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News fifty eight degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning, I'm Charlie Bergon. Here's what's happening. Looks like the weekend would be just great to do or any kind of activities outdoors.
We are going to.
Start the day with some clouds and a sprinkle or a shower early, but we'll see the return of some sunshine with a nice afternue with heights of seventy two to seventy six.
And tomorrow looks great too, just a bit cooler acky weather. Is Matt Rindy with the four day forecast on the way. A new leader of the state police sworn in at the State House, and wbs's Mike Macklin says he has a long to do list.
Colonel Jeffrey Noble takes command of a scandal plague state police force. In recent years, overtime, fraud and bribery allegations related to commercial drivers' licenses have led to criminal charges against troopers, and is swearing in cridinal Noble pledge to restore public trust in the mass Chusett State Police.
As we look toward our future, I want to be clear, the Massachusetts State Police will deliver excellent police services, build and maintained public trust, and enforce the law with fairness, compassion, equity, transparency and accountability.
Noble knows stranger to scandaled in the uniformed rank sees the retired second in command of the New Jersey State Police, a department still mired in allegations it routinely promoted bad white cops over qualified troopers of color at the State House. Mike Maclin WBZ Bloxton's News Radio.
Police in Stowe investigating a fatal motorcycle accident yesterday afternoon at cycle crashing into a tree on the side of Redacre Road. Happened about four forty five. The driver pronounced dead at the scene. Their name has not been released. Fast action by an off duty nurse helps rescue a child who had stopped breathing. This was on the Arborway yesterday in Jamaica. Plane Police say the nurse acted as a good Samaritan, helping stabilize the child, who was then
taken to Boston Children's Hospital for treatment. Two Harvard students showing the capabilities and the dangers of artificial intelligence. Here's WBZ TV's Brandon Truitt.
Harvard University students are known for being ahead of the game, and and fu Win and kin Or Dafeo are living up to the hype. We definitely got wholesome react. You're a photo.
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The two juniors have created software that pairs AI facial recognition with public databases and with a single picture, can pull up a person's name, phone number, address, and digital history. It took them about a day to create it.
So we were just kind of like playing around, you know, seeing uh, you know, what are the possibilities of code.
The guys use the Meta ray bands from Facebook's parent company, which have cameras right on the lens, but a phone could do this too. That camera streams video back to the software. We're on their laptop and using AI tools, it runs a face through the program to gather private information within about a minute and a half. They tried it on some of their classmates.
Is your address for Valley? Crazy, isn't it. While there are restrictions on how governments use this type of technology, there are no restrictions on how you and I, just common people can use that AI let's check the four day WBZACUA. The forecast mat Rindy tells us we'll see a shower or two pass through right now from Worcester east to the shore. It's dry west of Worcester. Few showers popping up at this hour, but we'll see them move through, and then it's going to be a sunny,
nice day today with temperatures between seventy two and seventy six. Clear. Tonight cool fifty two fur low, Tomorrow, sun, clouds, cooler, sixty four to sixty eight, Monday, cloudy, breeze, cool, might see a few showers Monday I to about six, and then Tuesday sun and clouds and breezy, and we should get to the low, maybe even mid sixties on Tuesday. Fifty eight degrees right now in Boston at six five.
Slow progress being made in Southeastern states a week after Hurricane Helene blew through tens of thousands still without water and power. The western part of North Carolina especially hit hardest, with flooding heavily damaging the water system in Asheville, North Carolina. It is expected to take weeks to repair. Overall, The Federal EPA estimates nearly two million people in the southeast
remain under a boil water advisory. People across the state are donating essential items for families impacted by Hurricane Helene. WBZTV's Paul Burton says the Washburn Stables in Marion aren't just trying to help people, they're helping animals too.
We have another trailer full first Aid supplies, food, toiletries, baby products, two palles to water.
Horse shure Zachary Grhalis says, in just forty eight hours he filled two trucks here. The mission is twofold, both for the animals and the people.
Animal hay and grain, all kinds of pet food. We are going to head down to the Western North Carolina Regional Livestock Center and they are going to unload our trailers and figure out which communities need what.
This is such a rural area, it's usually more animals, more livestocks, so it's not like a normal I shouldn't say normal hurricane relief where it's just for people.
With hundreds of lives lost in the devastation, catastrophic and more communities come together, the greater the impact.
Whatever we can do to help people in North Carolina, and then we're happy to do it.
And there are similar relief efforts underway locally in West Bridgewater and in Abington. Another challenge for those living in the southeast something you probably would never have thought of. But it's lint, it's beastings.
North Carolina health workers are distributing benadril and epinephrine injections to communities after hurricane flooding causes bees and yellowjackets to swarm from their underground nests. Hospitals, emergency responders and doctors have been requesting allergy medications as more people run into the insects and Helene's wake. Jennifer Kuiper CBS News.
Ever heard of Waimo, Yeah, They've added to their lineup of robotaxis out west.
The autonomous vehicle company revealed Friday that it's teaming up with Hyundai in a multi year deal. The six generation fleet of Weimo vehicles will feature the South Korean automakers Ionic five. Waimo says the electric cars will be put together at Hyundai's newest facility in Georgia. Testing is set for late twenty twenty five, and customers will be able to catch a ride in the years to follow. Weimo currently serves Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin. I'm at Mattinson.
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