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News, sunny in eighty three degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock good Wednesday morning, is July sixteenth. I'm Cherry Small. Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening. The Blue Line up and running once again, after yesterday's commute ended with hundreds of passengers being evacuated. Our wbz's James Rojas is at Boston Harbor with more.
I'm happy that I didn't get stuck on the train. Joe may not have gotten stuck on the train that stopped midway between Aquarium and Maverick stations, but he was among the many affected. Afterwards, I had to take a Silver Line, so I'll probably added maybe like about an hour to my way.
Home, a huge hour and a half delay for someone who just didn't expect. So it was like two hours compared to like forty minutes, so it was a pretty long commute.
Who had a worse were the folks who were on the stall train and they had to walk through the tunnel to get out thanks to a down communications cave.
And I see just this massive crowd of like five six other people.
Service has been restored and folks are hoping for a less eventful commute at aquarium station. James Rojas wb Z Boston's news Radio.
The City of Pebty calling on billionaire Bill Gates to take action in the ongoing sanitation workers strike. Gates is a principal owner of Cascade Investment, which is a major shareholder in Republic services. The city council says it wants Gates to use his influence and urge Republic to return to the negotiating table and address the striking workers demands. Republic has brought in trash collectors from out of state, but meanwhile some trash continues to pile up beneath the
hot summer sun. The city says the situation poses a serious public health risk. The union says a federal mediator told them that Republic would not agree to any further negotiation sessions. WBC News Radio has reached out to Republic and Cascade Investment for comment. House Speaker Mike Johnson joins the growing chorus of voices supporting the release of more
information about Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump had promised during his campaign to be more transparent about the investigation into the notorious sex offender, but recently his administration declared it would not release any more information on the case. ABC's Jonathan Carl with the latest.
Trump, like many other New York celebrities, had some association with Epstein. When Epstein was arrested in twenty nineteen, Trump said that he had previously had a falling out with him and had not spoken to him in fifteen years. The President told ABC's Catherine Falters that Bondi had briefed him on the Justice Department's review of the Epstein files.
Did she tell you what all.
That your name appeared in the god.
She's given us just a very quick briefing, and in terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen.
Some Trump supporters are now calling for the Attorney General's resignation, and.
Speaker Johnson commented on the situation while speaking with right wing podcaster Benny Johnson. Now, the ACU weather forecast Sunday to partly cloudy today, but it's going to be hot, highs ninety to ninety four, real field temps approaching one hundred eighty to eighty five for much of the Cape in the Islands, partly to mostly cloudy tonight, cooling down to only seventy five, so it's going to be hot,
sticky night. Thursday, a mix of sun and clouds, a thunderstorm or two that's happening in the afternoon and evening hours. Those could be strong and gusty. Highs eighty four to eighty eight again, Reel feels much warmer in the nineties. Friday, sun and some clouds, it'll be breezy. Eighty four to eighty eight is the high on Saturday. It looks like the weekend will be in the seventy seventy eight with
sunny skies on Saturday. Right now in the city, we're looking at eighty three degrees in sunny skies at eleven oh five. As the mercury rises, Boston calls for a heat emergency.
Public health and safety is the top priority. Is Mayor wou declares a heat emergency in the city, we.
Have you pulling and missing tents. There are now fifteen city pools that are open, with more scheduled to be opened over the next couple of weeks. As we've finished some of the final repairs on certain projects. We have eighty splash pads in parks and playgrounds across the city.
The city continuing to work on getting all the municipal pools across Boston repaired and reopened.
By the end of the year, we will have renovated more than half of all the city pools, and we have a couple more degard just to fix them up and make sure that we're maintaining them properly.
Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
A Dracot woman facing federal charges accused of leaking confidential grand jury information in the Karen Reid case. Thirty four year old Jessica Leslie sat on a federal grand jury investigating the state's handling of the Reed murder case. Prosecutors claimed that she disclosed sealed information including witness names, testimony details, and other evidence, between August of twenty twenty two and
March of twenty twenty four. She's charged with criminal contempt and has agreed to plead guilty those charges, announced yesterday. A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled. The plea deal does come with a recommendation that she be sentenced to time served. Another day. Another volcanic eruption in Iceland. Here CBS's Vicky Barker.
Live media images showed the volcano belching smoke, with hot, yellow and orange lava flowing from the fissures in the earth. Flights are still going in and out of the main airport Requivic, but Iceland's famous geothermal blue Lagoon spot has been evacuated, and those residents of the nearby town of Grindovic who didn't leave when this latest series of eruptions began two years ago have also been told to get out. Vicky Barker, CBS News London.
Stevie Wonder stomps out a long standing rumor here CBS is Devor Rodriguez with the tails ba.
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Stevie Wonder stopped a concert in Cardiff, Wales and commented on claims he can see the.
Truth is shortly after in my birth and became.
The seventy five year old singer calls his blindness a blessing.
It's a loud me CP doing this period of the thing.
Now, how they look, what color they are?
Last year, in an episode of the Wonder of Stevie audiobook, he shared that his mother would cry every night after he was diagnosed. He says he assured her God might have had something bigger in store for him. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm sharing a small WBZ, Boston's news radio