Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news seventy
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Speaker 1: Here's what's happening. We are following some developing news when
Speaker 1: it comes to the Karen Reid saga. The illegal sagas
Speaker 1: continuing and a date has now been set in the
Speaker 1: state's highest court. W z's book McCarthy joins this lot
Speaker 1: with the Tails book.
Speaker 2: Then, the State Supreme Judicial Court has set a date
Speaker 2: of November six to hear oral arguments in the case
Speaker 2: of Karen Reid. Justice is agreeing to take up the
Speaker 2: case after lawyers for Karen Reid had filed a motion
Speaker 2: to dismiss two of the three charges against her in
Speaker 2: a lower court on the grounds of double jeopardy, but
Speaker 2: Judge Beverly Canoni said it didn't amount to that. Judge
Speaker 2: Canoni presided over her first criminal trial that ended with
Speaker 2: a hung jury. Her second all three charges is set
Speaker 2: to begin in January of next year. In their arguments
Speaker 2: with the SJC, lawyers for Reid site messages and phone
Speaker 2: call juror saying they were unanimous to acquit her on
Speaker 2: leaving the scene and second degree murder. The prosecution has
Speaker 2: until October sixteenth that filed their brief with the SGC.
Speaker 2: This all comes as Read also faces a wrongful death
Speaker 2: lawsuit filed by the family of John O'Keeffe, which her
Speaker 2: team is trying to get paused until after the criminal
Speaker 2: case is settled.
Speaker 1: Ben all right, then, the mosquito season, it's waning, but
Speaker 1: it's still here and the threats still exist. In New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: another death from tripoli.
Speaker 3: The Hampshire officials are confirming a second resident has died
Speaker 3: from eastern neckwine encephalitis. The patient was an adult man
Speaker 3: from Danville. The first death, announced in late August was
Speaker 3: a neighboring Hampstead. In total, the Granite State has confirmed
Speaker 3: five patients with the mosquito borne illness. There have been
Speaker 3: four here in Massachusetts and an action the town manager
Speaker 3: now confirms to us a resident tragically died. With the
Speaker 3: news coming down early last month base date, Health officials
Speaker 3: won't release information on any triple E deaths till the
Speaker 3: end of the season. Risk levels are now falling, but
Speaker 3: the threat won't be eliminated until the first hard frost.
Speaker 3: West Nile is still a problem as well. With DPH
Speaker 3: now confirming two more cases, a woman in her sixties
Speaker 3: likely exposed in Middlesex County and a woman in her
Speaker 3: seventies likely exposed out of state. Madison Rogers w b Z,
Speaker 3: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: There's a new colonel in town. Jeffrey Noble, sworn in
Speaker 1: as the head of the State Police by Governor Moray
Speaker 1: Hilly today.
Speaker 4: Colonel Jeffrey Noble is the first leader of the Massachusetts
Speaker 4: State Police who is from outside the department's ranks. He
Speaker 4: was the retired second in command of the New Jersey
Speaker 4: State Police. Noble takes command of a force plagued by
Speaker 4: corruption scandals in recent years, including overtime, fraud, and bribery
Speaker 4: scandals that led to troopers being criminally charged. Governor Morrehey
Speaker 4: on the men she appointed.
Speaker 5: Colonel Noble is the right leader for this agency at
Speaker 5: this moment in time. I'm confident that he is the
Speaker 5: leader that are hard working State Police and the people
Speaker 5: of Massachusetts deserve.
Speaker 4: Colonel Noble takes command of a trooper training program it's
Speaker 4: under investigation after the death of a recruit at the
Speaker 4: State House. Mike maclum WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Fair season continues along in Massachusetts. The top Field Fair
Speaker 1: kicking off right now giant pumpkins being hoisted onto the scales.
