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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. New York's mayor is under indictment. Federal prosecutors say Mayor Eric Adams was involved in illegal activities and he was for some time.
Mayor Adams engaged in a long running conspiracy in which he solicited and knowingly accepted illegal campaign contributions.
In the US. Attorney Damian Williams says the charges against Adams are connected to bribes from Turkish officials, and the mayor funneled the money into his campaign as contributions and also accepted at least one hundred thousand dollars in travel benefits. The mayor is urging New Yorkers not to rush to judgment.
This is not surprising to us at all, the actions that have unfolded over the last ten months.
Yeah, the leak and terry the demonize. Adam says he will remain in office while he fights his legal battles and looks forward to defending himself. A guilty play in the New Hampshire courtroom today from a mother accused of killing her five year old son. Danielle Duffiney, pleaded guilty to second degree murder along with two counts of witness tampering in the death of Elijah Lewis, who was discovered missing and then found dead in October of twenty twenty
one in a park in Abington. Often. His boyfriend, Joseph Staff, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, second degree assault, and other charges in twenty twenty two. The boy's mother now faces up to fifty five years in prison. Florida residents preparing for a Category three storm that is heading their way, and it's heading there quickly. Hurricane Helene expected to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast tonight with a storm surge of
up to twenty feet. ABC's Karen Travers as the latest female administrator.
Dean Chriswell told residents in the path of Hurricane Helen to take the storm seriously and listen to local officials.
Take the storm serious. People in Hurricane Helene's path, you need to listen to your local officials. If they tell you to evacuate, please do so. And if they tell you to shelter in place, then that's what you should do.
Chris will said, at the President's direction, we.
Have over eleven hundred personnel so far across the federal government supporting the preparedness efforts for this storm.
Karen travers ABC News the White House. The four o'clock update from the National Hurricane Center has the storm at a category three with sustained winds of one hundred and twenty miles an hour. It is right now one hundred and sixty five miles to the south of Apalachi Cola and moving at more than fifteen miles an hour. Defense Secretary of Lord Austin's in London. He's pushing for a twenty one day ceasefire between Israel and has belonged.
What Austin says, we now face the risk of an all out, full scale war, which could be devastating for both sides. See sees it a diplomatic solution, not a military one, can still be applied. It's the only way, he says, to ensure that display civilians on both sides can finally go back home. Ask whether the US might place limits on its weapon supplies to Israel should it carry out a ground invasion. The Secretary did not directly answer Tom Rivers ABC News at the Foreign.
Desk coming up on WBZ Broadway, set to pay tribute to a legendary actor. As we checked the four day after weather forecast, the rains on the way, and in fact, depending on where you are, the rain may already be there. We've had this precipitation blob pushing in from the west and slightly to the south. It's pushing off to the north and east, so here we go. We've got some pretty hefty downpours now as they enter parts of Central Mass, northern Rhode Island. Uxbridge is getting a lot of rain here,
Worcester just gut a bunch. Grafton also under the gun, and then up toward the turnpike in Westborough we've got some rain falling and more rain pushing in close to the one twenty eight corridor now and some of it's wrapped around up to the north. At this point. Danver's getting some rain Salem right on the edge and lane as well. So it's there and it's coming. If it hasn't gotten to you already, it'll be with us for
several hours through the evening. They will be off and on showers and off and on downpours, maybe some gusty wins to deal with as well, and then later tonight just showers and they'll fade away. Last over the south coast Capean Islands, which may have to wait till tomorrow morning to get out of the rain. A warmer day tomorrow with sun and clouds, high seventy six, and then on Saturday and Sunday we'll have some sun, some clouds.
Temperature's mid sixties at the coast, about seventy or so inland. Right now it is sixty eight degrees in Boston the North Short Music Theater and Beverly is cranking out the music legends a big night in the history of rock and roll when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley got together at Sun Records in Memphis for one of the greatest jam sessions ever. The busies Droomal Holland went backstage at this show because you're mine, I walked the line.
Billion dollar quartech going on right now.
One of the stars of the show is Blake Burgess.
Blake, how are you?
I'm doing well about yourself, outstanding a little bit about your character here?
First of all, well, I get the absolute honor to play Johnny Cash back into the height of his prime. And it's an absolute honor to really portray an American legend. Finding yourself walking around town doing the Johnny Cash accent. Does that take a lot of work. It does take some time to get out of I'll say that for sure.
So I'm talking definitely lower than I normally would. Bill Haney here, how are you, Bill?
I'm getting you to and Drew, good to see you again. Sounds just like him, doesn't he.
It's a little scary actually when he really got going with it.
And look at his face, he looks just like him.
You know, he's a good looking guy, very good younger version.
Of course.
I know you've seen the show.
You love it, and this cast is absolutely terrific. Everything about this show has done everything I wanted to.
Do at Jillion Dollar Court Set, Drew Bohollan w b Z Boston's news Radio.
A big honor tonight for a big legend. The Great White Way dims its lights for Darth Vader, Mufasa and many other legendary characters.
Broadway will go dark Thursday evening to honor the life of the two time Tony Award winning actor James Earl Jones. Jones's career span almost seven decade on Broadway, after getting his start in nineteen fifty seven as an understudy in The Egghead, but he's starred in several movies like The Sandlot In Star Wars, he received the twenty seventeen Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, and years later the Core
Theater was renamed in his honor. Jones won a few performers to be an Emmy, Grammy Tonian Oscar winner died earlier this month at the age of ninety three. I'm Natalie Magliori.
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