Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: fifty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening with rush fires continuing
Speaker 1: to burn. Air quality is an issue. Officials say the
Speaker 1: quality of the air is at very unhealthy levels and
Speaker 1: because of that. North of Boston, students at Salem High
Speaker 1: School were dismissed early today. Students at the Horace Man
Speaker 1: Laboratory School in Salem got moved to the Witchcraft Heights
Speaker 1: Elementary School. Dozens of fires, meantime are still burning across Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Forty seven active brush fires burning across the state. In Middleton,
Speaker 2: firefighters return to active areas in hopes of stopping the
Speaker 2: fires here from spreading.
Speaker 3: We'll see what Mother Nature brings us tonight, and I
Speaker 3: would envision us probably being here tomorrow at the very
Speaker 3: least and possibly throughout the week.
Speaker 2: Lexington, Lowell, and North Reading among the several communities assisting
Speaker 2: Middleton and containing the now two hundred and twenty five
Speaker 2: or brush fire. This has flames continue to spread throughout Salem.
Speaker 3: That always makes us challenging when you have multiple events
Speaker 3: going on, but you know. Fortunately we have a strong
Speaker 3: mutual aid network that you know, everyone's been fantastic and
Speaker 3: super appreciative of the resources that have been made available to.
Speaker 2: Us firefighters running several water lines through the terrain, but
Speaker 2: dry weather and dead vegetation are bringing added challenges.
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Speaker 1: for residents across Metro Boston. Vice President Kabla Harris will
Speaker 1: deliver it tonight what her campaign calls her closing argument
Speaker 1: speech a week before election day in Washington, with the
Speaker 1: White House as her backdrop, Harris's expected to urge voters
Speaker 1: to turn the page on former President Trump.
Speaker 4: The Harris campaign chose the Ellipse on the National Mall
Speaker 4: for the Vice President's closing argument for very specific reasons.
Speaker 4: It's the site where former President Donald Trump rallied his
Speaker 4: supporters before they storm the Capitol on January sixth. The
Speaker 4: campaign says the location is a symbol of that dark
Speaker 4: time and they want to draw contrast to what Harris
Speaker 4: would bring to the presidency, But officials say this will
Speaker 4: be an optimistic speech and with the White House as
Speaker 4: her backdrop, Harris will tell the nation the good a
Speaker 4: president can do to bring the country together and get
Speaker 4: things done for the American people. Karen Travers ABC News
Speaker 4: the White House.
Speaker 1: Former President Trump stood before the microphone today in Florida.
Speaker 1: The former president says he's been campaigning NonStop for nearly
Speaker 1: two months and says Vice President Harris has destroyed the nation.
Speaker 5: Kamala intends to conflict and keep this misery going, and
Speaker 5: she's going to keep it going as long as she
Speaker 5: can because that's the only way she can get elected.
Speaker 5: She's going out and only criticizing talking about Hitler, and
Speaker 5: not because her record's horrible.
Speaker 1: Trump touched on his top campaign issues, including immigration and crime.
Speaker 1: The former president now off to Pennsylvania checking the four
Speaker 1: day Actually wear the forecast a pretty decent stretch of
Speaker 1: weather here. We're going to get a little bit of rain, tonight,
Speaker 1: probably not much to put a big dent in our
Speaker 1: drought issues, but little rain will push across the area,
Speaker 1: especially after midnight, and temperature is not far from fifty.
Speaker 1: The clouds will give way to sunshine Tomorrow will dry
Speaker 1: it out, breezy temperatures near seventy, and then Tomorrow night
Speaker 1: partly cloudy, low of fifty eight. Thursday, we may make
Speaker 1: a run toward eighty degrees, probably upper seventies most places.
Speaker 1: The record in Boston is eighty one, set in nineteen
Speaker 1: forty six. Doubtful will get there, but we have to
Speaker 1: play the game first to see what the score is.
Speaker 1: So it'll be a quite warm evening for trick or
Speaker 1: treating on Thursday as well. The temperatures will slide back
Speaker 1: a little bit on Friday, not much low seventies for
Speaker 1: the high, and then a shower early gives way to
Speaker 1: sunshine weekend, where it's gonna require us to maybe break
Speaker 1: out the sweatshirts again, Temperatures only in the fifties. Right now,
Speaker 1: it is fifty five degrees in Boston. A lot is
Speaker 1: said about the Witch City during Halloween season, but as
Speaker 1: we hear from Wbc'shile Shaffle, the long shadow cast by
Speaker 1: Salem's got room for plenty of neighbors too.
Speaker 6: Next to the black and orange black hole that is
Speaker 6: Salem this time of year, it would be easy to
Speaker 6: assume that neighboring communities like Peabody get lost in the shuffle.
Speaker 6: Dan Healy says, not so fast. She's the president of
Speaker 6: the Peabody Area Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 7: They planned for it, they expect it, and they book
Speaker 7: up because of the Halloween, so of course it's it's
Speaker 7: a good thing for them, She says.
Speaker 6: Hotels and Peabody get a yearly big boost from the
Speaker 6: Salem overflow. Retail stores and restaurants also see more business
Speaker 6: from curious tourists and overwhelmed locals alike.
Speaker 7: It's a good opportunity to get out of town and
Speaker 7: try another restaurant in a neighboring city that probably doesn't
Speaker 7: have the weight.
Speaker 6: The one drawback are places that don't really interact with
Speaker 6: the crowd, like banks. For them, this time of year
Speaker 6: just means more traffic. But Heally says some of those
Speaker 6: cars are actually missing this year.
Speaker 7: This year, we have not been seeing the traffic patents.
Speaker 6: For that, She gives credit to Salem's aggressive public transit
Speaker 6: ad campaign Kyle Shaffle WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: Today is now until Halloween and safety is key, of
Speaker 1: course for the kids, but also for the pets MSPCA
Speaker 1: with some reminders. Chocolate, the most popular candy given to
Speaker 1: tricker treaders, can be dangerous for the pets, another Halloween
Speaker 1: essential that may pose a danger to pets's costumes. It
Speaker 1: can make it hard for them to see or breathe.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye out for pet anxiety too, including their
Speaker 1: costumes and just the overall excitement of the day. With
Speaker 1: Tom Brady Benching the marriage to Giselle, the modeling superstar
Speaker 1: is found more love and more.
Speaker 8: Gizelle Bunchen is pregnant. See. The forty four year old
Speaker 8: former supermodel is expecting her third child and first since
Speaker 8: her divorced from Tom Brady. Bunch In and the Goat
Speaker 8: have a teen and tween from a thirteen year marriage,
Speaker 8: the father's thirty five year old Joaquim Valente. After some
Speaker 8: contraver about how Brady found out about the pregnancy, TMZ
Speaker 8: reports bunch And told her acts before the news hit
Speaker 8: the media, and as the news broke to the public,
Speaker 8: Brady posts a sunset pick on his Instagram story to
Speaker 8: the tune of The Chicks cover of Landslide by Fleetwood,
Speaker 8: Mac J. Willett, WVZ Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News Radio.