Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We defining local news. Forty five degrees. We have clear
Speaker 2: skies in Boston. It is six o'clock and you have
Speaker 2: made it to Friday. It is Friday, October eighteenth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, and this hour of news brought to you
Speaker 2: by your New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel
Speaker 2: drive headquarters. Thank you so much, and happy Friday. I'm
Speaker 2: Jim McKay. Here's what's happening right out of the gate
Speaker 2: this morning. We are certainly feeling a bit more comfortable
Speaker 2: than we have the past few days. That's because a
Speaker 2: warming trend is on the way. Should have a very
Speaker 2: nice sunrise and then a beautiful Friday afternoon. Money of
Speaker 2: sunshine today with a high of sixty to sixty four
Speaker 2: expected warming trend through the weekend. That is WBZ achiweather
Speaker 2: meteorologists Show Lundberg. We're closer to seventy degrees tomorrow, mid
Speaker 2: seventies as we round things out on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: President Biden touching down in Germany just in time to
Speaker 2: react to the news on the death of Yaya sinhwar
Speaker 2: hamas leader considered the mastermind of the October seventh attacks
Speaker 2: was killed by Israeli defense forces, and we're learning the
Speaker 2: President immediately had spoken to Israeli leadership.
Speaker 1: The White House says in a readout of their phone
Speaker 1: call that President Biden congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyahu
Speaker 1: on the mission that killed Hamas leader Yajya Sinhwar. The President,
Speaker 1: upon his arrival in Germany, told reporters Sinhwar had a
Speaker 1: lot of blood on his hands American, Israeli and others.
Speaker 1: He said, now is the time to move on, to
Speaker 1: reach a ceasefire and end the war and bring the
Speaker 1: hostages home. The White House says the President and Netnyahu
Speaker 1: spoke about how to use this moment to make all
Speaker 1: of that happen. Karen Travers ABC News Washington.
Speaker 2: Also at six ZHO two, a presidential campaign season tradition,
Speaker 2: but last night only one of the candidates in attendance
Speaker 2: the Al Smith charity dinner from New York, featuring a
Speaker 2: roast of both candidates. Former President Donald Trump was there
Speaker 2: while the Vice president sent in a taped video.
Speaker 4: Presidential candidates trying to show off their funny side site,
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Who was that?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 6: Mary?
Speaker 1: Kevin Ellier.
Speaker 2: I guess I just don't see the point they're taking
Speaker 2: shots at myself when other people have been shooting at
Speaker 2: me for a hell of a long time.
Speaker 4: Today's year former President Trump speaking at the Al Smith
Speaker 4: Memorial Foundation Dinner, an annual Catholic fundraiser in Manhattan. Historically
Speaker 4: providing moments of levity for candidates.
Speaker 1: Really a pleasure anywhere in New York without a subpoena
Speaker 1: for my appearance.
Speaker 2: ABC's Andrew Dinber for reporting well. Early voting here in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts begins tomorrow. There will be at least one early
Speaker 2: voting station in each community opened. If you go to
Speaker 2: the Secretary of Commonwealth's website, you can find yours. And
Speaker 2: we're now in that final stretch before election day. Many
Speaker 2: people are now complaining of election fatigued.
Speaker 6: With less than three weeks until decision day, it's hard
Speaker 6: to escape seeing posts about the election on social media,
Speaker 6: and some people are ready for relief.
Speaker 3: I think it's great for people to take a stand
Speaker 3: and to have their opinions and have their opinions count,
Speaker 3: but it is extremely overwhelming. Honestly, I'm very much ready
Speaker 3: to not have it be everything that I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Seeing people on Facebook arguing about like kind of pointless
Speaker 5: topics and using it as a place to just like spew.
Speaker 6: Hate Facebook and x where some of the apps people
Speaker 6: mentioned they were avoiding altogether, but not everyone is feeling
Speaker 6: the doom and gloom on social media. And here is
Speaker 6: counting down the days until she can vote early at
Speaker 6: Boston City Hall. I'm not tired.
