Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 1: A few clouds in the sky, but the sun is
Speaker 1: still shining in Boston, sixty seven degrees at four o'clock.
Speaker 1: I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. It's deadline day. The
Speaker 1: sales of six Stewart Healthcare hospitals are expected to close
Speaker 1: today under Stuart's bankruptcy filing. And we have just obtained
Speaker 1: new court documents that show soon to be former Stewart
Speaker 1: CEO Ralph de Latorres is suing the Senate committee that
Speaker 1: voted to hold him in contempt. He claims his constitutional
Speaker 1: rights are being violated. Meanwhile, there was a rare hearing
Speaker 1: yesterday at federal bankruptcy Court in Texas to hammer out
Speaker 1: the final details to get the remaining hospitals out of
Speaker 1: Stewart's control. When the titles transfer. Hears what it will
Speaker 1: look like. Lawrence General will take over Holy Family and
Speaker 1: Haveril and Methuen. Life Span will take over operations at
Speaker 1: Morton Hospital in Taunton and Saint Anne's in Fall River.
Speaker 1: Boston Medical will take control of Goods Meridan in Brockton
Speaker 1: and Saint Elizabeth in Brighton Stewart CEO Ralph Dilatory is resigning.
Speaker 1: He's expected to step down tomorrow. The Winchester Center station
Speaker 1: is finally reopening tomorrow, a day behind schedule after a
Speaker 1: last minute delay to fix an elevator. WBC's Kyles Schaffel
Speaker 1: has more.
Speaker 2: The mission to redo Winchester's main commuter rail station is
Speaker 2: almost at an end.
Speaker 3: It's been a long and winding road. The project got
Speaker 3: started in about twenty ten.
Speaker 2: Things like fallen concrete into crepit platforms force the renovation,
Speaker 2: which now is an elevator after the rebuilt. State Senator
Speaker 2: Jason Lewis has watched it all the way through as
Speaker 2: people in Winchester grow frustrated that the repairs were taking
Speaker 2: so long. The station closed in twenty twenty one. Part
Speaker 2: of the problem.
Speaker 3: Trains on the Lowell Line have continued to operate the
Speaker 3: entire time.
Speaker 2: Which meant construction crews didn't have the access they might
Speaker 2: have had elsewhere. There's still construction going on to the
Speaker 2: end of the year, but the station is functional again
Speaker 2: starting tomorrow. Lewis's local businesses and commuters are delighted to
Speaker 2: have it back.
Speaker 3: Everyone is really looking forward to this beautiful, brand new,
Speaker 3: fully accessible, state of the art station.
Speaker 2: Kyles Chaffle BBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: One More Day to Go. Ohio Senator JD Vance and
Speaker 1: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls getting ready for tomorrow's vice presidential debate.
Speaker 1: CBS Evening News anchor Nora O'Donnell and Face the Nation
Speaker 1: moderator Margaret Brennan will be the only people asking questions.
Speaker 1: CBS's Nancy Cordis says Vance is preparing for the debate.
Speaker 4: It has made it very clear that he has been
Speaker 4: doing a ton of prep over the past month. The
Speaker 4: campaign says he's been doing murder boards where you basically
Speaker 4: sit there and you get pelted with questions. They've got
Speaker 4: Congressman Tom Emmer of Minnesota playing the role of Tim
Speaker 4: Walls in mock debates. He's from Walls's home state, and
Speaker 4: so they're making it clear that he is putting a
Speaker 4: lot of effort into his performance.
Speaker 1: And there will be no audience at the bait. It
Speaker 1: is taking place in New York at the CBS News
Speaker 1: Broadcast Center. It will be aired at nine pm. We'll
Speaker 1: air it right here live on WBC News Radio, and
Speaker 1: if you're away from your radio, take us with you
Speaker 1: on the go with the iHeartRadio app. The four day
Speaker 1: wvc ACU weather forecasts mostly cloudy tonight, cooling down to
Speaker 1: fifty six in the city, cooling in the endless, endless
Speaker 1: inland suburbs. There we go the coolest inland suburbs. We'll
Speaker 1: see your fifty degrees tonight. Tomorrow, We're going to see
Speaker 1: some spotty drizzle in the morning. Otherwise it's going to
Speaker 1: be a cloudy and breezy day. High's about sixty four
Speaker 1: to sixty eight Tomorrow, Wednesday, midweek, the clouds may break
Speaker 1: for some sunshine in the afternoon. A high of sixty
Speaker 1: six and Thursday is really the best pick of the litter.
Speaker 1: Highs seventy to seventy four degrees and partly to mostly
Speaker 1: sunny skies. As we check the region right now along
Speaker 1: the Cape, we're seeing tempts anywhere from sixty six to
Speaker 1: sixty eight degrees, sixty eight in Plymouth, Quincy, we have
Speaker 1: sixty six degrees up on the north shore Gloucester sixty
Speaker 1: seven degrees, seventy two in Lawrence Fitchburg seventy four degrees.
Speaker 1: And in the city right now we have partly cloudy skies.
Speaker 1: It's still fairly sunny, sixty seven degrees at four to six.
Speaker 1: All right, we're just learning. The FAA is now investigating
Speaker 1: after someone shined a laser at a flight heading into
Speaker 1: Logan Airport last night. The FAA says the Delta flight
Speaker 1: from Austin, Texas, was about nine miles away from Boston
Speaker 1: when they reported seeing a green laser pointed at the plane.
Speaker 1: The plane was able to land at Logan. Everything is fine,
Speaker 1: just a few minutes behind schedule, but no one was injured.
Speaker 1: Local authorities were notified. Last year, they say, pilots reported
Speaker 1: more than thirteen thousand laser incidents to the FAA. September
Speaker 1: is color blind Awareness month, So before this month comes
Speaker 1: to a closed, wbz's Matt Shearer hit the streets to
Speaker 1: clear up a few things too.
Speaker 2: It's all right, yes, do you see everything green?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Never like?
Speaker 3: No, what red looked like? Okay? So here's the deal.
Speaker 3: I am red, green, color blind. There are a lot
Speaker 3: of us out there, even in this newsroom, and we
Speaker 3: get some wild questions all the time. For me, the
Speaker 3: most common one.
Speaker 2: Is what is it like to drive hard? For you?
Speaker 3: Basically, the red and yellow lights kind of look the same.
Speaker 3: So as long as we can see where they are
Speaker 3: on the grid, we're always good. But it's Massachusetts, so
Speaker 3: nobody looks at those anyways.
Speaker 4: All eye colors look like the same.
Speaker 3: I just never pay attention to eye color because chances
Speaker 3: are I'll get it wrong. Don't ask my ex girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Color Blindness is basically in the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 2: I mean, what you see is what you see.
Speaker 3: In a weird, non scientific way. Yes, we color blinds
Speaker 3: don't go through life thinking I'm seeing everything all wrong.
Speaker 3: We see what we see, and more often than not,
Speaker 3: the world is a beautiful place. Matt Shear WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 3: news radio.
Speaker 1: Brockton residents will have the chance to weigh in on
Speaker 1: plans for a massive development at the Brockton Fairgrounds. Andrew
Speaker 1: Flynn of Boston based Copper Mill Development is proposing a
Speaker 1: mixed use development on the sixty six acres. It could
Speaker 1: include twelve hundred units of housing, six hundred thousand square
Speaker 1: feet of commercial and light industrial buildings in a three
Speaker 1: acre park. That meeting is being held this Wednesday, October second,
Speaker 1: from six thirty to eight thirty pm at West Middle
Speaker 1: School in Broughton. Residents will be able to ask questions
Speaker 1: and are urged to bring up any concerns that they
Speaker 1: might have. You are now in the loop for news
Speaker 1: updates throughout the day. To listen to WBZ News Radio
Speaker 1: on the iHeart Radio app, I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio