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Speaker 1: Hello Monday, six o'clock and welcome aboard. My name's Jeff Brown.
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Speaker 1: waking up with cloudy skies and occasional showers. It is
Speaker 1: fifty one here in Boston. Thanks for joining us this morning,
Speaker 1: and you know they can't all be winners, right. Lots
Speaker 1: of clouds today and a couple of showers, Temperatures in
Speaker 1: the sixties, cougar and breezy Tomorrow On is WBZ achiweather
Speaker 1: meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Seasonably cool temperatures for much of the week,
Speaker 1: but sunshine does return tomorrow. President Biden tours Florida this
Speaker 1: weekend to get an up close look at the devastation
Speaker 1: from Milton and calls on Congress to come back to
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill to vote on providing more funding from FEMA. Meantime,
Speaker 1: FEMA issues an emergency evacuation order to its rescue teams
Speaker 1: working in Rutherford County, North Carolina. The Washington Post reports
Speaker 1: this morning The move is made over concern of threats
Speaker 1: from an armed militia in North Carolina. Officials say they
Speaker 1: can verify the militia's message, but also say it does
Speaker 1: not appear to be credible. A funeral is sent for
Speaker 1: this morning for Ethel Kennedy, the matriarch of the Kennedy family,
Speaker 1: wife of Robert F. Kennedy and mother to eleven children,
Speaker 1: died last week following complications of a stroke. A funeral
Speaker 1: mass will be held this morning at eleven an hour
Speaker 1: Lady of Victory Church in Centreville on Cape Cod its
Speaker 1: invitation only. Ethel Kennedy never remarried. After the assassination of
Speaker 1: her husband on the presidential campaign trail in nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 1: Ethel Kennedy was ninety six. May Day give some hope
Speaker 1: to Patriots fans. Smooth going instead Tex Down CDs Sports
Speaker 1: with the call, even though it is a five game
Speaker 1: losing streak for the Pats, they will take their show
Speaker 1: on the road to London next weekend. Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 1: the Bengals top the Giants, and in Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: it's Buffalo at the Jets and the Dodgers throw blanks again.
Speaker 1: A shutout for the third straight game. It's time to
Speaker 1: take a one game to none lead over the Mets
Speaker 1: in the National League Championship Series. It's the nightmare before Halloween.
Speaker 1: People on the North Shore say they've had it with
Speaker 1: heavy traffic getting into and out of Salem during the
Speaker 1: city's Haunted Happenings this month, City officials say they expect
Speaker 1: more than a million people will visit the region's festival,
Speaker 1: and for many in surrounding communities, it seems like a
Speaker 1: million every day. Salem's mayor continues to urge people to
Speaker 1: take public transportation, and with Halloween just a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks away, it's time to stock up on the candy.
Speaker 1: But have you seen these prices? Nobody pc Drew moholland
Speaker 1: to see her with an update. Good morning Andrew, Good
Speaker 1: morning Jeffy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Halloween spending is twenty twenty four is expected to
Speaker 2: reach eleven point six billion dollars. That seems like a lot,
Speaker 2: doesn't it, And that is according to the National Retail Federation.
Speaker 3: Great Holiday, Yeah holiday.
Speaker 2: To what Bill Belichick's going to be doing for Halloween.
Speaker 1: He's on to Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Early shopping is on the rise. To Jeffrey forty seven
Speaker 2: percent of you started buying that candy and all the
Speaker 2: other Halloween stuff before October.
Speaker 1: It's amazing what Halloween has become. Yeah, I've done it too,
Speaker 1: actually really Yeah, it's almost like it's part of the
Speaker 1: holiday season now, right.
Speaker 2: I know, you know what the problem is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you eat the candy. Yeah, well, I don't know
Speaker 1: there's a problem. Depends on your perspective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tricky all right.
Speaker 1: Holiday Monday here in Boston, and it's the final day
Speaker 1: of the Topsfield Fair. Looks like people who will be
Speaker 1: visiting the fair, the oldest in the country, will might
Speaker 1: get wet this morning. We do have occasional showers out
Speaker 1: and about, and cool air is dominating. In fact, right
Speaker 1: now it's just fifty one degrees. It's actually a little
Speaker 1: bit warmer than yesterday afternoon, when temperatures in many areas
Speaker 1: dipped into the mid forties. So we'll get a little
Speaker 1: bit milder today into the mid fifties and a couple
Speaker 1: of showers around this morning. It'll clear up this afternoon.
Speaker 1: We are expecting to see some sunshine as we get
Speaker 1: extremely close to sixty degrees later today. Overnight tonight mainly clear,
Speaker 1: dropping back into the forties and fifties, and sunshine returns tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Seasonably cool temperatures for much of the week as well,
Speaker 1: with higes mainly in the fifties, and it looks like
Speaker 1: sun is going to take us right through Thursday, with
Speaker 1: a warming trend kicking in on Friday, just in time
Speaker 1: for the weekend. So we're heading in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Just right now. We do have occasional showers this morning,
Speaker 1: and otherwise cloudy and a raw feel to the air.
Speaker 1: It's fifty one here in Boston on this Monday morning
Speaker 1: at six oh six. Federal officials say they likely stopped
Speaker 1: a third assassination attempt against Donald Trump during a campaign
Speaker 1: rally in California. The FBI and the Secret Service have
Speaker 1: arrested a suspect caught with illegal weapons in his vehicle.
Speaker 1: Official say the man will face federal gun charges, but
Speaker 1: the former president was not in any danger. Meantime, there
Speaker 1: is a little more than three weeks to go until
Speaker 1: election day, and the race is as tight as it gets.
Speaker 4: CBS polling shows the race for the White House a
Speaker 4: toss up, with Vice President Kamala Harris up three points
Speaker 4: over Trump nationwide, one to forty eight percent. That's one
Speaker 4: point tighter from last month, and the seven battleground states
Speaker 4: that will decide the election, it's just one point difference
Speaker 4: fifty to forty nine.
Speaker 1: That CBS's Jureka duncan here. In Massachusetts, a recent survey
Speaker 1: from The Boston Globe and Suffolk University finds an overwhelming
Speaker 1: majority of people planned to vote for Kamala Harris, but
Speaker 1: voters are also in the Elizabeth Warren campaign as well.
Speaker 1: The Senator and the GOP challenger John Deaton will square
Speaker 1: off in the first of two debates this week. Tomorrow
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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. It's an epic fail for Bath and body
Speaker 1: Works this morning. The company apologizes for a candle that
Speaker 1: it says is supposed to feature a snowflake on the
Speaker 1: label that critics say looks an awful lot like a
Speaker 1: ku Klux klan hood. Social media posts have taken to
Speaker 1: calling it the Klandell in fact, but for the company
Speaker 1: known for its high scent candles and all things warm
Speaker 1: and fuzzy, this misses the mark. The company has removed
Speaker 1: the product from its stores.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Who would have figured looking at leaves could be a
Speaker 1: near death experience. Foliage season is at its peak and
Speaker 1: much of New Hampshire and Lookie Loose on the long
Speaker 1: holiday weekend find themselves in a bit of trouble at
Speaker 1: Lost Trail and were basically stuck in a drainage in
Speaker 1: a brook with no lights, no water and extremely cool
Speaker 1: authorities with New Hampshire Fish and Game to the rescue
Speaker 1: time and time again this weekend. After at least seven
Speaker 1: rescues Saturday alone on New Hampshire Trails and New this morning,
Speaker 1: MIT step right up. The Nobel Prize in Economics has
Speaker 1: been awarded.
Speaker 3: Namoglo MIT, cam Bridgehuison Simon Johnson MIT, Cambridge, USA, and
Speaker 3: James rob Meisson University of Chicago, USA for studies OHI
Speaker 3: institutions are formed and affect prosperity.
Speaker 1: And that brings an end to the sixth day Nobel
Speaker 1: Prize stivities this year. You are now in the loop
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