This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. All right, let's do this at six o'clock on a Tuesday morning and sundercloudy skies. It is a very muggy seventy five degrees already. The News at six is brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your Hybrid all wheel Drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown, and here we go again.
Folens will break for some sunshine today.
It'll be very warm with cumid with a high of eighty five to nine. That is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. A heat advisory is going to kick in later this morning and will last until Thursday night. Daytime highs will feel like they're very close to one hundred degrees. At Baseball's All Star Game in Atlanta, Seattle's Cal Rawley becomes the first catcher ever to win the home run Derby.
The Midsummer Classic Tonight pits the American League against the National League, and the WNBA brings its hottest act to Boston. Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever take on the Connecticut Sun at the Garden Tonight Television is about to pat itself on the back when this morning's Primetime Emmy Award nominations are announced. Top dramas like The Pit, White, Lotus, and Severance are expected to join comedy faves Hacks, The Bear, and The
Studio with the bulk of the nods. The Primetime Emmys will be handed out during a ceremony in Los Angeles on September fourteenth. Okay, Boomer, they see you and you've seen it. Clear eyes, fullhearts, can't lose, also, can't blink. Apparently it's the gen z stare and it's taken over. TikTok, A blank look young adults are giving That either means
you're an idiot or kids lack social skills. The debate on social media features adults who claim the generation's newest look emerges when an actual human engages them in conversation. Kids say it's not me, it's you, and the look is deserved when adults say something baffling. Experts say many in the younger generation have not spent much time in social settings and have not learned how to take and.
Give visual cues. Jaywilllett WBZ Boston's news Radio Today is x's birthday. Born from the remnants of a podcasting company once known as Twitter, the social media site turns nineteen years old. It's still a teenager, of course. The short messaging service started as a side project whose name is inspired by various bird sounds, and for some reason it worked or chirped after alternate names like friend stalker were
soundly rejected. Once limited to one hundred and forty characters, Twitter exploded it south by Southwest in two thousand and seven with more than sixty thousand tweets in a single day. Eventually sold to Elon Musk, Twitter, of course becomes x and remains one of the most popular social media sites in the world, with two hundred million users. The cost of a college education is worth it, the kids say so.
New survey finds girls, especially believe that a higher education degree is necessary to live a successful professional and personal life. The ape Pole finds about six and ten teenagers overall say college is worth it, though earlier surveys find fewer of their parents think so. The study also reveals that despite whatever college gets you, many kids still fear they won't live up to mom and dad's standards and they won't ever own a home, won't be able to raise
a family or achieve a solid standards of living. Dangerous heat is upon us once again, and it might be tough to tell that right now. Under cloudy skies and seventy five degrees, it kind of feels like Miami this morning here in Boston. But the heat is on and a heat advisory officially kicks in at eleven o'clock this morning and will last until the early evening on Thursday.
And what this means is it looks like we're going to be headed towards another heat wave here in Greater Boston, although in the city we might not get quite there every single day, but it's going to be warm enough to be very uncomfortable and very dangerous. Therefore the heat advisory today. The afternoon highs will be in the mid to upper eighties, maybe in the lower nineties, especially in
inland location. We are running into some rain drops this morning, but otherwise we'll see the clouds give way to sunshine later today. Dangerous heat continues tomorrow. It might be a few degrees even warmer tomorrow afternoon, and even on Thursday, with high temperatures approaching ninety once again, we may extend this heat advisory into Friday two, with temperatures effected to be close to ninety once again to round out the week.
Right now, it's seventy five under cloudy skies and a couple of rain drops this morning at six oh six on this Tuesday. Sunshine in the summer is dangerous too, even on what appears to be a cloudy day.
But buy or beware. Experts say you get what you pay for with sunscreens.
Skin cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, so it is serious business here wearing sunscreen.
You need to wear an SVF of thirty or above, and an SVF of thirty gives you about ninety seven percent protection, and then an SVF for forty five gives you about ninety eight percent protection from the sun's race, and after that it all kind of starts to level out, so you don't necessarily need an SCF of one.
Hundred Janine Downey. Each year, more than five million people in the US are treated for skin cancer. And it's not just the beach and on the boat by the lake that you're vulnerable, of course, the tennis courts, just walking the dog on the pavements sometimes you know the deal where that sunscreen, Drew Mahal and WBZ Boston's News Radio.
If they've told you once, they've told you a million times, and they're gonna tell you again.
The Animal Rescue League of Boston says cars get deadly hot for dogs. In a matter of minutes in the summer, temperature.
Outside about eighty one eighty two degrees. In less than ten minutes, temperature rose to approximately one hundred and fifteen degrees inside the car.
They did a demo for the press putting a giant thermometer inside a car and letting it sit for just a few minutes. This is part of their annual Too Hot for Spot campaign. Karen Lestranco is the director.
Of Law Enforcement.
A citizen ken remove it an animal from a vehicle if it's being left and confined in these conditions, and if there's imminent danger to that animal. That applies after they tell first responders. But in a worst case, it is legal here to break a window to save a dog.
Modern cars have an automatic shut off feature. If it's idling for a certain amount of time, the car will actually shut off.
Kyle Straffel, WBZ Boston's News.
Radio whilemakers on Beacon Hill begin to create quite a stir.
Some cities in towns and Massachusetts have already passed laws that banned tobacco sales for anyone born after a certain date, and there's now a push to take that state wide being discussed this week on Beacon Hill. The concept does have its detractors. Many retailers say it's infringing on freedoms and just driving people out of state to buy their tobacco products. New Hampshire and Rhode Island has already benefited
from people buying flavored tobacco products out of state. Some health experts believe it's a drastic but necessary step to rid all of the health problems tied to tobacco and nicotine addiction. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
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