July 15, 2025 • 6 mins
Fall River officials say Sunday's deadly fire at an assisted living facility does not appear suspicious. Pink slips at the federal Education Department. Taylor Swift's Cape Cod home sells for more than $12 million. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Eighty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening bad. They say some
like it hot and then some like in humid. Well,
(00:21):
welcome to New England in the summerh the heat's on,
and so here's the humidity. We've been porching ninety degrees.
And yeah, with the humidity it feels even worse. Maybe
some bonus wetness too.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
One thing we'll watch for into the afternoon is with
the heat and humidity, we could bubble up and see
a sprinkle here or there. But I think all things considered,
it's a mainly dry day for most of us.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
That is CBS News Boston mediapologist Jacob wye Coop. There
are a couple of showers out in the western part
of the state. One is bubbled up around I ninety
one out toward Sunderland, another one north of Bathol out
along the Row Order. So we'll watch these as well.
That heat advisory in effect until seven o'clock tomorrow night.
At least it's got the stickies written all over it.
(01:10):
We're hearing today from fire officials after a deadly fire
and Fall River Sunday night. It killed nine people at
an assisted living home. Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon
praised firefighters for saving as many lives as they could
and also addressed concerns raised by the union and lives
were lost because of inadequate staffing at the fire department.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I don't know if lies could have been saved or
who to change the incident at all. I'm focusing my
firefighters on the fifty plus lives that were saved at
that incident based on their heroic efforts, and that's what
I need to focus on for my mental health and
their mental health to get through this.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
There's been no cause released in the fire at the
Gabriel House, but authorities did say the cause does not
appear to be suspicious at this time. Pink slips are
coming for some workers at the US Department of Education
now that the Supreme Court set aside lower court orders
preventing layoffs. Hundreds of being shown the door. What might
that mean for students and for schools.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
The Education Department doesn't direct curricula. States and school districts
do that, but it does distribute an enormous amount of
federal money, and it enforces civil rights laws. The Trump
administration appears interested in spinning off various parts of the
department to other agencies. Student loans, for instance, could be
given over to Treasury. Aid for students with disabilities could
become the responsibility of HHS. Many school administrators across the
(02:22):
country are nervous about the ramifications, but White House allies
argue the Education Department's bureaucracy is too bloated and it
needs to be wound down.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
That is ABC's Stephen Portnoy. The United Nations says hundreds
of Palestinians have been killed near aid sites run by
a US and Israeli backed organization in Gaza.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
The need to be investigations in each and every killing.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Tamine El Katana, the UN Human Rights Office, says the
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has bypassed traditional aid systems while the
violence only grows.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
As of the thirteenth of July, we have recorded eight
hundred and seventy five people killed in Gaza while trying
to get food. Six hundred and seventy four of them
were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
In the meantime, the UN says one in ten children
in Gaza are malnourished.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
That is cbsys Kemmy McCormick. Health officials at the UN
estimate that more than fourteen million children did not receive
a single vaccine last year. The World Health Organization and
UNICEF says about eighty nine percent of children under the
age of one got a first dose of the diphtheriate
tetnis and whooping cough in twenty twenty four, the same
as a year earlier, and about eighty five percent completed
(03:33):
a three dose series, up one tick from twenty twenty three.
The heat advised me up until seven o'clock tomorrow, even
Thursday evening, I should say, and we have just gotten
word of an air quality alert in effect starting at
eleven o'clock tomorrow morning from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
It is kind of uncomfortable, sticky, unhealthy for sensitive groups
(03:55):
of people as well. Now they're saying starting tomorrow morning,
with that ground O zone level, we've got the heat
and humidity in place. It's just an uncomfortable feel and
some of the real field temperatures in the mid and
upper nineties. As we head through each day of the week.
This week, Tonight, it's not going to be overly comfortable,
but it will be cooler seventy one if you like that,
(04:17):
sunshine and a few clouds. Tomorrow is still humid, near
ninety Thursday close to ninety. We may not make it,
but will certainly feel like we're in the nineties most
places with the humidity around. A couple of thunderstorms possible
Thursday in the afternoon, same deal on Friday. Right now,
it's eighty five degrees in Boston. Cars a ban from
parking on the streets of Newton at night for half
the year, and a couple of native Newtonians are trying
(04:39):
to reverse that. W Busy's Heile Shaffle with the tails.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Hitterclaves of Newton as a personal crusade that he's been
fighting for years.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
It's illegal to park on the street between the hours
of two am and six am from December first through
April first.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Newton's overnight parking band has been in force in one
form or another for almost ninety years, but Peter wants
this to be its last. He's co head of the
growing campaign to overturn the van, which he says has
become a major headache for many residents.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Usually the people that you know don't don't have driveways
and that don't have parking are the people that you
know certainly won't be able to afford a twenty five
dollars ticket.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
He says he's met dozens of people who have moved
out of Newton because they have no place to put
their car at night. Supporters of the ban argue it
incentivizes taking public transit or bikes over owning a car,
but Peter says it's unrealistic.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
The infrastructure is just not there yet for living a
car free lifestyle.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
A measure to repeal the ban will be on the
ballot November. Kyle Schaeffel WBZ, Boston's News.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Radio, well, I missed the boat again. A high endis
Port home, the Taylor Swift purchase during her romance with
Connor Kennedy, has now been sold. The Globe reports the
home on marchand Avenue is off the market. It fetched
twelve point three million dollars. The price tag makes it
the highest residential sale on Cape Cod this year to date.
So how much money you want to make? Conversations with
(05:52):
the boss about salary could be tough and A new
pay confidence gap report by Payscale shows those trying to
look at how much they deserve nerv probably are looking
in the wrong place.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
It reports as workers are walking into pay negotiations armed
with the wrong info found on social media, and in
many cases, walking out and disappointed or ready to quit.
Speaker 10 (06:10):
Roughly one in five employees turned to AI assistance like
chat GPT for compensation insights. In return, employers have found
a rise in employees using AI to shape salary expectations.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Lulu Cyclic is with Payscale.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
What we tell folks all the time is you got
to look for data you can trust.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Matt Piper, CBS News. You are now in the loop
for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's
News radio
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Eighty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening bad. They say some
like it hot and then some like in humid. Well,
(00:21):
welcome to New England in the summerh the heat's on,
and so here's the humidity. We've been porching ninety degrees.
And yeah, with the humidity it feels even worse. Maybe
some bonus wetness too.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
One thing we'll watch for into the afternoon is with
the heat and humidity, we could bubble up and see
a sprinkle here or there. But I think all things considered,
it's a mainly dry day for most of us.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
That is CBS News Boston mediapologist Jacob wye Coop. There
are a couple of showers out in the western part
of the state. One is bubbled up around I ninety
one out toward Sunderland, another one north of Bathol out
along the Row Order. So we'll watch these as well.
That heat advisory in effect until seven o'clock tomorrow night.
At least it's got the stickies written all over it.
(01:10):
We're hearing today from fire officials after a deadly fire
and Fall River Sunday night. It killed nine people at
an assisted living home. Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon
praised firefighters for saving as many lives as they could
and also addressed concerns raised by the union and lives
were lost because of inadequate staffing at the fire department.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I don't know if lies could have been saved or
who to change the incident at all. I'm focusing my
firefighters on the fifty plus lives that were saved at
that incident based on their heroic efforts, and that's what
I need to focus on for my mental health and
their mental health to get through this.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
There's been no cause released in the fire at the
Gabriel House, but authorities did say the cause does not
appear to be suspicious at this time. Pink slips are
coming for some workers at the US Department of Education
now that the Supreme Court set aside lower court orders
preventing layoffs. Hundreds of being shown the door. What might
that mean for students and for schools.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
The Education Department doesn't direct curricula. States and school districts
do that, but it does distribute an enormous amount of
federal money, and it enforces civil rights laws. The Trump
administration appears interested in spinning off various parts of the
department to other agencies. Student loans, for instance, could be
given over to Treasury. Aid for students with disabilities could
become the responsibility of HHS. Many school administrators across the
(02:22):
country are nervous about the ramifications, but White House allies
argue the Education Department's bureaucracy is too bloated and it
needs to be wound down.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
That is ABC's Stephen Portnoy. The United Nations says hundreds
of Palestinians have been killed near aid sites run by
a US and Israeli backed organization in Gaza.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
The need to be investigations in each and every killing.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Tamine El Katana, the UN Human Rights Office, says the
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has bypassed traditional aid systems while the
violence only grows.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
As of the thirteenth of July, we have recorded eight
hundred and seventy five people killed in Gaza while trying
to get food. Six hundred and seventy four of them
were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
In the meantime, the UN says one in ten children
in Gaza are malnourished.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
That is cbsys Kemmy McCormick. Health officials at the UN
estimate that more than fourteen million children did not receive
a single vaccine last year. The World Health Organization and
UNICEF says about eighty nine percent of children under the
age of one got a first dose of the diphtheriate
tetnis and whooping cough in twenty twenty four, the same
as a year earlier, and about eighty five percent completed
(03:33):
a three dose series, up one tick from twenty twenty three.
The heat advised me up until seven o'clock tomorrow, even
Thursday evening, I should say, and we have just gotten
word of an air quality alert in effect starting at
eleven o'clock tomorrow morning from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
It is kind of uncomfortable, sticky, unhealthy for sensitive groups
(03:55):
of people as well. Now they're saying starting tomorrow morning,
with that ground O zone level, we've got the heat
and humidity in place. It's just an uncomfortable feel and
some of the real field temperatures in the mid and
upper nineties. As we head through each day of the week.
This week, Tonight, it's not going to be overly comfortable,
but it will be cooler seventy one if you like that,
(04:17):
sunshine and a few clouds. Tomorrow is still humid, near
ninety Thursday close to ninety. We may not make it,
but will certainly feel like we're in the nineties most
places with the humidity around. A couple of thunderstorms possible
Thursday in the afternoon, same deal on Friday. Right now,
it's eighty five degrees in Boston. Cars a ban from
parking on the streets of Newton at night for half
the year, and a couple of native Newtonians are trying
(04:39):
to reverse that. W Busy's Heile Shaffle with the tails.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Hitterclaves of Newton as a personal crusade that he's been
fighting for years.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
It's illegal to park on the street between the hours
of two am and six am from December first through
April first.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Newton's overnight parking band has been in force in one
form or another for almost ninety years, but Peter wants
this to be its last. He's co head of the
growing campaign to overturn the van, which he says has
become a major headache for many residents.
Speaker 9 (05:04):
Usually the people that you know don't don't have driveways
and that don't have parking are the people that you
know certainly won't be able to afford a twenty five
dollars ticket.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
He says he's met dozens of people who have moved
out of Newton because they have no place to put
their car at night. Supporters of the ban argue it
incentivizes taking public transit or bikes over owning a car,
but Peter says it's unrealistic.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
The infrastructure is just not there yet for living a
car free lifestyle.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
A measure to repeal the ban will be on the
ballot November. Kyle Schaeffel WBZ, Boston's News.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Radio, well, I missed the boat again. A high endis
Port home, the Taylor Swift purchase during her romance with
Connor Kennedy, has now been sold. The Globe reports the
home on marchand Avenue is off the market. It fetched
twelve point three million dollars. The price tag makes it
the highest residential sale on Cape Cod this year to date.
So how much money you want to make? Conversations with
(05:52):
the boss about salary could be tough and A new
pay confidence gap report by Payscale shows those trying to
look at how much they deserve nerv probably are looking
in the wrong place.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
It reports as workers are walking into pay negotiations armed
with the wrong info found on social media, and in
many cases, walking out and disappointed or ready to quit.
Speaker 10 (06:10):
Roughly one in five employees turned to AI assistance like
chat GPT for compensation insights. In return, employers have found
a rise in employees using AI to shape salary expectations.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Lulu Cyclic is with Payscale.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
What we tell folks all the time is you got
to look for data you can trust.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Matt Piper, CBS News. You are now in the loop
for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's
News radio
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