Speaker 1: Fifty nine degrees, mostly sunny and Boston at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Good Sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small.
Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. Not as warm as yesterday, but still
Speaker 1: a nice ball day out there today.
Speaker 2: Cooler out there today than yesterday. Times of clowns in
Speaker 2: sunshine this afternoon. I sixty four to sixty eight.
Speaker 1: That's ECHI weather meteorologist John Feart. The full forecast coming
Speaker 1: right up to news now. Union hotel workers hit the
Speaker 1: picket lines at two of Boston's busiest hotels early this morning.
Speaker 1: WBC s Jared Brosden with the very latest.
Speaker 3: Nearly six hundred members of Unite here Local twenty six
Speaker 3: have started an open ended strike at Hilton's Park Plaza
Speaker 3: and Logan Airport hotels. The union represents thousands of workers
Speaker 3: at Hilton, Marriott, and Omni hotels in Boston, so more
Speaker 3: workers could walk off the job if they can't reach
Speaker 3: deals fast. Unlike previous strikes, which were brief, they say
Speaker 3: these strikes will be twenty four to seven. Union president
Speaker 3: Carlos Romio is leading the charge.
Speaker 4: There are people who've made the decision that they're worth something.
Speaker 4: They are working people who work with their hands every day.
Speaker 4: They get thirty every day going to work cleaning these
Speaker 4: rooms and cleaning dishes and cooking food and providing the
Speaker 4: service that the guests expect. And they've decided that there
Speaker 4: were something and that there were something that would allow
Speaker 4: them to continue to live in the city. Now.
Speaker 3: The previous contract with Hilton expired on August thirty first,
Speaker 3: but according to the union, there's no negotiation sessions on
Speaker 3: the books right now. We've reached out to Hilton for
Speaker 3: comment but did not immediately hear back. Jared Brosnan WBZ
Speaker 3: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Plans to rebuild the Sagamore Bridge continue to move forward.
Speaker 1: Governor Mora Heally announcing three hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: in federal funding will be transferred from the US Army
Speaker 1: Corps of Engineers to the Federal Highway Administration earmarked for
Speaker 1: work on the Sagamore. The project is expected to begin
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven. More than one point seven billion
Speaker 1: dollars in federal funding seven hundred million dollars in state
Speaker 1: funding just part of the funding needed to pick up
Speaker 1: the Sagamore and Born bridges. The whole project is expected
Speaker 1: to take eight to ten years to complete. On the
Speaker 1: heels of Henleen, Florida Governor Ronda Santis he is declaring
Speaker 1: state of emergency as now, Tropical Storm Milton continues to
Speaker 1: develop over the Gulf of Mexico. Right now, Milton is
Speaker 1: packing winds of sixty miles per hour and could reach
Speaker 1: hurricane strength later today. It could then intensify to a
Speaker 1: Category three hurricane by the time it hits Florida's west
Speaker 1: coast on Wednesday. Tomorrow marks one years since the October
Speaker 1: seventh attacks on Israel. New York City is among many
Speaker 1: cities racing for protests.
Speaker 5: Mayor Eric Adams says the NYPD will be out in force,
Speaker 5: and while the mayor said he respects people's right to
Speaker 5: peacefully protest, he added there will be zero tolerance for
Speaker 5: those who violate the law, impede traffic and damage property.
Speaker 5: Flyers from one protest group say flood New York City
Speaker 5: for Palestine and ask demonstrators to assemble at one pm
Speaker 5: Monday on Wall Street. Other protest sites are to include
Speaker 5: City Hall and Times Square. David Folk Thomas, New York.
Speaker 1: Now the four day wbz ACU weather forecastles of.
Speaker 2: Clouds at sunshine this afternoon, a little bit cooler than yesterday,
Speaker 2: High sixty four to sixty eight. Part that I'm mostly
Speaker 2: cloudy tonight, down to fifty two. A couple of showers
Speaker 2: will move in toward morning, and then we'll see a breezy,
Speaker 2: cool day for tomorrow, some showers around high sixty to
Speaker 2: sixty four or in the way of sunshine. Tuesday, breezy,
Speaker 2: high sixty four. Wednesday, mostly sunny, high sixty to sixty four,
Speaker 2: still dry Thursday. I'm Aki Weather's John Fear wb Z
Speaker 2: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're seeing fifty nine degrees in Norwales, sixty
Speaker 1: one in Brockton, sixty in Braintree, sixty two in Natick,
Speaker 1: and mostly sunny fifty nine degrees in the city.
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Speaker 1: is going on today at stepped off bright And early
Speaker 1: this morning. It continues through six point thirty Tonight, about
Speaker 1: eighty five hundred walkers are doing anywhere from five kilometers
Speaker 1: to the entire twenty six point two mile marathon course
Speaker 1: ending at the Jimmy Fun Walk finish line at Boston Common.
Speaker 1: Dana Farvar and its sponsors are hoping to raise nine
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