Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News, eleven o'clock and it's seventy two and sunny in
Speaker 2: downtown Boston. A beautiful morning. Good morning on Laurie Kirby
Speaker 2: and our sponsor this half hour Cambridge Savings Bank. We
Speaker 2: start in the Granite state. New Hampshire reconsiders its highway
Speaker 2: safety after a fatal crash. WBZTV's Louisa Mola reports from the.
Speaker 3: Cab of his big rig. Mark Welch is used to
Speaker 3: seeing some crazy things.
Speaker 4: On the road and you got young people that just
Speaker 4: do my dash cam. I could show you things they do,
Speaker 4: death defying acts.
Speaker 3: But the corridor he drives often, Interstate ninety five in
Speaker 3: New Hampshire, saw not just crazy last week but tragic,
Speaker 3: if you have to say.
Speaker 2: Police say.
Speaker 3: A twenty four year old lost control of his car
Speaker 3: on ninety five in Greenland, carrening a cross the highway
Speaker 3: median into a van. The fifty eight year old driver
Speaker 3: of the van and the twenty four year old were killed.
Speaker 3: With the tire marks of this crash still fresh on
Speaker 3: the highway, the state is now considering new safety measures,
Speaker 3: including the installation of median barriers. Here where now there
Speaker 3: aren't any.
Speaker 2: And the stats are staggering. Compared to last year, New
Speaker 2: Hampshire reports had seen a three hundred and fifty percent
Speaker 2: increase in traffic fatalities in drivers ages sixteen to twenty
Speaker 2: one residents ages sixteen to twenty one. We're also working
Speaker 2: a serious crash and a tunnel in Boston involving an
Speaker 2: ambulance right now, Kevin Brennan will be joining us in
Speaker 2: two minutes. With that, a familiar face will be holding
Speaker 2: the gavel for Karen Reid's retrial come January. The jodge
Speaker 2: you oversaw the Karen Reid trial that ended in a
Speaker 2: mistrial will preside over her new trial. Judge Beverly Cononi
Speaker 2: will oversee the case does despite defense lawyers objections. She
Speaker 2: also rejected the defense request to have some of the
Speaker 2: charges dropped against Reed, a decision that Reid is now
Speaker 2: appealing to the Supreme Judicial Court, and Governor Healy declares
Speaker 2: today Banner eighteen day in Massachusettsbedbez's Chris Fauma is getting
Speaker 2: the bas ahead of the Celtic season opener.
Speaker 1: There may be less green in the leaves of New England.
Speaker 1: Such is not the case on Causeway Street in Boston.
Speaker 4: Everybody you know, rich, poor, everybody starts wearing a bit
Speaker 4: more green.
Speaker 1: Wants the seasons to gets ready, not before the defending
Speaker 1: champs hoist their latest banner to the Raptors tonight. Pretty
Speaker 1: exciting stuff.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be absolutely electric here.
Speaker 2: What do we had eighteen now eighteen banners?
Speaker 1: Wow, it's better than us at the moment.
Speaker 6: No team in the NBA.
Speaker 1: But tonight starts a clean slate and a season a
Speaker 1: new Will it add in similar fashion to last season
Speaker 1: for the seas? That's the question, you know, And I'd
Speaker 1: love to see it. I would love to see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they play the way that I think
Speaker 2: they're going to plan. Hope they played Yeah nineteen.
Speaker 1: Right, Chris mom A WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Freedom a group of dolphins now released back into the
Speaker 2: ocean along the coast of Provincetown. They were found stranded
Speaker 2: last Friday near skak At Beach, which is on the
Speaker 2: Bay side of Orleans. Volunteers with the International Fund for
Speaker 2: Animal Welfare helped the dolphins feel a little bit better,
Speaker 2: looked into their health before releasing them back into their
Speaker 2: home the sea. Summer in autumn, it just goes on.
Speaker 2: I think few of us are complaining. We had a
Speaker 2: couple of cool nights, we were cranking the heat, and
Speaker 2: now we're putting on the ac in the car for
Speaker 2: stuck in traffic. It was that warm yesterday in Boston.
Speaker 2: We were in the eighties. Then we're in the seventies.
Speaker 2: Now we're staying in the seventies all day. Lodonnin fifty five,
Speaker 2: clear sunshine again tomorrow, high seventy five Wednesday night into Thursday,
Speaker 2: passing showers and then mostly sunny, breezy and still nice.
Speaker 2: In the mid sixties and no big surprise here. Salem
Speaker 2: topping the list of Forbes' best Halloween vacation spots in
Speaker 2: the nation.
Speaker 4: Well, it is the site of the infamous Salem witch
Speaker 4: trials of sixteen ninety two. Second on the list Sleepy Hollow,
Speaker 4: New York, the setting of the famous Washington Irving tale
Speaker 4: about the Headless Horsemen. Then there's the big Easy, Forbes
Speaker 4: saying New Orleans takes Halloween celebrations to the next level.
Speaker 4: Fourth on the list is Anoka, Minnesota, noted for its
Speaker 4: family friendly celebrations, and it's back to the South for
Speaker 4: the top five spot. Savannah, Georgia, considered one of the
Speaker 4: most haunted cities in America. Jay Willett WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Masport confirms the United Airlines flighted engine problems as a
Speaker 2: taxi down the runway for takeoff last night to Dulles,
Speaker 2: and those problems apparently ignited a grass fire trailing behind
Speaker 2: the jet as it moved down the tarmac. The plane
Speaker 2: itself never caught fire. Crews were able to fairly quickly
Speaker 2: extinguish the grass fire. Nasspoord says the airplane reached the
Speaker 2: gate under its own power. One hundred and sixty two
Speaker 2: passengers and six crew members then boarded a different jet,
Speaker 2: which departed around nine pm. And Bye Bye Baby is
Speaker 2: shutting doors and heading online by the end of the year.
Speaker 2: If this is giving you deja vu, you're not alone.
Speaker 5: If this sounds familiar, that is because it did happen
Speaker 5: once before, when Bye Bye Baby shut down stores last
Speaker 5: year after filing for bankruptcy. But they recently reopened some
Speaker 5: locations under a new parent company. Now they're calling it
Speaker 5: quits for the second time, going fully online for good.
Speaker 2: The company says it will be closing all physical stores
Speaker 2: by the end of the year. Walmart is offering something new.
Speaker 6: Walmart will deliver prescriptions directly to your home. The service
Speaker 6: is now available in Arkansas, Missouri, New York, Nevada, South Carolina,
Speaker 6: and Wisconsin. The company says it expects to deliver prescriptions
Speaker 6: in forty nine states by the end of January, and.
Speaker 2: CBS's DC lenzys. The move comes as Walgreens and CBS
Speaker 2: have recently shut down hundreds of stores nationwide. You are
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