July 16, 2025 • 6 mins
Republic Services strike continues with no end in sight, House Speaker Mike Johnson joins growing support to release the Epstein file, and Boston under a heat emergency amid another heat wave. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
News, sunny in eighty three degrees in Boston at eleven
o'clock good Wednesday morning, is July sixteenth. I'm Cherry Small.
Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening. The Blue
Line up and running once again, after yesterday's commute ended
with hundreds of passengers being evacuated. Our wbz's James Rojas
(00:28):
is at Boston Harbor with more.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm happy that I didn't get stuck on the train.
Joe may not have gotten stuck on the train that
stopped midway between Aquarium and Maverick stations, but he was
among the many affected. Afterwards, I had to take a
Silver Line, so I'll probably added maybe like about an
hour to my way.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Home, a huge hour and a half delay for someone
who just didn't expect. So it was like two hours
compared to like forty minutes, so it was a pretty
long commute.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Who had a worse were the folks who were on
the stall train and they had to walk through the
tunnel to get out thanks to a down communications cave.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And I see just this massive crowd of like five
six other people.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Service has been restored and folks are hoping for a
less eventful commute at aquarium station. James Rojas wb Z
Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
The City of Pebty calling on billionaire Bill Gates to
take action in the ongoing sanitation workers strike. Gates is
a principal owner of Cascade Investment, which is a major
shareholder in Republic services. The city council says it wants
Gates to use his influence and urge Republic to return
to the negotiating table and address the striking workers demands.
(01:34):
Republic has brought in trash collectors from out of state,
but meanwhile some trash continues to pile up beneath the
hot summer sun. The city says the situation poses a
serious public health risk. The union says a federal mediator
told them that Republic would not agree to any further
negotiation sessions. WBC News Radio has reached out to Republic
(01:55):
and Cascade Investment for comment. House Speaker Mike Johnson joins
the growing chorus of voices supporting the release of more
information about Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump had promised during his
campaign to be more transparent about the investigation into the
notorious sex offender, but recently his administration declared it would
(02:16):
not release any more information on the case. ABC's Jonathan
Carl with the latest.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Trump, like many other New York celebrities, had some association
with Epstein. When Epstein was arrested in twenty nineteen, Trump
said that he had previously had a falling out with
him and had not spoken to him in fifteen years.
The President told ABC's Catherine Falters that Bondi had briefed
him on the Justice Department's review of the Epstein files.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Did she tell you what all.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That your name appeared in the god.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
She's given us just a very quick briefing, and in
terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Some Trump supporters are now calling for the Attorney General's resignation, and.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Speaker Johnson commented on the situation while speaking with right
wing podcaster Benny Johnson. Now, the ACU weather forecast Sunday
to partly cloudy today, but it's going to be hot,
highs ninety to ninety four, real field temps approaching one
hundred eighty to eighty five for much of the Cape
in the Islands, partly to mostly cloudy tonight, cooling down
to only seventy five, so it's going to be hot,
(03:17):
sticky night. Thursday, a mix of sun and clouds, a
thunderstorm or two that's happening in the afternoon and evening hours.
Those could be strong and gusty. Highs eighty four to
eighty eight again, Reel feels much warmer in the nineties. Friday,
sun and some clouds, it'll be breezy. Eighty four to
eighty eight is the high on Saturday. It looks like
the weekend will be in the seventy seventy eight with
(03:39):
sunny skies on Saturday. Right now in the city, we're
looking at eighty three degrees in sunny skies at eleven
oh five. As the mercury rises, Boston calls for a
heat emergency.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Public health and safety is the top priority. Is Mayor
wou declares a heat emergency in the city, we.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Have you pulling and missing tents. There are now fifteen
city pools that are open, with more scheduled to be
opened over the next couple of weeks. As we've finished
some of the final repairs on certain projects. We have
eighty splash pads in parks and playgrounds across the city.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
The city continuing to work on getting all the municipal
pools across Boston repaired and reopened.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
By the end of the year, we will have renovated
more than half of all the city pools, and we
have a couple more degard just to fix them up
and make sure that we're maintaining them properly.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
A Dracot woman facing federal charges accused of leaking confidential
grand jury information in the Karen Reid case. Thirty four
year old Jessica Leslie sat on a federal grand jury
investigating the state's handling of the Reed murder case. Prosecutors
claimed that she disclosed sealed information including witness names, testimony details,
(04:53):
and other evidence, between August of twenty twenty two and
March of twenty twenty four. She's charged with criminal contempt
and has agreed to plead guilty those charges, announced yesterday.
