This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news sixty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Airports in Florida in the path of Hurricane Milton are all closed. The waiting continues for landfall now. The storm has been leading to a race for travelers getting out for some others trying to
get back home before the storm hits Florida. WBZ TV's Petty Committed Logan Airports spoke with a woman who had to cut her trip to Disney World short.
Disney World's closing a bunch of the resorts. So yeah, I'm so grateful.
To be back in Boston.
We were there really early, like three hours early, just to make sure that we got on the plane. There's a lot of tension with TSA right now to try.
To get everybody evacuated.
And if you had plans to fly to Florida, your flight is likely canceled, but most airlines are offering free flight change waivers. There's just no talent when those airports in Florida are going to reopen, so it could be a while before you're able to redeem.
Those down south. Pentagon spokesperson Major General pat Ryder tells ABC they're ready to jump in and help at a moment's notice and have been talking with officials on the ground in Florida.
We fully recognize the potential impact of this storm. We are going to continue to closely communicate with FEMA, with the state, with the local government to make sure that they have everything they need.
Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida tonight between nine and eleven PM. Right now, it's packing wins of one hundred and thirty miles an hour, a Category four storm. It's a little less than one hundred and fifty miles to the southwest of Tampa, Florida, moving north and northeast at sixteen miles an hour. We are expecting another update from the National Hurricane Center a little bit later on
this afternoon. President Biden was briefed today at the White House, hearing from FEMA Administrator DN chris Well and other officials. He addressed politicians' comments criticizing White House's efforts to clean up the lots big storm Hurricane Kalid. Former President Trump's been posting on truth socials saying that President Biden and the Vice President, Kamala Harris can't get anything done properly in North Carolinta. ABC's Karen Travers with the president's response.
President Biden said misinformation about the response to Hurricane Helene and now Milton is undermining confidence in the federal government.
The last few weeks, there's been a reckless, irresponsible, and relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies that are disturbing people, and.
The President placing the blame.
Former President Trump has led the onslaught of lies.
The White House is aggressively trying to combat misinformation with social media posts and briefings to tell people in the storm zone what resources are available to them. Karen Travers ABC News The White House keep.
Two to WBZ as Hurricane Milton continues to chug toward Florida. Will keep you updated and download the iHeartRadio app take us with you wherever you go. A school bus driver for the Newton Schools indicted on three accounts of kidnapping. Prosecutors say Justin Vows brought three children between three and five to secluded areas in May and turned off the audio and video recording on the bus. Newton authorities tipped off police after a student was dropped off late at daycare.
The Middlesex DA says all of the children involved our semi non verbal or struggle with communication bose faces arraignment. Later this month, we checked the four DAWZ active weather forecast. We'll have a stray shower in a couple of places as we head into the evening, otherwise partly cloudy, breezy, temperatures in the mid forties or so, maybe within a
few degrees either way, mostly sunny. Tomorrow, a breezy, chili day as we only managed to get into the upper fifties in some of the coolest spots downtown maybe sixty, clear and chili Tomorrow night back into the thirties and the chilliest suburbs about forty six downtown and then on Friday, mid sixties with mostly sunny skies seventy or so with
some sunshine. On Saturday. We are looking at a shower right now over the Plympton area this afternoon, so south of the city seeing some showers, a couple more onto western mass but again will have just some widely scattered spritzes, sprinkles or showers throughout the early part of the Evening Tonight sixty two right now in Boston. Nearly seven percent of adults who get COVID in the US come down with long COVID, but it's still not exactly clear why
they deal with symptoms that just won't quit. Wbz's Nicole Davis with more on some new research.
COVID symptoms can be really rough, they're not fun, but for most of us, they go away after just a couple weeks. For almost seventeen million Americans, though, COVID has stuck around a lot longer, sometimes for years after first diagnosis. A research team at Brigham and Women's Hospital ran tests on more than seven hundred long COVID patients. In about forty three percent of the people they tested, they found COVID viral proteins were still in their blood circulating around
the body. They found those proteins like long covid itself or hanging around in some cases more than a year after diagnosis. The study shows there is likely more than one cause of long COVID, as damage to the immune system is also considered to be a dr factor. That being said, the lead author of the study, doctor Zoe Swank, says this could mean some patients would finally be able to shake their symptoms just by taking a round of anti virals. Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
The new lawsuit is accusing dozens of elite schools of holding out on financial aid for students.
Forty private universities are named in the class action suit, which was filed by a student at Boston University and an alum from Cornell. When schools doll out need based financial aid, they often determine a student's need based on the income of their parents. But the schools named in the suit, alongside the college board, are accused of requiring non custodial parents to submit their financial information too, regardless of whether or not that parent actually had any involvement
in paying for their kids' education. The plaintiffs say that practice effectively cheated them out of aid money. They're seeking more than five million dollars in damages, not to mention a core order to bring the alleged practice to an end once and for all. Other schools named in the suit include Northeastern, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. Jeremy Russ w b Z, Bostondio.
WZ has reached out to schools named in the suit. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio