Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Speaker 2: Cloudy's skies. We're seeing some showers out there, not in Boston,
Speaker 2: not yet. They're coming at sixty three. We're headed for
Speaker 2: seventy degrees today and some thunderstorm. So listen up. We've
Speaker 2: got a lot more in that weather getting nasty later,
Speaker 2: both here and streaming on the iHeartRadio app indictment unsealed,
Speaker 2: we are now learning exactly what charges are being leveled
Speaker 2: against the mayor of New York City in a breach
Speaker 2: of trust. We get more now in the special report
Speaker 2: from CBS News.
Speaker 3: Eric Adams faces five criminal counts. The charge is unsealed
Speaker 3: just minutes ago, including a charge of wire fraud, two
Speaker 3: charges of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national,
Speaker 3: and a charge of bribery. In a video statement released
Speaker 3: after his indictment was made public yesterday, Adams came out swing.
Speaker 4: It is now my belief that the federal government intends
Speaker 4: to charge me with crimes.
Speaker 1: If so, these charges.
Speaker 4: Will be entirely false, based on lives.
Speaker 3: CBS's Christina fan Is in UK.
Speaker 5: There's been an avalanche of calls for Mayor Adams to resign.
Speaker 5: Many of those voices are coming from within his own
Speaker 5: political party, including those who are running against him and
Speaker 5: the Democratic primary next year.
Speaker 3: Again, the indictment has been unsealed and New York City
Speaker 3: Mayor Eric Adams faces five criminal counts. CBS News special
Speaker 3: report on Vickie.
Speaker 2: Parker tracking a Hurricane Helene's strengthening into a Cap two
Speaker 2: hurricane as it swirls toward Florida, gaining strength over those
Speaker 2: warm waters. Much of the state is now under warnings,
Speaker 2: even evacuations, about life threatening conditions later when this hurricane
Speaker 2: makes landfall, possibly as a Category four. This is a
Speaker 2: monster storm. And again ABC's ginger Z who's actually a meteorologist,
Speaker 2: she's a meteorologist, is more from Saint Petersburg.
Speaker 6: Those warnings take you all the way into making Georgia.
Speaker 6: And that's because wind is going to be a big issue.
Speaker 6: We're talking wind speeds that will be a hurricane force
Speaker 6: to merely Atlanta. Widespread power outages and trees down. Not
Speaker 6: going to be easy to go anywhere late tonight. And
Speaker 6: most importantly, when this thing wraps up over the Blue
Speaker 6: Ridge Mountains drops even more rain up to eighteen inches total.
Speaker 6: We could see landslides in parts of western North Carolina,
Speaker 6: South Carolina, and eastern Tennessee.
Speaker 2: You know if you've ever responded or lived through a storm.
Speaker 2: And of course so many of us are new Englanders
Speaker 2: or you're new here, well welcome. We have to think
Speaker 2: about the Massachusetts Task Force one. These guys and gals
Speaker 2: are out of Beverly, mass They are in Florida right now.
Speaker 2: This is a FIR FEMA of FEMA search and rescue
Speaker 2: team at the ready to assist in a very dangerous situation.
Speaker 2: So we're thinking of you and again we'll love more
Speaker 2: as it happens. Getting underway right now on Beacon Hill bill,
Speaker 2: the State Senate is going into session and one item
Speaker 2: on the agenda a bill that would allow more families
Speaker 2: with pets to foster children. Right now, any home with
Speaker 2: a pitbull, a Rotweiler, a German shepherd, it can be
Speaker 2: a mixed breed of those two are blocked from bringing
Speaker 2: any child into their home through DCF And the names
Speaker 2: of four police officers, corrections officers, and patrolmen who died
Speaker 2: and the line of duty will be etched into the
Speaker 2: Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial on Beacon Hill today. Among those
Speaker 2: being honored this year patrolman Paul Tracy corrections officer Anthony Pascarello.
Speaker 2: Tracy was killed while working a detail in Waltham last year.
Speaker 2: Pascarella died of COVID while working at a correctional facility
Speaker 2: in Middleton in twenty twenty one. Another officer and another
Speaker 2: patrolman who both died more than one hundred years ago,
Speaker 2: will also be honored today a poignan ceremony. We will
Speaker 2: have more grace, guys. We have fog, we have rained,
Speaker 2: but the worst is yet to come. We have some
Speaker 2: very heavy rain and strong winds thunderstorms in this forecast
Speaker 2: for this afternoon into tonight. By tomorrow beautiful weather heading
Speaker 2: into a gorgeous weekend. Our first full weekend of fall
Speaker 2: will not disappoint. Eleven O five. We are learning more
Speaker 2: about how some wayward bulls were able to buck and
Speaker 2: break their way to freedom at that rodeo in North Attleborough.
Speaker 2: WBC's Jim McKay rounded up the details.
Speaker 7: This special Events working group in North Addleborough, consisting of
Speaker 7: members of the local police, fire and public works departments,
Speaker 7: conducted an investigation this week and found that a loose
Speaker 7: pin on the fence keeping the bulls penned in got dislodged,
Speaker 7: and it allowed for the bulls to make an easy
Speaker 7: exit from that parking lot. Rodeo at the Emerald Square
Speaker 7: Mall the town of North Addleborough releasing a statement this
Speaker 7: week saying they do not expect any charges and this
Speaker 7: was a no negligence situation. The group operating the rodeo
Speaker 7: will be reinforcing their fencing in the future. Jim MCKAWBC
Speaker 7: Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2: Once flooded twice Shy, the town of Northandover looks at
Speaker 2: ways to protect itself from future flooding. The Eagle Tribune says,
Speaker 2: thanks to a state grant, the town will do a
Speaker 2: floodplain study if its rivers and dams and look at
Speaker 2: what infrastructure changes are necessary to prevent a repeat of
Speaker 2: the summer of twenty twenty three. Flash flooding in northand
Speaker 2: Over that summer gutted businesses and homes and overwhelmed roadways.
Speaker 2: Nearly eighty cars flooded out had to be towed. It
Speaker 2: was a disaster, and you know, it made it worse
Speaker 2: since that area had actually not been determined to be
Speaker 2: in a floodplain. Very few people in that town of
Speaker 2: Northandover even had flood insurance. Let's go back in time
Speaker 2: to something that's time less. The message tree has officially
Speaker 2: succumbed to old age decades after it became an icon
Speaker 2: at Woodstock.
Speaker 4: One hundred year old tree was in danger of falling down,
Speaker 4: so it has been removed. It became famous after three
Speaker 4: day concert in Bethel, New York that drew hundreds of
Speaker 4: thousands in a major cultural monument to peace and love
Speaker 4: in the violent and unsettling late nineteen sixties. It was
Speaker 4: pre cell phone and posting scraps of paper with messages
Speaker 4: on the tree was an effective way to communicate. The
Speaker 4: tree is in almost every wide picture of the stage
Speaker 4: from the hillside. The museum at Bethel Woods is seeking
Speaker 4: proposals to create works of art using the salvageable wood.
Speaker 4: Michael Touskanok CBS News.
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