1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio Rea defining local news. 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 2: C there's guys in Boston forty degrees at six o'clock. 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Charlie Bird joining. Here's what's happening. Is 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 2: at Harvard say they're trying to figure out why someone 5 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 2: apparently set off an explosion early yesterday morning inside of 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: building at the medical school. With wz's Nicole Davis. 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 3: Harvard University police say it happened just after two forty 8 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 3: five in the morning inside the Goldensen building on Longwood 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 3: Avenue in Boston. They say an officer responded to the 10 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 3: building for a fire alarm and they saw two people 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,880 Speaker 3: running out of the building. The officer reportedly chasing after 12 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 3: the pair, but couldn't catch them. Police say the officer 13 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 3: then went inside and on the fourth floor found the 14 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 3: remains of an explosion. The Boston Fire Arson Unit came 15 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 3: investigated and determined the explosion was likely an intentional one. 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 3: It's not clear what kind of device went off in 17 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 3: the building. No other devices were found so far, no 18 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 3: word on a motive. It appears nobody was hurt. If 19 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 3: you have any information, you're asked to call Boston or 20 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 3: Harvard University Police Nicole Davis, WBZ Boston's news. 21 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: Radio Snap is out of money as the federal government 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: shutdown continues without an end in sight, and Methuin neighbors 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 2: are trying to soften the blow for those who depend 24 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: on food assistance. CBS News Boston's Paul Burton. 25 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: From baby foods to breads, fruits and vegetables, The Senior 26 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: Center transformed into a SNAP food drive for residents who 27 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:31,759 Speaker 1: need assistance. 28 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 3: Thank you, Kevin good Day. It's very kind of them 29 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 3: to be doing this. 30 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: SNAP benefits expired on Saturday due to the government shutdown. 31 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 1: Folks who depend on the supplemental Nutrition assistance program known 32 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: as SNAP are struggling to put food on the table, 33 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: which is why the city is stepping into help. 34 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 4: You know, with the questions around SNAP benefits, we heard 35 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 4: from a lot of people that they were worried about 36 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 4: getting food on the table in the next few weeks. 37 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: Families like this single mother of seven who wants to 38 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: anonymous real hard. 39 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 4: I extreamly hard. 40 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 2: I'm a single mom, I work more than forty hours 41 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 2: a week. Just some team for my kids, So this 42 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 2: is actually a huge hope. On Friday, a Boston federal 43 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 2: judge said the Trump administration must tap into contingency funds 44 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: to make at least partial payments to SNAP during the 45 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 2: government shutdown, saying the president's plan not to pay out 46 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 2: SNAP benefits was unlawful. That same day, a Rhode Island 47 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: federal judge ordered the US Department of Agriculture to distribute 48 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 2: money owed to SNAP benefits as SNAP recipients as soon 49 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 2: as possible. The White House has until tomorrow to tell 50 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: the court what its plan is moving forward. Let's check 51 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,119 Speaker 2: the four day wbz ACU weather. Forecastle Troy Thornton tells 52 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: us Today, nice day, sunshine and certainly less wind. Right now. 53 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: Winds are out of the west, about eight to ten 54 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 2: miles per hour, get to about fifty five for a 55 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 2: high Today, clear overnight Tonight we drop into the low forties. 56 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 2: Tomorrow will start with sun, will finish with clouds. Look 57 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 2: like some showers later in the day extending into tomorrow night. 58 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 2: Maybe some steady rain towards the south shore of the 59 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 2: Cape the Islands. High fifty nine tomorrow and then Tuesday 60 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 2: much better again, sunshine, breezy, high sixty and for Wednesday 61 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,119 Speaker 2: cloudy and maybe a shower at night. On Wednesday, high 62 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 2: fifty six forty degrees right now in Boston, by the way, 63 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: at six oh five, we have moved the clocks back 64 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 2: and you will see sunrise earlier. Sunrise in fifteen minutes 65 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 2: at six twenty. This weekend, Latino families are taking time 66 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: to honor and remember their loved ones who have passed on. 67 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: Wbz's Mike Macklin checks in on a Day of the 68 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 2: Dead celebration in Cambridge. 69 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 5: It is Elda Delberte. The Day of the Dead at 70 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 5: Harvard's PBDY Museum, with the Cherish Mexican tradition of honoring 71 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 5: those who have died, is observed with a day of exhibits, music, 72 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 5: food and drink. Abbey Sendable Fossil is with the PVD Museum. 73 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 6: Usually it's a week long festivity, but the most important 74 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 6: days are November first and November second. Usually November one 75 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 6: is to celebrate children who have passed away, and then 76 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 6: November second is for everyone else in general. 77 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 5: Coming on the heels of Halloween, the day is often 78 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 5: confused with the ghost and goblins of trig or treating. 79 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 5: It is in fact a solemn two days of remembrance 80 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 5: and celebration of the lives of loved ones past, whose 81 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 5: souls revisit the Land of the Living each year. In Cambridge, 82 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 5: Mike Macklin WVZ, Boston's News Radio. 83 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: Now that Halloween is over, what are you expected to 84 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 2: do with that costume? 85 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,799 Speaker 7: Sustainable fashion advocate Lexi Silverstein says, whatever you do, don't 86 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 7: throw it out. 87 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 4: Americans throw away thirty five million costumes every single year. 88 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 7: She says, that's the equivalent of eighty three million plastic 89 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 7: water bottles. 90 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 4: Sixty three percent of them are made up of polyester 91 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 4: and plastic, which can take anywhere from twenty to two 92 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 4: hundred years to decompose. 93 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 7: Instead, she suggests donating your costume to a thrift store, 94 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 7: many of them have Halloween racks, or trade your costume 95 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 7: with a friend or family member, or by using one 96 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 7: of several costume trading apps. Michael Wallace CBS News. 97 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 2: In an extravaganza of a drone light show depicting ancient 98 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: gods and pyramids in the sky. Egypt inaugurated its long 99 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 2: delayed Mega Museum yesterday, a project aiming to give the 100 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: countryes millennia old heritage, rich modern display. ABC's Chuck sieverertson. 101 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 8: Two decades in the making, the Grand Egyptian Museum or GEM, 102 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 8: is near the Giza Pyramids and Sphinx, aimed at boosting 103 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 8: Egypt's tourism. At the grand opening where European and Arab royals, 104 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 8: presidents and prime ministers, Egyptian President ab Del pat LCCI 105 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 8: calling the museum a platform for dialogue, a destination for knowledge, 106 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 8: and a beacon for all who love life and believe 107 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 8: in the value of humankind. It will display tiny pieces 108 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 8: of jewelry and colorful too murals to towering statues of Pharaoh. 109 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 8: The Grand Egyptian Museum is now the world's largest museum, 110 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 8: housing over fifty thousand ancient artifacts. Another area restaurant closing down, 111 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 8: The Fugatku Japanese restaurant in Brookline will be permanently shutting 112 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 8: down on Wednesday for what they're calling personal reasons after 113 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 8: twenty seven years in business. Two other fugaqu locations in 114 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 8: Linfield and Sudbury had previously shut down. You are now 115 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 8: in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen 116 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 8: to DOUBLEBZ News Radio on. 117 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 2: The iHeartRadio app. I'm Charlie Berger on WDBZ, Boston's news 118 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 2: radio