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News sixty three degrees in Boston at three o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. For residents of Florida who haven't evacuated ahead of Hurricane Milton. Time is quickly running out. But for those still looking to get out of dodge, Florida's Governor Rod Dessentda says, you don't have to take the interstate.
When you hear evacuate. Don't think you've got to get on the interstate and outrun the storm. You can find safe places on higher ground, hunker down, and then be able to go back to your home when the storm passes.
The latest update from the National Hurricane Center says Milton is regaining some of its strength on the CUSP now of becoming a Category five storm again. Top wins one hundred and fifty five miles an hour. It is five hundred and twenty miles to the southwest of Tampa, Florida, moving at about eight miles an hour. It's expected to
make landfall sometime tomorrow, probably tomorrow night. Still as a major hurricane, President Biden has been connecting with governors of states impacted by Hurricane Helene as crews worked to rebuild after that devastating storm.
President Biden says he's spoken to all the political leaders in the Southeast region, some more than once, and told them anything they ask for they can get from the federal government.
We've gotten overwhelming response, a positive response from everyone from the governors of Florida up to North Carolina and mayor's leaders. Local Kevi expressed versus their gratitude for the work of FEMA and for the work my entire administration.
The President said he gave state and local officials his personal cell phone to reach out over the next several days as Milton makes its way toward Florida. Karen Traver's ABC News lu Wayne.
House remembering l Tante. Red Sox Hall of Famer Louis Tiana has died. In eight years with the Red Sox, Tianto one of his two ERA titles. He's best known for his dominant performance in Game one of the nineteen seventy five World Series. He tossed a complete game shutout and even went one for three at the plate, scoring the winning run. Team owner John Henry saying in a statement that Tian had an unforgettable presence and a smile
that could light up Fenway. His former teammate Fred Lynn, writing on ex the Ti was a big game pitcher and a funny, genuine guy who loved his family and baseball. Louis Tiant was eighty three State Attorney General Andrea Campbell joining a multi state lawsuit accusing TikTok of harming its young users. The attorney General says TikTok's parent company intentionally designed the app to be addictive and harmful so younger users.
The suit claims the company deceived the public about how it was working to keep the app safe.
Our roll was to hold the.
Company accountable for its unlawful conduct and to stop the company from engaging in practices that exploited our.
Young people for profit. In a statement, TikTok tells WBZ News Radio it disagrees with the inaccurate and misleading claims in the lawsuit and that the company has added mandatory and voluntary safeguard in the app. There are a lot of hotly contested legislative races across the country this election season, but experts say you won't find one in Massachusetts. The commonwealth ranked is dead last on politics site ballot Pedia's
annual state legislative Competitiveness Report. The authors found only ten percent of the seats in the state legislature were opened during the primaries, and only eighteen incumbents had contested primaries. If you're a fan of the fall weather, this is a week for you. We've got the sunshine around today. Temperatures have been into the sixties. Tonight will fall to about fifty Downtown mid forties and many of the inland suburbs a sunshine Tomorrow mid sixties and then Tomorrow night
partly cloudy, low forty eight. Thursday about sixty degrees or so with mostly sunny skies. It's going to be chilly. We may fall into the thirties in many of the suburbs Thursday nights. We call that crisp air. Friday, mostly sunny, a bit milder in the afternoon. Sixty five for the high temperature. It is sixty three right now in Boston. A big bump in cash soon. We'll make ferry rides smooth. They're in Quincy of the Bez's Kyles Shaffle as the tales.
It started out as a way for people to get to work.
The original per that was built was built to ferry the workers to Deer Island and the pair has gone aways a little bit and we need a new investment here and that's what today's about.
And as Quincy Mayor Thomas Cook will tell you, this Quantum Point Park Ferry Pier still is, but many more people use it these days. Now the city and the tier are looking to entice even more riders with a four million dollars touch up of the decades old pier. Congressman Stephen Lynch helped them get the money.
Trying to get people out of their cars onto the ferry, especially the heavy traffic that comes from the South Shore in my district. He says.
Ridership is up one hundred and thirty percent year over year. The mayor says city residents and officials have been pushing to revamp the peer for years, but with the money now in hand.
I think we're finally no pun in tend but we're all rowing in the same direction.
Kyles Schaffle to be BZ Boston's news radio.
City of Boston announcing who will be tasked with studying the impact of Carnie hospitals closing. Boston Public Health Commissioner doctor Bisola o Jikutu and the President of the League of Community Health Senters, Michael Curry, will co chair the group. They'll be joined by several politicians, doctors, and healthcare professionals. They've been tasked with assessing what the health needs for
the community are now that Carney Hospital is closed. They'll make a recommendation to the Mayor and the governor about what the next steps should be. Tennis legend tapped is the Grand Marshal of the next Rose Bowl Parade.
Billy Jan King says she knew early in her life that she wanted to be a champion of equality. She says, in each of us as an influencer.
So next time you see a woman leading, don't limit or underestimate her.
King was the first woman athlete to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the first individual woman athlete to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. She led on the court and in other endeavors, and has been chosen to lead the one hundred and thirty sixth Rose Bowl Parade. Billy Jen King will also be part of the coin flip for the game Jennifer Kuiper, CBS News.
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