Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We defining local news.
Speaker 3: It's sixty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock, good
Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers and we start off in Plymouth.
Speaker 3: We're learning new details this afternoon after a deadly downtown
Speaker 3: shooting last night. The victims now been identified as forty
Speaker 3: one year old Brent Berkeley. Felli say he and the
Speaker 3: suspect were involved in a minor traffic incident that turned
Speaker 3: into a fie and Berkeley was shot. This happened around
Speaker 3: five forty five pm at the intersection of Maine and
Speaker 3: Middle Streets, horrifying witnesses. Officials also now say the suspects,
Speaker 3: eighteen month old toddler, had been in his car. Twenty
Speaker 3: three year old David Jerome is in custody. He's facing
Speaker 3: charges including murder and reckless child endangerment. The polls have
Speaker 3: now been opened for a full week in Massachusetts, with
Speaker 3: early voting continuing through the first of November, and if
Speaker 3: you haven't registered to vote yet, you only have a
Speaker 3: few hours left.
Speaker 1: Procrastinators, you have until five o'clock to register to vote
Speaker 1: in person or to update your address for the November fifth, election,
Speaker 1: get out to an early voting location available in all cities.
Speaker 1: In towns until five registered to vote, and if you'd
Speaker 1: like to do so, you can cast an early ballot
Speaker 1: online to voter registration available till just before midnight for
Speaker 1: most residents. If you're on able to vote in person
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts on election day or during the early voting period,
Speaker 1: Tuesday is the deadline to request a mail in ballot.
Speaker 1: Make sure you request your ballot in enough time to
Speaker 1: receive and return it. Any questions head to our website
Speaker 1: at wdbznewsradio dot com for more information. Charlie Berger on
Speaker 1: WDBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3: It's the first day for early voting in Michigan and
Speaker 3: both presidential candidates are spending time there. Former President Trump
Speaker 3: held a rally in Novie earlier. Soon, Vice President Harris
Speaker 3: is expected to take the stage in Kalamazoo alongside former
Speaker 3: First Lady Michelle Obama. More from Michigan with CBS's Ryan Recker.
Speaker 2: State law requires at least nine days of early voting,
Speaker 2: which runs until Sunday, November third. Richard LeBlanc is the
Speaker 2: city clerk at Westland and wants you to know it's
Speaker 2: nearly the same experience as voting on election day, with
Speaker 2: one big difference.
Speaker 4: We anticipate that when folks are done, if they've not
Speaker 4: done this before, they'll say, Yep, it was just like
Speaker 4: in my precinct. But the difference being if I went
Speaker 4: to the precinct time election day for the presidential I'm
Speaker 4: probably going to be in mind for an hour and
Speaker 4: a half here not so.
Speaker 2: You can also pick up one of those popular I
Speaker 2: voted stickers. Otherwise, election day is a week from Tuesday,
Speaker 2: that's November fifth.
Speaker 3: Right now, former President Trump is set to hold a
Speaker 3: rally in State College, Pennsylvania. NASA says an astronaut has
Speaker 3: been released from the hospital after returning from space. The
Speaker 3: unidentified astronaut was briefly hospitalized for an unspecified medical issue
Speaker 3: yesterday after spending eight months up on the International Space Station.
Speaker 3: That crew of three Americans and one Russian were supposed
Speaker 3: to come back to Earth two months ago, but that
Speaker 3: was delayed by Boeing Starliner capsule and stormy weather. Meantime,
Speaker 3: of course, Sunny Williams of Needham and fellow astronaut Butch
Speaker 3: Wilmore are still waiting to come home. They are expected
Speaker 3: to return to Earth in February, and looking at the
Speaker 3: four day forecast, it's mainly clear and brisk tonight forty
Speaker 3: two for the low in Boston, some inland suburbs, we'll
Speaker 3: see temps in the mid thirties tonight. It's chillier tomorrow
Speaker 3: with sunshine and temps in the upper fifties. We're near fifty,
Speaker 3: so staying chili for Monday with lots of sun and
Speaker 3: then it turns milder again for Tuesday, fifty five to
Speaker 3: fifty nine.
Speaker 5: For the high.
Speaker 3: It's sixty four degrees with a gusty wind blowing through
Speaker 3: Boston and it's mostly sunny at four oh five. A
Speaker 3: major airline is developing some embarrassing technology to prevent passengers
Speaker 3: from cutting in line. WBZ Sherry Small explains.
Speaker 5: Let's face it, nobody likes people who cut in line,
Speaker 5: and that includes the folks at America Airlines. To help
Speaker 5: make sure people wait until their assigned boarding group is called,
Speaker 5: American Airlines is testing new technology that audibly shames passengers
Speaker 5: trying to scan a ticket and sneak in ahead of
Speaker 5: time by telling the gate agent out loud someone's not
Speaker 5: playing by the rules. The gate agent is then supposed
Speaker 5: to politely tell the passenger to get back in line.
Speaker 5: They're trying out the new system at three airports in Albuquerque,
Speaker 5: New Mexico, Tucson, Arizona, and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Speaker 5: in Virginia. It's in the trial phase right now, but
Speaker 5: so far American Airline says it's pleased with the results.
Speaker 5: Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: The owner of a Boston pizza chain convicted of threatening, abusing,
Speaker 3: and forcing his undocumented employees to work has been sentenced
Speaker 3: to more than eight years in prison. The Boston Globe
Speaker 3: reports yesterday a judge sentenced Stavros Papantoniotis to federal prison time.
Speaker 3: He also has to pay a thirty five thousand dollars
Speaker 3: fine and restitution to his victims. Back in pop and
Speaker 3: Tooniatis was convicted on forced labor charges. Prosecutors say he
Speaker 3: would threaten to get his employees deported, attack them, and
Speaker 3: force them to work as many as fourteen hours a day,
Speaker 3: seven days a week. Pop and Tooniotis lives in Westwood
Speaker 3: and owned Stash's Pizza with locations in Roslindale and Dorchester.
Speaker 3: His lawyers say they plan to appeal. Health officials are
Speaker 3: still trying to pinpoint the source of a deadly growing
Speaker 3: ecoli outbreak linked to McDonald's quarter pounders. Investigators are focused
Speaker 3: on raw onions. As we hear from CBS's Karen.
Speaker 6: Morphith, McDonald's announced they will stop sourcing onions from Taylor Farms,
Speaker 6: Colorado facility indefinitely. The vast food chain previously announced they
Speaker 6: stop serving quarter pounders at twenty percent of their nearly
Speaker 6: fourteen thousand US locations. Taylor Farms, as supplier to McDonald's,
Speaker 6: has also voluntarily recalled some of its yellow onions. The
Speaker 6: company told CBS News our priority remains the health and
Speaker 6: safety of our consumers.
Speaker 3: No cases have been reported in New England as of
Speaker 3: the latest The CDC says at least seventy five people
Speaker 3: have been sickened and one person has been killed in Colorado.
Speaker 3: You're now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.
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Speaker 3: Madison Rogers, WBZ, Boston's news Radio