Afternoon Report: Tuesday, October 22, 2024

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News, sixty four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. President Biden is on the ground in New Hampshire. He is expected to speak shortly at Conqueror's New Hampshire Technical Institute about prescription drug prices. He's joined by New Hampshire lawmakers as well as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Meantime, it is a busy day for

He is taping two television interviews. But we are seeing the surrogates out there, obviously her running mate, Governor Walls in Wisconsin. You're going to see Barack Obama out there as well, with him today in Madison, the college town in Wisconsin, trying to drum up the youth vote. Bill Clinton, the former president, also out there in the campaign trail. But the messages really turnout at this point.

That's ABC's Karen Travers. The US intelligence officials says foreign actors are trying to divide Americans ahead of the election over President Trump courting Latino voters in Florida. Says he has people watching the election for any anomalies.

We have a lot of lawyers working.

We have lawyers work in numbers of lawyers that nobody's ever seen before.

Two weeks from today is election day. Mail in voting is well underway, but heads up, there's a tiny little error that could make your mail in ballot not count. Ben Hoveland is the chair of the US Election Assistance Commission and says, and that has to do with your signature.

It's a safety measure that a lot of Americans don't know about, is that your signature is compared to the one on file. So when you sign that absentee or mail ballot envelope, election workers who are trained look at that and compare it to the signature they have on file, usually that's from your voter registration.

Mail in ballots will get rejected if you forget to sign your ballot altogether, or if you don't get it in on time. Story Secretary Janet Yellen says the United States has come a long way since the nation was caught in the grips of the COVID pandemic.

America's strong economic performance is leaving the way as a key engine of global growth.

And Secretary Yellen credits the Biden Harris administration.

We went from millions having lost their jobs to an historic labor market recovery.

She says. Unemployment is near all time lows, and US.

Real wage growth has outperformed that of most of their advanced economies.

She says the IMF has upgraded its economic outlook for the US this year. Stacey Lynn, CBS News Washington.

Work stuff closer for getting a whole new mode of transportation.

The agency is releasing final guidelines needed to train and qualify pilots to fly powered lift aircraft, which have the characteristics of both airplanes and helicopters. The goal is to use powerlift aircraft for air taxis and for short haul operations like air ambulances and cargo delivery. This category of civil aircraft is the first in early eighty years, and the actions of the FAA will make them one step closer to operational reality. Lindy Kenyon, CBS News Washington.

We did get into the seventies in many spots we didn't hit seventy in Boston, though we have retreated a bit into the mid sixties. It'll be mainly clear tonight, fairly mild, mainly in the fifties. Warm Tomorrow, mid seventies with a good deal of sunshine, and then clouds thicken up. Tomorrow night it'll become breezy. A couple of showers get in here and hang with us until the early part

The coffee isn't the only thing that's being served hot and fresh at this duncan on Canal Street. So are Lucky the leprechauns moves and ball handling skills.

Its awesome.

I didn't expect it to see Lucky here.

You paid for my drink and everything.

I'm so excited.

You think a great way to start the season too.

I know it is a great way to stop the season off.

Tonight is tonight. Tonight is definitely the night Lucky has been waiting for.

I started right after we won the last championship, so I missed out on the celebrations last time.

So I've literally been waiting.

My whole career for today. So it couldn't be more excited. Maybe more excited were the folks surprised with Duncan gift car into souvenir basketball's shirts, hats, and oh yeah, some tickets to tonight's game.

Let's go South, Let's go Here, me gone.

On Canal Street, James Rojas, WBZ Boss Radio.

Here we go and there they go over to the City Hall Plaza where there is a watch party this evening. Baseball is one series away from crowning their champion, the World Series, that is, Fans are buying up tickets to the Fall Classic, which starts on Friday, Dodgers and Yankees and tickets to Game one in La. Pony up.

When the Yankees face off against the Dodgers here in LA on Friday night, it will be the first time the two have gone head to head in the World Series in forty three years. A battle of the home run Giant, So Tany versus g'st Coast versus West Coast, Hollywood versus Broadway. I can keep going, but the cheapest seats for Friday Night's game, which by the way, are not great, seats high in the upper deck out by the foul pole are going for about twelve hundred bucks

Yeah, I'll take a pair of those. Yeah. Nine days to Halloween, you know, spooky and those already in full steam ahead mode. And there's a list out the best Halloween vacation destinations in the US. You might want to think witches.

At the top of the list is Salem, Massachusetts, side of the infamous Salem Witch Trials of sixteen ninety two. Next up is Sleepy Hollow, New York, the setting of the famous Washington Irving tale about the headless horseman. Then there's the Big Easy. New Orleans gets the top spot on the list for turning its Halloween celebrations up to an eleven. A Nooka, Minnesota gets a spot on the list for its family friendly celebrations, including numerous parades, And

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