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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening in person. Early voting begins around here
Speaker 1: this coming weekend, and three weeks from tomorrow is election Day.
Speaker 1: The presidential candidates are both campaigning today the battleground state
Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris in the Northwest corner
Speaker 1: in Eery, while former President Trump holds a town hall
Speaker 1: later this evening in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Of both
Speaker 1: the events, our plan for a couple of hours from now.
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania is the largest of the battleground states, and with
Speaker 1: time running out, an ipso's poll offers a snapshot of
Speaker 1: the race and how Americans view some of the key
Speaker 1: issues Jarati.
Speaker 2: In the ABC News IPSO survey, fifty six percent say
Speaker 2: that all immigrants in the country illegally should be deported.
Speaker 2: That's a twenty percentage point jump on that question in
Speaker 2: our polling from eight years ago. Voters like several of
Speaker 2: the proposal's com La Harris is brought to the table,
Speaker 2: such as a six thousand dollars per child tax credit,
Speaker 2: a twenty five thousand dollars grant to first time home buyers,
Speaker 2: and even limits on grocery profits. They also like some
Speaker 2: of Trump's proposals, such as an end to taxes on
Speaker 2: Social Security benefits and expanded tariffs on imports.
Speaker 1: That is ABC Stephen Portnoy a bit of a scare
Speaker 1: at the former president's rally in California over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Rimberside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says his deputies arrested in
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas man outside of security checkpoint for that
Speaker 1: rally in LA on Saturday night.
Speaker 3: He showed up with an unregistered vehicle with fake license plates.
Speaker 3: He had multiple passports with multiple variations of names, He
Speaker 3: had loaded guns in the car, and he was arrested
Speaker 3: for those weapons on weapons violations per California law.
Speaker 1: The suspect was released on five thousand dollars bond. A
Speaker 1: funeral today on the Cape for Ethel Kennedy, the wife
Speaker 1: of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, was remembered at Our
Speaker 1: Lady of Victory Church in Centerville. The event was closed
Speaker 1: to the public invitation only. Fol Kennedy died last week
Speaker 1: from complications from a stroke she was ninety six. The
Speaker 1: picket lines have been growing. Hotel workers from cooks to
Speaker 1: bell hoops are now striking at the Omni Parker hotels
Speaker 1: in Boston. That'll do easas Hiles Shaffle has more from
Speaker 1: the seaports.
Speaker 4: Close to seven hundred Omni Parker workers walking off the
Speaker 4: job Boston. So hotel strike is more than doubled overnight.
Speaker 5: You know everything is crowingly expense in pay the rent,
Speaker 5: pay the bills, and everybody to.
Speaker 1: God is fight.
Speaker 4: Marta housekeeper, joined dozens of her coworkers at the Seaport
Speaker 4: Omni to demand a contract and higher wages. You Night
Speaker 4: Here Local twenty six president Carlos Rmyo says, a pay
Speaker 4: month for the workers who mean the difference between staying
Speaker 4: in Boston and being forced out.
Speaker 6: If they keep saying make them pay, make them pay.
Speaker 4: They're demanding at the hotels step forward and reach a
Speaker 4: contract that gives them significant wage increases. Another housekeeper I
Speaker 4: talked to was I rate over needing to work multiple
Speaker 4: jobs just to cover rent.
Speaker 5: You cannot leave you with just one job.
Speaker 4: Just one job should be not There's no insight to
Speaker 4: the strike, and union leaders say more hotels could be
Speaker 4: added at any time. Kyle Schaffel to BDZ, Boston's news.
Speaker 1: Radio for four day WDVZ actually weather forecast couple of
Speaker 1: spritzers and sprinkles around in a few places closer to
Speaker 1: the coast. The big deal, at least right now on
Speaker 1: the radar, is out into parts of western Massachusetts where
Speaker 1: we have been seeing quite a bit of shower activity
Speaker 1: by ninety one westward. Will have to see what those
Speaker 1: showers do, because they do have a little bit more punch,
Speaker 1: so maybe a downpour in that. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: showers up to the north as well, into and around
Speaker 1: the Cape Ann area, So something to watch out for
Speaker 1: as we head through the latter hours of the afternoon
Speaker 1: and into the early evening, when we'll just have some
Speaker 1: patchy clouds. Later, temperatures in the low forties in Boston,
Speaker 1: upper thirties of the inland suburbs. Then the weather turns
Speaker 1: pretty nice. It won't be overly warm, but we'll have
Speaker 1: sunshine Tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, temperatures within a few degrees
Speaker 1: of sixty most days. It is fifty right now in Boston.
Speaker 1: Seventeen days until Halloween. Have you got the candy the
Speaker 1: deck rations, the costumes, yet would be busies, drewm mo holland
Speaker 1: tells us a lot of people have.
Speaker 6: Halloween spending in twenty twenty four is expected to reach
Speaker 6: eleven point six billion dollars. It's a lot of money,
Speaker 6: and that is according to the National Retail Federation. Early
Speaker 6: shopping is on the rise too. In fact, forty seven
Speaker 6: percent of you started Halloween shopping before we even hit October. Wow,
Speaker 6: you know, random thought. I wonder if Bill Belichick is
Speaker 6: going to a Randy Moss Halloween party again.
Speaker 5: Like I said, you want to welcome or what?
Speaker 3: Ma?
Speaker 6: Sure you'd both the coaches, they're all there.
Speaker 1: Do you think they would?
Speaker 5: Then? Okay, we still have that hock.
Speaker 6: Great holiday, Yeah, holiday, I love that clip. It's a
Speaker 6: great holiday. Costumes. Candy, come on, but it ain't cheap.
Speaker 6: Have you seen those prices? Chocolate treats in particular more
Speaker 6: costly this year with cocoa prices at record highs, people splurge.
Speaker 6: They go big on those costumes too. And my neighbor's
Speaker 6: front yard, it's a very expensive kind of spooky wild
Speaker 6: imaginations over there. Maybe you're familiar. Drew moholland WBZ Boston's
Speaker 6: News Are any here?
Speaker 1: Today's a holiday? Many have it off, not all though
Speaker 1: I'm here. The stock markets were open today Today, on
Speaker 1: what traditionally is Columbus Day, many Native Americans come together
Speaker 1: for Indigenous People's Day, celebrating their history and culture. This year,
Speaker 1: they are also acknowledging the ongoing challenges that they face
Speaker 1: with a focus on the election, from a voting rally
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis today to a public talk about the Native
Speaker 1: vote at Virginia Tech. The National Museum of American History
Speaker 1: is revamping its Entertainment Nation exhibit.
Speaker 5: The exhibit tells the story of America through pop culture.
Speaker 5: It's already home to iconic items like Dorothy's Ruby slippers,
Speaker 5: Mister Rogers cardigan sweater, and Grandmaster Flash's turntables, but come February,
Speaker 5: the original Fozzy Bear and Burton Ernie puppets will arrive. Also,
Speaker 5: Brian Cranston's has matsuit from Breaking Bad, the OGC three
Speaker 5: PO and R two D two models from Star Wars,
Speaker 5: and even Bob Ross's easel Hello Us, where he painted
Speaker 5: happy Little Clouds will be on display. Stacey Lynn, CBS
Speaker 5: News Washington.
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