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Speaker 1: Good morning, six o'clock on this Thursday, Halloween here in Boston,
Speaker 1: and we're waking up under clear skies in fifty five
Speaker 1: degrees here in the city. The News at six is
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Speaker 1: us on this Thursday. I'm Jeff Brown Trick.
Speaker 2: Unusually warm weather is on the way for this.
Speaker 1: Halloween or treat. WBZ aki weather meteorologist Tether's Are says,
Speaker 1: expect highs this afternoon around eighty. It is Halloween, and
Speaker 1: all eyes, of course are on Salem.
Speaker 2: What's scarier than monsters, ghosts and ghouls, how about the
Speaker 2: hordes of visitors filling up every side street in downtown Salem.
Speaker 2: I'm here on Essex Street, which is going to be
Speaker 2: a Halloween hotspot. The locals are reminding visitors that the
Speaker 2: city is not a theme park. Don't come here and
Speaker 2: like expect the whole city to move around for you,
Speaker 2: Like it's not Disneyland. Most people think of just, you know,
Speaker 2: just the Halloween. But there's more to Salem than just Halloween,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of historical features sale. Meanwhile, Salem's mayor
Speaker 2: says they're expecting to break last year's the record number
Speaker 2: of one point two million visitors in the Witch City.
Speaker 2: James rowhas w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Former porn star and lifelong practicing witch Stormy Daniels is
Speaker 1: in Salem tonight, which is from around the world make
Speaker 1: it a habit every Halloween to gather on Salem Common
Speaker 1: to form a magic circle to honor the dead well.
Speaker 1: This year's event also honors Daniels, who they claim is
Speaker 1: the victim of a modern day witch hunt following her
Speaker 1: hush money case involving Donald Trump. Daniels, whose real name
Speaker 1: is Stephanie Clifford, says she's beyond honored. Some fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: witches attended the magic Circle at last year's event. It
Speaker 1: is likely to be a much bigger crowd tonight. Five
Speaker 1: days till Election, America takes out the trash, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: takes a garbage truck to a Wisconsin rally as he
Speaker 1: continues to troll recent comments from President Biden comparing Trump's
Speaker 1: supporters to trash. Kamala Harris goes on damage control to
Speaker 1: distance herself now from her boss's comments. The White House
Speaker 1: clarifies that mister Biden's garbage comments about Trump's supporters were really,
Speaker 1: in fact, about a comedian's comments about Puerto Rico at
Speaker 1: a weekend rally in New York City. Baseball reaches the
Speaker 1: top of the mountains, Saint Uses so the call on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports wbz's drewm o'hollands. This game had everything on
Speaker 1: the road to a championship. It short did for the
Speaker 1: eighth time, jeff the Dodgers claimed the crown. It takes
Speaker 1: a miraculous come back to send the Yankees home in
Speaker 1: five games, and Dodgers scored five in the fifth to
Speaker 1: tie the game. The Yankees took a lead again later,
Speaker 1: Dodgers come back again. Ends up being Mookie with the
Speaker 1: game winning RBI a sackfly. But the Yankees turned into
Speaker 1: a little league team, Jeffrey, in the middle of this thing,
Speaker 1: you are a former coach, a youth ball back in
Speaker 1: the night. It had driven me nuts, dropping fly balls, people.
Speaker 3: Not covering first base, the pitchers.
Speaker 1: It was not good, not good at all. Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 1: the World Series MVP well deserved. Can't get him out
Speaker 1: right now exactly well, now you can it's the off season.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, truth, thank you. This is
Speaker 1: delightful this morning. It is a little unusual, and it
Speaker 1: is a little unheard of at fifty eight degrees here
Speaker 1: in Boston under clear skies. We're getting started this final
Speaker 1: day of October on the right note. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: plenty of sunshine mixing with clouds today, temperatures well into
Speaker 1: the seventies at the very least, maybe the low eighties
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood. And even for trick or treat hours
Speaker 1: tonight around sundown, we are expecting temperatures to only be
Speaker 1: just a tick below seventy, so no layers for the
Speaker 1: kids doing the candy walk tonight. Tomorrow, clouds in a
Speaker 1: shower early in the day, and we certainly do need
Speaker 1: the rain. In fact, the drought monitor will be updated
Speaker 1: later on this morning. We are expecting to see some
Speaker 1: sunshine though tomorrow afternoon as high temperatures again jump into
Speaker 1: the seventies. Much more seasonable weather for this weekend, with
Speaker 1: a mix of sun and clouds, mostly highs in the
Speaker 1: fifties coming right up right now. It's fifty eight clear skies. Thursday,
Speaker 1: morning in Boston at six oh five. Doctors fear the
Speaker 1: walking wounded.
Speaker 3: The uptick in cases of walking pneumonia has been huge
Speaker 3: this year, the CDC saying there have been increases across
Speaker 3: all age groups from March thirty first to October fifth.
Speaker 3: Infection rates for children peaked in August, and the biggest
Speaker 3: increases were seen in young people ages five to seventeen.
Speaker 3: That age bracket also saw the biggest percentage of pneumonia
Speaker 3: related emergency room visits at seven point four percent. There's
Speaker 3: no specific explanation on the increases in children, however, doctors
Speaker 3: have suggested remote schooling during the pandemic hindered children's ability
Speaker 3: to develop immunity against the walking pneumonia bacteria. Jim mckayawb
Speaker 3: you see Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: Boston Cardinal Shan O'Malley retires today for the first time
Speaker 1: in more than twenty years. The city will install a
Speaker 1: new archbishop, The most Reverend Richard Henning from Providence will
Speaker 1: take over in a ceremony this afternoon. Hundreds of clergy
Speaker 1: will be here for the proceedings at the Cathedral of
Speaker 1: the Holy Cross. Cardinal O'Malley actually resigned five years ago,
Speaker 1: but Pope Francis asked him to stay on and he did.
Speaker 1: O'Malley will continue to stay on in another capacity as
Speaker 1: he is also leading the church's panel on the sex
Speaker 1: abuse scandal. It is the end of the road for
Speaker 1: several local stop and shop grocery stores today, Seven of
Speaker 1: them in Massachusetts are closed defective today as the company
Speaker 1: shrinks the number of underperforming stores by the dozen in
Speaker 1: a cost cutting and efficiency move. Many shoppers, though, are
Speaker 1: the ones left holding the bag with a shrinking number
Speaker 1: of supermarket alternatives. The leftovers here in Massachusetts and the
Speaker 1: seven stores will be donated to charity. Both sides the
Speaker 1: ongoing strike at jetmaker Boeing continue to talk the talk.
Speaker 4: The union representing some thirty three thousand striking Boeing machinists
Speaker 4: posts on x that discussions with the company, facilitated by
Speaker 4: Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Sue, are progressing. The International
Speaker 4: Association of Machinist says once it has something that it
Speaker 4: believes is worthy of a vote, it will be presented
Speaker 4: to members immediately. Union members recently rejected the company's proposal
Speaker 4: that included a thirty five percent general wage increase over
Speaker 4: four years, but did not include a pension. Jennifer Kuiper,
Speaker 4: CBS News.
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