Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
News sixty five degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,
Welcome to Sunday, the tenth of August. I'm Charlie Bird running.
It's what's happening. Poor man is dead after being pulled
from the water off the Fantastic Beach yesterday in Hull,
CBS News Boston, Samantha Cheney says police arrived to find
(00:27):
a capsized boat.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Now, it's unclear how exactly that boat capsized, but people
on the beach say the water was pretty rough.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
The waves were just out of control. It was like
three to four feets wales.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It was a lot, We're told.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
First responders performed CPR on the man.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
That's terrible.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Can't even imagine.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Police also searched the shoreline for any other victim.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The victims family has declined any comment. The UN Security
Council set to hold a rare Sunday session to discuss
Israel's plans to seize canrol of Gaza City. Now, this
move is seen as a threat to hundreds of thousands
of Palestinian residents and also a possible death sentence for hostages.
(01:10):
Still being held by hamas CBS's Deborah Pada.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's not just the people of Gaza who are desperate
for a deal. There were demonstrations across Israel calling for
the hostages to be freed and demanding.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
An end to the war in Gaza. Health officials reporting
dozens of people killed in the latest twenty four hour
reporting period, some from bombings, others from shootings by Israeli
troops that aid distribution points, and others died from starvation.
To London, now three hundred and sixty five people arrested
(01:45):
for showing support for a recently banned pro Palestinian group.
Protesters want to force the government to reconsider the ban,
Parliament passing the law last month banning the group, Palestine Action,
making it a crime to publicly support the organization. The ban
was approved after activists broke into a Royal Air Force base,
(02:09):
vandalizing two tanker planes to protest britain support for Israel's
offensive in Gaza. President Trump nominating another former Fox News
personality to a high government position.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Tammy Bruce has been the State Department's spokesperson since January,
even though she has no foreign policy experience. Trump said
he will nominate her to be the Deputy Representative to
the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador. On social media,
the President called Bruce a great patriot, television personality and
best selling author. Christopher Cruz CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Trump has nominated his former National security advisor, Mike Walls
to be UN ambassador. Walls had his confirmation hearing the
last month, but the Senate has yet to vote on
his nomination. Tammy Bruce is a longtime Democrat and liberal activist,
became a Trump supporter. She will also have to be
(03:03):
confirmed by the Senate. Let's check the four day wdbz
ACU weather forecast. Matt Brindy tells us Today will be
sunny and warmer, but not that humid. We'll get to
about eighty five for a high in Boston, closer to
ninety Inland. About eighty for a high for the Cape
and the Islands. It's partly cloudy, stays warm overnight. Tonight
(03:23):
we drop back to just seventy. Tomorrow, it's a sunny
day and a little more humid, high ninety one eighties
for the Cape. Tuesday, another sunny day and hotter, could
get to ninety four Tuesday more of the same on
Wednesday high on Wednesday ninety five, and it looks again
for four more days without any wet weather. Right now
(03:43):
sixty five degrees in Boston at six oh four. The
National Football League sending out a memo recommending enhanced security
measures at all team and league facilities. Maybec's Chuck Stefertson.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
This following the deadly shooting recent life at the Midtown
Manhattan building that houses NFL headquarters. The memo sent to
all team owners and presidents by the NFL's top security
officer and head lawyer after a meeting of the league's
security committee. It recommends updated threat assessments, armed law enforcement
or security officers at team and league facilities whenever players
are staff are there, and weapons screening to enter team
(04:21):
and league facility.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
The illegal assess where things stand regarding stepped up security
at its next meeting. On August twenty sixth, legendary New
York Yankee pitcher Mariano Rivera need surgery after being injured
during the Old Timers game at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
The New York Daily News reports the fifty five year
old Hall of Famer tour in achilles tendon while going
after a Willie Randolph fly ball to center field. Earlier,
at his only at bat, Rivera hit a single off
of pitcher Andy Pettitt and easily made it to first base.
His agent said he'll have the surgery in the coming week.
Rivera spent his entire nineteen year career with the Yankees
(04:59):
and dominated reallyf pitching, but six hundred and fifty two
career saves the most in baseball history and is considered
by far the greatest reliever of all time. I'm Lisa Selbody.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
A massive wildfire that broke out on Italy's historic Mount
Vesuvius in Naples, causing serious concerns for authorities.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Firefighting teams have been working since Friday on the ground
and in the air to ensure the safety of those
living close to where the blaze erupted. Towns such as
El Coolano were covered in thick black smoke, prompting health warnings.
Tireless efforts continue to rain in the fire amid a
scorching heat wave. Sabina Castlefranco CBS.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
News Rown a twenty nine year old brock to man
arrested after he allegedly stole a pickup truck from a
McDonald's parking lot in Weymouth on Thursday. In the truck
were two French bulldogs. Marcus Morse facing a number of charges.
So the day after the alleged theft to detectives discovered
that a Nissan Frontier was being sold online happened to
(06:03):
be the same make and model as the stolen truck.
Officers arriving at one twenty nine Manly Street in Brockton,
finding the truck the two dogs still in the truck.
Morse was arrested. The dogs brought to Brockton Animal Control
and Morse will be arranged tomorrow in Quincy District Court.
Final round of the Saint Jude Golf Championship in Tennessee
(06:27):
a little later on this.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Morning, the first event of the PGA Tours FedEx Cup
Playoffs is going down in Memphis at TPC South Wind.
Only the top seventy players earned a spot in this
week's event, with that number being cut down to fifty
for next week's BMW Championship. Finishing in the top fifty
in the FedEx Cup will guarantee golfer's entry into next
season signature events. I'm Lisa Carton.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Tommy Fleetwood begins the final round today, one better than
Justin Rose Scotti Scheffler just two back. You are now
in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen
to DOUBLEBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Charlie
Berger on WDBZ, Boston's news radio