Sixty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. We're following some developments out of Marblehead where teachers have voted to go on strike starting Tuesday if the school committee fails to negotiate a contract for all five bargaining units by Monday night. The Marblehead Teachers Associations as ninety nine percent of members voted in favor of a strike to demand better conditions
for educators, students, and the entire community. Meantime, teachers are striking and walking the picket lines in Beverly and Gloucester.
Educators in Beverly are out in full force for day one on the picking line. They're joining their brothers and sisters at Glossar Public Schools as they also go on strike overstalled contract negotiations. Beverly High School teacher Stephanie andrews.
We don't want to be out here on the lines.
This is important to us, but we want to be in our classrooms and we are ready to get this contract settled as soon as possible so we can get back to work.
Both Beverly and Gloucester school committees release similar statements, calling the vote to strike disappointing. Meanwhile, educators in Fitchburg are planning a meeting next week to talk about fair wages, better working conditions, and other benefits. In Beverly, James Rojas WBZ Boston's News radio or.
Court filings and potentially more drama in the Karen Reid case. Read's legal team is requesting Norfolk DA Michael Morrissey produced personal emails and text messages, and have asked to see sidebar conversations that happened during Reid's first trial. Turny's for reader, looking to see what conversation DA Morrissey had with court
officials and others related to her case. They say recent reporting and documentary evidence demonstrates the DA used as personal e mail to communicate with Stoton District Court personnel and judgeston Is, where the case was before it moved to Superior Court. UBC News Radio has reached out to the DA's office for comment. Random, anonymous and offensive text messages have landed on the phones of people in at least
ten states this week, including here in Massachusetts. ABC's Jim Ryan tells us several federal agencies are looking into it.
The text message orders the recipient, sometimes by name, to report to a plantation. The people who've gotten it have ranged in age from their teens to their eighties. The common threat is that they're black.
I was hurt and I was disappointed the success.
There's nothing comical about it.
I kept thinking what am I done?
The texts are racist and offensive, but are they illegal? The FBI is interested because some of the messages contain threats of violence. Jim Rily and ABC News.
The students at Student High School were among those who received racist messages on Thursday. The Greatest state lawmaker is among many in Washington supporting a new resolution to help service members know how much they're cared for all year round, and not just on veterans dead.
On average, almost twenty veterans are dying by suicide every day. Democratic Senator Jane Chicken of New Hampshire says too many service members feel like they have no way out from their pain.
We've had too many people who have had PTSD and have not been able to get the support they need to sometimes feel lonely and abandon.
Inter National Warrior Call Day. Senator Shaheen teaming up with Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas to co sponsor this resolution. It urges all Americans on November seventeenth to pick up the phone and connect with the service member.
This is an effort to help people know that we are thinking about them. We want to make sure that the resources are there.
It is simple, take a few minutes to call a veteran or service member, you know, talk with them about how they're doing, and remind them of resources like the nine eight eight lifeline that can help. Nicole Davis WBZ Boston's news.
Radius red flag warning up until six o'clock tonight. We do have the dry conditions around these parts, low humidity, and the gusty winds that have been around today. Fire danger is high in the region. Tonight, it'll be mainly clear, still windy, Temperatures about forty in Boston, mid to upper thirties in the suburbs. Tomorrow a blustery day. It will feature sunshine, but we won't warm up much. We'll be in the low fifties and with the wins around and
it may feel a little cooler than that. Temperatures on Sunday we'll get into the mid to upper fifties. Still a little breezy rain is likely to move in here Sunday night, and then Monday, we'll start out with a few lingering showers and then clouds will break from the sun in the afternoon. The temperatures Monday in the mid to upper sixties. Right now sixty three degrees in Boston. The Bruins are taking on the role of holiday helpers today. Wbz's Madison Rogers has more.
I mean, you can't go wrong with Ninja turtles, said Bruins Captain Brad Marshaan, wearing a Santa hat at Target and getting ready to load up his cart.
A lot of people going through a lot of tough times, and if there's an opportunity to bring a smile to anybody's face, you know it's something we want to be part of.
This is the Bruins' annual holiday toy shopping event, a twenty thousand dollars shopping spree for kids and local hospitals who won't be able to come home for the holidays.
We're video games and wars are.
Pavel Zaka picking out some glittery rainbow slime and minecraft legos.
I'm trying to find some books with so trying to.
Look herro ound storry eyed shoppers at Arsenal Yards getting in on the early holiday spirit while the whole team checked their list twice. In Watertown, I'm Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Pretty nice weekend, but we will pull back the temperatures. So how about a trip to Winter Snowport opens up today in the seaport. The annual winter event features activities plus dozens of small businesses. General admission is free, but you can pay for timed entry tickets. Governor Helly and other state leaders celebrating a faster ride on the Orange Line these days.
For the first time in fifteen years, we've eliminated slow zones on the Orange Line.
Governor more heally passed out stickers to riders and thanks. Some of the MBTA crew that helped make this milestone possible were completed earlier this month help the Tea reach this mark. Now the Orange and Blue lines are slow zone free. The governor says, cutting down on people's commute time is a big win.
This is a big deal because we're giving time.
We're giving people time back in their lives because we know that for far too long.
People will have to wait on the tee because of these slow zones.
To General manager Phil ng says, writers can expect faster and more frequent service.
Come December, when we put in a new winter schedule. We'll be running three hundred and sixty trains today. That's nearly double the amount of trains that we were running just last year.
From Haymarket Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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