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Sixty one degrees. We have clear skies in Boston. It is six o'clock here on this Tuesday morning. It is October twenty second, twenty twenty four. In this hour of news brought to you by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Jim McKay and here's what's happening. Well, we started the week with summer vibes, and while it won't be as warm as what we saw on Monday,
your Tuesdays shaping up to be another good one. You continue to have warm weather over the next couple of days before a big cool down late in the week. That is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist heathers z are. Highs today topping around around seventy degrees with plenty of sunshine. We're even warmer tomorrow. The cool down doesn't start until Thursday, and we're mostly staying dry before we head to the weekend. Well at six oh one, Judge Beverly Canoni will be
back for the retrial of Karen Reid come January. Norfolk Superior Court confirming the update as both sides are preparing for a retrial that is said to begin on January twenty seventh, after the mistrial earlier this year. Now at the same time, Karen Reid is also appealing a lower court's decision to keep two of the three most serious charges against her. That case is at the Supreme Judicial Court, and Reed is getting defense help from the ACLU in
her bid for appeal. Many parents who say they're in favor of an age requirement for social media WBZ is James Johas and Charles Down with more on a new survey and what parents in the Commonwealth have to say.
Parents in Massachusetts then kids should be at least fourteen years old to youth social media. That's according to a nationwide survey asking parents on a state by state basis, what age is it safe for children to have access to it. Larry is a parent and thinks there should be some limits.
It's hard to just make one thing universal, but as a whole I think, you know a lot of the case.
They do need to.
Enjoy the childhoods more and not be so exposed to so much information so young.
Ryan doesn't have kids, but he does have a little brother.
My little brother's ten, I don't want him seeing a lot of this stuff that I see on social media.
Cyberbullying was among a tough concern in the survey and Charlestown James rohas wb Z Boston Snooth Radio and.
We continue now at six ZHO two. We are exactly two weeks from election day. It's estimated that just over fifteen million voters across the country have already cast their ballots, many people electing to cast mail in ballots and personally voting going on in many states around the country, including Massachusetts, and the quest for Banner nineteen begins tonight's weir thing.
It's cuts to the class us sail and Browning defendsive demon here in the.
Third Celtics tip off. The twenty twenty four twenty twenty five season hosts the next tonight at the Garden and ahead of the game they'll be raising Banner eighteen up to the rafters. WBC's Chris Fauma getting us ready at North Station.
Opening night for the Celtics. The defending champion Celtics, and expectations at North Station are high.
It's definitely to hear for Celtics.
They're day two, as Governor heally officially declared October twenty second, twenty twenty four, today Celtics banner eighteen day.
That's awesome, man, it is.
How hungry do you think this covering group of Celtics is very hungry just to make a statement saying it was no Fluke just nours. Members of the Green will raise that eighteenth banner to the garden rafters, which has these bands already thinking number nineteen nicking.
Wing a gang ban of nineteen yep, I have a failure.
Chris mom a WBZ Boston's news radio.
We were feeling like a summer afternoon on Monday to begin the week. While it's not going to be as warm as what we saw on Mondays, certainly another beautiful afternoon ahead of us here as we are looking at sunshine, a few clouds, high of right around seventy degrees if you're on north and west of town, you could be getting back into the mid seventies clear and then down to be low fifty five for tonight. Much more of
the same tomorrow. In fact, we're even a bit warmer and Greater Boston with a high of seventy five degrees and then on Wednesday night into Thursday might see a few drops of rain, a few showers, and then Thursdays should be okay. We'll start to see the cool off begin down into the sixties, and then by Friday, plenty of sunshine, but we'll be down into the upper fifties. Right around sixty is all we're getting out of Friday. But all in all, we are looking at some great
weather right now for late October. It's six oh six. And speaking of all this weather, how about another potential day to head to the beach.
This time of year, the seagulls usually have America's oldest public beach all to themselves, but not when the weather is like this. What do you think of this weather?
I think it's fantastic. I hope we get a few while we get a few more days. It is because I want to keep my ten I'm going to Saint Lucia in November.
Jim drove down from Harol.
I know after a few more day we could get tech cold weather. So I used to deliver a mail and I love this type of weather.
From Revere Beach.
Carl Stevens WBC Boston's news radio.
Six SO seven The Boston City Council trying to fix a major strain on the budget the expected record breaking spending on police overtime.
With police overtime cost in the city more than one hundred million dollars a year, the Boston City Council is looking for ways to rate in the spending on ot City Council President Ruci luis in.
Well, you know, we've seen the cost of overtime balloon year after year, and so I think it's important for us to continue to have these conversations because it's also something with the public demands. We've also seen time and time again that overtime is so often a subject to fraud into abuse, and so we just want to tamper down on all of that to make sure that we are being fiscally responsible and protecting the public.
Police overtime growing steadily and substantially in recent years as the department faces the challenge of recruiting new officers to take the place of retiring officers. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Six oh seven, No big surprise here, Salem topping the list of Forbes' best Halloween vacation spots across the country.
Well It is the site of the infamous Salem witch trials of sixteen ninety two. Second on the list Sleepy Hollow, New York, the setting of the famous Washington Irving tale about the Headless Horsemen. Then there's the Big Easy, Forbes saying New Orleans takes Halloween celebrations to the next level. Fourth on the list is Anoka, Minnesota, noted for its family friendly celebrations. And it's back to the South for the top five spot. Savannah, Georgia, considered one of the
most haunted cities in America. Jay Willett, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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