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It's sixty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers, and we start off this hour on Storo Drive for Boston Police tell us hundreds of pro Palestinian protesters are blocking off traffic. David Augustus has his eye on the roads from the traffic center and joins us now live, David, what are you seeing.
I'm seeing stopped traffic, Madison, on both sides of Stow Drive by Charles Circle. They were the protesters on the eastbound side heading in report of some on the westbound side as well. So right now basically before the hatshell Storo Drive East and west really not moving at all by Charles Circle. There reports of them police trying to
move their protesters off the road by Charles Streep. And right now both sides of Storo Drive East and West are jammed up before Charles Circle and not moving presently.
Thank you, Dave.
We will hear more from you in just a couple minutes. These activists are protesting a year of war as the death Tolan Gaza. Year's forty two thousand people Tomorrow marks one year since Hamas launched an attack on Israel, killing twelve hundred. Memorial Tomorrow, held by Harvard Hallel, will call for the return of the remaining hostages again. More on these traffic impacts straight ahead. Florida is bracing for a new threat as Milton gains hurricane strength in the Gulf
of Mexico. Now a Category one, the hurricane is expected to make landfall sometime midweek. CBS's Paul Dolan is in Florida.
David snagged his sandbags sand castle before they were all gone, loading up his Dolly with a wall of sandbags because he has something important to protect.
A fouryer that's air conditioned and the gun tile and drywall and everything.
So I'm trying to protect that.
The downstairs is a base, say of a giant.
Garage, but I call.
It my man cave.
David is in the midst of early dorm prep benefits availability.
Florida Governor Ron De Santis has declared a state of emergency in thirty five counties. As of the latest, the storm is eight hundred and fifteen miles away from Tampa. Western North Carolina is still suffering the impacts of Hurricane Helene, with many missing and hundreds of thousands still in the dark trying to get basic supplies. An update from North Carolina Now with ABC's Gio Benitez.
North Carolina officials say FEMA has paid survivors here more than twenty seven million dollars. We met resident Tammy Holbrooks as she walked down the mountain.
Where's the help.
There's people up there with no food, no water, no power, no internet.
Heartbreak mixed with hope. This woman finding her mom hugging her for the first time since the storm.
It was just relief and thankfulness that I have a mom and I have somebody, because there's so many people that are losing those that I know that they just wish they can hug again.
Helene has killed at least two hundred and twenty seven people, and we'll get the four day forecast in fifteen seconds.
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The forecast now. Is sponsored by Cambridge Savings Bank. It's mainly cloudy tonight, with a couple of showers arriving toward daybreak and a low around fifty two. Tomorrow we're in the low sixties with a couple of spots of rain remaining for the most part. It should be cloudy then tomorrow night we dry out. Tuesdays sunny to partly cloudy and breezy, with a higher round sixty four. Mostly sunny with tempts in the low sixties on Wednesday as well.
Right now in Boston, it's sixty degrees with a blue sky overhead. It's four h five. Drums, whistles, and shouts are greeting the gas at two Boston hotels, says the workers there go on strike. More now from wbz's Kyle Shaffle.
Workers at two Hilton hotels in Boston are on the picket line having to get the end of their rope with stalk contract tops.
The price of everything. It's up right now and our wages aren't cutting it.
Kevin Haynes has been a cook at the Hilton Park Plaza downtown for seven years. He includes six hundred other workers with the unit here at Local twenty six are asking for higher wages Unlike the strikes on Labor Day weekend, this strike will go on around the clock until there's a deal on the table. Kevin says that union.
Is a number in mind, not going to be enough, but it's gonna be enough that we can actually live in this city that were working.
He says right now pays solo. It's often hard to live a normal life and keep his kids fed and happy.
It shouldn't be a choice when we go to the grocery store if we're gonna put meat on the table or we're gonna eat vegetables.
Today, there's no public date yet for return to the negotiating table. Kyle Shaffield to be busy Bostons Radio.
A Hilton spokesperson now tells us they don't believe this decision to strike is in their worker's best interests, but they respect the right to strike and will continue to work work toward a deal. News from the Bruins today, Jeremy Swayman has been signed to an eight year, sixty six million dollar contract following months of tense negotiations. This gets their number one goalie back on the ice just two days before the season opener. Swayman was a restricted
free agent and missed all of training camp. The start their season on the road Tuesday, taking on the defending Stanley Cup winning Florida Panthers. Some good witches are brewing up charity on the Cape.
Instead of brooms, these witches carry paddles, and instead of evil, they use their power for good.
Very good, very good.
Five years ago, friends Joe Allen Erickson and Susan Price decided to don full witch costumes and go paddle boarding off of Cape cod just for fun.
Well, we both love paddlebo and hoween is my most favorite holiday, and we just niched guessing gas, which just comes quite natural. I think I have more witch attire than I do regular attire, which I don't really know what that means.
It was an unusual spectacle that caught a lot of attention.
Our phones blew up, people just asking what is this, what are you doing it for? How do we become a part of it. It became pretty clear that we had hit upon something that could really do some good for the local community.
So the friends conjured up a plan to turn their fun activity into a fundraiser. Since twenty twenty, they have donated more than eighty thousand dollars to local nonprofits.
This year, the group raised money for Dream Day, and nonprofit providing kids with serious or life threatening illnesses a free week of camp in Brewster. You're now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Madison Rodgers, WBZ Boston's news radio