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Mid Day Report: Sunday, October 13, 2024

Oct 13, 20245 min
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It's "Maye Day", Patriots Rookie Quarterback Drake Maye takes the reigns in Foxboro today against the Houston Texans. Hundreds of Boston Hotel workers remain on strike over the holiday weekend as the strike enters Week Two. A woman says she was removed from a Delta flight to Boston over allergy concerns. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

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Some light rain coming down in Boston at eleven o'clock on this Sunday morning is always thanks for tuning in. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. What a difference a day makes.

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Sports a day.

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I expect rain and drizzle from time to time under cloudy's guys who have a truly ends the weekend with a high only near fifty five.

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And that's ACCU weather meteorologist LaTroy Thornton. The full forecasts coming right up. It's May Day. Patriots rookie quarterback Drake May takes the rains in Foxborough today against the Houston Texans. The Patriots looking to snap a four game losing streak. Kickoff is at Gillette at one o'clock. In other news, now, hundreds of Boston hotel workers remain on strike over this holiday weekend, and as a strike now enters week two, there's word that more union workers could be joining the

picket lines. WBC's Mike Macklin spoke to the union's president.

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Striking hotel workers have been on the picket line at the Hilton Park Plaza and Logan Airport Hilton since last Sunday. Six hundred workers members of the union Unite Now Local twenty six, demanding better wages and working conditions coming.

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Out of COVID. There have been cuts to hours, cuts to services. There were two years of relatively very modest wage increases that didn't really keep up puts inflation.

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Unite Now Local twenty six President Carlos Aramaio.

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People feel like they're working harder than they were in twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen, but their real earning power is less than than it was then, and meanwhile, the cost of everything has gone through the roof.

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Ramaio says he expects to strike against Hilton Hotels in Boston to spread to Omni and Marriott Hotels in the coming days if a settlement is not reached. Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's News.

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Radio Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responding at several UN peacekeepers are injured in southern Lebanon. We get the latest from ABC Strewdana Miller.

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Israel's prime minister directly appealing to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterresh, urging him to immediately withdraw the UN's international peacekeeping forces from combat zones in southern Lebanon. Benjamin Natanielle says the UN's repeated refusal to do so is endangering the lives of UNIFIL troops who've been increasingly caught in the crossfire of fighting between the IDF and Huzbllah. At least five UNIFIL troops have been injured in recent days, drawing criticism

over Israel's military operations. Geordana Miller ABC News.

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Jerusalem and now Here's meteorologists John Fierick with the four day WBZ ACHU weather forecast.

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Sure nice Saturday across southern New England. We are going to see chille your Sunday with some rain at times, only topping down in the mid fifties. More rain and drizzle at times Tonight, down around fifty even could be a rumble to thunder. I got some showers tomorrow, especially in the morning clouds, try and break for a little bit of sun in the afternoon with the breeze. We're up near sixty and brisk and chili. Tuesday, partly Sunday

a fifty seven. Still chili Wednesday despite some sun. High in the mid fifties. I'm ak you weather mediiceorologist John fear WBZ Boston's News Radio.

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Oh woman says she was removed from a Delta flight to Boston over allergy concerns.

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This year, I've probably made the trip at least four times.

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Ellie Brellis travels constantly for her career and says her life threatening shellfish allergy is documented with Delta. On Sunday, she was boarding a flight from Los Angeles to Boston and claims she touched base with the flight attendants about her multiple EpiPens like she always does.

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She brought another flight attendant into it, and all of a sudden, it just kind of became this really big commotion where they said they were concerned because they were cooking shellfish in first class and that they couldn't not serve it.

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Brellis was not flying first but things grew more tense. A Delta medical rep border the plane and ultimately removed Brells from the flight, her luggage left on the plane. Brells says she was placed on a later Delta flight, but that one was also serving shellfish and there was no guarantee of a so called buffer.

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Zone, and that was wezatv's Brendan Truett reporting there. Brells was ultimately able to get to Boston after buying a ticket for a Jet Blue flight. Delta has not responded to requests for comment. The MSPCA is sending a team of two veterinarians to Vettex and three community outreach leaders to North Carolina to help animals impacted by Hurricane Helene.

The group will work with four other shelters to help Yancey County, North Carolina, which has no operating veterinarian hospital veterinary hospitals that is since the hurricane, which hit in late September. A mobile clinic will be set up to continue care for animals after the staff return home. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news Radio m

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