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News seventy three degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning. I'm Nicole Davis. Here's what's happening. Union concession workers at Fenway Park and MGM Music Hall plan to rally at Fenway before the Red Sox game tonight. They say they're doing this to send a message to Arara Mark and Fenway Sports Group.
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Last month, the workers walked off the job for a three day strike while the Dodgers were in town. I told fans go to the game, but don't buy any souvenirs or concessions. In a release, the workers say since that last strike, Ara Mark has not reached out to them or scheduled any bargaining dates, and now they might strike again for longer. In a statement to WBZ News Radio, Era Mark says it respects the worker's right to strike and looks forward to continuing to bargain in good faith.
It's eleven oh one and the Trump administration has canceled almost half a billion dollars in contract connected to mRNA vaccine Research. Your CBS is Steve Kathan.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior calls the mRNA technology too risky, even though it's been widely used for COVID and flu vaccines. CBS News Medico contributor doctor Selene Gounder what the.
Advantage of mRNA is is it's much faster to make than a protein vaccine. It's much more efficient, and so when you're in the middle of an emergency like a COVID pandemic, you want the fastest thing possible, something that you don't have to wait years to develop.
Kennedy says the government is now prioritizing the development of what he calls safer, broader vaccine strategies. Steve Kaith and CBS News one of the top.
Companies researching these mRNA vaccines is Maderna, which is based in Cambridge. We reached out to ask them if they're impacted at all by this. They told us they're not aware of any new contract cancelations involving their company, but it's bird flu vaccine contract was canceled back in May. ABC News reporting this morning, Vice President jd Vance is said to host ten Trump administration officials tonight over dinner. They're going to talk about their strategy regarding the Epstein case.
The Trump administration is considering releasing the transcript from the Department of Justice interview with Gilaine Maxwell. She's the convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein. Meantime, we're hearing from the brother and sister in law of one of Epstein's.
Victims, Virginia Giufray, one of the most vocal victims of Epstein and Maxwell, took her own life in April. Her sister in law, Amanda Roberts, tell CBS Mornings Gilaine Maxwell was a monster who took part in the abuse, and she should not have been moved to a minimum security prison camp while she appeals her conviction.
It is a slap in the face the idea that she could potentially get.
A part in Sky.
Roberts says they will continue to fight for justice for his sister.
She was a powerful voice in the survivor community.
She allowed survivors to have a platform. Michael Wallace, CBS News.
It is still certainly smoky out there in some areas today from the Canadian wildfires, and we don't exactly have an air quality alert in place. We do if you're west of I ninety one in the Berkshires from the National Weather Service. But here in Boston it is just a bit hazy out there, although not as densely as it was yesterday. We can actually see a little bit through the haze today. Later on we'll get up to about seventy five if you're on the coast, and eighty
if you're inland. For tonight, partly to mostly cloudy. We have a lone year sixty for tomorrow. The smoke will continue to move out of our neck of the woods, mix of sun and clouds and a high near seventy five on the water, eighty inland. Then warmer on Friday, with mostly sunny skies seventy eight to eighty at the harbor,
up to eighty five if you're inland. Temperatures right now seventy two in Framingham north of Boston, seventy three in Newburyport south of Boston, a bit warmer on the south coast, where it's seventy five in Mattapoiset, and in Boston at eleven oh five it is hazy and seventy five degrees. An infant is now fighting for her life after she was bitten by a tick on Martha's vineyard. WBC's Jim McKay reports, health officials think this could be a case
of powassan virus use. Every time we're out and about.
Lydia comes to great Esco Park in Weymouth with her children on nice summer days. Tick safety always on her mind as a mom with two kids and two dogs. Poason virus only adding to those concerns.
That's quite concerning as we got a lot of kids and animals. Yeah, it's too bad, especially right now.
Carol from Hingham heard about the case involving the newborn from Martha's vineyard potentially contracting powasen, which has symptoms that range from brain seizures to encephalitis and other severe sickness. Unlike other tick born illnesses, poasen is no vaccine nor a specific.
Treatment for Lydia.
She has her thorough routines.
After a good.
Walk, we do a thorough check of the children in Weymouth. Jimmycka to Believe VS Boston's news radio.
President Trump threatening new action after a former Dose staffer was beaten up by a group of teens. Here's ABC Stephen Portland if.
DC police reports as the incident happened Sunday morning, around three am, officers said they saw a group of about ten teens surrounding a vehicle assaulting a man who said he was protecting his girlfriend. As police approached, the young assailants took off on foot. Two were arrested. The victim was identified as nineteen year old Edward Korstein, who was a top Dog staffer when the effort was led by
Elon Musk. President Trump posted a picture of the bloodied man as he vowed to take federal control of the city if DC doesn't quote get its act together and quickly.
And former Doge Haad Elon Musk also talking about this on x saying it is time to federalize Washington, d C. City of Quincy says it wants a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over a plan to install a pair of giant statues outside the new public Safety building. Fifteen residents of various faiths teaming up with the ACLU and other advocacy groups for the suit, which claims the statues of Saint Michael and Saint Florian promote a certain religion over others.
That is something that government agencies are not allowed to do here in Massachusetts. Patriot Ledger reports Mayor Thomas Kocou's Catholic maintains the statues are meant to boost morale and promote good over evil. The city also claims the ten
foot tall bronze statue use have no religious purpose. The city also says in the motion to try to dismiss the suit that not installing the statues at this point will amount to anti Catholic discrimination and dissociating and scrolling endlessly on your phone is not just causing problems to your mental health, it's also not doing you any favors physically.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association says ten to eighteen year olds who spent more time on devices or at higher risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance. The association's doctor Amanda Marma Perik says those kids moved less and slept less. Coding or doing research on screens could be beneficial, but not more passive activities.
Like social media and YouTube and those kinds of short videos.
The researchers found ten year olds or on devices three hours a day on average, eighteen year olds are on them six hours a day.
Michael Wallace, CBS News.
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