Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News, sixty five degrees and Sonny in Boston at four
Speaker 2: o'clock good Saturday afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers, and let's go
Speaker 2: to the polls. Today is day one. Massachusetts voters are
Speaker 2: the first day rather that base staid voters are able
Speaker 2: to cast their ballots in person ahead of the presidential election,
Speaker 2: and there is more and more attention on those five
Speaker 2: ballot questions. WBZ Sherry Small has a rundown.
Speaker 3: The state auditor ensures that state agencies follow existing laws
Speaker 3: and regulations. Question one on the ballot asks whether the
Speaker 3: auditor should be allowed to investigate the state legislature and
Speaker 3: oversee and evaluate at least some of its activities. Question two,
Speaker 3: if past, would eliminate the state's requirement to pass the
Speaker 3: MCAST exam in order to graduate. Question three a union
Speaker 3: for rideshare drivers. Under current law, uber and lyft drivers
Speaker 3: here in Massachusetts cannot readily form unions. A yes on
Speaker 3: three would change that. Legalizing psychedelic drugs, A yes on
Speaker 3: four would allow the use of naturally occurring psychedelic drugs
Speaker 3: found in plants, things like psilocybin, mescaline, DMT and others,
Speaker 3: allowing them to be grown, shared, used at home, and
Speaker 3: offered by licensed professionals for medicinal use. And Question five
Speaker 3: minimum wage for tipped workers. Waitstaff, bartenders, and others who
Speaker 3: rely heavily on tips are currently guaranteed minimum wage in
Speaker 3: Massachusetts fifteen dollars an hour, but employees can pay as
Speaker 3: little as six seventy five an hour if tips make
Speaker 3: up the difference. A yes on five would require employees
Speaker 3: to pay the full minimum wage. It would also allow
Speaker 3: restaurants to pool and share tips with cooks, bookkeepers, and
Speaker 3: others who don't interact with customers. Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 3: news radio.
Speaker 2: Early voting goes through Friday, November first. It's also the
Speaker 2: first day of early voting in Detroit, and Vice President
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris spend some time getting out the vote there
Speaker 2: this after noon. Political analysts are placing a lot of
Speaker 2: weight on Michigan and Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: If she can't put away the Upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Speaker 4: the whole rest of the map just gets so much
Speaker 4: harder for her. And you also just think about the issues.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of money being spent in
Speaker 4: that area from oil and gas companies trying to push
Speaker 4: back against her campaign. She has to contend with that,
Speaker 4: but look, this is the industrial hub the Midwest, a
Speaker 4: sort of manufacturing hub of the country. So it's really
Speaker 4: a test to see whether her economic message about building
Speaker 4: an economy of the future is breaking through.
Speaker 2: This evening, the Vice president has a rally in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 2: Former President Trump will be in Leatro, Pennsylvania. Meantime, Democrats
Speaker 2: in Congress also just put out a report accusing mister
Speaker 2: Trump of overcharging secret service agents for hotel rooms. This
Speaker 2: is back when he was in office.
Speaker 5: This is a report compiled by Democrats on the House
Speaker 5: Oversight Committee. They accused the Trump organization of consistently jacking
Speaker 5: up the price of hotel rooms for Secret Service agents
Speaker 5: in Trump's then DC hotel. Example they give is when
Speaker 5: the agency approved a waiver for a room that was
Speaker 5: allegedly priced up above three hundred percent above the standard
Speaker 5: government right. The Trump organization denies all of this, and
Speaker 5: they have said they don't profit on hotel room sales
Speaker 5: or any kind of sales to government employees staying at
Speaker 5: their property.
Speaker 2: That's ABC's j O'Brien looking at the four day forecast. Now,
Speaker 2: it's a mainly clear night ahead with a lower round
Speaker 2: forty nine in Boston, cooler inland. Tomorrow is even warmer
Speaker 2: in the afternoon, seventy one to seventy five for the
Speaker 2: high and staying mostly sunny. Tomorrow night, it's mainly clear.
Speaker 2: We have more sunshine and warm temps for Monday, a
Speaker 2: higher around seventy seven degrees, not as warm, but still sunny. Tuesday,
Speaker 2: we're looking at a high in the mid upper sixties.
Speaker 2: Right now, it is seventy in newbury Port. It's sixty
Speaker 2: eight in Attleborough. Here in Boston sixty five degrees with
Speaker 2: a blue sky overhead. At four oh five. It was
Speaker 2: the home opener for the Boston College men's hockey team
Speaker 2: last night. The teams and fans took a moment to.
Speaker 6: More, a powerful moment of silence and stillness inside Conti
Speaker 6: Forum Friday, remembering the immeasurable losses of three hockey heroes.
Speaker 6: BC legends Tony Voss and brothers Johnny and Matthew Goudreau
Speaker 6: died tragically this summer.
Speaker 5: Three stellar players that played up here that were class acts.
Speaker 6: I'm great Gentlemen.
Speaker 2: That report from WBZTVS Julie MacDonald. This season, the Eagles
Speaker 2: are donning special patches on their jerseys with the initials
Speaker 2: the Foss and the Goodrose. The Eagles won the game
Speaker 2: five zero over Aic. Some encouraging news from federal health officials.
Speaker 2: Drug overdose deats have now been falling for six months straight.
Speaker 2: CBS's Michael Tuscano reports there are some questions as to
Speaker 2: what's driving the change.
Speaker 1: Preliminary numbers from the CDC say drug overdose deaths fell
Speaker 1: twelve point seven percent in the twelve months ending in May.
Speaker 1: While welcome, the drop is puzzling to the public health
Speaker 1: experts who have been working for years to stop the
Speaker 1: increase in opioid depths, driven primarily by fentanyl overdose reduction
Speaker 1: strategies like the increased availability of narcon, the rescue medication
Speaker 1: that can reverse opioid overdoses, or in use long before
Speaker 1: the abrupt decrease. Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
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