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Blue Skies fifty seven, breezy, sunny, nice at eleven o'clock this Tuesday morning. Good morning on Laurie Kirby. It's nice to be with you and topping our news. It is a sad morning for Red Sox Nation, A sad day for Red Sox Nation. Fans are mourning the loss of one of the most colorful figures to ever take the mound at Fenway Park, Luis.
Tian Finn's a five in shutout to give the Socks the victory.
Louis Tion pitching a shutout win in Game one of the nineteen seventy five World Series. Well he died today at the age of eighty three. L Tiante debuting in the major leagues in nineteen sixty four with Cleveland. He cemented his legacy with eight seasons in Boston. The Cuban born baseball star put together four twenty win seasons. He won the American League Er title not once but twice, and during his time with Boston, Tion finished in the top ten of p Cy Young Award voting three times.
We don't yet have a cause of death, but Louis Tiant was eighty three years old. Massachusetts and several other states suing TikTok. Attorney General Andrea Campbell is accusing parent company byt Dance of intentionally designing the app to be
addictive for young users. She blames the app for stoking what he calls a youth mental health crisis across the state, and we are expecting more information from the age when she holds a news conference at one PM as comes as TikTok faces a potential total ban in the United States. Vice President Harris will spend the day on the airwaves. She's appearing on The View and The Howard Sterns Show today, and this is where she's expected to talk about a new proposal designed to day game at the cost of
home care for older Americans. ABC's Karen travers with Moore.
Vice President Harris will focus today on the quote Sandwich generation adults who are raising their children while also caring for aging parents. During an appearance on ABC's The View, she'll introduce what her campaign says is a first of its kind Medicare home care benefit to lower the cost of home care for adults. The proposal would cover services to allow seniors to age at home instead of in
a high cost facility. The campaign says this benefit would be fully paid for by expanding Medicare drug price negotiations, among other measures. Karen Travers ABC News Washington.
Norwood Hospital will officially close November fifth. This NOAs was revealed in bankruptcy court in connection with bankrupt Steward yesterday. Of course, the hospital has been shuttered sense of flood four years ago, but four of Norwood Hospital's clinics, from cancer to physical therapy have remained open and operating. These
will wind down, and patients you will be notified. The Healthy Administration says the closure will actually allow them to focus on meeting the healthcare needs of the Norwood community without Steward, without their lenders or the owners of real estate dictating the path. Most of you are somewhere between fifty two and fifty seven degrees. Having said that, I see sixty, and that is just a north of Fitchburg, of all places, because some of these areas in the forties.
If we go to the coast right now, I'm seeing fifty eight degrees, fifty nine in Ipswich, Gloucester, fifty five Lynn sixty nice south of town Braintree fifty nine degrees, so are high. Today's sixty seven sunshine, partly cloudy and breezy, few clouds. Tonight fifty one downtown Boston, cooler elsewhere another day. In fact, the rest of the week was sunshine each day, in the sixties each day until the weekend. How about seventy degrees and higher. It's coming this weekend. So we're
very lucky. Florida residents are not. They are packing the roadways right now in a scramble to get out of harm's way. Hurricane Milton is heading toward the Gulf Coast, the second hurricane to go towards that area in two weeks time. We get more from ABC's Victor Akendo.
With so many people evacuating, we've seen that heavy traffic ourselves. In order to ease congestion, tolls have been temporarily suspended in some spots, and the shoulders on I seventy five they have been opened up. As well as far as flying out, that will not be an option for much longer. Operations will be suspended at Tampa's airport and here Sarasota, Bradenton, and at Orlando's airport.
And yes, Tampa Airport now closed. Logan Airport also getting a ripple effect of delays from the storm. Wbz's Drew maholland with that, right.
From the start this morning, you really weren't flying to Tampa. Pretty much. All flights canceled at Logan, sarahsoa Fort Myers, Orlando. If that's your destination, delays and cancelations there too, you're gonna want to watch that all day and evening if you're flying out a Logan. Jesse Ayres is flying home to Orlando. His plan was to get on the ground there and prep for Milton borders resilient.
You know, we're prepared for it.
So it's Bessie Camby, he tells WBZTV. He knows the drill with these hurricanes and he's ready to ride it out. A lot of New Englanders tried to fly down to their Florida homes with the goal of suring up the place and flying right back. That window is pretty much closed. Now here comes Milton, Drew mohull and WBZ Boston's news radio.
And with all these storms, Zillow is now adding climate risk to property info.
It's there for every property listed for sale on the real estate marketplace. The company's teamed up with climate risk firm First Street to include the effects of climate change into its risk scores. The move comes as North Carolina starts on the road to recovery after the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene, with most property owners there not having flood insurance. I'm Tammy trheo well.
The state could soon get rid of its buddy system required for cannabis delivery drivers. Right now, companies that deliver cannabis to doorsteps have to send two workers in each delivery car. That lets one person keep an eye the weed and cash while the other makes the delivery. Business owners say the rule is too costly. We'll have more on that as it happens. Also, a date is now set for a special mayoral election in Mathuan after the recent passing of Mayor Neil Perry. This special election is
now set for December tenth in Methuen. 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