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Cloudy's skies. We're seeing some showers out there, not in Boston, not yet. They're coming at sixty three. We're headed for seventy degrees today and some thunderstorm. So listen up. We've got a lot more in that weather getting nasty later, both here and streaming on the iHeartRadio app indictment unsealed, we are now learning exactly what charges are being leveled against the mayor of New York City in a breach of trust. We get more now in the special report from CBS News.
Eric Adams faces five criminal counts. The charge is unsealed just minutes ago, including a charge of wire fraud, two charges of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national, and a charge of bribery. In a video statement released after his indictment was made public yesterday, Adams came out swing.
It is now my belief that the federal government intends to charge me with crimes.
If so, these charges.
Will be entirely false, based on lives.
CBS's Christina fan Is in UK.
There's been an avalanche of calls for Mayor Adams to resign. Many of those voices are coming from within his own political party, including those who are running against him and the Democratic primary next year.
Again, the indictment has been unsealed and New York City Mayor Eric Adams faces five criminal counts. CBS News special report on Vickie.
Parker tracking a Hurricane Helene's strengthening into a Cap two hurricane as it swirls toward Florida, gaining strength over those warm waters. Much of the state is now under warnings, even evacuations, about life threatening conditions later when this hurricane makes landfall, possibly as a Category four. This is a monster storm. And again ABC's ginger Z who's actually a meteorologist, she's a meteorologist, is more from Saint Petersburg.
Those warnings take you all the way into making Georgia. And that's because wind is going to be a big issue. We're talking wind speeds that will be a hurricane force to merely Atlanta. Widespread power outages and trees down. Not going to be easy to go anywhere late tonight. And most importantly, when this thing wraps up over the Blue Ridge Mountains drops even more rain up to eighteen inches total.
We could see landslides in parts of western North Carolina, South Carolina, and eastern Tennessee.
You know if you've ever responded or lived through a storm. And of course so many of us are new Englanders or you're new here, well welcome. We have to think about the Massachusetts Task Force one. These guys and gals are out of Beverly, mass They are in Florida right now. This is a FIR FEMA of FEMA search and rescue team at the ready to assist in a very dangerous situation. So we're thinking of you and again we'll love more
as it happens. Getting underway right now on Beacon Hill bill, the State Senate is going into session and one item on the agenda a bill that would allow more families with pets to foster children. Right now, any home with a pitbull, a Rotweiler, a German shepherd, it can be a mixed breed of those two are blocked from bringing any child into their home through DCF And the names of four police officers, corrections officers, and patrolmen who died and the line of duty will be etched into the
Massachusetts Law Enforcement Memorial on Beacon Hill today. Among those being honored this year patrolman Paul Tracy corrections officer Anthony Pascarello. Tracy was killed while working a detail in Waltham last year. Pascarella died of COVID while working at a correctional facility in Middleton in twenty twenty one. Another officer and another patrolman who both died more than one hundred years ago, will also be honored today a poignan ceremony. We will
have more grace, guys. We have fog, we have rained, but the worst is yet to come. We have some very heavy rain and strong winds thunderstorms in this forecast for this afternoon into tonight. By tomorrow beautiful weather heading into a gorgeous weekend. Our first full weekend of fall will not disappoint. Eleven O five. We are learning more about how some wayward bulls were able to buck and break their way to freedom at that rodeo in North Attleborough. WBC's Jim McKay rounded up the details.
This special Events working group in North Addleborough, consisting of members of the local police, fire and public works departments, conducted an investigation this week and found that a loose pin on the fence keeping the bulls penned in got dislodged, and it allowed for the bulls to make an easy exit from that parking lot. Rodeo at the Emerald Square Mall the town of North Addleborough releasing a statement this week saying they do not expect any charges and this
was a no negligence situation. The group operating the rodeo will be reinforcing their fencing in the future. Jim MCKAWBC Boston's News radio.
Once flooded twice Shy, the town of Northandover looks at ways to protect itself from future flooding. The Eagle Tribune says, thanks to a state grant, the town will do a floodplain study if its rivers and dams and look at what infrastructure changes are necessary to prevent a repeat of the summer of twenty twenty three. Flash flooding in northand Over that summer gutted businesses and homes and overwhelmed roadways.
Nearly eighty cars flooded out had to be towed. It was a disaster, and you know, it made it worse since that area had actually not been determined to be in a floodplain. Very few people in that town of Northandover even had flood insurance. Let's go back in time to something that's time less. The message tree has officially succumbed to old age decades after it became an icon at Woodstock.
One hundred year old tree was in danger of falling down, so it has been removed. It became famous after three day concert in Bethel, New York that drew hundreds of thousands in a major cultural monument to peace and love in the violent and unsettling late nineteen sixties. It was pre cell phone and posting scraps of paper with messages on the tree was an effective way to communicate. The tree is in almost every wide picture of the stage
from the hillside. The museum at Bethel Woods is seeking proposals to create works of art using the salvageable wood. Michael Touskanok CBS News.
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