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Speaker 2: Gorgeous. It's sunny, it's warm, It's sixty nine degrees in
Speaker 2: downtown Boston. We're not stopping there. We're headed for nearly
Speaker 2: eighty degrees today. I'm Laurie Kirby. The News at eleven
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Speaker 2: people's lives two feet at a time. President Biden is
Speaker 2: headed to New Hampshire tomorrow for the first time since
Speaker 2: he dropped out of the race for the White House,
Speaker 2: and he plans to highlight as administration's work to lower
Speaker 2: prescription drug cost. President Biden is holding an event at
Speaker 2: the New Hampshire Technical Institute and Conquered and school officials
Speaker 2: and police too are asking students who live off campus
Speaker 2: to avoid the school grounds tomorrow. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: closures and a lot of disruptions to both operates and classes.
Speaker 2: Will have more as it happens. Meantime, at the White House,
Speaker 2: President Biden proposes a new rule to make birth control
Speaker 2: more accessible.
Speaker 1: President Biden announced plans today to expand access to contraceptive products,
Speaker 1: including free over the counter birth control. Just two weeks
Speaker 1: before elections where reproductive rights are a key issue. In
Speaker 1: a statement, the President said this new action would help
Speaker 1: ensure that millions of women with private health insurance can
Speaker 1: access the no cost contraception they need. Sayb have some,
Speaker 1: Stacy Lyn says, right now, health insurance cover the cost
Speaker 1: of prescriptions if you have a prescribed contraception.
Speaker 2: But this new rule obviously would expand that. And both
Speaker 2: presidential candidates are very busy in the battleground states. With
Speaker 2: is fifteen days to go until election day two weeks tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Vice President Harris is focusing on three critical states today,
Speaker 2: and ABC's Karen Travers says.
Speaker 3: That Vice President Harris is holding events in the so
Speaker 3: called Blue Wall state. It's Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, three
Speaker 3: battlegrounds that are key to a Democratic victory. She'll be
Speaker 3: joined by former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney for a series
Speaker 3: of conversations, part of an effort to reach out to
Speaker 3: independence and Republicans and peel them away from former President
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Cheney campaigned with Harris earlier this month in Wisconsin,
Speaker 3: telling the crowd that this year will mark the first
Speaker 3: time she's cast her vote for a Democrat in a
Speaker 3: presidential election. Karen Travers, ABC News Washington.
Speaker 2: Former President Trump plans to see Hurricane Helene's storm damage
Speaker 2: in Asheville, North Carolina, today before rallying with supporters in Greenville.
Speaker 2: But it's what Trump had to say in Pennsylvania over
Speaker 2: the weekend that's raising a few eyebrows.
Speaker 4: Use profanity to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5: We can't stand you, your vice president.
Speaker 6: The worst.
Speaker 4: Trump drifted throughout his speech.
Speaker 6: He got fourteen million votes, twenty one, twenty two people running,
Speaker 6: twenty two Democrats. They're running. I'm looking at my hair
Speaker 6: up there. Let's ooh.
Speaker 4: Despite please from his allies to focus on the issues,
Speaker 4: Trump has only escalated his rhetoric for the third time
Speaker 4: in just one week, repeating claims that his political opponents
Speaker 4: are the enemy from within.
Speaker 2: That was ABC's Rachel Scott reporting and coming up a
Speaker 2: battle over how to pay Boston's bills and maybe is
Speaker 2: coming to an end. No trouble with this weather forecast
Speaker 2: is going to be incredibly mild pretty much most of
Speaker 2: the week until Friday. We cool down at the end
Speaker 2: of the week until then close to eighty today, cooler
Speaker 2: in the Cape. In the Islands, ample sun today, lots
Speaker 2: of moonlight. Tonight fifty six are low back near seventy. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Boston mid seventies. Inland ample sunshine. Wednesday, sun much of
Speaker 2: the time near eighty, but a couple of showers at
Speaker 2: least at night, and then Thursday a couple of showers early,
Speaker 2: and then we break again for sun. Breezy, mid sixties,
Speaker 2: terrific forecast unseasonably mild, and there could be an end
Speaker 2: ins to the month's long battle on how to pay
Speaker 2: the city bills. In Boston. The Boston Globe reports business
Speaker 2: leaders and Mayor Michelle Wu are near a compromise on
Speaker 2: a property tax increase. Now. As we've been reporting here,
Speaker 2: the mayor has been trying to shift the burden onto
Speaker 2: commercial properties in Boston to spare residents of potential fourteen
Speaker 2: percent property tax hike. Well, businesses push back, saying small
Speaker 2: businesses would wither. The compromise and details are Scares reportedly
Speaker 2: scales back that commercial tax hike and slightly lowers the
Speaker 2: cap on the residential tax increase to about eight and
Speaker 2: a half percent. It's not clear yet whether there's a
Speaker 2: deal on this home rule petition that would actually make
Speaker 2: it through the state legislature, but we'll let you know
Speaker 2: if you don't have the season's flu in COVID shots.
Speaker 2: The City of Boston has you covered. Wbz's Mike Macklin.
Speaker 6: With more privaccination clinics will take place across the city
Speaker 6: over the next three weeks. The hope is that Boston
Speaker 6: residents will take advantage of them and protect themselves against
Speaker 6: the flu and COVID nineteen as we head into the
Speaker 6: colder winter months. The clinics are free. This week, there's
Speaker 6: a clinic at City Hall on Monday from nine am
Speaker 6: to one pm and on Thursday from one to five pm.
Speaker 6: Next week there's a clinic on Tuesday at the Hyde
Speaker 6: Park Community Center and on Saturday at the Mattapean Community Center,
Speaker 6: And the following week there are clinics in East Boston
Speaker 6: and South Boston. No identification and no insurance is required.
Speaker 6: Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's.
Speaker 2: News Radio updating. Hundreds of Omni Hotel workers in Boston
Speaker 2: reach a deal to end their strike. They are back
Speaker 2: at board today at the Omni Parker House in Omni
Speaker 2: Boston Seaport. The union says the compromise deal calls for
Speaker 2: ten dollars an hour rais for non tip workers, have
Speaker 2: that for tip workers, but I goes on indefinitely for
Speaker 2: workers at the Hilton Park Plaza and the Hilton Logan
Speaker 2: and the Boeing strike sees a white flag.
Speaker 5: The new contract would include a thirty five percent wage
Speaker 5: increase over the next four years, higher four oh one
Speaker 5: K contributions, guaranteed payouts in a bonus program, and a
Speaker 5: higher signing bonus. Members of the International Association of Machinists
Speaker 5: and Aerospace Workers will vote to ratify the deal on Wednesday.
Speaker 5: This would end the strike that began September thirteenth, when
Speaker 5: thirty thousand workers walked off the job after rejecting a
Speaker 5: new contract. I'm Lisa Carton.
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Speaker 2: I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ, Boston's news radio