Forty six degrees in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning, I'm Charlie Burger on. Here's what's happening at Stay two of our holiday weekend. Keep the jacket nearby.
For to day.
Expect rain AND's rizzled from time to time under cloudy skies.
Well, it truly ends the weekend with a high only near fifty five.
AKI weathers La Troy Thornton has the full four day forecast in just a few minutes. The Boston hotel workers strike now into its second week and there's no end in sight. There's wbz's Mike Macklin. You know we're on strike at Hilton, but we could don strike any day at any of these other properties where we're not settled and open ended strikes.
Boston Hotel Workers Union president Carlos Romayo sounding pessimistic about the prospects for an end to the week old hotel strike against Hilton Park Plaza and Logan Airport Hilton Hotels, Romios saying workers at the Omni and Marriott hotels in Boston could join their Hilton Hotel colleagues on the picket line within days, and they will.
Figure out how to stay out there and post these hotels and cause economic pain for these hotels until they get what they want.
And that's something I have one confidence.
And Boston not the only city with hotel workers on strike. The major national hotel chains facing strikes and cities from coach to coast as far away as Hawaii. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Five residents of Lowell doing court after the holiday weekends wept up in a month's long, undercovered drug and firearm investigation. Middlesex County DA Marion Ryan's office announcing the sweep on Friday, and the search for a sixth suspect is continuing. Those arrested Friday scheduled to appear Tuesday in Lowell District Court on several firearm and drug charges. Residents of Salem feeling
the influx of tourists for the Halloween festivities. Instead of driving, Salem mayor Dominic Panngalo asking visitors consider taking public transportations.
Some people are complaining about it.
More and more.
George Sampson works in Beverly. He sets up his belt and wallet vending business every weekend. He says a lot of Beverly residents are complaining about the traffic flow from Beverly to Salem this time of year.
I have to wait for a lot of cars to go by that are used in Essex Street to get out to one twenty eight.
Now.
Aside from all the traffic, the other challenge is parking. Salem has approximately four thousand parking spots, and the mayor says they can get as many as sixty five thousand visitors on a weekend.
Over one hundred thousand is re clesser to the end of the season, So through the math, you're not gonna find a parking space. If you're planning to come to Salem, come by train, come by ferry. Yeah. I got a lot of nice people that are just tourists and they want to get out of Salem for a day and they come over.
Here, which leads to gridlock traffic.
Take a train, take a ferry, don't drive. It's definitely adding to the traffic of the city and the residents don't like it.
You gotta go with the flow.
I guess right.
It's WBZ TV's Paul Burton reporting David Posternoch with the game winner in overtime. Bruins beat the Kings yesterday at the Garden two to one. Last night on the hardwood at the Garden, Celtics just blew away the seventy six ers preseason baskets one thirty nine to eighty nine. Columbus shut out the Revs Major League Soccer for nothing, and the Pats and Houston. Today in Foxborough, Drake May, we'll start a quarterback. That's a one o'clock kick. Let's check
the four day WBZ ECHU weather forecast. LaTroy Thornton tells us Today it's cloudy, it's chilly, we'll see some showers, some drizzle. Temperatures mid fifties in Boston, closer to sixty in the suburbs. Now it's cloudy Tonight, the rain and drizzle will taper to showers, will drop back into the forties in most areas for the holiday. Tomorrow, it's cloudy with morning showers and then breezy in the afternoon with some sun and again can't rule out a lingering shower.
High sixty. Tuesday's better it's brisket's chili with sun high fifty seven and then same deal for Wednesday, sun, clouds and mid fifties. Just forty six degrees. Right now in Boston at six h five Hurricane Milton being blamed for about two dozen deaths in Florida. Over a million customers still without power since Milton made landfall last week as a category three hurricane. CBS is Tom Hanson from Brandon, which is near Tampa to get.
Power back on. Fifty thousand linemen from as far away as Canada on the job and working overtime, but others are simply focused on survival. Days after the hurricane, rivers in some places are still rising. We traveled into the hard hit community of val Rico, where floodwaters have swallowed entire neighborhoods. Terry Rudd and his family are just now returning to see what's left.
It's going to be a mess here to fine reveal.
President Biden heading to Florida later today to survey the damage. Ahead of his trip, he has approved a disaster Relief Declaration in Florida. That move provides federal funding for Florida's cleanup and rebuilding. The funds will be available to thirty
four counties. It will also provide grants for housing and home repair, along with loans for those with uninsured property losses, and more relief coming from the northeast and on its way to parts of North Carolina hit hard by Hurricane Helene. This time, the helping hand comes from the MSPCA, a group of veterinarians, technicians, and community outreach staffers heading to Yancey County in North Carolina, where Helene damaged or destroyed.
For VET hospitals, some animals will get some much needed care. Some of them eventually will be brought to homes in our area. To campaign twenty twenty four, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris continuing campaign schedules with less than a month until election day and the Vice president's physician making her latest medical records public.
The primary care physician for Vice President Harris says she possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to serve as president, Doctor Joshua Simmons, has released a letter saying the VP maintains a healthy, active lifestyle and that her most recent
physical last April, was unremarkable. A campaign aid for Harris says the campaign hopes to draw a contrast with Republican Donald Trump, who has released only limited information about his health over the years and raised questions about Trump's fitness to serve Simmons has been Harris's primary care physician for three and a half years. He says Harris has a history of allergies and hives, for which she has been on allergy and aminotherapy for the past three years.
Mike Kempen Washington, SpaceX could be blasting off its experimental Starship bucket this morning. The FAA issuing a new license to the private space company yesterday after requiring SpaceX to limit harm to the environment along the South Texas coast during liftoff. Now following the announcement, SpaceX posted that it was targeting this morning at eight am to start a thirty minute launch window for Starship's fifth test flight. Starship is the largest rocket ever built and was designed to
carry NASA astronauts to the Moon. Powerball last night winning numbers were five, fourteen, twenty, forty one, fifty seven, the powerball was six, and there were no Powerball jackpot winners. Estimated jackpot for the next drawing tomar Nite three hundred eighty eight million dollars. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WDBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Charlie Berger on WDBZ Boston's news radio two