Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local
Speaker 1: news seventy five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Sean Ditty. Combs pleads
Speaker 1: not guilty during get court appearance on sex trafficking and
Speaker 1: racketeering charges in New York City. Prosecutors alleged that, starting
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, Combs abused, threatened, and coerced
Speaker 1: women and others, and led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged
Speaker 1: in a number of crimes, including forced labor, kidnapping, and
Speaker 1: obstruction of justice. US Attorney for the Southern District of
Speaker 1: New York Damian Williams, laying out some of the accusations.
Speaker 2: As alleged Combes use force, threats of force, encouragion to
Speaker 2: cause victims to engage in extended sexual performances with male
Speaker 2: commercial sex workers, some of whom he transported or caused
Speaker 2: to be transported over state lines. Combs allegedly planned and
Speaker 2: controlled the sex performances, which he called freak offs, and
Speaker 2: he often electronically recorded them.
Speaker 1: Colmb's arrest came about six months after Homeland Security had
Speaker 1: raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami. As part
Speaker 1: of an investigation. Prosecutors are asking for Combs to be
Speaker 1: held without bail. His lawyers asking for fifty million dollars bond.
Speaker 1: A woman and a baby are shot in Dorchester. This
Speaker 1: happened late last night. The victims taken to different hospitals.
Speaker 1: The baby has life threatening injuries. Mayor Michelle Woo praised
Speaker 1: first responders care.
Speaker 3: In which they were able to quickly transport the victims
Speaker 3: and provide medical care, means that.
Speaker 4: Things could have been even worse.
Speaker 1: Police were called at the corner of Stratton and Aames
Speaker 1: Streets in Dorchester a bit after eleven thirty last night.
Speaker 1: They found the woman and the child shot in a driveway.
Speaker 1: No arrest so far. Police are asking for the public's
Speaker 1: health in solving the case. Already's in New Hampshire say
Speaker 1: they've arrested an eighteen year old from Lowell in connection
Speaker 1: with a mail carrier robbery earlier this year. The US
Speaker 1: Attorney's Office for New Hampshire says police arrested the eighteen
Speaker 1: year old tyler Is Savignon this morning and charged him
Speaker 1: with aiding and a betting of robbery. He's accused of
Speaker 1: directing two other people to rob a mail carrier in
Speaker 1: Nashua in April. Prosecutors say he told two teens to
Speaker 1: steal the postal workers master key. He then used that key,
Speaker 1: they say, to commit check washing. One of the two
Speaker 1: teens in the case also has been arrested. In an
Speaker 1: attempt to protect younger users, Instagram says it's implementing some
Speaker 1: new measures.
Speaker 5: Instagram is rolling out teen accounts, which CEO Adam Is
Speaker 5: Sari tells ABC News will automatically enroll users under eighteen
Speaker 5: in certain features.
Speaker 6: Things like who can contact them, what content they see,
Speaker 6: and how much time they spend on their.
Speaker 5: Devicesari also says they're working on ways to crack down
Speaker 5: on teens who lie about their age.
Speaker 6: Things like requiring a team to verify their age if
Speaker 6: they try to change their birthday, things like not allowing
Speaker 6: someone to create a new account with a different birthday
Speaker 6: on the same device.
Speaker 5: Like Debaski, ABC News.
Speaker 1: Many of these features have been available, but now Instagram
Speaker 1: says younger users will have to ask their parents for
Speaker 1: approval to change certain settings. It's super and tonight. It
Speaker 1: will also be partially obscured. Do you know what it's
Speaker 1: called a smart well. That's right, Neil Young. It's the
Speaker 1: harvest moon. Tonight, the moon officially full and it'll be
Speaker 1: the closest to Earth and it's or mid which makes
Speaker 1: it super. Then around ten or shortly thereafter, the Earth
Speaker 1: shadow will cover about nine percent of the Moon's diameter.
