This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good morning Friday. Finally it is six o'clock here in Boston and we're starting to see these overnight clouds break up. The showers now largely out of the way for us, and we're getting started this Friday at sixty three degrees. The News at six brought to us by You're a New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters.
Good morning, I'm Jeff Brown's gonna kind of feel like summer today, well Ham dinnibals of clowns and sunshine with a high of seventy six, and it is WBZ Achi weather meteorologist Heather's are beautiful weekend on the way as well. Meantime, a monster on the move. Reality is a storm of this magnitude. You know, it leaves a lot of damage in its way. That is Florida Governor Ron de Santa says. Hurricane Helene becomes the first Category four storm to hit
Florida's Big Bend region. Ever, it's now been downgraded to tropical storm status. Is it barrels through Georgia. Search and rescue teams, including from Massachusetts, are starting to fan out.
They're on the ground in North Carolina waiting for commands from local officials to head south or help out there.
The team is capable of doing heavy rescue, swift water rescue, stillwater rescue search.
That's po Thomas Kazunis. He says his team got activated this week and forty five members from across New England left from Beverly in a matter of hours. With heavy wins, flash floods and over a foot of rain in the forecast. They're ready to go no matter the situation.
The level of knowledge and expertise not only from the Massachusetts team, but really from all of the FREEMA teams, you know, it goes into the hundreds of thousands of hours of training.
Thomas says, the team could be gone for two weeks, maybe more. Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
And they've got their work cut out for them too. Some two and a half million people are without electricity throughout the southeast this morning. Well, this is being called a game change, or even by medical professionals. The FDA grants approval to the first medicine to treat schizophrenia in forty years. Koebenfe is unique in that it treats the paranoia and hallucination symptoms without the worst of the side
effects like weight gain. Experts say they hope this new drug from Bristol Meyers Squib will address some of the most harmful aspects of the condition, like the lack of motivation and the inability to feel joy. It's the Red Sox final homestand this weekend they finish up the regular season with a three game series at Fenway against the Rays for the twenty first time. The New York Yankees clinch the American League East, and Week four in the NFL is underway. Here goes Lamb. You get spring only
inside see Lamb. That's out. Al Michael's the call on Amazon Primes, the Cowboys beat the Giants. The Patriots will be in San Francisco on Sunday afternoon. The power of the power nap comes with a word of warning, Oh great, yeah, you're still VC strew moh good morning.
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Jeffy has good news for the health. One third of us will nap during our time off. That helps the mood, the attitude, and the creativity. Job site Monster does say, though, all that napping cuts into our fun. That's obvious, right, But because we don't have enough fun on the weekends, that's what leads to the Sunday scaries. I quit no, no, no, I quit no, nope, I quit no, I don't. It's
not so much the monday work. The researchers founded is the reality that sleep is more important than having a blast.
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I love the nap, a daily nap. It's good for eat it. Waking up under partly cloudy skies this morning in Boston. It is sixty three degrees right now here in the city. It's going to be a nice day today. The overnight showers and clouds have started to break up. They'll be out of the way for us throughout the day today, mix of clouds and sun let's call it. Temperature is going to be well into the seventy so finally we take a little bit of return back to
summer today. It's gonna feel that warm, nice this afternoon. Some clouds on the increase overnight tonight. Low's dropping back into the fifties. Typical pattern where we have warm sunshine during the day and cool, comfortable nights. A weekend looks like it's going to be great mixture of clouds and sun both Tomorrow and Sunday daytime highs in the sixties and lower seventies, and it looks like a great stretch of weather is going to continue into the new work
week next week. Right now, it's sixty three partly cloudy in Boston six oh five on this Friday morning. More no smoking signs are starting to go up, this time on the North Shore.
It started with Brooklines, spread to other towns, and now Peabody is the latest looking at a potential generational tobacco ban. Simply put, it would ban people born after a certain date from buying tobacco within the city limits. For Peabody,
that date would be January first, two thousand and four. Now, while this policy is catching on with local boards of health, has an idea to stomp out smoking habits, convenience stores and other retailer saying it does nothing but hurt their businesses and people will just hop over to another town to buy their smokes. Also, not every city in town proposing the ideas rubber stamping it. Medford recently decided to shelve the idea. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's news radio.
It's been said that drastic times, call for drastic measures. The leaders of America's shipping ports are calling on the NLRB to force the Longshoreman's Union to go back to the bargaining table as workers at dozens of ports from Boston to the Gulf of Mexico threatened to go on strike. They are accused of bad faith bargaining. The union and the US Maritime Alliance have not discussed a contract for months.
The union says it wants an eighty percent increase and if they don't get what they want, some forty five thousand are threatening to walk off the job just after midnight on Tuesday morning. This is an apology centuries in the making. California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that formally acknowledges the state was complicit in slavery in the nineteenth century by enforcing segregationist policies against the black population. While the new law atones for or past sins, it
stops short of lawmakers' plans to pay restitution. California, by the way, was the first state in the nation to explore the payment of reparations. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is headed to federal court in Manhattan today, New York City's first mayor to ever face a federal indictment while in office. He is accused of taking bribes, mainly in the form of luxury vacations from the Turkish government,
in exchange for access to his political influence. Adam says he's innocent and begs of his constituents to listen to his side of the story. Prosecutors say he not only accepted the bribes, but then tried to cover them up by hiding the gifts or making it look like he paid for them. Adam says he will not resign. Governor Kathy Hochel is the only one who has the power to remove him from office. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News
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