Speaker 1: The oldest agricultural fair in Massachusetts is underway until October fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Spooky Month continues in Salem. After last night's Haunted Happenings
Speaker 1: Grand Parade. You could be one of about a million
Speaker 1: people to hit the Witch City in October for the
Speaker 1: Haunted Happenings Festival. A halfway decent weekend coming our way
Speaker 1: and halfway decent because we got to get through a
Speaker 1: little bit of shower activity. First Tonight, we'll have some
Speaker 1: clouds rolling in. We'll have a shower late, especially north
Speaker 1: and west of the city, temperatures in the mid to
Speaker 1: upper fifties. Tomorrow, we'll have those showers early, especially north
Speaker 1: and west of town, but anybody can see a shower
Speaker 1: or sprits or a sprinkle. But in the afternoon we'll
Speaker 1: be seeing partly the mostly sunny sky. So a very
Speaker 1: nice second half of Saturday with temperatures in the load
Speaker 1: to mid seventies. Sundays and nice day a little cooler,
Speaker 1: but a mix of sun and clouds. Temperatures load a
Speaker 1: mid sixties and then we'll have temperatures mainly in the
Speaker 1: mid sixties on Monday, with some showers around. It's seventy
Speaker 1: degrees right now in Boston. In the mood to get
Speaker 1: yourself some fresh air, try to step it out of
Speaker 1: the Public Garden, breathe in the sites and smells. But
Speaker 1: below the garden there are secrets in WBCs. Matt Shearer
Speaker 1: got a tour.
Speaker 6: On a beautiful fall day in the public Garden. Watch
Speaker 6: your stead. We're about to climb down a ladder to
Speaker 6: the faults. Welcome to the ball. That is Rebecca Mckeviit's
Speaker 6: from Friends of the Public Garden. She'll be leading us
Speaker 6: on this underground adventure he took.
Speaker 7: The other fountains has their own ball. None are nearly
Speaker 7: as vague or as intricate as this one.
Speaker 6: In other words, there are several vaults throughout the public Garden,
Speaker 6: all of which house pumps, filters, and electronics for the
Speaker 6: water fountains.
Speaker 7: This is a state of the art uv system. No
Speaker 7: chemicals are used to clean the water.
Speaker 6: There's also a computer down here that automates lights. So
Speaker 6: now these two fountains from the eighteen hundred shine than that.
Speaker 7: They were never lit before, and now at nighttime, they're
Speaker 7: much more exciting.
Speaker 1: It's lid.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's lit from the vaults.
Speaker 1: Natt Shearer, w DZ, Boston's news Radio. The death toll
Speaker 1: from Hurricane Helene has risen to two hundred and nineteen.
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris making a second trip into the
Speaker 1: impacted region.
Speaker 8: Vice President Harris will travel to North Carolina Saturday to
Speaker 8: survey the impacts of Hurricane Helene and get a briefing
Speaker 8: on the ongoing recovery efforts. There, she'll give officials an
Speaker 8: update on federal actions being taken to support the emergency
Speaker 8: response and recovery efforts in North Carolina and other states
Speaker 8: throughout the southeast. Harris traveled to Augusta, Georgia, on Wednesday,
Speaker 8: where she met with impacted families, surveyed damage, distributed food
Speaker 8: and water, and met with state and local officials. Karen
Speaker 8: Traver's ABC News the White House.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump will return to Butler, Pennsylvania tomorrow, where
Speaker 1: he was shot by an attempted assassin in July. Meantime,
Speaker 1: at a rally in Georgia today, Vice presidential nominee jd
Speaker 1: Vance told supporters the former president's handling of assassination attempts
Speaker 1: shows he fit for office.
Speaker 3: You want a man who can stand in the gap,
Speaker 3: who can literally take a bullet and keep his composure
Speaker 3: and stay who he is.
Speaker 1: That's Donald J.
Speaker 6: Trump.
Speaker 4: That's why we got to make him the next president
Speaker 4: of United States, because we need a leader in the
Speaker 4: oval office, not a follower like Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: My Senator Advance will pay a visit to Massachusetts tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He's scheduled to appear at a closed door fundraising luncheon
Speaker 1: in Gloucester. You are now in the loop for news
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