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It's eleven o'clock. Good Morning on Laurie Kirby. We start with early voting starting this Saturday. In Massachusetts. Bear Sky's two to get out the vote, and those four and against Measure two are speaking out. WBC. Sherry Small explains.
Governor Moore Healy attending a No on Question two event in Roxbury on Wednesday, saying eliminating the MCAST requirement for graduation would be a mistake for Massachusetts.
Question two, in our view, would eliminate a tool that we know works in terms of our ability to assess how our young people are doing, and frankly, what additional supports districts and schools need.
The vote No on two campaign says, if passed, it could replace the MCAST with more than three hundred different and unequal standards.
I don't believe that the standards should be different for students in our state depending on what zip code they're living in or attending school here.
The Yes on two campaign released a statement saying it's disappointing that Governor Healy has chosen to side with a few corporate donors opposing Question two and against Massachusetts educators, parents and students. Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's News radio.
Vice president Kamala Harris sits down for an interview on Fox News ABC's Mary Bruce with Moore on last night's events.
This was the first time she has sat down with Fox News, and it comes as she's trying to really win over disillusioned Republicans, those small, small sliver of voters that may still be persuaded with just nineteen days now left to go. And she was pressed on her record on immigration, the economy, foreign policy, and a lot of what are essentially Donald Trump's talking points in this race as well. But Harris pushed back and she's really trying to cast herself as a candidate of change.
The interview took planes a Harris rally in Pennsylvania, where she was joined by dozens of Republicans, including former GOP lawmakers and ex Trump supporters. Meantime, on to former President Trump, he spoke at a town hall event on Univision and he was asked about the January sixth Capitol riots. Trump said his supporters quote didn't come because of me. They came because of the election. Yours ABC's Rachel Scott the reality.
Trump urged his supporters to travel to Washington, promising it will be wild.
He waited for hours to call.
Off the mob.
More than one hundred and forty police officers were assaulted by rioters. He's now to part in those who have been convicted, and Trump will hold a campaign rally tomorrow in Detroit before heading to Pennsylvania this weekend. Updating the story we've been covering on WBZ News Radio out of the town of Hanson, Hanson is considering further steps to find a resident who has been projecting a Trump twenty twenty four logo on their town's water tower since last week.
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The town issued that cease and desist order to that resident on Saturday, saying the projection violates the town's sign rigs that banned political messages on municipal property. They also hit the resident with fines one hundred bucks for every day that Trump logo is projected. Town administrator Lisa Green says the select board met this week to talk about what to do whether they should pursue legal action here. Hanson is also using three separate spotlights to combat the
Trump logo from dusk to dawn. I bet you're seeing those winter hats with the little ball on the top in Pittsfield right now, and also the Berkshires that whole area, because you guys are in the thirties. What about last night, boy, it was freezing literally right now, I am seeing warmer Tempson Norwood where it's fifty one in sunny Lauren's fifty one and sunny, a little bit cloudy on Cape Cod. We're looking at clouds in Hyannas where it's fifty two.
So the rest of the day will be sun in clouds, high sixty at best, and again very clear and breezy and cold tonight in those same inland and western areas, upper thirties there in the forties. In Boston, look out, break out the shorts, even the flip flops. By Sunday it'll be sunny in seventy five degrees. This is a ramp up and it starts tomorrow. More coming up and it's also a big night tonight at the MGA Music Hall. This is the annual fundraiser for the Boston Arts Academy.
Wbz's Carl Stevens says this is going to be a star studded event.
A number of celebrities will take the stage at the Boston Arts Academy Foundation's annual fundraiser Tonight, where the Academy honors some high achievers in the entertainment industry, like actress and author Christy Cashman, who lives in the back bay and has a lot of respect for what they do at the Arts Academy every day.
This is an organization that's really close to my heart because of my own mentorship program that I have that empowers students or kids from thirteen to eighteen in the creative space.
Tonight is all about celebrating that creative space by recognizing the work of Christy Cashman, music mogul Don Law, and others. Those with tickets to Tonight's sold that event, we'll also get to hear some singing from James Taylor, Carl Stevens, WBC Boston's news radio.
And fans around the world are shocked at the news that former One Direction member Liam Payne is dead. The British singer died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aire's Argentina Pli say they found his body after somebody at the hotel said there was a guest acting aggressively. Now, as a member of One Direction, Payne gained a huge international following, selling more than seventy million records globally. He pursued a solo career after the band dissolved in twenty
six six. Liam Payne was only thirty one years old. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ, Boston's news radio