Speaker 1: Forty six degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,
Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Burger on. Here's what's happening at Stay two
Speaker 1: of our holiday weekend. Keep the jacket nearby.
Speaker 2: For to day.
Speaker 1: Expect rain AND's rizzled from time to time under cloudy skies.
Speaker 3: Well, it truly ends the weekend with a high only
Speaker 3: near fifty five.
Speaker 1: AKI weathers La Troy Thornton has the full four day
Speaker 1: forecast in just a few minutes. The Boston hotel workers
Speaker 1: strike now into its second week and there's no end
Speaker 1: in sight. There's wbz's Mike Macklin. You know we're on
Speaker 1: strike at Hilton, but we could don strike any day
Speaker 1: at any of these other properties where we're not settled
Speaker 1: and open ended strikes.
Speaker 3: Boston Hotel Workers Union president Carlos Romayo sounding pessimistic about
Speaker 3: the prospects for an end to the week old hotel
Speaker 3: strike against Hilton Park Plaza and Logan Airport Hilton Hotels,
Speaker 3: Romios saying workers at the Omni and Marriott hotels in
Speaker 3: Boston could join their Hilton Hotel colleagues on the picket
Speaker 3: line within days, and they will.
Speaker 2: Figure out how to stay out there and post these
Speaker 2: hotels and cause economic pain for these hotels until they
Speaker 2: get what they want.
Speaker 4: And that's something I have one confidence.
Speaker 3: And Boston not the only city with hotel workers on strike.
Speaker 3: The major national hotel chains facing strikes and cities from
Speaker 3: coach to coast as far away as Hawaii. Mike Macklin
Speaker 3: WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Five residents of Lowell doing court after the holiday weekends
Speaker 1: wept up in a month's long, undercovered drug and firearm investigation.
Speaker 1: Middlesex County DA Marion Ryan's office announcing the sweep on Friday,
Speaker 1: and the search for a sixth suspect is continuing. Those
Speaker 1: arrested Friday scheduled to appear Tuesday in Lowell District Court
Speaker 1: on several firearm and drug charges. Residents of Salem feeling
Speaker 1: the influx of tourists for the Halloween festivities. Instead of driving,
Speaker 1: Salem mayor Dominic Panngalo asking visitors consider taking public transportations.
Speaker 5: Some people are complaining about it.
Speaker 1: More and more.
Speaker 6: George Sampson works in Beverly. He sets up his belt
Speaker 6: and wallet vending business every weekend. He says a lot
Speaker 6: of Beverly residents are complaining about the traffic flow from
Speaker 6: Beverly to Salem this time of year.
Speaker 5: I have to wait for a lot of cars to
Speaker 5: go by that are used in Essex Street to get
Speaker 5: out to one twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: Aside from all the traffic, the other challenge is parking.
Speaker 6: Salem has approximately four thousand parking spots, and the mayor
Speaker 6: says they can get as many as sixty five thousand
Speaker 6: visitors on a weekend.
Speaker 5: Over one hundred thousand is re clesser to the end
Speaker 5: of the season, So through the math, you're not gonna
Speaker 5: find a parking space. If you're planning to come to Salem,
Speaker 5: come by train, come by ferry. Yeah. I got a
Speaker 5: lot of nice people that are just tourists and they
Speaker 5: want to get out of Salem for a day and
Speaker 5: they come over.
Speaker 6: Here, which leads to gridlock traffic.
Speaker 1: Take a train, take a ferry, don't drive. It's definitely
Speaker 1: adding to the traffic of the city and the residents
Speaker 1: don't like it.
Speaker 3: You gotta go with the flow.
Speaker 5: I guess right.
Speaker 1: It's WBZ TV's Paul Burton reporting David Posternoch with the
Speaker 1: game winner in overtime. Bruins beat the Kings yesterday at
Speaker 1: the Garden two to one. Last night on the hardwood
Speaker 1: at the Garden, Celtics just blew away the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers preseason baskets one thirty nine to eighty nine. Columbus
Speaker 1: shut out the Revs Major League Soccer for nothing, and
Speaker 1: the Pats and Houston. Today in Foxborough, Drake May, we'll
Speaker 1: start a quarterback. That's a one o'clock kick. Let's check
Speaker 1: the four day WBZ ECHU weather forecast. LaTroy Thornton tells
Speaker 1: us Today it's cloudy, it's chilly, we'll see some showers,
Speaker 1: some drizzle. Temperatures mid fifties in Boston, closer to sixty
Speaker 1: in the suburbs. Now it's cloudy Tonight, the rain and
Speaker 1: drizzle will taper to showers, will drop back into the
Speaker 1: forties in most areas for the holiday. Tomorrow, it's cloudy
Speaker 1: with morning showers and then breezy in the afternoon with
Speaker 1: some sun and again can't rule out a lingering shower.
Speaker 1: High sixty. Tuesday's better it's brisket's chili with sun high
Speaker 1: fifty seven and then same deal for Wednesday, sun, clouds
Speaker 1: and mid fifties. Just forty six degrees. Right now in
Speaker 1: Boston at six h five Hurricane Milton being blamed for
Speaker 1: about two dozen deaths in Florida. Over a million customers
Speaker 1: still without power since Milton made landfall last week as
Speaker 1: a category three hurricane. CBS is Tom Hanson from Brandon,
Speaker 1: which is near Tampa to get.
Speaker 4: Power back on. Fifty thousand linemen from as far away
Speaker 4: as Canada on the job and working overtime, but others
Speaker 4: are simply focused on survival. Days after the hurricane, rivers
Speaker 4: in some places are still rising. We traveled into the
Speaker 4: hard hit community of val Rico, where floodwaters have swallowed
Speaker 4: entire neighborhoods. Terry Rudd and his family are just now
Speaker 4: returning to see what's left.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a mess here to fine reveal.
Speaker 1: President Biden heading to Florida later today to survey the damage.
Speaker 1: Ahead of his trip, he has approved a disaster Relief
Speaker 1: Declaration in Florida. That move provides federal funding for Florida's
Speaker 1: cleanup and rebuilding. The funds will be available to thirty
Speaker 1: four counties. It will also provide grants for housing and
Speaker 1: home repair, along with loans for those with uninsured property losses,
Speaker 1: and more relief coming from the northeast and on its
Speaker 1: way to parts of North Carolina hit hard by Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 1: This time, the helping hand comes from the MSPCA, a
Speaker 1: group of veterinarians, technicians, and community outreach staffers heading to
Speaker 1: Yancey County in North Carolina, where Helene damaged or destroyed.
Speaker 1: For VET hospitals, some animals will get some much needed care.
Speaker 1: Some of them eventually will be brought to homes in
Speaker 1: our area. To campaign twenty twenty four, Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris continuing campaign schedules with less than a month
Speaker 1: until election day and the Vice president's physician making her
Speaker 1: latest medical records public.
Speaker 2: The primary care physician for Vice President Harris says she
Speaker 2: possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to serve as president,
Speaker 2: Doctor Joshua Simmons, has released a letter saying the VP
Speaker 2: maintains a healthy, active lifestyle and that her most recent
Speaker 2: physical last April, was unremarkable. A campaign aid for Harris
Speaker 2: says the campaign hopes to draw a contrast with Republican
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, who has released only limited information about his
Speaker 2: health over the years and raised questions about Trump's fitness
Speaker 2: to serve Simmons has been Harris's primary care physician for
Speaker 2: three and a half years. He says Harris has a
Speaker 2: history of allergies and hives, for which she has been
Speaker 2: on allergy and aminotherapy for the past three years.
Speaker 1: Mike Kempen Washington, SpaceX could be blasting off its experimental
Speaker 1: Starship bucket this morning. The FAA issuing a new license
Speaker 1: to the private space company yesterday after requiring SpaceX to
Speaker 1: limit harm to the environment along the South Texas coast
Speaker 1: during liftoff. Now following the announcement, SpaceX posted that it
Speaker 1: was targeting this morning at eight am to start a
Speaker 1: thirty minute launch window for Starship's fifth test flight. Starship
Speaker 1: is the largest rocket ever built and was designed to
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