August 4, 2025 • 7 mins
Phone scammers posing as landlords are targeting renters, this year is showing signs as the worst year for home buyers as home prices rise, the Pan-Mass Challenge raised money for cancer research in Provincetown. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We defining local news.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
By Monday morning. Kind of creeps up on you rather quickly,
doesn't it, especially in the summertime. Sixty five degrees under
hazy and mostly cloudy skies as we get started this morning,
Thanks for being with us. At six o'clock. The news
is brought to us by your new England Toyota dealer,
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. It's
smoke from a distant fire.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let's see easy sunshine today and it will be very warm.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But not all that human. That is wbz ACU weather
meteorologist Joe Lumberg. And air quality alert has been posted
effective right now until midnight tonight. That's due to the
wildfire smoke from Canada. It'll be in the eighties later
on today. Capitol Hill is quiet this morning as the
Senate joins the House on a summer break, and it's
month long recess leaves a lot of untended business and
(00:54):
ticks off President Trump, who blasts Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer and tells him to go to hell for putting
up roadblocks to the Republican majority's agenda. The break now
leaves the GOP scrambling with a promise to establish new
rules to pick up the pace of confirmations after Democrats
deny consent votes and insist on roll calls. And now
(01:14):
there's some talk of some recess appointments, the so called
nuclear option in the Senates. Back home, nothing is off
limit for scammers, even your search for home suite home.
Boston police are out with a warning over a phone
scheme that targets renters looking for local apartments. The callers
pose as landlords featuring a great piece of real estate.
Police say, really does not exist. The plot involves you
(01:37):
sending money up front with wire transfers, gift cards or
other types of payment. The plot twist you never get
to see the space. Got to act fast. Boston Police say,
do your research and if any deal sounds too good
to be true, you know it likely is. Well. This
year is showing signs of the worst year for home buyers.
CBS's Chanel call with.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
More logan motorshaw Mee House Wire argues this slowdown is
actually healthy. This is the best medicine for the housing
market currently because home price is escalated out of control.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Price growth cooling down as a positive.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
For everyone, and with builder confidence taking up in July,
he says more inventory could boost sales, but once the
man picks up, we need more housing out there, and
lower ritz.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Could facilitate interest rates and inflation or moving the needle here,
but it's next to impossible also for many families to
afford the price tag of a single family home, which
in Greater Boston now carries a median price tag of
more than one million dollars. Well, all of a sudden,
Stevie Nicks is not coming to Boston. Wbz's Drew moholland
(02:42):
with late details.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Good morning Andrew, Good morning Jeffreyeah the legend she is.
Stevie Nicks has to put her tour on hold. The
former Fleetwood max Star fractured her shoulder and she will
put all shows in August and September on the shelf.
The plan is for the October shows to go on
as scheduled. Nick, who is seventy seven, was scheduled to
play the Game guarding a week from tomorrow, but due
to that injury, the Boston show Jeff has now been
(03:04):
moved to November twenty fourth.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
All right, Drew, thank you. At least she's going to
be here to make up for that lost time. Absolutely
in sixty five degrees since we get started this Monday morning,
and it looks like mostly cloudy skies, but it's an
awful lot of haze in the atmosphere, and that haze
is the smoke from the Canadian wildfires which has been
traveling south over the past couple of days, and it's
really going to affect our air today. In fact, an
(03:27):
air quality alert has been posted for all day. It
expires officially at midnight tonight, so it might be a
rough day to be outside if you have any respiratory issues.
In the meantime, it is going to be very warm today,
not all that humid, with daytime highs between eighty five
and ninety today, mainly clear, Still the wildfire smoke in
the atmosphere, you'll certainly see it and may be able
to smell it as well. With temperatures tonight dropping into
(03:49):
the sixties. Tomorrow looks like another decent day with some sunshine,
highs in the mid to upper seventies. Wednesday looks good too,
same story, seventies and lower eighties. And then on Thursday,
we're switching the script a little bit with more clouds
than sun, with highs again right around eighty. Right now
in Boston, it's sixty five degrees here in the city
and hazy skies at six oh five on this Monday morning,
(04:12):
the Greater Boston trash strike is not over, and it's
not even close.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Disappointed, that's how Republic Services describes the feeling. After ninety
three percent of union members voted to stay on strike.
The company says it's non union employees and support staff
will continue service and customers in the Greater Boston area,
which includes Wakefield, where Tony has noticed.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
In Wakefield, I saw two new trash structures had rent
me on them, so I know the scabs are working
for them, so I don't go for that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The union leadership, meanwhile, says Republic is being disrespectful to
employees who continue to fight for higher wages and better benefits.
The strike is going into week five. In Wakefield. James
drohas w b Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Thousands of workers at Boeing are on strike this morning.
More than thirty two hundred of them walk off the
job from plants in the Midwest where fighter jets are made.
The workers say enough's enough. After rejecting a recent offer
that would have raised their pay by twenty percent over
four years. Meantime, and for the first time in its
ninety year history, workers at every single casino on the
(05:18):
Las Vegas Strip are now union members. This after employees
at the Venetia and Fontainebleau become the latest certified by
the Culinary Union, which now dominates Vegas with some sixty
thousand members well in this year's pan Mass Challenge now
in the books. More money this weekend goes to a
great cause.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
There's no better feeling than crossing the finish line.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It was the most amazing Sunday PMC ever, through perfect conditions,
couldn't have been better.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
PMC founder Philly Starr I shark great behaviors.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Ready to add it to big success.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We gotta raise money. That's what we're hit it too.
Every dollar raised in the ride goes to cancer research
at Data Farvard, with this year's goal set at seventy
six million.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Dollars CBS News Boston's Logan Hall and by all accounts,
it was a smash hit this year. Since it start
forty five years ago, the Penmass Challenge has raised more
than one billion dollars for cancer research. Celtic's owner Steve
Pagliuca says the WNBA's Connecticut sun belong in Boston, and
his record breaking price tag for the team backs it up.
(06:24):
In his first statement since reaching a deal with the
Mohegan Tribe, Pagliuca says it's now in the league's hands,
which has been hesitant to sign off on the deal.
Pagliuca says this deal is best for the WNBA, the team,
and its fans. While the league reiterates that the deal
is subject to its approval and not the team's approval,
Boston remains far down the list of possible expansion cities
(06:47):
for the league. You are now in the loop For
news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio
on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news
radio
This is WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We defining local news.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
By Monday morning. Kind of creeps up on you rather quickly,
doesn't it, especially in the summertime. Sixty five degrees under
hazy and mostly cloudy skies as we get started this morning,
Thanks for being with us. At six o'clock. The news
is brought to us by your new England Toyota dealer,
your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. It's
smoke from a distant fire.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let's see easy sunshine today and it will be very warm.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But not all that human. That is wbz ACU weather
meteorologist Joe Lumberg. And air quality alert has been posted
effective right now until midnight tonight. That's due to the
wildfire smoke from Canada. It'll be in the eighties later
on today. Capitol Hill is quiet this morning as the
Senate joins the House on a summer break, and it's
month long recess leaves a lot of untended business and
(00:54):
ticks off President Trump, who blasts Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer and tells him to go to hell for putting
up roadblocks to the Republican majority's agenda. The break now
leaves the GOP scrambling with a promise to establish new
rules to pick up the pace of confirmations after Democrats
deny consent votes and insist on roll calls. And now
(01:14):
there's some talk of some recess appointments, the so called
nuclear option in the Senates. Back home, nothing is off
limit for scammers, even your search for home suite home.
Boston police are out with a warning over a phone
scheme that targets renters looking for local apartments. The callers
pose as landlords featuring a great piece of real estate.
Police say, really does not exist. The plot involves you
(01:37):
sending money up front with wire transfers, gift cards or
other types of payment. The plot twist you never get
to see the space. Got to act fast. Boston Police say,
do your research and if any deal sounds too good
to be true, you know it likely is. Well. This
year is showing signs of the worst year for home buyers.
CBS's Chanel call with.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
More logan motorshaw Mee House Wire argues this slowdown is
actually healthy. This is the best medicine for the housing
market currently because home price is escalated out of control.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Price growth cooling down as a positive.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
For everyone, and with builder confidence taking up in July,
he says more inventory could boost sales, but once the
man picks up, we need more housing out there, and
lower ritz.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Could facilitate interest rates and inflation or moving the needle here,
but it's next to impossible also for many families to
afford the price tag of a single family home, which
in Greater Boston now carries a median price tag of
more than one million dollars. Well, all of a sudden,
Stevie Nicks is not coming to Boston. Wbz's Drew moholland
(02:42):
with late details.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Good morning Andrew, Good morning Jeffreyeah the legend she is.
