This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news eighty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parkner. Here's what's happening. Just over two weeks to go until election day. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trumper crossing their t's, dotting their eyes and hitting the key swing states looking to sway voters.
The Vice President making stops in three different states today, including a town hall in Pennsylvania where she was joined by former Republican Congresswoman list Chamy Chance to.
Say, you know, we're going to reject cruelty. We're going to reject the kind of vile vitriol that we've seen from Donald Trump. We're going to reject the misogyny that we've seen from Donald Trump.
And JD Vance.
Meantime, the former president to return to North Carolina today, where he visited areas that were ravaged by Hurricane Helene.
I'm asking.
Before the former president arrived in North Carolina, the state's Democratic governor publicly urged him not to spread misinformation but look. Speaking east of Ashville, Donald Trump described FEMA's rescue effort as almost nonexistent, and he repeated his unfounded claim that the agency has misdirected disaster funding. It's all done, They've spent it on illegal migrants. FEMA says the sheltering of migrants is funded separately from disaster relief and at a
fraction of the cost. Stephen Portnoy ABC News.
Washington former President Trump facing a defamation lawsuit. Earlier today, members of the Central Park Five filed the suit against the former president, accusing him of spreading false, misleading, and defamatory statements about their nineteen eighty nine case during the presidential debate last month on ABC Attorneys representing the five men filed the civil suit in a federal court in Pennsylvania.
They're seeking monetary damages. The men were accused of a violent rape of a woman in Central Park in nineteen eighty nine. They maintained their innocence, but were convict and went to prison. A decade after the attack, a different man confest and that was confirmed with DNA. The former president made comments that the group entered guilty please and killed a person ultimately, which is not true. In a statement ABC News, a campaign spokesperson for the former president
calls it another election interference lawsuit. I like the weather toid a record today in Boston eighty two degrees. We've been unseasonally mild, but it still is closing in on November and closing in on flu season. WBC's Mike Maclin tells us it's time to get vaccinated in Boston. We'll give you free shot.
The free vaccination clinics will take place across the city over the next three weeks. The hope is that Boston residents will take advantage of them and protect themselves against the flu and COVID nineteen as we head into the colder winter months. The clinics are free. This week. There's a clinic on Thursday from one to five pm. Next week there's a clinic on Tuesday at the Hyde Park Community Center and on Saturday at the Mattapean Community Center.
And the following week there are clinics in East Boston and South Boston. No identification and no insurance is required. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Eighty two degrees today in Boston. That tied a record set in nineteen twenty, and we will have some warmer weather through at least the next couple of days, although Tomorrow is going to be a bit of an off day near the coast where we'll get a sea breeze. So tonight we're clear and mild, temperatures fifties and Boston forties and some of the suburbs, and then tomorrow probably only in the upper sixties right along the coast with a mix of sun and clouds, but we will be milder,
mid to upper seventies inland. Clear tomorrow and i'd low fifty four back into the seventies across the board on Wednesday, it looks like mid to upper seventies with some sunshine. Then a shower or two pushes across the area late Wednesday night into early Thursday and brings in cooler weather. The sun will breakout Thursday afternoon, but we'll have temperatures
only in the low to mid sixties. Right now, it is eighty two degrees in Boston that again did tie a record for this day, and lots of people getting in on this rare summer day feel in the middle of fall by going to the beach. Wbz's Carl Stevens is at Revere Beach this.
Time of year, the seagulls usually have America's oldest public beach all to themselves, but not when the weather is like this. What do you think of this weather?
I think it's fantastic just to come and sit and relax by the beach. Very awesome. I hope we get a few well, we got a few more days. It is because I want to keep my tan. I'm going to Saint Lucia in November.
Jim drove down from Haveril to worship the waves in this sanctuary of sunshine.
I know after a few more days we could get that cold weather. So I used to deliver mail, and I love this type of weather. Awesome.
Right now, it's the sun that's delivering the mail, a special delivery package of meteorological perfection. Very awesome from Revere Beach. Carl Stevens, WBC Boston's news radio.
You know what would be awesome? Baseball at Fenway Park to no About forty nine years ago tonight there was and it's perhaps the greatest World Series game ever, certainly one of the greatest endings.
What Socks read Game six of the seventy five World Series. The Socks were down six to three in the eighth inning when bench player Bernie Carbo hit a three run home run to tie it up in fource extra innings, and then in the twelfth the shot heard around the world. At least New England Socks catcher Carlton Fisk dug into the batter's box and burn it the loo five.
If it's stains fair, hold r.
We will have a seventh game and it's nineteen seventy.
Five World Series.
The image of Fisk waving the ballfares it clanged off the foul pole. It's ingrained in a whole generation of sports fans around here. The Socks would go on to lose Game seven, but the game and all that drama lives on forever.
If it's stains fair, ho ruh.
Drew moholland WBZ, Boston's news radio.
City of Boston renaming the North Washington Street Bridge in Bill Russell's honor and happened officially at a ceremony this morning. Number six, remembered as a decorated champion and civil rights icon who transcended sports. CHARLESTOWND will now connect to Boston's West and North end, with the William Felton Bill Russell Bridge expected to be finished being constructed by April. President Biden scheduled to make a trip to New Hampshire. Tomorrow.
The President travels to New Hampshire Technical Institute and Conquered he'll deliver remarks on lowering the cost of prescription drugs. 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.