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Morning Report: Monday, June 24, 2024
This is WBC, Boston's news video redefining local news. 74 degrees. We have partly cloudy skies as we are just getting started once again here on this Monday morning. It is June 24th, 2024. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Jim McKay. And here's what's happening. Well, certainly a nice morning out there to start a couple of days. We're going to come back to you. We're going back to you. We're going to come back to you with the Workweek times of sunny clouds today. It'll become breezy, and it will turn less humid with time are high about 84. That is WBC active weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. We drop back down to the 60s for later tonight. We're doing OK tomorrow. We really start to heat up, though. Upper 80s were by 90 on Wednesday where we could see some shower and thunderstorms rolling in. This hour of news brought to you by your New England Toyota Firebase. We'll see you in the morning. We'll see you in the morning. We'll see you in the morning. We'll see you in the blue Jays tonight at Fenway after taking the series from the Reds in Cincinnati. One game for all the marbles. Call it baseball World Series, Texas A&M Tennessee go out of tonight. And the NHL final game of the NHL season is tonight. Game seven of your Stanley Cup final Oilers and Panthers from Sunrise, Florida. Well, a vigil planned for a cyclist who was killed in Cambridge. Now fellow athletes are on the sidewalk here at the intersection of Portland and Hampshire streets. It's where 24 year old men team Nguyen was struck by a turning truck while riding her bike on Friday. The MIT student later passed away from her injuries. This is the second bicyclist death in two weeks in the city. Jackie lives nearby and stop to look at the makeshift memorial. I turn right every day to get on my street. I can't see the bikes that are coming when I turn. So, like, I do. I mean, you have to be so careful because the park guys are blocking that visibility. So I don't know if that was going to happen, but. It just says that bicycle safety advocates are calling for better infrastructure. Meanwhile, a vigil will be held tonight at City Hall in Cambridge, James Rojas W. B. Z. Boston's news radio at 602. Just in this morning overseas, regulators from the European Union accusing Apple of breaking new rules on digital competition by preventing software developers on their app stores, steering users to other venues. Just the latest accusation coming against Apple from the European Commission, the violations of what's called the Digital Markets Act could come with it. Heavy fines and penalties overseas across the nation at 27 block. Taylor Swift got more than the bargain for Taylor Swift fans at last night showing London Travis Kelsey in a tux and top hat carrying swift onto the stage at Wembley Stadium for her. I can do it with a broken heart outfit change. Her Kansas City chief's boyfriend smiled ear to ear as he stepped in for the time of the year. She said she didn't know what she was going to do with her sister. The dancer who usually does the job. The crowd roared with approval as he dusted Swift's face with powder then showed off some signature dance moves before smiling again and making his exits. Swift's London shows have hosted Tom Cruise, Paul McCartney, John Bon Jovi even Prince William and his two children, Charlotte and George Deborah Rodriguez CBS news. Let's take a look now at that four day W. B. Z. Accuweather with some sunshine making its way through the clouds here in Boston as we're just getting started at 6 0 5 for the rest of today. We'll have highs into the mid 80s. It'll be a steady breeze out there just very warm for tonight. We're down into the 60s more of the same tomorrow. Mostly sunny highs in the mid to upper 80s by Wednesday. We're up to 90 and we could see some passing showers and thunderstorms. We settle back down with some calmer conditions on Thursday, but all in all we are right back into the 80s this week as the warm weather continues to what has been a sizzling start to the summer season. We're at 74 right now in Boston with partly cloudy skies at 6 0 5. Well, testimony resuming today at the Carren Reed murder trial witnesses for the defense taking the stand and the jury is expected to begin deliberations very soon. The prosecution rested their case Friday after eight weeks of testimony and 68 witnesses. The defense then called three witnesses, a plow driver responsible for working fair view road in that area where General Keith's body was discovered. Brian Lachren said he didn't see a body when he was in the area between 2 and 6 a.m. The second defense witness forensic pathologist Dr. Marie Russell an expert on dog bite stating she believed the injuries to O'Keeffe's arm was sustained by an animal. Digital forensics expert Richard Green, the final witness called by the defense testifying about Apple health data found in O'Keeffe's foam. So barring a change, the defense is expected to call three more witnesses Monday, Reed's defense attorney Alan Jackson telling WBZ TV. I think we're going to be done on Monday. Yeah, I think closing on Tuesday and then we'll charge the jurors and they'll have it by maybe end of the day Tuesday. Charlie Berger on WBZ Boston's news radio. There you go. It's 607 Houston. We have a problem. A Florida family whose house was hit by a chunk of space junk earlier this year. It's now suing NASA. A cylindrical object tore through the home of Alejandro Otero in Naples, Florida on March 8th. It happened while he was on vacation. The object was subsequently taken to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral for analysis, and it was found to be a metal support used to mount old batteries on a cargo pallet for disposal. It was expected to eventually fully burn up on entry into Earth's atmosphere, but one piece survived. The family sites damages for non issued property, business interruption, emotional and mental anguish, and the cost of assistance from third party agencies. Matt Piper CBS News, meantime, SpaceX is celebrating two more successful launches over the weekend. Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida carrying 22 Starling satellites. While another 20 satellites were launched in California, the Starlings are designed to help service high speed internet around the globe in which cities are the best run in the United States report on this country's best and worst run cities is out cities on the best list have great economic growth, quality infrastructure, great public health systems and education systems low unemployment rate. Best run cities, Nampa, Idaho and Raleigh, North Carolina, the worst run. Went Michigan, New York, both port Oakland and San Francisco at the bottom of our list. Stephen Kaufman, CBS News. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBC News Radio on the iHard Radio app. I'm Jim McKay, WBC Boston's news radio. (keyboard clacking)