Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good morning,
Speaker 1: six o'clock Thursday here in Boston, and we are under
Speaker 1: clear skies or mostly clear skies fifty five here in
Speaker 1: the city. The News at six is brought to us
Speaker 1: by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel
Speaker 1: drive headquarters. Welcome aboard this Thursday. I'm Jeff Brown. Will
Speaker 1: make this short and oh so sweet.
Speaker 2: Times of sun and clouds today and rather nice to
Speaker 2: high seventy to seventy four.
Speaker 1: And is wbzachu weather meteorologist Joe Lunberg near eighty tomorrow afternoon,
Speaker 1: almost a week after one of the deadliest and most
Speaker 1: expensive hurricanes in the United States this century, about a
Speaker 1: million customers remain without electricity from Florida all the way
Speaker 1: to Virginia this morning, the Carolina's hardest hit as you
Speaker 1: can imagine, thousands are without water as well. The environmental
Speaker 1: hazards are just beginning to be felt even where water
Speaker 1: is avail, its contaminated, officials say, and the presence of
Speaker 1: mold is also starting to take effect and hitting community's
Speaker 1: hardest hit by Helene. Officials in Asheville, North Carolina, say
Speaker 1: it may take weeks before clean water returns to the Taps.
Speaker 1: It's Rushashana this morning, the beginning of the Jewish high holidays.
Speaker 1: Security at local synagogues and places of worship has been
Speaker 1: increased in Greater Boston Today. Israel continues to vow revenge
Speaker 1: on Iran for launching hundreds of missiles inside its territory
Speaker 1: this week. President Biden says the United States will continue
Speaker 1: to support Israel's right to defend itself, but stop short
Speaker 1: and warns Prime Minister Benjamin Etnyaho of attacking Iran's nuclear sites.
Speaker 1: That would be a line in the sand that mister
Speaker 1: Biden will not cross. Israel also continues its air and
Speaker 1: ground assault into southern Lebanon as thousands of Americans in
Speaker 1: that country try to evacuate baseball's Wildcard playoffs. How magic
Speaker 1: continues the Tigers sweetly Usher they call on ESPN as
Speaker 1: the Tigers knock out the Astros in Houston after seven
Speaker 1: consecutive runs to the American League Championship Series. San Diego,
Speaker 1: Kansas City also advanced. Mets and Brewers will decide the
Speaker 1: winner of that series. Tonight, Preseats in Hockey sends the
Speaker 1: Bruins out west to Los Angeles. They get the Kings
Speaker 1: later on Week five of the NFL gets underway. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay visits Atlanta. Still nothing is moving. It ports
Speaker 1: from Boston to the Gulf of Mexico this morning. Some
Speaker 1: forty five thousand DOC workers continue to strike, looking for
Speaker 1: better pay, better benefits, and more protections from automation. Now
Speaker 1: many of us are panic buying. With a raid on
Speaker 1: grocery stores for any paper products we can find, and
Speaker 1: toilet paper especially, we might as well say Hi, I'm me,
Speaker 1: it's me, and the problem it's me. Experts say any
Speaker 1: shortages of any goods on store shelves these days is
Speaker 1: likely caused by the panic buying and not the strike itself. Well,
Speaker 1: state health officials say a summertime threat is beginning to
Speaker 1: fade fast.
Speaker 3: It's a welcome spot of news for this dat. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I believed that the DPHS announced the risk level of
Speaker 3: triple E is no longer high or critical in any
Speaker 3: base day community, a big change from just a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago when sixteen cities and towns across the state
Speaker 3: were deemed an excessive risk for the virus as well
Speaker 3: West Nile.
Speaker 2: It's always a concern, especially with young kids.
Speaker 3: You know. The Public Health Commissioner says risk levels for
Speaker 3: the viruses will remain moderate until the first tird frost
Speaker 3: of the season and encourages people to keep up with
Speaker 3: measures to avoid mosquito bites. Chris Foalm a WBZ Boston's
Speaker 3: News radio, and.
