Speaker 1: This is WBZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sixty eight degrees at eleven o'clock. Good Saturday morning. I'm
Speaker 2: Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right the Columbus. A
Speaker 2: holiday weekend is here and the best weather of the weekend. Well,
Speaker 2: that's going to happen today.
Speaker 1: Ploody sunshine for today, but it'll be windy the high
Speaker 1: round seventy, increasing clouds tonight.
Speaker 2: And that's ech you weather Meteorologist John Peric. We'll have
Speaker 2: the full accu weather forecast that's coming up in three.
Speaker 2: For the second time in the last two weeks, a
Speaker 2: water main break floods Tremont Street. Wbzatv's best Dromano has
Speaker 2: that deep into Tremont Street. Crews we're working amid the
Speaker 2: mud and muck, a one hundred and fifty year old
Speaker 2: water main with the sizeable crack all down its side,
Speaker 2: and neighbor Teresa Blevins was more than frustrated.
Speaker 3: The mass disgusting.
Speaker 1: The noise is disgusting as well.
Speaker 3: The break sent water flooding into Tremont Street near Mass Half,
Speaker 3: nearly swallowing some nearby vehicles. While crews slogging through the
Speaker 3: water feverishly tried to stop the flow. This basement art
Speaker 3: gallery was the biggest victim, with mud piled up to
Speaker 3: its door. It's just really hardbreaking water filling the Piano
Speaker 3: Craft Gallery that's a non profit community space for local artists,
Speaker 3: damaging artwork that was stored and now requiring wall's furniture
Speaker 3: all to be replaced at a cost that volunteers like
Speaker 3: artist Kamala Maud cannot afford.
Speaker 1: Having something like that all of a sudden has really
Speaker 1: impaired the gallery in financially on community side too.
Speaker 2: And the gallery was forced to cancel it shows through
Speaker 2: the end of the year because of damages. A former
Speaker 2: Massachusetts pharmacist is sentenced in Michigan up to fifteen years
Speaker 2: in prison for his role in a meningitis outbreak back
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve. Fifty six year old Glen Chin pleaded
Speaker 2: no contest back in August involuntary manslaughter and the deaths
Speaker 2: of eleven people in Michigan. Chin supervised production at the
Speaker 2: New England Compounding Center in Framingham. More than seven hundred
Speaker 2: people in twenty states were sickened with meningitis or other illnesses.
Speaker 2: A dozens dozens rather died. Michigan has been the only
Speaker 2: state to prosecute Chin and his boss, Barry Cadden for
Speaker 2: the deaths related to the outbreak. Caden presently serving a
Speaker 2: fourteen and a half year federal prison. Jews around the
Speaker 2: world are observing their day of Atonement Jong Kippor, the
Speaker 2: holiest day on the Jewish calendar, but no days off
Speaker 2: on the battlefield. The Lebanese military reporting Israeli forces killed
Speaker 2: two Lebanese soldiers and injured two UN peacekeepers in separate strikes.
Speaker 2: The focus also continues in Gaza, including the biggest refugee camp.
Speaker 4: Pictures from Jibalia, once one of the world's most densely
Speaker 4: populated neighborhoods, show apocalyptic scenes. Few areas in Gaza have
Speaker 4: been hit as hard over the past year. Now, the
Speaker 4: Israeli military is intensifying its offensive. They're targeting ha Mass
Speaker 4: operatives who it says have been regrouping. Israel has told
Speaker 4: up to four hundred thousand Palestinians still living in northern
Speaker 4: Gaza to evacuate for their own safety and so it
Speaker 4: can continue to try to eliminate the threat from ha Mass.
Speaker 2: And that's the BBC's John Donison now let's check the
Speaker 2: ACU weather forecast for this holiday weekend. Plenty of sunshine today,
Speaker 2: It's going to be windy out there, but warm, highs
Speaker 2: reaching seventy degrees. Cooler tonight, increasing clouds will cool off
Speaker 2: to about forty five tomorrow. Tomorrow and Monday. If you're
Speaker 2: enjoying the three day Columbus Day weekend, Tomorrow and Monday
Speaker 2: are both going to be quite a bit chillier. It's
Speaker 2: going to feel more like fall. Cloudy and chilly, with
Speaker 2: some rain and drizzles at times on Tomorrow, especially from
Speaker 2: late morning on. I have only fifty three degrees in
Speaker 2: the city, lower sixties well south of the city. Monday,
Speaker 2: we'll see morning showers, then windy in the afternoon, a
Speaker 2: mix of sun and clouds, but will also possible you
Speaker 2: see a lingering shower or to come Monday, and highs
Speaker 2: again only near sixty A little warmer than Sunday, but
Speaker 2: still it's going to be a lightful Tuesday, only bumping
Speaker 2: up to about fifty seven degrees in Boston right now,
Speaker 2: it's already sixty eight at eleven oh five. A Needum
Speaker 2: nonprofit is wrapping up its inaugural Hygiene Insecurity Awareness Week,
Speaker 2: which helps to shine light on what they call a
Speaker 2: hidden crisis here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: The statistic can be surprising. Nearly one out of every
Speaker 1: three families here in Massachusetts struggles with hygiene insecurity.
Speaker 5: Which basically means that they don't have access to basic
Speaker 5: hygiene products like soap and toothpaste and menstrual product.
Speaker 1: That is Kerry Carter. She is the CEO of the
Speaker 1: Hope and Comfort Hygiene Hub and Needum.
Speaker 5: Now I'm having access to these products impacts physical and
Speaker 5: mental health.
Speaker 1: And she says it could even force people to lose
Speaker 1: out on job opportunities or keep kids home from class.
Speaker 1: This week, it's Hoping Comforts first ever Hygiene Insecurity Awareness Week.
Speaker 1: They teamed up with a couple of companies, Native and
Speaker 1: Earth Breeze to work with local partners, hoping to hand
Speaker 1: out half a million products to those in need.
Speaker 5: But we actually exceeded that. We have distributed as of today,
Speaker 5: about six hundred and thirty thousand products.
Speaker 1: Carter says. The best thing you can do about this
Speaker 1: issue is talk about it with your peers and local
Speaker 1: lawmakers and donate too if you can. Nicole Davis WBZ
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: A twenty one year old East bridgewaterman is arrested on
Speaker 2: suspicion of owning and selling images showing child sex abuse.
Speaker 2: Jason Giles was originally tracked down online by a nonprofit
Speaker 2: group that is known as Bikers Against Predators, who traveled
Speaker 2: from Indiana on Wednesday to meet with Giles about his
Speaker 2: alleged behavior. Police arresting Giles on Thursday. He was arraigned
Speaker 2: in Brockton District Court yesterday, facing charges including possessing child
Speaker 2: pornography and disseminating obscene matter to a child. Bikers Against
Speaker 2: Predators was tipped off to Giles' alleged behavior by another
Speaker 2: group that poses as miners to expose child predators. Russian
Speaker 2: dissident Alexi Navalny believed that he would die in prison.
Speaker 2: This according to his memoir. The book, titled Patriot, is
Speaker 2: scheduled for release posthumously later this month, but yesterday The
Speaker 2: New Yorker published excerpts.
Speaker 6: The prison diaries of Alexei Navalni reveal a man resigned
Speaker 6: to his fate but determined to stay true to his convictions.
Speaker 6: There's anguish and his certainty that he will die in jail.
Speaker 6: There will be no one to say goodbye to. He writes,
Speaker 6: I will never see my grandchildren. But there's also dark
Speaker 6: humor in his description of the rigors of prison life,
Speaker 6: and Navali makes clear that he didn't regret his decision
Speaker 6: to return to Russia to continue his challenge to Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2: And that's the BBC's James Reid reporting. You are now
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