Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Hello Monday,
Speaker 1: it is six o'clock and we meet again, waking up
Speaker 1: under clear skies. It's fifty four degrees here in Boston
Speaker 1: this Monday morning. Six o'clock News brought to us by
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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Jeff Brown. Feels a little bit like
Speaker 1: early fall. Mix of southern clouds are high sixteen to
Speaker 1: the coast, seventy to seventy four inland. Miss WBZ achi
Speaker 1: weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg around seventy, but with clouds dominating
Speaker 1: much of the week ahead. The destruction from Hurricane Helene
Speaker 1: is catastrophic in many areas of the southeast, nowhere harder hit,
Speaker 1: perhaps than the mountains of western North Carolina, where at
Speaker 1: least one town has been wiped from the map. President
Speaker 1: Biden hopes to tour parts of the region later this week.
Speaker 1: The death toll from the one time Category four monster
Speaker 1: has approached one hundred. One third of that death toll
Speaker 1: from North Carolina. Rescue teams from Massachusetts and New England
Speaker 1: around the ground and utility crews are on the way.
Speaker 1: Some two million customers are still without electricity this morning.
Speaker 1: This is an important day in the saga of Stuart Healthcare.
Speaker 2: Today is the final deadline to close the sale of
Speaker 2: all remaining Stuart Healthcare operated hospitals. There was a rare
Speaker 2: Sunday hearing with the federal judge in Texas presiding over
Speaker 2: the bankruptcy proceedings. Reports there were some final dotting of
Speaker 2: the eyes and crossing of the tees before today. Stewart's CEO,
Speaker 2: Ralph D. Latorre, could be facing contempt of Congress charges.
Speaker 2: Will be resigning as CEO effective tomorrow. The fiasco costing
Speaker 2: Massachusetts taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The Healy administration
Speaker 2: is committed to over four hundred million to help new
Speaker 2: hospital operators in the months following the hospital sales. Jim
Speaker 2: mckata w BZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: That's over. The Red Sox finish exactly at five hundred
Speaker 1: on the year and in third place in the American
Speaker 1: League East. The double header between the Mets and the
Speaker 1: Braves will determine who's in and who's out in the
Speaker 1: National League playoffs and Patriots Football.
Speaker 2: Over the middle. He gets picked up the order he.
Speaker 3: Now he sprints down the sideline, touchdown.
Speaker 1: Sefrancips go Patriots gets smoked in San Franz. Sunday Night
Speaker 1: football the Ravens clob or the Bills, and a Monday
Speaker 1: night doubleheader is coming up tonight. If the moon is
Speaker 1: made of cheese, what's Earth's other moon made of? Planet
Speaker 1: Earth gets a new visitor, a second moon for a
Speaker 1: couple of months this fall. It's already here. In fact,
Speaker 1: a small asteroid has entered our orbit, not far from
Speaker 1: the man on the moon himself. It is so small
Speaker 1: you will need a professional telescope to scope it out.
Speaker 1: The rock from the Arjuna asteroid belt will hang out
Speaker 1: here until just before Thanksgiving. Then the thirty three foot
Speaker 1: wide chunk will be pulled back to where it came
Speaker 1: from and all systems go. This morning on the MBTA's Red.
Speaker 3: Line, the red line from Brainstreet to Boston is back
Speaker 3: up and running. Folks are hopping aboard trains once again.
Speaker 3: After three weeks of the MBTA addressing slow zones as
Speaker 3: well as Latin repairs, deep cleaning and painting. Now there
Speaker 3: is still more work down the line, as the MBTA
Speaker 3: plans to address more speed restrictions on the red, orange
Speaker 3: and Green lions over the next several months. In Quimsey,
Speaker 3: James Rojas WBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 1: Radio Unrise still more than half an hour away, and
Speaker 1: we're getting started with clear skies this morning in Boston.
