This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Hello Monday, it is six o'clock and we meet again, waking up under clear skies. It's fifty four degrees here in Boston this Monday morning. Six o'clock News brought to us by your New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Good morning, I'm Jeff Brown. Feels a little bit like early fall. Mix of southern clouds are high sixteen to
the coast, seventy to seventy four inland. Miss WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg around seventy, but with clouds dominating much of the week ahead. The destruction from Hurricane Helene is catastrophic in many areas of the southeast, nowhere harder hit, perhaps than the mountains of western North Carolina, where at least one town has been wiped from the map. President Biden hopes to tour parts of the region later this week. The death toll from the one time Category four monster
has approached one hundred. One third of that death toll from North Carolina. Rescue teams from Massachusetts and New England around the ground and utility crews are on the way. Some two million customers are still without electricity this morning. This is an important day in the saga of Stuart Healthcare.
Today is the final deadline to close the sale of all remaining Stuart Healthcare operated hospitals. There was a rare Sunday hearing with the federal judge in Texas presiding over the bankruptcy proceedings. Reports there were some final dotting of the eyes and crossing of the tees before today. Stewart's CEO, Ralph D. Latorre, could be facing contempt of Congress charges. Will be resigning as CEO effective tomorrow. The fiasco costing
Massachusetts taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The Healy administration is committed to over four hundred million to help new hospital operators in the months following the hospital sales. Jim mckata w BZ, Boston's news radio.
That's over. The Red Sox finish exactly at five hundred on the year and in third place in the American League East. The double header between the Mets and the Braves will determine who's in and who's out in the National League playoffs and Patriots Football.
Over the middle. He gets picked up the order he.
Now he sprints down the sideline, touchdown.
Sefrancips go Patriots gets smoked in San Franz. Sunday Night football the Ravens clob or the Bills, and a Monday night doubleheader is coming up tonight. If the moon is made of cheese, what's Earth's other moon made of? Planet Earth gets a new visitor, a second moon for a couple of months this fall. It's already here. In fact, a small asteroid has entered our orbit, not far from the man on the moon himself. It is so small you will need a professional telescope to scope it out.
The rock from the Arjuna asteroid belt will hang out here until just before Thanksgiving. Then the thirty three foot wide chunk will be pulled back to where it came from and all systems go. This morning on the MBTA's Red.
Line, the red line from Brainstreet to Boston is back up and running. Folks are hopping aboard trains once again. After three weeks of the MBTA addressing slow zones as well as Latin repairs, deep cleaning and painting. Now there is still more work down the line, as the MBTA plans to address more speed restrictions on the red, orange and Green lions over the next several months. In Quimsey, James Rojas WBZ Boston's news.
Radio Unrise still more than half an hour away, and we're getting started with clear skies this morning in Boston. It's fifty four degrees. Going to be a nice day today, mix of sun and clouds, highs right around seventy. Inland
locations will be slightly warmer than that. Closer to the shoreline slightly cooler, but overall pretty typical and good look and fall day this week is going to be featuring mainly cloudy skies, unfortunately, with daytime highs routinely in the mid to upper sixties, nighttime lows back into the fifties, and the next best chance of seeing some mostly sunny skies won't return until Thursday, with a high once again
near seventy. But looking ahead, it looks warmer and quite nice on Friday, with sunshine and highs in the seventies. Right now in Boston fifty four. As we get our engines going on this Monday morning, it is six oh five under clear skies. Music loses another legend. A look back this morning on the life and legacy of the great Chris Christofferson.
Known for his Golden Globe winning role opposite Barbara Streisan in A Star is Born.
Colleagues are remembering their friend, known for.
Hits like Sunday Morning Coming Down and Me and Bobby McGhee. Editor Anthony de Curtis from Rolling Stone says it's not just streisand and Parton who loved him.
Everyone said, I mean, Dylan said it, Willian Nelson said it. You know that they regarded Chris Kristofferson.
As at the absolute eight pex of what a songwriter could be.
Christofferson said he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohne's Bird on the Wire on his tombstone.
Cooper Lawrence, CBS News.
Chris Christofferson was eighty eight and by the way, those three lines from Leonard Cohen are like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir. I have tried in my way to be free. Israel is on the attack rarely. Special forces carry out small raids, reportedly into Lebanon in advance of a long talked about and feared ground invasion. Meantime, officials claim a recent air strike in the southern Lebanon has killed the leader of
the Iran backed militant group Hamas. It is the latest in a series of air strikes that have also claimed the lives of leadership in Hezbollah. Israel has also turned its attention to Yemen, where it reportedly sent missiles directed at the Houthy rebels in that region. Back in the United States, just thirty six days to go until election day,
Kamala Harris continues to talk the economy and immigration. During a tour of the Sun Belt States this weekend Viva Las Vegas, Harris again challenges Donald Trump to a second debate. Trump hits up Pennsylvania and questions Harris's mental acuity, while also calling on police to get extraordinarily rough on crime. Trump has set an invitation to debate and late next month on CNN is too late. Meantime, the vice presidential
nominees jd. Vance and Tim Walls are set to go toe to toe in their one and only tomorrow night on CBS. WBZ News Radio will carry the debate live here or on the iHeartRadio app Where's My Mail. Wbz's Drew Mhollins tells us this morning, it's a problem in many mailboxes in the city of Boston.
Good morning, Andrew, Good morning Jeffrey. Oh hey, maybe this would work better. You've got mail, remember that the old all yeah brings back memories, but later missing mail in several neighborhoods in Boston, and that means missed Bill's missing mail in election ballots. Officials aren't happy. Fingers of many being pointed at the US Postal Service, but the Post Office says it's only aware of minor staffing issues that has since been resolved. But here's the deal, Jeff many say,
this has been going on for months. Mail in ballot registration is already in the mail. Ballots must be postmarked no later than November fifth. So what's going on here? You've got mail?
Yes, we don't.
That's the problem.
That is the problem. Where is it? All right? Well, we've got to get something to fix there before election day. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.