July 28, 2025 • 6 mins
President Trump announces a new trade deal with the European Union. At least for now, the concession worker's strike at Fenway Park has ended. Well ahead of fall, pumpkin spice has appeared in stores. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ News Radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sunny in seventy one degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock.
Good Monday morning. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. All right,
Prepare for frizzy hair continuing into the work week. The
humidity is not going to let up.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's going to get pretty uncomfortable this after doon with
sunshine maybe eighty two at the harbor with the sea breeze,
but near ninety for the inland suburbs. Having you combine
that with the humidity. Yeah, the ACU of the real
field temperatures are going to be well up, but at
the nineties this after do.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And that's ACCU weather media all Just Joe Lundberg. The
full forecasts coming up. Compromise on terraffs. President Trump shakes
hands on a new trade deal between the US and
European Union on his new golf course in Scotland. Here
CBS is Uija Jang to explain.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Trump said the tariff rate for EU's twenty seven member
countries would be fifteen percent for most imports, including vehicles.
The EU has agreed to purchase US military equipment seven
hundred and fifty billion dollars of American energy and increase
its investment into the US by six hundred billion dollars.
And there's good news for US companies that sell products
(01:13):
to the EU.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
All of the countries will be opened up to trade
with the United States and zeroter.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And President Trump calls it the biggest deal ever made. Next,
he meets with Chinese officials in Stockholm to discuss tariffs,
and a two day meeting of the Federal Reserve kicks
off tomorrow. Amid pressure to lower interest.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Rates, President Trump has made it clear he wants FED
Chairman Jerome Powell and the governors to lower interest rates
now to make it cheaper to borrow money and spur investment.
The FED has said inflation is still a bit too
high and looming tariffs complicate the issue. Most investors predict
the FED will choose to hold interest rates steady for now,
(01:52):
anticipating at least one rate cut before the end of
the year.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
I'm rory O'Neil.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The three day concession workers strike at Fenway is over
for now.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That is.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
At one point over the weekend, tensions at the picket
line reached a breaking point as replacement workers left the
stadium Saturday night. They were met with booze from strikers.
One union member allegedly spat on a temporary worker, and
there were reports that the temp worker then spat at
two picketing union workers. That temporary worker was taken away
(02:24):
in handcuffs by police. The union member in question allegedly
ran away. The union says it's investigating the matter. Concession
workers at Fenway and MGM Music Hall have been without
a contract since January first. They walked off the job
for three days this past weekend. They are back at
work today, but say that they are prepared to walk
out again if a deal is not reached soon or not.
(02:46):
A falling leaf in sight and pumpkin spice, though whether
it's another hot one today highs eighty two at the
Harbor near ninety Inland, but because of the humidity, it's
going to feel much warmer. Clear to partly cloudy tonight,
a low of seventy three in Boston, sixty seven in
the inland areas. In fact, we do have a heat
advisory in effect today and lasting until eight pm on Wednesday,
(03:11):
excluding the capin islands where it's cooler. Tuesday sun and
some clouds. Highs ninety six upper eighties to near ninety
for the capin islands, but real field temps over one hundred.
Pretty much the same deal on Wednesday, but we will
see a heavy thunderstorm late in the day or at night,
a cool down coming on Thursday. The heat advisory will
(03:33):
have expired by then. It's lasting until again eight pm
Wednesday night. But so a cool down Thursday. But we
will see a couple of showers in a heavier thunderstorm,
mainly in the afternoon, but highs will be in the
low to mid seventies. Then Right now it's seventy one
and sunny in Boston at eleven oh five. All right,
(03:54):
you've seen the early back to school commercials. How about
this Pumpkins spice in stores Labor Day. Here's WPC's Jim McKay.
He checks it out.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
New Englanders love the fall, there's no getting around it.
And for better or worse, Pumpkins spice is a champion
of autumn awesomeness.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Said a pumpkin in the air. Shows that the holidays
are coming up.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're going to have it all year long.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Actually enthusiastic as they are, I'm reminding shoppers in handover
It's July, not October. Don't you get sick of this?
I no, no, I find myself yearning for the dog
days of summer. Wait a minute, I'm already here, reready
heat advisory this week. Don't tell that to Christina from NORWLL.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It just sets the mood, sets the fawn mood.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
The proof is in the pumpkins spice, and that essence,
spice may as well be a dollar sign. It's estimated
Starbucks brings in some five hundred million dollars annually just
from pumpkins spice products. I guess I'll have to wake
up and smell the pumpkin.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Everyone else shure is it's perfect? It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Jim mcka, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Transit police searching for a suspect who they say assaulted
to MBTA riders. It happened two weeks ago, July fourteen,
that the Downtown crossing station at around four point thirty
in the afternoon, and police say the suspect spat on
one victim and then assaulted a sixty nine year old woman,
both without any provocation. NBTA Transit police have posted a
(05:13):
picture of the suspect on their website, and while the
President makes deals on foreign trade, questions still linger over
his alleged involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. ABC's Selena Wang says
that it's been an uncomfortable topic, to say the least,
in the nation's capital.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
The political firestorm growing even as House Speaker Johnson sends
lawmakers home early for the summer, shutting down efforts to
force a vote to release more government files related to Epstein.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
I think the pressure is going to build over August Recess.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Republican Thomas Massey joining Democrat Rocona to force their release
is if we.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Don't vote on this and we go into the midterms
and everybody comes, you know, they just check out because
Republicans didn't keep their promise.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Speaker Johnson claiming their face could harm innocent.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Victims, and according to a poll from Reuters, a majority
of Americans believe the government is hiding Epstein's alleged client list.
