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News seventy one degrees and we are just starting to see some sunshine. It is six o'clock. Congratulations, you made it to Friday morning. It is August fifteenth, twenty twenty five. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Jim McKay and here's what's happening. Well, we all know it is the dog days of summer, but we're trying to say goodbye to that muggy weather, even if it's just for a day. We've got it on this Friday, clearing out with much more comfortable air race weather.
We'll finish out the work weekend, start us off into the weekends.
And that is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist Heather's air shaped up to be pretty good Saturday, and then it looks like that heat's going to return on Sunday. We'll have more on that in the four day forecast coming up. But first, at six p'inho one, a showdown in Alaska. President Trump set to depart the White House at about forty five minutes, getting ready for a long flight to Alaska to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A hope that progress can be made in Russia's invasion of Ukraine despite the lack of Ukrainian representation.
The negotiations will not be easy. This is going to be tough going for President Trump. Beth Noble is a professor at Fordham University in the former Moscow bureauchy for CBS News. She knows firsthand that Putin is a skilled negotiator. Seen him be very charming President Putin, and I have seen him be very very tough President Putin, adding, whichever one shows up, President Trump would be well advised to be on his guard about everything that President Putin has
to say. Linda Kenyon, CBS News the White House.
And that meeting gets under way at three o'clock this afternoon. The two leaders are expected to have a joint news conference after the summit. Of course, full coverage all day on WBZ news radio and the iHeartRadio app at six ZHO two. They are still alive, but it was a rough story for those Brainchtree Little leaguers. Their first game of the Little League World Series on Thursday, they lost thirteen to nothing to a very tough South Carolina team.
It is, however, double elimination, though so the play again on Saturday against Richmond, Texas. It's winner go home the rest of the way. To make it to the championship game, they would need to win five games in a row over the course of six days. Market Basket officially secured a civil restraining order against two former executives. Somebody thinks that either mister Gordon or myself were just going to go away at this point is solely mistaken.
That sound from just a few weeks ago is Firetop execs Tom Gordon and Joe Schmidt slam the board outside of Market Basket and now so.
I'm going to allow the injunction.
Allw Superior Court judge says the parent needs to stay away. The company says they visited more than twenty stores, harassing employees and kept at it despite being told several times to stay off the property.
That statement to them was clear and unequivocal.
Schmidd and Gordon are key allies of ousted CEO Arthur T. De Mulis. As a power struggle can continues to play out. Their lawyer argued employees let them in and wanted them there. The judge said he doesn't think they were trying to harm the business, but on its face, it's not a good look. Madison Rogers w b Z, Boston's news radio.
And a spokesperson for Arthur T. Demoula, saying the order is based on misconceptions, but they will respect it. Looks like this forecast is shaping up to be pretty solid here on this Friday. We're just getting our first glimpses of that sunshine on this Friday morning. We've got a nice, comfortable day ahead of us. We're looking at a projected hive around seventy five degrees in Boston. You gotta be a bit warmer as we head north and west of town,
and then were mainly clear. Lows down around sixty three degrees for tonight for your Saturday tomorrow sun much of the day. Hies up around eighty degrees for tomorrow. So again we're pretty comfortable in the beautiful starts of the weekend. Then by Sunday we could have some showers and thunderstorms rolling in. We're gonna have highs up around ninety and it's not going to be one of those conditions where we're going to have heat on Sunday and it's going
to be sticking around. We're actually cooling off as we begin next week. Right now, seventy one degrees with a pretty nice sun rise Here in Boston. It is six oh five, one of the world's richest men, giving local health research a boost after it gets battered by funding cuts.
Virtually every week we hear about more federal grant freezes and cancelations and medical research around Boston. Now many local orgs are getting some of that money back courtesy of one Bill Gates.
And I think this is the opposite of what's going on with the administration.
Doctor ken Meyer is medical research director at Fenway Health. The Gates Foundation gave the Queer Friendly Health provider two hundred grand to do a series of papers and sexual and reproductive health.
So the idea is to bring the best information together. So to help help advance the field.
Gates anuns a two point five billion dollar initiative to help shore up women's health research, with millions of that going to places in Boston. The doctor says, even Bill Gates can't do everything, but every little bit helps.
We've done a pretty good job of maintaining what we have.
Now.
The concern is for the next three and a half years about what the future of this kind of research.
Is Kyle straffeld WBZ Boston News Radio.
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