Morning Report: Monday, July 6, 2026

A violent weekend in Boston, A fuel fiasco at Logan Airport causes a major disruption, The US will have their top goal scorer for tonight's game against Belgium. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ Newsradio.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Sixty nine degrees. We've got cloudy skies in Boston. It
is six o'clock here on this Monday morning, July sixth,
the twenty twenty sixth. Thank you so much for joining us.
I'm Jim McKay and this hour of news is brought
to you by You're New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid
all wheel drive headquarters. Thank you so much for joining us.
And here's what's happening. Certainly looking and feeling different on

(00:27):
this Monday when compared to our sweltering Fourth of July
holiday celebrations. Gone is that heat wave. But the clouds
have rolled in and they're gonna be sticking around for
a while. We had some light overnight showers, some rain
this morning. It's mostly off to our south, but certainly
south coast. The cape in the island's getting drenched right now.
We're gonna have some rain tonight into tomorrow as well

(00:47):
before we clear things out from Wednesday. At six oh one,
a violent weekend in Boston with Boston police caught in
the crossfire.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Police in Boston are investigating five shootings across the city
taking place with it about a four hour span on
this holiday weekend. At least two people are dead and
eleven others are injured, and the Patrolman's Union tells us
that there was also a street takeover that turned violent
in Mattapan when police arrived on sea fireworks launched at

(01:16):
Boston Police officers that what the Patrolman's Union is calling
a street takeover in Mattapan on the fourth of July.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
They're could be as small as a fire cracker, and
other times they're throwing M eighty's or something worse. Whether
it was thrown, planted, shot at them, but the video
speaks volumes officers were hurt.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Wvztv's Logan Hall police are asking for the public's help
if they have any information. Fuel fiasco at Logan causing
a major disruption for hundreds of flights. A whole lot
of people are looking to get out of town.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
The SETUS board here at Terminal Way is still scattered
with several flight cancelations and even more delays, but it's
looking much better compared to overnight, when a field says
some issue laid well over three hundred flights and canceled
seventy five, one of which affected Samuel from DC.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Will I check this warning before I left the hotel
and it said I was good to go. Had some
friends that were going to Atlanta. They got an email
just wanting to say their flight.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
With campus and it says because of that whole over.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Night exactly because of gas issues.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
So he's spending another twenty four hours in Boston.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
No flights they could get me on today at all.
So that was a moment. So I was supposed to
be back this email.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
The fuel issue was eventually addressed and things started improving
just before midnight that logan James Rojas WBZ Boston, some
news radio.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
And we had a little pink sky this morning. Sailors
take warning type of deal around there. Otherwise it's just clouds.
It's certainly comfortable, a nice little breeze out there, hovering
around seventy degrees, but so much rain is off to
our south right now. If you're listening down the Cape
South Coast or possible even into Rhode Island, you are
certainly getting dumped on right now. As that rain continues

(02:54):
to sweep across different parts of southern New England. Really
will continue over the next twenty four hours into tomorrow
afternoon as well. We've got floodwatches south of Boston through
Tuesday afternoon for greater Boston. Today just really a cloudy,
breezy day up in the seventies, a whole lot more
comfortable conditions. We're back down into the sixties four later

(03:15):
tonight into tomorrow, a high of just sixty eight, and
again the better chance in Boston of the rain showers
is tomorrow. Wednesday we begin to clear out and we
return with some heat as we're expected to get up
around ninety some beautiful sunshine. Those beach days will return
for the middle of this week. We just kind of
get to Wednesday before that happens. Right now, at the moment,

(03:36):
we are at sixty nine degrees here with cloudy skies
in Boston as it is six oh six on WBZ
News Radio. Well, the US will have their top goal
scorer tonight against Belgium. After all the details from WBC's
Jared Brasna.

Speaker 6 (03:51):
Flow Ballagan is back in the lineup for Team USA,
despite initially being suspended for receiving a red card against
Bostonia and Herzkovenia. VIFA official say in Arcticle in their
disciplinary code gives them the ability to fully or partially
suspend the implementation of a disciplinary measure. The decision to
give Balligan the red card was heavily scrutinized by soccer fans,
with many saying it was clear he wasn't intentionally trying

(04:12):
to hurt the other player, But none of that matters
now Ballagan is back in the US will be at
full strength taking on Belgium at eight o'clock. Jared Brosnan WBZ,
Boston's news radio and.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Also amidst the reports that Balligan is back, there are
other reports that President Trump had contacted FIFA leadership about
that initial red card suspension for flow Balligan and before
a decision was made. Part of the reporting saying that
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik also helped broker a conversation between

(04:43):
the White House and FIFA leadership at six ZHO seven.
Gambling concerns front and center for Charlie Baker, the former
Massachusetts governor now serving as president of the NCAA, pushing
back against prop betting at the collegiate level on CBS's
Face the Nation, Baker said the practice of sports betting
has changed the character and the culture of fandom.

Speaker 7 (05:03):
I heard about it a lot from student athletes. We said,
the noise and the abuse that they were taking from
betters around prop bets was was really disturbing, and.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Prop betting involves gambling on a player or event that's
more tied to a statistic or action during the game
rather than the final score or outcome. Still have a
record breaking megabucks payout no Winter on Saturday. The jackpot
for tonight's drawing is now at twenty two and a
half million dollars, and at the weekend box office, oh.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
No, the Perfect Lunches for your Love red down.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
The Minions are back. Minions in Monster is opening below expectations. However,
the latest installment of the Despicable Me franchise earning a
franchise low thirty six million dollars between Friday and Sunday.
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