are on patrol for the first time since President Trump launched his crackdown on crime.
It comes as Washington DC's crime statistics face new scrutiny. The head of the police union claims city officials are exaggerating the recent drop in crime.
We're still averaging around two hundred homicides. Frankly, the city is dangerous.
It continues to be dangerous.
Anyone that operates in the city, who lives in the city knows that.
Washington, DC's attorney general firing back, saying the police union chairman has his facts wrong.
That is ABC's Nicole D'Antonio. The President has also played the DC police force under federal control. According to The Washington Post, Those police say they have yet to receive any new orders from the Trump administration. The forecast brought to us by Mass General Brigham, Expert heart Care, backed by research. Learn more at Mass General Brigham dot org slash heart. We have temperatures in the upper seventies, low
eighties out there right now. Plenty of sun, still staying dry, but as we get into the afternoon that will likely not be the case. We will have some thunderstorms and a couple of showers from time to time. Some of these storms could be strong at times, flooding downpours, damaging winds. This especially will be the case north and west of Boston, so we often see the really tough storms coming through that part of the state. We'll keep an eye throughout
the afternoon right here on WBZ. Be sure to stay with us, and we've got Ben Parker Madison Rogers taking you home. Check in with them. We will have weather of course every ten minutes, as we do later on tonight, all this will move out. We have a low near seventy two for tomorrow. Out's breaking for some sun, a thunderstorm, and spots mostly in the afternoon, and we have a high year eighty Plenty of sun on Friday with a high in the mid seventies, little bit warmer as you
make your way inland. Right now our temperatures eighty five in Danvers, seventy nine in Weymouth, where it's seventy eight in Natick. In Boston right now at eleven oh five, lots of sun and it's eighty one. A five alarm fire in Lawrence has forced at least twenty people out of their homes. Here's WBZ Sherry Small So.
I hope nobody was hurd the my car, Soung was.
That's Gene. He works for a property management company that manages a building right next door to where Tuesday evenings fire broke out.
This one escaped Lucky, so but I checked everything out. Everything was fine.
Just the water damage, that's it.
The fire didn't touch that building, but the basement is flooded from the runoff from the water used to fight the fire. Five other multifamily buildings, including a restaurant worn as Lucky. The Fire Department says at least two buildings appear to be a total loss. Fire broke out at three twenty four Lowell Street and quickly spread. Julio lives nearby and came to the scene where.
It came closer. Then I see it was four houses on fire. Hey, well he was five houses of fire. The guys no, no bit than you heard.
In Laurence Sherry Small w BZ, Boston's news radio.
Some new deep dives into the finances of the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department show cards connected to the office spend tens of thousands of dollars on trips and food and lodging this past fiscal year. The Globe reports people connected to the office. It's not clear who used a procurement card to pay for ride shares, hotel stays, and expensive meals, all to the tune of more than sixty grand now.
At times the card was used for trips around the country that were likely connected to industry conferences, but there were also purchases made in places like the Bahamas. All this comes as Sheriff Stephen Tompkins faces federal extortion charges. He's accused of extorting a national cannabis company that was
trying to open up in Boston. He's currently out on two hundred thousand dollars bond, but has to come back to Massachusetts by Friday for his arraignment, and the Trump administration now says it's doing a thorough review of all the exhibits at the Smithsonian Museums and the museums themselves.
A White House letter to Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie Bunch, follows up on President Trump's March executive order calling for the removal of what he termed improper ideology. It's timed with next year's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in mind. The letter states the aim is to celebrate American exceptionalism and remove what
it calls partisan or divisive narratives. The Smithsonian says it remains committed to factual history and is reviewing the letter. Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
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