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Fifty four degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock news. This half hour is sponsored by the Good Feet Store, improving people's lives two feet at a time. Good Friday Morning. I'm Madison Rogers, and we start off on the roads. We're keeping an eye on a big traffic mess north of Boston, and we're joined now live by David Streffalino to tell us all about it.
Struck Madison. It's a big crash. Six vehicles including an RV involved here on four ninety five. A little more than an hour go vehicle traveling four ninety five south through Lawrence crash across the median after mass ave ins struck the vehicles on the northbound side of four ninety five. Only one right lane has been getting by on four ninety five north here for a while, so it's jammed out at Tewksbury and southbound four ninety five backed up
out of Methuin. All the details on this and more coming up in a moment on traffic on the threes Strafend.
If you're away from your car, stay tuned by downloading the iHeartRadio app. In the fight over housing requirements along the MBTA, Some Peabody officials are now at odds. The Item Live reports yesterday the city's director of Community Development proposed zoning changes for denser housing to comply with the MBTA Communities Act. Counselors have mixed opinions, with at least one firmly opposed to the idea. All this comes as
the law is before the state's highest court. Supreme Judicial Court justices heard arguments this week over the town of Milton's refusal to comply. At least eight or dead and millions are still in the dark as Florida tries to clean up the wreckage left by Hurricane Milton. This week, we get more from Venice Beach with ABC's Victor Okendo.
The fourteen year old boy hanging on to a piece of offence pulled from floodwaters and more than five hundred people rescued by boat at this flooded apartment complex in Clearwater.
In some areas around it, it was neck deep water so over the top of vehicles.
Earlene that came by, we had everything cleaned up and then all of a sudden, this comes around.
Many Floridians left picking up the pieces for the second time in two.
Weeks and checking power outage dot US right now, the number of customers in the darken Florida still tops two point two million at being said. Florida Governor Ron de Santis and FEMA officials say the damage could have been much worse. The prosecutor in the domestic violence case against Taunton mayor Taunton's mayor says he'll use bombshell evidence to get a conviction, even as a key witness refuses to testify. Shawna O'Connell is accused of attacking her husband, Ted during
an argument over the summer. Ted O'Connell has said he won't testify against his wife, but in lieu of that testimony, according to the Taunton Gazette, the prosecution now says it has video evidence and a nine to one one call the defense. Once the case dismissed and hearing on that motion is set for next week. It's good news in the four day forecast, sixty seven for the high today, it stays sunny and then we have clear skies tonight as the temps get down to around fifty seven in Boston,
closer to fifty in a lot of suburbs near seventy. Tomorrow, it's breezy with a good deal of sun. A few showers around Sunday, otherwise mostly cloudy with temps in the mid fifties. We're back in the mid sixties for Monday, but there is rain around in the morning. Then it's windy with clouds and some breaks of sun in the afternoon, and we should stay dry with more sunshine and cooler temps on Tuesday. Right now in Boston, it's fifty four
degrees a clear blue sky at eleven oh five. We've learned DNA evidence will be featured in the case against the former Stoton officer accused of killing Sandra Birchmore. According to a court filing obtained by The Globe, federal prosecutors will introduce expert testimony regarding DNA testing in the case. Matthew Farwell is facing a federal charge of killing a witness, accused of stating staging the murder of the twenty three year old to look like a suicide after she told
him she was pregnant with his child. Farwell is also accused of statutory rape. He allegedly groomed Birchmore into a relationship when she was just a teenager. Many visitors from Florida are finally boarding flights back to the Sunshine State today after the hurricane disrupted air travel up and down the East Coast this week. More now at Logan Airport with wbz's James Rojas.
Tom is among those who came to Boston earlier this week.
Watched everything with the hurricane, kept track of where the airport's opened so open excepting flight Sir, here I go.
He wasn't sure if his flight back home would be affected.
It knew the airport was going to be closed for a while. The ones on the West coast are closed a little bit longer. They're opening up today. But Orlando opened up for some domestic flights last night, and I think pretty much going full speed.
To These women are flying back to Sarasota, which was hit the hardest by Milton.
Hello damage your coast is really bad and we just had a hurricane.
Two weeks ago.
Though, they are grateful to be able to fly back home and see family. Meanwhile, many flights from Florida to Boston remain canceled. At Logan. James Rojas w b Z Boston's Snoos Radio.
A Macy's store on the South Shore hits the shopping block. Macy's just announced, or rather earlier this year, announced a slew of closures across the state, and that plan is now coming to fruition. As we hear from wbz's Jim McKay.
Here at the Kingston Collection, it was revealed this week that the anchor store Macy's, will be closing up shop in early twenty twenty five. Sad but expected news when I'm talking to shoppers, very disappointed.
I'd love it.
I'm wearing these clothes from Macy's.
Bladdy is here with her sister Sarah, and she really had some bad timing.
I just got my Macy's kid.
Rack up those points while you still can. Gabriella immigrated to the US from Zill six years ago, saying Macy's was a store she couldn't wait to shop at. Becoming an American citizen and moving deploymath Macey's because there's a big shop to have everything and every label that we know.
Sign of the times as brick and mortar department stores are getting lapped by online shopping, and the truth hear it's the small stores and the boutiques are wonderful, but Macy, says the anchor in Kingston, Jim McKay, WBC Boston's news radio.
WBZ News Radio has reached out to Macy's about other potential closures in Massachusetts. We have yet to hear back. You're now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's News Radio.