Morning Report: Thursday, October 10, 2024

This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good morning, six o'clock and it is forty eight degrees here in Boston, one of the coldest readings we've had in a long time. Thank you for being with us under clai skies this morning. The News at six has brought to us by your New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Welcome aboard this Thursday morning. I'm Jeff Brown and Diangata

This is a special report from ABC News Hurricane Milton. I'm Andy Field. More than three million without power across Florida this morning. As crews looked for survivors at a senior community near Fort Pierce, they fear there could be many did.

Our deputies are out here, the fire district is out here. We're going through the rubble.

We're trying to provide any recover anybody that we can provide, whatever help that we can.

Saint Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pearson. Hurricane Milton raced across the middle of Florida, making landfall near Sarasota's c STA Key. It's about seventy miles south of Tampa and spawning severe weather. Even before Milton arrived.

Ahead of the hurricane and outbreak of tornadoes cutting across the state, more than thirty reported tornadoes touching down, one of them on the move in Palm Beach County, tearing through power lines, Another crossing I seventy five west of Fort Lauderdale.

ABC's Jacqueline Lee. Insurers estimate Milton could create up to one hundred billion dollars in property dammit.

At ABC's Andy Field and once again, Massachusetts comes to the rescue.

Massachusetts Task Force one has over six venty five members in North Carolina ready to dash to the scene as needed.

Our team is a search and rescue team capable of structural collapse search and rescue as well as phil and swift water search and rescue or wide area search.

Tom Gazunis is the information officer with the team contracted with FEMA to conduct search and rescue operations with police, fire, EMS personnel, including civilians.

Currently, they're down there with boats and trailers, search equipment, rescue equipment, you know, being able to move heavy structures components.

Massachusetts Task Force one, based in Beverly, has more members available if the crisis demands more hands for search and rescue this weekend. Jay Willette WBZ, Boston's news.

Radio Bruins are going to try to get their act together tonight. It is the home opener at the Garden against Montreal. The Mets are moving on to the National League Championship Series, Dodgers even up the Padres in the NL, and the Tigers and Yankees are one game away from advancing in the American League. In the NFL kicks off tonight.

Good morning, Drew, Good morning Jeffrey. Big news today. Already leaving the stage after twenty two Grand Slam titles, he changed the game for a whole generation of tennis fans. One of the greatest of all time. Vamos Rafa, Rafael Mendal gonna call it a career at the end of this tennis calendar. The thirty eight year old says he'll make his final appearance for Spain at next month's Davis

Clay Father time wins again. Great career undefeated. All right, thank you, Drew. And it is very chilly here in the city and the reading is at forty eight degree and this would mark the first time in several months that the temperature in Boston has fallen below the fifty degree mark. We'll wait for the official declaration coming up. But in other areas where showing some thirties on the board this morning, fall is kicking into gear. It is going to be a beautiful day today, a little breezy

Failure to buckle up continues to play a large role in fatal accident. An IIHS study found a persistent reminder was much more effective at getting part time seat belt wearers to buckle up than a minimal reminder. It found an audible reminder that lasted at least ninety seconds increased belt use by around thirty percent, and that could mean saving almost sixteen hundred lives a year if every vehicle on the road was equipped with that ninety second reminder.

That is CBS's Chris Van Cleeve number show front seat belt use decreases the risk of deadly injury injuries by forty five percent. Today is World Mental Health Day and it's time to do yourself a favor.

In recognition of World Mental Health Day, folks can enjoy a two hour complimentary Blue Bikes ride. So I went out for a spin myself after putting in the one word code Blue Cross WMHD. All right, so I'm running a blue bike right now and despite the cold wind in my face, this does feel pretty nice. We'll tell you biking this early in the morning. Blue Cross, Blue Shield It says Blue bikes are being made available today in thirteen communities across the Commonwealth. This is to encourage

Now twenty six days to go official, say Kamala Harris has raised more than one billion dollars in her White House campaign and she's only been running for three months. No candidate in US history has raised so much so fast. For comparison, the Donald Trump campaign has not raised a billion dollars so far this year. Official fundraising totals are required to be released by the end of this month. Former President Barack Obama goes all in on the election