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It is six o'clock here on this Monday morning, October twenty first, twenty twenty four, and this hour of news is brought to you by your New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Jim McKay, and here's what's happening. We are hitting the ground running on this Monday morning. All that sunshine and warm air we saw over the weekend, it's going to be rolling right along as we begin a new week.
Sunshine and warmth are going to be with us over the next several days with highs mostly in the seventies.
And that is WBZ ACU weather meteorologists Heather's are heading into the final stretch of October. We're feeling like early September right now. Not worried about really anything this week until some potential rain on Thursday at six p' oho one. The ongoing owing strike at Boeing appears to be headed towards a compromise. New contract proposal was negotiated with corporate leadership and the union representing the thirty three thousand striking
workers over the weekend. However, there does still need to be a ratification vote, which will take place on Wednesday. The union has said Boeing will offer a thirty five percent pay raise increase over four years. That is up from the previous corporate offer of thirty percent.
Just fifteen days to go until election day.
We're going to do a lot of things. For one thing, no tax on you know, on Social Security benefits for seniors.
Are we a country that honors the importance of kindness of support?
Well, many here in Massachusetts of voting. Early early voting began over the weekend across the Bay State. It runs through November First. The latest from the campaign trail with CBS's Caitlin Huey.
Burns Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at his Soul's to the Polls event at a church in Jonesborough, Georgia, on her sixtieth birthday.
You know, we know in terms of the parable of the Good Samaritan, that we have learned and should live a life where in the face of a stranger, we see a neighbor.
Former President Donald Trump worked the drive through window of a McDonald's in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
This is fun.
I could do this all day.
I wouldn't mind this. Jeb. I like this, Jef.
I think I might come.
Back and do it again.
Trump is said he doesn't believe Harris when she says she worked at a Mickey DZ during your college years. Christopher Cruz CBS News.
At six o two getting more details on President Biden's visit to New Hampshire tomorrow, as the President will be at the New Hampshire Technical Institute and Conquered Set to talk about prescription drug costs. New Hampshire has been leaning in the direction of Vice President Harris in recent polling, but is still considered a battleground state. New Hampshire only four electoral votes, but as we all know, every vote counts well. The Patriots getting smoked by the Jags in London.
They've got the Jets next week at Gillette who got killed by the Steelers last night. Meantime, WNBA Championship home with the New York Liberty eight years in the banking The New York Liberty WNDA Champian the call from ESPN as the Liberty outlast the Minnesota Links in an overtime thriller. Sixty seven to sixty two was the final. It is the first ever WNBA title for the New York Liberty. In front of a sold out crown at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, Baseball World Series is said Mookie Bets
and the Dodgers punch their ticket. They will play the Yankees starting on Friday. Yankees and Dodgers should be quite a world series.
Well. Coming up here in just a few moments, we.
Get the latest from the boss the box office, and we're talking a little safe driving for all you youngsters out there. More in that coming up here. Oh, let's take a look at that four day wbz ACI weather forecasts. We're nice and comfortable before sunrise here this morning, we're looking at clear skies, temperatures hovering right around the fifty degree mark, and four this afternoon we are climbing in the upper seventies, getting close to eighty degrees later today.
If you're on the cape in the islands, are really anywhere by the water, certainly with that coastal are it'll feel a bit cooler, but in general, quite an afternoon ahead of us tonight, only down to a low of fifty six degrees and then your Tuesday tomorrow sunshine, a few clouds, hies into the upper sixties and will be
in mid seventies north and west of Boston. By Wednesday, we're back into the mid seventies, and we could see a late shower on Wednesday night, and then into Thursday a couple of rain showers as well, but hies into the mid sixties. All in all, though, it is the final full week of October, and we are looking pretty darn good here right now. Fifty three degrees, clear skies in Boston at six oh six. We'll keep those hands.
At ten and two, it's National Team Driver Safety Week and wbz's James Rojas is getting some advice for new drivers out on the road.
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers fifteen to eighteen years old. That's according to the US Apartment of Transportation, and that's why it's promoting National Team Driver Safety Week. Varience motorists have advice for the next generation joining them on the road.
My best advice is, don't be drunk on when you go drive, don't use drugs.
Put the phone down. The text message will wait. It doesn't disappear. It'll be there, you know. Or if it's that important to you, pull over, pull over to a gas station, pull over to a store.
You know.
It can wait. It can honestly wait.
Team Driver Safety Week is a great reminder to have that safety conversation and to drive that point home. In Medford, James Rojas w b Z Boston Snooze Radio.
And I think that woman put it perfectly. It can wait.
At six oh seven, looking to get your COVID nineteen vaccine while you have an opportunity to get yours for free in Boston right now. The Boston Public Health Commission is hosting several clinic song going now through November seventh. Then you do not need an appointment. Today at City Hall Room eight oh one, you can get a free COVID shot from nine am to one pm to at Boston City Hall Room eight oh one. There's also an opportunity again on Thursday afternoon, also at City Hall.
At the movies at the weekend box office, Horror Flick's topped and the Oscar contender Anorra got off to a sparkling start. Smile Too was the big newcomer, taking first place with a better than expected twenty three million dollars in ticket sales. Second place going to The Wild Robot, followed by Terrifier three in third.
CBS's Matt Piper. Filling the theater seats has been tough. The domestic box office is down eleven percent from the same point last year. Bruce Springsteen's with a rare update on his wife Patti Scalfia's blood cancer battle, first diagnosed back in twenty eighteen.
Tough disease. It's very fatiguing.
I reveal it now.
She hadn't played in the band in a long time, and people, I don't think knew why.
Where's Patty Well?
The update coming last night in an ABC special with George Stephanopoulos called Backstage and Backstreet.
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