July 15, 2025 • 7 mins
Communities in Massachusetts look to make the next generations tobacco free, kids say the cost of college education is worth it, and the Gen Z stares through us all. Stay in "The Loop" with WBZ NewsRadio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. All right,
let's do this at six o'clock on a Tuesday morning
and sundercloudy skies. It is a very muggy seventy five
degrees already. The News at six is brought to us
by your New England Toyota Dealer, your Hybrid all wheel
(00:23):
Drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us this morning. I'm
Jeff Brown, and here we go again.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Folens will break for some sunshine today.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It'll be very warm with cumid with a high of
eighty five to nine. That is WBZ achi weather meteorologist
Joe Lundberg. A heat advisory is going to kick in
later this morning and will last until Thursday night. Daytime
highs will feel like they're very close to one hundred degrees.
At Baseball's All Star Game in Atlanta, Seattle's Cal Rawley
becomes the first catcher ever to win the home run Derby.
(00:53):
The Midsummer Classic Tonight pits the American League against the
National League, and the WNBA brings its hottest act to Boston.
Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever take on the Connecticut Sun at
the Garden Tonight Television is about to pat itself on
the back when this morning's Primetime Emmy Award nominations are announced.
Top dramas like The Pit, White, Lotus, and Severance are
(01:14):
expected to join comedy faves Hacks, The Bear, and The
Studio with the bulk of the nods. The Primetime Emmys
will be handed out during a ceremony in Los Angeles
on September fourteenth. Okay, Boomer, they see you and you've
seen it. Clear eyes, fullhearts, can't lose, also, can't blink.
Apparently it's the gen z stare and it's taken over. TikTok,
(01:35):
A blank look young adults are giving That either means
you're an idiot or kids lack social skills. The debate
on social media features adults who claim the generation's newest
look emerges when an actual human engages them in conversation.
Kids say it's not me, it's you, and the look
is deserved when adults say something baffling. Experts say many
in the younger generation have not spent much time in
(01:57):
social settings and have not learned how to take and.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Give visual cues. Jaywilllett WBZ Boston's news Radio Today is
x's birthday. Born from the remnants of a podcasting company
once known as Twitter, the social media site turns nineteen
years old. It's still a teenager, of course. The short
messaging service started as a side project whose name is
inspired by various bird sounds, and for some reason it
(02:22):
worked or chirped after alternate names like friend stalker were
soundly rejected. Once limited to one hundred and forty characters,
Twitter exploded it south by Southwest in two thousand and
seven with more than sixty thousand tweets in a single day.
Eventually sold to Elon Musk, Twitter, of course becomes x
and remains one of the most popular social media sites
(02:42):
in the world, with two hundred million users. The cost
of a college education is worth it, the kids say so.
New survey finds girls, especially believe that a higher education
degree is necessary to live a successful professional and personal life.
The ape Pole finds about six and ten teenagers overall
say college is worth it, though earlier surveys find fewer
(03:05):
of their parents think so. The study also reveals that
despite whatever college gets you, many kids still fear they
won't live up to mom and dad's standards and they
won't ever own a home, won't be able to raise
a family or achieve a solid standards of living. Dangerous
heat is upon us once again, and it might be
tough to tell that right now. Under cloudy skies and
(03:27):
seventy five degrees, it kind of feels like Miami this
morning here in Boston. But the heat is on and
a heat advisory officially kicks in at eleven o'clock this
morning and will last until the early evening on Thursday.
And what this means is it looks like we're going
to be headed towards another heat wave here in Greater Boston,
although in the city we might not get quite there
(03:48):
every single day, but it's going to be warm enough
to be very uncomfortable and very dangerous. Therefore the heat
advisory today. The afternoon highs will be in the mid
to upper eighties, maybe in the lower nineties, especially in
inland location. We are running into some rain drops this morning,
but otherwise we'll see the clouds give way to sunshine
later today. Dangerous heat continues tomorrow. It might be a
(04:08):
few degrees even warmer tomorrow afternoon, and even on Thursday,
with high temperatures approaching ninety once again, we may extend
this heat advisory into Friday two, with temperatures effected to
be close to ninety once again to round out the week.
Right now, it's seventy five under cloudy skies and a
couple of rain drops this morning at six oh six
on this Tuesday. Sunshine in the summer is dangerous too,
(04:30):
even on what appears to be a cloudy day.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But buy or beware. Experts say you get what you
pay for with sunscreens.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Skin cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the
United States, so it is serious business here wearing sunscreen.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
You need to wear an SVF of thirty or above,
and an SVF of thirty gives you about ninety seven
percent protection, and then an SVF for forty five gives
you about ninety eight percent protection from the sun's race,
and after that it all kind of starts to level out,
so you don't necessarily need an SCF of one.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Hundred Janine Downey. Each year, more than five million people
in the US are treated for skin cancer. And it's
not just the beach and on the boat by the
lake that you're vulnerable, of course, the tennis courts, just
walking the dog on the pavements sometimes you know the
deal where that sunscreen, Drew Mahal and WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
If they've told you once, they've told you a million times,
and they're gonna tell you again.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
The Animal Rescue League of Boston says cars get deadly
hot for dogs. In a matter of minutes in the summer, temperature.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Outside about eighty one eighty two degrees. In less than
ten minutes, temperature rose to approximately one hundred and fifteen
degrees inside the car.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
They did a demo for the press putting a giant
thermometer inside a car and letting it sit for just
a few minutes. This is part of their annual Too
Hot for Spot campaign. Karen Lestranco is the director.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Of Law Enforcement.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
A citizen ken remove it an animal from a vehicle
if it's being left and confined in these conditions, and
if there's imminent danger to that animal. That applies after
they tell first responders. But in a worst case, it
is legal here to break a window to save a dog.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Modern cars have an automatic shut off feature. If it's
idling for a certain amount of time, the car will
actually shut off.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Kyle Straffel, WBZ Boston's News.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Radio whilemakers on Beacon Hill begin to create quite a stir.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Some cities in towns and Massachusetts have already passed laws
that banned tobacco sales for anyone born after a certain date,
and there's now a push to take that state wide
being discussed this week on Beacon Hill. The concept does
have its detractors. Many retailers say it's infringing on freedoms
and just driving people out of state to buy their
tobacco products. New Hampshire and Rhode Island has already benefited
(06:35):
from people buying flavored tobacco products out of state. Some
health experts believe it's a drastic but necessary step to
rid all of the health problems tied to tobacco and
nicotine addiction. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
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, redefining local news. All right,
let's do this at six o'clock on a Tuesday morning
and sundercloudy skies. It is a very muggy seventy five
degrees already. The News at six is brought to us
by your New England Toyota Dealer, your Hybrid all wheel
(00:23):
Drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us this morning. I'm
Jeff Brown, and here we go again.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Folens will break for some sunshine today.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It'll be very warm with cumid with a high of
eighty five to nine. That is WBZ achi weather meteorologist
Joe Lundberg. A heat advisory is going to kick in
later this morning and will last until Thursday night. Daytime
highs will feel like they're very close to one hundred degrees.
At Baseball's All Star Game in Atlanta, Seattle's Cal Rawley
becomes the first catcher ever to win the home run Derby.
(00:53):
The Midsummer Classic Tonight pits the American League against the
National League, and the WNBA brings its hottest act to Boston.
Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever take on the Connecticut Sun at
the Garden Tonight Television is about to pat itself on
the back when this morning's Primetime Emmy Award nominations are announced.
Top dramas like The Pit, White, Lotus, and Severance are
(01:14):
expected to join comedy faves Hacks, The Bear, and The
Studio with the bulk of the nods. The Primetime Emmys
will be handed out during a ceremony in Los Angeles
on September fourteenth. Okay, Boomer, they see you and you've
seen it. Clear eyes, fullhearts, can't lose, also, can't blink.
Apparently it's the gen z stare and it's taken over. TikTok,
(01:35):
A blank look young adults are giving That either means
you're an idiot or kids lack social skills. The debate
on social media features adults who claim the generation's newest
look emerges when an actual human engages them in conversation.
Kids say it's not me, it's you, and the look
is deserved when adults say something baffling. Experts say many
in the younger generation have not spent much time in
(01:57):
social settings and have not learned how to take and.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Give visual cues. Jaywilllett WBZ Boston's news Radio Today is
x's birthday. Born from the remnants of a podcasting company
once known as Twitter, the social media site turns nineteen
years old. It's still a teenager, of course. The short
messaging service started as a side project whose name is
inspired by various bird sounds, and for some reason it
(02:22):
worked or chirped after alternate names like friend stalker were
soundly rejected. Once limited to one hundred and forty characters,
Twitter exploded it south by Southwest in two thousand and
seven with more than sixty thousand tweets in a single day.
Eventually sold to Elon Musk, Twitter, of course becomes x
and remains one of the most popular social media sites
(02:42):
in the world, with two hundred million users. The cost
of a college education is worth it, the kids say so.
New survey finds girls, especially believe that a higher education
degree is necessary to live a successful professional and personal life.
The ape Pole finds about six and ten teenagers overall
say college is worth it, though earlier surveys find fewer
(03:05):
of their parents think so. The study also reveals that
despite whatever college gets you, many kids still fear they
won't live up to mom and dad's standards and they
won't ever own a home, won't be able to raise
a family or achieve a solid standards of living. Dangerous
heat is upon us once again, and it might be
tough to tell that right now. Under cloudy skies and
(03:27):
seventy five degrees, it kind of feels like Miami this
morning here in Boston. But the heat is on and
a heat advisory officially kicks in at eleven o'clock this
morning and will last until the early evening on Thursday.
And what this means is it looks like we're going
to be headed towards another heat wave here in Greater Boston,
although in the city we might not get quite there
(03:48):
every single day, but it's going to be warm enough
to be very uncomfortable and very dangerous. Therefore the heat
advisory today. The afternoon highs will be in the mid
to upper eighties, maybe in the lower nineties, especially in
inland location. We are running into some rain drops this morning,
but otherwise we'll see the clouds give way to sunshine
later today. Dangerous heat continues tomorrow. It might be a
(04:08):
few degrees even warmer tomorrow afternoon, and even on Thursday,
with high temperatures approaching ninety once again, we may extend
this heat advisory into Friday two, with temperatures effected to
be close to ninety once again to round out the week.
Right now, it's seventy five under cloudy skies and a
couple of rain drops this morning at six oh six
on this Tuesday. Sunshine in the summer is dangerous too,
(04:30):
even on what appears to be a cloudy day.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But buy or beware. Experts say you get what you
pay for with sunscreens.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Skin cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the
United States, so it is serious business here wearing sunscreen.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
You need to wear an SVF of thirty or above,
and an SVF of thirty gives you about ninety seven
percent protection, and then an SVF for forty five gives
you about ninety eight percent protection from the sun's race,
and after that it all kind of starts to level out,
so you don't necessarily need an SCF of one.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Hundred Janine Downey. Each year, more than five million people
in the US are treated for skin cancer. And it's
not just the beach and on the boat by the
lake that you're vulnerable, of course, the tennis courts, just
walking the dog on the pavements sometimes you know the
deal where that sunscreen, Drew Mahal and WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
If they've told you once, they've told you a million times,
and they're gonna tell you again.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
The Animal Rescue League of Boston says cars get deadly
hot for dogs. In a matter of minutes in the summer, temperature.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Outside about eighty one eighty two degrees. In less than
ten minutes, temperature rose to approximately one hundred and fifteen
degrees inside the car.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
They did a demo for the press putting a giant
thermometer inside a car and letting it sit for just
a few minutes. This is part of their annual Too
Hot for Spot campaign. Karen Lestranco is the director.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Of Law Enforcement.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
A citizen ken remove it an animal from a vehicle
if it's being left and confined in these conditions, and
if there's imminent danger to that animal. That applies after
they tell first responders. But in a worst case, it
is legal here to break a window to save a dog.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Modern cars have an automatic shut off feature. If it's
idling for a certain amount of time, the car will
actually shut off.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Kyle Straffel, WBZ Boston's News.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Radio whilemakers on Beacon Hill begin to create quite a stir.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Some cities in towns and Massachusetts have already passed laws
that banned tobacco sales for anyone born after a certain date,
and there's now a push to take that state wide
being discussed this week on Beacon Hill. The concept does
have its detractors. Many retailers say it's infringing on freedoms
and just driving people out of state to buy their
tobacco products. New Hampshire and Rhode Island has already benefited
(06:35):
from people buying flavored tobacco products out of state. Some
health experts believe it's a drastic but necessary step to
rid all of the health problems tied to tobacco and
nicotine addiction. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
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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