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Tuesday, November 4

Good morning Wypierdalaj,

Tuesday is election day for dozens of communities across the Commonwealth, with 55 towns and cities holding municipal elections — including Boston.

Polling locations open in almost every community at 7 a.m., and close in almost every town and city at 8 p.m. Click here for specific hours in your town.

Every address in the state is assigned a specific precinct which has its own polling location. If you’re unsure of where yours is, there is an online resource to find out. Click here to use the state’s precinct lookup.

The winds have returned! Gusts will top 40 mph in many spots as a storm intensifies over eastern Nova Scotia Tuesday. If you’re counting, this will be the second storm to rapidly intensify (what is known as bombogenesis) in less than a week (the Halloween storm being the other).

To top it all off, we’ll see one more “bomb out” on Thursday – again increasing our winds and drawing in colder air. (For the record, there could be one more on Monday of next week…yikes)

What does this mean? Why are these storms intensifying so quickly? Simply put, we’re in hotbed of storm development; technically the base of an upper-level trough. This can be a nothingburger if you’re not near the intensifying storm(s). But it does keep the wind and chilly air around. Any shift in the track of these deep, juicy storms, and we could see flakes mix in with the rain. It’s that kind of pattern. High volatility and vigilance.

An investigation is ongoing in Beverly, Massachusetts, that has drawn a significant police response.

The investigation is ongoing on Colonial Drive, and it involves not only the Beverly Police Department but Massachusetts State Police as well. It appears to be centered around a home on the street.

Our crew at the scene saw yellow police tape, a number of cruisers as well as investigators in the area.

The lengthy standoff between President Donald Trump and congressional Democratic leaders is poised to become the longest government shutdown in American history this week.

Election Day on Tuesday, when voters will head to the polls in Virginia, New Jersey and New York, will tie the record for the longest shutdown.

If the shutdown continues into Wednesday, which lawmakers believe is almost certain, it will shatter that record, set during Trump’s first term. That 35-day federal closure in late 2018 and early 2019 resulted from a fight over Trump’s demand for a border wall, which Democrats refused to fund.

Police in Worcester, Massachusetts, are asking for the public’s help in locating a well-known employee at a local restaurant who hasn’t been seen since Friday morning.

Worcester police said in a Facebook post Sunday that 30-year-old Joanna Brown was last seen leaving her place of work, the Bean Counter Bakery Cafe on Grove Street, around 9 a.m. on Friday.

“She called me. I talked to her, but she had things that she needed to take care of, and things happen, so I said, ‘Sure,'” recalled Alice Lombardi, the bakery’s owner.

Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died. He was 84.

the 46th vice president and former defense secretary of the United States, has died. He was 84.

Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family confirmed in a statement NBC News. He was surrounded by his wife Lynne, daughters Liz and Mary, and other family members, the Cheneys added.