Speaker 2: I'm like looking forward to the election.
Speaker 5: So hopefully people aren't tuning out and thinking it's like
Speaker 5: a done deal.
Speaker 6: From southe Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Now we're taking a look at that forecast, and we've
Speaker 2: got nothing but good news for you all weekend long.
Speaker 2: It starts today, beautiful sunshine, an ice fall, breeze out there,
Speaker 2: mid sixties, beautiful afternoon, especially if you've got those Friday
Speaker 2: soccer games or football, you have got some tremendous weather
Speaker 2: in store for you later on. This afternoon's clear Tonight,
Speaker 2: those back down into the forties and upper thirties. Your
Speaker 2: Saturday Tomorrow sunshine highs around seventy, and then by Sunday
Speaker 2: mid seventies. As we round out the weekend with plenty
Speaker 2: of sunshine, we kick things off almost closer to eighty
Speaker 2: degrees north and west of Boston as we begin next week.
Speaker 2: So we are in quite a nice little warming trend,
Speaker 2: and we're going to ride it all the way through
Speaker 2: the weekend, starting into next week. And it is late October.
Speaker 2: Remember right now in Boston, we're at forty five degrees
Speaker 2: here with clear skies. It is six oh six on
Speaker 2: WBZ News Radio. Well, Boston businesses are getting ready to
Speaker 2: take advantage of a rare opportunity. Hundreds of new liquor
Speaker 2: licenses will soon be available.
Speaker 7: We move and lose this place. Business owners like Dimitrius
Speaker 7: came out to an informational meeting with help from the
Speaker 7: city applying for new liquor licenses. A recent bill signed
Speaker 7: by the governor paves the way for two hundred and
Speaker 7: twenty five new licenses over three years. Abigail Fiery with
Speaker 7: Boston Small Business Unit tells me this is a once
Speaker 7: in a lifetime chance, and we are trying to peel away,
Speaker 7: make it transparent, make sure we're reaching the right people.
Speaker 7: They're holding a series of these talks, especially in neighborhoods
Speaker 7: where pricey licenses have been largely out of reach. This
Speaker 7: is the kind of thing that could move people from
Speaker 7: into the middle class that haven't been there in Hyde Park,
Speaker 7: I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: One of the biggest days of the year down at
Speaker 2: the Charles the head of the Charles Regatta, beginning at
Speaker 2: seven o'clock this morning. The best crew teams from around
Speaker 2: the globe descending upon the Charles River. Some twenty four
Speaker 2: hundred local volunteers helped this amazing tradition get underway. Runs
Speaker 2: through the weekend, and like we've been mentioning, they have
Speaker 2: certainly lucked out as we've got that great weekend of
Speaker 2: wather that'll be with us Friday, Saturday and Sunday for
Speaker 2: all three days of the event. Also, wbz's James Rojas
Speaker 2: will be checking in from there this morning at six
Speaker 2: ZHO seven. From Boats to Bikes, a new study looking
Speaker 2: at just how many lives could have been saved if
Speaker 2: more motorcycle riders wore helmets.
Speaker 5: Erk TiO from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says
Speaker 5: there were more than one hundred ninety three thousand motorcycle
Speaker 5: deaths from nineteen seventy six to twenty twenty two. In
Speaker 5: a new report, IIHS estimates more than twenty two thousand
Speaker 5: lives could have been saved if every state required all
Speaker 5: riders to wear a helmet.
Speaker 7: Helmet was that cover all riders, not just ones of
Speaker 7: certain ages, are the most effective way to increase helmet use.
Speaker 5: IIHS found in states with all rider laws, helmet use
Speaker 5: was typically two to three times higher than in states
Speaker 5: without those laws. Chris Van Cleeve, CBS News.
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Speaker 2: I'm Jim McKay, WBZ, Boston's news radio