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News sixty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. There are a dozen days until election Day. Star Power hitting the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris, a.
Former president and the boss. Vice President Harris todight in the Atlanta suburbs will try and rev up her supporters and mobilize voters for her campaign by holding a big rally with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen. It's part of what the Harris campaign is calling It's When We Vote, We Win concert series. Springsteen will headline another event in Philadelphia this weekend, and the campaign says additional shows will
be announced in the other battleground states. Karen Travers ABC News Washington.
ABC News is reporting that Beyonce is set to appear with Vice President Harris at a rally tomorrow in Houston, Texas. Meantime, former President Donald Trump, focusing on how the West is one, taking a trip to a couple of states still in play today.
Donald Trump campaigns in Arizona and Nevada, two states with seventeen electoral votes between them were registered Republicans, now outnumbered Democrats among those mailing or casting early votes. Tomorrow, Trump heads to Texas for a taping of the popular Joe Rogan podcast. Then he's onto Michigan and Pennsylvania, and on Sunday he'll be in his hometown of New York for a rally at Madison Square.
Guard that is his ABC's Stephen Portnoy. President Biden is expected to issue a historic apology during his first diplomatic visit to a tribal nation in Arizona tomorrow. The president planning to address the country's role in the Indian boarding school system, a one hundred and fifty year long program that forced Indigenous children to assimilate and took them away
from their parents. Secretary of the Interior Den Haylend found that at least eighteen thousand Indigenous children were forced to attend schools that aimed to strip them of their culture. One thousand deaths also were associated with that program. The President will make the historic apology at the of her Indian community. No other president has formally apologized for the US government's role before. The Karen Reid legal saga continues
ahead of her second criminal trial in January. I believe he's Eastbrook McCarthy on the latest on a filing with the State Supreme Court.
Oral arguments are set for November six, and now all the paperwork has been filed with the SJC. In their final brief to the court, lawyers for Karen Reid argue that the charges of leaving the scene and second degree murders should be dismissed. They say Judge Beverly Canoni declared a mis trial too soon after the jury said it was deadlocked. They go on to say that jurors reached out after the trial to say they were unanimous on
counts one in three and this is grounds for dismissal. Lastly, they argue read is entitled to a judicial hearing to see if those claims are true. Her legal team took their arguments to the state's highest court after Judge Cannoni denied her motion to dismiss in a lower court. The prosecution argues Judge Cannoni had every right to declare the mistrial. The ACLU is now involved, saying the constitution protects a person from being tried twice. Brooke McCarthy WBC Boston's News.
Radio remaining grounded. Factory workers at Boeing and voted against the company's latest contract offer and will remain on the picket lines. The strike is six weeks old. It's stopped production of the aerospace giant's best selling jet Liars. Union leaders say sixty four percent of members of the International Association Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted against the proposal. It included pay raises of thirty five percent over four years.
Some Boeing workers say the company's refusal to restore a traditional pension plan that was frozen a decade ago is a sticking point. We will have clear skies. We've started to see the sun poke out a little bit closer to eastern Massachusetts now and into the city. We had some clouds that were stubborn today in many places. But tonight you won't have to worry about the sun. It'll be gone hiding on you. But clear skys forty five in Boston, upper thirties in the inland suburbs. Tomorrow it's
a cooler day. The sun will be out, plenty of sunshine in fact, but we only get to about sixty for a high, partly cloudy Tomorrow night made in the forties and then low sixties on Saturday with partly sunny skies only in the fifties, with sunshine on Sunday sixty eight degrees. Right now in Boston, Celtic Pride on parade, patients and Dana Farmer's Jimmy Fun Clinic got to touch history of thebz's I'm a Freeman with details.
Patient spaces lit up like a Christmas tree when Lucky walked in wearing his finest lepreck on bow tie with a basketball in one hand and the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship Trophy in the other. She's get to Hannah got a chance to snap some picks with the trophy at the Jimmy Fun Clinic just days after the Celtic celebrated Banner eighteen. It's super cool, super heavy, very shiny, important. Live is mostly in it for the bragging, right.
Oh, they're gonna be so jealous, especially my brother.
Yeah.
Lisa Sherper, the director of Patient and Family Programs here, says for her today was pure magic.
It's one of those things where we look at these kids every day and we're like, what can we do to sort of give that extra little bit of joy and this happened today in Boston.
I'm a freedman. W b Z, Boston's News Radio.
This weekend in Cambridge going on a walk for a cause. Wbz's Drew moholland with the preview.
The Susan G.
Coman More Than Pink Walk is Saturday, north Point Park, Cambridge. Is the host, raising money and awareness for breast cancer. Liz Strawn is the development director at Susan G.
Coman.
We're so lucky here in Massachusetts that we have so many great institutions that Susan G.
Coleman is funding the research for you know, we.
Have Gat Harbor, and we have this Maths General and we have talk and Saturday.
Is supposed to be a nice morning too. To get it all started. Nine p forty five Start for the More Than Pink Walk. Drew moholland wb Z Boston's News Radio.
Can you hear me now? If you can't, it's probably the coffee. A new study from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey says that drinking coffee might be harming your hearing. Caffeine blocks what is called a denniscene. It makes it harder for your ears to recover from daily noise exposure that can lead to permanent hearing loss over time. The study finds that higher coffee consumption is linked to an increased risk of both speech frequency and high frequency
hearing loss. Cutting back on coffee, they say, could help protect your hearing. Most of us use them to help tell us story. Emojis and expressions on our phones. Turns out you arewich eat and what you message.
If you use your phone to pay a friend for the pizza they ordered and throw a pizza slice emoji in the payment line, Companies are using those emojis to track the latest dining trends. Cash app even did a whole report based on not only the emojis, but what we were paying people for. The most espresso martiniz showed in eighty nine percent rising mentions this year alone. The phrase sweet little treat rose by five hundred percent, and
last year the term girl dinner was practically nonexistent. This year, mentions were up eight thousand percent. Stacy Lynne CBS News.
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