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Forty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock good Sunday afternoon on Madison Rogers and here's what's happening. President Biden surveys hurricane damage in Florida for the second time in two weeks. He's announcing more than six hundred million dollars for projects related to Milton and Helene's is all team effort.
Folks. You made a big difference and has saved lives. But there's much more to do, and we're going to do everything we can to get power back in your home, not only help when you recover, but to help your bill back stronger.
The presidents speaking in Saint Pete Beach. Many residents have spent their weekend searching for gas as a fuel shortage grips the state. There is still over eight hundred thousand customers in the dark in Florida. In North Carolina, communities devastated by Helene are still combing through the rubble and look look for the missing.
On Jim Krsula.
In North Carolina, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency says there are at least four people still missing after Hurricane Helene's historic flooding in the southern Appalachian Mountains two weeks ago. The official storm related death told in Tennessee is seventeen. It's unclear how many people are still unaccounted for in western North Carolina.
Vice President Kamala Harris is in North Carolina right now. She's expected to speak soon at a rally in Greenville. Meantime, across the country, former President Trump is expected to speak at a rally in Prescott, Arizona. Is he the great New Hope or another bust? Wbz's Hele Shaffle listened as Pats fans weighed in on hopes for their new QB.
With Drake May taking the reins for the Pats, fans are feeling cautiously optimistic. He's a little more mobile.
Than Brissette was, so I think maybe he's going to get hit. There's no question about it.
Very cautiously. The third overall pick out of North Carolina got the start after Jacoby Brissett was bench for his one and four starts. Fans where they may make them a little more hopeful that the Pats can natch a couple more wins this year.
Yeah, it's going to be improvement.
I guess more compelling to everyone was the fact that May is functionally a mystery at the NFL level, which is more exciting than a career journeyman um a little bit, you know, definitely brings hope. You know, it's the unknown, opportunity unknown. Still, virtually everyone I talked to was concerned May would be run over this year with little help from the O line. Kyle Shaffle to be busy, Boston Shoes radious.
A couple minutes left on the clock in Foxborough, and it's not looking too great for the Pats. The Texans are up forty one twenty one. May has thrown for three touchdowns and two hundred and thirty three yards. Events around the commonwealth tomorrow mark a pair of holidays. We get a preview with wbz's Sherry Small.
The annual Columbus Day Italian American cultural celebration is going on Monday from twelve to four at tall Ship Park in East Boston. There will be Italian food, pastries, music vendors,
children's activities, and special performances. Technically here in the state of Massachusetts, holiday is observed as Columbus Day, but there are many celebrations going on across the state acknowledging Indigenous People's Day, including one in Cambridge with a lineup of artists and advocates that's at University Park from twelve to four. Boston is holding an Indigenous People's Day March that's going
on from twelve to three. It starts at the Park Street t station by Boston Common, and the Museum of Fine Arts is holding a Boston Indigenous People's Day open house on Monday with free admission, gallery tours, and family art making activities. Sherry Small WBC Boston's News radio, and.
Looking at the four day forecast, we have more rain and drizzle around tonight, maybe a rumble of thunder and alone near fifty degrees Tomorrow. We do have a couple showers continuing mainly early in the day. As the day goes on, it becomes breezy with clouds and some breaks of sun. High around sixty three. Tuesday's brisk and shilly, fifty seven for the high with some sunshine. Then we're in the mid fifties with sun at times. On Wednesday.
Right now, we do have rain approaching Boston that is coming down pretty much across areas North and west of town. Some parts south of town now too. It's drying out for some communities in Western mass Meantime, back in the hub, it's cloudy for now forty nine degrees and feeling closer to forty at four to five that time of year.
Again in Salem, tourist crowds are expected to shatter records by the time Halloween rolls around, and once again which city leaders are begging visitors to leave their cars at homes.
Salem is sizzling with tourists.
Busy, I'm exciting historic and.
With Halloween just weeks away, the peak of tourism season in Salem is getting busier by the day, causing gridlock traffic in and out of the city.
During horble, I am going to pick my friend up in Beverly because she needs a ride and I can't get this.
Residents in both Salem and surrounding communities say trying to navigate during the month of October is stressful. It's kind of you hope I can get a spot.
I will say it's similar to Marty Raw It's bumper to bumper.
You really can't get around.
It's a very small city, so it's definitely not a lot of places to go, so everything can get stuck.
If you're driving, you're you're signing up for a pretty bad time.
Salem Mayor Dominic Pangalo is asking all residents to pack their patients and take public transportation. With no direct highway access, getting into Salem is very tricky.
It's tough and all our surrounding communities. The economic benefits are regional as well, and the travel and tourism sector for the North Shore brings in close to one point three billion dollars in spending. It supports seven eight thousand jobs.
WBZTV's Paul Burton reports it's a big mission success for SpaceX today and it's monster starship.
Rocket for SpaceX. It wasn't just about the starship launch, but this.
Spy. Sir.
SpaceX has landed its Falcon nine boosters dozens of times, but this booster is a lot bigger and a lot tougher to land safely, with small arms called chopsticks bleaching out to capture it at the launch tower so that booster can be reused. NASA is banking on Starship to return astronauts to the Moon, possibly in twenty twenty six. Peter King's CBS News.
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