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Sixty eight degrees at eleven o'clock. Good Saturday morning. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening all right the Columbus. A holiday weekend is here and the best weather of the weekend. Well, that's going to happen today.
Ploody sunshine for today, but it'll be windy the high round seventy, increasing clouds tonight.
And that's ech you weather Meteorologist John Peric. We'll have the full accu weather forecast that's coming up in three. For the second time in the last two weeks, a water main break floods Tremont Street. Wbzatv's best Dromano has that deep into Tremont Street. Crews we're working amid the mud and muck, a one hundred and fifty year old water main with the sizeable crack all down its side, and neighbor Teresa Blevins was more than frustrated.
The mass disgusting.
The noise is disgusting as well.
The break sent water flooding into Tremont Street near Mass Half, nearly swallowing some nearby vehicles. While crews slogging through the water feverishly tried to stop the flow. This basement art gallery was the biggest victim, with mud piled up to
its door. It's just really hardbreaking water filling the Piano Craft Gallery that's a non profit community space for local artists, damaging artwork that was stored and now requiring wall's furniture all to be replaced at a cost that volunteers like artist Kamala Maud cannot afford.
Having something like that all of a sudden has really impaired the gallery in financially on community side too.
And the gallery was forced to cancel it shows through the end of the year because of damages. A former Massachusetts pharmacist is sentenced in Michigan up to fifteen years in prison for his role in a meningitis outbreak back in twenty twelve. Fifty six year old Glen Chin pleaded no contest back in August involuntary manslaughter and the deaths of eleven people in Michigan. Chin supervised production at the
New England Compounding Center in Framingham. More than seven hundred people in twenty states were sickened with meningitis or other illnesses. A dozens dozens rather died. Michigan has been the only state to prosecute Chin and his boss, Barry Cadden for the deaths related to the outbreak. Caden presently serving a fourteen and a half year federal prison. Jews around the world are observing their day of Atonement Jong Kippor, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, but no days off
on the battlefield. The Lebanese military reporting Israeli forces killed two Lebanese soldiers and injured two UN peacekeepers in separate strikes. The focus also continues in Gaza, including the biggest refugee camp.
Pictures from Jibalia, once one of the world's most densely populated neighborhoods, show apocalyptic scenes. Few areas in Gaza have been hit as hard over the past year. Now, the Israeli military is intensifying its offensive. They're targeting ha Mass operatives who it says have been regrouping. Israel has told up to four hundred thousand Palestinians still living in northern Gaza to evacuate for their own safety and so it can continue to try to eliminate the threat from ha Mass.
And that's the BBC's John Donison now let's check the ACU weather forecast for this holiday weekend. Plenty of sunshine today, It's going to be windy out there, but warm, highs reaching seventy degrees. Cooler tonight, increasing clouds will cool off to about forty five tomorrow. Tomorrow and Monday. If you're enjoying the three day Columbus Day weekend, Tomorrow and Monday are both going to be quite a bit chillier. It's
going to feel more like fall. Cloudy and chilly, with some rain and drizzles at times on Tomorrow, especially from late morning on. I have only fifty three degrees in
the city, lower sixties well south of the city. Monday, we'll see morning showers, then windy in the afternoon, a mix of sun and clouds, but will also possible you see a lingering shower or to come Monday, and highs again only near sixty A little warmer than Sunday, but still it's going to be a lightful Tuesday, only bumping up to about fifty seven degrees in Boston right now,
it's already sixty eight at eleven oh five. A Needum nonprofit is wrapping up its inaugural Hygiene Insecurity Awareness Week, which helps to shine light on what they call a hidden crisis here in Massachusetts.
The statistic can be surprising. Nearly one out of every three families here in Massachusetts struggles with hygiene insecurity.
Which basically means that they don't have access to basic hygiene products like soap and toothpaste and menstrual product.
That is Kerry Carter. She is the CEO of the Hope and Comfort Hygiene Hub and Needum.
Now I'm having access to these products impacts physical and mental health.
And she says it could even force people to lose out on job opportunities or keep kids home from class. This week, it's Hoping Comforts first ever Hygiene Insecurity Awareness Week. They teamed up with a couple of companies, Native and Earth Breeze to work with local partners, hoping to hand out half a million products to those in need.
But we actually exceeded that. We have distributed as of today, about six hundred and thirty thousand products.
Carter says. The best thing you can do about this issue is talk about it with your peers and local lawmakers and donate too if you can. Nicole Davis WBZ Boston's news radio.
A twenty one year old East bridgewaterman is arrested on suspicion of owning and selling images showing child sex abuse. Jason Giles was originally tracked down online by a nonprofit group that is known as Bikers Against Predators, who traveled from Indiana on Wednesday to meet with Giles about his alleged behavior. Police arresting Giles on Thursday. He was arraigned in Brockton District Court yesterday, facing charges including possessing child
pornography and disseminating obscene matter to a child. Bikers Against Predators was tipped off to Giles' alleged behavior by another group that poses as miners to expose child predators. Russian dissident Alexi Navalny believed that he would die in prison. This according to his memoir. The book, titled Patriot, is scheduled for release posthumously later this month, but yesterday The New Yorker published excerpts.
The prison diaries of Alexei Navalni reveal a man resigned to his fate but determined to stay true to his convictions. There's anguish and his certainty that he will die in jail. There will be no one to say goodbye to. He writes, I will never see my grandchildren. But there's also dark humor in his description of the rigors of prison life, and Navali makes clear that he didn't regret his decision to return to Russia to continue his challenge to Vladimir Putin.
And that's the BBC's James Reid reporting. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app and I'm Herey Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio