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By Monday morning. Kind of creeps up on you rather quickly, doesn't it, especially in the summertime. Sixty five degrees under hazy and mostly cloudy skies as we get started this morning, Thanks for being with us. At six o'clock. The news is brought to us by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. It's smoke from a distant fire.
Let's see easy sunshine today and it will be very warm.
But not all that human. That is wbz ACU weather meteorologist Joe Lumberg. And air quality alert has been posted effective right now until midnight tonight. That's due to the wildfire smoke from Canada. It'll be in the eighties later
on today. Capitol Hill is quiet this morning as the Senate joins the House on a summer break, and it's month long recess leaves a lot of untended business and ticks off President Trump, who blasts Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and tells him to go to hell for putting up roadblocks to the Republican majority's agenda. The break now leaves the GOP scrambling with a promise to establish new rules to pick up the pace of confirmations after Democrats
deny consent votes and insist on roll calls. And now there's some talk of some recess appointments, the so called nuclear option in the Senates. Back home, nothing is off limit for scammers, even your search for home suite home. Boston police are out with a warning over a phone scheme that targets renters looking for local apartments. The callers pose as landlords featuring a great piece of real estate.
Police say, really does not exist. The plot involves you sending money up front with wire transfers, gift cards or other types of payment. The plot twist you never get to see the space. Got to act fast. Boston Police say, do your research and if any deal sounds too good to be true, you know it likely is. Well. This year is showing signs of the worst year for home buyers. CBS's Chanel call with.
More logan motorshaw Mee House Wire argues this slowdown is actually healthy. This is the best medicine for the housing market currently because home price is escalated out of control.
Price growth cooling down as a positive.
For everyone, and with builder confidence taking up in July, he says more inventory could boost sales, but once the man picks up, we need more housing out there, and lower ritz.
Could facilitate interest rates and inflation or moving the needle here, but it's next to impossible also for many families to afford the price tag of a single family home, which in Greater Boston now carries a median price tag of more than one million dollars. Well, all of a sudden, Stevie Nicks is not coming to Boston. Wbz's Drew moholland with late details.
Good morning Andrew, Good morning Jeffreyeah the legend she is. Stevie Nicks has to put her tour on hold. The former Fleetwood max Star fractured her shoulder and she will put all shows in August and September on the shelf. The plan is for the October shows to go on as scheduled. Nick, who is seventy seven, was scheduled to play the Game guarding a week from tomorrow, but due to that injury, the Boston show Jeff has now been moved to November twenty fourth.
All right, Drew, thank you. At least she's going to be here to make up for that lost time. Absolutely in sixty five degrees since we get started this Monday morning, and it looks like mostly cloudy skies, but it's an awful lot of haze in the atmosphere, and that haze is the smoke from the Canadian wildfires which has been traveling south over the past couple of days, and it's really going to affect our air today. In fact, an
air quality alert has been posted for all day. It expires officially at midnight tonight, so it might be a rough day to be outside if you have any respiratory issues. In the meantime, it is going to be very warm today, not all that humid, with daytime highs between eighty five and ninety today, mainly clear, Still the wildfire smoke in the atmosphere, you'll certainly see it and may be able to smell it as well. With temperatures tonight dropping into
the sixties. Tomorrow looks like another decent day with some sunshine, highs in the mid to upper seventies. Wednesday looks good too, same story, seventies and lower eighties. And then on Thursday, we're switching the script a little bit with more clouds than sun, with highs again right around eighty. Right now in Boston, it's sixty five degrees here in the city and hazy skies at six oh five on this Monday morning, the Greater Boston trash strike is not over, and it's not even close.
Disappointed, that's how Republic Services describes the feeling. After ninety three percent of union members voted to stay on strike. The company says it's non union employees and support staff will continue service and customers in the Greater Boston area, which includes Wakefield, where Tony has noticed.
In Wakefield, I saw two new trash structures had rent me on them, so I know the scabs are working for them, so I don't go for that.
The union leadership, meanwhile, says Republic is being disrespectful to employees who continue to fight for higher wages and better benefits. The strike is going into week five. In Wakefield. James drohas w b Z Boston's news radio.
Thousands of workers at Boeing are on strike this morning. More than thirty two hundred of them walk off the job from plants in the Midwest where fighter jets are made. The workers say enough's enough. After rejecting a recent offer that would have raised their pay by twenty percent over four years. Meantime, and for the first time in its ninety year history, workers at every single casino on the
Las Vegas Strip are now union members. This after employees at the Venetia and Fontainebleau become the latest certified by the Culinary Union, which now dominates Vegas with some sixty thousand members well in this year's pan Mass Challenge now in the books. More money this weekend goes to a great cause.
There's no better feeling than crossing the finish line.
It was the most amazing Sunday PMC ever, through perfect conditions, couldn't have been better.
PMC founder Philly Starr I shark great behaviors.
Ready to add it to big success.
We gotta raise money. That's what we're hit it too. Every dollar raised in the ride goes to cancer research at Data Farvard, with this year's goal set at seventy six million.
Dollars CBS News Boston's Logan Hall and by all accounts, it was a smash hit this year. Since it start forty five years ago, the Penmass Challenge has raised more than one billion dollars for cancer research. Celtic's owner Steve Pagliuca says the WNBA's Connecticut sun belong in Boston, and his record breaking price tag for the team backs it up.
In his first statement since reaching a deal with the Mohegan Tribe, Pagliuca says it's now in the league's hands, which has been hesitant to sign off on the deal. Pagliuca says this deal is best for the WNBA, the team, and its fans. While the league reiterates that the deal is subject to its approval and not the team's approval, Boston remains far down the list of possible expansion cities for the league. You are now in the loop For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio
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