This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news and see how easy this is. It's Tuesday, already six o'clock here in Boston on this Tuesday morning, and we're waking up under mostly cloudy skies in fifty eight degrees. The News at six brought to us by You're a New England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for joining us this morning. I'm Jeff Brown. Certainly going to be a great day, welly of cloud today.
Temperature is generally in the sixties, warm re trend as we head toward Friday, and is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Some sunshine actually returns tomorrow afternoon, full sunshine on Thursday. This is Salem's time to shine and more than a million visitors are expected this month to be there for Halloween.
The spirit of Halloween can be seen at every corner and in every store front window here in downtown. It's this embracing of the spooky fun season that draws visitors from all around the country. Had folks starting to trickle in since last month, but October is when things really kick into overdrive.
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It's something that spurs the debate among locals every year, those who love the Halloween hustle and bustle and those who can't wait for the crowds in traffic to take off like a witch on their broomstick and Salem James Rojas WBZ, Boston's news radio, and another thing.
Baseball's playoffs begin today. The wild Card round in the American and National leagues begins with four games today, the first of which features Detroit at Houston this afternoon. Monday Night football puts a rap on Week four in the NFL, a doubleheader blowout as the Titans top the Dolphins and Detroit destroys the Seahawks. And in the WNBA semi Finals Game two between the Connecticut Sun and the Minnesota Lynx tonight, the Sun lead one game to none. A man they
called Charlie Hustle has died. Pete Rose, baseball's all time hit leader, who was later banned from the game and denied a sure fire induction into Cooperstown's Hall of Fame for betting on baseball, ultimately admitted to his wrongdoing. Pete Rose found dead in his home in Las Vegas. He was eighty three and NBA Hall of Famer de Kembe Mutumbo has died. Mutumbo, one of the most prolific shock blockers the game has ever seen, played for six teams
over his eighteen year career. He was an eight time All Star and four time Defensive Player of the Year. Mutumbo died from brain cancer. He was fifty eights from one track to another. The MBTA begins more work this month. W'sas Drew moholland is here with a rundown. Good morning, Andrew, morning, Jeffrey.
Here we go.
It's a month of work and repairs that will affect riders in the Green, Orange, and Mattapean lines this month. Free shuttle buses will be deployed during the various stages of work, but riders are encouraged to take the Commuter Rail when possible. The T just completed its most extensive work yet on the Red Line's Braintree branch. All trains are back on the tracks this week after three weeks of disruption.
Jeffrey and official say, patients, things will get better before you know it. I have plenty, you have patients, all right, truth, thank you. It's Jimmy Carter's birthday, the bookday missive President hasty birthday. The oldest living president in American history turns one hundred years old today. The thirty ninth President of the United States, rose from relative unknown peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia to the top of the free world for one
term nineteen seventy seven through eighty one. But younger generations know him best for his humanitarian work with Habitat for Humanity. Mister Carter has been under home hospice care for almost two years. His wife of seventy seven years, Rosalind, died almost a year ago at the age of ninety six. This Tuesday morning, under mostly cloudy skies in fifty eight degrees, we have some very thick areas of fog to deal with.
Thick fog to deal with this morning. We might even have some drizzle out and about on your travels as well, but overall this is going to be a relatively dry day, although it will be mostly cloudy and breezy at times. High temperatures will get into the mid to upper sixties overnight, remaining mostly cloudy. Tonight lows in the fifties to around fifty in some inland locations. Tomorrow, clouds to start may break for some sunshine in the afternoon, highs in the
middle sixties. Beautiful day coming up on Thursday with partly to mostly sunny skies, highs approaching seventy, and that looks to be the trend as we head towards the weekend as well. Right now in Boston, it's a bit of a struggle this morning. We've got some thick fog and clouds and fifty eight here in the city at six oh six sun this Tuesday morning. As September turns its calendar page, it is now October, color Blind Awareness Month comes to a close.
I've learned one thing this color blind Awareness Month. It's that most people have no idea how color blindness works.
How many fingers am I holding?
You could see my hair a wave in the front. Are you're right?
So I hit the streets to answer Boston's burning questions. Is it a disease, let's start there. No, it's a deficiency.
What color are the dreams in?
This was a common one.
I have no idea.
I'm not usually thinking about colors in my dreams, just wondering why everyone hates me?
What do you see?
This guy was asking me what color his plain white T shirt?
Was I never know like color blind was really really real.
Oh, it is in my case, red and anything red adjacent his heart to distinguish, so brown, orange, purple, pink.
That'd be a rough time because color is beudyboo.
That's just the thing. The only beauty us color blinds have ever known is the beauty we see in the world every day, no matter what color it looks like, that sheer WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Lawyers for Sean Combs are planning a third appeal. The hip hop mogul known as Diddy, remains held without bail on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Attorneys want to be heard one more time to get him out on fifty million dollars bail, with his Miami Beach mansion as collateral. Colmbs has been held for two weeks at a prision in Brooklyn, rubbing shoulders with the likes of former cryptocurrency
king Sam Bankman. Freed prosecutor Say Comb staged several parties that featured sexual abuse in the form of so called freak offs. Combs has hired a new dream team of lawyers who have filed an intent to appeal the bail decision. Well, the showstopper on the race to the White House is coming up tonight. The one and likely only vice presidential
debate happens with election Day, five weeks from today. A recent poll by the Pew Research Center finds most Americans do not think either running mate is ultimately qualified to be president. Nonetheless, Vice presidential nominee Tim Walls and jd Vance will take the gloves off at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City tonight at nine. WBZ News Radio carries the debate live here, or you can catch it on the Ihearts radio app. 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