Speaker 1: This is WBZ at Boston's news radio. We defining local news.
Speaker 2: Partly cloudy sky, sixty two degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: Goods Saturday morning is always Thanks for tuning in. I'm
Speaker 2: Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. Another great weather day ahead.
Speaker 3: We are going to start the day with some clouds
Speaker 3: of a sprinkle or a shower early, but we'll see
Speaker 3: the return of some sunshine with a nice afternoon with
Speaker 3: hines of seventy two to seventy six.
Speaker 2: Ak you weather meteorologists Matt Rindy there. We'll have the
Speaker 2: full ACU weather forecast for cast coming up in three
Speaker 2: are The cleanup continues throughout the south southeastern states that
Speaker 2: are hit hard by Hurricane Helene. The powerful storm severely
Speaker 2: damaging drinking water in western sections of North Carolina, especially
Speaker 2: in Asheville, where much of the city's water system was destroyed.
Speaker 2: Officials forecasting that repairs could take weeks. The rebuild in
Speaker 2: North Carolina made harder by the steep, narrow valleys of
Speaker 2: the Blue Ridge Mountains, and officials with the EPA are
Speaker 2: estimating more than one point eight million people remain under
Speaker 2: a boil water advisory. Massachusetts communities, meanwhile, are stepping up
Speaker 2: to extend a helping hand to areas devastated by Helene.
Speaker 2: Here's WBZTV's Paul Burton with more on that.
Speaker 4: From hand sanitizer to bales of hay and every single
Speaker 4: item need in between. Towns around Massachusetts are coming together
Speaker 4: by the trailer loaves to help families impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 2: They're in need of basically every basic life necessity.
Speaker 4: In West Bridgewater, the police station garage has been turned
Speaker 4: into a local command center for items being donated by residents.
Speaker 4: Sergeant Jonathan Craven says they've been coordinating with the North
Speaker 4: Carolina Highway Patrol of.
Speaker 2: The support that we've received has been amazing. Our officers
Speaker 2: have been coming in off duty to help sort.
Speaker 4: I have four SAT size and been delivered Gay Heather
Speaker 4: and Cannon came to donate with her eleven year old
Speaker 4: daughter Kayley.
Speaker 3: We're bringing first eight kits, personal little for state kits
Speaker 3: that they can hand out and also personal toiletry items
Speaker 3: that come in a little kit for them as well.
Speaker 2: And people will have until Sunday to donate. In Westbridgewater.
Speaker 2: Updating a story that we have been following a strike
Speaker 2: threat still in place by the union representing nearly five
Speaker 2: thousand hotel workers at thirty six hotels in Boston and Cambridge.
Speaker 2: Unite Here Local twenty six is warning that there would
Speaker 2: be a walkout if an agreement isn't reached on wages,
Speaker 2: healthcare and pensions. Union president Carlos Ramile the industry's.
Speaker 1: Full you recover from COVID now, and we need a
Speaker 1: significant amount of money in wages right up front to
Speaker 1: make up for the lost income.
Speaker 4: That folks have had over the.
Speaker 2: Past couple of years. And we did speak with a
Speaker 2: union representative this morning who says they are still far
Speaker 2: apart on key economic demands. The union also saying strikes
Speaker 2: are imminent. Stay tuned to WBZ News Radio will follow
Speaker 2: these very latest developments and bring them to you as
Speaker 2: we get them in today, all right, right place, right time.
Speaker 2: An off duty nurse stepping in to help a child
Speaker 2: who stopped breathing while in a car on the Arbor
Speaker 2: Way yesterday in Jamaica, Plane State Police say the nurse
Speaker 2: helped stabilize the unresponsive child, who is in taken to
Speaker 2: Boston Children's Hospital. Several police cruisers an ambulance and a
Speaker 2: fire truck responding to the scene. The child's condition or
Speaker 2: what caused the child to stop breathing, has not been
Speaker 2: made public. Now let's check the acur weather forecast. Quite
Speaker 2: a beautiful day today for the beginning of October. We'll
Speaker 2: see clouds, maybe a sprinkler shower, but that's happening early
Speaker 2: in the morning, and then it will just become partly
Speaker 2: to mostly sunny, very pleasant high seventy two to seventy
Speaker 2: six degrees today. This would be a great day to
Speaker 2: go out apple picking or maybe having a little fun
Speaker 2: picking out a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch. Clear skies tonight,
Speaker 2: cooling off to fifty two degrees Today is definitely the
Speaker 2: better pick of the weekend days. Tomorrow is going to
Speaker 2: be cooler, still not bad, but a mix of sun
Speaker 2: and clouds and high's quite a bit cooler, sixty four
Speaker 2: to sixty eight. Monday, back to work with heis near
Speaker 2: sixty degrees, mainly cloudy skies. It'll be breezy with a
Speaker 2: few showers around as well. Tuesday, just sunny to partly cloudy, breezy,
Speaker 2: high a little warmer of sixty four. Right now, it's
Speaker 2: just partly cloudy sixty two degrees in Boston at eleven
Speaker 2: oh six on this Saturday, Law and Order fans coming
Speaker 2: from literally all over the world to check out a
Speaker 2: two day pop up interactive experience at Vaniel Hall. WBC's
Speaker 2: Kendle Bull talk to some of them.
Speaker 1: Got the Freedom Trail, Duck Boats, Public Garden, just to
Speaker 1: name a few sites visitors to Boston might want to
Speaker 1: check out. But when Liam came in from Australia for
Speaker 1: a wedding, it was the Law and Order experience. He wanted.
Speaker 3: I'm a big Lauren or to ask for you fans
Speaker 3: when we put our agenda together when this was going
Speaker 3: to be on, so we sort of planning out trip
Speaker 3: around it.
Speaker 1: To my well, the NBC show is set up shopping
Speaker 1: Fanuel Hall for two days to get fans photo opportunities
Speaker 1: with what looked like the show sets and get free stuffed.
Speaker 1: David was only from as far away as Long Island.
Speaker 1: It was in town ten minutes he came across.
Speaker 5: So we were just walking through Quincy Market and my
Speaker 5: daughter and I are huge Law and Order fans, so
Speaker 5: we saw it and we didn't know what it was,
Speaker 5: and then we were explaining it's a little pop up
Speaker 5: and like, yeah, we got to go in and check
Speaker 5: it out.
Speaker 1: David was in the standby line, which moved pretty fast.
Speaker 1: Free reservations was napped up almost immediate KENNEWBSY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The college hockey season has begun. The Bruins open their
Speaker 2: season Tuesday. High school hockey in the Bay State may
Speaker 2: not have enough referees to cover the games this season.
Speaker 2: A survey shows more than half of the members of
Speaker 2: the Massachusetts chapter of the National Ice Hockey Officials Association
Speaker 2: say they are not planning to lace up the skates
Speaker 2: this year unless they get paid more. It's eleven oh seven.
Speaker 2: One person was killed when their motorcycle struck a tree
Speaker 2: late yesterday afternoon on Red Acre Road in Stowe. The
Speaker 2: driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Their name has
Speaker 2: not been released yet. The cause of the crash is
Speaker 2: still under investigation, and a new leader takes over the
Speaker 2: mass State Police.
Speaker 3: Colonel Jeffrey Noble is the first leader of the Massachusetts
Speaker 3: State Police who is from outside the department's ranks. He
Speaker 3: was the retired second in command of the New Jersey
Speaker 3: State Police. Noble takes command of a force plague by
Speaker 3: corruption scandals in recent years, including overtime fraud and bribery
Speaker 3: scandals that led to troopers being criminally charged. Governor Morre
Speaker 3: Healey on the man she appointed.
Speaker 2: Colonel Noble is the right leader for this agency at
Speaker 2: this moment in time.
Speaker 3: I'm confident that.
Speaker 2: He is the leader that are hard working state Police
Speaker 2: and the people of Massachusetts deserve.
Speaker 3: Colonel Noble takes command of a trooper training program that's
Speaker 3: under investigation after the death of a recruit at the
Speaker 3: State House. Mike maclum w's Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 2: I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.