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Speaker 2: Sixty one degrees. We have clear skies in Boston. It
Speaker 2: is six o'clock here on this Tuesday morning. It is
Speaker 2: October twenty second, twenty twenty four. In this hour of
Speaker 2: news brought to you by your new England Toyota dealer,
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Speaker 2: for joining us. I'm Jim McKay and here's what's happening. Well,
Speaker 2: we started the week with summer vibes, and while it
Speaker 2: won't be as warm as what we saw on Monday,
Speaker 2: your Tuesdays shaping up to be another good one. You
Speaker 2: continue to have warm weather over the next couple of
Speaker 2: days before a big cool down late in the week.
Speaker 2: That is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist heathers z are. Highs
Speaker 2: today topping around around seventy degrees with plenty of sunshine.
Speaker 2: We're even warmer tomorrow. The cool down doesn't start until Thursday,
Speaker 2: and we're mostly staying dry before we head to the weekend.
Speaker 2: Well at six oh one, Judge Beverly Canoni will be
Speaker 2: back for the retrial of Karen Reid come January. Norfolk
Speaker 2: Superior Court confirming the update as both sides are preparing
Speaker 2: for a retrial that is said to begin on January
Speaker 2: twenty seventh, after the mistrial earlier this year. Now at
Speaker 2: the same time, Karen Reid is also appealing a lower
Speaker 2: court's decision to keep two of the three most serious
Speaker 2: charges against her. That case is at the Supreme Judicial Court,
Speaker 2: and Reed is getting defense help from the ACLU in
Speaker 2: her bid for appeal. Many parents who say they're in
Speaker 2: favor of an age requirement for social media WBZ is
Speaker 2: James Johas and Charles Down with more on a new
Speaker 2: survey and what parents in the Commonwealth have to say.
Speaker 1: Parents in Massachusetts then kids should be at least fourteen
Speaker 1: years old to youth social media. That's according to a
Speaker 1: nationwide survey asking parents on a state by state basis,
Speaker 1: what age is it safe for children to have access
Speaker 1: to it. Larry is a parent and thinks there should
Speaker 1: be some limits.
Speaker 3: It's hard to just make one thing universal, but as
Speaker 3: a whole I think, you know a lot of the case.
Speaker 1: They do need to.
Speaker 3: Enjoy the childhoods more and not be so exposed to
Speaker 3: so much information so young.
Speaker 1: Ryan doesn't have kids, but he does have a little brother.
Speaker 4: My little brother's ten, I don't want him seeing a
Speaker 4: lot of this stuff that I see on social media.
Speaker 1: Cyberbullying was among a tough concern in the survey and
Speaker 1: Charlestown James rohas wb Z Boston Snooth Radio and.
Speaker 2: We continue now at six ZHO two. We are exactly
Speaker 2: two weeks from election day. It's estimated that just over
Speaker 2: fifteen million voters across the country have already cast their ballots,
Speaker 2: many people electing to cast mail in ballots and personally
Speaker 2: voting going on in many states around the country, including Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: and the quest for Banner nineteen begins tonight's weir thing.
Speaker 3: It's cuts to the class us sail and Browning defendsive
Speaker 3: demon here in the.
Speaker 2: Third Celtics tip off. The twenty twenty four twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five season hosts the next tonight at the Garden and
Speaker 2: ahead of the game they'll be raising Banner eighteen up
Speaker 2: to the rafters. WBC's Chris Fauma getting us ready at
Speaker 2: North Station.
Speaker 5: Opening night for the Celtics. The defending champion Celtics, and
Speaker 5: expectations at North Station are high.
Speaker 2: It's definitely to hear for Celtics.
Speaker 5: They're day two, as Governor heally officially declared October twenty second,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, today Celtics banner eighteen day.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, man, it is.
Speaker 5: How hungry do you think this covering group of Celtics
Speaker 5: is very hungry just to make a statement saying it
Speaker 5: was no Fluke just nours. Members of the Green will
Speaker 5: raise that eighteenth banner to the garden rafters, which has
Speaker 5: these bands already thinking number nineteen nicking.
Speaker 1: Wing a gang ban of nineteen yep, I have a failure.
Speaker 5: Chris mom a WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We were feeling like a summer afternoon on Monday to
Speaker 2: begin the week. While it's not going to be as
Speaker 2: warm as what we saw on Mondays, certainly another beautiful
Speaker 2: afternoon ahead of us here as we are looking at sunshine,
Speaker 2: a few clouds, high of right around seventy degrees if
Speaker 2: you're on north and west of town, you could be
Speaker 2: getting back into the mid seventies clear and then down
Speaker 2: to be low fifty five for tonight. Much more of
Speaker 2: the same tomorrow. In fact, we're even a bit warmer
Speaker 2: and Greater Boston with a high of seventy five degrees
Speaker 2: and then on Wednesday night into Thursday might see a
Speaker 2: few drops of rain, a few showers, and then Thursdays
Speaker 2: should be okay. We'll start to see the cool off
Speaker 2: begin down into the sixties, and then by Friday, plenty
Speaker 2: of sunshine, but we'll be down into the upper fifties.
Speaker 2: Right around sixty is all we're getting out of Friday.
Speaker 2: But all in all, we are looking at some great
Speaker 2: weather right now for late October. It's six oh six.
Speaker 2: And speaking of all this weather, how about another potential
Speaker 2: day to head to the beach.
Speaker 3: This time of year, the seagulls usually have America's oldest
Speaker 3: public beach all to themselves, but not when the weather
Speaker 3: is like this. What do you think of this weather?
Speaker 6: I think it's fantastic. I hope we get a few
Speaker 6: while we get a few more days. It is because
Speaker 6: I want to keep my ten I'm going to Saint
Speaker 6: Lucia in November.
Speaker 3: Jim drove down from Harol.
Speaker 6: I know after a few more day we could get
Speaker 6: tech cold weather. So I used to deliver a mail
Speaker 6: and I love this type of weather.
Speaker 1: From Revere Beach.
Speaker 3: Carl Stevens WBC Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Six SO seven The Boston City Council trying to fix
Speaker 2: a major strain on the budget the expected record breaking
Speaker 2: spending on police overtime.
Speaker 3: With police overtime cost in the city more than one
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars a year, the Boston City Council is
Speaker 3: looking for ways to rate in the spending on ot
Speaker 3: City Council President Ruci luis in.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, we've seen the cost of overtime balloon
Speaker 4: year after year, and so I think it's important for
Speaker 4: us to continue to have these conversations because it's also
Speaker 4: something with the public demands. We've also seen time and
Speaker 4: time again that overtime is so often a subject to
Speaker 4: fraud into abuse, and so we just want to tamper
Speaker 4: down on all of that to make sure that we
Speaker 4: are being fiscally responsible and protecting the public.
Speaker 3: Police overtime growing steadily and substantially in recent years as
Speaker 3: the department faces the challenge of recruiting new officers to
Speaker 3: take the place of retiring officers. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's
Speaker 3: News Radio.
Speaker 2: Six oh seven, No big surprise here, Salem topping the
Speaker 2: list of Forbes' best Halloween vacation spots across the country.
Speaker 7: Well It is the site of the infamous Salem witch
Speaker 7: trials of sixteen ninety two. Second on the list Sleepy Hollow,
Speaker 7: New York, the setting of the famous Washington Irving tale
Speaker 7: about the Headless Horsemen. Then there's the Big Easy, Forbes
Speaker 7: saying New Orleans takes Halloween celebrations to the next level.
Speaker 7: Fourth on the list is Anoka, Minnesota, noted for its
Speaker 7: family friendly celebrations. And it's back to the South for
Speaker 7: the top five spot. Savannah, Georgia, considered one of the
Speaker 7: most haunted cities in America. Jay Willett, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jim McKay, WBZ Boston's News Radio