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Partly cloudy sky, sixty two degrees in Boston. It's eleven o'clock. Goods Saturday morning is always Thanks for tuning in. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. Another great weather day ahead.
We are going to start the day with some clouds of a sprinkle or a shower early, but we'll see the return of some sunshine with a nice afternoon with hines of seventy two to seventy six.
Ak you weather meteorologists Matt Rindy there. We'll have the full ACU weather forecast for cast coming up in three are The cleanup continues throughout the south southeastern states that are hit hard by Hurricane Helene. The powerful storm severely damaging drinking water in western sections of North Carolina, especially in Asheville, where much of the city's water system was destroyed.
Officials forecasting that repairs could take weeks. The rebuild in North Carolina made harder by the steep, narrow valleys of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and officials with the EPA are estimating more than one point eight million people remain under a boil water advisory. Massachusetts communities, meanwhile, are stepping up to extend a helping hand to areas devastated by Helene. Here's WBZTV's Paul Burton with more on that.
From hand sanitizer to bales of hay and every single item need in between. Towns around Massachusetts are coming together by the trailer loaves to help families impacted by Hurricane Helene.
They're in need of basically every basic life necessity.
In West Bridgewater, the police station garage has been turned into a local command center for items being donated by residents. Sergeant Jonathan Craven says they've been coordinating with the North Carolina Highway Patrol of.
The support that we've received has been amazing. Our officers have been coming in off duty to help sort.
I have four SAT size and been delivered Gay Heather and Cannon came to donate with her eleven year old daughter Kayley.
We're bringing first eight kits, personal little for state kits that they can hand out and also personal toiletry items that come in a little kit for them as well.
And people will have until Sunday to donate. In Westbridgewater. Updating a story that we have been following a strike threat still in place by the union representing nearly five thousand hotel workers at thirty six hotels in Boston and Cambridge. Unite Here Local twenty six is warning that there would be a walkout if an agreement isn't reached on wages, healthcare and pensions. Union president Carlos Ramile the industry's.
Full you recover from COVID now, and we need a significant amount of money in wages right up front to make up for the lost income.
That folks have had over the.
Past couple of years. And we did speak with a union representative this morning who says they are still far apart on key economic demands. The union also saying strikes are imminent. Stay tuned to WBZ News Radio will follow these very latest developments and bring them to you as we get them in today, all right, right place, right time.
An off duty nurse stepping in to help a child who stopped breathing while in a car on the Arbor Way yesterday in Jamaica, Plane State Police say the nurse helped stabilize the unresponsive child, who is in taken to Boston Children's Hospital. Several police cruisers an ambulance and a fire truck responding to the scene. The child's condition or what caused the child to stop breathing, has not been made public. Now let's check the acur weather forecast. Quite
a beautiful day today for the beginning of October. We'll see clouds, maybe a sprinkler shower, but that's happening early in the morning, and then it will just become partly to mostly sunny, very pleasant high seventy two to seventy six degrees today. This would be a great day to go out apple picking or maybe having a little fun picking out a pumpkin in a pumpkin patch. Clear skies tonight, cooling off to fifty two degrees Today is definitely the
better pick of the weekend days. Tomorrow is going to be cooler, still not bad, but a mix of sun and clouds and high's quite a bit cooler, sixty four to sixty eight. Monday, back to work with heis near sixty degrees, mainly cloudy skies. It'll be breezy with a few showers around as well. Tuesday, just sunny to partly cloudy, breezy,
high a little warmer of sixty four. Right now, it's just partly cloudy sixty two degrees in Boston at eleven oh six on this Saturday, Law and Order fans coming from literally all over the world to check out a two day pop up interactive experience at Vaniel Hall. WBC's Kendle Bull talk to some of them.
Got the Freedom Trail, Duck Boats, Public Garden, just to name a few sites visitors to Boston might want to check out. But when Liam came in from Australia for a wedding, it was the Law and Order experience. He wanted.
I'm a big Lauren or to ask for you fans when we put our agenda together when this was going to be on, so we sort of planning out trip around it.
To my well, the NBC show is set up shopping Fanuel Hall for two days to get fans photo opportunities with what looked like the show sets and get free stuffed. David was only from as far away as Long Island. It was in town ten minutes he came across.
So we were just walking through Quincy Market and my daughter and I are huge Law and Order fans, so we saw it and we didn't know what it was, and then we were explaining it's a little pop up and like, yeah, we got to go in and check it out.
David was in the standby line, which moved pretty fast. Free reservations was napped up almost immediate KENNEWBSY, Boston's news radio.
The college hockey season has begun. The Bruins open their season Tuesday. High school hockey in the Bay State may not have enough referees to cover the games this season. A survey shows more than half of the members of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Ice Hockey Officials Association say they are not planning to lace up the skates this year unless they get paid more. It's eleven oh seven. One person was killed when their motorcycle struck a tree
late yesterday afternoon on Red Acre Road in Stowe. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Their name has not been released yet. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, and a new leader takes over the mass State Police.
Colonel Jeffrey Noble is the first leader of the Massachusetts State Police who is from outside the department's ranks. He was the retired second in command of the New Jersey State Police. Noble takes command of a force plague by corruption scandals in recent years, including overtime fraud and bribery scandals that led to troopers being criminally charged. Governor Morre Healey on the man she appointed.
Colonel Noble is the right leader for this agency at this moment in time.
I'm confident that.
He is the leader that are hard working state Police and the people of Massachusetts deserve.
Colonel Noble takes command of a trooper training program that's under investigation after the death of a recruit at the State House. Mike maclum w's Boston's News Radio.
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