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- 0:00Speaker 1: Good morning. It is Wednesday, October twenty ninth. Going to
- 0:03Speaker 1: be cloudy today with the spotty showers. Highs about fifty degrees,
- 0:07Speaker 1: a rainy day, Tomorrow, highs in the fifties, clouds maybe
- 0:11Speaker 1: a little sun on Friday, highs about sixty degrees, and
- 0:14Speaker 1: then the fifties for the weekend. Top stories. Hurricane Melissa
- 0:18Speaker 1: on the move, devastating Jamaica yesterday as a Category five
- 0:22Speaker 1: with massive flooding, one hundred and eighty five mile an
- 0:26Speaker 1: hour winds at times several people killed, homes and businesses destroyed,
- 0:31Speaker 1: tourists stranded. All of that, we have.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Put necessary measures in place, so tomorrow the efforts to
- 0:36Speaker 2: clear roads, to ensure that the area is an on
- 0:38Speaker 2: wipe connectivity, to return electricity, and to deal with the
- 0:43Speaker 2: humanitarian isshes that may occur, the need for food, medicine,
- 0:48Speaker 2: and temporary shelter.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Melissa still on the move, hitting Cuba today as a
- 0:52Speaker 1: Category three storm wins of about one hundred and twenty
- 0:55Speaker 1: five miles an hour. Still very destructive. By the way,
- 0:58Speaker 1: maybe twenty inches of rain expected in parts of Cuba.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Melissa's next targets the Bahamas later today and then maybe Bermuda.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Several Massachusetts people, by the way, are still stranded in Jamaica.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Other stories, World Series Game four, Blue Jays bouncing back
- 1:14Speaker 1: with a six to two win over the Dodgers. Series
- 1:17Speaker 1: now even at two games piece. Game five tonight in
- 1:20Speaker 1: Los Angeles, the government still shut down. Another no vote
- 1:24Speaker 1: in Washington yesterday on any kind of a solution. More
- 1:28Speaker 1: and more people, services and jobs being affected. Who's to
- 1:31Speaker 1: blame depends on who you're asking.
- 1:34Speaker 3: We can provide all the help, provide pay and furlough
- 1:37Speaker 3: and back pay for federal workers, and fix the healthcare crisis.
- 1:41Speaker 3: And all they have to do is sit down, negotiate
- 1:43Speaker 3: with us, and both can happen.
- 1:45Speaker 1: With this shutdown, It's not just their a everyday feud
- 1:49Speaker 1: with Donald Trump. It's become now a problem where American
- 1:52Speaker 1: families are paying the price. And Boston Mayor Woo delivering
- 1:55Speaker 1: her state of the School's addressed last night. Schools are
- 1:58Speaker 1: much improved, they still have a ways to go, she says.
- 2:01Speaker 4: Boston has been a target in the federal political storm.
- 2:05Speaker 4: We've had grants pulled, funding cut and even as we
- 2:09Speaker 4: do everything we can to protect our communities, we'll have
- 2:13Speaker 4: some hard decisions to make these next few years won't
- 2:16Speaker 4: be easy, but as we know, Boston doesn't back down.
- 2:22Speaker 1: After first ever state of the school's address, market basket
- 2:26Speaker 1: Mayhem in Westbridgewater to women cut shoplifting attacking managers. They
- 2:31Speaker 1: were assaulted people in a store in public. That's not
- 2:34Speaker 1: all right.
- 2:35Speaker 3: I just see damn work hard over here.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Both women, by the way, are in custody. New report
- 2:41Speaker 1: this morning says America is getting skinnier for the first
- 2:44Speaker 1: time in more than fifteen years. Obesity is down, most likely,
- 2:49Speaker 1: they say, because of ozepic and other weight loss drugs.
- 2:53Speaker 1: No winner in the Mega millions last night at the
- 2:55Speaker 1: jackpot Friday Night. Halloween Night jumps to seven hundred and
- 2:58Speaker 1: forty million, and list of best cities to celebrate Halloween
- 3:02Speaker 1: in America is out the top five New York City,
- 3:05Speaker 1: Jersey City, LA, Chicago, and Vegas. We've got jingle Ball
- 3:09Speaker 1: tickets seven ten and eight ten this morning. You know
- 3:12Speaker 1: you want them. The tickets include a shot at the
- 3:14Speaker 1: one hundred eight thousand dollars jackpot. Lisa check the drive
- 3:18Speaker 1: next