This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news fifty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening in person. Early voting begins around here this coming weekend, and three weeks from tomorrow is election Day. The presidential candidates are both campaigning today the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris in the Northwest corner in Eery, while former President Trump holds a town hall
later this evening in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Of both the events, our plan for a couple of hours from now. Pennsylvania is the largest of the battleground states, and with time running out, an ipso's poll offers a snapshot of the race and how Americans view some of the key issues Jarati.
In the ABC News IPSO survey, fifty six percent say that all immigrants in the country illegally should be deported. That's a twenty percentage point jump on that question in our polling from eight years ago. Voters like several of the proposal's com La Harris is brought to the table, such as a six thousand dollars per child tax credit, a twenty five thousand dollars grant to first time home buyers,
and even limits on grocery profits. They also like some of Trump's proposals, such as an end to taxes on Social Security benefits and expanded tariffs on imports.
That is ABC Stephen Portnoy a bit of a scare at the former president's rally in California over the weekend. Rimberside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says his deputies arrested in the Las Vegas man outside of security checkpoint for that rally in LA on Saturday night.
He showed up with an unregistered vehicle with fake license plates. He had multiple passports with multiple variations of names, He had loaded guns in the car, and he was arrested for those weapons on weapons violations per California law.
The suspect was released on five thousand dollars bond. A funeral today on the Cape for Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, was remembered at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville. The event was closed to the public invitation only. Fol Kennedy died last week from complications from a stroke she was ninety six. The picket lines have been growing. Hotel workers from cooks to bell hoops are now striking at the Omni Parker hotels
in Boston. That'll do easas Hiles Shaffle has more from the seaports.
Close to seven hundred Omni Parker workers walking off the job Boston. So hotel strike is more than doubled overnight.
You know everything is crowingly expense in pay the rent, pay the bills, and everybody to.
God is fight.
Marta housekeeper, joined dozens of her coworkers at the Seaport Omni to demand a contract and higher wages. You Night Here Local twenty six president Carlos Rmyo says, a pay month for the workers who mean the difference between staying in Boston and being forced out.
If they keep saying make them pay, make them pay.
They're demanding at the hotels step forward and reach a contract that gives them significant wage increases. Another housekeeper I talked to was I rate over needing to work multiple jobs just to cover rent.
You cannot leave you with just one job.
Just one job should be not There's no insight to the strike, and union leaders say more hotels could be added at any time. Kyle Schaffel to BDZ, Boston's news.
Radio for four day WDVZ actually weather forecast couple of spritzers and sprinkles around in a few places closer to the coast. The big deal, at least right now on the radar, is out into parts of western Massachusetts where we have been seeing quite a bit of shower activity by ninety one westward. Will have to see what those showers do, because they do have a little bit more punch,
so maybe a downpour in that. There's a couple of showers up to the north as well, into and around the Cape Ann area, So something to watch out for as we head through the latter hours of the afternoon and into the early evening, when we'll just have some patchy clouds. Later, temperatures in the low forties in Boston, upper thirties of the inland suburbs. Then the weather turns
pretty nice. It won't be overly warm, but we'll have sunshine Tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, temperatures within a few degrees of sixty most days. It is fifty right now in Boston. Seventeen days until Halloween. Have you got the candy the deck rations, the costumes, yet would be busies, drewm mo holland tells us a lot of people have.
Halloween spending in twenty twenty four is expected to reach eleven point six billion dollars. It's a lot of money, and that is according to the National Retail Federation. Early shopping is on the rise too. In fact, forty seven percent of you started Halloween shopping before we even hit October. Wow, you know, random thought. I wonder if Bill Belichick is going to a Randy Moss Halloween party again.
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Great holiday, Yeah, holiday, I love that clip. It's a great holiday. Costumes. Candy, come on, but it ain't cheap. Have you seen those prices? Chocolate treats in particular more costly this year with cocoa prices at record highs, people splurge. They go big on those costumes too. And my neighbor's front yard, it's a very expensive kind of spooky wild imaginations over there. Maybe you're familiar. Drew moholland WBZ Boston's News Are any here?
Today's a holiday? Many have it off, not all though I'm here. The stock markets were open today Today, on what traditionally is Columbus Day, many Native Americans come together for Indigenous People's Day, celebrating their history and culture. This year, they are also acknowledging the ongoing challenges that they face with a focus on the election, from a voting rally in Minneapolis today to a public talk about the Native
vote at Virginia Tech. The National Museum of American History is revamping its Entertainment Nation exhibit.
The exhibit tells the story of America through pop culture. It's already home to iconic items like Dorothy's Ruby slippers, Mister Rogers cardigan sweater, and Grandmaster Flash's turntables, but come February, the original Fozzy Bear and Burton Ernie puppets will arrive. Also, Brian Cranston's has matsuit from Breaking Bad, the OGC three PO and R two D two models from Star Wars, and even Bob Ross's easel Hello Us, where he painted
happy Little Clouds will be on display. Stacey Lynn, CBS News Washington.
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