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Speaker 2: Forty one degrees. We have clear skies in Boston. It
Speaker 2: at six o'clock here on this Thursday morning. It is
Speaker 2: October seventeenth, twenty twenty four. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: joining us. I'm Jim McKay and here's what's happening. Well,
Speaker 2: we've got another brisk morning out there. In fact, this
Speaker 2: morning a lot colder than it was yesterday. Chilly out
Speaker 2: the front door, and don't be surprised if you need
Speaker 2: that tofroster either.
Speaker 1: A good deal of sunshine today but remaining cool.
Speaker 2: A warming friends starts tomorrow. That is WBZ ACU weather
Speaker 2: meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Much of our listening audience waking up
Speaker 2: in the thirties this morning. We're back to sunshine in
Speaker 2: the fifties today, into the sixties, possibly seventy by Saturday.
Speaker 2: We're to the sixties tomorrow meantime at six to oh one,
Speaker 2: Karen Reid is getting the backing of a major civil
Speaker 2: rights group and they're getting involved in her appeal to
Speaker 2: the state's High Court before her retrial.
Speaker 3: The ACLU has filed an amicus brief with the SJC.
Speaker 3: In the case of Karen Reid, they argue the constitution
Speaker 3: protects a person from being retried a second time on
Speaker 3: the scene charges. After a mistrial was declared over the summer,
Speaker 3: jurors reached out to both the prosecution and offense, saying
Speaker 3: they were unanimous to acquit her on leaving the scene
Speaker 3: and second degree murder, but were hung on manslaughter. Her
Speaker 3: legal team is appealing with the state's highest court to
Speaker 3: get those who charges dismiss on the grounds of double jeopardy,
Speaker 3: which the ACLU sites in their filing. They also say
Speaker 3: Judge Beverly Canoni should have pulled the jury before the
Speaker 3: mistrial was declared, but since that was not the case,
Speaker 3: the ACL used as a post verdictearing needs to happen
Speaker 3: to see if the jury was unanimous on charges. One
Speaker 3: in three oral arguments are set for November six. Burke
Speaker 3: McCarthy WBZ Boston's news radio Well.
Speaker 2: At six o two. Still working to recover previous gains
Speaker 2: made and closing the gender pay gap that were lost
Speaker 2: during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: A US Census br report finds that while women have
Speaker 1: returned to work after the pandemic, the gender gap widened
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, for the first time in twenty years.
Speaker 4: People lost a lot.
Speaker 5: Of ground during COVID, and a lot of people had
Speaker 5: to pick up second jobs.
Speaker 1: The Census Bureau says women working full time earned eighty
Speaker 1: three cents on the dollar compared to men, down from
Speaker 1: an historic high of eighty four cents and twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: calling it the first significant widening of the ratio since
Speaker 1: two thousand and three. Alison Keys CBS News.
Speaker 2: And America is taking downsizing to a whole new level.
Speaker 2: The story from wbz's Chris Fauma.
Speaker 5: Getting less but spending the same, if not more, a
Speaker 5: newish reality and consumerism known as strikflation, a product of
Speaker 5: the pandemic, which he notices every time he goes for
Speaker 5: the snacks.
Speaker 6: Bag of chips is all A yeah, is hardly anything
Speaker 6: in it. You know, they've given you a half of
Speaker 6: what you used to get.
Speaker 7: And it's not just chips or crackers or cookies. About
Speaker 7: one third of commonly purchased products of shrunken size, according
Speaker 7: to a new survey, Everything from breakfast items to cleaning products,
Speaker 7: sports drinks to the worst offender of the mall household
Speaker 7: paper products.
Speaker 6: But stuff like paper towels, toilet paper you gotta buy.
Speaker 6: So what are you gonna do? Complain about it? Yeah,
Speaker 6: but these companies know what they're doing. They're not stupid
Speaker 6: and making them money.
Speaker 7: Chris Vama WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: And coming up here in just a few moments. They
Speaker 2: thought it was going to be a clever marketing campaign
Speaker 2: for the new national women's soccer team in Boston, but
Speaker 2: they've already pulled it. We'll explain why in this hour
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Speaker 2: take a look at the four DA WBZ ACI weather forecast,
Speaker 2: we are certainly very cool this morning. In fact, we
Speaker 2: are below freezing. If you're listening from the Merrimack Valley,
Speaker 2: different parts of the North Shore, its like it looks
Speaker 2: like the Cellshore were spared from the under freezing temperatures.
Speaker 2: But we're at twenty nine right now in bill Ricca.
Speaker 2: In points west you're under the freezing mark as well,
Speaker 2: so certainly very cold. Your Hertztruff mentioned scraping off the windshield,
Speaker 2: that is absolutely a reality this morning. Now as we
Speaker 2: climb throughout the day we'll be back into the fifties
Speaker 2: with plenty of sunshine. Tonight pretty chilly once again, but
Speaker 2: we do have a warm up in store. It begins
Speaker 2: tomorrow as we'll be back into the mid sixties, and
Speaker 2: then by Saturday, we're up around seventy degrees Sunday into
Speaker 2: the seventies, and we have beautiful sunshine tomorrow and then
Speaker 2: all the way through the weekend. So we're looking outstanding
Speaker 2: as we head towards middle of October, heading towards late October.
Speaker 2: For this weekend. Right now in Boston, we are at
Speaker 2: forty one degrees. We have clear skies at six oh six.
Speaker 2: Fans in mourning Investigators in Argentina looking into the death
Speaker 2: of thirty one year old Liam Payne, former member of
Speaker 2: One Direction, who died this week after jumping from a balcony.
Speaker 4: Distraught fans remembering One Direction star Liam Payne gathering at
Speaker 4: the Buenos Audis hotel where he was found dead.
Speaker 3: I can't explain how often right now I'm shaking.
Speaker 6: I'm really nervous.
Speaker 1: I can't believe to what's happened going on.
Speaker 4: Pain was a Argentina after attending a former bandmate's concert.
Speaker 4: Authorities say he jumped from his third floor balcony. Police
Speaker 4: had responded to the hotel for reports of a man
Speaker 4: acting erradically. His body later found in the courtyard.
Speaker 2: That is ABC's Andrea FUJII reporting Liam Payne was just
Speaker 2: thirty one years old. Let's six oh seven. The video
Speaker 2: quickly went viral online. This week Patriots defensive tackle Christian
Speaker 2: Barmore and an altercation with police after being pulled over
Speaker 2: for a traffic stop with tinted windows in Rhode Island.
Speaker 2: Barmore took the social media with accusations of racism. Now
Speaker 2: the police union in Rhode Island is looking for an apology.
Speaker 8: Providence Police put out a statement saying the officer acted
Speaker 8: in full compliance with department protocols and state regulations. The
Speaker 8: department added, if there are any concerns or questions about
Speaker 8: this incident, we encourage mister Barmore to reach out to
Speaker 8: the Providence Police Department so we can address them in
Speaker 8: a constructive manner. Barmore deleted a social media post about race.
Speaker 8: At its finest, The Patriots' only comment came from coach
Speaker 8: to Ron Male.
Speaker 1: We're ware the situation. I had a conversation with him
Speaker 1: this morning but you know, like I said, at least
Speaker 1: for this time here with you guys, I just want
Speaker 1: to kind of focus on Jacksonville.
Speaker 4: Barmore was cited for traffic violations.
Speaker 8: The police report did say they found what appeared to
Speaker 8: be a blunt inside an ash cup, along with vials
Speaker 8: of what looked like marijuana.
Speaker 2: Wdbztv's Julie McDonald's reporting Barmore is out for the season
Speaker 2: after getting diagnosed with blood clots back in July, and
Speaker 2: it was supposed to be their brand new marketing campaign,
Speaker 2: but it is over just as quickly as it started.
Speaker 2: The National Women's Soccer League's new team in Boston saying
Speaker 2: they're sorry for its too Many Balls ad campaign. Some
Speaker 2: of the transgender community called it transphobic, while other women's
Speaker 2: sports teams in Boston felt didn't recognize their existence. In
Speaker 2: a statement on social media, the team wrote, we fully
Speaker 2: acknowledged that the content of the campaign did not reflect
Speaker 2: the safe and welcoming environment that we strive to create
Speaker 2: for all. You are now in the loop for news
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