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Speaker 1: and see how easy this is. It's Tuesday, already six
Speaker 1: o'clock here in Boston on this Tuesday morning, and we're
Speaker 1: waking up under mostly cloudy skies in fifty eight degrees.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. Certainly
Speaker 1: going to be a great day, welly of cloud today.
Speaker 1: Temperature is generally in the sixties, warm re trend as
Speaker 1: we head toward Friday, and is WBZ achi weather meteorologist
Speaker 1: Joe Lundberg. Some sunshine actually returns tomorrow afternoon, full sunshine
Speaker 1: on Thursday. This is Salem's time to shine and more
Speaker 1: than a million visitors are expected this month to be
Speaker 1: there for Halloween.
Speaker 2: The spirit of Halloween can be seen at every corner
Speaker 2: and in every store front window here in downtown. It's
Speaker 2: this embracing of the spooky fun season that draws visitors
Speaker 2: from all around the country. Had folks starting to trickle
Speaker 2: in since last month, but October is when things really
Speaker 2: kick into overdrive.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: It's something that spurs the debate among locals every year,
Speaker 2: those who love the Halloween hustle and bustle and those
Speaker 2: who can't wait for the crowds in traffic to take
Speaker 2: off like a witch on their broomstick and Salem James
Speaker 2: Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio, and another thing.
Speaker 1: Baseball's playoffs begin today. The wild Card round in the
Speaker 1: American and National leagues begins with four games today, the
Speaker 1: first of which features Detroit at Houston this afternoon. Monday
Speaker 1: Night football puts a rap on Week four in the NFL,
Speaker 1: a doubleheader blowout as the Titans top the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: Detroit destroys the Seahawks. And in the WNBA semi Finals
Speaker 1: Game two between the Connecticut Sun and the Minnesota Lynx tonight,
Speaker 1: the Sun lead one game to none. A man they
Speaker 1: called Charlie Hustle has died. Pete Rose, baseball's all time
Speaker 1: hit leader, who was later banned from the game and
Speaker 1: denied a sure fire induction into Cooperstown's Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: for betting on baseball, ultimately admitted to his wrongdoing. Pete
Speaker 1: Rose found dead in his home in Las Vegas. He
Speaker 1: was eighty three and NBA Hall of Famer de Kembe
Speaker 1: Mutumbo has died. Mutumbo, one of the most prolific shock
Speaker 1: blockers the game has ever seen, played for six teams
Speaker 1: over his eighteen year career. He was an eight time
Speaker 1: All Star and four time Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Mutumbo died from brain cancer. He was fifty eights from
Speaker 1: one track to another. The MBTA begins more work this month.
Speaker 1: W'sas Drew moholland is here with a rundown. Good morning, Andrew, morning, Jeffrey.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 3: It's a month of work and repairs that will affect
Speaker 3: riders in the Green, Orange, and Mattapean lines this month.
Speaker 3: Free shuttle buses will be deployed during the various stages
Speaker 3: of work, but riders are encouraged to take the Commuter
Speaker 3: Rail when possible. The T just completed its most extensive
Speaker 3: work yet on the Red Line's Braintree branch. All trains
Speaker 3: are back on the tracks this week after three weeks
Speaker 3: of disruption.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey and official say, patients, things will get better before
Speaker 1: you know it. I have plenty, you have patients, all right, truth,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's Jimmy Carter's birthday, the bookday missive President
Speaker 1: hasty birthday. The oldest living president in American history turns
Speaker 1: one hundred years old today. The thirty ninth President of
Speaker 1: the United States, rose from relative unknown peanut farmer in Plains,
Speaker 1: Georgia to the top of the free world for one
Speaker 1: term nineteen seventy seven through eighty one. But younger generations
Speaker 1: know him best for his humanitarian work with Habitat for Humanity.
Speaker 1: Mister Carter has been under home hospice care for almost
Speaker 1: two years. His wife of seventy seven years, Rosalind, died
Speaker 1: almost a year ago at the age of ninety six.
Speaker 1: This Tuesday morning, under mostly cloudy skies in fifty eight degrees,
Speaker 1: we have some very thick areas of fog to deal with.
Speaker 1: Thick fog to deal with this morning. We might even
Speaker 1: have some drizzle out and about on your travels as well,
Speaker 1: but overall this is going to be a relatively dry day,
Speaker 1: although it will be mostly cloudy and breezy at times.
Speaker 1: High temperatures will get into the mid to upper sixties overnight,
Speaker 1: remaining mostly cloudy. Tonight lows in the fifties to around
Speaker 1: fifty in some inland locations. Tomorrow, clouds to start may
Speaker 1: break for some sunshine in the afternoon, highs in the
Speaker 1: middle sixties. Beautiful day coming up on Thursday with partly
Speaker 1: to mostly sunny skies, highs approaching seventy, and that looks
Speaker 1: to be the trend as we head towards the weekend
Speaker 1: as well. Right now in Boston, it's a bit of
Speaker 1: a struggle this morning. We've got some thick fog and
Speaker 1: clouds and fifty eight here in the city at six
Speaker 1: oh six sun this Tuesday morning. As September turns its
Speaker 1: calendar page, it is now October, color Blind Awareness Month
Speaker 1: comes to a close.
Speaker 4: I've learned one thing this color blind Awareness Month. It's
Speaker 4: that most people have no idea how color blindness works.
Speaker 3: How many fingers am I holding?
Speaker 2: You could see my hair a wave in the front.
Speaker 2: Are you're right?
Speaker 4: So I hit the streets to answer Boston's burning questions.
Speaker 4: Is it a disease, let's start there. No, it's a deficiency.
Speaker 3: What color are the dreams in?
Speaker 4: This was a common one.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I'm not usually thinking about colors in my dreams, just
Speaker 4: wondering why everyone hates me?
Speaker 1: What do you see?
Speaker 4: This guy was asking me what color his plain white
Speaker 4: T shirt?
Speaker 1: Was I never know like color blind was really really real.
Speaker 4: Oh, it is in my case, red and anything red
Speaker 4: adjacent his heart to distinguish, so brown, orange, purple, pink.
Speaker 1: That'd be a rough time because color is beudyboo.
Speaker 4: That's just the thing. The only beauty us color blinds
Speaker 4: have ever known is the beauty we see in the
Speaker 4: world every day, no matter what color it looks like,
Speaker 4: that sheer WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Lawyers for Sean Combs are planning a third appeal. The
Speaker 1: hip hop mogul known as Diddy, remains held without bail
Speaker 1: on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Attorneys want to
Speaker 1: be heard one more time to get him out on
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars bail, with his Miami Beach mansion as collateral.
Speaker 1: Colmbs has been held for two weeks at a prision
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, rubbing shoulders with the likes of former cryptocurrency
Speaker 1: king Sam Bankman. Freed prosecutor Say Comb staged several parties
Speaker 1: that featured sexual abuse in the form of so called
Speaker 1: freak offs. Combs has hired a new dream team of
Speaker 1: lawyers who have filed an intent to appeal the bail decision. Well,
Speaker 1: the showstopper on the race to the White House is
Speaker 1: coming up tonight. The one and likely only vice presidential
Speaker 1: debate happens with election Day, five weeks from today. A
Speaker 1: recent poll by the Pew Research Center finds most Americans
Speaker 1: do not think either running mate is ultimately qualified to
Speaker 1: be president. Nonetheless, Vice presidential nominee Tim Walls and jd
Speaker 1: Vance will take the gloves off at the CBS Broadcast
Speaker 1: Center in New York City tonight at nine. WBZ News
Speaker 1: Radio carries the debate live here, or you can catch
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