Speaker 1: It's fifty four degrees. Going to be a nice day today,
Speaker 1: mix of sun and clouds, highs right around seventy. Inland
Speaker 1: locations will be slightly warmer than that. Closer to the
Speaker 1: shoreline slightly cooler, but overall pretty typical and good look
Speaker 1: and fall day this week is going to be featuring
Speaker 1: mainly cloudy skies, unfortunately, with daytime highs routinely in the
Speaker 1: mid to upper sixties, nighttime lows back into the fifties,
Speaker 1: and the next best chance of seeing some mostly sunny
Speaker 1: skies won't return until Thursday, with a high once again
Speaker 1: near seventy. But looking ahead, it looks warmer and quite
Speaker 1: nice on Friday, with sunshine and highs in the seventies.
Speaker 1: Right now in Boston fifty four. As we get our
Speaker 1: engines going on this Monday morning, it is six oh
Speaker 1: five under clear skies. Music loses another legend. A look
Speaker 1: back this morning on the life and legacy of the
Speaker 1: great Chris Christofferson.
Speaker 3: Known for his Golden Globe winning role opposite Barbara Streisan
Speaker 3: in A Star is Born.
Speaker 4: Colleagues are remembering their friend, known for.
Speaker 3: Hits like Sunday Morning Coming Down and Me and Bobby McGhee.
Speaker 3: Editor Anthony de Curtis from Rolling Stone says it's not
Speaker 3: just streisand and Parton who loved him.
Speaker 4: Everyone said, I mean, Dylan said it, Willian Nelson said it.
Speaker 4: You know that they regarded Chris Kristofferson.
Speaker 2: As at the absolute eight pex of what a songwriter
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 3: Christofferson said he would like the first three lines of
Speaker 3: Leonard Cohne's Bird on the Wire on his tombstone.
Speaker 4: Cooper Lawrence, CBS News.
Speaker 1: Chris Christofferson was eighty eight and by the way, those
Speaker 1: three lines from Leonard Cohen are like a bird on
Speaker 1: the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir. I
Speaker 1: have tried in my way to be free. Israel is
Speaker 1: on the attack rarely. Special forces carry out small raids,
Speaker 1: reportedly into Lebanon in advance of a long talked about
Speaker 1: and feared ground invasion. Meantime, officials claim a recent air
Speaker 1: strike in the southern Lebanon has killed the leader of
Speaker 1: the Iran backed militant group Hamas. It is the latest
Speaker 1: in a series of air strikes that have also claimed
Speaker 1: the lives of leadership in Hezbollah. Israel has also turned
Speaker 1: its attention to Yemen, where it reportedly sent missiles directed
Speaker 1: at the Houthy rebels in that region. Back in the
Speaker 1: United States, just thirty six days to go until election day,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris continues to talk the economy and immigration. During
Speaker 1: a tour of the Sun Belt States this weekend Viva
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Harris again challenges Donald Trump to a second debate.
Speaker 1: Trump hits up Pennsylvania and questions Harris's mental acuity, while
Speaker 1: also calling on police to get extraordinarily rough on crime.
Speaker 1: Trump has set an invitation to debate and late next
Speaker 1: month on CNN is too late. Meantime, the vice presidential
Speaker 1: nominees jd. Vance and Tim Walls are set to go
Speaker 1: toe to toe in their one and only tomorrow night
Speaker 1: on CBS. WBZ News Radio will carry the debate live
Speaker 1: here or on the iHeartRadio app Where's My Mail. Wbz's
Speaker 1: Drew Mhollins tells us this morning, it's a problem in
Speaker 1: many mailboxes in the city of Boston.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Andrew, Good morning Jeffrey. Oh hey, maybe this
Speaker 4: would work better. You've got mail, remember that the old
Speaker 4: all yeah brings back memories, but later missing mail in
Speaker 4: several neighborhoods in Boston, and that means missed Bill's missing
Speaker 4: mail in election ballots. Officials aren't happy. Fingers of many
Speaker 4: being pointed at the US Postal Service, but the Post
Speaker 4: Office says it's only aware of minor staffing issues that
Speaker 4: has since been resolved. But here's the deal, Jeff many say,
Speaker 4: this has been going on for months. Mail in ballot
Speaker 4: registration is already in the mail. Ballots must be postmarked
Speaker 4: no later than November fifth. So what's going on here?
Speaker 4: You've got mail?
Speaker 3: Yes, we don't.
Speaker 4: That's the problem.
Speaker 1: That is the problem. Where is it? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: we've got to get something to fix there before election day.
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.