You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart
Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Sunny in seventy one degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock.
Good Monday morning. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. All right,
Prepare for frizzy hair continuing into the work week. The
humidity is not going to let up.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's going to get pretty uncomfortable this after doon with
sunshine maybe eighty two at the harbor with the sea breeze,
but near ninety for the inland suburbs. Having you combine
that with the humidity. Yeah, the ACU of the real
field temperatures are going to be well up, but at
the nineties this after do.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And that's ACCU weather media all Just Joe Lundberg. The
full forecasts coming up. Compromise on terraffs. President Trump shakes
hands on a new trade deal between the US and
European Union on his new golf course in Scotland. Here
CBS is Uija Jang to explain.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Trump said the tariff rate for EU's twenty seven member
countries would be fifteen percent for most imports, including vehicles.
The EU has agreed to purchase US military equipment seven
hundred and fifty billion dollars of American energy and increase
its investment into the US by six hundred billion dollars.
And there's good news for US companies that sell products
(01:13):
to the EU.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
All of the countries will be opened up to trade
with the United States and zeroter.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And President Trump calls it the biggest deal ever made. Next,
he meets with Chinese officials in Stockholm to discuss tariffs,
and a two day meeting of the Federal Reserve kicks
off tomorrow. Amid pressure to lower interest.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Rates, President Trump has made it clear he wants FED
Chairman Jerome Powell and the governors to lower interest rates
now to make it cheaper to borrow money and spur investment.
The FED has said inflation is still a bit too
high and looming tariffs complicate the issue. Most investors predict
the FED will choose to hold interest rates steady for now,
(01:52):
anticipating at least one rate cut before the end of
the year.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
I'm rory O'Neil.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The three day concession workers strike at Fenway is over
for now.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That is.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
At one point over the weekend, tensions at the picket
line reached a breaking point as replacement workers left the
stadium Saturday night. They were met with booze from strikers.
One union member allegedly spat on a temporary worker, and
there were reports that the temp worker then spat at
two picketing union workers. That temporary worker was taken away
(02:24):
in handcuffs by police. The union member in question allegedly
ran away. The union says it's investigating the matter. Concession
workers at Fenway and MGM Music Hall have been without
a contract since January first. They walked off the job
for three days this past weekend. They are back at
work today, but say that they are prepared to walk
out again if a deal is not reached soon or not.
(02:46):
A falling leaf in sight and pumpkin spice, though whether
it's another hot one today highs eighty two at the
Harbor near ninety Inland, but because of the humidity, it's
going to feel much warmer. Clear to partly cloudy tonight,
a low of seventy three in Boston, sixty seven in
the inland areas. In fact, we do have a heat
advisory in effect today and lasting until eight pm on Wednesday,
(03:11):
excluding the capin islands where it's cooler. Tuesday sun and
some clouds. Highs ninety six upper eighties to near ninety
for the capin islands, but real field temps over one hundred.
Pretty much the same deal on Wednesday, but we will
see a heavy thunderstorm late in the day or at night,
a cool down coming on Thursday. The heat advisory will
(03:33):
have expired by then. It's lasting until again eight pm
Wednesday night. But so a cool down Thursday. But we
will see a couple of showers in a heavier thunderstorm,
mainly in the afternoon, but highs will be in the
low to mid seventies. Then Right now it's seventy one
and sunny in Boston at eleven oh five. All right,
(03:54):
you've seen the early back to school commercials. How about
this Pumpkins spice in stores Labor Day. Here's WPC's Jim McKay.
He checks it out.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
New Englanders love the fall, there's no getting around it.
And for better or worse, Pumpkins spice is a champion
of autumn awesomeness.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Said a pumpkin in the air. Shows that the holidays
are coming up.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're going to have it all year long.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Actually enthusiastic as they are, I'm reminding shoppers in handover
It's July, not October. Don't you get sick of this?
I no, no, I find myself yearning for the dog
days of summer. Wait a minute, I'm already here, reready
heat advisory this week. Don't tell that to Christina from NORWLL.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It just sets the mood, sets the fawn mood.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
The proof is in the pumpkins spice, and that essence,
spice may as well be a dollar sign. It's estimated
Starbucks brings in some five hundred million dollars annually just
from pumpkins spice products. I guess I'll have to wake
up and smell the pumpkin.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Everyone else shure is it's perfect? It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Jim mcka, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Transit police searching for a suspect who they say assaulted
to MBTA riders. It happened two weeks ago, July fourteen,
that the Downtown crossing station at around four point thirty
in the afternoon, and police say the suspect spat on
one victim and then assaulted a sixty nine year old woman,
both without any provocation. NBTA Transit police have posted a
(05:13):
picture of the suspect on their website, and while the
President makes deals on foreign trade, questions still linger over
his alleged involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. ABC's Selena Wang says
that it's been an uncomfortable topic, to say the least,
in the nation's capital.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
The political firestorm growing even as House Speaker Johnson sends
lawmakers home early for the summer, shutting down efforts to
force a vote to release more government files related to Epstein.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
I think the pressure is going to build over August Recess.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Republican Thomas Massey joining Democrat Rocona to force their release
is if we.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Don't vote on this and we go into the midterms
and everybody comes, you know, they just check out because
Republicans didn't keep their promise.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Speaker Johnson claiming their face could harm innocent.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Victims, and according to a poll from Reuters, a majority
of Americans believe the government is hiding Epstein's alleged client list.
You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout
the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart
Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio
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