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where'd my summer go? Rather cloudy with a gusty wind and periods of brain are hi today sixty five to sixty nine. That is w b Z Achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. A coastal flood advisory is in effect for high tides today. Much of the rain, though we'll be confined to south of Boston. A New York mugging throw good move and despite hanging on to the shirt into the end zone goes on Bazaar the call on Amazon primes.
The Patriots get pummeled by the Jets and the worst loss to their rivals in twenty five years, but is that game the start of a new era?
It wasn't quite Gerald Ford taking over for Richard Nixon, but Drake May did make his NFL debut last night against the Jets.
I didn't even know that early.
I didn't hear about that.
I didn't even I just what quarter, fourth quarter on the team's last drive, And if you were up late enough to watch the beginning of the game, it went about as well as things went for starter Jacoby Brissett al Michael's on prime.
May under pressure and gets sacked.
One of seven sacks allowed by a leaky at best offensive line and a game that was nowhere near as close as the final score may indicate.
It didn't look too good.
Not really what I wanted to see.
I mean strate to say hopeful, but.
I don't know.
Chris Fauma WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Doesn't get any easier for the Patriots. Next up, San Francisco, a Senate committee votes to approve civil and criminal contempt of Congress charges against the head of bankrupt Stewart Healthcare, Ralph Delatory is taken to the woodshed for his refusal to testify to the panel under subpoena. Lawyers for Delatory say he's being made a scapegoat for the hospital chain's financial failures, while senators want to know why he and others with the company continue to live lives of the
rich and famous. The full Senate will take up the matter next meantime, State and regulatory approvals continue in hopes of approving sales of Stewart's remaining six hospitals in Massachusetts due by the end of this month, and a new report with some alarming findings on social media and your privacy is house.
Self regulation has been a failure. That's one of the main findings in a one hundred and twenty nine page report by the Federal Trade Commission. It accuses social media companies like Meta, YouTube, and TikTok of a vast surveillance of their users, including children, while failing to protect their privacy and personal information. Jelena Kahn says the companies collect enormous amounts of personal data and make billions of dollars
off it every year. FTC says it's time for Congress to pass the legislation to protect privacy and young users online. Daria alving Er.
ABC News Summer's Last Gasp is underway. Final full day of summer is tomorrow. It's not going to feel like it looks like the season's already packed its bags and left us. We've got a cool northeasterly breeze today as temperatures will remain in the mid sixties. It's the best we'll do in fact, right now out the door at sixty four, but it feels a little bit on the humid side. It's a damp field to the air as well. Just a couple of rain drops here in the Greater
Boston area. Most of the rain this morning is confined over the Cape and the islands, and there is some choppy water as well. We do have a high surf advisory in place this morning and a coastal flood advisory for the times of some astronomical high tides throughout the day today. Again, most of this rain is going to be confined to the south shore, the Cape and the islands, and that's the way it's going to be looks like over the weekend. With an unsettled weather pattern settling in.
We've got temperatures mainly in the sixties. Some sunshine will help us round out the weekend on Sunday. Right now in Boston, cloudy skies and damp at sixty four here in the city six oh five on this Friday morning. The head of the correction officers union at a maximum security prison in Massachusetts says this week's inmate attack on members is attempted murder.
Tensions are high inside and outside the Suza Baranowski Correctional Center that remains in lockdown with tighter security at the entrance. Two corrections officers were violently stabbed by inmates in a housing unit, and their union wants answers, calling it a hit.
We're going to try and kill this officer. Fortunately, this officer fought his way past it and threw it, and now we're lucky that we're not talking and having a different conversation right now.
One officer was stabbed twelve times in the back and remains.
Hospitalizedwdbztv's Beth Germano also tells us four of the other officers have been treated and released from a nearby hospital. It is a month and a half till election. Can you believe that Donald Trump takes his campaign to Arizona and Nevada today, while Kamala Harris will be in Wisconsin for a rally mail in voting is already underway in a number of states. You can add Minnesota and Virginia to that list today and Vermont jumps on board tomorrow.
Also today, the first early in person voting begins in Virginia, South Dakota, and Minnesota, home state of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walls. Mail in and early in person voting gets underway in Massachusetts next month. Your coffee comes with a bit of an additional jolts up.
Bright green pod is set up in a parking lot, and when you drive up, we.
Put your order in the window and that window opens and then it's right there.
Good old coffee with a science fiction feel. Rob Witten started ping alongside his partner. You order on the app and turn on Bluetooth to make the magic happen. Right now, they're still inside the pod making sure things go smoothly. But the goal of this pilot is complete automation. Rob says. The feedback's been.
Good or no way? Or is that really my drink? You know it's and it's all freshly made.
Who knows. Maybe robo baristas are the way of the future. And Lowell, I'm Madison Rogers WBZ Boston's news radio.
You like that morning cup of coffee, do you well? Good, because it's about to cost you an arm and a leg.
Brazilian coffee farmers are grappling with above average temperatures as the country, the world's largest coffee producer, faces its worst drought in more than seven decades. Vietnam, the second largest coffee producer, is also experiencing heat and drought affecting its coffee crops. That's causing crops shortages, which are now expected to send coffee prices positively percolated. Michael Toscano, CBS News.
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