Speaker 1: We begin to turn the page as we are starting
Speaker 1: to see some improvements in our overall weather conditions. Actually
Speaker 1: a nice day and the afternoon yesterday that's going to
Speaker 1: continue today. We're going to see a pretty decent sunrise
Speaker 1: as well, that's on the way. It's fifty five right
Speaker 1: now in the city and a mix of sun and
Speaker 1: clouds throughout the rest of the afternoon. High temperatures will
Speaker 1: be in the low seventies, partly cloudy, back into the
Speaker 1: fifties overnight tonight. Some fog might read us tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: Otherwise it's going to be partly to mostly sunny, with
Speaker 1: highs getting very close to eighty to round out the
Speaker 1: work week. Tomorrow. Looks like the weekend is going to
Speaker 1: be pretty dry for the most part and pretty good
Speaker 1: looking two. We might see a couple of showers in
Speaker 1: isolated spots to greet us on Saturday morning, but otherwise
Speaker 1: mix the sun and clouds for the rest of the weekend.
Speaker 1: Daytime highs will be in the seventies on Saturday, mid
Speaker 1: to upper sixties on Sunday. All in all, not bad
Speaker 1: right now, mainly clear skies in fifty five in Boston
Speaker 1: at six oh five on this Thursday morning. New research
Speaker 1: finds traffic in all cities is not created equal.
Speaker 2: Does Cambridge deserve the ranking of twenty eighth most stress
Speaker 2: free city to drive in according to a poll of
Speaker 2: three thousand so called seasoned travelers. Yes, but those who
Speaker 2: live and work here would begs differ.
Speaker 1: Do you find that accurate?
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: We tried driving through Hobbit Square three o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that because it's a lot of hustle
Speaker 1: and bustle in the neighborhoods, the traffics out of control.
Speaker 2: Soe you'll agree with that absolutely not. Kembridge is certainly
Speaker 2: a nice place to live in a stressfu replace to
Speaker 2: live generally, but to drive, I'm not so sure. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Wooster came in as the seventy second least stressful city
Speaker 2: to drive in. Lewiston, Maine took the number one spot
Speaker 2: in Cambridge James Rojas WBZ Boston Snooze Radio. The MBTA's
Speaker 2: Green Line extension remains off limits this morning. Shuttle buses
Speaker 2: once again are in place following this week's derailment near
Speaker 2: the Leechmere stop, and this is going to be in
Speaker 2: place until further notice. Federal investigators from the NTSB, along
Speaker 2: with the MBTA continue to take a closer look at
Speaker 2: the train and the tracks, although early indications point to
Speaker 2: operator error as the cause that forced passengers to hoof
Speaker 2: it along the tracks and left seven with minor injuries
Speaker 2: earlier this week. Preliminary results from the NTSB's investigation aren't
Speaker 2: expected to be released in about a month. Grief counselors
Speaker 2: will be available for kids at the Dana Barrows Basketball
Speaker 2: Club in Stoton after a sixth grader from Brockton collapses
Speaker 2: from what's being described as a medical event. The eleven
Speaker 2: year old middle schooler was given CPR on the court,
Speaker 2: but later died after being taken to the hospital, official
Speaker 2: say and investigation is underway, but the death does not
Speaker 2: appear to be suspicious. A substitute teacher in Lynnfield Public
Speaker 2: Schools has been fired. Official say Jarrick Reiner has connections
Speaker 2: to hate based ideology and is no longer employed or
Speaker 2: allowed on school grounds. A self described neo Nazi. School
Speaker 2: officials tell parents his behavior does not align with school values.
Speaker 2: The numbers are in and the eyes have it. Ratings
Speaker 2: for this week's vice presidential debate are out. Let's dig
Speaker 2: into it now with wz's Drew mohollands. Good morning, Andrew,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Jeffrey. America is watching.
Speaker 1: Center Vance has said that there's a climate problem.
Speaker 4: In the past, Donald Trump called it a hoax, that.
Speaker 2: They really believe that climate change is serious. What they
Speaker 2: would be doing is more manufacturing and more energy production
Speaker 2: in the United States of America.
Speaker 4: And of course, heard on the iHeart app End right
Speaker 4: here ONBBZ News Radio, forty three million of US tuned in.
Speaker 4: And that may sound like a lot, but rating service
Speaker 4: Nielsen says that's down twenty five percent from twenty twenty
Speaker 4: s face off between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. The debate,
Speaker 4: hosted by CBS News, was simulcast on more than a
Speaker 4: dozen networks, but CBS takes the cake with nearly ten
Speaker 4: million viewers. Jeffery, it's a lot of eyeballs. Yeah, all right, Drew,
Speaker 4: thank you.
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