Speaker 1: This is WBZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: It's sixty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 2: I'm Madison Rogers, and we start off this hour on
Speaker 2: Storo Drive for Boston Police tell us hundreds of pro
Speaker 2: Palestinian protesters are blocking off traffic. David Augustus has his
Speaker 2: eye on the roads from the traffic center and joins
Speaker 2: us now live, David, what are you seeing.
Speaker 3: I'm seeing stopped traffic, Madison, on both sides of Stow
Speaker 3: Drive by Charles Circle. They were the protesters on the
Speaker 3: eastbound side heading in report of some on the westbound
Speaker 3: side as well. So right now basically before the hatshell
Speaker 3: Storo Drive East and west really not moving at all
Speaker 3: by Charles Circle. There reports of them police trying to
Speaker 3: move their protesters off the road by Charles Streep. And
Speaker 3: right now both sides of Storo Drive East and West
Speaker 3: are jammed up before Charles Circle and not moving presently.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 2: We will hear more from you in just a couple minutes.
Speaker 2: These activists are protesting a year of war as the
Speaker 2: death Tolan Gaza. Year's forty two thousand people Tomorrow marks
Speaker 2: one year since Hamas launched an attack on Israel, killing
Speaker 2: twelve hundred. Memorial Tomorrow, held by Harvard Hallel, will call
Speaker 2: for the return of the remaining hostages again. More on
Speaker 2: these traffic impacts straight ahead. Florida is bracing for a
Speaker 2: new threat as Milton gains hurricane strength in the Gulf
Speaker 2: of Mexico. Now a Category one, the hurricane is expected
Speaker 2: to make landfall sometime midweek. CBS's Paul Dolan is in Florida.
Speaker 5: David snagged his sandbags sand castle before they were all gone,
Speaker 5: loading up his Dolly with a wall of sandbags because
Speaker 5: he has something important to protect.
Speaker 3: A fouryer that's air conditioned and the gun tile and
Speaker 3: drywall and everything.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to protect that.
Speaker 1: The downstairs is a base, say of a giant.
Speaker 2: Garage, but I call.
Speaker 1: It my man cave.
Speaker 5: David is in the midst of early dorm prep benefits availability.
Speaker 2: Florida Governor Ron De Santis has declared a state of
Speaker 2: emergency in thirty five counties. As of the latest, the
Speaker 2: storm is eight hundred and fifteen miles away from Tampa.
Speaker 2: Western North Carolina is still suffering the impacts of Hurricane Helene,
Speaker 2: with many missing and hundreds of thousands still in the
Speaker 2: dark trying to get basic supplies. An update from North
Speaker 2: Carolina Now with ABC's Gio Benitez.
Speaker 6: North Carolina officials say FEMA has paid survivors here more
Speaker 6: than twenty seven million dollars. We met resident Tammy Holbrooks
Speaker 6: as she walked down the mountain.
Speaker 4: Where's the help.
Speaker 7: There's people up there with no food, no water, no power,
Speaker 7: no internet.
Speaker 6: Heartbreak mixed with hope. This woman finding her mom hugging
Speaker 6: her for the first time since the storm.
Speaker 8: It was just relief and thankfulness that I have a
Speaker 8: mom and I have somebody, because there's so many people
Speaker 8: that are losing those that I know that they just
Speaker 8: wish they can hug again.
Speaker 2: Helene has killed at least two hundred and twenty seven people,
Speaker 2: and we'll get the four day forecast in fifteen seconds.
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Speaker 2: mainly cloudy tonight, with a couple of showers arriving toward
Speaker 2: daybreak and a low around fifty two. Tomorrow we're in
Speaker 2: the low sixties with a couple of spots of rain
Speaker 2: remaining for the most part. It should be cloudy then
Speaker 2: tomorrow night we dry out. Tuesdays sunny to partly cloudy
Speaker 2: and breezy, with a higher round sixty four. Mostly sunny
Speaker 2: with tempts in the low sixties on Wednesday as well.
Speaker 2: Right now in Boston, it's sixty degrees with a blue
Speaker 2: sky overhead. It's four h five. Drums, whistles, and shouts
Speaker 2: are greeting the gas at two Boston hotels, says the
Speaker 2: workers there go on strike. More now from wbz's Kyle Shaffle.
Speaker 9: Workers at two Hilton hotels in Boston are on the
Speaker 9: picket line having to get the end of their rope
Speaker 9: with stalk contract tops.
Speaker 1: The price of everything. It's up right now and our
Speaker 1: wages aren't cutting it.
Speaker 9: Kevin Haynes has been a cook at the Hilton Park
Speaker 9: Plaza downtown for seven years. He includes six hundred other
Speaker 9: workers with the unit here at Local twenty six are
Speaker 9: asking for higher wages Unlike the strikes on Labor Day weekend,
Speaker 9: this strike will go on around the clock until there's
Speaker 9: a deal on the table. Kevin says that union.
Speaker 1: Is a number in mind, not going to be enough,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be enough that we can actually live
Speaker 1: in this city that were working.
Speaker 9: He says right now pays solo. It's often hard to
Speaker 9: live a normal life and keep his kids fed and happy.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be a choice when we go to the
Speaker 1: grocery store if we're gonna put meat on the table
Speaker 1: or we're gonna eat vegetables.
Speaker 9: Today, there's no public date yet for return to the
Speaker 9: negotiating table. Kyle Shaffield to be busy Bostons Radio.
Speaker 2: A Hilton spokesperson now tells us they don't believe this
Speaker 2: decision to strike is in their worker's best interests, but
Speaker 2: they respect the right to strike and will continue to
Speaker 2: work work toward a deal. News from the Bruins today,
Speaker 2: Jeremy Swayman has been signed to an eight year, sixty
Speaker 2: six million dollar contract following months of tense negotiations. This
Speaker 2: gets their number one goalie back on the ice just
Speaker 2: two days before the season opener. Swayman was a restricted
Speaker 2: free agent and missed all of training camp. The start
Speaker 2: their season on the road Tuesday, taking on the defending
Speaker 2: Stanley Cup winning Florida Panthers. Some good witches are brewing
Speaker 2: up charity on the Cape.
Speaker 10: Instead of brooms, these witches carry paddles, and instead of evil,
Speaker 10: they use their power for good.
Speaker 7: Very good, very good.
Speaker 10: Five years ago, friends Joe Allen Erickson and Susan Price
Speaker 10: decided to don full witch costumes and go paddle boarding
Speaker 10: off of Cape cod just for fun.
Speaker 7: Well, we both love paddlebo and hoween is my most
Speaker 7: favorite holiday, and we just niched guessing gas, which just
Speaker 7: comes quite natural. I think I have more witch attire
Speaker 7: than I do regular attire, which I don't really know
Speaker 7: what that means.
Speaker 10: It was an unusual spectacle that caught a lot of attention.
Speaker 7: Our phones blew up, people just asking what is this,
Speaker 7: what are you doing it for? How do we become
Speaker 7: a part of it. It became pretty clear that we
Speaker 7: had hit upon something that could really do some good
Speaker 7: for the local community.
Speaker 10: So the friends conjured up a plan to turn their
Speaker 10: fun activity into a fundraiser. Since twenty twenty, they have
Speaker 10: donated more than eighty thousand dollars to local nonprofits.
Speaker 2: This year, the group raised money for Dream Day, and
Speaker 2: nonprofit providing kids with serious or life threatening illnesses a
Speaker 2: free week of camp in Brewster. You're now in the
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