This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news. All right Friday, bringing in your little devil and welcome back. It is six o'clock on this Friday morning, finally in Boston, and we're waking up with some heat and humidity today seventy two right now in the city. The News at six is brought to us by your new England Toyota Dealer,
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. As summer deals another hothand sunshine and building clouds at a breezy hot that qmub A high of ninety one to ninety five is WBZ achiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. The air index temperatures will be in excess of one hundred degrees. The air will clear however overnight tonight for a pretty good look in weekend, time is almost up for a concession workers at Fenway Park to cut a deal with
their bosses at vendor Aramark at noontime. Strike seems like a sure bet at this hour, and just hours before the Red Sox are expected to host the Dodgers this weekend. The union hope's fans will turn their backs on the concession stands, but Aramark says it has a contingency plan for what would be the park's first ever concession strike. Well, he turned professional wrestling inside outac.
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Hulk Hogan was professional wrestling, and Terry Bellay is over the top persona transformed the sport into a mainstream juggernaut, appearing in films like Rocky three, from the Loops and of course, the very first WrestleMania in nineteen eighty five. It wasn't always smooth sailing. In nineteen ninety four, he admitted to using steroids for thirteen years. Then twelve years later he was kicked out of the WWE Hall of Fame the result of a sex tape scandal.
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Will Cogan died at his home in Florida after first responders recalled there on concerns of cardiac arrest. Hul Cogan was seventy one. A done deal, the FCC blesses CBS parent company Paramount's merger with entertainment and media giant sky Dance for eight billion dollars. This is the deal that has caused so much uproar at CBS. The company settled a recent lawsuit of by President Trump over what it claims was a manipulated interview by sixty minutes with one
time presidential rival Kamala Harris. The settlement of sixteen million dollars and then canceled Stephen Colbert and the Late Show franchise. Critics say the payoffs are a veiled bribe. All right, settle down as life returns to normal. This hangout continues to rock a Metro Westworld for the past three years. Haley's life in Stow has been absolutely miserable.
Worst experience in my life.
That's because they lost both of their Duncan locations in a matter of weeks. My reporting on that original story went viral.
Because I've been traveling further away to go at Dunkin Donuts.
Yeah, you already have to travel now a mile and a half. The sun shined on great road as these words rang through the PA. We're officially ending our Duncan Desert at State Rep. Kate Hogan speaking to a crowd of hundreds in front of the newest Duncan location, which is not exactly in Stoved.
Welcome everyone to the town of Duncan, Massachusetts.
Yeah, they changed the name of the town to Duncan for one day, which Haley says is not enough.
I wish you would stay like this forever. And what time did you get here today? One thirty in the morning where she.
Was in line for eight and a half hours for the record in Duncan, Massachusetts. Matt Shearer, WBZ, Boston's News radio.
So this is going to be one of the hottest days of the season in a summer that has piled hot days one on top of the other. It seems seventy two and increasingly muggy this morning. A heat advisory remains in effect until eight o'clock tonight. We'll see some sunshine this morning, building clouds throughout the day and the afternoon thread of showers and thunderstorms as temperatures rise well into the nineties. The record is ninety six, set more
than a one hundred and forty years ago. We'll get very close to that today if not eclipse it, and the heat index will top one hundred degrees. We'll see those showers and thunderstorms rumble through the area later today and then the air starts to clear out overnight tonight, which is going to set the stage for a pretty decent looking weekend with the mix of sun and clouds both Tomorrow and Sunday, with daytime highs right around eighty before we start to warm things right back up as
we head back to work on Monday. Right now in Boston its seventy two and some hazy skies here in the city at six oh six this Friday morning. It's a great day at the beach for adults to play in the sands.
They'll not finish. The sand sculptures and the craftsmanship behind them are leaving folks in awe.
I'm amazed. I can't believe what they could do with Seand I was really good when I was little at digging holes at the beach, but not so much.
Building castles tell me from Revere is getting a good look long before the large crowds show up, which have seemingly been getting larger each year.
They never used to shut this bore down here now they do, and they're very strictation, so I would come early. But it's exciting. I love seeing the little kids. I used to seeing the little kids' faces.
His advice for those coming down take public transportation.
You're not going to find a new wheel to park.
At Revere Beach. James Rojas w b Z, Boston'snoos Radio.
It literally smells like death and people are going to flock to its stench. A rare blooming of the noted corpse flower is about to take place in Wellesley. It takes about ten years from seed to bloom, and this is the weekend at Wheaton College. To breathe it in, experts say the corpse flower will be gone in a flash, too. Better hurry. The bloom only lasts for about twenty four hours. It looks like it's been a great year so far.
Down on the farm, that's the biggest blueberry I've ever seen.
Come on.
Jane and Paul Newton run Jane and Paul's farm in Norfolk. They're showing me blueberries as wide around as golf balls. They've been in the business forty years and haven't seen a season like this ever. The bushers are so heavy with berries that the branches would touch the ground if they weren't held up. This style of new frills blueberry farm is common in southeastern mess I.
Enjoy it being simple. Somebody retired. You want to simple out here.
In many other places, they just give you a bucket and let you have at it. No hay rides or bouncy houses.
To speak up.
Paul dispelled some blueberry miss while we were there.
A lot of people think the green ones are going to turn blue at home like a tomato. Yes, and they're picking blue in green and you have to say no, you got to just pick the blue one.
Kyle Schaffel, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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