Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sunny and seventy one in Boston. It's eleven o'clock, good
Speaker 2: Friday morning, and it's going to be a good weekend too,
Speaker 2: weather wise. We'll get to that, but first, I'm Laurie Kirby,
Speaker 2: and Tropical Storm Polleen is now slamming the southeastern US
Speaker 2: with drenching rains and whipping winds. It made landfall as
Speaker 2: a dangerous Category four hurricane in Florida's Big Ben region
Speaker 2: last night. ABC's Jim Ryan with Moore.
Speaker 3: The community of Gulfport, Florida, is surrounded by water Tampa
Speaker 3: Bay on the east, the Gulf of Mexico on the west.
Speaker 3: Suffice it to say that it's been a very difficult night.
Speaker 3: Gulfport Mayor Samuel Henderson.
Speaker 1: We've had catastrophic damages to some areas of the city,
Speaker 1: both of our businesses, to city property, and also to
Speaker 1: the homes of some of our residents.
Speaker 3: At sea level. Community saw an eight foot storm search
Speaker 3: hours before Helene's range began to fall. Jim Rily in
Speaker 3: ABC News.
Speaker 2: Even New England is feeling the Domino effective chaos brought
Speaker 2: on by Helene. Flights to and from Logan are among
Speaker 2: the many affected. Wbz's James Rojas is at terminal see
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 4: Though not everyone is traveling to parts of the country
Speaker 4: impacted by Helene, people like Bailey are wishing others who
Speaker 4: are affected the best.
Speaker 1: Parts with them.
Speaker 4: Hopefully it's okay. My team works out. They're based out
Speaker 4: of Charlotte, so I know they're expecting some weather today. Yeah,
Speaker 4: fingers crossed.
Speaker 5: There all right.
Speaker 4: Who is going to Florida is Kelly Eisner, director of
Speaker 4: Communications with the American Red Cross of Massachusetts.
Speaker 5: Part of what we do for our long term recovery
Speaker 5: is we help these communities build resistance after the storm
Speaker 5: has come through. You know, maybe they're back in a home,
Speaker 5: but it's not their original home or it's not long
Speaker 5: term housing. We try to focus on that too, because
Speaker 5: we know the next one.
Speaker 4: Is coming, she says. Teams in the base state are
Speaker 4: going to both Florida and Georgia at Logan. James row
Speaker 4: WVZ Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 2: And we have up to the minute delays and cancelations
Speaker 2: thanks to flight Aware for you. Delays at Logan eighty three,
Speaker 2: cancelations thirty three and we'll check your traffic delays in
Speaker 2: a minute? Could fare increases be coming on the MBTA?
Speaker 2: Speaking at a Boston Globe summit, TGM philipp Eang said
Speaker 2: fair hikes are not off the table, but he adds
Speaker 2: you cannot fund the MBTA on the backs of riders
Speaker 2: in the public. The TEA is facing a shortfall next
Speaker 2: year that will take hundreds of millions of dollars to fix,
Speaker 2: and says he will push cost cuts, try to attract
Speaker 2: new funding mechanisms, and lean into government allies for help
Speaker 2: in averting that financial crisis. Updating this story now, the
Speaker 2: head of a high end brothel that used local apartments
Speaker 2: and raked in huge sums of money will plead guilty
Speaker 2: today without a plea deal. Lindsay Weinstein, out of the
Speaker 2: US E Tie Office, says Han Lee will plead guilty
Speaker 2: of federal prostitution and money laundering charges. She's facing up
Speaker 2: to twenty five years in prison. We'll have mor as
Speaker 2: it happens next to climate demonstrator's head to prison. So
Speaker 2: so nice out. We're seeing some clouds out there, but
Speaker 2: there are very very few, and they're very high up
Speaker 2: and they're not rain clouds. The rain is done we're
Speaker 2: drying out, the sun is coming out, we're warming up.
Speaker 2: We're now seeing quite a few places already in the
Speaker 2: seventies are high. Today's seventy six, and tonight should be
Speaker 2: back in the fifties. For are low and just a
Speaker 2: few clouds around, but you still might have a shot
Speaker 2: at seeing some comets flying by. And then Saturday and
Speaker 2: Sunday can't be beat. We're in the seventies each day
Speaker 2: in some of those inland areas. Might be a little
Speaker 2: bit cooler in the Capan Islands, but really beautiful and
Speaker 2: dry all the way through Monday. So we learned this
Speaker 2: morning that Oscar Great Maggie Smith has died at the
Speaker 2: age of eighty nine CBS a ceve Kathon with Moore.
Speaker 6: Maggie Smith was known for her recent role in TV's
Speaker 6: Downton Abbey.
Speaker 3: I Remember Malleton in the eighteen sixties Darrold Lady Darnley.
Speaker 7: Always liked to stuff the place with royalty.
Speaker 6: Smith also won fans in the Harry Potter movies. She
Speaker 6: won Academy Awards for the Prime of Miss Jean Brody
Speaker 6: in nineteen sixty nine and for a supporting role in
Speaker 6: nineteen seventy eight California suitet Steve Kathan CBS News.
Speaker 2: If you saw a group of women walking last night
Speaker 2: in wedding dresses in Lawrence, you might have wondered why well.
Speaker 2: The Eagle Tribune reports it was the annual bride's March
Speaker 2: to shine a light on domestic violence. The annual walk
Speaker 2: is in memory of a woman named Gladys Ricard, a
Speaker 2: Dominican immigrant who was murdered by her estranged boyfriend on
Speaker 2: her wedding day in New Jersey in nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Some men joined in last night dressed in black formal
Speaker 2: attire in the annual Peaceful Walk at a common in Lawrence,
Speaker 2: and a pair of demonstrators facing serious consequences for a
Speaker 2: stunt overseas.
Speaker 7: Two climate activists who threw cans of hind tomato soup
Speaker 7: at Vincent Van Goo's Sunflowers at London's National Gallery two
Speaker 7: years ago have been convicted at trial on criminal charges
Speaker 7: and jailed. The frame around the masterpiece was damaged. The
Speaker 7: painting was not harmed and later put back on display.
Speaker 7: One defendant has been sentenced to two years in prison,
Speaker 7: the other to twenty months. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
Speaker 2: A nearly four thousand year old log could be the
Speaker 2: key to slowing Earth's warmings. CBS's Christopher Cruz explains.
Speaker 8: The remarkably well preserved three thousand, seven hundred seventy five
Speaker 8: year old log, discovered about six feet under a farm
Speaker 8: in Canada, gave climate scientists at the University of Maryland
Speaker 8: an idea. Since wood captures a lot of carbon dioxide,
Speaker 8: could burying a lot of wood in wood vaults slow
Speaker 8: its decomposition and lock away human generated carbon dioxide, possibly
Speaker 8: for thousands of years. Christopher Cruz, CBS News Washington.
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Speaker 2: I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ, Boston's news radio