Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News sixty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. It's official Governor more
Speaker 2: Hilly signing a new wide ranging gun reform law. The
Speaker 2: Governor's signing an emergency preamble. It will allow many of
Speaker 2: the law's provisions to go into effect immediately instead of
Speaker 2: later this month. Opponents of the bill had been pushing
Speaker 2: to suspend the law before it took place, hoping to
Speaker 2: repeal the law with a ballot measure in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: In a statement, that governor says, this gun's safety law
Speaker 2: bans ghost guns, strengthens the Extreme Risk Protection Order statute
Speaker 2: to keep guns onto the hands of people who are
Speaker 2: a danger to themselves or others, and invests in violence
Speaker 2: prevention programs. A group known as the Civil Rights Coalition
Speaker 2: criticized the governor's decision and alleged an immediate start to
Speaker 2: some of the restrictions, especially on so called long guns,
Speaker 2: could put guns shop out of business. President Biden gets
Speaker 2: a bird's eye view and a ground level view in
Speaker 2: the Carolinas today. He's surveying the damage from Helene. The
Speaker 2: storm brought dozens of deaths, widespread flooding, and damage, and
Speaker 2: now the federal government is stepping up and stepping in.
Speaker 3: The President is immediately deploying one thousand active duty troops
Speaker 3: to assist with the response and recovery efforts. They'll help
Speaker 3: deliver food, water, and other critical supplies two communities impacted
Speaker 3: by the hurricane. The additional manpower will assist FEMA and
Speaker 3: other federal agencies reach the hardested areas as fast as possible.
Speaker 3: Stacy Lynn, CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: There's some new data that suggests drug overdose deaths are
Speaker 2: going down in Boston. The Boston Public Health Commission says
Speaker 2: the number of residents who died of opioid overdoses from
Speaker 2: January to April this year was down thirty three percent
Speaker 2: compared to the same time last year. Though the data
Speaker 2: is only preliminary and represents four months of the year,
Speaker 2: city leaders are feeling encouraged by this report. Mayor Michelle
Speaker 2: wou sang in a statement, the new data shows the
Speaker 2: city is on the right track when it comes to
Speaker 2: tackling the opioid crisis. Boston is celebrating funds to transform
Speaker 2: downtown affordable housing of the BBC's Madison Rogers with the
Speaker 2: TAPS residence of the Maywa Village in Chinatown, got a
Speaker 2: surprise visit today meant a big announcement.
Speaker 4: When I told her, Madame Mayor, that I was here
Speaker 4: delivering money to you to fix the building, she got
Speaker 4: really chatty.
Speaker 5: Acting us HUD Secretary Adrian Todman came by with a
Speaker 5: three point two eight million dollar check in tow.
Speaker 3: It's not an announcement unless it's a big and.
Speaker 5: It's not just Boston. This is part of a new
Speaker 5: two hundred and seventy nine million dollar nationwide investment making
Speaker 5: repairs with an eye on climate resilience. Here's Mayor wu.
Speaker 5: Study after study has shown the unique impact that residents
Speaker 5: here have born for decades in generations with greater pollution
Speaker 5: causing greater health risks. This funding hopes to bring a
Speaker 5: breath of fresh air in Chinatown. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ
Speaker 5: Boston's News Radio Brian Walls.
Speaker 2: We'll be back in court later this year after a
Speaker 2: brief court appear this afternoon. Both sides. We're meeting to
Speaker 2: discuss evidence in the case. Walsh's facing murder chargers in
Speaker 2: connection with the death of his wife Anna. During the
Speaker 2: hearing in Denham, his lawyer says they need more time
Speaker 2: to go over evidence that was just given to them
Speaker 2: by the prosecution. Both sides agreed to circle back at
Speaker 2: a hearing on December second. Tonight, we'll have partly to
Speaker 2: mostly cloudy skies depending on where you are. Fifty five
Speaker 2: in the city, we'll be in the upper forties, though
Speaker 2: in many of the cool suburbs, times of clouds and sun.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow a lot like today, although there'll probably be a
Speaker 2: little more sunshine than clouds. Tomorrow, temperatures within a few
Speaker 2: degrees of seventy, partly cloudy with a few areas of
Speaker 2: fog tomorrow night. That fog will hang in Friday morning,
Speaker 2: eventually burning off, bringing us partly sunny skies. A warm
Speaker 2: or afternoon too on Friday, as we make a race
Speaker 2: into the upper seventies, and then on Saturday a little
Speaker 2: cooler back to seventy for the high. We'll have a
Speaker 2: couple of showers early. Otherwise, the mix of sun and
Speaker 2: clouds Right now sixty three degrees in Boston, but not
Speaker 2: in school on local school district says no phones in
Speaker 2: the classroom has paid instant dividends.
Speaker 6: It's been more than a month since classes started at
Speaker 6: Framingham High and like many other schools in the state,
Speaker 6: they're cracking down on cell phone use.
Speaker 1: Students cannot have their phones with them. They have to
Speaker 1: be either placed in a holder on the back of
Speaker 1: the door, on the wall, or shut off in their
Speaker 1: bags on the wall.
Speaker 6: We decided to check in and see how that policy
Speaker 6: is actually working out.
Speaker 1: It's made a huge difference with attention and focus and
Speaker 1: engagement framing and.
Speaker 6: Principal Mark Albright says he's seen an enormous change in
Speaker 6: the six weeks since enforcement was stepped up, to the
Speaker 6: extent that some classes are running way ahead of schedule.
Speaker 1: A couple of my Spanish teachers shared that content wise,
Speaker 1: they're more than two weeks ahead of where they were
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 6: Other teachers told me the kids are more focused on work,
Speaker 6: which lets them open up the playbook on lesson plans.
Speaker 6: But all Bright says it's not all about shredding the curriculum.
Speaker 1: I think that there's some comfort in understanding that I
Speaker 1: don't always have to have it in my hand.
Speaker 6: He's seeing personal growth in the kids too, Kyle Shaffle
Speaker 6: w Busy, Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio, and Brockton a student has checked out at the
Speaker 2: hospital after or in outlet short circuits at the high school.
Speaker 2: In a statement, the Brockton Schools say it happened while
Speaker 2: the student was plugging in a lamp. No damage to
Speaker 2: the building. The day went on as normal. More bang
Speaker 2: for no Bucks. Blue Bikes celebrating a milestone in Greater Boston.
Speaker 2: As we hear from wbz's j will a.
Speaker 4: Twenty five million rides since its inception in twenty eleven,
Speaker 4: Blue Bikes is offering twenty five dollars worth of rides
Speaker 4: today for free. That's enough for an hour's long ride
Speaker 4: around town, an alternative to the car, to the shuttle
Speaker 4: bus whatever. The code to use on the app is
Speaker 4: blue Cross twenty five AM. That's blue Cross twenty five
Speaker 4: am all one word. The code only works for today,
Speaker 4: but once redeemed, riders can pedal to their heart's desire
Speaker 4: or when the cash runs out. Also, randomly across more
Speaker 4: than five hundred stations, Blue Bikes is handing out gift
Speaker 4: cards to lucky riders. J Willett, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Day two of a dock worker's strike impacting ports across
Speaker 2: the East and Gulf Coasts, even here in Boston. Striking
Speaker 2: dock workers want a big rays and a guarantee they're
Speaker 2: jobs won't be replaced with automation. The White House wants
Speaker 2: both sides to get working on a deal.
Speaker 7: President Biden said the port workers and the shipping company
Speaker 7: should sit at the table and get this strike resolved.
Speaker 4: Remember, we negotiated a similar strike on the West Coast
Speaker 4: before and they worked it out.
Speaker 2: It's time they won't even talk, so let's get that done.
Speaker 7: The President said, the last thing the country needs right
Speaker 7: now is another quote man made disaster, and said the
Speaker 7: White House is already hearing about supply chain issues because
Speaker 7: of the East Coast and Gulf Coast port strike. Karen Travers,
Speaker 7: ABC News Washington