Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news sixty
Speaker 1: two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Airports in Florida in the
Speaker 1: path of Hurricane Milton are all closed. The waiting continues
Speaker 1: for landfall now. The storm has been leading to a
Speaker 1: race for travelers getting out for some others trying to
Speaker 1: get back home before the storm hits Florida. WBZ TV's
Speaker 1: Petty Committed Logan Airports spoke with a woman who had
Speaker 1: to cut her trip to Disney World short.
Speaker 2: Disney World's closing a bunch of the resorts. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful.
Speaker 3: To be back in Boston.
Speaker 2: We were there really early, like three hours early, just
Speaker 2: to make sure that we got on the plane. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of tension with TSA right now to try.
Speaker 1: To get everybody evacuated.
Speaker 4: And if you had plans to fly to Florida, your
Speaker 4: flight is likely canceled, but most airlines are offering free
Speaker 4: flight change waivers. There's just no talent when those airports
Speaker 4: in Florida are going to reopen, so it could be
Speaker 4: a while before you're able to redeem.
Speaker 1: Those down south. Pentagon spokesperson Major General pat Ryder tells
Speaker 1: ABC they're ready to jump in and help at a
Speaker 1: moment's notice and have been talking with officials on the
Speaker 1: ground in Florida.
Speaker 3: We fully recognize the potential impact of this storm. We
Speaker 3: are going to continue to closely communicate with FEMA, with
Speaker 3: the state, with the local government to make sure that
Speaker 3: they have everything they need.
Speaker 1: Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida tonight between
Speaker 1: nine and eleven PM. Right now, it's packing wins of
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty miles an hour, a Category four storm.
Speaker 1: It's a little less than one hundred and fifty miles
Speaker 1: to the southwest of Tampa, Florida, moving north and northeast
Speaker 1: at sixteen miles an hour. We are expecting another update
Speaker 1: from the National Hurricane Center a little bit later on
Speaker 1: this afternoon. President Biden was briefed today at the White House,
Speaker 1: hearing from FEMA Administrator DN chris Well and other officials.
Speaker 1: He addressed politicians' comments criticizing White House's efforts to clean
Speaker 1: up the lots big storm Hurricane Kalid. Former President Trump's
Speaker 1: been posting on truth socials saying that President Biden and
Speaker 1: the Vice President, Kamala Harris can't get anything done properly
Speaker 1: in North Carolinta. ABC's Karen Travers with the president's response.
Speaker 5: President Biden said misinformation about the response to Hurricane Helene
Speaker 5: and now Milton is undermining confidence in the federal government.
Speaker 4: The last few weeks, there's been a reckless, irresponsible, and
Speaker 4: relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies that are disturbing people, and.
Speaker 5: The President placing the blame.
Speaker 3: Former President Trump has led the onslaught of lies.
Speaker 5: The White House is aggressively trying to combat misinformation with
Speaker 5: social media posts and briefings to tell people in the
Speaker 5: storm zone what resources are available to them. Karen Travers
Speaker 5: ABC News The White House keep.
Speaker 1: Two to WBZ as Hurricane Milton continues to chug toward Florida.
Speaker 1: Will keep you updated and download the iHeartRadio app take
Speaker 1: us with you wherever you go. A school bus driver
Speaker 1: for the Newton Schools indicted on three accounts of kidnapping.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors say Justin Vows brought three children between three and
Speaker 1: five to secluded areas in May and turned off the
Speaker 1: audio and video recording on the bus. Newton authorities tipped
Speaker 1: off police after a student was dropped off late at daycare.
Speaker 1: The Middlesex DA says all of the children involved our
Speaker 1: semi non verbal or struggle with communication bose faces arraignment.
Speaker 1: Later this month, we checked the four DAWZ active weather forecast.
Speaker 1: We'll have a stray shower in a couple of places
Speaker 1: as we head into the evening, otherwise partly cloudy, breezy,
Speaker 1: temperatures in the mid forties or so, maybe within a
Speaker 1: few degrees either way, mostly sunny. Tomorrow, a breezy, chili
Speaker 1: day as we only managed to get into the upper
Speaker 1: fifties in some of the coolest spots downtown maybe sixty,
Speaker 1: clear and chili Tomorrow night back into the thirties and
Speaker 1: the chilliest suburbs about forty six downtown and then on Friday,
Speaker 1: mid sixties with mostly sunny skies seventy or so with
Speaker 1: some sunshine. On Saturday. We are looking at a shower
Speaker 1: right now over the Plympton area this afternoon, so south
Speaker 1: of the city seeing some showers, a couple more onto
Speaker 1: western mass but again will have just some widely scattered spritzes,
Speaker 1: sprinkles or showers throughout the early part of the Evening
Speaker 1: Tonight sixty two right now in Boston. Nearly seven percent
Speaker 1: of adults who get COVID in the US come down
Speaker 1: with long COVID, but it's still not exactly clear why
Speaker 1: they deal with symptoms that just won't quit. Wbz's Nicole
Speaker 1: Davis with more on some new research.
Speaker 2: COVID symptoms can be really rough, they're not fun, but
Speaker 2: for most of us, they go away after just a
Speaker 2: couple weeks. For almost seventeen million Americans, though, COVID has
Speaker 2: stuck around a lot longer, sometimes for years after first diagnosis.
Speaker 2: A research team at Brigham and Women's Hospital ran tests
Speaker 2: on more than seven hundred long COVID patients. In about
Speaker 2: forty three percent of the people they tested, they found
Speaker 2: COVID viral proteins were still in their blood circulating around
Speaker 2: the body. They found those proteins like long covid itself
Speaker 2: or hanging around in some cases more than a year
Speaker 2: after diagnosis. The study shows there is likely more than
Speaker 2: one cause of long COVID, as damage to the immune
Speaker 2: system is also considered to be a dr factor. That
Speaker 2: being said, the lead author of the study, doctor Zoe Swank,
Speaker 2: says this could mean some patients would finally be able
Speaker 2: to shake their symptoms just by taking a round of
Speaker 2: anti virals. Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: The new lawsuit is accusing dozens of elite schools of
Speaker 1: holding out on financial aid for students.
Speaker 6: Forty private universities are named in the class action suit,
Speaker 6: which was filed by a student at Boston University and
Speaker 6: an alum from Cornell. When schools doll out need based
Speaker 6: financial aid, they often determine a student's need based on
Speaker 6: the income of their parents. But the schools named in
Speaker 6: the suit, alongside the college board, are accused of requiring
Speaker 6: non custodial parents to submit their financial information too, regardless
Speaker 6: of whether or not that parent actually had any involvement
Speaker 6: in paying for their kids' education. The plaintiffs say that
Speaker 6: practice effectively cheated them out of aid money. They're seeking
Speaker 6: more than five million dollars in damages, not to mention
Speaker 6: a core order to bring the alleged practice to an
Speaker 6: end once and for all. Other schools named in the
Speaker 6: suit include Northeastern, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. Jeremy Russ w
Speaker 6: b Z, Bostondio.
Speaker 1: WZ has reached out to schools named in the suit.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio