This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good morning, six o'clock Thursday here in Boston, and we are under clear skies or mostly clear skies fifty five here in the city. The News at six is brought to us by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Welcome aboard this Thursday. I'm Jeff Brown. Will make this short and oh so sweet.
Times of sun and clouds today and rather nice to high seventy to seventy four.
And is wbzachu weather meteorologist Joe Lunberg near eighty tomorrow afternoon, almost a week after one of the deadliest and most expensive hurricanes in the United States this century, about a million customers remain without electricity from Florida all the way to Virginia this morning, the Carolina's hardest hit as you
can imagine, thousands are without water as well. The environmental hazards are just beginning to be felt even where water is avail, its contaminated, officials say, and the presence of mold is also starting to take effect and hitting community's hardest hit by Helene. Officials in Asheville, North Carolina, say it may take weeks before clean water returns to the Taps. It's Rushashana this morning, the beginning of the Jewish high holidays.
Security at local synagogues and places of worship has been increased in Greater Boston Today. Israel continues to vow revenge on Iran for launching hundreds of missiles inside its territory this week. President Biden says the United States will continue to support Israel's right to defend itself, but stop short and warns Prime Minister Benjamin Etnyaho of attacking Iran's nuclear sites. That would be a line in the sand that mister
Biden will not cross. Israel also continues its air and ground assault into southern Lebanon as thousands of Americans in that country try to evacuate baseball's Wildcard playoffs. How magic continues the Tigers sweetly Usher they call on ESPN as the Tigers knock out the Astros in Houston after seven consecutive runs to the American League Championship Series. San Diego, Kansas City also advanced. Mets and Brewers will decide the winner of that series. Tonight, Preseats in Hockey sends the
Bruins out west to Los Angeles. They get the Kings later on Week five of the NFL gets underway. Tonight, Tampa Bay visits Atlanta. Still nothing is moving. It ports from Boston to the Gulf of Mexico this morning. Some forty five thousand DOC workers continue to strike, looking for better pay, better benefits, and more protections from automation. Now
many of us are panic buying. With a raid on grocery stores for any paper products we can find, and toilet paper especially, we might as well say Hi, I'm me, it's me, and the problem it's me. Experts say any shortages of any goods on store shelves these days is likely caused by the panic buying and not the strike itself. Well, state health officials say a summertime threat is beginning to fade fast.
It's a welcome spot of news for this dat. Yeah, I believed that the DPHS announced the risk level of triple E is no longer high or critical in any base day community, a big change from just a few weeks ago when sixteen cities and towns across the state were deemed an excessive risk for the virus as well West Nile.
It's always a concern, especially with young kids.
You know. The Public Health Commissioner says risk levels for the viruses will remain moderate until the first tird frost of the season and encourages people to keep up with measures to avoid mosquito bites. Chris Foalm a WBZ Boston's News radio, and.
We begin to turn the page as we are starting to see some improvements in our overall weather conditions. Actually a nice day and the afternoon yesterday that's going to continue today. We're going to see a pretty decent sunrise as well, that's on the way. It's fifty five right now in the city and a mix of sun and clouds throughout the rest of the afternoon. High temperatures will be in the low seventies, partly cloudy, back into the
fifties overnight tonight. Some fog might read us tomorrow morning. Otherwise it's going to be partly to mostly sunny, with highs getting very close to eighty to round out the work week. Tomorrow. Looks like the weekend is going to be pretty dry for the most part and pretty good looking two. We might see a couple of showers in isolated spots to greet us on Saturday morning, but otherwise mix the sun and clouds for the rest of the weekend. Daytime highs will be in the seventies on Saturday, mid
to upper sixties on Sunday. All in all, not bad right now, mainly clear skies in fifty five in Boston at six oh five on this Thursday morning. New research finds traffic in all cities is not created equal.
Does Cambridge deserve the ranking of twenty eighth most stress free city to drive in according to a poll of three thousand so called seasoned travelers. Yes, but those who live and work here would begs differ.
Do you find that accurate?
No, not at all.
We tried driving through Hobbit Square three o'clock in the afternoon.
Good luck with that because it's a lot of hustle and bustle in the neighborhoods, the traffics out of control.
Soe you'll agree with that absolutely not. Kembridge is certainly a nice place to live in a stressfu replace to live generally, but to drive, I'm not so sure. Meanwhile, Wooster came in as the seventy second least stressful city to drive in. Lewiston, Maine took the number one spot in Cambridge James Rojas WBZ Boston Snooze Radio. The MBTA's
Green Line extension remains off limits this morning. Shuttle buses once again are in place following this week's derailment near the Leechmere stop, and this is going to be in place until further notice. Federal investigators from the NTSB, along with the MBTA continue to take a closer look at the train and the tracks, although early indications point to operator error as the cause that forced passengers to hoof it along the tracks and left seven with minor injuries
earlier this week. Preliminary results from the NTSB's investigation aren't expected to be released in about a month. Grief counselors will be available for kids at the Dana Barrows Basketball Club in Stoton after a sixth grader from Brockton collapses from what's being described as a medical event. The eleven year old middle schooler was given CPR on the court, but later died after being taken to the hospital, official say and investigation is underway, but the death does not
appear to be suspicious. A substitute teacher in Lynnfield Public Schools has been fired. Official say Jarrick Reiner has connections to hate based ideology and is no longer employed or allowed on school grounds. A self described neo Nazi. School officials tell parents his behavior does not align with school values. The numbers are in and the eyes have it. Ratings for this week's vice presidential debate are out. Let's dig into it now with wz's Drew mohollands. Good morning, Andrew,
Good morning, Jeffrey. America is watching.
Center Vance has said that there's a climate problem.
In the past, Donald Trump called it a hoax, that.
They really believe that climate change is serious. What they would be doing is more manufacturing and more energy production in the United States of America.
And of course, heard on the iHeart app End right here ONBBZ News Radio, forty three million of US tuned in. And that may sound like a lot, but rating service Nielsen says that's down twenty five percent from twenty twenty s face off between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. The debate, hosted by CBS News, was simulcast on more than a dozen networks, but CBS takes the cake with nearly ten million viewers. Jeffery, it's a lot of eyeballs. Yeah, all right, Drew, thank you.
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