Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News fifty eight degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning,
Speaker 2: I'm Charlie Bergon. Here's what's happening. Looks like the weekend
Speaker 2: would be just great to do or any kind of
Speaker 2: activities outdoors.
Speaker 3: We are going to.
Speaker 1: Start the day with some clouds and a sprinkle or
Speaker 1: a shower early, but we'll see the return of some
Speaker 1: sunshine with a nice afternue with heights of seventy two
Speaker 1: to seventy six.
Speaker 2: And tomorrow looks great too, just a bit cooler acky weather.
Speaker 2: Is Matt Rindy with the four day forecast on the way.
Speaker 2: A new leader of the state police sworn in at
Speaker 2: the State House, and wbs's Mike Macklin says he has
Speaker 2: a long to do list.
Speaker 4: Colonel Jeffrey Noble takes command of a scandal plague state
Speaker 4: police force. In recent years, overtime, fraud and bribery allegations
Speaker 4: related to commercial drivers' licenses have led to criminal charges
Speaker 4: against troopers, and is swearing in cridinal Noble pledge to
Speaker 4: restore public trust in the mass Chusett State Police.
Speaker 5: As we look toward our future, I want to be clear,
Speaker 5: the Massachusetts State Police will deliver excellent police services, build
Speaker 5: and maintained public trust, and enforce the law with fairness, compassion, equity,
Speaker 5: transparency and accountability.
Speaker 4: Noble knows stranger to scandaled in the uniformed rank sees
Speaker 4: the retired second in command of the New Jersey State Police,
Speaker 4: a department still mired in allegations it routinely promoted bad
Speaker 4: white cops over qualified troopers of color at the State House.
Speaker 4: Mike Maclin WBZ Bloxton's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Police in Stowe investigating a fatal motorcycle accident yesterday afternoon
Speaker 2: at cycle crashing into a tree on the side of
Speaker 2: Redacre Road. Happened about four forty five. The driver pronounced
Speaker 2: dead at the scene. Their name has not been released.
Speaker 2: Fast action by an off duty nurse helps rescue a
Speaker 2: child who had stopped breathing. This was on the Arborway
Speaker 2: yesterday in Jamaica. Plane Police say the nurse acted as
Speaker 2: a good Samaritan, helping stabilize the child, who was then
Speaker 2: taken to Boston Children's Hospital for treatment. Two Harvard students
Speaker 2: showing the capabilities and the dangers of artificial intelligence. Here's
Speaker 2: WBZ TV's Brandon Truitt.
Speaker 3: Harvard University students are known for being ahead of the game,
Speaker 3: and and fu Win and kin Or Dafeo are living
Speaker 3: up to the hype. We definitely got wholesome react. You're
Speaker 3: a photo.
Speaker 2: You're from County Academies.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: The two juniors have created software that pairs AI facial
Speaker 3: recognition with public databases and with a single picture, can
Speaker 3: pull up a person's name, phone number, address, and digital history.
Speaker 3: It took them about a day to create it.
Speaker 1: So we were just kind of like playing around, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing uh, you know, what are the possibilities of code.
Speaker 3: The guys use the Meta ray bands from Facebook's parent company,
Speaker 3: which have cameras right on the lens, but a phone
Speaker 3: could do this too. That camera streams video back to
Speaker 3: the software. We're on their laptop and using AI tools,
Speaker 3: it runs a face through the program to gather private
Speaker 3: information within about a minute and a half. They tried
Speaker 3: it on some of their classmates.
Speaker 2: Is your address for Valley? Crazy, isn't it. While there
Speaker 2: are restrictions on how governments use this type of technology,
Speaker 2: there are no restrictions on how you and I, just
Speaker 2: common people can use that AI let's check the four
Speaker 2: day WBZACUA. The forecast mat Rindy tells us we'll see
Speaker 2: a shower or two pass through right now from Worcester
Speaker 2: east to the shore. It's dry west of Worcester. Few
Speaker 2: showers popping up at this hour, but we'll see them
Speaker 2: move through, and then it's going to be a sunny,
Speaker 2: nice day today with temperatures between seventy two and seventy six. Clear.
Speaker 2: Tonight cool fifty two fur low, Tomorrow, sun, clouds, cooler,
Speaker 2: sixty four to sixty eight, Monday, cloudy, breeze, cool, might
Speaker 2: see a few showers Monday I to about six, and
Speaker 2: then Tuesday sun and clouds and breezy, and we should
Speaker 2: get to the low, maybe even mid sixties on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Fifty eight degrees right now in Boston at six five.
Speaker 2: Slow progress being made in Southeastern states a week after
Speaker 2: Hurricane Helene blew through tens of thousands still without water
Speaker 2: and power. The western part of North Carolina especially hit hardest,
Speaker 2: with flooding heavily damaging the water system in Asheville, North Carolina.
Speaker 2: It is expected to take weeks to repair. Overall, The
Speaker 2: Federal EPA estimates nearly two million people in the southeast
Speaker 2: remain under a boil water advisory. People across the state
Speaker 2: are donating essential items for families impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 2: WBZTV's Paul Burton says the Washburn Stables in Marion aren't
Speaker 2: just trying to help people, they're helping animals too.
Speaker 6: We have another trailer full first Aid supplies, food, toiletries,
Speaker 6: baby products, two palles to water.
Speaker 7: Horse shure Zachary Grhalis says, in just forty eight hours
Speaker 7: he filled two trucks here. The mission is twofold, both
Speaker 7: for the animals and the people.
Speaker 6: Animal hay and grain, all kinds of pet food. We
Speaker 6: are going to head down to the Western North Carolina
Speaker 6: Regional Livestock Center and they are going to unload our
Speaker 6: trailers and figure out which communities need what.
Speaker 1: This is such a rural area, it's usually more animals,
Speaker 1: more livestocks, so it's not like a normal I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say normal hurricane relief where it's just for people.
Speaker 7: With hundreds of lives lost in the devastation, catastrophic and
Speaker 7: more communities come together, the greater the impact.
Speaker 6: Whatever we can do to help people in North Carolina,
Speaker 6: and then we're happy to do it.
Speaker 2: And there are similar relief efforts underway locally in West
Speaker 2: Bridgewater and in Abington. Another challenge for those living in
Speaker 2: the southeast something you probably would never have thought of.
Speaker 2: But it's lint, it's beastings.
Speaker 8: North Carolina health workers are distributing benadril and epinephrine injections
Speaker 8: to communities after hurricane flooding causes bees and yellowjackets to
Speaker 8: swarm from their underground nests. Hospitals, emergency responders and doctors
Speaker 8: have been requesting allergy medications as more people run into
Speaker 8: the insects and Helene's wake. Jennifer Kuiper CBS News.
Speaker 2: Ever heard of Waimo, Yeah, They've added to their lineup
Speaker 2: of robotaxis out west.
Speaker 1: The autonomous vehicle company revealed Friday that it's teaming up
Speaker 1: with Hyundai in a multi year deal. The six generation
Speaker 1: fleet of Weimo vehicles will feature the South Korean automakers
Speaker 1: Ionic five. Waimo says the electric cars will be put
Speaker 1: together at Hyundai's newest facility in Georgia. Testing is set
Speaker 1: for late twenty twenty five, and customers will be able
Speaker 1: to catch a ride in the years to follow. Weimo
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