July 6, 2025 • 7 mins
We wrap up the three day holiday weekend with some blistering hot weather. The death toll continues to rise in flood-ravaged central Texas. A former Bruins fan favorite has passed away. 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
seventy degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning, Welcome.
I'm Charlie Burger on. Here's what's happening. We wrap up
our holiday weekend with some very hot weather. Heat advisory
will be in effect from seven am today until eight
pm tomorrow away from the south coast Capan Island, YAI
(00:23):
because it's going to be in the nineties both today
and tomorrow. In Boston, LaTroy Thornton has the four day
WBZ ACUA the forecast coming up. The death hole continues
to rise in flood ravaged Central Texas. At least fifty
one people, including at least fifteen children, are dead. More
than forty victims in Kerry County. Dozens more are missing,
(00:46):
including twenty seven children who are at a girls' summer camp.
Here CBS's Karen Waugh.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
On social media. President Trump says the White House is
working with Texas officials on the response, and Homeland Security
Secretary Christy Home is in the state.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We'll continue to stay engaged.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
And I'll be here.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I'm going to go up to the camp Mystic and
I'm going to go around town and spent some time here.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Today, a reunification center is set up at an elementary
school where families have been waiting and praying. These residents
say they found a girl who told them she was
from Camp Mystic, after she emerged from rubble left behind
by the floodwaters. We asked her what happened, and she
said that her cabin was flooding and someone opened a
window and she just flew out of it.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
That was really scary.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
She said she was the only one the devastation triggered
by heavy rains. Governor Greg Abbott says CRUIZ will work
around the clock to rescue and recover victims, and the
governor declaring Sunday a day of prayer. Two people dead
another hurt after a head on crash yesterday in Milton.
This crash involving at Toyota and the Mercedes. Both people
(01:54):
in the Toyota died I mean, and the Mercedes seriously injured.
This was at the intersection of Randolph aven Hillside Street.
Neighbor is telling CBS News Boston's Logan Hall this area
is particularly treacherous.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Those crews spent hours working to get a body out
of that car visibly shaken up in the process. Diane
says she's been advocating to make this road safer for decades.
Now She's lost track of how many accidents she's seen,
doing her best to document each one.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I take photos and I would never post this on
This is so tragic I've seen now.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I would have surprised with the over twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Five police in Milton continuing their investigation. Hope for peace
rising again in the Israel Hamas war. The Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanya, who says he's sending a delegation to
cut Her today for talks on a possible ceasefire deal.
The BBC Sebastian Usher says it's not the first time
(02:51):
a ceasefire seemed near.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
We've been here before, but this time it does look
as if things might be gathering a new momentum. President
Trumps talking it up. He's due to meet the Israeli
Prime Ministers of Benjamin Etnyawho on Monday. He will almost
certainly want to be able to make some big announcement
after that meeting. Whether it will be a significant breakthrough,
whether he'll be able to announce a deal in itself,
(03:15):
we don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Inside Gaza. Hospital. Officials say Israeli airstrikes killed fourteen Palestinians
and another ten were killed while seeking food to American aid.
Workers with the Israeli Back to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were
injured in an attack at a food distribution site. Let's
check the four day wdbz ACU weather Forecastle Troy Thornton
(03:37):
tells us Today hot, humid with some sun, some clouds,
high ninety three in Boston, eighties for the Cape and
the Islands, and along the shores north and south. Clear,
humid overnight Tonight just seventy three for a low, and
then tomorrow another humid day, hot, breezy, sun clouds, high
ninety in Boston the coastlines, eighty five in for the Cape,
(04:01):
about eighty for a high. Tuesday, not as bad, some clouds,
some gusty thunderstorms will move through with temperatures in the
low eighties. And then Wednesday, more clouds than sun slight
chance of a shower just seventy six. The high on
Wednesday right now seventy degrees, and again that humidity is
the issue, already over seventy six percent at six oh five.
(04:22):
A former Boston Bruin fan favorite has passed away. Here's
wbz's Jared Brosman. You know that's a player of fred.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I go into buildings and I talk go out of player, care,
care of fight.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
To Lindon Buyers, he is a tremendous fighter. Former Boston
Bruin Lynden Byers has passed away at the age of
sixty one. He spent nine seasons with the bs in
more than two decades as a local radio personality. In
a statement, the Bruins offered condolences to his family and
say he was a fan favorite for his rugged, rough
and tumble style of play. He only scored twenty four
goals for the team, but was a very successful enforcer,
(04:55):
racking up nearly one thousand penalty minutes and a lot
of them for fighting. You don't really see players like
that today's game. In a post on Buyer's Facebook account,
his wife Anny says information about a memorial service will
come out in the coming days. So far no word
on the cause of death. Chair Brosnan, WBZ Boston's NewsRadio super.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Birds legacy in Seattle will soon be remembered forever. ESPN
reporting the retired women's basketball star will be the first
player in the league to get a statue in her honor.
It will be unveiled Sunday, August seventeenth, the same day
the Seattle Storm hosts the Phoenix Mercury. The game being
(05:31):
called the Franchisees Forever Sue Game. Last day for Walt
Disney World fans to enjoy two of the park's oldest attractions.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Since nineteen seventy three, Tom Sawyer Island and the Huffing
Buffing Liberty Bell Riverboat have been part of the Disney
World landscape, but after today they're gone. Orlando Sentinel Attractions
writer Dwayne Bevel says there's a lot of sentiment for
both the island and the boat, but I.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Don't know if it draws new audiences. It's one of
those things that people didn't care about until they said
it was going away, and now it is going away.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Disney's website says both will be replaced by quote the
largest expansion in history at the Magic Kingdom, a national
park type setting based on the movie Cars. Peter King's
CBS News Orlando.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Ozzie Osbourne and Black Sabbaths send their metal head fans home,
delighted to have seen the band play their farewell gig
in Birmingham, England. The final performance back to the beginning
held in Villa Park Stadium and the fans loved it.
I never I just think that was important enough to
be like a.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Parsh of history.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
But here we are all celebrating the birthplace of heavy
metal of opposuting article.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Everyone's amazing and seeing Ozzie Brushler.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I'm shocked to the credible job whoao.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Profits from the event going to a charity benefiting the
fight against Parkinson's disease. Ozzy Osbourne's now seventy six years old,
revealing five years ago he has Parkinson's which has now
made him unable to walk. You are now in the loop.
For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WDBZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Charlie Berger on WDBZ,
(07:12):
Boston's news radio
This is WBZ Boston's news radio. We defining local news
seventy degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning, Welcome.
I'm Charlie Burger on. Here's what's happening. We wrap up
our holiday weekend with some very hot weather. Heat advisory
will be in effect from seven am today until eight
pm tomorrow away from the south coast Capan Island, YAI
(00:23):
because it's going to be in the nineties both today
and tomorrow. In Boston, LaTroy Thornton has the four day
WBZ ACUA the forecast coming up. The death hole continues
to rise in flood ravaged Central Texas. At least fifty
one people, including at least fifteen children, are dead. More
than forty victims in Kerry County. Dozens more are missing,
(00:46):
including twenty seven children who are at a girls' summer camp.
Here CBS's Karen Waugh.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
On social media. President Trump says the White House is
working with Texas officials on the response, and Homeland Security
Secretary Christy Home is in the state.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We'll continue to stay engaged.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
And I'll be here.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I'm going to go up to the camp Mystic and
I'm going to go around town and spent some time here.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Today, a reunification center is set up at an elementary
school where families have been waiting and praying. These residents
say they found a girl who told them she was
from Camp Mystic, after she emerged from rubble left behind
by the floodwaters. We asked her what happened, and she
said that her cabin was flooding and someone opened a
window and she just flew out of it.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
That was really scary.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
She said she was the only one the devastation triggered
by heavy rains. Governor Greg Abbott says CRUIZ will work
around the clock to rescue and recover victims, and the
governor declaring Sunday a day of prayer. Two people dead
another hurt after a head on crash yesterday in Milton.
This crash involving at Toyota and the Mercedes. Both people
(01:54):
in the Toyota died I mean, and the Mercedes seriously injured.
This was at the intersection of Randolph aven Hillside Street.
Neighbor is telling CBS News Boston's Logan Hall this area
is particularly treacherous.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Those crews spent hours working to get a body out
of that car visibly shaken up in the process. Diane
says she's been advocating to make this road safer for decades.
Now She's lost track of how many accidents she's seen,
doing her best to document each one.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I take photos and I would never post this on
This is so tragic I've seen now.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I would have surprised with the over twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Five police in Milton continuing their investigation. Hope for peace
rising again in the Israel Hamas war. The Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanya, who says he's sending a delegation to
cut Her today for talks on a possible ceasefire deal.
The BBC Sebastian Usher says it's not the first time
(02:51):
a ceasefire seemed near.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
We've been here before, but this time it does look
as if things might be gathering a new momentum. President
Trumps talking it up. He's due to meet the Israeli
Prime Ministers of Benjamin Etnyawho on Monday. He will almost
certainly want to be able to make some big announcement
after that meeting. Whether it will be a significant breakthrough,
whether he'll be able to announce a deal in itself,
(03:15):
we don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Inside Gaza. Hospital. Officials say Israeli airstrikes killed fourteen Palestinians
and another ten were killed while seeking food to American aid.
Workers with the Israeli Back to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were
injured in an attack at a food distribution site. Let's
check the four day wdbz ACU weather Forecastle Troy Thornton
(03:37):
tells us Today hot, humid with some sun, some clouds,
high ninety three in Boston, eighties for the Cape and
the Islands, and along the shores north and south. Clear,
humid overnight Tonight just seventy three for a low, and
then tomorrow another humid day, hot, breezy, sun clouds, high
ninety in Boston the coastlines, eighty five in for the Cape,
(04:01):
about eighty for a high. Tuesday, not as bad, some clouds,
some gusty thunderstorms will move through with temperatures in the
low eighties. And then Wednesday, more clouds than sun slight
chance of a shower just seventy six. The high on
Wednesday right now seventy degrees, and again that humidity is
the issue, already over seventy six percent at six oh five.
(04:22):
A former Boston Bruin fan favorite has passed away. Here's
wbz's Jared Brosman. You know that's a player of fred.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I go into buildings and I talk go out of player, care,
care of fight.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
To Lindon Buyers, he is a tremendous fighter. Former Boston
Bruin Lynden Byers has passed away at the age of
sixty one. He spent nine seasons with the bs in
more than two decades as a local radio personality. In
a statement, the Bruins offered condolences to his family and
say he was a fan favorite for his rugged, rough
and tumble style of play. He only scored twenty four
goals for the team, but was a very successful enforcer,
(04:55):
racking up nearly one thousand penalty minutes and a lot
of them for fighting. You don't really see players like
that today's game. In a post on Buyer's Facebook account,
his wife Anny says information about a memorial service will
come out in the coming days. So far no word
on the cause of death. Chair Brosnan, WBZ Boston's NewsRadio super.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Birds legacy in Seattle will soon be remembered forever. ESPN
reporting the retired women's basketball star will be the first
player in the league to get a statue in her honor.
It will be unveiled Sunday, August seventeenth, the same day
the Seattle Storm hosts the Phoenix Mercury. The game being
(05:31):
called the Franchisees Forever Sue Game. Last day for Walt
Disney World fans to enjoy two of the park's oldest attractions.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Since nineteen seventy three, Tom Sawyer Island and the Huffing
Buffing Liberty Bell Riverboat have been part of the Disney
World landscape, but after today they're gone. Orlando Sentinel Attractions
writer Dwayne Bevel says there's a lot of sentiment for
both the island and the boat, but I.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Don't know if it draws new audiences. It's one of
those things that people didn't care about until they said
it was going away, and now it is going away.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Disney's website says both will be replaced by quote the
largest expansion in history at the Magic Kingdom, a national
park type setting based on the movie Cars. Peter King's
CBS News Orlando.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Ozzie Osbourne and Black Sabbaths send their metal head fans home,
delighted to have seen the band play their farewell gig
in Birmingham, England. The final performance back to the beginning
held in Villa Park Stadium and the fans loved it.
I never I just think that was important enough to
be like a.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Parsh of history.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
But here we are all celebrating the birthplace of heavy
metal of opposuting article.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Everyone's amazing and seeing Ozzie Brushler.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I'm shocked to the credible job whoao.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Profits from the event going to a charity benefiting the
fight against Parkinson's disease. Ozzy Osbourne's now seventy six years old,
revealing five years ago he has Parkinson's which has now
made him unable to walk. You are now in the loop.
For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WDBZ News
Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Charlie Berger on WDBZ,
(07:12):
Boston's news radio
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