This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news fifty five degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening with rush fires continuing to burn. Air quality is an issue. Officials say the quality of the air is at very unhealthy levels and because of that. North of Boston, students at Salem High School were dismissed early today. Students at the Horace Man Laboratory School in Salem got moved to the Witchcraft Heights
Elementary School. Dozens of fires, meantime are still burning across Massachusetts.
Forty seven active brush fires burning across the state. In Middleton, firefighters return to active areas in hopes of stopping the fires here from spreading.
We'll see what Mother Nature brings us tonight, and I would envision us probably being here tomorrow at the very least and possibly throughout the week.
Lexington, Lowell, and North Reading among the several communities assisting Middleton and containing the now two hundred and twenty five or brush fire. This has flames continue to spread throughout Salem.
That always makes us challenging when you have multiple events going on, but you know. Fortunately we have a strong mutual aid network that you know, everyone's been fantastic and super appreciative of the resources that have been made available to.
Us firefighters running several water lines through the terrain, but dry weather and dead vegetation are bringing added challenges.
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for residents across Metro Boston. Vice President Kabla Harris will deliver it tonight what her campaign calls her closing argument speech a week before election day in Washington, with the White House as her backdrop, Harris's expected to urge voters to turn the page on former President Trump.
The Harris campaign chose the Ellipse on the National Mall for the Vice President's closing argument for very specific reasons. It's the site where former President Donald Trump rallied his
supporters before they storm the Capitol on January sixth. The campaign says the location is a symbol of that dark time and they want to draw contrast to what Harris would bring to the presidency, But officials say this will be an optimistic speech and with the White House as her backdrop, Harris will tell the nation the good a president can do to bring the country together and get things done for the American people. Karen Travers ABC News the White House.
Former President Trump stood before the microphone today in Florida. The former president says he's been campaigning NonStop for nearly two months and says Vice President Harris has destroyed the nation.
Kamala intends to conflict and keep this misery going, and she's going to keep it going as long as she can because that's the only way she can get elected. She's going out and only criticizing talking about Hitler, and not because her record's horrible.
Trump touched on his top campaign issues, including immigration and crime. The former president now off to Pennsylvania checking the four day Actually wear the forecast a pretty decent stretch of weather here. We're going to get a little bit of rain, tonight, probably not much to put a big dent in our drought issues, but little rain will push across the area, especially after midnight, and temperature is not far from fifty.
The clouds will give way to sunshine Tomorrow will dry it out, breezy temperatures near seventy, and then Tomorrow night partly cloudy, low of fifty eight. Thursday, we may make a run toward eighty degrees, probably upper seventies most places. The record in Boston is eighty one, set in nineteen forty six. Doubtful will get there, but we have to play the game first to see what the score is. So it'll be a quite warm evening for trick or
treating on Thursday as well. The temperatures will slide back a little bit on Friday, not much low seventies for the high, and then a shower early gives way to sunshine weekend, where it's gonna require us to maybe break out the sweatshirts again, Temperatures only in the fifties. Right now, it is fifty five degrees in Boston. A lot is said about the Witch City during Halloween season, but as we hear from Wbc'shile Shaffle, the long shadow cast by Salem's got room for plenty of neighbors too.
Next to the black and orange black hole that is Salem this time of year, it would be easy to assume that neighboring communities like Peabody get lost in the shuffle. Dan Healy says, not so fast. She's the president of the Peabody Area Chamber of Commerce.
They planned for it, they expect it, and they book up because of the Halloween, so of course it's it's a good thing for them, She says.
Hotels and Peabody get a yearly big boost from the Salem overflow. Retail stores and restaurants also see more business from curious tourists and overwhelmed locals alike.
It's a good opportunity to get out of town and try another restaurant in a neighboring city that probably doesn't have the weight.
The one drawback are places that don't really interact with the crowd, like banks. For them, this time of year just means more traffic. But Heally says some of those cars are actually missing this year.
This year, we have not been seeing the traffic patents.
For that, She gives credit to Salem's aggressive public transit ad campaign Kyle Shaffle WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Today is now until Halloween and safety is key, of course for the kids, but also for the pets MSPCA with some reminders. Chocolate, the most popular candy given to tricker treaders, can be dangerous for the pets, another Halloween essential that may pose a danger to pets's costumes. It can make it hard for them to see or breathe. Keep an eye out for pet anxiety too, including their
costumes and just the overall excitement of the day. With Tom Brady Benching the marriage to Giselle, the modeling superstar is found more love and more.
Gizelle Bunchen is pregnant. See. The forty four year old former supermodel is expecting her third child and first since her divorced from Tom Brady. Bunch In and the Goat have a teen and tween from a thirteen year marriage,
the father's thirty five year old Joaquim Valente. After some contraver about how Brady found out about the pregnancy, TMZ reports bunch And told her acts before the news hit the media, and as the news broke to the public, Brady posts a sunset pick on his Instagram story to the tune of The Chicks cover of Landslide by Fleetwood, Mac J. Willett, WVZ Boston's News Radio.
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