Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news seventy
Speaker 1: eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A consensus has been reached
Speaker 1: on a path forward for Boston's residential tax relief proposal.
Speaker 1: Mayor Woo, along with business stakeholders, announcing the agreement, aimed
Speaker 1: at protecting Boston residents from a spike in property taxes.
Speaker 1: In a statement, the mayor says she'll file a new
Speaker 1: home rule petition that incorporates revised maximum tax shift levels
Speaker 1: with previous provisions approved by the City Council and amended
Speaker 1: by the House of Representative. There's a lot of moving
Speaker 1: parts of this proposal. Among other things, it includes a
Speaker 1: three year step down period compared with the original five years.
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris set to participate in a CNN
Speaker 1: town hall tonight taking place in a key Philadelphia suburb.
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris's town hall with undecided voters on CNN
Speaker 2: Tonight is taking place in Delaware County, a key suburb
Speaker 2: of Philadelphia. The Harris campaign notes that almost a quarter
Speaker 2: of Republicans there voted for NICKI Haley in the GOP
Speaker 2: primary earlier this year, nearly two months after Haley had
Speaker 2: dropped out of the race.
Speaker 1: The Harris campaign.
Speaker 2: Sees an opportunity to win over some of those voters
Speaker 2: who may be hesitant to now support Donald Trump. Before
Speaker 2: the town hall, the Vice President will make a stop
Speaker 2: at a volunteer appreciation event at a Delhi in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Karen Travers ABC News the White House.
Speaker 1: Former President Donald Trump held a town hall this afternoon
Speaker 1: in the battleground state of Georgia and will hold a
Speaker 1: rally later tonight. Trump's running mate JD. Vance is in Nevada,
Speaker 1: where he gave remarks in Vegas. Another bump on the
Speaker 1: road to the White House for the former president to
Speaker 1: former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly openly criticizing
Speaker 1: his former boss.
Speaker 3: The Trump campaign furiously denies that the former president ever
Speaker 3: said what John Kelly says Trump said, But the former
Speaker 3: White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine general is
Speaker 3: adamant he heard what he heard, telling The New York
Speaker 3: Times he caught.
Speaker 4: As it more than once did. Hitler did some good
Speaker 4: things too.
Speaker 3: Kelly went on to echo what former Joint Chief's Chairman
Speaker 3: Mark Milly told author Bob Woodward that Trump meets the
Speaker 3: definition of a fascist. Trump's campaign says that Kelly has
Speaker 3: quote totally beclowned himself. Stephen port Noy, ABC News.
Speaker 1: Washington American Airlines facing some big fines over what the
Speaker 1: Transportation Department calls serious violations of laws that protect the disabled.
Speaker 5: Transportation Secretary Pete boodagerg says this is a record.
Speaker 4: Fine, a fifty million dollars penalty.
Speaker 5: Secretary Bootajudge says the penalty is due to the airlines
Speaker 5: unsafe and undignified treatment of disabled passengers between twenty nineteen
Speaker 5: and twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Three that at times resulted from injuries. They repeatedly sailed
Speaker 4: to provide pomped wheelchair assistance, and they damaged thousands of
Speaker 4: passengers wheelchairs.
Speaker 5: But he says American Airlines isn't alone.
Speaker 4: The problems that we have uncovered in our investigation are
Speaker 4: not consigned to one airline.
Speaker 5: Adding investigations continued. Lindy Kenyon, CBS News the White House.
Speaker 1: The investigation continues after three people were hurt last night
Speaker 1: by a drone that City Hall plaza while thousands of
Speaker 1: people they're there to celebrate the Celtics and their eighteenth
Speaker 1: NBA Championship. The Federal Aviation Administration's investigating police say the
Speaker 1: injuries were non life threatening. A TNT Events spokesperson says
Speaker 1: they are currently investigating further and wish all involved well.
Speaker 1: The sunshine is still shining this afternoon and the temperatures
Speaker 1: are still in the seventies in many places, but that
Speaker 1: is going to be the end of the road for
Speaker 1: now for our warmths. Later tonight, we're going to bring
Speaker 1: in a few clouds. We're going to bring in a front,
Speaker 1: and we're going to bring in a few showers. Temperatures
Speaker 1: fall back into the fifties to maybe sixty, and then
Speaker 1: do not move much tomorrow, mostly sunny skies. Tomorrow it
Speaker 1: will be breezy, temperatures only in the mid sixties or so. Clear.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night it will be chillier than recent nights. Forty
Speaker 1: six downtown, upper thirties in some of the inland suburbs
Speaker 1: sixty if we're lucky. We'll finish us off on Friday
Speaker 1: with some sunshine. Saturday, partly sunny, breezy, a couple of
Speaker 1: showers possible as well, Temperatures in the load to mid sixties.
Speaker 1: Right now, it is seventy eight degrees in Boston. An
Speaker 1: update when it comes to playoff football in Massachusetts. Wbz's
Speaker 1: Brook McCarthy with details.
Speaker 6: THEAA is blocking a controversial proposal that would have altered
Speaker 6: the regular season and extended the postseason for high school football.
Speaker 6: During a virtual meeting, the miaa's tournament management committee voted
Speaker 6: fifteen to one against the proposed changes, pushing them out
Speaker 6: of the end zone. The proposal would have eliminated consolation games,
Speaker 6: had the entire postseason after Thanksgiving, and cut the playoff
Speaker 6: field in half. In addition, the proposal would have forced
Speaker 6: football players that made a Super Bowl game to miss
Speaker 6: the start of the winter sports season. The regular format
Speaker 6: will continue next year, which consists of eight regular season games,
Speaker 6: the playoffs starting in early November, and the state tournament
Speaker 6: at Gilette Stadium concluding the season around Thanksgiving. Football is
Speaker 6: currently the only sport where the postseason starts before the
Speaker 6: end of the regular season. Brook McCarthy, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: It was two decades ago, and it seems like yesterday.
Speaker 1: Wz's drewmal Holland tells us the much anticipated two thousand
Speaker 1: and four Red Sox documentary from Netflix is out today.
Speaker 7: It's called The Comeback by Boston native journalist Howard Bryant,
Speaker 7: and it covers the historic season when the Red Sox
Speaker 7: broke the Curse of the Bambino two thousand and four.
Speaker 7: The Socks took out the Cardinals in four games after
Speaker 7: the historic comeback from three games down over the Yankees.
Speaker 7: Before Game four of that Yanks series, on the field,
Speaker 7: Kevin Malar famously told Dan Shaughnessy at the Globe, don't
Speaker 7: let us win tonight.
Speaker 1: Just lingering.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Socks did win Game four, and five and
Speaker 7: six and seven to four.
Speaker 1: Red Sox fans have da the Boston Red Sox are
Speaker 1: World champions.
Speaker 7: Bars, living rooms all around Boston went bananas. The Socks
Speaker 7: later celebrated on the field in Saint Louis breaking the
Speaker 7: curse Drumahall and WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: It's a temporary online attention grabber, but nonetheless changes to
Speaker 1: one popular snack for now.
Speaker 3: If it looks just like goldfish and it tastes just
Speaker 3: like gold but it has a more adult name, is
Speaker 3: it still goldfishing?
Speaker 8: Yes it is. Pepperidge Farm is rebranding goldfish, the iconic
Speaker 8: cheese cracker that Smiles Back will be identical to the OG,
Speaker 8: but it's being.
Speaker 7: Renamed introducing Chilean Sea Bass so adult.
Speaker 8: The company says they want to show that they aren't
Speaker 8: just for kids and it's okay for adults to shovel
Speaker 8: in a handful of goldfish or Chilean Sea bass too.
Speaker 8: Don't worry, your little ones can still get the regular
Speaker 8: bags as well. Stacey Lynn does that smiles Back goldfish.
Speaker 8: CBS News.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio