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Speaker 2: Good morning, six o'clock in Boston this Thursday, and we're
Speaker 2: under cloudy skies to get things started. It is sixty
Speaker 2: degrees here in the city. Thanks for being with us today.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown, and come on in. This is delightful.
Speaker 2: Isn't it cloudy again today? And expect rain, especially this
Speaker 2: afternoon or early tonight, and some of that rain may
Speaker 2: be heavy. Our highs near seventeen. Is WBZ aky weather
Speaker 2: meteorologist Joe Lundberg much better tomorrow. Spectacular is a word
Speaker 2: being used to describe the upcoming weekend. Florida's Gulf Coast
Speaker 2: races for the strongest hurricane to hit the mainland US
Speaker 2: in more than a year. Hurricane Helene is expected to
Speaker 2: hit later today as a Category four storm and could
Speaker 2: strengthen from there Forecasters say this will be the third
Speaker 2: hurricane to hit Florida's Big Bend region in thirteen months,
Speaker 2: and up to twenty feet. Experts say the storm surge
Speaker 2: is likely to be unsurvivable. Already in harm's way. Dozens
Speaker 2: of members from Massachusetts Task Force One, the FEMA search
Speaker 2: and Rescue team from Beverly. They're in Florida to assist.
Speaker 2: Tampa Airport has been closed until further notice. It's over.
Speaker 2: Red Sox lose to the Blue Jays and it's officially
Speaker 2: wait till next to your time. They're eliminated from the
Speaker 2: American League playoffs.
Speaker 3: They say all good things must come to an end.
Speaker 3: Bad stuff does too. The Red Sox are down to
Speaker 3: their final out. Many got up Dan Schulman on Blue
Speaker 3: Jays TV in the final meaningful out for the Red
Speaker 3: Sox this season, guys. With three games left to go,
Speaker 3: Boston has officially been eliminated from the playoff race.
Speaker 2: Disappointing always, yeah, I mean, it's always tough to not
Speaker 2: make the playoffs, specially when you know who we are
Speaker 2: as a city type thing. They're not it off good
Speaker 2: and they just don't have the players to win. Man,
Speaker 2: that's the bottle. The need better, plays Chris Valm.
Speaker 3: At WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: It is really over for the Athletics. This afternoon's game
Speaker 2: against Texas brings an end to the team's time in Oakland.
Speaker 2: The A's are eventually going to move to Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Week four in the NFL kicks off tonight. The Thursday
Speaker 2: Night Football game features the Cowboys and Giants at the Meadowlands.
Speaker 2: Why did the bulls cross the road? Well, Officials with
Speaker 2: a traveling rodeo in North Attleborough say it was a
Speaker 2: faulty fence pin that gave way on Sunday, which then
Speaker 2: opened the door to freedom for eight of the animals,
Speaker 2: most on the run for several hours before a makeshift
Speaker 2: fence ultimately corralled them and lured them back into a truck.
Speaker 2: A lone bull, however, tasted freedom for a day longer
Speaker 2: before being captured. Local officials are now considering more rules
Speaker 2: and regulations for the traveling rodeo industry. Here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: officials on the North Shore, faced with a parking problem
Speaker 2: have come up with a solution.
Speaker 1: A new study show several almost with the current parking
Speaker 1: system in Lynn, but also several potential solutions. The engineering
Speaker 1: and architecture company stand Tech says not only are two
Speaker 1: hour time restrictions in issue, but also that pricing is
Speaker 1: deployed halphazardly. Another key issue was stream maintenance conditions, including
Speaker 1: overnight parking challenges and other missing security elements like lighting.
Speaker 1: This study comes as the city is developing a parking
Speaker 1: strategy to make Downtown a more vibrant and inclusive place.
Speaker 1: In Lynn James Rojas w b Z Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio and started under cloudy skies in Boston this morning.
Speaker 2: Sixty degrees here in the city, and cloud's going to
Speaker 2: hang with us all day long. Today. We are going
Speaker 2: to see a shower or two early this morning, and
Speaker 2: the heavy stuff won't be here for a few more hours.
Speaker 2: We are expecting the possibility of some downpours and maybe
Speaker 2: some thunder and lightning later on today. Temperatures will be warmer,
Speaker 2: near seventy degrees this afternoon, and some heavy showers early
Speaker 2: overnight tonight. Then they'll start to taper off and we'll
Speaker 2: see some clearing skies. They'll last beat exit over the
Speaker 2: Cape and Islands, which by the way, just coming off
Speaker 2: almost ten inches of rain in a widespread area of
Speaker 2: the Cape and Islands. They don't need any more, but
Speaker 2: they're going to get some today all of us are.
Speaker 2: In fact, we start to clear out well overnight tonight
Speaker 2: and tomorrow back to some sunshine. High temperatures in the
Speaker 2: mid seventies. Looks like it's going to be a pretty
Speaker 2: decent looking weekend too, the mix of sun and clouds
Speaker 2: both Saturday and Sunday. Highs in the sixties and seventies.
Speaker 2: Pretty typical fall weekend on the way sixty degrees, clouds,
Speaker 2: rain on the way six oh six This Thursday morning,
Speaker 2: the last of the Tufts lacrosse players hospitalized for a
Speaker 2: severe muscle condition have now been released from treatment. Wbz's
Speaker 2: Drew mo'holland has their story. Good Morning, Andrew, Good morning Jeffrey.
Speaker 4: The three players are among a dozen taking off the
Speaker 4: practice field after an intense workout led by a former
Speaker 4: Navy seal last week. The Jumbos players are said to
Speaker 4: have suffered from a severe case of rabdo, in which
Speaker 4: overworked muscles begin to fail and can lead to organ failure.
Speaker 4: The school has launched an independent investi gation. The lacrosse
Speaker 4: program is on hold, Jief.
Speaker 2: All right, truth, thank you, You've got mail, but it's
Speaker 2: gonna cost you. The US Postal Service as it plans
Speaker 2: to raise the price of a stamp five times between
Speaker 2: now and the end of twenty twenty seven. The Post
Speaker 2: Office says, brace yourself for a possibly record setting price
Speaker 2: increase next summer. Insiders, they're calling this stampflation. Prices of
Speaker 2: a first class stamp are more than thirty five percent
Speaker 2: higher over the past five years and will now set
Speaker 2: you back seventy three cents. The Post Office has been
Speaker 2: over its budget head and plans billions of dollars in
Speaker 2: cost cutting exercises. Congress cuts a deal to avoid a
Speaker 2: Monday night government shutdown. The agreement, fueled by Democrats, kicks
Speaker 2: the spending can down the road by three months and
Speaker 2: keeps funding levels, but adds more than two hundred million
Speaker 2: dollars for the US Secret Service. Republican House Speaker Mike
Speaker 2: Johnson does a deal with the devil in this case
Speaker 2: Democrats to push the plan over the goal line. They
Speaker 2: Senate quickly moves to approves, and President Biden says he
Speaker 2: will sign it before the deadline. On Monday. The walls
Speaker 2: are closing in a New York City's mayor, Eric Adams
Speaker 2: becomes the first sitting mayor in the Big Apple to
Speaker 2: face federal indictment. The city's one hundred and tenth mayor
Speaker 2: is expected in a federal courtroom as soon as today,
Speaker 2: the charges have been sealed, but an investigation is focused
Speaker 2: on illegal dealings with the Turkish government in exchange for
Speaker 2: campaign fundraising. Adam says in a social media video he's
Speaker 2: innocent and refuses to resign. And British scientists have found
Speaker 2: a way to put you on a tiny memory card.
Speaker 5: The entire human genome encoded onto a five D memory
Speaker 5: crystal that can survive for billions of years. Geneticist Sarah Tuckman.
Speaker 1: It's in case we're obliterated, so that the information that
Speaker 1: encodes a human being will be there for perhaps some
Speaker 1: other intelligence to reconstruct.
Speaker 5: Assuming that intelligence knows how to read it. Says Robin Ins,
Speaker 5: comedian and science broadcaster.
Speaker 1: The human species is one that I think fronds.
Speaker 2: It very difficult not to believe there will be a
Speaker 2: kind of extermacy.
Speaker 5: He hopes those future space aliens don't bring us back,
Speaker 5: but just read our book of life with wonder. Vicky Parker,
Speaker 5: CBS News London.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio