Afternoon Report: Saturday, June 7, 2025

Chaotic protests are underway in the Los Angeles area following ICE raids, a Central Mass. College student has pleaded guilty in a three million dollar hacking scheme, and for the first time in 70 years it is fight night at Fenway. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
It is sixty six degrees and stormy in Boston at
four o'clock good Saturday afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers, and here
is what's happening. This slow moving storm is flooding a
lot of local streets and highways. We do have a
flash of flood warning and effect until five point forty
five just outside Boston. That includes communities like Newton, Waltham,

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and Menburgh. Meantime, south of town, as the storm pushes
into that.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
South coast area, we are told.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
To be advised that flooding is likely again over these
next couple of hours. The storm will taper off later
on tonight. More on that with a four day forecast
in just a few We'll also be checking the roads
out there as drivers navigate some choppy waters. It is
a loss for towns resisting the law requiring denser housing

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along the Tee.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Several towns like Duxbury, Hanson, Marshfield rent them, and five
others sued, saying the MBTA communities act as an unfunded mandate.
It's a state mandated zoning initiative to try and increase
multi family housing but a superior court judge has dismissed
the nine lawsuits from residents. The judge says the towns
aren't exempt from their obligation to comply and that is
not an unfunded mandate. Attorney General Andrea Campbell applauded the

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judge's decision, calling it a win for Massachusetts and those
hit hard by the housing crisis. I'm a freedman, w
b Z, Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
We're following more chaotic protests in the Los Angeles area
this afternoon in the wake of several ice raids. That
is the sound of police in riot gear setting off
smoke bombs to disperse demonstrators in Paramount, California. This comes
a day after a series of military style ice raids
in Los Angeles, dozens taken into custody. Dozens were also

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arrested at a large protest in La last night. A
Central mass college student is pleading guilty in a three
million dollar hacking scheme. Nineteen year old Matthew Lane, an
Assumption University student who lives in Sterling, could face up
to seventeen years in prison. He's accused, or rather he's
admitted now to trying to extort money from two companies

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by threatening to leak the personal information of tens of
millions of people. Tracking the feud between the President and
Elon Musk, Vice President JD. Vans is weighing in now.
He says Musk is making a huge mistake.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Republicans are trying to avoid potential fallout from the billionaire
brawl between President Trump and Elon Musk. The two engage
in a social media spat where the tech boss blasted
the President's massive tax.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
And border spending bill.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
Trump said Musk can keep that golden key he gave
him during his oval office visit sendoff just last week,
but it appears he's keeping the door closed on a reconciliation.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
At CBS is Michelle Miller. Today, President Trump told NBC
that Elon Musk will face serious consequences if he tries
to back Democrats in upcoming elections. We do have a
flash flood warning and effect for a good chunk of
Middlesex County, including Newton, Waltham, Lincoln, Wakefield and Wilmington. Flooding

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is very likely in the coming hours south of town.
This is a very slow moving storm, but slowly but
surely it should move out by early tonight. Continue to
watch for flooding though while it continues to pass.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
By tomorrow, we have a mix of clouds and sun.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's somewhat less humid, high around seventy near the coast
than Monday sixty two for the high, so much cooler
out there, more clouds than sun. Maybe some showers around
early for Monday, and it does look like more rain
moves in for Tuesday, maybe a thunderstorm in spots. The
highs around sixty four Right now, it looks like the

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heaviest rain is south of Boston communities including Situate, Rockland, Brockton,
and toward the Rhode Island line as well.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
At take caution out there.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
The NWS says avoid walking or driving through floodwaters and
in those areas under a flash flood warning again just
to the north and west of Boston, move immediately to
higher ground. For the first time in close to seventy years,
it is fight Night at Fenway.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
The last boxer to win a fight at the home
of the Red Sox was the Boston bomber Tony DeMarco
in nineteen fifty six. Tonight's card features eleven bouts, including
the first ever women's boxing match at Fenway between Sarah
Cooliard and Massachusetts born Lexi Little Savage Bull Duke.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Super exciting to be able to fight at Fenway, such
an iconic venue in Boston.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Richard Johnson is the curator at the Sports Museum in Boston.
Fenway Far all Us is this way of connecting us
with the past. I call it the largest outdoor museum
in Boston. Michael Wallace CBS News.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
The gates should now be open at Fenway and the
first fight is expected to start at five o'clock. Coco
Goff has won the French Open today for the first time.
She defeated top ranked Ariana Sabalanca six' seven six two six,'
four the second rank golf came out on top of
a contest that was full of tension and momentum swings

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to claim her second major trophy after the twenty TWENTY Three,
us open where she Also.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Beat sabalanca you're.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
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