22News at 4: Digital Edition

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to 22 News at 4 o'clock. I'm Aretha Odaya. We'll get to your top four at four in just a moment, but a look at your commuter traffic and weather with meteorologist Brian Lapis. Brian Aretha, how are you? Great. How are you? I'm good. The sun was shining today. It was pretty nice day. We got more of that on the way this week too. Actually, let's take a look at traffic first. Yeah, why don't we put that traffic a little bit of a slowdown as usual. Either end of 291. That's the same old deal and 91 looks fine a little slow downtown but no major problems now we go to temperatures and we're in the mid to upper 60s just like we expected look at that near 70 right now greenfield 68 springfield westfield 65 in northampton there probably are some 70 degree readings on car thermometers dashboard thermometers in some places here in the valley this afternoon 66 right now in pittsfield clouds and radar showing what you're seeing plenty of clear air everywhere we may see a few of these scattered clouds back in here tomorrow we'll show you with our 22 News Storm Team SkyCast in a few all right thanks brian one person has died after an apartment fire in Chicopee it happened last night at the edward j burry apartment on benoit circle fire crews responded around 7 35 and they saw smoke and flames coming from the back of the building after entering firefighters found an adult man who died from his injuries, his identity has not been released. The fire was contained to a single unit. Five residents of the building have been displaced and are being assisted by the Red Cross. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. And a former Western Massachusetts teacher has been indicted in Superior Court on child pornography charges. Prosecutors allege that Keith Harrison of Lenox communicated online with someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl. Investigators also say they recovered child sexual abuse material during a search of his home. The 53-year-old was arraigned in district court last, pleading not guilty to those charges. Harrison remains on paid administrative leave from Chicopee Public Schools. East Hampton City Councilors are taking up a proposed divestment resolution tomorrow. Supporters say the measure calls on the city to divest from companies they believe are complicit in human rights violations in Israel and Palestine. Records provided by the city treasurer show that East Hampton has about $454,000 invested into companies identified by advocates, including GE Aerospace and RTX. If the resolution passes, East Hampton will become the second Hampshire County community to implement a municipal measure of this kind. The Massachusetts House is moving forward with a $2.35 billion spending bill, but without several of Governor Maura Healey's biggest proposals. House lawmakers removed Healy's proposal to suspend the state's 24-cent-per-gallon gas tax for two months. The House bill does include funding for programs including MassHealth, DTA caseworkers, and life sciences, sector and maternal mental health services. House leaders say the bill addresses time-sensitive funding needs and will help close out the state's previous fiscal year. The House is expected to vote on the bill Wednesday. If approved, the Senate would still need to take action. Now let's get another look of the weather with Brian. It's a nice day for a walk, maybe go outside, hang out with a friend. Yeah, all of the above. You know, today may be the warmest day of the week, but we expect dry weather into and potentially through the weekend. So there's that. I kind of gave it all away. Back to you, Retta. Okay, let's take a look at clouds and radar. You can see here that we're in the clear. There are some clouds off to our south and to our east associated with a storm that's kind of spinning around to our south and to our east. And some of those clouds will get in here for tomorrow. But today, sunshine through sunset, then a mostly clear night here tonight. Light breeze out of the north, evening temperatures 50s and 40s. Overnight lows will be in the 30s and 40s, we expect. So another brisk start to the day. And here are those clouds I was talking about. seven o'clock tomorrow morning a few clouds here and there i'm tempted to call it a mixture of sunshine and clouds tomorrow a little breeze out of the north notice even a little gray here toward the end of the day we expect it to stay dry however tomorrow and potentially right through the end of the week we'll update on 22 news starting at five all right well trending today the nba regular season begins today and the celtics are front and center taking on the detroit pistons in the first game of the year it's a new look for boston playing a first regular season game without Jalen Brown since 2016. a new era begins Jayson Tatum leading the way alongside his new wingman Paul George Devin Carter also making the roster but he'll miss the season opener as he battles mono mono mono excuse me tip off is set for 3 p.m and you can catch all the action right here on 22 News a new taste of cola and crunchy chips are coming to shelves this holiday season PepsiCo announced that Pepsi will be launching a new soda-flavored vanilla and cream and a zero-sugar variant across the states. The drink will come in 12-packs and 20-ounce bottles. They also revealed that Lay's is adding holiday Lay's to shelves with flavors inspired by holiday dishes. The Pepsi drink has been available as of Monday, and the limited-time Lay's flavors heads to stores starting October 25th. Now for a look at what we're cooking up for 22 News starting at 5. Drug Take Back Day is returning this weekend. We'll tell you why safely disposing of prescription drugs is beneficial to the surrounding communities. Plus, an ex-NFL running back is encouraging voters to choose no on Question 8 in the upcoming midterm election. And we'll have a closer look at an $8 billion program offering one-time payments to American farmers this season. No surprises here in terms of traffic at this time of day. A little slow downtown and at either end of 291. Otherwise, 91 is looking good. And the pike also looks fine. Details on our long run of dry weather with the 22 News Storm Team forecast on 22 News at 5. And there you have it. Thanks for joining us this afternoon for 22 News at 4 o'clock. You can get all your local news and weather updates anytime on www.wwlp.com and the 22 News mobile app. We will be streaming online for the 5 and 6 o'clock newscast. The 5:30 show will be on air. We'll see you there.