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Sunny and fifty five degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock. Good Saturday morning. Thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. Picture perfect fall weather weekend.
Let's continue for today with a warmer data start the weekend.
We'll have a high near seventy.
Act you weather Meteorologist LaTroy Thornton there. The full forecast is coming right up early in person. Voting for the November fifth election is now under way in Massachusetts. Secretary of State Bill Galvin's office says the state sent out more than one point three million ballots. About thirty one percent of those ballots requested, four hundred and twenty five thousand have been returned so far. The countdown to election day continues. In law enforcement around the country is preparing
for whatever security threats may come up. BBC's Nicole Davis spoke with the former top man at the BPD.
Former Boston Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, says technology like social media is now making it easy for people to take part in what he calls inspirational terror.
The ability is so easily cretain people. His brother's carrying one phone that's not too.
And the rhetoric is still heating up, as we have seen with attempts on the life of former President Trump and threats to against state and local election workers.
The complexity of the issue has changed dramatically and it's going to require a lot more investment in security dealing with the new threats now.
He says, local departments have been working on sharing tactics and information to make sure everybody poll workers, voters, and candidates alike are safe at polling places.
You should feel secure that the invast majority of them will have some type of coverage from the local police, and we'll be watching social media extensively.
Nicole Davis WBZ Boston's news radio.
Picketing is now suspended at the Omni Boston Seaport and Omni Parker House hotels. The union representing workers announcing a tentative agreement on a new contract. Details, though, are being withheld pending the outcome of tomorrow's ratification vote. If the contract is approved, workers will be back on the job there on Monday. Unite Here Local twenty six represents hotel workers at more than thirty properties in Boston whose contracts
expired at the end of August. No word yet though on any progress in talks involving striking workers at Hilton Park Plaza and Hilton Boston. Logan Hezbla apparently stepping up attacks on Israel, suspected in a drone attack on the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister and his wife were not there at the time. In Israeli officials report no casualties. Meanwhile, no let up in fighting between Hamas and Israel following the death of Hamas
leader Yaha Sinwar. The latest from ABC's Tom Sufi Burris.
President Biden is cool, the kidding at Saiwow an opportunity to try and get a seesepot in and maybe in Gaza. But this morning proof once again that this is a regional war which is escalating on multiple fronts, and Israel is still wearhing its retaliatory strike on Iran, which could come at any moments, And.
There are also questions looming about who will succeed Sinwar, with candidates including his brother Mohammed Sinhwar. And now the four dawbz ACU weather forecast, you can want to listen to this one. It's pretty nice. Highs close to seventy today, mainly clear overnight, will cool down to about forty nine in the city. In the coolest inland suburbs, it'll be closer to forty Tomorrow, highs reaching the mid seventies, mostly sunny skies, and then Monday high have seventy seven degrees
and plenty of sunshine. Unfortunately, we turn that warming trend back around with a cool down on Tuesday. Highs in the mid to high sixties in the city. Right now it's fifty nine degrees sunny. Sky's fifty nine in Randolph, fifty eight in Norwal, fifty seven in bra In, sixty one in Braintree, and sunshine all across the board. It's eleven o five on this Saturday. Pieces of history from the bottom of the Atlantic are now on display in Boston. Here's WPC's Madison Rogers.
You're around a corner and suddenly you're in the grand staircase of the RMS Titanic, a stunning or nate recreation. You can almost feel the ground softly rocking under your feet. Even though this exhibition has been seen by thirty five million people, the people of Boston have not seen it before. Joe Gold is a promoter for Titanic. The artifact exhibition, which just opened up at the Saunders Castle Downtown. Recreations are the backdrop for over one hundred and fifty haunting
pieces of history. We have a David arm that was taken from the deck of Titanic, that was used to lower the lifeboats into the water. From towering hunks of machinery, to things like playing cards or a pair of eyeglasses, tangible reminders of what we lost. Take a step back and look at history, and history comes to life right here. The exhibit will be here through May in town. I'm Madison Rodgers w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Prosecutors in the Karen Reid case planned to call her father, William Reid, as a witness when she has tried for a second time in her trial beginning in late January. Reed charged in the death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe on January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, in Canton. Reid's first trial ended in a mistrial because
of a hung jury. The Commonwealth has now asked the court to order Verizon Wireless to produce call records, text messages, and data from William Reid's account from January twenty ninth and January thirtieth. That's overnight the night that O'Keefe's O'Keeffe
died in the Snow. Special Assistant District Attorney Hank Brennan says the request is to compare the timing and the frequency of Karen Reid's calls to her father on the night of the victim's death, and they will compare that to the frequency ease of calls on dates not involving the alleged crime. The Massachusetts State Police unit that investigated
Karen Reid is about to get a new leader. Detective Lieutenant Brian Tully, who remains under internal investigation, has been moved to another department in the Norfolk County DA's office. The job now posted for Tully's old job. In a release, State Police Colonel Jeffrey Noble says that the move is
in the best interests of the department. Trooper Michael Proctor, who was in Tully's unit and led the Karen Reid investigation, has been suspended without payover disparaging remarks he made about Reid. You are now in the Luke. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio