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Good Tuesday afternoon. We have sixty three degrees, mostly cloudy in Boston. It's four o'clock. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening to our top story this hour. Ran launches dozens of missiles at Israel. No casualties been reported in the attack, but Israel is vowing vowing rather to retaliate. The White House says US troops health Israel defend itself during the attack. CBS is Alison Keys with the Lads as the.
White House briefing. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called the attack a significant escalation and confirmed that US naval destroyers helped Israel shoot down the Iranian missiles.
We're proud of the actions that we've taken alongside Israel to protect and defend Israel.
Sullivan says. The Iranian attack appear to have been defeated and ineffective. He says President Biden and Vice President Harris monitored everything from the situation room. Alison Keys CBS News Washington.
And The missile barrage came shortly after a deadly shooting in Tel Aviv that left six people dead. The two gunmen involved in the shooting were also killed. Another story we've been following on the picket lines at thirty six ports from Maine to Texas, dock workers went on strike at midnight, and that includes workers at Conley Terminal in South Boston. WBC TVs Christina Rex report they're.
Now striking right at the entrance to Conley Terminal, which is now closed. A union rep here tells me about three hundred workers in Boston are striking, but there are twenty five thousand up and down the East and Gulf Coasts. Their six year contract expired at midnight. The International Long Shortman's Association is demanding better wages and a stock to automation taking over their jobs. Dock workers often make six figures and with overtime that can top two hundred thousand
dollars a year. But the big concern is automation taking away good paying, blue collar jobs, and.
There are fears that the strike could reignite inflation and cast shortages of goods that strike goes on for more than a few weeks. Congresswoman Iona Presley and other elected officials joined postal workers at a rally in Boston today, sounding the alarm about what they call substandard performance by the postal Service. WBC's Carl Stevens reports.
Local workers from the American Postal Workers Union are teaming up with Congresswoman i Aana Pressley and other elected officials here to deliver a message. They say mail delivery has gotten too slow to unreliable. Congresswoman Pressley says management is to blame.
Daily my office, my district office hears from constituents that there are male delays or it's not even delivered at all.
For weeks, having to stand in.
Lines at their local branch and sometimes showing up to mail a letter, and the office is just closed.
With no explanation.
Back in August, Congresswoman Pressley and other members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation sent a letter to the US Postmaster General expressing concern over what they call the deterioration of service across the commonwealth. Stephen STOBDYBC Boston's News Radio, Now.
Let's check the ACU weather forecast. We could expect a couple of sprinkles around this evening, and then it'll just be mostly cloudy tonight. A low of fifty six in Boston, fifty in those coolest inland suburbs. Tomorrow, clouds might break for some sunshine in the afternoon. High sixty four Thursday, partly to mostly sunny, a nice day, though, high is sixty seven to the low seventies. And then Friday we warm up to nearly eighty. Highs in the mid to
high seventies. And right now we are seeing mostly cloudy skies. As I look out the window, I do see the sun is fot finally trying to make an appearance in Boston, trying to peek through that cloud cover. Sixty three degrees at four oh five. All right. Some drivers prefer the safety of a big new car, but others, like this local man, prefer the thrill of an old microcar. Here's WBC's Matt here. This is a nineteen fifty seven et SETA.
This is a microcar. My shoulder is literally touching my driver. Chart's schools happy to come to life and know for a ride. He owns one of the most impressive collections of rare cars I've ever seen. To get out of this one, we had to open the front door, which includes the hood and the windshield of thank you. Would you call this somewhat of an addiction. Oh yeah, serious addiction.
It started when he was a teenager. Now he's a grandfather with multiple garages covered almost completely with microcars.
These are the Messroschnids.
These are three wheelers.
It's got a canopy that opens like an airplane opens.
Obviously they're not the most comfortable rides. But whoever said driving should be boring?
If you ride an old car, you take the back road.
It's more interesting than the highways.
It just makes me happy.
On the road in Hudson Matt Shearer, WBZ Boston's news radio.
The case of a thirty two year old woman accused of passing herself off as a Boston Public school student is continued until later this month. Today's brief hearing for Shelby Hewitt lasted just a few minutes and consisted mostly of attorneys having a discussion at sidebar. The Canton woman, it has pleaded not guilty to charges including forgery and identity fraud. Prosecutors say that she posed as a student from twenty twenty one through last year while working for
the state Department of Children and Families. One and done. The only scheduled vice presidential debate is tonight. Senator JD. Vance and Governor Tim Walls sharing the stage at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. CBS Robert Costa has more on who the candidates are trying to win over.
Talk to strategists in both of the campaigns. They're both targeting the same voter. Tim Walls comes from the Upper Midwest. He's looking for that industrial worker, a union member who lives in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in different parts of the country to come out and give the Democrats a chance to show that the Democrats are advocates for working people. Senator Vance famously Will wrote the book Hillbilly Elogy.
He wants to appeal to those same voters, working voters who are struggling, they feel economic pain.
And Mike's they will not be muted as they were in the presidential debate. Tune in to the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate that's tonight at nine pm. We'll air it right here on WBZ News Radio and you'll find
it streaming on the iHeartRadio app. The project's Skydrop treasure hunt for a gold trophy with a massive prize, is now said to be hidden in the woods of western mass Two video game developers from New Hampshire hid the pure gold trophy that's valued at twenty six thousand dollars somewhere in the woods, and whoever finds it also gets the prize bounty that is currently over eighty thousand dollars that's made up of entry fees from people joining in
on the hunt. Now, when the hunt started last month, the map showed the trophy could be in a five hundred mile radius that encompassed much of the northeast and areas as far south as Virginia. But now the circle's diameter is only thirty five miles within Massachusetts, stretching from South Hadley to the border of Vermont, and that circle will continue shrinking until it is only one foot in diameter. That's on October tenth. By then someone will have figured
out where that treasure is hidden. You are now in Belloo. For news updates throughout the day, listen to w b ZE News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, w b Z, Boston's news radio