Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sunny and fifty five degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock.
Speaker 2: Good Saturday morning. Thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening. Picture perfect fall weather weekend.
Speaker 3: Let's continue for today with a warmer data start the weekend.
Speaker 1: We'll have a high near seventy.
Speaker 2: Act you weather Meteorologist LaTroy Thornton there. The full forecast
Speaker 2: is coming right up early in person. Voting for the
Speaker 2: November fifth election is now under way in Massachusetts. Secretary
Speaker 2: of State Bill Galvin's office says the state sent out
Speaker 2: more than one point three million ballots. About thirty one
Speaker 2: percent of those ballots requested, four hundred and twenty five
Speaker 2: thousand have been returned so far. The countdown to election
Speaker 2: day continues. In law enforcement around the country is preparing
Speaker 2: for whatever security threats may come up. BBC's Nicole Davis
Speaker 2: spoke with the former top man at the BPD.
Speaker 1: Former Boston Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, says technology like social
Speaker 1: media is now making it easy for people to take
Speaker 1: part in what he calls inspirational terror.
Speaker 4: The ability is so easily cretain people. His brother's carrying
Speaker 4: one phone that's not too.
Speaker 1: And the rhetoric is still heating up, as we have
Speaker 1: seen with attempts on the life of former President Trump
Speaker 1: and threats to against state and local election workers.
Speaker 4: The complexity of the issue has changed dramatically and it's
Speaker 4: going to require a lot more investment in security dealing
Speaker 4: with the new threats now.
Speaker 1: He says, local departments have been working on sharing tactics
Speaker 1: and information to make sure everybody poll workers, voters, and
Speaker 1: candidates alike are safe at polling places.
Speaker 4: You should feel secure that the invast majority of them
Speaker 4: will have some type of coverage from the local police,
Speaker 4: and we'll be watching social media extensively.
Speaker 1: Nicole Davis WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Picketing is now suspended at the Omni Boston Seaport and
Speaker 2: Omni Parker House hotels. The union representing workers announcing a
Speaker 2: tentative agreement on a new contract. Details, though, are being
Speaker 2: withheld pending the outcome of tomorrow's ratification vote. If the
Speaker 2: contract is approved, workers will be back on the job
Speaker 2: there on Monday. Unite Here Local twenty six represents hotel
Speaker 2: workers at more than thirty properties in Boston whose contracts
Speaker 2: expired at the end of August. No word yet though
Speaker 2: on any progress in talks involving striking workers at Hilton
Speaker 2: Park Plaza and Hilton Boston. Logan Hezbla apparently stepping up
Speaker 2: attacks on Israel, suspected in a drone attack on the
Speaker 2: home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister
Speaker 2: and his wife were not there at the time. In
Speaker 2: Israeli officials report no casualties. Meanwhile, no let up in
Speaker 2: fighting between Hamas and Israel following the death of Hamas
Speaker 2: leader Yaha Sinwar. The latest from ABC's Tom Sufi Burris.
Speaker 5: President Biden is cool, the kidding at Saiwow an opportunity
Speaker 5: to try and get a seesepot in and maybe in Gaza.
Speaker 5: But this morning proof once again that this is a
Speaker 5: regional war which is escalating on multiple fronts, and Israel
Speaker 5: is still wearhing its retaliatory strike on Iran, which could
Speaker 5: come at any moments, And.
Speaker 2: There are also questions looming about who will succeed Sinwar,
Speaker 2: with candidates including his brother Mohammed Sinhwar. And now the
Speaker 2: four dawbz ACU weather forecast, you can want to listen
Speaker 2: to this one. It's pretty nice. Highs close to seventy today,
Speaker 2: mainly clear overnight, will cool down to about forty nine
Speaker 2: in the city. In the coolest inland suburbs, it'll be
Speaker 2: closer to forty Tomorrow, highs reaching the mid seventies, mostly
Speaker 2: sunny skies, and then Monday high have seventy seven degrees
Speaker 2: and plenty of sunshine. Unfortunately, we turn that warming trend
Speaker 2: back around with a cool down on Tuesday. Highs in
Speaker 2: the mid to high sixties in the city. Right now
Speaker 2: it's fifty nine degrees sunny. Sky's fifty nine in Randolph,
Speaker 2: fifty eight in Norwal, fifty seven in bra In, sixty
Speaker 2: one in Braintree, and sunshine all across the board. It's
Speaker 2: eleven o five on this Saturday. Pieces of history from
Speaker 2: the bottom of the Atlantic are now on display in Boston.
Speaker 2: Here's WPC's Madison Rogers.
Speaker 3: You're around a corner and suddenly you're in the grand
Speaker 3: staircase of the RMS Titanic, a stunning or nate recreation.
Speaker 3: You can almost feel the ground softly rocking under your feet.
Speaker 3: Even though this exhibition has been seen by thirty five
Speaker 3: million people, the people of Boston have not seen it before.
Speaker 3: Joe Gold is a promoter for Titanic. The artifact exhibition,
Speaker 3: which just opened up at the Saunders Castle Downtown. Recreations
Speaker 3: are the backdrop for over one hundred and fifty haunting
Speaker 3: pieces of history. We have a David arm that was
Speaker 3: taken from the deck of Titanic, that was used to
Speaker 3: lower the lifeboats into the water. From towering hunks of machinery,
Speaker 3: to things like playing cards or a pair of eyeglasses,
Speaker 3: tangible reminders of what we lost. Take a step back
Speaker 3: and look at history, and history comes to life right here.
Speaker 3: The exhibit will be here through May in town. I'm
Speaker 3: Madison Rodgers w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Prosecutors in the Karen Reid case planned to call her father,
Speaker 2: William Reid, as a witness when she has tried for
Speaker 2: a second time in her trial beginning in late January.
Speaker 2: Reed charged in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police
Speaker 2: officer John O'Keefe on January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: in Canton. Reid's first trial ended in a mistrial because
Speaker 2: of a hung jury. The Commonwealth has now asked the
Speaker 2: court to order Verizon Wireless to produce call records, text messages,
Speaker 2: and data from William Reid's account from January twenty ninth
Speaker 2: and January thirtieth. That's overnight the night that O'Keefe's O'Keeffe
Speaker 2: died in the Snow. Special Assistant District Attorney Hank Brennan
Speaker 2: says the request is to compare the timing and the
Speaker 2: frequency of Karen Reid's calls to her father on the
Speaker 2: night of the victim's death, and they will compare that
Speaker 2: to the frequency ease of calls on dates not involving
Speaker 2: the alleged crime. The Massachusetts State Police unit that investigated
Speaker 2: Karen Reid is about to get a new leader. Detective
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Brian Tully, who remains under internal investigation, has been
Speaker 2: moved to another department in the Norfolk County DA's office.
Speaker 2: The job now posted for Tully's old job. In a release,
Speaker 2: State Police Colonel Jeffrey Noble says that the move is
Speaker 2: in the best interests of the department. Trooper Michael Proctor,
Speaker 2: who was in Tully's unit and led the Karen Reid investigation,
Speaker 2: has been suspended without payover disparaging remarks he made about Reid.
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