Stevie Nicks has to put her tour on hold. The
former Fleetwood max Star fractured her shoulder and she will
put all shows in August and September on the shelf.
The plan is for the October shows to go on
as scheduled. Nick, who is seventy seven, was scheduled to
play the Game guarding a week from tomorrow, but due
to that injury, the Boston show Jeff has now been
(03:04):
moved to November twenty fourth.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
All right, Drew, thank you. At least she's going to
be here to make up for that lost time. Absolutely
in sixty five degrees since we get started this Monday morning,
and it looks like mostly cloudy skies, but it's an
awful lot of haze in the atmosphere, and that haze
is the smoke from the Canadian wildfires which has been
traveling south over the past couple of days, and it's
really going to affect our air today. In fact, an
(03:27):
air quality alert has been posted for all day. It
expires officially at midnight tonight, so it might be a
rough day to be outside if you have any respiratory issues.
In the meantime, it is going to be very warm today,
not all that humid, with daytime highs between eighty five
and ninety today, mainly clear, Still the wildfire smoke in
the atmosphere, you'll certainly see it and may be able
to smell it as well. With temperatures tonight dropping into
(03:49):
the sixties. Tomorrow looks like another decent day with some sunshine,
highs in the mid to upper seventies. Wednesday looks good too,
same story, seventies and lower eighties. And then on Thursday,
we're switching the script a little bit with more clouds
than sun, with highs again right around eighty. Right now
in Boston, it's sixty five degrees here in the city
and hazy skies at six oh five on this Monday morning,
(04:12):
the Greater Boston trash strike is not over, and it's
not even close.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Disappointed, that's how Republic Services describes the feeling. After ninety
three percent of union members voted to stay on strike.
The company says it's non union employees and support staff
will continue service and customers in the Greater Boston area,
which includes Wakefield, where Tony has noticed.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
In Wakefield, I saw two new trash structures had rent
me on them, so I know the scabs are working
for them, so I don't go for that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The union leadership, meanwhile, says Republic is being disrespectful to
employees who continue to fight for higher wages and better benefits.
The strike is going into week five. In Wakefield. James
drohas w b Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Thousands of workers at Boeing are on strike this morning.
More than thirty two hundred of them walk off the
job from plants in the Midwest where fighter jets are made.
The workers say enough's enough. After rejecting a recent offer
that would have raised their pay by twenty percent over
four years. Meantime, and for the first time in its
ninety year history, workers at every single casino on the
(05:18):
Las Vegas Strip are now union members. This after employees
at the Venetia and Fontainebleau become the latest certified by
the Culinary Union, which now dominates Vegas with some sixty
thousand members well in this year's pan Mass Challenge now
in the books. More money this weekend goes to a
great cause.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
There's no better feeling than crossing the finish line.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It was the most amazing Sunday PMC ever, through perfect conditions,
couldn't have been better.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
PMC founder Philly Starr I shark great behaviors.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Ready to add it to big success.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
We gotta raise money. That's what we're hit it too.
Every dollar raised in the ride goes to cancer research
at Data Farvard, with this year's goal set at seventy
six million.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Dollars CBS News Boston's Logan Hall and by all accounts,
it was a smash hit this year. Since it start
forty five years ago, the Penmass Challenge has raised more
than one billion dollars for cancer research. Celtic's owner Steve
Pagliuca says the WNBA's Connecticut sun belong in Boston, and
his record breaking price tag for the team backs it up.
(06:24):
In his first statement since reaching a deal with the
Mohegan Tribe, Pagliuca says it's now in the league's hands,
which has been hesitant to sign off on the deal.
Pagliuca says this deal is best for the WNBA, the team,
and its fans. While the league reiterates that the deal
is subject to its approval and not the team's approval,
Boston remains far down the list of possible expansion cities
(06:47):
for the league. You are now in the loop For
news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio
on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news
radio
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