Morning Report: Saturday, October 12, 2024

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Fifty nine degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning, I'm Charlie Burger on. Here's what's happening. Great day to get outside, get some yard work, gone, do some apple picking.

I expect a breezy and nice day to day with plenty of sunshine and a high around seventy.

And then Sunday looks like a good day to vacuum in the house. PACKI Weather is LaTroy Thornton has the full four day forecast coming up. Busy day at the garden later on. Today, it's a one o'clock face off of the Bruins as they take on the Los Angeles Kings, and then tonight preseason baskets with the Celtics and the Sixers. They'll start just after eight o'clock, second to last preseason

The problem is it's the second time it's happened on this block in a week and a half, a double blow for the gallery as well as for neighbors questioning why it happened twice.

There had been some noise and there's been flooding downstairs.

I live in the basement.

Luckily my unit wasn't affected, but there the lounges are closed, some areas that the building aren't closed.

You don't get enough water coming out of the fossie if you want to take a shower, it's basically not enough pressure to bathe it. Because of this, the gallery has to cancel it shows through the end of the year and now reschedule next year, looking for as much support as it can get.

I hope you get some kind of like a support from the city. That's all go right now, because you're really gallery is not just a simple gallery. The gallery is a big I can support and resource for the community around that area.

The Boston Water and Sewer Commission is investigating, but leaves this break may have to do with a similar one in Brookline on Wednesday, but neighbor's here just hope it doesn't happen again.

And the culprit is a one hundred and fifty year old pipe with a crack right down its side. Jews gathering on the holiest day of the new year to atone for their sins and reflect on the war that continues in the Middle East.

It's definitely been a very tough year for the Jewish community. Rabbi jos Of Zaklos of Habbad downtown Boston reflects on the challenge now facing Israel and the Jewish people as Jewish Americans gather who observe Jum Kapor, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. The Land of Israel has gone through extraordinarily difficult challenges up to this point, but I think they've also shown extreme resilience. Rabbi Zachlos encouraging members of his congregation to rely on their faith and to

Is an Biden pressure Israel to stop shooting eight UN peacekeepers in Lebanon following two recent incidents.

Over the last two days. UNIFIL says IDF soldiers have fired on four occasions towards their headquarters. They said in one case at Nakura, they fired towards some of their operating bases as well, and that four UNIFIL peacekeepers have been injured. That has drawn strong condemnation from Antonio Buteresh, the UN Secretary General. We know that Uaf Galant, the Israeli Defense Minister, has had a conversation with his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, who has urged Israel to take more care.

The BBC's and a foster reporting from Beirut. Let's check the four day wdbzch you weather Forecastle Troy Thornton tells us Today it's going to be a great day, sunshine, breezy, hi to about seventy. Clouds will roll in tonight, we drop back to forty five Tomorrow, a cloudy, chili day, some rain, some drizzle at times, especially from late morning

In the past, Tito's employees have worked with the Boston Area Gleaners to help package up surplus food at Stonefield Farm and act In. But now they're really getting their hands dirty. They're helping build a rock wall as a part of a farm regeneration project. Boston Area Gleaners executive director Usha Trekar says that involves stuff like.

New soil on the farm field to improve drainage at some composts, we plant a cover crop, and now we're rebuilding the perimeter wall so that next year or hopefully the year after, it can go back and be a production field.

Victoria Lewis Watti says they decided to help rebuild the century's old wall because they wanted to leave a lasting impact on the farm.

They said it will be a really transformational project for them that hopefully will be there another one hundred years.

From acton Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio.

The Equatarium in Worcester about to undergo a little facelift, an announcement this week outlining plans including an eighty three hundred square foot traveling exhibit gallery and a rooftop solar array that will help Quitarium host traveling exhibits. The ten month projects had to begin later this month, then expected to be finished in time for the museum's bi centennial next fall. A Massachusetts pharmacist ordered to serve up to fifteen years in Michigan for the deaths of eleven patients

In Minnesota, opioid overdose deaths dropped by eight percent last year, according to the state Health Department. It's the first time in five years that has happened. It gives people hope, and Colleen Ronnie, executive director of Changed the Outcome, says it's a sign that heightened awareness and availability of naloxone are working. Ronnie's son Luke, died of an overdose eight years ago.

For a lot of people who work in advocacy in this area, there's compassion fatigue. I mean you get to where you think, is it ever going to get better? And it is getting better.

She says, there is still more work to do, as non fatal overdoses increased by eleven percent. Jennifer Kuiper CBS News.

Some Columbus day weekend closures that Orange Line writers should be aware of. There will be no service between Forest Hills and Back Bay through the twentieth of this month. A track work extended to North State. Over this coming three day weekend, shuttle buses will be available between Forest Hills and Back Bay. You can also use the Green Line between Copley and North Station. Commuter rail will be free from Forest Hills, Ruggles, Back Bay and South Station.