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