Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News, sixty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. New York's mayor is
Speaker 2: under indictment. Federal prosecutors say Mayor Eric Adams was involved
Speaker 2: in illegal activities and he was for some time.
Speaker 3: Mayor Adams engaged in a long running conspiracy in which
Speaker 3: he solicited and knowingly accepted illegal campaign contributions.
Speaker 2: In the US. Attorney Damian Williams says the charges against
Speaker 2: Adams are connected to bribes from Turkish officials, and the
Speaker 2: mayor funneled the money into his campaign as contributions and
Speaker 2: also accepted at least one hundred thousand dollars in travel benefits.
Speaker 2: The mayor is urging New Yorkers not to rush to judgment.
Speaker 1: This is not surprising to us at all, the actions
Speaker 1: that have unfolded over the last ten months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the leak and terry the demonize. Adam says he
Speaker 2: will remain in office while he fights his legal battles
Speaker 2: and looks forward to defending himself. A guilty play in
Speaker 2: the New Hampshire courtroom today from a mother accused of
Speaker 2: killing her five year old son. Danielle Duffiney, pleaded guilty
Speaker 2: to second degree murder along with two counts of witness
Speaker 2: tampering in the death of Elijah Lewis, who was discovered
Speaker 2: missing and then found dead in October of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one in a park in Abington. Often. His boyfriend, Joseph Staff,
Speaker 2: pleaded guilty to manslaughter, second degree assault, and other charges
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. The boy's mother now faces up
Speaker 2: to fifty five years in prison. Florida residents preparing for
Speaker 2: a Category three storm that is heading their way, and
Speaker 2: it's heading there quickly. Hurricane Helene expected to make landfall
Speaker 2: on Florida's Gulf Coast tonight with a storm surge of
Speaker 2: up to twenty feet. ABC's Karen Travers as the latest
Speaker 2: female administrator.
Speaker 4: Dean Chriswell told residents in the path of Hurricane Helen
Speaker 4: to take the storm seriously and listen to local officials.
Speaker 3: Take the storm serious. People in Hurricane Helene's path, you
Speaker 3: need to listen to your local officials. If they tell
Speaker 3: you to evacuate, please do so. And if they tell
Speaker 3: you to shelter in place, then that's what you should do.
Speaker 2: Chris will said, at the President's direction, we.
Speaker 3: Have over eleven hundred personnel so far across the federal
Speaker 3: government supporting the preparedness efforts for this storm.
Speaker 2: Karen travers ABC News the White House. The four o'clock
Speaker 2: update from the National Hurricane Center has the storm at
Speaker 2: a category three with sustained winds of one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty miles an hour. It is right now one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty five miles to the south of Apalachi Cola
Speaker 2: and moving at more than fifteen miles an hour. Defense
Speaker 2: Secretary of Lord Austin's in London. He's pushing for a
Speaker 2: twenty one day ceasefire between Israel and has belonged.
Speaker 1: What Austin says, we now face the risk of an
Speaker 1: all out, full scale war, which could be devastating for
Speaker 1: both sides. See sees it a diplomatic solution, not a
Speaker 1: military one, can still be applied. It's the only way,
Speaker 1: he says, to ensure that display civilians on both sides
Speaker 1: can finally go back home. Ask whether the US might
Speaker 1: place limits on its weapon supplies to Israel should it
Speaker 1: carry out a ground invasion. The Secretary did not directly
Speaker 1: answer Tom Rivers ABC News at the Foreign.
Speaker 2: Desk coming up on WBZ Broadway, set to pay tribute
Speaker 2: to a legendary actor. As we checked the four day
Speaker 2: after weather forecast, the rains on the way, and in fact,
Speaker 2: depending on where you are, the rain may already be there.
Speaker 2: We've had this precipitation blob pushing in from the west
Speaker 2: and slightly to the south. It's pushing off to the
Speaker 2: north and east, so here we go. We've got some
Speaker 2: pretty hefty downpours now as they enter parts of Central Mass,
Speaker 2: northern Rhode Island. Uxbridge is getting a lot of rain here,
Speaker 2: Worcester just gut a bunch. Grafton also under the gun,
Speaker 2: and then up toward the turnpike in Westborough we've got
Speaker 2: some rain falling and more rain pushing in close to
Speaker 2: the one twenty eight corridor now and some of it's
Speaker 2: wrapped around up to the north. At this point. Danver's
Speaker 2: getting some rain Salem right on the edge and lane
Speaker 2: as well. So it's there and it's coming. If it
Speaker 2: hasn't gotten to you already, it'll be with us for
Speaker 2: several hours through the evening. They will be off and
Speaker 2: on showers and off and on downpours, maybe some gusty
Speaker 2: wins to deal with as well, and then later tonight
Speaker 2: just showers and they'll fade away. Last over the south
Speaker 2: coast Capean Islands, which may have to wait till tomorrow
Speaker 2: morning to get out of the rain. A warmer day
Speaker 2: tomorrow with sun and clouds, high seventy six, and then
Speaker 2: on Saturday and Sunday we'll have some sun, some clouds.
Speaker 2: Temperature's mid sixties at the coast, about seventy or so inland.
Speaker 2: Right now it is sixty eight degrees in Boston the
Speaker 2: North Short Music Theater and Beverly is cranking out the
Speaker 2: music legends a big night in the history of rock
Speaker 2: and roll when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins,
Speaker 2: and Elvis Presley got together at Sun Records in Memphis
Speaker 2: for one of the greatest jam sessions ever. The busies
Speaker 2: Droomal Holland went backstage at this show because you're mine,
Speaker 2: I walked the line.
Speaker 4: Billion dollar quartech going on right now.
Speaker 1: One of the stars of the show is Blake Burgess.
Speaker 2: Blake, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well about yourself, outstanding a little bit about
Speaker 1: your character here?
Speaker 2: First of all, well, I get the absolute honor to
Speaker 2: play Johnny Cash back into the height of his prime.
Speaker 2: And it's an absolute honor to really portray an American legend.
Speaker 2: Finding yourself walking around town doing the Johnny Cash accent.
Speaker 2: Does that take a lot of work. It does take
Speaker 2: some time to get out of I'll say that for sure.
Speaker 1: So I'm talking definitely lower than I normally would. Bill
Speaker 1: Haney here, how are you, Bill?
Speaker 2: I'm getting you to and Drew, good to see you again.
Speaker 2: Sounds just like him, doesn't he.
Speaker 1: It's a little scary actually when he really got going
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: And look at his face, he looks just like him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a good looking guy, very good younger version.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: I know you've seen the show.
Speaker 2: You love it, and this cast is absolutely terrific. Everything
Speaker 2: about this show has done everything I wanted to.
Speaker 1: Do at Jillion Dollar Court Set, Drew Bohollan w b
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Speaker 2: A big honor tonight for a big legend. The Great
Speaker 2: White Way dims its lights for Darth Vader, Mufasa and
Speaker 2: many other legendary characters.
Speaker 4: Broadway will go dark Thursday evening to honor the life
Speaker 4: of the two time Tony Award winning actor James Earl Jones.
Speaker 4: Jones's career span almost seven decade on Broadway, after getting
Speaker 4: his start in nineteen fifty seven as an understudy in
Speaker 4: The Egghead, but he's starred in several movies like The
Speaker 4: Sandlot In Star Wars, he received the twenty seventeen Special
Speaker 4: Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, and years later the Core
Speaker 4: Theater was renamed in his honor. Jones won a few
Speaker 4: performers to be an Emmy, Grammy Tonian Oscar winner died
Speaker 4: earlier this month at the age of ninety three. I'm
Speaker 4: Natalie Magliori.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio