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Could I interest one of our listeners to take the controls this morning? Perhaps that's all right, I'll get through it. Thank you for being with us at six o'clock on this Friday morning, and we're waking up under some clear skies for a change sixty two here in Boston. The News at six is brought to us by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown and smoke out.
More sun than clouds of warmat Boon.
I have seventy by the harbor, up to eighty four for some of the inland suburbs. As WBZ akiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Nice weekend on the way too, as we kick off yet another heat wave in Boston. It is also full moon weekend. You got to get an early wake up call for the Sturgeon Moon's peak, which is tomorrow morning at three close enough under clear skies tonight. The Sturgeon Moon takes its no aim from the fish found in the Great Lakes region this time of year.
But wait, there's more an added bonus before Moon set to with Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn all along the western skyline. President Trump wants more from college campuses. This time, the President expands his push to get more information from admissions offices on the applications of all students. Inspired by the Department of Education, the latest move indicates it will push the envelope on the twenty twenty three Supreme Court decision
outlawing race based admissions. Meantime, the Trump administration will investigate the public school system of Baltimore on concerns of anti Semitism. This indicates an expansion into K through twelve schools on the administration's DEI policies, which have long been a target in higher education. The US Air Force denies early retirement offers to longtime transgender service members. The move applies to those with fifteen to eighteen years of service and will
instead force them out with no retirement benefits. Transgenders service members will be given the choice to quit or be fired with lump some payments as a parting gift. The Pentagon says transgender troops are medically unfit to serve, something civil rights activists say amounts to discrimination. A federal court judge puts the brakes on construction of Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, responding to environmental groups and Native American claims. The pause
is good for two weeks. Governor Ron Decentas says the nearly half a billion dollar detention camp for undocumented and criminal migrants is meant to be temporary destination. William's Port is away.
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That's the call on ESPN as Braintree Little leaguers are going to the World Series with an extra innings walk off over Bedford, New Hampshire. Late night Baseball tonight, Red Sox open a weekend series in San Diego and the Patriots finally play football in their preseason opener. But tonight it's a double feature in Foxborough.
What's a question that grips the mines of fans today in New England. What would Tom Brady look like in the statue?
That's a good question.
What post do you think this statue will be?
Oh gosh, fist pump or something very few, very know what awaits behind the black tarps that surround the bronze tribute to TB twelve just outside the Pro Shop here at Jillette Stadium, which will be unveiled just before Tonight's preseason opener against Washington. I was only forty five feet tall.
They can never do too much for that guy.
Oh absolutely.
I mean I grew up on Tom Brady and watching him win and just bringing home Super Bowls.
Not to be lost in the hoopla, there is that gate.
I got big hopes. Totally excited to see what Drake May is to offer, and I'm excited to see what Brabel breaks the table too.
Chris Fauma WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
We finally entirely cleared the air here in Greater Boston and we're off to the race. It is going to be a good looking day already is here in the city. Some cities and towns are in the fifties as we get rolling this morning at sunrise we are we do have partly sunny skies here in the city. The moment sixty two degrees right now. We're on our way to about eighty in Boston today, slightly warmer in Inland locations.
This great stretch of weather is just going to get a little bit better and hotter and more humid too, as we work our way through the weekend. Clear and comfortable overnight Tonight, plenty of sunshine again, mid seventies Boston, Tomorrow low eighties, and inland locations. Sunday we start to
turn the jets on. It's mostly sunny, but it's much warmer with the high right around ninety degrees, and it looks like this could be the beginning of an extended heat wave, which some models indicate will take us through the entirety of next week. With temperatures in excess of ninety degrees. Right now in Boston, very cool and comfortable, sixty two. Clear skies here in the city at six oh six this Friday morning. A summertime mosquito menace shows up once again in the Metro West region.
Yeah, West Nile virus is detected in samples in Framingham. Health officials there say it is enough to elevate the city's risk to moderate. The spraying comes next. You know, the drill, cover up and use some bug spray yourself, especially outside down and dusk. No human cases of West Nile have been reported this year in Massachusetts. That is important to note. Drew maahalland WBZ.
Boston's news radio workers walk on eggshells these days as the Market Basket family food fight continues.
I love this company and that's why Valerie Pallito is speaking out, putting her job on the line. After thirty five years at market Basket.
I wake up wondering if today's day that I'm not going to be able to get in, but Mikey.
Kaid because of the major change in company culture, she says. The store operation supervisor tells WBZ that she's received numerous employee complaints within the grocery stores corporate headquarters, prompting her to send this July eighteenth letter to the board of directors, which reads, what was once a culture grounded in mutual respect, integrity, and accountability has in recent months evolved into one defined
by fear, hostility, and lack of direction. It just wasn't the market Basket that we have had before the twenty eighth the twenty eighth of May today, long time SEEEO Arthur T. De Mullas was suspended by the board.
CBS News Boston's Christina rex de Mulis and others are unpaid leave, while two longtime executives have been fired, all suspected of trying to orchestrate a worker revolt on claims the board is about to stage a takeover. And Ugly Dogs, Today is your day.
Perhaps your pooch wasn't the prettiest at the pound, they can still be top dog at the World's Ugliest Dog contest later today at the Sonoma County Fair in California. There is a cause behind the pageantry, raising awareness about pet adoption. At least for a day, your ugly duckling can transform into a sleek swan Wendy You let CBS.
News You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio