Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Good Tuesday afternoon. We have sixty three degrees, mostly cloudy
Speaker 2: in Boston. It's four o'clock. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's
Speaker 2: happening to our top story this hour. Ran launches dozens
Speaker 2: of missiles at Israel. No casualties been reported in the attack,
Speaker 2: but Israel is vowing vowing rather to retaliate. The White
Speaker 2: House says US troops health Israel defend itself during the attack.
Speaker 2: CBS is Alison Keys with the Lads as the.
Speaker 3: White House briefing. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called the
Speaker 3: attack a significant escalation and confirmed that US naval destroyers
Speaker 3: helped Israel shoot down the Iranian missiles.
Speaker 4: We're proud of the actions that we've taken alongside Israel
Speaker 4: to protect and defend Israel.
Speaker 3: Sullivan says. The Iranian attack appear to have been defeated
Speaker 3: and ineffective. He says President Biden and Vice President Harris
Speaker 3: monitored everything from the situation room. Alison Keys CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: And The missile barrage came shortly after a deadly shooting
Speaker 2: in Tel Aviv that left six people dead. The two
Speaker 2: gunmen involved in the shooting were also killed. Another story
Speaker 2: we've been following on the picket lines at thirty six
Speaker 2: ports from Maine to Texas, dock workers went on strike
Speaker 2: at midnight, and that includes workers at Conley Terminal in
Speaker 2: South Boston. WBC TVs Christina Rex report they're.
Speaker 5: Now striking right at the entrance to Conley Terminal, which
Speaker 5: is now closed. A union rep here tells me about
Speaker 5: three hundred workers in Boston are striking, but there are
Speaker 5: twenty five thousand up and down the East and Gulf Coasts.
Speaker 5: Their six year contract expired at midnight. The International Long
Speaker 5: Shortman's Association is demanding better wages and a stock to
Speaker 5: automation taking over their jobs. Dock workers often make six
Speaker 5: figures and with overtime that can top two hundred thousand
Speaker 5: dollars a year. But the big concern is automation taking
Speaker 5: away good paying, blue collar jobs, and.
Speaker 2: There are fears that the strike could reignite inflation and
Speaker 2: cast shortages of goods that strike goes on for more
Speaker 2: than a few weeks. Congresswoman Iona Presley and other elected
Speaker 2: officials joined postal workers at a rally in Boston today,
Speaker 2: sounding the alarm about what they call substandard performance by
Speaker 2: the postal Service. WBC's Carl Stevens reports.
Speaker 1: Local workers from the American Postal Workers Union are teaming
Speaker 1: up with Congresswoman i Aana Pressley and other elected officials
Speaker 1: here to deliver a message. They say mail delivery has
Speaker 1: gotten too slow to unreliable. Congresswoman Pressley says management is
Speaker 1: to blame.
Speaker 6: Daily my office, my district office hears from constituents that
Speaker 6: there are male delays or it's not even delivered at all.
Speaker 7: For weeks, having to stand in.
Speaker 6: Lines at their local branch and sometimes showing up to
Speaker 6: mail a letter, and the office is just closed.
Speaker 7: With no explanation.
Speaker 1: Back in August, Congresswoman Pressley and other members of the
Speaker 1: Massachusetts congressional delegation sent a letter to the US Postmaster
Speaker 1: General expressing concern over what they call the deterioration of
Speaker 1: service across the commonwealth. Stephen STOBDYBC Boston's News Radio, Now.
Speaker 2: Let's check the ACU weather forecast. We could expect a
Speaker 2: couple of sprinkles around this evening, and then it'll just
Speaker 2: be mostly cloudy tonight. A low of fifty six in Boston,
Speaker 2: fifty in those coolest inland suburbs. Tomorrow, clouds might break
Speaker 2: for some sunshine in the afternoon. High sixty four Thursday,
Speaker 2: partly to mostly sunny, a nice day, though, high is
Speaker 2: sixty seven to the low seventies. And then Friday we
Speaker 2: warm up to nearly eighty. Highs in the mid to
Speaker 2: high seventies. And right now we are seeing mostly cloudy skies.
Speaker 2: As I look out the window, I do see the
Speaker 2: sun is fot finally trying to make an appearance in Boston,
Speaker 2: trying to peek through that cloud cover. Sixty three degrees
Speaker 2: at four oh five. All right. Some drivers prefer the
Speaker 2: safety of a big new car, but others, like this
Speaker 2: local man, prefer the thrill of an old microcar. Here's
Speaker 2: WBC's Matt here. This is a nineteen fifty seven et SETA.
Speaker 7: This is a microcar. My shoulder is literally touching my driver.
Speaker 7: Chart's schools happy to come to life and know for
Speaker 7: a ride. He owns one of the most impressive collections
Speaker 7: of rare cars I've ever seen. To get out of
Speaker 7: this one, we had to open the front door, which
Speaker 7: includes the hood and the windshield of thank you. Would
Speaker 7: you call this somewhat of an addiction. Oh yeah, serious addiction.
Speaker 7: It started when he was a teenager. Now he's a
Speaker 7: grandfather with multiple garages covered almost completely with microcars.
Speaker 6: These are the Messroschnids.
Speaker 2: These are three wheelers.
Speaker 1: It's got a canopy that opens like an airplane opens.
Speaker 7: Obviously they're not the most comfortable rides. But whoever said
Speaker 7: driving should be boring?
Speaker 3: If you ride an old car, you take the back road.
Speaker 7: It's more interesting than the highways.
Speaker 1: It just makes me happy.
Speaker 7: On the road in Hudson Matt Shearer, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The case of a thirty two year old woman accused
Speaker 2: of passing herself off as a Boston Public school student
Speaker 2: is continued until later this month. Today's brief hearing for
Speaker 2: Shelby Hewitt lasted just a few minutes and consisted mostly
Speaker 2: of attorneys having a discussion at sidebar. The Canton woman,
Speaker 2: it has pleaded not guilty to charges including forgery and
Speaker 2: identity fraud. Prosecutors say that she posed as a student
Speaker 2: from twenty twenty one through last year while working for
Speaker 2: the state Department of Children and Families. One and done.
Speaker 2: The only scheduled vice presidential debate is tonight. Senator JD.
Speaker 2: Vance and Governor Tim Walls sharing the stage at the
Speaker 2: CBS Broadcast Center in New York. CBS Robert Costa has
Speaker 2: more on who the candidates are trying to win over.
Speaker 4: Talk to strategists in both of the campaigns. They're both
Speaker 4: targeting the same voter. Tim Walls comes from the Upper Midwest.
Speaker 4: He's looking for that industrial worker, a union member who
Speaker 4: lives in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in different parts
Speaker 4: of the country to come out and give the Democrats
Speaker 4: a chance to show that the Democrats are advocates for
Speaker 4: working people. Senator Vance famously Will wrote the book Hillbilly Elogy.
Speaker 4: He wants to appeal to those same voters, working voters
Speaker 4: who are struggling, they feel economic pain.
Speaker 2: And Mike's they will not be muted as they were
Speaker 2: in the presidential debate. Tune in to the CBS News
Speaker 2: Vice Presidential Debate that's tonight at nine pm. We'll air
Speaker 2: it right here on WBZ News Radio and you'll find
Speaker 2: it streaming on the iHeartRadio app. The project's Skydrop treasure
Speaker 2: hunt for a gold trophy with a massive prize, is
Speaker 2: now said to be hidden in the woods of western
Speaker 2: mass Two video game developers from New Hampshire hid the
Speaker 2: pure gold trophy that's valued at twenty six thousand dollars
Speaker 2: somewhere in the woods, and whoever finds it also gets
Speaker 2: the prize bounty that is currently over eighty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: that's made up of entry fees from people joining in
Speaker 2: on the hunt. Now, when the hunt started last month,
Speaker 2: the map showed the trophy could be in a five
Speaker 2: hundred mile radius that encompassed much of the northeast and
Speaker 2: areas as far south as Virginia. But now the circle's
Speaker 2: diameter is only thirty five miles within Massachusetts, stretching from
Speaker 2: South Hadley to the border of Vermont, and that circle
Speaker 2: will continue shrinking until it is only one foot in diameter.
Speaker 2: That's on October tenth. By then someone will have figured
Speaker 2: out where that treasure is hidden. You are now in Belloo.
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