Speaker 1: Forty eight degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,
Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Burger on here is what's happening more great
Speaker 1: leaf raking and leaf peeping weather today.
Speaker 2: Today brings yet another sunny and warmer day to the area,
Speaker 2: with a high of seventy one to seventy five.
Speaker 1: The Colors are a lot better now, aren't they than
Speaker 1: they were a week or two ago? Just tough when
Speaker 1: they land in new Yard. Hackey Weather is l Troy
Speaker 1: Thornton has the full four day forecast coming up. Patriots
Speaker 1: are in action this morning as they try to end
Speaker 1: a five game losing streak. Deal face the Jacksonville Jaguars
Speaker 1: at Wembley Stadium in London, kickoff at nine point thirty.
Speaker 1: Bruins lost last night. Utah Hockey Club beat the Bees
Speaker 1: in overtime finally two to one. Lionel Messi with a
Speaker 1: hat trick into Miami beat the Revs in Major League
Speaker 1: Soccer six to two, and the Celtics raised banner eighteen
Speaker 1: Tuesday night, when they open their schedule against the Knicks
Speaker 1: at home. Early in person voting their way in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: five ballot questions to be decided to come November fifth,
Speaker 1: with ride share drivers fighting for support on Question three.
Speaker 1: Here's wbz's Mike Macklins.
Speaker 3: Our job getting harder and harder. I used to work
Speaker 3: forty hours, fifty hours and make a living and support
Speaker 3: my family. I have five daughters. So now we walk
Speaker 3: longer hours, we earn less and no protections.
Speaker 2: Ahamhlali knows the struggles of the ride share drivers. The
Speaker 2: immigrant from Somalia has been a ride share driver for
Speaker 2: eight years. As Massachusetts voters headed to the poles on
Speaker 2: the first day of early voting, Hillali and his colleagues
Speaker 2: went door to door to ask voters to give them
Speaker 2: the right to form a union, something the legislature has
Speaker 2: refused to do.
Speaker 3: Our lawmakers, they did not pass the bill. We had,
Speaker 3: the Right Share Driver Justice Bill. We have been going
Speaker 3: to the state House for eighteen months and now we're
Speaker 3: going to the ballot. We're going to the voter and
Speaker 3: asked us to give us a ride to have protection
Speaker 3: and dignity and have a living and just work like
Speaker 3: the rest of the workers in this instead.
Speaker 2: Recent polls indicate a majority voters support the rideshare drivers.
Speaker 2: Mike maclum wb Z Boston's News.
Speaker 1: Radio Democratic Vice presidential candidate Tim Walls will be wrapping
Speaker 1: up a busy weekend of campaigning attending a fundraiser Later
Speaker 1: today in Boston. He'll headline an afternoon reception hosted by
Speaker 1: the former US Ambassador to Spain, Alan Solomont. Location of
Speaker 1: the event revealed with an RSVP. Ticket prices range from
Speaker 1: five hundred to one hundred thousand dollars. Officials in Georgia
Speaker 1: in investigating why a crowded gangway on Sappelo Island collapsed.
Speaker 1: Seven are dead, many others injured. WTOC reporter Jasmine Butler jeral.
Speaker 4: J Thomas Pastor's Elm Grove Church not far from the scene.
Speaker 4: These buses bringing hundreds of people here to get help
Speaker 4: and be taken back home. He says, it's nothing more
Speaker 4: than a community coming together.
Speaker 5: They came together quickly, and they began to send the
Speaker 5: necessary things that was needed in order to make the
Speaker 5: people stay while they were going through this tragic time
Speaker 5: will bear.
Speaker 1: There are reports the dock was hit by a boat.
Speaker 1: The collapse happened during a celebration of the island's Glagichee culture.
Speaker 1: The island is about fifty miles south of Savannah, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Let's check the four day WBZACUA the forecast and for
Speaker 1: well three weeks into October. What a stretch of weather
Speaker 1: we have. It will be sunny today, high seventy one
Speaker 1: to seventy five. It clears out overnight. Tonight we drop
Speaker 1: back to fifty three. Tomorrow's sunshine, warm high seventy six
Speaker 1: to seventy nine. Tuesday not as warm, but still sun clouds,
Speaker 1: high sixty seven in Boston, even seventies Inland. And then
Speaker 1: for Wednesday, it's warmer again with mostly sunny skies, high
Speaker 1: between seventy and seventy four, maybe a shower late on
Speaker 1: Wednesday night forty eight degrees. Right now in Boston at
Speaker 1: six oh five. A day of apple picking becomes a
Speaker 1: legal case. Nicole Peppin claims she was racially profiled while
Speaker 1: apple picking back on October fifth, to Connor's Farm in Danvers.
Speaker 1: Pepin says a male employee followed her family, at one
Speaker 1: point attempting to grab their strollers, accusing them of stealing.
Speaker 6: According to the Danvers police officer responding to the fight
Speaker 6: that day, the employee quote was the aggressor and clearly
Speaker 6: provoked the incident. Working to determine what exactly went down.
Speaker 6: In the police report, the officer recounts the farm's owner
Speaker 6: making comments like look at these people. Look at the crowd.
Speaker 6: We have plenty of problems here and you can lock
Speaker 6: up half the crowd. The officer says, in part, it
Speaker 6: was very clear that Connors was referring to the many
Speaker 6: racial minorities in the crowd and insinuating that they were criminals,
Speaker 6: this leaving customers concerned.
Speaker 7: I don't understand why they take their job that seriously,
Speaker 7: to that extent that they would feel they need to
Speaker 7: put their hands on like me for an apple, Like
Speaker 7: now we can get a supermarket.
Speaker 6: A spokesperson from the farm told WBZ Connor's Farm takes
Speaker 6: these allegations very seriously and is actively investigating the matter.
Speaker 1: It's wbztvs. Samantha Cheney reporting the Berkshire District Attorney's Office
Speaker 1: ruling out prosecuting former private school history teacher Matthew Rutledge
Speaker 1: for sexual misconduct. Rutlige is accused of grooming and sexually
Speaker 1: assaulting five women when they were students at Miss Hall's
Speaker 1: School in Pittsfield. He resigned from the school back in
Speaker 1: March at least two of the women claimed the abuse
Speaker 1: started when they were fourteen and fifteen years old. The
Speaker 1: legal age of sexual consent in Massachusetts is sixteen. In
Speaker 1: a statement Friday Berkshire DA Timothy Chagru says, while the
Speaker 1: alleged behavior is profoundly troubling, it is not illegal. The
Speaker 1: attorney for the women, Eric McLeish, disagreeing with the decision,
Speaker 1: telling The Globe that none of his clients consented to
Speaker 1: have sex with Rutlich. Child advocates were shocked by the
Speaker 1: story about sexual abuse involving thirteen children in California. They
Speaker 1: were members of the Urpin family, Their parents eventually sent
Speaker 1: to prison. The kids placed with a foster family in
Speaker 1: Riverside County, and now that couple and their daughter have
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to child abuse charges involving nine of the children.
Speaker 8: Rosa and Leanis Ogean got probation. Marcellino Olgein, who was
Speaker 8: also convicted of sexual assault, was sentenced to prison. A
Speaker 8: victim impact statement written by one of the victims, identified
Speaker 8: only by the initials JT, was read out loud in
Speaker 8: the courtroom.
Speaker 6: Always felt when.
Speaker 5: There was nothing but a problem to the family because
Speaker 5: of the times they were told to me and.
Speaker 6: How I was treated.
Speaker 8: Attorneys representing members of the Churpin family are now suing
Speaker 8: Riverside County.
Speaker 1: Rob McMillan reporting from Los Angeles. You are now in
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