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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
News seventy degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
I'm Suzanne Sasville. Here's what's happening. Workers' rights are on
full display during Boston's first modern Day labor parade. W
bz's Mike Macklin was there.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thousands of union members gathered at the State House, where
Governor Morey Heey called President Donald Trump the enemy of
the American worker.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Donald Chump is not healthy America and its workers.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Donald chump is only healthy China.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
And a few of his richest Filly.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Air friends from Beacon Hill. They marched to City Hall
in Boston's first ever Labor Day parade.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Boston will not back down.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Mayor Michelle Woo up for real line. I should link
to her challenger, Josh Kraft to Donald Trump.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Today.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I'm proud to stand with labor in our community, holding
the line against the billionaire trying to buy an election
and buy our city. His campaign is being bankrolled by
these same mega donors who support Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Senator Reed Marky sounded an encouraging note for the working
class unions.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Right now, they're being knocked down, but they're not knocked out.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
They're gonna stand up, They're gonna fight, and they're gonna win.
The parade and rally took the place of the decades
old Labor Day breakfast, a sign of a new generation
for organized labor in Boston. Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Governor Mora Heally is also using this Labor Day to
call out the Trump administration's cuts to offshore win projects.
Heally issued a joint statement with the governors of New York,
New Jersey, and California praising workers in the offshore wind industry.
The administration ordered wind companies to stop construction on a
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project off the Rhode Island coast earlier this month, and
has canceled nearly six hundred and eighty million dollars in
offshore wind funding. The governors are calling on the administration
to uphold offshore wind permits and allow construction to continue.
Police and Watertown are investigating after three people were found
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shot to death in a multi family home yesterday morning.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It was crazy to see stuff like this in such
a neighborhood like those.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
The Middlesex DA says. Inside the home they found the
bodies of three people who were all known to each other,
an elderly woman who lived on one part of the unit,
and another woman and man who lived in a separate
space in the same unit. Investigators not sharing many more details,
other than saying there's no ongoing threat to the public
by group around here.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Truly quiet neighborhood. I was really surprised by everything.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
This is still an open investigation. Police have not yet
identified any of the three victims that.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Was CBS News Boston's Aaron Parsigian. Police have arrested a
suspect and a stabbing inside a Walmart in Plymouth Saturday night.
A sixty five year old man from Kingston is facing
several charges, including disorderly conduct and assault and battery with
a dangerous weapon.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
The forecast clear.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
To partly cloudy overnight, with a low near sixty in Boston,
fifties in the suburbs. Tomorrow is still dry with plenty
of sun, high seventy two On Wednesday, a few more clouds,
but warmer, with a high of seventy eight. On Thursday,
a mix of sun and clouds with a high of
seventy nine. Right now in Boston, it's mostly cloudy and
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seventy degrees. Lisas are flipping around Boston and in Cambridge,
students are getting settled in wbz's Emma Friedman has details.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Returning students at Leslie University are wiping away sweat as
they lug bags of clothes, coffee makers betting, while the
parents seem to be tackling the mini fridge, which is
no easy feat. Jan is just thankful for elevators and
things with wheels. This is the second year here and
I'm hoping we have those big containers to help you
put everything in the big container and too loads.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You're pretty much done.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Her daughter Johanna is back for senior year. You have
all your clothes consolidated.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
You know what you're bringing.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Your mama is shaking your head.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
No, I wanted her more organized.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
She just tried to do everything into some kind of bags,
some kind of way. Freshman got a jumpstart on the move,
But September first is all about returning students at Leslie.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
My master plans I show before everyone else, and I
get it done before everyone else so I can help
everyone else.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Jay showed up at six am to get started and
so the key to moving in with five roommates is organization,
but he loves a little controlled chaos. I'm a freedman,
w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
A spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York
City mayor is recovering from a frack, lectured vertebra, and
other injuries after a car crash over the weekend in
New Hampshire. State Police say Giuliani was being driven by
his spokesperson when the car was hit from behind by
a nineteen year old driver on I ninety three near
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the near Manchester late Saturday night. Police say the spokesperson,
Ted Goodman, and the nineteen year old woman were taken
to the hospital for non life threatening injuries. Giuliani's head
of security says it was not a targeted attack. A
college football player in Florida is recovering from a shooting.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Florida State says freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard is in critical
but stable condition after being shot while visiting family. The
Sandford native was in intensive care at a Tallahassee area hospital.
The Gadsden County Sheriff's office says he was shot Sunday
while inside a vehicle outside apartments in a Tallahassee suburb. Elsewhere,
Army football safety Larry Pickett Junior and his father pulled
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a man from a crashed card just before it burst
into flames near the US Military Academy at West Point,
earning praise from the Institution for Heroic and Selfless Actions.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That was the AP's gethin Coolbaugh reporting. You are now
in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen
to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Suzanne Sosville, WBZ,
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