Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We defining local news. Good morning, six o'clock. See this
Speaker 2: week is picking up some tempo. It is Wednesday already
Speaker 2: and we're waking up under cloudy skies this morning. For
Speaker 2: the most part, it is fifty six degrees. The News
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Speaker 2: us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. We are stuck in
Speaker 2: a bit of a ruts.
Speaker 1: Thousands of litterbles of sunshine today with highs in the sixties.
Speaker 2: It will trend a bit.
Speaker 1: Warmer tomorrow on Friday.
Speaker 2: That is w b Z AKI Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg.
Speaker 2: How much warmer? How about eighty By the end of
Speaker 2: this week. President Biden is headed to the Carolinas. This morning.
Speaker 2: The President will survey the damage and meet with victims
Speaker 2: families of Hurricane Helene. With a death toll now topping
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty, it's already one of the deadliest
Speaker 2: storms in the United States this century, in fears that
Speaker 2: that number is expected to go higher. The insurance industry
Speaker 2: estimates damage from Heleen is likely to top thirty five
Speaker 2: billion dollars and that's just for starters. Experts say the
Speaker 2: economic hit is not yet fully known, but could have
Speaker 2: ripple effects beyond the obviously affected areas. Israeli Prime Minister
Speaker 2: Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran has made a big mistake and
Speaker 2: vow's revenge is coming.
Speaker 3: This is a special report from ABC News. Iran targets
Speaker 3: israel I'm Michelle Franzen. Iran launching nearly two hundred missiles
Speaker 3: at Israel earlier with air siren sounding. Most were intercepted
Speaker 3: by Israel's defense system, and with the help of the
Speaker 3: US President Biden at the White House monitored the situation.
Speaker 3: My direction in Isa's military actively supported the defense vision.
Speaker 3: Israel says it is planning a response to iran strikes.
Speaker 3: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
Speaker 4: We will consult with the Israelis on next steps in
Speaker 4: terms of the response and how to deal with what
Speaker 4: Iran has just done, and we will continue to monitor
Speaker 4: for further threats and attacks from Iran and its proxies.
Speaker 3: Iron's president and in a social media post on x
Speaker 3: calling out Israel's Prime minister, saying Iran is not belligerent
Speaker 3: but stands firmly against any threat.
Speaker 2: The NTSB is in town. The federal government is now
Speaker 2: involved in an investigation after a NBTA green Line trolley
Speaker 2: jumps the tracks.
Speaker 5: Shuttle buses are replacing green Line service from Union Square
Speaker 5: and Medford Tufts to Union Station. This is because the
Speaker 5: derail train needs to stay on scene while the NTSB
Speaker 5: conducts its investigation near Leechmere Station. Ryan Coholan is the
Speaker 5: nbta's chief operating officer. Sure your frustration and we're committed
Speaker 5: to a full farrow investigation to ensure that this incident
Speaker 5: is addressed. Fifty people were on the green Line train
Speaker 5: when it derailed, with seven taken to the hospital for
Speaker 5: minor injuries in Cambridge. James Rojas w b Z Boston's
Speaker 5: News Radio.
Speaker 2: Game two of Major League Baseball's Wild Card Playoffs today Detroit,
Speaker 2: Kansas City. The Mets and Padres all take the first
Speaker 2: game of their respective series. WNBA Playoffs underway. The Connecticut
Speaker 2: Sun lose to the Links. The best of five series
Speaker 2: is now tied at one game apiece and headed back
Speaker 2: to Connecticut. Next. Bruins beat the Flyers in the home
Speaker 2: preseason finale. Opening Day or Opening Night for the NHL
Speaker 2: is less than one week away. It is going to
Speaker 2: cost you more to heat your home this winter. Probably
Speaker 2: no surprise, but WB's East Drew moholland is here with
Speaker 2: details more than Drew morning. I like to sleep cold,
Speaker 2: you No, okay.
Speaker 6: Recent report from a national energy group says heat will
Speaker 6: be up about ten percent this season. The National Energy
Speaker 6: Assistance Directors Association says electric heat will cost the most,
Speaker 6: with easier hits for oil, natural gaps, and propane. Customers
Speaker 6: in the western US hit the hardest, with more than
Speaker 6: a twenty percent increase expected.
Speaker 2: Just what we need to hear. Well, all right, Drew,
Speaker 2: thank you. Under mostly cloudy skies in fifty six degrees
Speaker 2: here in the city, looks like it is going to
Speaker 2: be a mostly cloudy morning at least, with some sun
Speaker 2: poking through this afternoon. It might be more effective than
Speaker 2: yesterday's brief glimpses of the sun. But either way, temperatures
Speaker 2: are going to be right in the mid to upper sixties,
Speaker 2: pretty much where we should be this time of year.
Speaker 2: It's going to be partly cloudy overnight tonight back into
Speaker 2: the fifties. Tomorrow looks like it's going to be one
Speaker 2: of the picks of the week mix of sun and
Speaker 2: clouds and high temperatures right around seventy. And I say
Speaker 2: that because on Friday, we're expecting some sunny skies to
Speaker 2: return once again. High temperatures around eighty degrees on Friday weekend.
Speaker 2: Looks like we might start with a shower in spots
Speaker 2: on Saturday, but otherwise we're looking okay with daytime highs
Speaker 2: slightly cooler in the sixties. Right now in Boston, it
Speaker 2: is fifty six under mostly cloudy skies at six oh
Speaker 2: five on this Wednesday morning. Policy not personal. That is
Speaker 2: the prime takeaway in the one and only vice presidential debate.
Speaker 2: Details from ABC's Jonathan Carl.
Speaker 7: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, and Ohio Senator JD. Vance taking
Speaker 7: the stage at the sole vice presidential debate hosted Vice CBS.
Speaker 7: One of the few heated exchanges came on abortion and
Speaker 7: reproductive rights. Vance, who is in the past favored a
Speaker 7: national abortion band, softened his stayants to try to align
Speaker 7: with Trump. I want us to support fertility treatments and
Speaker 7: the Walls continued to attack Trump for appointing the justices
Speaker 7: that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump put this all into motion.
Speaker 7: Both candidates are now back out to the battleground states.
Speaker 2: Many voters are not happy with either presidential nominee or
Speaker 2: their major political parties in the United States, but support
Speaker 2: for America to establish a third party is beginning to erode.
Speaker 2: A new Gallup poll finds still that a majority of
Speaker 2: Americans fifty eight percent, want another option on the ballot.
Speaker 2: Voters have been asked about this very topic for more
Speaker 2: than twenty years, and while recent trends suggests more would
Speaker 2: like to leave well enough alone, the most recent results
Speaker 2: do echo sentiments that have been in place since two
Speaker 2: thousand and three. One of the doctors accused of providing
Speaker 2: fatal drugs to friend star Matthew Perry will admit to
Speaker 2: charges in court today.
Speaker 1: Doctor Mark Chavez was a San Diego physician now charged
Speaker 1: with illegally distributing ketamine that went to a doctor and
Speaker 1: then to Matthew Perry. Chavez has closed his doctor's office,
Speaker 1: given up his medical license, and will today tell a
Speaker 1: federal judge she is pleading guilty. His attorney says Chavez
Speaker 1: deeply regrets providing katamine for Matthew Perry's use and takes
Speaker 1: full responsibility. When sentenced. Chavez could get ten years in
Speaker 1: federal prison. Alex stoneyb Sinews, Los Angeles, and more legal
Speaker 1: trouble is headed likely for Sean Colmes. Lawyers for alleged
Speaker 1: victims of Combs say they planned to file more than
Speaker 1: one hundred additional sexual assault lawsuits against the rapper known
Speaker 1: as Diddy in the coming days. Prosecutors say some of
Speaker 1: the assaults occurred during the music mogul's infamous white parties
Speaker 1: and involved victims as young as nine and fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: Combs is currently held without bail in a prison in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and awaits trial in federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ Boston's News Radio. MMMM