Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good
Speaker 1: morning Friday. Finally it is six o'clock here in Boston
Speaker 1: and we're starting to see these overnight clouds break up.
Speaker 1: The showers now largely out of the way for us,
Speaker 1: and we're getting started this Friday at sixty three degrees.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Jeff Brown's gonna kind of feel like
Speaker 1: summer today, well Ham dinnibals of clowns and sunshine with
Speaker 1: a high of seventy six, and it is WBZ Achi
Speaker 1: weather meteorologist Heather's are beautiful weekend on the way as well. Meantime,
Speaker 1: a monster on the move. Reality is a storm of
Speaker 1: this magnitude. You know, it leaves a lot of damage
Speaker 1: in its way. That is Florida Governor Ron de Santa says.
Speaker 1: Hurricane Helene becomes the first Category four storm to hit
Speaker 1: Florida's Big Bend region. Ever, it's now been downgraded to
Speaker 1: tropical storm status. Is it barrels through Georgia. Search and
Speaker 1: rescue teams, including from Massachusetts, are starting to fan out.
Speaker 2: They're on the ground in North Carolina waiting for commands
Speaker 2: from local officials to head south or help out there.
Speaker 3: The team is capable of doing heavy rescue, swift water rescue,
Speaker 3: stillwater rescue search.
Speaker 2: That's po Thomas Kazunis. He says his team got activated
Speaker 2: this week and forty five members from across New England
Speaker 2: left from Beverly in a matter of hours. With heavy wins,
Speaker 2: flash floods and over a foot of rain in the forecast.
Speaker 2: They're ready to go no matter the situation.
Speaker 3: The level of knowledge and expertise not only from the
Speaker 3: Massachusetts team, but really from all of the FREEMA teams,
Speaker 3: you know, it goes into the hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 3: hours of training.
Speaker 2: Thomas says, the team could be gone for two weeks,
Speaker 2: maybe more. Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: And they've got their work cut out for them too.
Speaker 1: Some two and a half million people are without electricity
Speaker 1: throughout the southeast this morning. Well, this is being called
Speaker 1: a game change, or even by medical professionals. The FDA
Speaker 1: grants approval to the first medicine to treat schizophrenia in
Speaker 1: forty years. Koebenfe is unique in that it treats the
Speaker 1: paranoia and hallucination symptoms without the worst of the side
Speaker 1: effects like weight gain. Experts say they hope this new
Speaker 1: drug from Bristol Meyers Squib will address some of the
Speaker 1: most harmful aspects of the condition, like the lack of
Speaker 1: motivation and the inability to feel joy. It's the Red
Speaker 1: Sox final homestand this weekend they finish up the regular
Speaker 1: season with a three game series at Fenway against the
Speaker 1: Rays for the twenty first time. The New York Yankees
Speaker 1: clinch the American League East, and Week four in the
Speaker 1: NFL is underway. Here goes Lamb. You get spring only
Speaker 1: inside see Lamb. That's out. Al Michael's the call on
Speaker 1: Amazon Primes, the Cowboys beat the Giants. The Patriots will
Speaker 1: be in San Francisco on Sunday afternoon. The power of
Speaker 1: the power nap comes with a word of warning, Oh great, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're still VC strew moh good morning.
Speaker 3: And good morning.
Speaker 4: Jeffy has good news for the health. One third of
Speaker 4: us will nap during our time off. That helps the mood,
Speaker 4: the attitude, and the creativity. Job site Monster does say, though,
Speaker 4: all that napping cuts into our fun. That's obvious, right,
Speaker 4: But because we don't have enough fun on the weekends,
Speaker 4: that's what leads to the Sunday scaries. I quit no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I quit no, nope, I quit no, I don't. It's
Speaker 4: not so much the monday work. The researchers founded is
Speaker 4: the reality that sleep is more important than having a blast.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I love the nap, a daily nap. It's good for
Speaker 1: eat it. Waking up under partly cloudy skies this morning
Speaker 1: in Boston. It is sixty three degrees right now here
Speaker 1: in the city. It's going to be a nice day today.
Speaker 1: The overnight showers and clouds have started to break up.
Speaker 1: They'll be out of the way for us throughout the
Speaker 1: day today, mix of clouds and sun let's call it.
Speaker 1: Temperature is going to be well into the seventy so
Speaker 1: finally we take a little bit of return back to
Speaker 1: summer today. It's gonna feel that warm, nice this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Some clouds on the increase overnight tonight. Low's dropping back
Speaker 1: into the fifties. Typical pattern where we have warm sunshine
Speaker 1: during the day and cool, comfortable nights. A weekend looks
Speaker 1: like it's going to be great mixture of clouds and
Speaker 1: sun both Tomorrow and Sunday daytime highs in the sixties
Speaker 1: and lower seventies, and it looks like a great stretch
Speaker 1: of weather is going to continue into the new work
Speaker 1: week next week. Right now, it's sixty three partly cloudy
Speaker 1: in Boston six oh five on this Friday morning. More
Speaker 1: no smoking signs are starting to go up, this time
Speaker 1: on the North Shore.
Speaker 5: It started with Brooklines, spread to other towns, and now
Speaker 5: Peabody is the latest looking at a potential generational tobacco ban.
Speaker 5: Simply put, it would ban people born after a certain
Speaker 5: date from buying tobacco within the city limits. For Peabody,
Speaker 5: that date would be January first, two thousand and four. Now,
Speaker 5: while this policy is catching on with local boards of health,
Speaker 5: has an idea to stomp out smoking habits, convenience stores
Speaker 5: and other retailer saying it does nothing but hurt their
Speaker 5: businesses and people will just hop over to another town
Speaker 5: to buy their smokes. Also, not every city in town
Speaker 5: proposing the ideas rubber stamping it. Medford recently decided to
Speaker 5: shelve the idea. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: It's been said that drastic times, call for drastic measures.
Speaker 1: The leaders of America's shipping ports are calling on the
Speaker 1: NLRB to force the Longshoreman's Union to go back to
Speaker 1: the bargaining table as workers at dozens of ports from
Speaker 1: Boston to the Gulf of Mexico threatened to go on strike.
Speaker 1: They are accused of bad faith bargaining. The union and
Speaker 1: the US Maritime Alliance have not discussed a contract for months.
Speaker 1: The union says it wants an eighty percent increase and
Speaker 1: if they don't get what they want, some forty five
Speaker 1: thousand are threatening to walk off the job just after
Speaker 1: midnight on Tuesday morning. This is an apology centuries in
Speaker 1: the making. California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that
Speaker 1: formally acknowledges the state was complicit in slavery in the
Speaker 1: nineteenth century by enforcing segregationist policies against the black population.
Speaker 1: While the new law atones for or past sins, it
Speaker 1: stops short of lawmakers' plans to pay restitution. California, by
Speaker 1: the way, was the first state in the nation to
Speaker 1: explore the payment of reparations. New York City Mayor Eric
Speaker 1: Adams is headed to federal court in Manhattan today, New
Speaker 1: York City's first mayor to ever face a federal indictment
Speaker 1: while in office. He is accused of taking bribes, mainly
Speaker 1: in the form of luxury vacations from the Turkish government,
Speaker 1: in exchange for access to his political influence. Adam says
Speaker 1: he's innocent and begs of his constituents to listen to
Speaker 1: his side of the story. Prosecutors say he not only
Speaker 1: accepted the bribes, but then tried to cover them up
Speaker 1: by hiding the gifts or making it look like he
Speaker 1: paid for them. Adam says he will not resign. Governor
Speaker 1: Kathy Hochel is the only one who has the power
Speaker 1: to remove him from office. You are now in the loop.
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