This is w b Z, Boston's news radio. We defining local news fifty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.
The presidential candidates are making their final pitches today. Vice President Kamala Harris concentrating on all important Pennsylvania, speaking to a crowd in Scranton this morning.
It's about the win, and it is about more.
It is about more.
It is about just strengthening our country and reminding each other we are all in this together. We rise and fall together. Harris is running made to Governor. Tim Walls is in Wisconsin touting Harris's record as vice president.
She stood up for women and children against predators and abusers. She stood up with seniors and workers against fraudsters and big corporate interests. She stood up for families and communities against international gangs and drug traffickers. And she never once hesitated to reach across the aisle.
Former President Donald Trump being time speaking in two more states today after a visit to North Carolina, where he talked to illegal immigration and told the voters in Raleigh when he wins, he'll call Mexico on his first day in office. You stop letting people.
Come in through our border and come in through your southern border.
And you stop them.
The former presidents in Pennsylvania now before hitting Michigan denied Republican vice presidential candidate jd Vance holding a rally in Wisconsin this morning with a call to recruit votes.
Get yourself to the polls tomorrow and get nine of your friends and family.
To come along with you.
That's how you vote ten times, and that's what.
We got to do. Meantime, just one more day to drown in those political ads before the tide goes back out.
It's almost election day, much to the relief in trepidation of many voters. But one thing almost everyone can agree on.
Yeah, man, it is in little much. I'm tired of going on youtubement scene.
Vote for Trump, vote for Commelin.
Yeah.
Of course, the political ads have become too much for some of us to handle. Some people online were doubly incensed that they've had to watch ads for New Hampshire candidates that they can't even vote for. Interestingly, Boston and Manchester are in the same TV market, so that's why you might see them here. It's really their word against theirs, So it's not really making a difference in my opinion. Now. As we know from presidential polling, there's always an outlier, and I found one.
They're pretty useful because I'm getting to see both side of the Democratic and the Republican side, which is I find really interesting.
Kyle Schaffel, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Stay with WBZ News to Radio for election coverage tomorrow night. Results as they come in from across the state and across the country. WZ will be here for you throughout on the radio and streaming online on the iHeartRadio app. Latest on the real estate picture, the National Association of Realtors is out with their annual profile of home buyers and sellers. Jessica Lotts is the organization's deputy Chief Economist
and vice president of Research. She says this year's data suggests the market's difficult for first time home buyers.
They have to say for a longer period of time. Things like high rent, student loan, die credit cards at Carlance, those are all really plaguing potential first time home buyers. But then also looking inside the housing market at housing affordability.
These survey finds home buyers today especially first time ones are older than they have been historically. Some clouds around as we head into the evening, and we will hold out of the clouds and bring in a shower or too, especially north and west early this evening, a shower or two over the capean Islands. Later on tonight, temperatures don't
stray from the forties. Generally, will be in the low forties in the suburbs in about forty eight downtown Tomorrow here comes so warm up seventy one for the high temperature, certainly in the city. We will be sitting at around sixty five or so. Over the Cape and Islands tomorrow, there will be a bit of a breeze that we'll have clouds breaking for some sunshine. Wednesdays the real warm one, in fact, it could be a record center. We'll see
record high on Wednesday, seventy six degrees. We may get there with highs in the mid to upper seventies, clouds and sunshine, and then a cool down but only a little bit mid sixties on Thursday, with some sunshine and a little bit of a breeze. That's still above average for this time of the year. Right now it is fifty degrees see in Austin dirty diapers. Who wants them? Turns out a waste management facility in Massachusetts does. WBZTV's Breonna Pitts has more on a team up with a
daycare company turning pants into amps. Oh yes, they are used.
They are fully used, number one and number two and that material all gets converted to electricity for the New England power grid.
The stinky magic is happening here at Reworld, a sustainable waste facility in haverl.
This is all the trap from the local municipalities.
That's Brett Stevens, a senior director of Reworld. Brett says, after dirty diapers are steam sterilized to kill bacteria, they come here where a giant claw mixes them up with other waste. It's the beginning of a process known as waste to energy.
We're moving trash into a boiler. That boiler is thermally destroying or heating up the material that's createating steam energy. Steam energy goes through the turbine into the local power grid, and that water that was in those tanks goes through a closed loop process to come right back into our boilers.
The six Bright Horizons childcare centers are now putting all of their used diapers and wipes into specially provided bins from Huggies. They'll eventually end up that reworld. Since January, the pilot programs kept more than thirty three thousand pounds of diapers out of landfills and generated three megawatt hours of electricity the following the developing news this afternoon in the Karen Reid case, the prosecution defense have filed a joint motion to delay the start of her second criminal
trial right now. Reid is set to face that trial her after a first one ended in a mistrial January twenty seventh of this coming year. The motion is requesting the start of the second trial we moved back to April first. This comes as Reed's team has taken their case to the state's highest court to try to get two of the three charges against her dismissed. Oral arguments in that case are set to begin on Wednesday. SpaceX is about to launch its thirty first cargo ship to
the International Space Station. One of the experiments it's carrying an unusual satellite. That satellite is made of wood. It's called Ligno SAT. The four inch cube made of magnolia, which is particularly resilient. It's built by researchers at Kyoto University and a Japanese logging company. Sidists want to see just how wood may or may not hold up in
the vacuum of space. It could mean more environmentally friendly satellites in the future, since wood would burn up in the atmosphere when the orbit decays, while pieces of metal satellites often survive and hit the Earth. Peter King's CBS News Orlando. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio