Speaker 1: This is WVZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: At sixty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock good
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon. I'm Madison Rodgers, and we start off down south.
Speaker 2: Vice President Kamala Harris has just arrived in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: She'll be getting an update on the recovery from Hurricane Heleene,
Speaker 2: with a catastrophic trail of destruction. There is a local
Speaker 2: effort to send.
Speaker 3: Relief from hand sanitizer to bales of hay and every
Speaker 3: single item need in between. Towns around Massachusetts are coming
Speaker 3: together by the trailer loaves to help families impacted by
Speaker 3: Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 2: They're in need of basically every basic life necessity.
Speaker 3: In West Bridgewater, the police station garage has been turned
Speaker 3: into a local command center for items being donated by residents.
Speaker 3: Sergeant Jonathan Craven says they've been coordinating with the North
Speaker 3: Carolina Highway Patrol.
Speaker 4: Of the support that we've received has been amazing.
Speaker 2: Our off serves have been coming in off duty to
Speaker 2: help sort.
Speaker 5: Have more subtize have been delivered yet.
Speaker 3: Heather and Cannon came to donate with her eleven year
Speaker 3: old daughter, Kayley.
Speaker 4: We're bringing First eight kits, personal little First eight kits
Speaker 4: that they can hand out and also personal toiletry items
Speaker 4: that come in a little kit for them as well.
Speaker 2: WBZTV's Paul Burton reports for the hardest hit homeowners, paying
Speaker 2: for the damage from Helene is becoming a nightmare of
Speaker 2: its own. Insurance professionals and experts of long worn that
Speaker 2: home insurance typically doesn't cover flood damage, leaving a FEMA
Speaker 2: program as the primary provider. Experts say it's likely that
Speaker 2: entire neighborhoods will never be rebuilt. Boston's hospitality sector is
Speaker 2: due for serious disruption, with thousands of hotel workers hitting
Speaker 2: the picket lines imminently. We are still waiting for word
Speaker 2: from the union, which represents close to five thousand workers
Speaker 2: across thirty six hotels in Boston and Cambridge. There have
Speaker 2: been three temporary walkouts at some hotels starting last month,
Speaker 2: but this time around the union is warning of an
Speaker 2: all out indefinite strike. It's been a months long deadlock
Speaker 2: in contract negotiations. As we watch for developments, stay with
Speaker 2: the WBZ News Radio for the very latest. One month
Speaker 2: to go now till the presidential election and former President
Speaker 2: Trump soon is returning to the site where a gunman
Speaker 2: tried to assassinate him in July. CBS's Chiliicasee Adelais says
Speaker 2: security is tight in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4: Anywhere from fifteen thousand to sixty thousand people could come
Speaker 4: to the site today, the Butler Farm show Grounds. Local
Speaker 4: and state police are helping out with that, and there's
Speaker 4: also plenty of security here. There's caution tape on some
Speaker 4: of the business's wood areas surrounding the farm show grounds.
Speaker 2: Today, former President Trump is expected to speak in around
Speaker 2: an hour. Jd Vance is now in Pennsylvania, but the
Speaker 2: VP nominee was just in Glocester. He spoke to wealthy
Speaker 2: donors at a private home raising funds for the Trump campaign. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha Judge will be attending a Harris
Speaker 2: fundr Uz brunch in Boston. And looking at the four
Speaker 2: day forecast, it's clear tonight with a low round fifty
Speaker 2: two Downtown. A lot of inland suburbs could see temps
Speaker 2: in the forties. Tonight, cooler Tomorrow, we'll have times of
Speaker 2: sun and clouds and temps in the mid upper sixties.
Speaker 2: It's mostly cloudy, with a couple of showers late tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: then a few spots of rain for Monday as well.
Speaker 2: For the most part, it should be cloudy, breezy, and cool,
Speaker 2: with a high near sixty sixty four and sunny to
Speaker 2: partly cloudy on Tuesday. Right now in Boston, it's sixty
Speaker 2: six degrees with sunshine and debreeze at four oh five.
Speaker 2: It sounds like science fiction tech that can expose your
Speaker 2: personal information just by taking a picture of you. Well,
Speaker 2: a couple of local students are proving it's not fiction.
Speaker 2: It's possible. WBZTV's Brandon Truett reports.
Speaker 5: Harvard University students are known for being ahead of the game,
Speaker 5: and and fu Win and Cain or Dafeo are living
Speaker 5: up to the hype. You're a follow us Creed.
Speaker 1: This is you're from Reagan County Academies.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The two juniors have created software that pairs AI
Speaker 5: facial recognition with public databases and with a single picture,
Speaker 5: can pull up a person's name, phone number, address, and
Speaker 5: digital history. It took them about a day to create it.
Speaker 2: So we were just kind of like playing around, you know,
Speaker 2: seeing you know, what are the possibilities of code?
Speaker 5: The guys use the Meta ray bands from Facebook's parent company,
Speaker 5: which have cameras right on the lens, but a phone
Speaker 5: could do this too. That camera streams video back to
Speaker 5: the software on their laptop, and using AI tools, it
Speaker 5: runs a face through the program to gather private information
Speaker 5: within about a minute and a half. They tried it
Speaker 5: on some of their classmates.
Speaker 2: Is your address for full value scary stuff. While there
Speaker 2: are restrictions on how governments use this type of technology,
Speaker 2: there are no restrictions on private citizens using it. There
Speaker 2: are safety concerns for the upcoming high school hockey season
Speaker 2: with a potential shortage of referee. Refs have been calling
Speaker 2: for higher pay. The local chapter of the National Ice
Speaker 2: Hockey Officials Association says in a recent poll of its members,
Speaker 2: more than half of them said they are not planning
Speaker 2: to work any high school games this year. The union
Speaker 2: is calling for the MIAA to increase wages. Currently, refs
Speaker 2: make around one hundred bucks for a high school varsity game.
Speaker 2: The MIAA calling foul, saying the request should have come
Speaker 2: during school's budgeting process. Friday night lights down in Georgia,
Speaker 2: bringing a moment of healing to a community rocked by tragedy,
Speaker 2: the stands were passed.
Speaker 4: He joined us in a moment of silence and.
Speaker 1: Pre apo Lechi High School and Wider Georgia playing its
Speaker 1: first home game a month after two students and two
Speaker 1: teachers died in a school shooting. Football coach Ricky Aspinwall
Speaker 1: was one of the victims, leading the team at his
Speaker 1: absence assistant coach Matt Bradley.
Speaker 3: One of the hardest things that I've ever had deal
Speaker 3: in my life.
Speaker 1: Taylor Wheeler, a former student, brought her kids a law
Speaker 1: It was very close.
Speaker 2: To home and when I say that, I don't think you.
Speaker 5: Really understand until that happens.
Speaker 1: Opposing Jackson County football team warming up in Appalachia Strong Shirts.
Speaker 1: Dave Packer, ABC News.
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