This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news. All right, let's get this party started on a Wednesday morning in Boston at six o'clock. And we're getting started under cloudy skies and hazy conditions. Again, it's sixty five degrees in Boston. 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. It is a different day, but it's the same old smoke.
We'll see clouds in some hazy sun today with the high seventy four in Boston but approaching eighty inl That.
Is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Boston finally gets to clear the air. By the end of this week, hate crimes approach a record high in the United States. Wbz's Drew moholland has some numbers.
SBI has been keeping tractor reveal it's second largest total for twenty twenty four, with more than eleven thousand, five hundred criminal hate crime cases. While this is a disturbing trend, officials also say overall hate crimes are down one point five percent from an all time high a year before, but bias is still right for targets in the Jewish community, Muslim Americans, and the LGBTQ community, all of which represent
more than half of all hate crimes. Drew moholland wb Z Boston's news Radio.
A familiar face will be at Karen Reid's side during her upcoming civil lawsuit. Alan Jackson says the legal team and Reed have a few more chapters to write in her saga, and says he's proud to continue defending Reed's relentless pursuit of justice. In an upcoming wrongful death lawsuit in Plymouth Superior Court. Reed's defense team has filed a motion to dismiss the case filed by the family of
John O'Keefe. Reid was acquitted of all major charges in a recently concluded murder trial of her one time boyfriend. No date has been set for the civil suit, but the next court hearing is scheduled for late next month. You can make it seven wins in a row for the Red Sox, who beat the Royals again at Fenway Park. They'll go for the sweep tonight. First pitch is seven
to ten. Later this morning, new faces in Foxborough as the Patriots begin joint practices with Washington in advance of Friday nights pre season opener, Big Day, and a big money deal for the NFL and ESPN Sports Network will acquire the rights to the NFL Network and the NFL Red Zone, not to mention its fantasy property as well. It's a landmark deal that will give the league a ten percent stake in ESPN. Terms of the agreement or not yet finalized, that will need the approval of NFL owners,
not to mention federal regulatory approval as well. Boston well known as the walking City, and apparently we're getting our daily steps in faster than ever.
By analyzing video footage from nineteen eighty to twenty ten with AI MIT, researchers found pedestrians in Boston, New York, and Philly are walking at a faster rate fifteen percent faster. However, we're lingering less in public spaces by fourteen percent. Not surprising for some.
That's definitely true because I feel like everyone's in a rush to get to where they're going, and I feel like before you'd want to like linger, whether you go to like the boss public library, go to the common like now, there's just like, I don't know about that any kind of litay, go find some more self like a cafe.
It's funny that Vanessa mentioned a cafe because researcher suggests there's been a shift in people socializing more and indoor venues like coffee shops rather than outdoor public spaces.
That's obviously why I'm sitting in South Asians. I don't kind of want to go anywhere else, and I was like, I'm just going to come here for now.
In downtown Boston. James Rojas WBZ Boston, some News Radio.
More smoke from Canadian wildfires will reduce air quality from time to time in much of Massachusetts. Again today, we're going to be dealing with this smoke through tomorrow at the very least, before we finally start to clear the air. So the details today are mainly that we're under cloudy skies in much of the area. We do have some
very thick, hazy sunshine elsewhere as well. Temperatures again a little bit cooler than normal in the mid to upper seventies today, It's going to be a little bit warmer away from the water. In inland locations will top eighty overnight tonight partly to mostly cloudy lows in the fifties and sixties again. Tomorrow looks like we're going to do this all one more time with the smoky Hayes again with highs in the seventies. And then on Friday we finally start to look at some blue sky and some
sunshine returning too. Highs will be in the upper seventies to low eighties. That's going to set the stage for what looks to be a pretty decent looking weekend as well. Right now in Boston it's sixty five and smokey Hayes. Here in the city once again, it's six oh five on this Wednesday morning. A new survey shows your lifestyle isn't getting the credit it deserves.
A new report from bankrate dot com is found having a so called subprime credit score of six hundred and twenty or lower, we'll cost an average of thirty four hundred dollars more per year for financial services than someone with a credit score of seven hundred or higher.
Your credit score basically predicts your likelihood of paying loans back, and even one blemish can have a really big impact.
Ted Rossman is a financial analyst with bankrate dot Com Jim Chrysuli sibis new.
The disaster of the titan submersible on a mission to explore the Titanic was preventable. That's the ruling from the US Coast Guard with it, which is out with its report on the disappearance and implosion of that vessel two years ago. The tragedy cost all five on board their lives, whose story resonated around the world. The Coastguard says owner Ocean Gates safety procedures were critically flawed, which revealed themselves
in glaring disparities between safety protocols and actual practices. The disaster wound woods up and wound up in several lawsuits and tighter regulations for private deep sea exploration. It was eighty years ago today and which brought the surprising end of World War II and ushered in the beginnings of the Cold War when President Harry Truman orders Theonola gay to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It killed eighty thousand instantly and tens of thousands more
later due to the fallout. A second atomic bomb hit Nagasaki days later, which ultimately brought the unconditional surrender of Japan. The US had been working on this Manhattan project for years in secret. Only Jay, Robert Oppenheimer and a handful of others knew full well the extent of the operation and its deadly impact, while more than one hundred thousand others worked on it unwittingly. Blue Light Specials find deals with younger diners these days.
It's not necessarily a credo, but a growing trend.
Sure, I'd say earlier dinners better.
That seems to be the new way of gen z who are gobbling up early dinner reservations these days, rather than times previously considered fashionable seven, eight, even nine pm.
Absolutely, maybe have drinks, take our time. It's very relaxed, laid back, and then it leaves you more time to maybe go to a bar afterwards.
It also makes things easier, she says, when it's time to head home for the.
Night, you're always conscious of like, how am I going home? What's the last tram, what's the last train? I need to be on it? So I'm avoiding any taxi costs at all possible.
Chris Fomman WBZ, Boston's news radio. You are now in the loop for news updates. Throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio