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Speaker 1: You ready, let's go six o'clock on this Thursday morning,
Speaker 1: and we've got mostly cloudy skies south the door this morning,
Speaker 1: sixty two degrees here in the city. The news at
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Speaker 1: appears to have runneth out, satty and breezy today with
Speaker 1: occasional rain. That rain will be a little steadier and
Speaker 1: heavier down toward the cape in the island. Is WBZ
Speaker 1: acky weather meteorologist Joe Lumberg. A high rip current risk
Speaker 1: is also kicking in today, officially at eight o'clock this morning,
Speaker 1: but it'll be in the seventies for most of us
Speaker 1: throughout the day. Red Sox hang on in a nail
Speaker 1: biter at the trough probo basin.
Speaker 2: And direct band that brings in the go ahead run
Speaker 2: story well store at suit him on Boston.
Speaker 1: That's the call on Nessen and that is the way
Speaker 1: it would finish. The Red Sox beat the Rays to
Speaker 1: keep their slim playoff hopes of the American League alive.
Speaker 1: Patriots are going to kick off Week three in the
Speaker 1: NFL tonight against the Jets on the road, and the
Speaker 1: WNBA is going to strike while its iron is hot.
Speaker 1: The league is expected to bring an expansion team to Portland, Oregon,
Speaker 1: in the next couple of years. Recent surveys show an
Speaker 1: improving picture for Kamala Harris on the campaign trail, and
Speaker 1: ep pole reveals an approval rating on the upswing. About
Speaker 1: half of voters feel better about the Harris campaign now
Speaker 1: than earlier this summer, while Donald Trump's approval rating remains
Speaker 1: about the same. A Morning Consult survey also finds more
Speaker 1: voters are warming up to Harris as she closes the
Speaker 1: trust gap with Trump. Forty six percent now say they
Speaker 1: feel good about Harris's ability to handle the US economy,
Speaker 1: an issue that Trump has dominated this entire campaign. Congress
Speaker 1: is running out of runway. The House soundly rejects a
Speaker 1: plan to keep the government running beyond an end of
Speaker 1: month shutdown, despite a revolt by members of his own
Speaker 1: Republican Party. Speaker Mike Johnson plows ahead anyway with a
Speaker 1: vote on a one point six trillion dollars spending stopgap
Speaker 1: that would have kept the government running through March. No deal,
Speaker 1: and the lights will go off in Washington and at
Speaker 1: federal offices around the country at midnight on October first.
Speaker 1: Tens of thousands continue to walk the picket lines at
Speaker 1: jetmaker Boeing, a strike.
Speaker 3: Of Boeing machinists continues after federal mediators failed to help
Speaker 3: the company and its largest union reach an agreement on
Speaker 3: key issues the union set on social media. There are
Speaker 3: no additional dates scheduled for talks. Boeing furloughed tens of
Speaker 3: thousands of executives and non union staff as it deals
Speaker 3: with the financial repercussions of the strike. The machinist walked
Speaker 3: off the job Friday, twenty July.
Speaker 1: CBS needs tens of thousands of additional workers at Boeing
Speaker 1: are about to begin rolling furloughs. The strike is expected
Speaker 1: to last for weeks and cost billions, so other employees
Speaker 1: will take one week off a month, while top executives
Speaker 1: will take pay cuts. We are living in a shopper's
Speaker 1: paradise WBCs. Drew m'holland is here about to I should
Speaker 1: say good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 4: Good morning retailers.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: The final three months of the year has traditionally been
Speaker 4: make or break season. It's the main reason why the
Speaker 4: day after Thanksgiving Day sales are called Black Friday, in
Speaker 4: reference to an accountants ledger. But Walmart will get things
Speaker 4: started on October eighth with online Holidays sale.
Speaker 2: I just feel it's a little early at.
Speaker 1: This Yeah, it's not even Halloween.
Speaker 4: Amazon's fall version of Prime Days on the way, Target
Speaker 4: and Best Buy. I get the boat to get the
Speaker 4: shopping carts tuned up in the aisles and the weeks
Speaker 4: to come. The National Retail Federation says this year's online
Speaker 4: shopping season, Jeff could top one trillion dollars.
Speaker 1: Who's got that kind of money? Jeez? All right, true,
Speaker 1: thanks for that, I guess. So this is a transition
Speaker 1: day of sorts. We are already seeing some rain hitting
Speaker 1: the bands of the outer Cape and the islands this morning,
Speaker 1: but the rest of eastern Massachusetts is relatively dry. We
Speaker 1: do have some thick patches of fog and otherwise cloudy skies.
Speaker 1: For the most part this morning, it's relatively mild at
Speaker 1: sixty two degrees. As we get started this Thursday morning,
Speaker 1: we'll see temperatures jump into the seventies along the way
Speaker 1: today and most of the rain today will be confined
Speaker 1: to the southeast portion of the state.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: We are in a bit of an unsettled weather pattern
Speaker 1: now which is going to settle in over the next
Speaker 1: several days, with more clouds than sunshine on the way,
Speaker 1: much cooler. Temperatures will only be in the sixties right
Speaker 1: through the weekend, and it does look like more of
Speaker 1: us will be exposed to showers tomorrow afternoon and into
Speaker 1: the early hours on Saturday. Sunday looks like we could
Speaker 1: see a return of some sunshine. Right now. It's sixty two,
Speaker 1: clouds and fog here in Boston at six oh six
Speaker 1: on this Thursday morning. The rapper will remain behind bars.
Speaker 1: No bail for Sean Combs, now facing federal sex trafficking
Speaker 1: and racketeering charges. A second judge rejects an appeal that
Speaker 1: he'd be let out of a Brooklyn jail to await trial.
Speaker 1: Look inside his mansions and his sex parties, though, is revealing.
Speaker 5: Prosecutors saying devices allegedly containing videos of those freak offs
Speaker 5: were seized during raids on Combs's homes in Los Angeles
Speaker 5: and Miami, and in is closet agents, saying they found
Speaker 5: AR fifteen's with serial numbers defaced. Colmbs was initially denied
Speaker 5: bail after pleading not guilty to racketeering, sex trafficking, and
Speaker 5: prostitution charges.
Speaker 1: At SABC's Aaron Katerski as for the bail request, the
Speaker 1: court rules that Combs might not be a flight risk,
Speaker 1: but it is concerned that Combs will be a risk
Speaker 1: of witness tampering. A brawl at a maximum security prison
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts sends five corrections officers to the hospital with injuries,
Speaker 1: two of whom are stabbed in the fight. Officials say
Speaker 1: the assault took place at the SUSA Baranowski Correctional Center
Speaker 1: in Lancaster around six thirty last night. The prison now secure.
Speaker 1: State police have been notified and investigation is underway. The
Speaker 1: FEDS say overdose deaths from drugs are falling and fast.
Speaker 1: The CDC reports there are still more than one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand deaths annually due to ods, but the annual count
Speaker 1: is dropping ten percent in most recent trends. Experts say
Speaker 1: increased availability of the overdose reversing treatment NARCAN should be
Speaker 1: given much of the credit here, but they also caution
Speaker 1: that more numbers and data are needed before any expectation
Speaker 1: of the future can be predicted. Room with a View
Speaker 1: is on its way to Quincy.
Speaker 2: The City of Quincy is receiving over four million dollars
Speaker 2: in federal funding to improve the maritime transit experience at
Speaker 2: Marina Bay. That money is going to modernize the over
Speaker 2: thirty year old facility with a new peer float and
Speaker 2: ramp system. The MBTA says the project offers a unique
Speaker 2: chance to improve transportation options in the Quincy Boston Harbor
Speaker 2: area and foster greater collaboration between them and the city,
Speaker 2: adding the initiative will specifically benefit elderly writers and those
Speaker 2: with disabilities in Quincy. James Rojas WBZ Boston's Snooze Radio.
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