Afternoon Report: Sunday, October 6, 2024

Florida is bracing for a new threat, Western North Carolina is still suffering from the impacts of Hurricane Helene, and the Boston Bruins get their number one goalie back on the ice. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is WBZ at Boston's news radio, redefining local news.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's sixty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon.
I'm Madison Rogers, and we start off this hour on
Storo Drive for Boston Police tell us hundreds of pro
Palestinian protesters are blocking off traffic. David Augustus has his
eye on the roads from the traffic center and joins
us now live, David, what are you seeing.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm seeing stopped traffic, Madison, on both sides of Stow
Drive by Charles Circle. They were the protesters on the
eastbound side heading in report of some on the westbound
side as well. So right now basically before the hatshell
Storo Drive East and west really not moving at all
by Charles Circle. There reports of them police trying to
move their protesters off the road by Charles Streep. And

(00:52):
right now both sides of Storo Drive East and West
are jammed up before Charles Circle and not moving presently.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
We will hear more from you in just a couple minutes.
These activists are protesting a year of war as the
death Tolan Gaza. Year's forty two thousand people Tomorrow marks
one year since Hamas launched an attack on Israel, killing
twelve hundred. Memorial Tomorrow, held by Harvard Hallel, will call
for the return of the remaining hostages again. More on

(01:21):
these traffic impacts straight ahead. Florida is bracing for a
new threat as Milton gains hurricane strength in the Gulf
of Mexico. Now a Category one, the hurricane is expected
to make landfall sometime midweek. CBS's Paul Dolan is in Florida.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
David snagged his sandbags sand castle before they were all gone,
loading up his Dolly with a wall of sandbags because
he has something important to protect.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
A fouryer that's air conditioned and the gun tile and
drywall and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
So I'm trying to protect that.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
The downstairs is a base, say of a giant.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Garage, but I call.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It my man cave.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
David is in the midst of early dorm prep benefits availability.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Florida Governor Ron De Santis has declared a state of
emergency in thirty five counties. As of the latest, the
storm is eight hundred and fifteen miles away from Tampa.
Western North Carolina is still suffering the impacts of Hurricane Helene,
with many missing and hundreds of thousands still in the
dark trying to get basic supplies. An update from North

(02:23):
Carolina Now with ABC's Gio Benitez.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
North Carolina officials say FEMA has paid survivors here more
than twenty seven million dollars. We met resident Tammy Holbrooks
as she walked down the mountain.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Where's the help.

Speaker 7 (02:36):
There's people up there with no food, no water, no power,
no internet.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
Heartbreak mixed with hope. This woman finding her mom hugging
her for the first time since the storm.

Speaker 8 (02:49):
It was just relief and thankfulness that I have a
mom and I have somebody, because there's so many people
that are losing those that I know that they just
wish they can hug again.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Helene has killed at least two hundred and twenty seven people,
and we'll get the four day forecast in fifteen seconds.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
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Speaker 2 (03:25):
The forecast now. Is sponsored by Cambridge Savings Bank. It's
mainly cloudy tonight, with a couple of showers arriving toward
daybreak and a low around fifty two. Tomorrow we're in
the low sixties with a couple of spots of rain
remaining for the most part. It should be cloudy then
tomorrow night we dry out. Tuesdays sunny to partly cloudy

(03:47):
and breezy, with a higher round sixty four. Mostly sunny
with tempts in the low sixties on Wednesday as well.
Right now in Boston, it's sixty degrees with a blue
sky overhead. It's four h five. Drums, whistles, and shouts
are greeting the gas at two Boston hotels, says the
workers there go on strike. More now from wbz's Kyle Shaffle.

Speaker 9 (04:09):
Workers at two Hilton hotels in Boston are on the
picket line having to get the end of their rope
with stalk contract tops.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
The price of everything. It's up right now and our
wages aren't cutting it.

Speaker 9 (04:20):
Kevin Haynes has been a cook at the Hilton Park
Plaza downtown for seven years. He includes six hundred other
workers with the unit here at Local twenty six are
asking for higher wages Unlike the strikes on Labor Day weekend,
this strike will go on around the clock until there's
a deal on the table. Kevin says that union.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is a number in mind, not going to be enough,
but it's gonna be enough that we can actually live
in this city that were working.

Speaker 9 (04:43):
He says right now pays solo. It's often hard to
live a normal life and keep his kids fed and happy.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
It shouldn't be a choice when we go to the
grocery store if we're gonna put meat on the table
or we're gonna eat vegetables.

Speaker 9 (04:54):
Today, there's no public date yet for return to the
negotiating table. Kyle Shaffield to be busy Bostons Radio.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
A Hilton spokesperson now tells us they don't believe this
decision to strike is in their worker's best interests, but
they respect the right to strike and will continue to
work work toward a deal. News from the Bruins today,
Jeremy Swayman has been signed to an eight year, sixty
six million dollar contract following months of tense negotiations. This

(05:21):
gets their number one goalie back on the ice just
two days before the season opener. Swayman was a restricted
free agent and missed all of training camp. The start
their season on the road Tuesday, taking on the defending
Stanley Cup winning Florida Panthers. Some good witches are brewing
up charity on the Cape.

Speaker 10 (05:40):
Instead of brooms, these witches carry paddles, and instead of evil,
they use their power for good.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
Very good, very good.

Speaker 10 (05:49):
Five years ago, friends Joe Allen Erickson and Susan Price
decided to don full witch costumes and go paddle boarding
off of Cape cod just for fun.

Speaker 7 (05:58):
Well, we both love paddlebo and hoween is my most
favorite holiday, and we just niched guessing gas, which just
comes quite natural. I think I have more witch attire
than I do regular attire, which I don't really know
what that means.

Speaker 10 (06:11):
It was an unusual spectacle that caught a lot of attention.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
Our phones blew up, people just asking what is this,
what are you doing it for? How do we become
a part of it. It became pretty clear that we
had hit upon something that could really do some good
for the local community.

Speaker 10 (06:28):
So the friends conjured up a plan to turn their
fun activity into a fundraiser. Since twenty twenty, they have
donated more than eighty thousand dollars to local nonprofits.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
This year, the group raised money for Dream Day, and
nonprofit providing kids with serious or life threatening illnesses a
free week of camp in Brewster. You're now in the
loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ
News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Madison Rodgers, WBZ
Boston's news radio