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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Mostly sunny eighty two degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock
on this Sunday. Hello, and thanks for being with us.
It's July sixth. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. The
death toll continues to rise, at least fifty people now
confirmed dead across at central Texas, and the desperate search
continues for dozens more who are missing. Among the missing
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twenty seven girls attending a summer camp. Fast moving floodwaters
swept through the area of Friday morning, the Guadalupe River
rising twenty six feet in less than an hour. ABC's
Maria Viareal spoke with survivors in Curville.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Juliet Weldon is salvaging what she can inside what's left
of her home.
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It came out, I know Zoe already raging.
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Juliet and her husband were swept away. They held onto
branches as they called nine one one for help. What's
been the hardest for you?
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When you're calling for help and there's nobodies. Where are they?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Crews eventually reaching the couple, pulling them to safety. How
is your husband?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
By the way, his fine.
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More than eight hundred and fifty people rescued in the
last two days.
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And Greg Governor Greg Abbott says that searchers will stay
at it around the clock if necessary. After weeks of
legal wrangling, the Trump administration has now deported eight men
to South Sudan, the move coming weeks after they were
sent to an American military base in the African nation
of Djibouti, where they were held in a shipping container.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
The Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled last month that immigration
officials could quickly deport people in the US without permission
to third countries. The men are from Cuba, Mexico, Laos, Myanmar, Sudan,
and Vietnam. They'd all been convicted of serious crimes. South
Sudanese officials say they plan to reach out to the
deportees home governments to ask if the men will be
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allowed to return. For now, they're being offered asylum in
South Sudan and will be free to move about the country.
Christopher Cruz, CBS News.
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Washington and The massive tax and spending plan signed into
law by the President includes one hundred and seventy billion
dollars for immigration enforcements. ABC's Selena Wang.
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We got to work with the farmers.
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The President acknowledging the hardships for farmers who employ a
large percentage of undocumented workers, floating the idea for allowing
those migrants to stay in the US.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We don't want to do it where we take all
of the workers off the farms.
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Those immigration raids are putting cities across America on edge,
especially in Los Angeles where some of those July fourth
celebrations were canceled. Fear is keeping money. Undocumented migrants in sides,
skipping school work, even family gatherings, of freight of being swept.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Up and detained. With the plan by the President would
protect them from the possibility of being detained during workplace
raids by ice agents. And the four day wbz ACU
weather forecast with Joe Lundberg.
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A heat advisory through eight pm tomorrow except on the
south coast the Cape in the Islands. This afternoon, sunshine
and some clouds, breezy, hot, and more humid, the high
ninety three with a real field temperatures well up into
the nineties. Much cooler on the Cape in the Islands. Tonight,
clear to party, cloudy, remaining breezy, warm, at humid those
seventy two. For tomorrow, times of sun and clouds, it'll
be breezy, hot that humid, with a high not far
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from ninety again, much cooler on the Cape and the islands.
We had in a Tuesday more clouds than sun, of warm,
humid day with a couple of showers at heavy thunderstorms around,
especially in the afternoon, high eighty four to eighty eight.
And for Wednesday, maybe a morning shower, otherwise turning out partly. Sunday,
the high seventy six in the city, low eighties Inland.
I'm aci with the mediaorologist Joe Lunberg DOUBDBZ, Boston's.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
News radio, and right now we're seeing eighty six degrees
mostly sunny in Danvers sunny, and seventy four in Falmouth sunny,
eighty three in Worcester and Brockton, eighty four degrees sunny
as well, mostly sunny, eighty two degrees in Boston. Let's
take a quick look at Logan Airport and it looks
like not too bad today if you're heading out to
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pick someone up or maybe on your way there to
take a flight home. Right now, so far we've seen
thirty seven flights delayed and one flight canceled. That according
to flight Aware and the holiday weekend, that's not too bad.
You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
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Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio