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Good morning, six o'clock on a Thursday, and we're getting started with sixty five degrees under partly to mostly cloudy skies. The News at six brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Welcome back on this Thursday morning. I'm Jeff Brown. We are too cool for school.
Well, I's breaking four some sunshine today.
Are afternoon high about seventy six in Boston. We will sneak into the lulities Inland as w b Z achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Below average temperatures again today, but there's a big warm up on the way and it begins tomorrow. Just like that, the Red Sox seven game winning streak is now history. The Royals take the series finale at Fenway. Socks are off today and then they're on the road. They hit up San Diego this weekend.
Summer dreams for Braintreet Little leaguers continue tonight the New England Regional against Bedford New Hampshire. A win Braintree and it goes to the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania next Foreign college applications are on the rise in other nations as the Trump administration continues to clamp down on migrants here through visa applications and deportations. Would be US
college students want to take their talents elsewhere. England is ready and prime to pounds a record number of applied to schools in China too. The numbers also trend higher in Canada and Australia as well. Experts say the United States does remain a prime destination, but schools with operations here with satellite campuses elsewhere will tend to benefit the most.
Dancing but not exactly cheek to achieve. President Trump says he plans to meet with Russia Vladimir Putin as soon as next week, and now word from the Kremlin is offer accepted. The Kremlin says the meeting will happen in the coming days. Putin's foreign affairs advisor, Yuri Oshakov set a location for the meeting has been agreed on and
will be announced later. It would be the first time Trump and Putin have met since Trump returned to office this Yeas CBS's Christopher Cruz a possible jump start to cease fire talks in the war with Ukraine on the line. The White House would also like a follow up meeting to include Ukraine's Voladimir Zelenski. At the stroke of midnight, the old US tariff slipper doesn't fit anymore, and President Trump's new rates of at least fifteen percent kick in
on more than ninety countries all around the world. The President also announces additional tariffs on India as punishment for doing business with Russia, and a one hundred percent hike on computer chips unless companies promise to source materials from the United States. The President says tariffs have already brought hundreds of billions of dollars to the United States, but offers no specifics. A blast from the past keeps popping up to remind us that COVID virus remains a real threat.
The latest variant, Stratus has just become the third most common strain in a short period of time. The x FG variant, also known as Stratus, goes from a virtual unknown and now accounts for almost fifteen percent of new cases all around the world. So a couple of things as we get our Thursday morning started. The bad news is that there are still some clouds in the sky. The good news is that the smoke from Canadian wildfires is going to begin easing its grip today and it
might be a little bit noticeable where you are. We might actually see a blue hint to the sky. Later on today there will be a mix of clouds and some hazy sunshine again, though overall temperatures will stall out in the mid seventies, so still a bit below average for this time of year, but we're going to fix that in the coming days. Overnight tonight mainly clear skies,
lows in the fifties and sixties again. Now Tomorrow looks like it's mostly sunny sky and most of the smoke will be gone tomorrow, so it looks like we will see at least a shade of blue in our neighborhoods. High temperatures will approach eighty decrees and over the weekend that's when we really start to warm things up. We're
back in the mid eighties on Saturday. It could be close to ninety or above on Sunday, and it looks like the long range forecast indicates that we could be in for it yet another heat wave coming up next week. Right now, in Boston, mostly Cloudy Sky sixty five. As we get started on this Thursday morning at six' oh. Five finding a house used to be on many of our bucket, lists but many of us continue to be simply priced.
Out the number of first time home buyers in THE us hit a historic low last, year only twenty four percent compared to thirty two percent the year. Before according to a new, study among the worst places for someone trying to plant roots Is, cambridge ranked at two hundred and eighty first out of three hundred. Cities this is based off several, factors including home affordability and the overall health of the real estate. Market boston didn't do much,
better coming in at two hundred and sixty. Third Palm, Bay, florida was the best for first time home buyers In. Cambridge James ROJAS, Wbz boston's news. Radio rats have become such a big problem In. Boston at least one woman claims she's been bitten by a rabbit sized road. Prodents, Now Boston city councilors want to take prevention a step.
Further The Boston Rodent Action plan covers plans to set up a city office to oversee the rat, problem while also the city councilor's pass ordinances that would make rat resistant trash bins. Available this follows the lead Of New York, city which has recently set up its own office with a rat. Czar studies have shown that rats do carry bacteria that is harmful to, us which begin with flu like symptoms shortly after. Exposure new study promises new hope
For alzheimer's. Patients research From Harvard university says a dose of lithium helps turn back the hands of time and shows signs of restoring memory from the effects of the brain wasting. Disease lithium is currently present in some foods and, water and there are trace amounts already in our. BODIES a study in the medical Journal nature finds lithium levels begin to. Decrease it's part of a first sign Of, alzheimer's but reintroducing small amounts of lithium helps some seven
Million americans for From. Alzheimer's, today The Greater Boston Trash collectors strike extends well into its fifth week and there's no end in. Sight Wbz's drew moholland is here with an. Update good Morning, Andrew good Morning.
Jeff you have more than a dozen cities and towns continue to make do as workers from Nearby Republic service communities not affected by the work stoppage step in other communities using municipal. Workers Mike collins as The commissioner Of Public works And beverly cannot wait for The republic strike to. End the great if we could just get back to the way things should. Be, yeah simple as that. Right some communities have set aside programs for self, disposal not always.
Easy The Team stars union Says republic is not even close in its final.
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