Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We defining local news. Are you kidding me? It is
Speaker 2: Monday morning already here in Boston, and away we go
Speaker 2: under clear skies. It is a very cold thirty eight
Speaker 2: degrees here in the city. The News at six has
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown. Shivermy timbers chilly today with sunshine and
Speaker 2: some clowns. We'll have highs of fifty one to fifty
Speaker 2: five out is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Heather's are another
Speaker 2: week of no rain too, could be near eighty and
Speaker 2: record warmth on Halloween. It also stinks outside along much
Speaker 2: of the shoreline. This morning. Winds from the north is
Speaker 2: sending smoke from Salem's brush fire through many communities.
Speaker 1: Bowing smoke is seeping under the woods. In South Salem.
Speaker 1: It smells like you've stuck your face above a campfire.
Speaker 1: The brush fire here is torched eighty acres so far,
Speaker 1: putting the shopping plaza under a sheet of gray smoke.
Speaker 1: Salem Fire Chief Allen Dion says is firefighters have to
Speaker 1: work all night to get a handle on this thing.
Speaker 3: Most of it is contained in the areas that have
Speaker 3: already burned out.
Speaker 1: No one's been hurt and no structures were damaged, but
Speaker 1: there's plenty of drifting smoke. Luckily, the chief doesn't think
Speaker 1: that'll affect festivities downtown or one of Salem's busiest weekends
Speaker 1: of the year. But this thing may stick around.
Speaker 3: There's still a lot of fuel here to burn, but
Speaker 3: it is kind of in a contained area.
Speaker 1: But it won't be out ill smolder for a long time.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Fire officials on the North Shore will gather for a
Speaker 2: strategy session a little bit later this morning. The National
Speaker 2: Guard has also been called in to assist with helicopters.
Speaker 2: It is one of several brush fires still burning in
Speaker 2: much of eastern Massachusetts this morning. It is one of
Speaker 2: the driest octobers in this section of the country, and
Speaker 2: the driest fall season across much of the United States.
Speaker 2: More than three quarters of the entire country is considered
Speaker 2: abnormally dry. That is, according to the US Drought Monitor.
Speaker 2: While farmers are on edge, our dinner plates are likely
Speaker 2: to still be full in the coming weeks and months.
Speaker 2: It is, of course, harvest season, and no substantial rain
Speaker 2: is expected in the coming weeks for much of the
Speaker 2: nation's farmland. Now, the good news is growing season this
Speaker 2: spring and summer was just fine, and what's coming from
Speaker 2: the field should not have a negative impact in our
Speaker 2: kitchens in the near future. The USDA, in fact, says
Speaker 2: some crops have seen record outputs this year. It is
Speaker 2: increasingly tougher to make ends meet. A new survey finds
Speaker 2: one fifth of families making at least one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars a year our living paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 2: The survey from Bank of America, with its latest snapshot
Speaker 2: of our bank accounts and our spending habits, mortgage payments,
Speaker 2: childcare and utility bills are taking the biggest bite of
Speaker 2: our annual pie. Celtics return to the garden Tonight's still
Speaker 2: perfect on the year. Their toughest job yet awaits, though,
Speaker 2: and the Milwaukee Bucks are in town. Ruins are off
Speaker 2: till tomorrow. In Game three of the World Series Tonight
Speaker 2: live from New York's, the Dodgers are up two games
Speaker 2: to none over the Yankees. After the late game drama
Speaker 2: over the weekend at Dodgers Stadium. Sho he Otani was
Speaker 2: injured in one of those games. He is expected to
Speaker 2: play tonight. And twenty years ago this morning, Red Sox
Speaker 2: fans were in disbelieve.
Speaker 1: Back to full Red Sox fans have wonder head. The
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox our world.
Speaker 2: Simpiods still get chills listening to that. The Red Sox finally,
Speaker 2: of course, reversed the curse with a World Series win
Speaker 2: in a sweep over the Saint Louis Cardinals WBZ s
Speaker 2: Drew mo'holland is here with a trip down memory lane.
Speaker 4: Morning Drew, Morning, jeffy eighty six years or wait till
Speaker 4: next year? I got washed away with that. The Socks
Speaker 4: have won three more titles since nice moment last night. Jeff,
Speaker 4: Jason Veritek, and Derek Lowe of course part of that team.
Speaker 4: Toasting the late Tim and Stacy Wakefield.
Speaker 5: We toast our dear friends and what they meant to us.
Speaker 2: Both Tim and Stacy. We love them, we missed them,
Speaker 2: we mess some, and we neither one of us would
Speaker 2: be here without them.
Speaker 4: The Wakefields, of course, both died of cancer over the
Speaker 4: last year. Jeff a nice moment last night.
Speaker 2: There this great stuff, all right, truth, thank you the
Speaker 2: same this week as we get started on a brand
Speaker 2: new work week here in Boston, under clear skies, we've
Speaker 2: got a lot of thirties on the board, primarily throughout
Speaker 2: the eastern portion of Massachusetts. This morning, the wind is
Speaker 2: died down. That's helping the efforts in some of the
Speaker 2: frush fires throughout the eastern portion of this state. We
Speaker 2: are at thirty eight degrees right now in Boston, plenty
Speaker 2: of sunshine today, Highs only in the lower fifties, so
Speaker 2: it is going to be one of the coldest days
Speaker 2: of this recent stretch. But there's no significant rain and
Speaker 2: certainly no real rainfall at any time in the not
Speaker 2: too distant future. In fact, we are going to get
Speaker 2: back into business and it's going to feel like late summer.
Speaker 2: A little bit later on this week, just in time
Speaker 2: for Halloween, we could see temperatures approaching eighty degrees, which
Speaker 2: would be near a record high temperature as the kids
Speaker 2: get ready to go door to door this Thursday night.
Speaker 2: It's going to continue to be warm as we head
Speaker 2: into the upcoming weekend as well, But right now we're
Speaker 2: starting slow and We're starting cold thirty eight clear skies
Speaker 2: in Boston this Monday morning, six oh six daylight is
Speaker 2: living on borrowed time. A long weekend does a wait,
Speaker 2: but not a lot of us are happy with the
Speaker 2: upcoming changing of the clocks. We do gain an hour
Speaker 2: of sleep this weekend, but it's the end of an
Speaker 2: annual era.
Speaker 5: Daylight saving time officially in Sunday morning, November third, at
Speaker 5: two am. Not only are we going to gain that
Speaker 5: extra hour of sleep, health experts say the fallback is
Speaker 5: typically a little easier to deal with in the spring
Speaker 5: forward that we do in March, and it will be
Speaker 5: lighter out earlier in the morning. That's great for those
Speaker 5: school kids catching an early bus. The downside, well, it
Speaker 5: will start to get dark late in the afternoon, so
Speaker 5: that could mean leaving work in the darks. Same goes
Speaker 5: for a late day walk or outdoor exercise. Sherry Small
Speaker 5: w BZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: As election season winds down, a new survey finds almost
Speaker 2: half of American voters lack faith in the nation's democracy.
Speaker 2: The New York Times Siena College poll reveals forty five
Speaker 2: percent believe democracy does not do a good job representing
Speaker 2: ordinary people, three quarters say they feel democracy is under threat.
Speaker 2: In what's considered an improvement over polls from just a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. Most say the nation's financial and
Speaker 2: political systems do need a major overhaul, but an overwhelming
Speaker 2: majority we're talking eighty percent also say the results of
Speaker 2: the upcoming presidential election will be accurate. And things get
Speaker 2: a little crazy at a Looklike contest in New York City.
Speaker 3: Actor Timothy shallow May surprised the crowd in Washington Square
Speaker 3: Park when he showed up in person, greeted fans, and
Speaker 3: posed for photos with dozens of doppelgangers dressed up like
Speaker 3: his characters from Doune and Willie Wonka. Police shut down
Speaker 3: the party and handed the organizers a five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: fine for an unpermitted costume contest. One fan in our
Speaker 3: purple Wonka costume was crowned the winner anyway. Deborah Rodriguez,
Speaker 3: CBS News.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio. Oh m hm