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Sunny and seventy one in Boston. It's eleven o'clock, good Friday morning, and it's going to be a good weekend too, weather wise. We'll get to that, but first, I'm Laurie Kirby, and Tropical Storm Polleen is now slamming the southeastern US with drenching rains and whipping winds. It made landfall as a dangerous Category four hurricane in Florida's Big Ben region last night. ABC's Jim Ryan with Moore.
The community of Gulfport, Florida, is surrounded by water Tampa Bay on the east, the Gulf of Mexico on the west. Suffice it to say that it's been a very difficult night. Gulfport Mayor Samuel Henderson.
We've had catastrophic damages to some areas of the city, both of our businesses, to city property, and also to the homes of some of our residents.
At sea level. Community saw an eight foot storm search hours before Helene's range began to fall. Jim Rily in ABC News.
Even New England is feeling the Domino effective chaos brought on by Helene. Flights to and from Logan are among the many affected. Wbz's James Rojas is at terminal see with that.
Though not everyone is traveling to parts of the country impacted by Helene, people like Bailey are wishing others who are affected the best.
Parts with them.
Hopefully it's okay. My team works out. They're based out of Charlotte, so I know they're expecting some weather today. Yeah, fingers crossed.
There all right.
Who is going to Florida is Kelly Eisner, director of Communications with the American Red Cross of Massachusetts.
Part of what we do for our long term recovery is we help these communities build resistance after the storm has come through. You know, maybe they're back in a home, but it's not their original home or it's not long term housing. We try to focus on that too, because we know the next one.
Is coming, she says. Teams in the base state are going to both Florida and Georgia at Logan. James row WVZ Boston Snooze Radio.
And we have up to the minute delays and cancelations thanks to flight Aware for you. Delays at Logan eighty three, cancelations thirty three and we'll check your traffic delays in a minute? Could fare increases be coming on the MBTA? Speaking at a Boston Globe summit, TGM philipp Eang said fair hikes are not off the table, but he adds you cannot fund the MBTA on the backs of riders
in the public. The TEA is facing a shortfall next year that will take hundreds of millions of dollars to fix, and says he will push cost cuts, try to attract new funding mechanisms, and lean into government allies for help in averting that financial crisis. Updating this story now, the head of a high end brothel that used local apartments and raked in huge sums of money will plead guilty today without a plea deal. Lindsay Weinstein, out of the US E Tie Office, says Han Lee will plead guilty
of federal prostitution and money laundering charges. She's facing up to twenty five years in prison. We'll have mor as it happens next to climate demonstrator's head to prison. So so nice out. We're seeing some clouds out there, but there are very very few, and they're very high up and they're not rain clouds. The rain is done we're drying out, the sun is coming out, we're warming up. We're now seeing quite a few places already in the
seventies are high. Today's seventy six, and tonight should be back in the fifties. For are low and just a few clouds around, but you still might have a shot at seeing some comets flying by. And then Saturday and Sunday can't be beat. We're in the seventies each day in some of those inland areas. Might be a little bit cooler in the Capan Islands, but really beautiful and
dry all the way through Monday. So we learned this morning that Oscar Great Maggie Smith has died at the age of eighty nine CBS a ceve Kathon with Moore.
Maggie Smith was known for her recent role in TV's Downton Abbey.
I Remember Malleton in the eighteen sixties Darrold Lady Darnley.
Always liked to stuff the place with royalty.
Smith also won fans in the Harry Potter movies. She won Academy Awards for the Prime of Miss Jean Brody in nineteen sixty nine and for a supporting role in nineteen seventy eight California suitet Steve Kathan CBS News.
If you saw a group of women walking last night in wedding dresses in Lawrence, you might have wondered why well. The Eagle Tribune reports it was the annual bride's March to shine a light on domestic violence. The annual walk is in memory of a woman named Gladys Ricard, a Dominican immigrant who was murdered by her estranged boyfriend on her wedding day in New Jersey in nineteen ninety nine.
Some men joined in last night dressed in black formal attire in the annual Peaceful Walk at a common in Lawrence, and a pair of demonstrators facing serious consequences for a stunt overseas.
Two climate activists who threw cans of hind tomato soup at Vincent Van Goo's Sunflowers at London's National Gallery two years ago have been convicted at trial on criminal charges and jailed. The frame around the masterpiece was damaged. The painting was not harmed and later put back on display. One defendant has been sentenced to two years in prison, the other to twenty months. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
A nearly four thousand year old log could be the key to slowing Earth's warmings. CBS's Christopher Cruz explains.
The remarkably well preserved three thousand, seven hundred seventy five year old log, discovered about six feet under a farm in Canada, gave climate scientists at the University of Maryland an idea. Since wood captures a lot of carbon dioxide, could burying a lot of wood in wood vaults slow its decomposition and lock away human generated carbon dioxide, possibly for thousands of years. Christopher Cruz, CBS News Washington.
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