Morning Report: Saturday, July 5, 2025

This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news in a few clouds in Boston and some sunshine. At six o'clock, it is sixty six degrees.

Good morning. I'm Charlie Burger on Here's What's happening. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signing a disaster declaration following catastrophic flooding. At least twenty four are dead, hundreds are missing. Authorities promising to work around the clock on search and rescue efforts. CBS Austin's Andrew Freeman from Kerville.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott called this mass casualty event totally unpredictable, with not even the National Weather Service forecasting how much rain we actually received. The Guadaloupe River rose twenty six feet in less than an hour and a half.

So far, nearly two hundred and forty people have been rescued. On top of the twenty four confirmed casualties, there are at least twenty three girls who are missing from a summer camp. A fourth of July picnic on the White House lawn the backdrop for President Trump to sign his tax and Spend bill into law. ABC senior White House correspondents Lina Wang breaks down what it took for the president to get it to his desk.

The nearly one thousand page bill the cornerstone of Trump's agenda. Republicans in Congress narrowly passing it after Trump arm twisted and charmed holdouts in his own party. All but two House Republicans ended up voting for the bill, despite anger that it could add three point four trillion dollars to the debt over the next decade and estimates that steep cuts to Medicaid could force eleven point eight million Americans to lose their health insurance.

Democrats hoping to use passage of the bill to motivate voters for the twenty twenty six midterms. Governor Morri Hally signing a sixty one billion dollar state budget planned yesterday for the fiscal year, which began on Tuesday. The governor trimming one hundred and thirty million dollars in spending before adding her signature. Some of that money will would have gone to pay for coverage for obesity drugs for state employees. Also cut was a fund to expand mass health nursing

Moment the world changed.

Actor Kurt Russell looks around the Jason Russell House at Arlington, the historic colonial homestead where, on April nineteenth, seventeen seventy five, his eighth generation ancestor, Jason Russell, was killed in battle fighting British troops retreating from Lexington and Concrete on the first day of the American Revolution.

What's interesting is that when you get to understanding some of it, it leads you to where who these people were and why they had the attitude they had on both sides.

Jason Russell was shot and bayonetted to death on his doorstep defending family and freedom.

And the tragedy yes finished there, but it's that stuff that we that we think about. And I look at that and say, it's the things that led up to it that I'd like.

To really know about it, know about and perhaps make a movie about.

That movie is.

The one that I would want to see.

And I wouldn't mind playing.

Jason Foss.

In Arlington. Mike Maclin, WBZ Boston's news radio, thank you.

Let's check the four day WBZ at you weather forecast that Troy Thornton tells us. Today will be warm, but again the humidity expected to remain low. Another nice day, sun cloud's high eighty two to eighty six, closer to eighty or a high on the Cape, partly cloudy's sixties overnight tonight, and then we flipped the switch tomorrow. A heat advisory goes into effect tomorrow morning at seven o'clock continues until eight o'clock on Monday night. So Tomorrow a hot,

TSA Spokespirst in Jessica Meylee says security checkpoints are prepared for the surge of flyers trying to get home.

I think sometimes the departures are spread out, but that return is a little more concentrated. So if you're flying on Sunday, July six, pretty much anywhere.

Across the country, make sure you give yourself.

Plenty of time.

Meantime, Triple A spokesman Robert Sinclair says noon to six pm is going to be the worst time to be on the roads as a majority of the sixty one million people driving try to return home.

Tens of millions will hit the road for the fourth The good news is the prices at the gas pump are better.

The record number of Americans traveling for the Fourth of July holiday, including c. J. Kennedy, are enjoying a break from high gas prices.

It's been up and down.

Sometimes parts of the years has been very low and it has been very economical to travel, and then sometimes it can get up there used when the gas prices rise, but it.

Hadn't been too bad.

It's been pretty steady over these past couple months in my travels, so.

Triple A says average gas prices are at their lowest for this time of the year since twenty twenty one. Jim Chrysula, CBS News, Hillsville, Virginia.

And Triple A says the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas in Massachusetts just a little over three dollars at three oh seven. Metal heads are so happy history in the UK.

All four original members of Black Sabbath. They're promising satisfaction with the greatest heavy metal show ever. Geezer Butler, Tommy Iomi, bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne, who's fought multiple health battles, including Parkinson's, are reuniting in their native Birmingham, England for one final gig. It's a twenty year dream come true for rock fans who thought the quartet, with a combined age of three hundred and three, would never play together again.

Two CVS locations could soon be in the process of making way for some upscale housing in Boston, The Globe reporting the twenty four hour CVS pharmacy on Charles Street could soon be replaced by a five story apartment building. A real estate investment group has met with the Beacon Hill Civic Association about the project, but it has not