Speaker 1: Yes, this is WBZY, Boston's news radio redefining local news.
Speaker 1: Forty five party Sunny Boston. It's eleven o'clock this Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Laurie Kirby and topping our news bunch
Speaker 1: of coastal Massachusetts. Woke up this morning to the smoky
Speaker 1: scent of brushfire. Wbz's Drowm Holland tells us it's all
Speaker 1: thanks to blazes and Salem and elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Local brushfires and firefighters and Salem have their hands full.
Speaker 3: Most of it is contained in the areas that have
Speaker 3: already burned out.
Speaker 2: That's chief Alan Dieon smoke up and down the shoreline today.
Speaker 2: The smell of smoke has been jarring the WBZ newsroom included.
Speaker 2: We've been stopped in our tracks a few times smelling
Speaker 2: it all here. Same day for one of our editors,
Speaker 2: b Aldrich, she says she had an unpleasant wake up
Speaker 2: in Brighton. It was so pungent, so strong, that I
Speaker 2: actually thought that my house was on fire until I
Speaker 2: realized what it was.
Speaker 4: Even driving into work, you could see like this layer
Speaker 4: of hayes.
Speaker 2: We've been getting all sorts of calls from people with
Speaker 2: similar stories. Today. The sky still has that smoky, hazy
Speaker 2: look to it, and it could linger for a while too.
Speaker 2: Firefighters say lots of smoldering Drew maholl and WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 2: news radio, and a lot of.
Speaker 1: Towns too, too many to mention, you know, from Beverly
Speaker 1: to Canton, and one turned deadly in Millbury, where a
Speaker 1: fire at a homeless encampment claimed the life of an
Speaker 1: adult woman. Her name has not been released. The state
Speaker 1: Fire Marshal says the fire originated at her site. Of course,
Speaker 1: the entire state and New Hampshire have been under a
Speaker 1: red flag warning for many, many days, and I've been
Speaker 1: mentioning any spark could easily ignite and spread flames quickly.
Speaker 1: I think they're getting a break with the winds today.
Speaker 1: Those are finally scaling back a little bit. So the
Speaker 1: entertainment at former President Trump's rally in New York last
Speaker 1: night might come back to bite the campaign. Comedian Tony
Speaker 1: Hinchcliff made a questionable joke about porttery. Puerto Ricans are
Speaker 1: considered a key voter block this election season every election season.
Speaker 1: ABC's Rachel Scott is.
Speaker 3: More Democrats seizing on this as that Trump rally got
Speaker 3: underway Harris was visiting a Puerto Rican restaurant, hosting this
Speaker 3: message to social media.
Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans deserve better.
Speaker 4: As president, I will always fight for you and your families.
Speaker 3: Several influential Puerto Rican superstars, including Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez,
Speaker 3: and Ricky Martin, resharing that video and support of Harris
Speaker 3: to there are millions of followers. The Trump campaign stating
Speaker 3: this show does not reflect the views of President Trump
Speaker 3: or the campaign.
Speaker 1: Senior Trump advisor Danielle Alvarez says the joke did not
Speaker 1: reflect how mister Trump or his campaign regards Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: The numbers show autumn's early sunsets and late sunrises bring
Speaker 1: an annual spike in laser beams being shined into aircrafts.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan is that.
Speaker 5: Just last week it happened to Houston pilot David.
Speaker 2: We were struck by an intense leam of light.
Speaker 5: He was at the controls of a Sheriff's Department aircraft.
Speaker 2: We're communicating with ground troops, We're working the camera. I mean,
Speaker 2: we have enough going on right now.
Speaker 5: The issue is spread across the country, with one hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty eight laser strikes over Kansas City this year,
Speaker 5: two hundred and sixty five in Houston, but Cincinnati has
Speaker 5: recorded none. Jim Ryan, ABC News.
Speaker 1: You need a code out there today, maybe some goggles
Speaker 1: until that smoke dissipates. I think it's improving in some
Speaker 1: areas a little bit, but again, times of clouds and
Speaker 1: sun today high fifty one to fifty five elevated fire risk.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with quite a few brush fires. And then
Speaker 1: tonight it's going to be starlit Chile Inland mid thirties
Speaker 1: forty two downtown Boston tomorrow very much like today until
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, we're getting a little bit of rain, not
Speaker 1: enough rain to deal with the drought conditions out there,
Speaker 1: but we'll take it. And then here comes our extraordinary
Speaker 1: and unseizable warm up in the seventies for the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. And again, kids, you want to think
Speaker 1: about that Halloween costume right now, because if you are layered,
Speaker 1: I keep saying, the gorilla suit, that is hot. I
Speaker 1: think we all remember that Halloween right when we had
Speaker 1: the wrong costume as kids. For the conditions and some
Speaker 1: New Englanders are among the fifty highest earning and the
Speaker 1: most influential when it comes to social media. Wbz's Matt
Speaker 1: Phipps is.
Speaker 4: That Forbes is out with its annual Top Creators list,
Speaker 4: and some influencers with local roots are shining bright among
Speaker 4: the top ten. Call Her Daddy podcast host and bu
Speaker 4: grad Alex Cooper lands at number eight. She's hoping to
Speaker 4: expand her reach by signing a brand partnership with Kim
Speaker 4: Kardashian Skims and Jimmy Chew from Norwalk, Connecticut's sisters Charlie
Speaker 4: and Dixie Dmilio, are doing quite well for themselves. Charlie,
Speaker 4: who was named the highest earning TikToker in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: one when she was just eighteen, is set to star
Speaker 4: on Broadway in the musical and Juliet, and her sister
Speaker 4: Dixie Some Some has more than an one hundred and
Speaker 4: million plays on Spotify thanks to this track, Be Happy.
Speaker 4: Matt Phipps, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: South Shore Hospital in Weymouth puts a high dollar donation
Speaker 1: toward expanding its short state wing. The West unit is
Speaker 1: reserved for anybody who needs inpatient care while they recover
Speaker 1: from surgery or battle of brief illness, and soon his
Speaker 1: capacity will double, all thanks to a five point three
Speaker 1: million dollar donation from the McKim Family Fund. Expanding the
Speaker 1: West unit will take some pressure off the er. As
Speaker 1: CEOs tell the Patriot Ledger, their emergency room has been overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Some several other local healthcare facilities shut down. You know,
Speaker 1: we had the flooding that shut down Nord Hospital. We
Speaker 1: had the fire in Brockton, and then we had, of
Speaker 1: course the Steward bankruptcy fiasco closing down. So that's what's
Speaker 1: been happening. And now thanks to somebody who had the
Speaker 1: money to do it and the good heart to do it,
Speaker 1: they're going to do it. You are now in the
Speaker 1: loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ
Speaker 1: News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio