Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: eighty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parkner. Here's what's happening. Just over two weeks
Speaker 1: to go until election day. Both Vice President Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: and former President Donald Trumper crossing their t's, dotting their
Speaker 1: eyes and hitting the key swing states looking to sway voters.
Speaker 1: The Vice President making stops in three different states today,
Speaker 1: including a town hall in Pennsylvania where she was joined
Speaker 1: by former Republican Congresswoman list Chamy Chance to.
Speaker 2: Say, you know, we're going to reject cruelty. We're going
Speaker 2: to reject the kind of vile vitriol that we've seen
Speaker 2: from Donald Trump. We're going to reject the misogyny that
Speaker 2: we've seen from Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: And JD Vance.
Speaker 1: Meantime, the former president to return to North Carolina today,
Speaker 1: where he visited areas that were ravaged by Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 4: I'm asking.
Speaker 3: Before the former president arrived in North Carolina, the state's
Speaker 3: Democratic governor publicly urged him not to spread misinformation but look.
Speaker 3: Speaking east of Ashville, Donald Trump described FEMA's rescue effort
Speaker 3: as almost nonexistent, and he repeated his unfounded claim that
Speaker 3: the agency has misdirected disaster funding. It's all done, They've
Speaker 3: spent it on illegal migrants. FEMA says the sheltering of
Speaker 3: migrants is funded separately from disaster relief and at a
Speaker 3: fraction of the cost. Stephen Portnoy ABC News.
Speaker 1: Washington former President Trump facing a defamation lawsuit. Earlier today,
Speaker 1: members of the Central Park Five filed the suit against
Speaker 1: the former president, accusing him of spreading false, misleading, and
Speaker 1: defamatory statements about their nineteen eighty nine case during the
Speaker 1: presidential debate last month on ABC Attorneys representing the five
Speaker 1: men filed the civil suit in a federal court in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: They're seeking monetary damages. The men were accused of a
Speaker 1: violent rape of a woman in Central Park in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty nine. They maintained their innocence, but were convict and
Speaker 1: went to prison. A decade after the attack, a different
Speaker 1: man confest and that was confirmed with DNA. The former
Speaker 1: president made comments that the group entered guilty please and
Speaker 1: killed a person ultimately, which is not true. In a
Speaker 1: statement ABC News, a campaign spokesperson for the former president
Speaker 1: calls it another election interference lawsuit. I like the weather
Speaker 1: toid a record today in Boston eighty two degrees. We've
Speaker 1: been unseasonally mild, but it still is closing in on
Speaker 1: November and closing in on flu season. WBC's Mike Maclin
Speaker 1: tells us it's time to get vaccinated in Boston. We'll
Speaker 1: give you free shot.
Speaker 5: The free vaccination clinics will take place across the city
Speaker 5: over the next three weeks. The hope is that Boston
Speaker 5: residents will take advantage of them and protect themselves against
Speaker 5: the flu and COVID nineteen as we head into the
Speaker 5: colder winter months. The clinics are free. This week. There's
Speaker 5: a clinic on Thursday from one to five pm. Next
Speaker 5: week there's a clinic on Tuesday at the Hyde Park
Speaker 5: Community Center and on Saturday at the Mattapean Community Center.
Speaker 5: And the following week there are clinics in East Boston
Speaker 5: and South Boston. No identification and no insurance is required.
Speaker 5: Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Eighty two degrees today in Boston. That tied a record
Speaker 1: set in nineteen twenty, and we will have some warmer
Speaker 1: weather through at least the next couple of days, although
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is going to be a bit of an off
Speaker 1: day near the coast where we'll get a sea breeze.
Speaker 1: So tonight we're clear and mild, temperatures fifties and Boston
Speaker 1: forties and some of the suburbs, and then tomorrow probably
Speaker 1: only in the upper sixties right along the coast with
Speaker 1: a mix of sun and clouds, but we will be milder,
Speaker 1: mid to upper seventies inland. Clear tomorrow and i'd low
Speaker 1: fifty four back into the seventies across the board on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: it looks like mid to upper seventies with some sunshine.
Speaker 1: Then a shower or two pushes across the area late
Speaker 1: Wednesday night into early Thursday and brings in cooler weather.
Speaker 1: The sun will breakout Thursday afternoon, but we'll have temperatures
Speaker 1: only in the low to mid sixties. Right now, it
Speaker 1: is eighty two degrees in Boston that again did tie
Speaker 1: a record for this day, and lots of people getting
Speaker 1: in on this rare summer day feel in the middle
Speaker 1: of fall by going to the beach. Wbz's Carl Stevens
Speaker 1: is at Revere Beach this.
Speaker 6: Time of year, the seagulls usually have America's oldest public
Speaker 6: beach all to themselves, but not when the weather is
Speaker 6: like this. What do you think of this weather?
Speaker 7: I think it's fantastic just to come and sit and
Speaker 7: relax by the beach. Very awesome. I hope we get
Speaker 7: a few well, we got a few more days. It
Speaker 7: is because I want to keep my tan. I'm going
Speaker 7: to Saint Lucia in November.
Speaker 6: Jim drove down from Haveril to worship the waves in
Speaker 6: this sanctuary of sunshine.
Speaker 7: I know after a few more days we could get
Speaker 7: that cold weather. So I used to deliver mail, and
Speaker 7: I love this type of weather. Awesome.
Speaker 6: Right now, it's the sun that's delivering the mail, a
Speaker 6: special delivery package of meteorological perfection. Very awesome from Revere Beach.
Speaker 6: Carl Stevens, WBC Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: You know what would be awesome? Baseball at Fenway Park
Speaker 1: to no About forty nine years ago tonight there was
Speaker 1: and it's perhaps the greatest World Series game ever, certainly
Speaker 1: one of the greatest endings.
Speaker 4: What Socks read Game six of the seventy five World Series.
Speaker 4: The Socks were down six to three in the eighth
Speaker 4: inning when bench player Bernie Carbo hit a three run
Speaker 4: home run to tie it up in fource extra innings,
Speaker 4: and then in the twelfth the shot heard around the world.
Speaker 4: At least New England Socks catcher Carlton Fisk dug into
Speaker 4: the batter's box and burn it the loo five.
Speaker 1: If it's stains fair, hold r.
Speaker 5: We will have a seventh game and it's nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1: Five World Series.
Speaker 4: The image of Fisk waving the ballfares it clanged off
Speaker 4: the foul pole. It's ingrained in a whole generation of
Speaker 4: sports fans around here. The Socks would go on to
Speaker 4: lose Game seven, but the game and all that drama
Speaker 4: lives on forever.
Speaker 6: If it's stains fair, ho ruh.
Speaker 4: Drew moholland WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: City of Boston renaming the North Washington Street Bridge in
Speaker 1: Bill Russell's honor and happened officially at a ceremony this morning.
Speaker 1: Number six, remembered as a decorated champion and civil rights
Speaker 1: icon who transcended sports. CHARLESTOWND will now connect to Boston's
Speaker 1: West and North end, with the William Felton Bill Russell
Speaker 1: Bridge expected to be finished being constructed by April. President
Speaker 1: Biden scheduled to make a trip to New Hampshire. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: The President travels to New Hampshire Technical Institute and Conquered
Speaker 1: he'll deliver remarks on lowering the cost of prescription drugs.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio.