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Good morning, six o'clock in Boston this Thursday, and we're under cloudy skies to get things started. It is sixty degrees here in the city. Thanks for being with us today. The News at six is brought to us by your new England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown, and come on in. This is delightful. Isn't it cloudy again today? And expect rain, especially this afternoon or early tonight, and some of that rain may
be heavy. Our highs near seventeen. Is WBZ aky weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg much better tomorrow. Spectacular is a word being used to describe the upcoming weekend. Florida's Gulf Coast races for the strongest hurricane to hit the mainland US in more than a year. Hurricane Helene is expected to hit later today as a Category four storm and could strengthen from there Forecasters say this will be the third hurricane to hit Florida's Big Bend region in thirteen months,
and up to twenty feet. Experts say the storm surge is likely to be unsurvivable. Already in harm's way. Dozens of members from Massachusetts Task Force One, the FEMA search and Rescue team from Beverly. They're in Florida to assist. Tampa Airport has been closed until further notice. It's over. Red Sox lose to the Blue Jays and it's officially wait till next to your time. They're eliminated from the American League playoffs.
They say all good things must come to an end. Bad stuff does too. The Red Sox are down to their final out. Many got up Dan Schulman on Blue Jays TV in the final meaningful out for the Red Sox this season, guys. With three games left to go, Boston has officially been eliminated from the playoff race.
Disappointing always, yeah, I mean, it's always tough to not make the playoffs, specially when you know who we are as a city type thing. They're not it off good and they just don't have the players to win. Man, that's the bottle. The need better, plays Chris Valm.
At WBZ Boston's news radio.
It is really over for the Athletics. This afternoon's game against Texas brings an end to the team's time in Oakland. The A's are eventually going to move to Las Vegas. Week four in the NFL kicks off tonight. The Thursday Night Football game features the Cowboys and Giants at the Meadowlands.
Why did the bulls cross the road? Well, Officials with a traveling rodeo in North Attleborough say it was a faulty fence pin that gave way on Sunday, which then opened the door to freedom for eight of the animals, most on the run for several hours before a makeshift fence ultimately corralled them and lured them back into a truck. A lone bull, however, tasted freedom for a day longer before being captured. Local officials are now considering more rules
and regulations for the traveling rodeo industry. Here in Massachusetts, officials on the North Shore, faced with a parking problem have come up with a solution.
A new study show several almost with the current parking system in Lynn, but also several potential solutions. The engineering and architecture company stand Tech says not only are two hour time restrictions in issue, but also that pricing is deployed halphazardly. Another key issue was stream maintenance conditions, including overnight parking challenges and other missing security elements like lighting.
This study comes as the city is developing a parking strategy to make Downtown a more vibrant and inclusive place. In Lynn James Rojas w b Z Boston's news.
Radio and started under cloudy skies in Boston this morning. Sixty degrees here in the city, and cloud's going to hang with us all day long. Today. We are going to see a shower or two early this morning, and the heavy stuff won't be here for a few more hours. We are expecting the possibility of some downpours and maybe some thunder and lightning later on today. Temperatures will be warmer, near seventy degrees this afternoon, and some heavy showers early
overnight tonight. Then they'll start to taper off and we'll see some clearing skies. They'll last beat exit over the Cape and Islands, which by the way, just coming off almost ten inches of rain in a widespread area of the Cape and Islands. They don't need any more, but they're going to get some today all of us are. In fact, we start to clear out well overnight tonight and tomorrow back to some sunshine. High temperatures in the
mid seventies. Looks like it's going to be a pretty decent looking weekend too, the mix of sun and clouds both Saturday and Sunday. Highs in the sixties and seventies. Pretty typical fall weekend on the way sixty degrees, clouds, rain on the way six oh six This Thursday morning, the last of the Tufts lacrosse players hospitalized for a severe muscle condition have now been released from treatment. Wbz's Drew mo'holland has their story. Good Morning, Andrew, Good morning Jeffrey.
The three players are among a dozen taking off the practice field after an intense workout led by a former Navy seal last week. The Jumbos players are said to have suffered from a severe case of rabdo, in which overworked muscles begin to fail and can lead to organ failure. The school has launched an independent investi gation. The lacrosse program is on hold, Jief.
All right, truth, thank you, You've got mail, but it's gonna cost you. The US Postal Service as it plans to raise the price of a stamp five times between now and the end of twenty twenty seven. The Post Office says, brace yourself for a possibly record setting price increase next summer. Insiders, they're calling this stampflation. Prices of a first class stamp are more than thirty five percent higher over the past five years and will now set
you back seventy three cents. The Post Office has been over its budget head and plans billions of dollars in cost cutting exercises. Congress cuts a deal to avoid a Monday night government shutdown. The agreement, fueled by Democrats, kicks the spending can down the road by three months and keeps funding levels, but adds more than two hundred million dollars for the US Secret Service. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson does a deal with the devil in this case
Democrats to push the plan over the goal line. They Senate quickly moves to approves, and President Biden says he will sign it before the deadline. On Monday. The walls are closing in a New York City's mayor, Eric Adams becomes the first sitting mayor in the Big Apple to
face federal indictment. The city's one hundred and tenth mayor is expected in a federal courtroom as soon as today, the charges have been sealed, but an investigation is focused on illegal dealings with the Turkish government in exchange for campaign fundraising. Adam says in a social media video he's innocent and refuses to resign. And British scientists have found a way to put you on a tiny memory card.
The entire human genome encoded onto a five D memory crystal that can survive for billions of years. Geneticist Sarah Tuckman.
It's in case we're obliterated, so that the information that encodes a human being will be there for perhaps some other intelligence to reconstruct.
Assuming that intelligence knows how to read it. Says Robin Ins, comedian and science broadcaster.
The human species is one that I think fronds.
It very difficult not to believe there will be a kind of extermacy.
He hopes those future space aliens don't bring us back, but just read our book of life with wonder. Vicky Parker, CBS News London.
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