Speaker 1: This is Bellanbzy, Boston's news radio redefining local.
Speaker 2: News sixty three degrees in Boston at three o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. For residents of Florida
Speaker 2: who haven't evacuated ahead of Hurricane Milton. Time is quickly
Speaker 2: running out. But for those still looking to get out
Speaker 2: of dodge, Florida's Governor Rod Dessentda says, you don't have
Speaker 2: to take the interstate.
Speaker 3: When you hear evacuate. Don't think you've got to get
Speaker 3: on the interstate and outrun the storm. You can find
Speaker 3: safe places on higher ground, hunker down, and then be
Speaker 3: able to go back to your home when the storm passes.
Speaker 2: The latest update from the National Hurricane Center says Milton
Speaker 2: is regaining some of its strength on the CUSP now
Speaker 2: of becoming a Category five storm again. Top wins one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five miles an hour. It is five
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty miles to the southwest of Tampa, Florida,
Speaker 2: moving at about eight miles an hour. It's expected to
Speaker 2: make landfall sometime tomorrow, probably tomorrow night. Still as a
Speaker 2: major hurricane, President Biden has been connecting with governors of
Speaker 2: states impacted by Hurricane Helene as crews worked to rebuild
Speaker 2: after that devastating storm.
Speaker 4: President Biden says he's spoken to all the political leaders
Speaker 4: in the Southeast region, some more than once, and told
Speaker 4: them anything they ask for they can get from the
Speaker 4: federal government.
Speaker 5: We've gotten overwhelming response, a positive response from everyone from
Speaker 5: the governors of Florida up to North Carolina and mayor's leaders.
Speaker 5: Local Kevi expressed versus their gratitude for the work of
Speaker 5: FEMA and for the work my entire administration.
Speaker 4: The President said he gave state and local officials his
Speaker 4: personal cell phone to reach out over the next several
Speaker 4: days as Milton makes its way toward Florida. Karen Traver's
Speaker 4: ABC News lu Wayne.
Speaker 2: House remembering l Tante. Red Sox Hall of Famer Louis
Speaker 2: Tiana has died. In eight years with the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: Tianto one of his two ERA titles. He's best known
Speaker 2: for his dominant performance in Game one of the nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy five World Series. He tossed a complete game shutout
Speaker 2: and even went one for three at the plate, scoring
Speaker 2: the winning run. Team owner John Henry saying in a
Speaker 2: statement that Tian had an unforgettable presence and a smile
Speaker 2: that could light up Fenway. His former teammate Fred Lynn,
Speaker 2: writing on ex the Ti was a big game pitcher
Speaker 2: and a funny, genuine guy who loved his family and baseball.
Speaker 2: Louis Tiant was eighty three State Attorney General Andrea Campbell
Speaker 2: joining a multi state lawsuit accusing TikTok of harming its
Speaker 2: young users. The attorney General says TikTok's parent company intentionally
Speaker 2: designed the app to be addictive and harmful so younger users.
Speaker 2: The suit claims the company deceived the public about how
Speaker 2: it was working to keep the app safe.
Speaker 6: Our roll was to hold the.
Speaker 3: Company accountable for its unlawful conduct and to stop the
Speaker 3: company from engaging in practices that exploited our.
Speaker 2: Young people for profit. In a statement, TikTok tells WBZ
Speaker 2: News Radio it disagrees with the inaccurate and misleading claims
Speaker 2: in the lawsuit and that the company has added mandatory
Speaker 2: and voluntary safeguard in the app. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of hotly contested legislative races across the country this election season,
Speaker 2: but experts say you won't find one in Massachusetts. The
Speaker 2: commonwealth ranked is dead last on politics site ballot Pedia's
Speaker 2: annual state legislative Competitiveness Report. The authors found only ten
Speaker 2: percent of the seats in the state legislature were opened
Speaker 2: during the primaries, and only eighteen incumbents had contested primaries.
Speaker 2: If you're a fan of the fall weather, this is
Speaker 2: a week for you. We've got the sunshine around today.
Speaker 2: Temperatures have been into the sixties. Tonight will fall to
Speaker 2: about fifty Downtown mid forties and many of the inland
Speaker 2: suburbs a sunshine Tomorrow mid sixties and then Tomorrow night
Speaker 2: partly cloudy, low forty eight. Thursday about sixty degrees or
Speaker 2: so with mostly sunny skies. It's going to be chilly.
Speaker 2: We may fall into the thirties in many of the
Speaker 2: suburbs Thursday nights. We call that crisp air. Friday, mostly sunny,
Speaker 2: a bit milder in the afternoon. Sixty five for the
Speaker 2: high temperature. It is sixty three right now in Boston.
Speaker 2: A big bump in cash soon. We'll make ferry rides smooth.
Speaker 2: They're in Quincy of the Bez's Kyles Shaffle as the tales.
Speaker 2: It started out as a way for people to get
Speaker 2: to work.
Speaker 1: The original per that was built was built to ferry
Speaker 1: the workers to Deer Island and the pair has gone
Speaker 1: aways a little bit and we need a new investment
Speaker 1: here and that's what today's about.
Speaker 6: And as Quincy Mayor Thomas Cook will tell you, this
Speaker 6: Quantum Point Park Ferry Pier still is, but many more
Speaker 6: people use it these days. Now the city and the
Speaker 6: tier are looking to entice even more riders with a
Speaker 6: four million dollars touch up of the decades old pier.
Speaker 6: Congressman Stephen Lynch helped them get the money.
Speaker 2: Trying to get people out of their cars onto the ferry,
Speaker 2: especially the heavy traffic that comes from the South Shore
Speaker 2: in my district. He says.
Speaker 6: Ridership is up one hundred and thirty percent year over year.
Speaker 6: The mayor says city residents and officials have been pushing
Speaker 6: to revamp the peer for years, but with the money
Speaker 6: now in hand.
Speaker 1: I think we're finally no pun in tend but we're
Speaker 1: all rowing in the same direction.
Speaker 6: Kyles Schaffle to be BZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: City of Boston announcing who will be tasked with studying
Speaker 2: the impact of Carnie hospitals closing. Boston Public Health Commissioner
Speaker 2: doctor Bisola o Jikutu and the President of the League
Speaker 2: of Community Health Senters, Michael Curry, will co chair the group.
Speaker 2: They'll be joined by several politicians, doctors, and healthcare professionals.
Speaker 2: They've been tasked with assessing what the health needs for
Speaker 2: the community are now that Carney Hospital is closed. They'll
Speaker 2: make a recommendation to the Mayor and the governor about
Speaker 2: what the next steps should be. Tennis legend tapped is
Speaker 2: the Grand Marshal of the next Rose Bowl Parade.
Speaker 7: Billy Jan King says she knew early in her life
Speaker 7: that she wanted to be a champion of equality. She says,
Speaker 7: in each of us as an influencer.
Speaker 5: So next time you see a woman leading, don't limit
Speaker 5: or underestimate her.
Speaker 7: King was the first woman athlete to receive the Presidential
Speaker 7: Medal of Freedom and the first individual woman athlete to
Speaker 7: receive the Congressional Gold Medal. She led on the court
Speaker 7: and in other endeavors, and has been chosen to lead
Speaker 7: the one hundred and thirty sixth Rose Bowl Parade. Billy
Speaker 7: Jen King will also be part of the coin flip
Speaker 7: for the game Jennifer Kuiper, CBS News.
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