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At sixty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock good Saturday afternoon. I'm Madison Rodgers, and we start off down south. Vice President Kamala Harris has just arrived in North Carolina. She'll be getting an update on the recovery from Hurricane Heleene, with a catastrophic trail of destruction. There is a local effort to send.
Relief from hand sanitizer to bales of hay and every single item need in between. Towns around Massachusetts are coming together by the trailer loaves to help families impacted by Hurricane Helene.
They're in need of basically every basic life necessity.
In West Bridgewater, the police station garage has been turned into a local command center for items being donated by residents. Sergeant Jonathan Craven says they've been coordinating with the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
Of the support that we've received has been amazing.
Our off serves have been coming in off duty to help sort.
Have more subtize have been delivered yet.
Heather and Cannon came to donate with her eleven year old daughter, Kayley.
We're bringing First eight kits, personal little First eight kits that they can hand out and also personal toiletry items that come in a little kit for them as well.
WBZTV's Paul Burton reports for the hardest hit homeowners, paying for the damage from Helene is becoming a nightmare of its own. Insurance professionals and experts of long worn that home insurance typically doesn't cover flood damage, leaving a FEMA program as the primary provider. Experts say it's likely that entire neighborhoods will never be rebuilt. Boston's hospitality sector is due for serious disruption, with thousands of hotel workers hitting
the picket lines imminently. We are still waiting for word from the union, which represents close to five thousand workers across thirty six hotels in Boston and Cambridge. There have been three temporary walkouts at some hotels starting last month, but this time around the union is warning of an all out indefinite strike. It's been a months long deadlock in contract negotiations. As we watch for developments, stay with
the WBZ News Radio for the very latest. One month to go now till the presidential election and former President Trump soon is returning to the site where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July. CBS's Chiliicasee Adelais says security is tight in Pennsylvania.
Anywhere from fifteen thousand to sixty thousand people could come to the site today, the Butler Farm show Grounds. Local and state police are helping out with that, and there's also plenty of security here. There's caution tape on some of the business's wood areas surrounding the farm show grounds.
Today, former President Trump is expected to speak in around an hour. Jd Vance is now in Pennsylvania, but the VP nominee was just in Glocester. He spoke to wealthy donors at a private home raising funds for the Trump campaign. Tomorrow, Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha Judge will be attending a Harris fundr Uz brunch in Boston. And looking at the four day forecast, it's clear tonight with a low round fifty two Downtown. A lot of inland suburbs could see temps
in the forties. Tonight, cooler Tomorrow, we'll have times of sun and clouds and temps in the mid upper sixties. It's mostly cloudy, with a couple of showers late tomorrow night, then a few spots of rain for Monday as well. For the most part, it should be cloudy, breezy, and cool, with a high near sixty sixty four and sunny to partly cloudy on Tuesday. Right now in Boston, it's sixty six degrees with sunshine and debreeze at four oh five. It sounds like science fiction tech that can expose your
personal information just by taking a picture of you. Well, a couple of local students are proving it's not fiction. It's possible. WBZTV's Brandon Truett reports.
Harvard University students are known for being ahead of the game, and and fu Win and Cain or Dafeo are living up to the hype. You're a follow us Creed.
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Yeah. The two juniors have created software that pairs AI facial recognition with public databases and with a single picture, can pull up a person's name, phone number, address, and digital history. It took them about a day to create it.
So we were just kind of like playing around, you know, seeing you know, what are the possibilities of code?
The guys use the Meta ray bands from Facebook's parent company, which have cameras right on the lens, but a phone could do this too. That camera streams video back to the software on their laptop, and using AI tools, it runs a face through the program to gather private information within about a minute and a half. They tried it on some of their classmates.
Is your address for full value scary stuff. While there are restrictions on how governments use this type of technology, there are no restrictions on private citizens using it. There are safety concerns for the upcoming high school hockey season with a potential shortage of referee. Refs have been calling for higher pay. The local chapter of the National Ice Hockey Officials Association says in a recent poll of its members, more than half of them said they are not planning
to work any high school games this year. The union is calling for the MIAA to increase wages. Currently, refs make around one hundred bucks for a high school varsity game. The MIAA calling foul, saying the request should have come during school's budgeting process. Friday night lights down in Georgia, bringing a moment of healing to a community rocked by tragedy, the stands were passed.
He joined us in a moment of silence and.
Pre apo Lechi High School and Wider Georgia playing its first home game a month after two students and two teachers died in a school shooting. Football coach Ricky Aspinwall was one of the victims, leading the team at his absence assistant coach Matt Bradley.
One of the hardest things that I've ever had deal in my life.
Taylor Wheeler, a former student, brought her kids a law It was very close.
To home and when I say that, I don't think you.
Really understand until that happens.
Opposing Jackson County football team warming up in Appalachia Strong Shirts. Dave Packer, ABC News.
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