A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled. The plea
deal does come with a recommendation that she be sentenced
to time served. Another day. Another volcanic eruption in Iceland.
(05:14):
Here CBS's Vicky Barker.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Live media images showed the volcano belching smoke, with hot,
yellow and orange lava flowing from the fissures in the earth.
Flights are still going in and out of the main
airport Requivic, but Iceland's famous geothermal blue Lagoon spot has
been evacuated, and those residents of the nearby town of
Grindovic who didn't leave when this latest series of eruptions
began two years ago have also been told to get out.
(05:39):
Vicky Barker, CBS News London.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Stevie Wonder stomps out a long standing rumor here CBS
is Devor Rodriguez with the tails ba.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
God.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Stevie Wonder stopped a concert in Cardiff, Wales and commented
on claims he can see the.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Truth is shortly after in my birth and became.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
The seventy five year old singer calls his blindness a blessing.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
It's a loud me CP doing this period of the thing.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now, how they look, what color they are?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Last year, in an episode of the Wonder of Stevie audiobook,
he shared that his mother would cry every night after
he was diagnosed. He says he assured her God might
have had something bigger in store for him. Deborah Rodriguez,
CBS News. You are now in the loop for news
updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on
the iHeart Radio app. I'm sharing a small WBZ, Boston's
(06:34):
news radio
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
News, sunny in eighty three degrees in Boston at eleven
o'clock good Wednesday morning, is July sixteenth. I'm Cherry Small.
Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening. The Blue
Line up and running once again, after yesterday's commute ended
with hundreds of passengers being evacuated. Our wbz's James Rojas
(00:28):
is at Boston Harbor with more.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I'm happy that I didn't get stuck on the train.
Joe may not have gotten stuck on the train that
stopped midway between Aquarium and Maverick stations, but he was
among the many affected. Afterwards, I had to take a
Silver Line, so I'll probably added maybe like about an
hour to my way.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Home, a huge hour and a half delay for someone
who just didn't expect. So it was like two hours
compared to like forty minutes, so it was a pretty
long commute.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Who had a worse were the folks who were on
the stall train and they had to walk through the
tunnel to get out thanks to a down communications cave.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And I see just this massive crowd of like five
six other people.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Service has been restored and folks are hoping for a
less eventful commute at aquarium station. James Rojas wb Z
Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
The City of Pebty calling on billionaire Bill Gates to
take action in the ongoing sanitation workers strike. Gates is
a principal owner of Cascade Investment, which is a major
shareholder in Republic services. The city council says it wants
Gates to use his influence and urge Republic to return
to the negotiating table and address the striking workers demands.
(01:34):
Republic has brought in trash collectors from out of state,
but meanwhile some trash continues to pile up beneath the
hot summer sun. The city says the situation poses a
serious public health risk. The union says a federal mediator
told them that Republic would not agree to any further
negotiation sessions. WBC News Radio has reached out to Republic
(01:55):
and Cascade Investment for comment. House Speaker Mike Johnson joins
the growing chorus of voices supporting the release of more
information about Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump had promised during his
campaign to be more transparent about the investigation into the
notorious sex offender, but recently his administration declared it would
(02:16):
not release any more information on the case. ABC's Jonathan
Carl with the latest.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Trump, like many other New York celebrities, had some association
with Epstein. When Epstein was arrested in twenty nineteen, Trump
said that he had previously had a falling out with
him and had not spoken to him in fifteen years.
The President told ABC's Catherine Falters that Bondi had briefed
him on the Justice Department's review of the Epstein files.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Did she tell you what all.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That your name appeared in the god.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
She's given us just a very quick briefing, and in
terms of the credibility of the different things that they've seen.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Some Trump supporters are now calling for the Attorney General's resignation, and.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Speaker Johnson commented on the situation while speaking with right
wing podcaster Benny Johnson. Now, the ACU weather forecast Sunday
to partly cloudy today, but it's going to be hot,
highs ninety to ninety four, real field temps approaching one
hundred eighty to eighty five for much of the Cape
in the Islands, partly to mostly cloudy tonight, cooling down
to only seventy five, so it's going to be hot,
(03:17):
sticky night. Thursday, a mix of sun and clouds, a
thunderstorm or two that's happening in the afternoon and evening hours.
Those could be strong and gusty. Highs eighty four to
eighty eight again, Reel feels much warmer in the nineties. Friday,
sun and some clouds, it'll be breezy. Eighty four to
eighty eight is the high on Saturday. It looks like
the weekend will be in the seventy seventy eight with
(03:39):
sunny skies on Saturday. Right now in the city, we're
looking at eighty three degrees in sunny skies at eleven
oh five. As the mercury rises, Boston calls for a
heat emergency.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Public health and safety is the top priority. Is Mayor
wou declares a heat emergency in the city, we.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Have you pulling and missing tents. There are now fifteen
city pools that are open, with more scheduled to be
opened over the next couple of weeks. As we've finished
some of the final repairs on certain projects. We have
eighty splash pads in parks and playgrounds across the city.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
The city continuing to work on getting all the municipal
pools across Boston repaired and reopened.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
By the end of the year, we will have renovated
more than half of all the city pools, and we
have a couple more degard just to fix them up
and make sure that we're maintaining them properly.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
A Dracot woman facing federal charges accused of leaking confidential
grand jury information in the Karen Reid case. Thirty four
year old Jessica Leslie sat on a federal grand jury
investigating the state's handling of the Reed murder case. Prosecutors
claimed that she disclosed sealed information including witness names, testimony details,
(04:53):
and other evidence, between August of twenty twenty two and
March of twenty twenty four. She's charged with criminal contempt
and has agreed to plead guilty those charges, announced yesterday.
A plea hearing has not yet been scheduled. The plea
deal does come with a recommendation that she be sentenced
to time served. Another day. Another volcanic eruption in Iceland.
(05:14):
Here CBS's Vicky Barker.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Live media images showed the volcano belching smoke, with hot,
yellow and orange lava flowing from the fissures in the earth.
Flights are still going in and out of the main
airport Requivic, but Iceland's famous geothermal blue Lagoon spot has
been evacuated, and those residents of the nearby town of
Grindovic who didn't leave when this latest series of eruptions
began two years ago have also been told to get out.
(05:39):
Vicky Barker, CBS News London.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Stevie Wonder stomps out a long standing rumor here CBS
is Devor Rodriguez with the tails ba.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
God.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Stevie Wonder stopped a concert in Cardiff, Wales and commented
on claims he can see the.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Truth is shortly after in my birth and became.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
The seventy five year old singer calls his blindness a blessing.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
It's a loud me CP doing this period of the thing.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now, how they look, what color they are?
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Last year, in an episode of the Wonder of Stevie audiobook,
he shared that his mother would cry every night after
he was diagnosed. He says he assured her God might
have had something bigger in store for him. Deborah Rodriguez,
CBS News. You are now in the loop for news
updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on
the iHeart Radio app. I'm sharing a small WBZ, Boston's
(06:34):
news radio
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