Speaker 1: It will bring eight partial eclipse, that is, if clouds
Speaker 1: don't eclipse the eclipse. Tonight. It'll be partly to mostly cloudy,
Speaker 1: sixty in Boston, mid fifties and many of the suburbs,
Speaker 1: and that super moon may not be available for you
Speaker 1: to peak at this evening. Mostly cloudy, cooler Tomorrow, with
Speaker 1: temperatures about seventy two in Boston and right near the coast,
Speaker 1: but closing in on eighty Inland. A rather cloudy night
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night and mainly near and south of the Pike,
Speaker 1: will pick up a little bit of rain, Temperatures in
Speaker 1: the low sixties. Thursday, mostly cloudy, more rain around, especially
Speaker 1: from the city on south, Temperatures around seventy and then
Speaker 1: only in the mid to upper sixties. On Friday. There
Speaker 1: could be some rain around, otherwise just cloudy and cool.
Speaker 1: Seventy five right now ian Boston, picking up the pieces
Speaker 1: and putting them together. Puzzles, it turns out, are good
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, new study says puzzles are good for your brain.
Speaker 4: Then you look at this from Texas A and M.
Speaker 4: Finds that older people who play puzzles do a lot
Speaker 4: of things better than the rest. They have better memories,
Speaker 4: better attention spans, and they process thoughts better than those
Speaker 4: who do not do puzzles. And researchers found it's all
Speaker 4: these brain teasers that are good for you. Word games too.
Speaker 4: Who doesn't love a good word game?
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Speaker 4: The researchers also found a link to beaten back Alzheimer's disease,
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Speaker 1: Don't shoot the messenger. But I was just wondering that
Speaker 1: you started the holiday shopping yet. You might want to
Speaker 1: consider getting ahead start if your kid wants something from
Speaker 1: the list of of top toys.
Speaker 8: The list is from a team of experts from the
Speaker 8: review site Toy Insider. Alviy Murjeski is editor in chief
Speaker 8: and says of those that could sell out quickly.
Speaker 7: Louis of course makes an appearance a tiny Target checkout lane,
Speaker 7: which is just like you'll see in Target stores, so
Speaker 7: parents will love that just.
Speaker 8: As much as kids frol And Yes, artificial intelligence makes
Speaker 8: an appearance.
Speaker 7: Play po Ai Story Bear on that list, which features
Speaker 7: the safe use of artificial intelligence to help kids tell
Speaker 7: stories through a plush bear.
Speaker 8: Matt Piper, CBS News.
Speaker 1: How do you like your chemicals served? A new study
Speaker 1: finds more than thirty six hundred food contact chemicals end
Speaker 1: up in our bodies. The chemicals enter the food during
Speaker 1: the manufacturing, the processing, the packaging, and storage of foods.
Speaker 1: Dozens of chemicals detected in the body are known to
Speaker 1: cause cancer, genetic mutations, reproductive issues, and other health concerns.
Speaker 1: This study is published in the Journal of Exposure Science
Speaker 1: and Environmental Epidemiology. Pregnancy can bring on an awful lot
Speaker 1: of changes in a woman's body, and now a new
Speaker 1: study finds pregnancy brain really does exist.
Speaker 3: One of the first detailed maps if human brain changes before, during,
Speaker 3: and after pregnancy has found brain volume decreased by about
Speaker 3: four percent, but regents linked to socializing and emotional processing increasing.
Speaker 2: This is sort of a fine tuning in a way
Speaker 2: that helps reveal things that might be important for maternal care.
Speaker 3: Co author Liz Krastell, whose brain was the one studied,
Speaker 3: says the brain changes may be similar to those that
Speaker 3: take place in adolescence, preparing teams for the next phase
Speaker 3: of life. Vicki Barker, CBS News London.
Speaker 1: You dirty rat. For cities dealing with rats, there is
Speaker 1: a summit for that, yep, a Rat Summit. New York
Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams administration is hosting the inaugural National Urban
Speaker 1: Rat Summit. Rats from Boston will be there tomorrow and Thursday,
Speaker 1: so will reps from other cities, as well as pre
Speaker 1: eminent rat researchers from across the country. You are now
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