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Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Keilton Hotel workers in Boston
Speaker 1: ratify a new union contract after they spent more than
Speaker 1: three weeks on strike. The unite Here Local twenty six
Speaker 1: union representing the workers had reached an agreement with Hilton.
Speaker 1: The deal met union demands of ten dollars an hour,
Speaker 1: wage increases over four years for non tipped workers, maintenance
Speaker 1: of workers healthcare benefits, and improved hiring in severance language.
Speaker 1: The hotel workers now do back on the job at
Speaker 1: four o'clock tomorrow morning. A busy day on the campaign
Speaker 1: trail for both candidates this afternoon. Former President Donald trumpsofton
Speaker 1: Nevada Hill host a rally tonight in the six o'clock hour.
Speaker 1: The former president held a rally earlier this afternoon in
Speaker 1: New Mexico, where he told Vice President Kamala Harris will
Speaker 1: not be able to deliver on her message to unify
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 2: Talking about we're gonna have unity, and then she calls
Speaker 2: to me a faccist in the next sentence, This is
Speaker 2: the worst unifier.
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris, meantime, is getting ready for a rally
Speaker 1: in Arizona set to start soon. She'll speak in Nevada
Speaker 1: tonight as well. Before traveling to Arizona. This morning, the
Speaker 1: Vice President met with reporters to respond to comments about
Speaker 1: women from former President Trump at a rally last night.
Speaker 3: Vice President Harris said this comment by former President Donald
Speaker 3: Trump that he would be a protector of women, whether
Speaker 3: they like it or not, is the latest in a
Speaker 3: series of quote reveals about how he thinks about women.
Speaker 4: It actually is very offensive to women in terms of
Speaker 4: not understanding their agency, their authority, their right, and their
Speaker 4: ability to make decisions about their own lives.
Speaker 3: Harris says Trump continues to verify and validate and reinforce
Speaker 3: he doesn't prioritize the freedom of women to make decisions
Speaker 3: about their own bodies. Karen Travers ABC News the White House.
Speaker 1: Five days until election days stayed with WBZ News Radio
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Speaker 1: election night. We will have results beginning at eight pm.
Speaker 1: Then of course, have you covered throughout the day and
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Speaker 1: man's been arrested in connection with vandalizing a political sign
Speaker 1: with a swastika in Cohaset of Frederick Laidlaw allegedly spray
Speaker 1: painted a swastika on a political sign supporting the Trump campaign.
Speaker 1: That sign belonged to the chair of the Cohaset Republican
Speaker 1: Town Committee. Many instances of political sign theft and vandalism
Speaker 1: have occurred recently, more at time to mail in votes
Speaker 1: in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, re judge they are ruling to
Speaker 1: extend the deadline after Republicans had cried followed.
Speaker 5: Move to extend the mail in deadline comes after the
Speaker 5: campaigns for former President Donald Trump and Republican Senate candidate
Speaker 5: Dave McCormick sued Bucks County for voter suppression. They claimed
Speaker 5: people were turned away before the original five pm deadline
Speaker 5: on Tuesday, and we're not allowed to comple the whole
Speaker 5: voting process at the Bucks County Administration building. Bucks County
Speaker 5: officials claimed they followed the state's law, but the judge
Speaker 5: found they violated Pennsylvania election code.
Speaker 1: Not as CBS's jan Caribillo. We's got some pretty warm
Speaker 1: weather out there today. Temperature has got well into the seventies.
Speaker 1: We hit eighty in a few places, and still at
Speaker 1: eighty degrees in Norwood this afternoon, so there's plenty of
Speaker 1: warmth out there. Keep the jacket at home, I guess
Speaker 1: tonight for trick or treating partially the mostly cloudy skies.
Speaker 1: Later on, temperatures eventually fall back into the low sixties.
Speaker 1: We may have a shower first thing tomorrow, then some
Speaker 1: sunshine breaks back out, the temperatures climb into the mid
Speaker 1: to upper seventies, and we do have red flag warnings
Speaker 1: that go into effect at eight o'clock tomorrow morning across Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Danger of fires around the region,
Speaker 1: especially with the low humidity and some of the wind
Speaker 1: gusts that could hit thirty or thirty five miles an hour. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We will get in on cooler weather as we head
Speaker 1: into tomorrow night forty five for the low with clear skies,
Speaker 1: and then Saturday and Sunday sunshine but only in the fifties.
Speaker 1: Right now, seventy seven degrees here in Boston. You know
Speaker 1: what's kind of scary. This Halloween. How about the weather?
Speaker 1: All right, maybe it's not hot, but certainly it is
Speaker 1: much warmer than most October thirty first, As we hear
Speaker 1: from wdbz's Madison.
Speaker 6: Rodgers, remember when you were a kid and you wanted
Speaker 6: to show off your cool costume but had to cover
Speaker 6: it up with a big puppy jacket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or wear something underneath, like long sleeves and long
Speaker 4: pants underneath.
Speaker 6: Definitely, Well, it's not a problem this year. It's tents
Speaker 6: in the eighties for this Hallow's Eve, flirting with record heat.
Speaker 6: Jack O lanterns carved a couple of days ago were
Speaker 6: already grimacing on death stoor step.
Speaker 1: You know, global warming is probably gonna kill us all
Speaker 1: but other than that, it's fine spooky.
Speaker 6: If you're a kid, though, or if you have a
Speaker 6: kid in toe, this is certainly a treat.
Speaker 1: You know, it's October thirty firsts, Why won't you be
Speaker 1: wearing sandals?
Speaker 6: Happy Halloween. I just don't let the chocolate melt in Summerville.
Speaker 6: I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is questioning the Department of Justice
Speaker 1: and its failure to hold TD Bank executives accountable. She
Speaker 1: is calling it legal gymnastics that allowed the bank to
Speaker 1: escape the death penalty. A settlement by the Justice Department
Speaker 1: with TD Bank over money laundering and other charges did
Speaker 1: not include any of the bank's high level executives, and Warren,
Speaker 1: writing to the Attorney General Merrick Garland, the way the
Speaker 1: DOJ structured the plea agreement ensures the TD Bank will
Speaker 1: not face the full range of penalties that Congress hasn't
Speaker 1: acted for banks that engage in criminal money laundering. Warren
Speaker 1: notes the bank's crimes hurt hundreds of thousands of people.
Speaker 1: WBZ News Radio reaching out to the Justice Department and
Speaker 1: TD Bank for comment, TD Bank saying they have no
Speaker 1: comment at this time. In East Tennessee, some progress is
Speaker 1: being made after hurricane flooding.
Speaker 2: Crews have been able to build a new bridge Long
Speaker 2: Eye twenty six in Northeast Tennessee, there was washed away
Speaker 2: by historic rainfall from Hurricane Helen nearly five weeks ago.
Speaker 2: The single span will allow for one lane of traffic
Speaker 2: in each direction. We're still adding up the dollars, but
Speaker 2: it is several hundred million dollars of damage that we
Speaker 2: have seen here in East Tennessee, which ELA is with
Speaker 2: the Tennessee Department of Transportation. I forty remains closed near
Speaker 2: the Tennessee North Carolina border after it was washed away
Speaker 2: during Helene. Jim Chrysil the CBS News.
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