Massachusetts
Downpours in forecast for Massachusetts on Monday. Maps show where rain will be heaviest
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BOSTON – The WBZ Weather Team has issued a Next Weather Alert for Monday, Aug. 19 for heavy downpours and thunderstorms. The peak action is likely to occur in the late afternoon to early evening hours. The main threats will be localized flooding and brief, gusty winds.
The Storm Prediction Center has included portions of Massachusetts in the marginal risk for severe thunderstorms. This is the lowest level threat (1/5).
When will the heaviest rain arrive?
While we anticipate a wet morning with showers in and out in the first half of the day, the stronger storms are expected later in the day. Late afternoon to early evening is when storms are most likely to pose a severe threat.
Watch out for rip currents
Dangerous rip currents have also been a concern along the cape and islands this weekend, and this alert continues into Monday. This includes the south-facing beaches of Rhode Island, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and the south and east-facing beaches of the Cape.
What do you do if you’re caught in a rip current? Remain calm. Swim parallel to the shore until you find an exit and can get to safety. However, it is best to avoid swimming in the highlighted areas until the rip currents are not as dangerous. We should start seeing some relief from this on Tuesday.
What does the rest of the week look like?
Rain chances diminish as the week goes on. By the middle to end of this week, it will be comfortable, sunny, and dry. Almost fall-like weather is in store for us after the storms pass!
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Massachusetts
Mass. State Lottery winner: $1 million prize won by mom buying Doritos
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A Massachusetts mother picked up a $10 lottery ticket while buying Doritos and ended up winning a $1 million prize.
Amy Kowal, of Chicopee, had went to the Pride Market on 167 Chicopee St. in her hometown for a bag of the chips for her daughter, she told the lottery.
Kowal also decided to buy a “$4,000,000 Lion’s Share” scratch ticket. The game was released on April 16 and as of Aug. 19, there are still two $4 million grand prizes and three $1 million prizes remaining to be claimed.
After scratching the ticket to reveal a $1 million prize, the Chicopee mother claimed her winning ticket on Aug. 15. She opted to receive her prize in the form of a one-time payment of $650,000 before taxes.
The Pride Market where Kowal bought her winning ticket will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
Massachusetts
1 person in custody after shots fired near MIT in Massachusetts
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CAMBRIDGE – One person is in custody after State Police confirm shots were fired on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts Sunday evening.
It happened at around 5:15 p.m. near the MIT Sailing Pavilion. Two cars were seen surrounded by police tape and evidence markers and at least one of the cars had bullet holes in a window. State Police, Cambridge Police and MIT Police are all on scene.
Witnesses reported seeing at least one person taken from the scene in an ambulance.
“It’s just surprising because where would they have shot from, in the middle and then shooting out here to where pedestrians walk is dangerous,” said someone who lives nearby. “There is a risk there, there are plenty of kids that walk down this street all the time.”
State Police said there no threat to the public at this time.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts GOP candidates differ on Trump, border and how they’ll take on Elizabeth Warren
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BOSTON – The three Republicans competing for the right to take on Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a fight for Massachusetts’s U.S. Senate seat debated which of them was a “real” Republican rather than a “RINO” – Republican In Name Only. The GOP candidates met in their only TV debate at the WBZ-TV studios.
Will the candidates support Donald Trump?
Each candidate was asked if they will support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as he aims to return to the White House.
“The big differentiating litmus test is whether someone supports the head of the ticket, which is why I’m wearing this hat,” said engineer Robert Antonellis, pointing to his bright red Make America Great Again hat. “I’m the one on the stage here who plans to vote for Donald Trump in November, and he’s the head of the ticket.”
“For me, this is about pro-growth,” said Quincy City Council President Ian Cain, who acknowledged being an unenrolled voter and a registered Democrat at times in the past. “This is about getting back to respect and rule of law. This is back to smaller government.”
“People ask, ‘Are you a Donald Trump Republican, John, or are you a Charlie Baker Republican?’ And my answer is always, ‘I’m a John Deaton Republican,’” said John Deaton, an attorney who has also been registered as a Democrat and an independent. “When I get to the United States Senate, I’m going to have one test, and that is, is it good for Massachusetts and America? If it is, I’m all in; it doesn’t matter who the president is.”
Border Security
The candidates were asked how they would have voted on last winter’s bipartisan budget deal to tighten border security that died in Congress without a vote after Senate Republicans answered Trump’s call to kill it.
Deaton said he would have voted for the bill “because it stopped the bleeding. It’s not a perfect bill…[but] James Lankford was voted number two most conservative United States Senator, and he wrote that bill. It’s not perfect, but you have to stop the bleeding, and that’s what I mean by loyalty – loyalty to the Constitution of the country, not a person, not a party.”
Antonellis disagreed. “It was a red herring. No wonder John supports it. Donald Trump was against it. It could be solved with a phone call from the White House. In other words, all the executive orders that Biden signed mere moments after taking the pen in the White House, January 20, he unraveled that border, and Donald Trump could fix it immediately. … And how many transgender bathrooms were in that bill? We don’t even know. They put all kinds of stuff into these bills.”
Cain also said he would not have supported what he called “a Chuck Schumer progressive open border bill” because it doesn’t get to the heart of the matter. “If you talk to voters across Massachusetts, irrespective of their party affiliation, illegal immigration is the number one issue on their minds. People are looking for, again, a sensible solution to closing the border, adjudicating the backlog of illegal immigrants that have arrived here to this country, ending the catch-and-release program, and then figuring out how to get back to a normal, legal immigration pathway for people that want to come here the right way.”
Taking on Elizabeth Warren
The candidates sparred on other issues, but on one topic there was solidarity.
“Elizabeth Warren has her fingerprints on every single horrible deed, everything coming from the White House, and so she is very complicit in the destruction of our society that we’re all living through today,” said Antonellis. “So whether it’s the border collapse, whether it’s crime, whether it’s inflation, whether it’s the attack on womanhood, or even the attack on our environment … she has been absolutely directly involved with.”
“She has been one of the most divisive members of the U.S. Senate since her time there. She is actually not only part of the reason that Washington is frozen, but she’s part of the reason why we’re deeply divided,” said Cain. “She uses her partisanship and her extreme partisanship to divide people. She pits people against identity. She pits classes against each other.”
Added Deaton: “She’s great at fighting against the rich and the wealthy. That is not the same as fighting for the poor and the middle class. I want to uplift people. I want to bring people up, expand the middle class, bring people out of poverty, like I brought myself out of poverty… I can do that without tearing people down… and she is the queen of finger-pointing politics.”
You can watch the debate in its entirety by clicking in the video player above.
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