Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: sixty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: It was expected, but what wasn't known is how far
Speaker 2: the Fed would go in terms of cutting interest rates. Today,
Speaker 2: well now we know a half point ABC's Derek Dennis
Speaker 2: has the tails.
Speaker 3: The half point cut is larger than a quarter point
Speaker 3: cut many analysts had expected, and it signals an aggressive
Speaker 3: move by the Fed and its ongoing effort to tamp
Speaker 3: down on inflation. Many say it's a real milestone for
Speaker 3: the US economy, of victory in a sense because it
Speaker 3: could start a trend by the Fed to gradually lower
Speaker 3: interest rates over the next year. Car and mortgage loans,
Speaker 3: credit card interest all expected to get cheaper with this
Speaker 3: Federal Reserve rate cut, Derek Dennis, ABC News.
Speaker 2: Right after the rate cut was announced this afternoon at
Speaker 2: two o'clock, the stock market took off. In fact that
Speaker 2: that was up well over three hundred points for a time,
Speaker 2: and then somebody turned things around and hit the brakes
Speaker 2: and by the time the thing was all over today
Speaker 2: just two hours later, all of the major indexes were lower.
Speaker 2: The Dow in fact lost one hundred and three points today.
Speaker 2: We'll get details coming up with Bloomberg introw oday watching
Speaker 2: all of it for you and don't forget you can
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Speaker 2: Lebanon remains under fire, not for missiles or tanks, but
Speaker 2: from electronic devices. Multiple explosions hit different parts of the
Speaker 2: country today.
Speaker 4: Nervous people milling around on the streets of a route
Speaker 4: after another wave of text, this time targeting walkie talkies.
Speaker 4: One of the detonations at the site of a funeral
Speaker 4: for three HESBELA members and a child killed by exploding
Speaker 4: pagers the day before.
Speaker 2: Devices hit today were part.
Speaker 4: Of the group's emergency communication system, which was supposed to
Speaker 4: be used during a war with Israel. Tom rivers ABC
Speaker 4: News at the Foreign Desk.
Speaker 2: As the Karen Reid legal saga continues, the Commonwealth is
Speaker 2: adding to its team. Details from wbz's Brooke McCarthy.
Speaker 5: The retrial of Karen Reid is set for January of
Speaker 5: next year, and the Commonwealth is adding another attorney to
Speaker 5: their team. Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey says special Assistant
Speaker 5: DA Hank Brennan will lead the Commonwealth's case against Karen Reid.
Speaker 5: He will join Adya Adam Lally, who was the lead
Speaker 5: prosecutor for the first trial, and the rest of their team.
Speaker 5: The DA's office says Attorney Brennan has over twenty five
Speaker 5: years of experience in an expertise in handling complex law
Speaker 5: enforcement matters. In a statement, Brennan says he aims to
Speaker 5: make sure the facts surrounding John O'Keefe's death are fully
Speaker 5: and fairly aired in the courtroom. This comes as lawyers
Speaker 5: for Reid are appealing to the state's highest court to
Speaker 5: get two of the three charges against her dropped on
Speaker 5: the grounds of double jeopardy. As of right now, she
Speaker 5: will face a second trial on all three charges. Brooke
Speaker 5: McCarthy WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Gas in brocktonner looking for the man responsible for sexually
Speaker 2: assaulting a thirteen year old girl. Please say that girl
Speaker 2: was walking home home from West Middle School yesterday. That's
Speaker 2: when a man approached her on West Elm Street, nearly
Speaker 2: a mile from the school. Rockton's Public Schools interim superintendent
Speaker 2: says schools aren't working closely with police and they're asking
Speaker 2: students to remain vigilant and report anything concerning to an adult. Tonight,
Speaker 2: we'll start it off with some rain and showers. A
Speaker 2: little bit later on south coast Capean Islands, we'll get
Speaker 2: in on a little bit of rain. Closer to Boston.
Speaker 2: It appears late tonight, so we could get some wetness
Speaker 2: in the city, but a lot of it's going to
Speaker 2: be off toward our south, and then a cloudy, breezy
Speaker 2: day tomorrow, occasional rain, steadiest south of the mass Pike,
Speaker 2: temperatures close to seventy more rain, a little bit of
Speaker 2: a wind around Tomorrow night as well, a low of
Speaker 2: sixty two, and then some more rain for Friday, with
Speaker 2: clouds and windy conditions. Temperatures in the upper sixties, probably
Speaker 2: mid sixties is going to do it for most of us.
Speaker 2: On Saturday. We'll still have clouds of breeze and a
Speaker 2: few showers around. Right now, it is sixty seven degrees
Speaker 2: in Boston. The big EA is back in West Springfield,
Speaker 2: and few are happier than the guy who has to
Speaker 2: clean the toilets. Yeah, the toilet guy with the busy
Speaker 2: is Matt Sure as his story so.
Speaker 6: You're walking around the Biggie. You just put back a
Speaker 6: bacon cheeseburger with waffles for buns, and now you need
Speaker 6: to make a pit stop. You walk into the bathroom
Speaker 6: and there's a dude with a microphone singing his heart out.
Speaker 2: You see, my name is Chris, is my bathroom, and
Speaker 2: I make using a bathroom a pleasant experience.
Speaker 6: As a bathroom attendant, all Chris really has to do
Speaker 6: is keep an eye on it, but he goes above
Speaker 6: and beyond.
Speaker 2: Nobody decorates the bathrooms like I do. I put flowers
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 6: Air, also lights, streamers, plastic butterflies, and of course his
Speaker 6: signature karaoke machine. Unusual maybe, but to Chris, it's about
Speaker 6: making the most of a stinky situation.
Speaker 3: No matter what job you get in life, get a
Speaker 3: job that you enjoy and in the long run, it.
Speaker 6: Pays off from the best bathroom at the Biggie. Matt
Speaker 6: Shearer WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: If you want to check out more of Matt's adventures,
Speaker 2: including his bathroom adventures, check out our TikTok after with
Speaker 2: the BZ News Radio. A new feature is being rolled
Speaker 2: out by Uber. This one. They say we'll make drivers Safe.
Speaker 7: For Kuber is out with a new rider verification system.
Speaker 7: It works by having users take a photo of their
Speaker 7: ID and then a selfie. After that, the app will
Speaker 7: match the two pictures and assign a blue check mark
Speaker 7: to the profile. CEO Dara Kosvershahi tells ABC News it's
Speaker 7: designed to boost safety on the app amid several recent
Speaker 7: attacks on drivers.
Speaker 6: Late night, et cetera. If you have a verified badge,
Speaker 6: you have an advantage over someone who might not be verified.
Speaker 2: Mike Debaski, ABC News. You see him everywhere when you're driving. Guardrails,
Speaker 2: turns out many of them may not guard enough depending
Speaker 2: on your vehicle. New crash tests of electric vehicles point
Speaker 2: to guardrails on America's roads that are typically tested against
Speaker 2: vehicles weighing up to five thousand pounds, but many electric
Speaker 2: vehicles weigh up to thirty percent more, and some of
Speaker 2: the guardrails may not hold.
Speaker 8: Up, University of Nebraska professor Cody Stoley.
Speaker 9: Unfortunately, these guardrail systems, which have performed very well with
Speaker 9: gasoline vehicles historically, do not appear to be containing electric
Speaker 9: vehicles when impacting with similar types of conditions.
Speaker 8: In July, Shuley's team ran this seven thousand pound electric
Speaker 8: pickup into concrete barriers commonly used as freeway medians at
Speaker 8: sixty two miles an hour, Weighing two thousand pounds more
Speaker 8: than a gas powered pickup. The barriers contain the collision,
Speaker 8: but chunks of concrete were sent flying.
Speaker 2: That is CBS's Chris Van Cleeve. You are now in
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