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Good morning, six o'clock on this Thursday, Halloween here in Boston, and we're waking up under clear skies in fifty five degrees here in the city. The News at six is brought to us by You're a New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us on this Thursday. I'm Jeff Brown Trick.
Unusually warm weather is on the way for this.
Halloween or treat. WBZ aki weather meteorologist Tether's Are says, expect highs this afternoon around eighty. It is Halloween, and all eyes, of course are on Salem.
What's scarier than monsters, ghosts and ghouls, how about the hordes of visitors filling up every side street in downtown Salem. I'm here on Essex Street, which is going to be a Halloween hotspot. The locals are reminding visitors that the city is not a theme park. Don't come here and like expect the whole city to move around for you, Like it's not Disneyland. Most people think of just, you know, just the Halloween. But there's more to Salem than just Halloween,
there's a lot of historical features sale. Meanwhile, Salem's mayor says they're expecting to break last year's the record number of one point two million visitors in the Witch City. James rowhas w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Former porn star and lifelong practicing witch Stormy Daniels is in Salem tonight, which is from around the world make it a habit every Halloween to gather on Salem Common to form a magic circle to honor the dead well. This year's event also honors Daniels, who they claim is the victim of a modern day witch hunt following her hush money case involving Donald Trump. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, says she's beyond honored. Some fifteen hundred
witches attended the magic Circle at last year's event. It is likely to be a much bigger crowd tonight. Five days till Election, America takes out the trash, Donald Trump takes a garbage truck to a Wisconsin rally as he continues to troll recent comments from President Biden comparing Trump's supporters to trash. Kamala Harris goes on damage control to
distance herself now from her boss's comments. The White House clarifies that mister Biden's garbage comments about Trump's supporters were really, in fact, about a comedian's comments about Puerto Rico at a weekend rally in New York City. Baseball reaches the top of the mountains, Saint Uses so the call on Fox Sports wbz's drewm o'hollands. This game had everything on the road to a championship. It short did for the
eighth time, jeff the Dodgers claimed the crown. It takes a miraculous come back to send the Yankees home in five games, and Dodgers scored five in the fifth to tie the game. The Yankees took a lead again later, Dodgers come back again. Ends up being Mookie with the game winning RBI a sackfly. But the Yankees turned into a little league team, Jeffrey, in the middle of this thing, you are a former coach, a youth ball back in the night. It had driven me nuts, dropping fly balls, people.
Not covering first base, the pitchers.
It was not good, not good at all. Freddie Freeman, the World Series MVP well deserved. Can't get him out right now exactly well, now you can it's the off season. There you go, all right, truth, thank you. This is delightful this morning. It is a little unusual, and it is a little unheard of at fifty eight degrees here in Boston under clear skies. We're getting started this final
day of October on the right note. You're gonna see plenty of sunshine mixing with clouds today, temperatures well into the seventies at the very least, maybe the low eighties in your neighborhood. And even for trick or treat hours tonight around sundown, we are expecting temperatures to only be just a tick below seventy, so no layers for the kids doing the candy walk tonight. Tomorrow, clouds in a shower early in the day, and we certainly do need
the rain. In fact, the drought monitor will be updated later on this morning. We are expecting to see some sunshine though tomorrow afternoon as high temperatures again jump into the seventies. Much more seasonable weather for this weekend, with a mix of sun and clouds, mostly highs in the fifties coming right up right now. It's fifty eight clear skies. Thursday, morning in Boston at six oh five. Doctors fear the walking wounded.
The uptick in cases of walking pneumonia has been huge this year, the CDC saying there have been increases across all age groups from March thirty first to October fifth. Infection rates for children peaked in August, and the biggest increases were seen in young people ages five to seventeen. That age bracket also saw the biggest percentage of pneumonia
related emergency room visits at seven point four percent. There's no specific explanation on the increases in children, however, doctors have suggested remote schooling during the pandemic hindered children's ability to develop immunity against the walking pneumonia bacteria. Jim mckayawb you see Boston's news Radio.
Boston Cardinal Shan O'Malley retires today for the first time in more than twenty years. The city will install a new archbishop, The most Reverend Richard Henning from Providence will take over in a ceremony this afternoon. Hundreds of clergy will be here for the proceedings at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Cardinal O'Malley actually resigned five years ago, but Pope Francis asked him to stay on and he did.
O'Malley will continue to stay on in another capacity as he is also leading the church's panel on the sex abuse scandal. It is the end of the road for several local stop and shop grocery stores today, Seven of them in Massachusetts are closed defective today as the company shrinks the number of underperforming stores by the dozen in a cost cutting and efficiency move. Many shoppers, though, are the ones left holding the bag with a shrinking number
of supermarket alternatives. The leftovers here in Massachusetts and the seven stores will be donated to charity. Both sides the ongoing strike at jetmaker Boeing continue to talk the talk.
The union representing some thirty three thousand striking Boeing machinists posts on x that discussions with the company, facilitated by Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Sue, are progressing. The International Association of Machinist says once it has something that it believes is worthy of a vote, it will be presented to members immediately. Union members recently rejected the company's proposal that included a thirty five percent general wage increase over
four years, but did not include a pension. Jennifer Kuiper, CBS News.
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