June 30, 2025 • 7 mins
Dozens of local public beaches are closed due to high bacteria counts. Hurricane Barry hits Mexico. Dads want to be Dads but some say they don't have the time. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Must we do this again? We must.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is six o'clock in a Monday morning, and it
is good to get started with you today. Right now,
we're sixty nine degrees and clear skies here in Boston.
The News at six brought to us by your New
England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks
for being with us on this Monday morning. I'm Jeff Brown,
and the heat is on.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It'll be a.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Warm day with a high of eighty three downtown, though
it is going to be closer to ninety inland.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That is WBZ aki weather meteorologist Tether Zayer turning more
humid this Fourth of July week as well. It's a
great week to be on vacation. It is a beach week,
but many public beaches are off limits. Close to two
dozen DCR beaches and swimming holes are closed as the
temps begin to rise. Most of them shut down due
to high back tery accounts. The DCR's interactive website is
(00:58):
updated several times a day. Also, good to know that
several public pools in Boston are also closed for maintenance.
At least nine of the city's twenty public pools are
shut down, a handful out of business for repairs that
some say will last all summer. Long. Mayor Michelle Woo
says the city is working as quickly as possible to
get them up and running once again. The Atlantic Hurricane
(01:18):
season second named storm makes landfall on the east coast
of Mexico. Tropical depression Barry hits with heavy rain. Going
is about to get a lot tougher for forecasters. Starting today,
Noah says it will stop collecting and distributing data from
three weather satellites due to cuts from the Trump administration.
Officials say this is part of a routine process of
(01:39):
data rotation and replacement, but critics, and there are many,
say the lack of three D data greatly increases the
chances that forecasters will miss rapid intensification of storms and
underestimate the power of potential storms as well. Dads just
want to be dads, but many don't have the time.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
New research shows most are not taking much time off
for parental leave to study in the Journal Pediatrics find
sixty four percent of new dads take two weeks or
less off from work to bond with the new baby.
Slightly more than one third say they'll take more than that.
Four in ten say they want to take more time
off from work, but claim inflexible work schedules and not
enough a crude time off stands in their way. Massachusetts
(02:20):
law does grant most men and women workers eight weeks
of paid parental leave. Drew Mahall and WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Red Sox's gonna turn back the clock this week with
a fiftieth anniversary of the nineteen seventy five World Series
as the Cincinnati Reds come to town for a three
game set beginning tonight at Fenway. All eyes on the
Celtics later today as the rebuild continues. They kick off
to the NBA free agency period begins tonight at six o'clock,
and center stage pro tennis the Championships at Wimbledon underway
(02:50):
right now. Brad Pitt takes the wheel.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
At the movies, Apple has scored its first hit in
movie theaters.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Think it's pretty wonderful to MPEx given second shots to
the elder It's all right, you're just right on quick.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Thanks to the growing appeal of Formula one racing and
Star Brad pitt f one sped to the top of
the box office. It brought in an estimated fifty five
and a half million dollars in North America and another
eighty eight million overseas. Turnout was especially heavy at imax locations,
which charge a premium for tickets after two weeks, and
(03:22):
the lead How to Train Your Dragon slid into second
place with nineteen million dollars. Elio was fourth with ten
point seven Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Pretty much right on schedule. Summer is going to kick
it into high gear this week. It is a beautiful
morning here in the city, under clear skies and sixty
nine degrees right now. I'll see temperatures well into the
middle eighties later on today, but a sea breeze also
we'll keep temperatures in check closer to eighty right along
the immediate shoreline. All in all, this is a beautiful
start to fourth of July week, and this is a
(03:54):
very popular vacation week if you if you did pick
this week to go on vacation, nice choice by you,
because this is going to be a warm and humid
week with the chance of showers and thunderstorms arriving tomorrow. Afternoon.
It can never be discounted with these conditions at any
time during the summer season, so we'll need to keep
an eye to the sky for most of the upcoming days,
(04:14):
especially in the afternoon. Sneak peek ahead at fourth of July.
It looks like it's going to be a beautiful day
on Friday too, with high temperatures in the low eighties
and plenty of sunshine and even lower humidity by then,
so almost a perfect ten as we head towards Independence Day.
Right now on this Monday morning's clear skies and sixty
nine degrees. At six oh six, we start the new
(04:34):
week Roland once again on the MBTA's Orange Line.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
When the NBTA began signal upgrades last week, it brought
the Orange line to a screeching halt between Forest Hills
and Back Bay. Shuttle buses were used instead during that time.
Something g over here is happy to have in his
own rear view mirror.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah's eight thongs, which is my appointments down the city.
You know, come back from my appointment. It is about
fifteen twenty minutes. No, it's only like ten thoughts chain,
but on a bus it's it's like for you could
be long on a buzz and it's sore on a chain,
you know.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
The NBTA says the signal upgrades are part of a
larger improvement program with the goal of enhancing safety and
reliability at Forest Hill Station. James rohas w b Z
Boston snooths Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
President Trump says there's a buyer for TikTok, but he
won't say who. Speaking with Fox News Sunday, the President
will only say it's a group of very wealthy people.
The President has just granted its Chinese owner, Bike Dance,
a third ninety day extension to find a buyer or
risk being shut down in the United States. Also, the
President says he will not grant another extension on his
(05:38):
global tariffs that are otherwise set to take effect on
July ninth, and he says letters are being sent right
now to the nations in question. A president is expected
to be there during tomorrow's formal opening of what's come
to be known as Alligator Alcatraz. The newly and hastily
constructed immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades comes under
a cloud of controversy. Facility, built in about a week,
(06:01):
is set up at a little used airstrip in the Miami
Dade County area and was prodded along through emergency powers
used by Governor Ron DeSantis, who sees the land to
build that lock up, located in the middle of a
nature preserve that is home to the endangered Florida panther.
The facility, which critics say is cruel, is expected to
be filled with thousands of migrants, and now the work begins.
(06:24):
The fate of Sean diddy Comb's rests with the jury
in his federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial. The panel
begins deliberations in New York City this morning, following two
days of closing arguments and instructions from the judge. For
fans in Philadelphia, it's the sound of silence after Paul
Simon cancels two performances this weekend. Chronic and intense back pain,
(06:46):
the reason for which he says he's also had minor surgery,
sends the eighty three year old Simon to the sidelines.
The move comes just a couple of weeks after Simon's
appearance in Boston at the Box Center Wang Theater. He
says he's so bookedright now he can't offer a make
up date to with Philadelphians. Simon's next show is still
on a week from tonight in Long Beach, California, day
(07:10):
picture perfect morning in Boston. It is six oh eight.
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 WBZ Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Must we do this again? We must.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is six o'clock in a Monday morning, and it
is good to get started with you today. Right now,
we're sixty nine degrees and clear skies here in Boston.
The News at six brought to us by your New
England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks
for being with us on this Monday morning. I'm Jeff Brown,
and the heat is on.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It'll be a.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Warm day with a high of eighty three downtown, though
it is going to be closer to ninety inland.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That is WBZ aki weather meteorologist Tether Zayer turning more
humid this Fourth of July week as well. It's a
great week to be on vacation. It is a beach week,
but many public beaches are off limits. Close to two
dozen DCR beaches and swimming holes are closed as the
temps begin to rise. Most of them shut down due
to high back tery accounts. The DCR's interactive website is
(00:58):
updated several times a day. Also, good to know that
several public pools in Boston are also closed for maintenance.
At least nine of the city's twenty public pools are
shut down, a handful out of business for repairs that
some say will last all summer. Long. Mayor Michelle Woo
says the city is working as quickly as possible to
get them up and running once again. The Atlantic Hurricane
(01:18):
season second named storm makes landfall on the east coast
of Mexico. Tropical depression Barry hits with heavy rain. Going
is about to get a lot tougher for forecasters. Starting today,
Noah says it will stop collecting and distributing data from
three weather satellites due to cuts from the Trump administration.
Officials say this is part of a routine process of
(01:39):
data rotation and replacement, but critics, and there are many,
say the lack of three D data greatly increases the
chances that forecasters will miss rapid intensification of storms and
underestimate the power of potential storms as well. Dads just
want to be dads, but many don't have the time.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
New research shows most are not taking much time off
for parental leave to study in the Journal Pediatrics find
sixty four percent of new dads take two weeks or
less off from work to bond with the new baby.
Slightly more than one third say they'll take more than that.
