Speaker 1: This is w BZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News, sixty four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. President Biden is on
Speaker 2: the ground in New Hampshire. He is expected to speak
Speaker 2: shortly at Conqueror's New Hampshire Technical Institute about prescription drug prices.
Speaker 2: He's joined by New Hampshire lawmakers as well as Vermont
Speaker 2: Senator Bernie Sanders. Meantime, it is a busy day for
Speaker 2: both of the presidential candidate's. Former President Trump holds a
Speaker 2: rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, while Vice President Harris is
Speaker 2: off the campaign trail doing some taped interviews.
Speaker 3: He is taping two television interviews. But we are seeing
Speaker 3: the surrogates out there, obviously her running mate, Governor Walls
Speaker 3: in Wisconsin. You're going to see Barack Obama out there
Speaker 3: as well, with him today in Madison, the college town
Speaker 3: in Wisconsin, trying to drum up the youth vote. Bill Clinton,
Speaker 3: the former president, also out there in the campaign trail.
Speaker 3: But the messages really turnout at this point.
Speaker 2: That's ABC's Karen Travers. The US intelligence officials says foreign
Speaker 2: actors are trying to divide Americans ahead of the election
Speaker 2: over President Trump courting Latino voters in Florida. Says he
Speaker 2: has people watching the election for any anomalies.
Speaker 4: We have a lot of lawyers working.
Speaker 5: We have lawyers work in numbers of lawyers that nobody's
Speaker 5: ever seen before.
Speaker 2: Two weeks from today is election day. Mail in voting
Speaker 2: is well underway, but heads up, there's a tiny little
Speaker 2: error that could make your mail in ballot not count.
Speaker 2: Ben Hoveland is the chair of the US Election Assistance
Speaker 2: Commission and says, and that has to do with your signature.
Speaker 6: It's a safety measure that a lot of Americans don't
Speaker 6: know about, is that your signature is compared to the
Speaker 6: one on file. So when you sign that absentee or
Speaker 6: mail ballot envelope, election workers who are trained look at
Speaker 6: that and compare it to the signature they have on file,
Speaker 6: usually that's from your voter registration.
Speaker 2: Mail in ballots will get rejected if you forget to
Speaker 2: sign your ballot altogether, or if you don't get it
Speaker 2: in on time. Story Secretary Janet Yellen says the United
Speaker 2: States has come a long way since the nation was
Speaker 2: caught in the grips of the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 7: America's strong economic performance is leaving the way as a
Speaker 7: key engine of global growth.
Speaker 8: And Secretary Yellen credits the Biden Harris administration.
Speaker 7: We went from millions having lost their jobs to an
Speaker 7: historic labor market recovery.
Speaker 8: She says. Unemployment is near all time lows, and US.
Speaker 7: Real wage growth has outperformed that of most of their
Speaker 7: advanced economies.
Speaker 8: She says the IMF has upgraded its economic outlook for
Speaker 8: the US this year. Stacey Lynn, CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: Work stuff closer for getting a whole new mode of transportation.
Speaker 5: The agency is releasing final guidelines needed to train and
Speaker 5: qualify pilots to fly powered lift aircraft, which have the
Speaker 5: characteristics of both airplanes and helicopters. The goal is to
Speaker 5: use powerlift aircraft for air taxis and for short haul
Speaker 5: operations like air ambulances and cargo delivery. This category of
Speaker 5: civil aircraft is the first in early eighty years, and
Speaker 5: the actions of the FAA will make them one step
Speaker 5: closer to operational reality. Lindy Kenyon, CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: We did get into the seventies in many spots we
Speaker 2: didn't hit seventy in Boston, though we have retreated a
Speaker 2: bit into the mid sixties. It'll be mainly clear tonight,
Speaker 2: fairly mild, mainly in the fifties. Warm Tomorrow, mid seventies
Speaker 2: with a good deal of sunshine, and then clouds thicken up.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night it'll become breezy. A couple of showers get
Speaker 2: in here and hang with us until the early part
Speaker 2: of Thursday. Eventually, Thursday brings us back some sunshine. It'll
Speaker 2: be breezy, though in much cooler temperatures load a mid sixties,
Speaker 2: only in the upper fifties for most of us, with
Speaker 2: some sunshine Friday right now sixty four degrees in Boston.
Speaker 2: Tonight at the Garden, Loud and proud, the Celtics will
Speaker 2: hoist their championship banner number eighteen tonight and then chip
Speaker 2: off a brand new season to try to become champion again.
Speaker 2: The party started early on Canal Street. Wvz's James Rojas
Speaker 2: is at a duncan there where special Celtics visitors served
Speaker 2: coffee with a spin.
Speaker 4: The coffee isn't the only thing that's being served hot
Speaker 4: and fresh at this duncan on Canal Street. So are
Speaker 4: Lucky the leprechauns moves and ball handling skills.
Speaker 3: Its awesome.
Speaker 7: I didn't expect it to see Lucky here.
Speaker 1: You paid for my drink and everything.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited.
Speaker 4: You think a great way to start the season too.
Speaker 5: I know it is a great way to stop the
Speaker 5: season off.
Speaker 4: Tonight is tonight. Tonight is definitely the night Lucky has
Speaker 4: been waiting for.
Speaker 3: I started right after we won the last championship, so
Speaker 3: I missed out on the celebrations last time.
Speaker 8: So I've literally been waiting.
Speaker 4: My whole career for today. So it couldn't be more excited.
Speaker 4: Maybe more excited were the folks surprised with Duncan gift
Speaker 4: car into souvenir basketball's shirts, hats, and oh yeah, some
Speaker 4: tickets to tonight's game.
Speaker 5: Let's go South, Let's go Here, me gone.
Speaker 4: On Canal Street, James Rojas, WBZ Boss Radio.
Speaker 2: Here we go and there they go over to the
Speaker 2: City Hall Plaza where there is a watch party this evening.
Speaker 2: Baseball is one series away from crowning their champion, the
Speaker 2: World Series, that is, Fans are buying up tickets to
Speaker 2: the Fall Classic, which starts on Friday, Dodgers and Yankees
Speaker 2: and tickets to Game one in La. Pony up.
Speaker 1: When the Yankees face off against the Dodgers here in
Speaker 1: LA on Friday night, it will be the first time
Speaker 1: the two have gone head to head in the World
Speaker 1: Series in forty three years. A battle of the home
Speaker 1: run Giant, So Tany versus g'st Coast versus West Coast,
Speaker 1: Hollywood versus Broadway. I can keep going, but the cheapest
Speaker 1: seats for Friday Night's game, which by the way, are
Speaker 1: not great, seats high in the upper deck out by
Speaker 1: the foul pole are going for about twelve hundred bucks
Speaker 1: a seat. The most expensive seats forty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: a seed down the third baseline Alex Stone, ABC News
Speaker 1: Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take a pair of those. Yeah. Nine days
Speaker 2: to Halloween, you know, spooky and those already in full
Speaker 2: steam ahead mode. And there's a list out the best
Speaker 2: Halloween vacation destinations in the US. You might want to
Speaker 2: think witches.
Speaker 9: At the top of the list is Salem, Massachusetts, side
Speaker 9: of the infamous Salem Witch Trials of sixteen ninety two.
Speaker 9: Next up is Sleepy Hollow, New York, the setting of
Speaker 9: the famous Washington Irving tale about the headless horseman. Then
Speaker 9: there's the Big Easy. New Orleans gets the top spot
Speaker 9: on the list for turning its Halloween celebrations up to
Speaker 9: an eleven. A Nooka, Minnesota gets a spot on the
Speaker 9: list for its family friendly celebrations, including numerous parades, And
Speaker 9: it's back to the South for the fifth spot. Savannah,
Speaker 9: Georgia widely considered one of the most haunted cities in America.
Speaker 9: I'm Tammy Trhio.
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