Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Ethel Kennedy has died.
Speaker 2: The social activist and widow of Robert F. Kennedy that
Speaker 2: suffered a stroke last week. She died at the age
Speaker 2: of ninety six. Cbs' Steve Kathan takes a look back
Speaker 2: at her life.
Speaker 3: Ethel Kennedy married her way into a political dynasty.
Speaker 4: In a ceremony at Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Speaker 5: Ethel Skakehowne became Missus Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy.
Speaker 3: She shared her husband's commitment to public service, and after
Speaker 3: his assassination, she founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for
Speaker 3: Justice and Human Rights. President Obama cited her strength, resilience,
Speaker 3: and passion when he awarded her the Presidential Medal of
Speaker 3: Freedom in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: As her family will tell you, and they basically occupied
Speaker 2: this half of the room.
Speaker 4: You don't mess with that.
Speaker 3: F As the mother of nine living children, grandmother of dozens,
Speaker 3: Ethel Kennedy filled plenty of seats at that ceremony, Steve
Speaker 3: Kith and CBS News.
Speaker 2: The reaction from local politicians. From Senator Red Markey, he
Speaker 2: called Kennedy a true force for social change in her
Speaker 2: own right, says Ethel, Kennedy worked to address society's greatest injustices,
Speaker 2: fighting for equity, inclusion, compassion, and lasting change, moving on
Speaker 2: and moving out, but leaving a mess behind. Hurricane Milton's
Speaker 2: pushing well out into the Atlantic now, but not before
Speaker 2: bringing ferocious winds, flooding, deadly tornadoes to parts of Florida.
Speaker 2: The Tampa area was spared the biggest storm surge as
Speaker 2: Milton jogged off to the south Police Chief John Cosby
Speaker 2: and Bradenton Beach with more on what they've been dealing with.
Speaker 2: We're seeing a lot of wind damaged.
Speaker 3: Roofs have been compromised.
Speaker 6: We've had some structures that were compromised.
Speaker 3: They blew off the stilts.
Speaker 2: Cosby says the city needs to restore power, water and
Speaker 2: sewer systems. Close to one hundred percent of the population
Speaker 2: they were evacuated before the storm. International Airport is planning
Speaker 2: to reopen tomorrow morning. As Hurricane Milton leaves much of
Speaker 2: Florida devastated. President Biden is stressing the government will make
Speaker 2: sure that survivors get the resources they need.
Speaker 6: I know recovery and rebuilding projects can take a long
Speaker 6: and difficult time. But long after the press and the
Speaker 6: cameras move on, I promise you have to pick up
Speaker 6: the pieces still. I want you to know everything on
Speaker 6: our power to help you put pieces back together and get.
Speaker 2: All that you need. At least five people left dead
Speaker 2: from the storm. Millions more in Florida are still without power.
Speaker 2: As for Milton, it is a post tropical cyclone and
Speaker 2: moving well out to see more than two hundred miles
Speaker 2: the center at least off of Cape Canaveral, Florida. TD
Speaker 2: Bank pleads guilty the charges of money laundering. They agree
Speaker 2: to pay up the three billion dollars. The CBS's Christopher
Speaker 2: Cruz has the tail.
Speaker 1: The penalty on TD Bank is the largest ever in
Speaker 1: the US for violating anti money laundering laws. In a statement,
Speaker 1: the Justice Department said the bank, among other things, fail
Speaker 1: to maintain an anti money laundering program that complies with
Speaker 1: the Bank Secrecy Act. It said the bank's program had fundamental,
Speaker 1: widespread flaws that for almost a decade made it easy
Speaker 1: for criminals to open accounts and transfer funds.
Speaker 2: Regulator's also placed to cap on TD Bank's ability to
Speaker 2: accept new deposits, a harsh and rare penalty. It will
Speaker 2: be clear, so any skywatchers should have a pretty good
Speaker 2: view of whatever's up there. But we will be chilly.
Speaker 2: Forty six in Boston. Thirties in some of the coolest
Speaker 2: western suburbs, go far enough out you may even pick
Speaker 2: up a tiny bit of frost on the pumpkin. Mostly
Speaker 2: sunny tomorrow with a little bit milder, temperatures into the
Speaker 2: mid sixties. Mainly clear in the fifties tomorrow night, and
Speaker 2: then we warm up to seventy or so on Saturday,
Speaker 2: with more sun than clouds. Sunday, little change. We'll have
Speaker 2: some clouds around and a shower or two. Temperatures about sixty.
Speaker 2: We may struggle to get out of the fifties several
Speaker 2: days next week. We'll see right now it is fifty
Speaker 2: nine degrees. See in Boston, when you think pumpkin, probably
Speaker 2: think orange. But on the pumpkin wall at Wilson Farm
Speaker 2: in Lexington it is far more colorful. Of the buzy'st
Speaker 2: Hiles Shaffle check things out well.
Speaker 4: The two hundred pumpkins and boxes gazed out on the
Speaker 4: parking lot like kings on the seat of an autumnal throne.
Speaker 2: So the wall took all day, from nine o'clock to
Speaker 2: six o'clock.
Speaker 4: The colors look like someone detonated a faul theme pinata.
Speaker 4: I made a display with the wreckage sunshine yellow gorge
Speaker 4: peek out between smooth blue ones that look like giant clans,
Speaker 4: and every couple of feet there's a hunk of modeled
Speaker 4: gray that wouldn't be out of place somewhere in the
Speaker 4: asteroid belt. All you gotta do is make sure that
Speaker 4: no similar color touches. Jeff Callahan is the worker tasked
Speaker 4: with building the wall, just like he's done since the
Speaker 4: first one of the mid two thousands.
Speaker 3: I could just like point absolutely so if I was
Speaker 3: just like, that's a bumpy pumpkin.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, okay, uh mellow yellow, Yeah, that's the peanut.
Speaker 4: The wall here has become an attraction in itself too.
Speaker 2: There is tripods set up over here. They come in
Speaker 2: with different outfits and they change outfits.
Speaker 4: It'll be up unto a round Thanksgiving. Kyles Shaffle to
Speaker 4: be busy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: You know what else is colorful this time of year, leaves?
Speaker 2: Where are you going to see them? Perhaps maybe your
Speaker 2: own backyard, but you may be hitting the road too
Speaker 2: to see the colorful side. Triple A says. Boston, New York,
Speaker 2: Seattle are all among the top domestic fall destinations. Many
Speaker 2: travelers do take road trips this time a year, or
Speaker 2: fall cruises to enjoy the foliage. Massachusetts foliage expected to
Speaker 2: peak this week, although a little bit later as you
Speaker 2: get closer to Boston. Northern New York foliage giving off
Speaker 2: quite a show this week. A reminder from the Travel
Speaker 2: Club though, about taking in the views and enjoying them
Speaker 2: from a safe spot. No matter how beautiful scenic areas
Speaker 2: are across the Northeast, never stop in the middle of
Speaker 2: a busy road to take a photo, and don't take
Speaker 2: pictures while you're driving. A lot of people have a
Speaker 2: side hustle. Maybe you've got one. W bztv's Paula Evan
Speaker 2: tells us about a Massachusetts woman who turned her hobby
Speaker 2: into a profitable side hustle.
Speaker 5: Hellem Boozeggian of Marvelhead works a full time corporate job.
Speaker 4: I mean when we started there really weren't any charm
Speaker 4: necklace companies.
Speaker 5: Less than a year ago, she started making charm necklaces
Speaker 5: in her off time.
Speaker 1: We have the largest assortment of charms out there.
Speaker 5: The hobby quickly turned into a side hustle, and thanks
Speaker 5: to the power of social media, it's blown up into
Speaker 5: a booming business. Definitely a pinch me moment.
Speaker 2: It was a month in and.
Speaker 5: It was basically an article about a style roundup of
Speaker 5: Taylor Swift and Alex Earl at the playoff.
Speaker 2: Game, and she was wearing our necklace.
Speaker 5: That's when custom jewelry orders started pouring in, up to
Speaker 5: three hundred in one day.
Speaker 4: It was kind of sink or swim, and I think
Speaker 4: thankfully both of us just said, well, we're certainly not
Speaker 4: going to.
Speaker 2: Sync with hell from her husband, Bozigian is taking coastal
Speaker 2: caveat to do heights right from her home, and she's
Speaker 2: still balancing her full time job. You are now in
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