Four in ten say they want to take more time
off from work, but claim inflexible work schedules and not
enough a crude time off stands in their way. Massachusetts
(02:20):
law does grant most men and women workers eight weeks
of paid parental leave. Drew Mahall and WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Red Sox's gonna turn back the clock this week with
a fiftieth anniversary of the nineteen seventy five World Series
as the Cincinnati Reds come to town for a three
game set beginning tonight at Fenway. All eyes on the
Celtics later today as the rebuild continues. They kick off
to the NBA free agency period begins tonight at six o'clock,
and center stage pro tennis the Championships at Wimbledon underway
(02:50):
right now. Brad Pitt takes the wheel.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
At the movies, Apple has scored its first hit in
movie theaters.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Think it's pretty wonderful to MPEx given second shots to
the elder It's all right, you're just right on quick.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Thanks to the growing appeal of Formula one racing and
Star Brad pitt f one sped to the top of
the box office. It brought in an estimated fifty five
and a half million dollars in North America and another
eighty eight million overseas. Turnout was especially heavy at imax locations,
which charge a premium for tickets after two weeks, and
(03:22):
the lead How to Train Your Dragon slid into second
place with nineteen million dollars. Elio was fourth with ten
point seven Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Pretty much right on schedule. Summer is going to kick
it into high gear this week. It is a beautiful
morning here in the city, under clear skies and sixty
nine degrees right now. I'll see temperatures well into the
middle eighties later on today, but a sea breeze also
we'll keep temperatures in check closer to eighty right along
the immediate shoreline. All in all, this is a beautiful
start to fourth of July week, and this is a
(03:54):
very popular vacation week if you if you did pick
this week to go on vacation, nice choice by you,
because this is going to be a warm and humid
week with the chance of showers and thunderstorms arriving tomorrow. Afternoon.
It can never be discounted with these conditions at any
time during the summer season, so we'll need to keep
an eye to the sky for most of the upcoming days,
(04:14):
especially in the afternoon. Sneak peek ahead at fourth of July.
It looks like it's going to be a beautiful day
on Friday too, with high temperatures in the low eighties
and plenty of sunshine and even lower humidity by then,
so almost a perfect ten as we head towards Independence Day.
Right now on this Monday morning's clear skies and sixty
nine degrees. At six oh six, we start the new
(04:34):
week Roland once again on the MBTA's Orange Line.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
When the NBTA began signal upgrades last week, it brought
the Orange line to a screeching halt between Forest Hills
and Back Bay. Shuttle buses were used instead during that time.
Something g over here is happy to have in his
own rear view mirror.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah's eight thongs, which is my appointments down the city.
You know, come back from my appointment. It is about
fifteen twenty minutes. No, it's only like ten thoughts chain,
but on a bus it's it's like for you could
be long on a buzz and it's sore on a chain,
you know.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
The NBTA says the signal upgrades are part of a
larger improvement program with the goal of enhancing safety and
reliability at Forest Hill Station. James rohas w b Z
Boston snooths Radio.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
President Trump says there's a buyer for TikTok, but he
won't say who. Speaking with Fox News Sunday, the President
will only say it's a group of very wealthy people.
The President has just granted its Chinese owner, Bike Dance,
a third ninety day extension to find a buyer or
risk being shut down in the United States. Also, the
President says he will not grant another extension on his
(05:38):
global tariffs that are otherwise set to take effect on
July ninth, and he says letters are being sent right
now to the nations in question. A president is expected
to be there during tomorrow's formal opening of what's come
to be known as Alligator Alcatraz. The newly and hastily
constructed immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades comes under
a cloud of controversy. Facility, built in about a week,
(06:01):
is set up at a little used airstrip in the Miami
Dade County area and was prodded along through emergency powers
used by Governor Ron DeSantis, who sees the land to
build that lock up, located in the middle of a
nature preserve that is home to the endangered Florida panther.
The facility, which critics say is cruel, is expected to
be filled with thousands of migrants, and now the work begins.
(06:24):
The fate of Sean diddy Comb's rests with the jury
in his federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial. The panel
begins deliberations in New York City this morning, following two
days of closing arguments and instructions from the judge. For
fans in Philadelphia, it's the sound of silence after Paul
Simon cancels two performances this weekend. Chronic and intense back pain,
(06:46):
the reason for which he says he's also had minor surgery,
sends the eighty three year old Simon to the sidelines.
The move comes just a couple of weeks after Simon's
appearance in Boston at the Box Center Wang Theater. He
says he's so bookedright now he can't offer a make
up date to with Philadelphians. Simon's next show is still
on a week from tonight in Long Beach, California, day
(07:10):
picture perfect morning in Boston. It is six oh eight.
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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