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Speaker 2: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 3: Sunny in fifty nine degrees in Boston is eleven o'clock
Speaker 3: Good Morning on Laurie Kirby topping our news. Hurricane Milton
Speaker 3: is headed for Florida's Gulf Coast, expected to make landfalls
Speaker 3: sometime late tonight or early tomorrow morning. It is now
Speaker 3: a Cat for hurricane, down slightly from its peak, but
Speaker 3: it's still poised to drive Florida as the most powerful
Speaker 3: hurricane in his century. An authorities warn time is running
Speaker 3: out to evacuate. ABC's which Johnson is more emergency.
Speaker 4: Crews across the state of Florida are preparing for this
Speaker 4: monster hurricane. But they are reminding people if you do
Speaker 4: not evacuate, you're essentially on your own during the storm.
Speaker 4: They will not be able to reach you. So far,
Speaker 4: people appear to be heating the evacuation warnings. Most of
Speaker 4: the families that we spoke with who wrote out the
Speaker 4: storm during Hurricane Helene this time say they're getting out,
Speaker 4: not take making any chances with another potentially record breaking storm.
Speaker 3: Search and now we're seeing the outer bands of Milton's
Speaker 3: spawning at least two tornadoes in South Florida, with more
Speaker 3: likely to come throughout the day, and again we'll have
Speaker 3: a lot more both here in streaming on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Vice President Kamala Harris responds to acclaim in Bob Woodward's
Speaker 3: new book that Donald Trump sent COVID test to Russia
Speaker 3: for Vladimir Putin's personal use. ABC's Jonathan Carl has more.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris is in an interview with Howard Stern.
Speaker 5: Everybody was scrambling to get his kits, the tests, the
Speaker 5: COVID test kits. Couldn't get them, couldn't get them, couldn't
Speaker 5: get them anywhere, right, And this guy who is President
Speaker 5: of the United States is sending them to Russia.
Speaker 4: Woodward also reports that Trump has had quote multiple phone
Speaker 4: calls with Putin since he left the White House, including
Speaker 4: at least one call earlier this year.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump denies he's maintained contact with Putin since leaving
Speaker 3: the White House and long COVID staying power maybe in
Speaker 3: the blood. Researchers at Mass Bring Them in Women's found
Speaker 3: people with prolonged symptoms of COVID were twice as likely
Speaker 3: to have SARS cove two proteins in their blood, and
Speaker 3: they conclude a persistent infection could explain why people experience
Speaker 3: long COVID symptoms. Why is that helpful? While by identifying
Speaker 3: those with a reservoir of virus, they may be able
Speaker 3: to treat them with anti virals. The FAA is issuing
Speaker 3: yet another safety alert for Boeing, this time for the
Speaker 3: rudder system on its jets. Abcgo Banites has more.
Speaker 1: We're talking about what they call a limited or jammed
Speaker 1: rudder on more than three hundred and fifty seven to
Speaker 1: thirty seven planes, including the Max. Now the rudder, of course,
Speaker 1: controls the plane's movements. The NTSB alerted the FAA after
Speaker 1: a February incident with the United Airlines plane landing over
Speaker 1: at Newark. The plane's rudder pedals became non responsive. Boeing
Speaker 1: says it has reminded operators of what to do if
Speaker 1: flight crews encounter those issues.
Speaker 3: United Airlines said last month the potentially faulty rudders are
Speaker 3: only being used on nine of their seven thirty seven aircrafts.
Speaker 3: Fair skies in Massachusetts really pretty morning out. There were
Speaker 3: in the high fifties. Some of you starting to get
Speaker 3: into the sixties zone. Are high today's sixties. Six was sun.
Speaker 3: Bring that to umbrella. If you're out for a walk
Speaker 3: early tonight, we could see some pop up showers. Cool too,
Speaker 3: low forty eight mostly sunnay in the sixties, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 3: Saturday even warmer was sun in the seventies unseasonably mild.
Speaker 3: A new lawsuit accuses dozens of elite schools of holding
Speaker 3: out on financial aid for their students. Wdbz's Jeremy Ross
Speaker 3: with details.
Speaker 6: Boston College, Brandeis, Brown, MIT, and more. All local schools
Speaker 6: named alongside the College board is defendants in the suit.
Speaker 6: What schools determine how much need based financial aid students
Speaker 6: should get. They often take into consideration how much money
Speaker 6: each of their parents make, but these schools and dozens
Speaker 6: of others or accused of factoring into the equation the
Speaker 6: incomes of non custodial parents too, even if those parents
Speaker 6: don't actually help pay for their kids' education. The plaintiffs
Speaker 6: say this effectively cheat students at of financial aid. They're
Speaker 6: seeking more than five million dollars in damages and a
Speaker 6: cord order to stop the alleged practice. Jeremy Russ, WBZ
Speaker 6: Boston's News Radio WBZ.
Speaker 3: News Radio has reached out to bu BC, Cornell, Brown,
Speaker 3: brandeis MIT, and the College Board for comment. Cornell and
Speaker 3: the College Board both say they have no comment. A
Speaker 3: federal judge rules that a group of parents known for
Speaker 3: protesting transgender athletes can in fact show up to their
Speaker 3: kids' sports games. The Union Leader reports the three parents
Speaker 3: from Bow or Bow, New Hampshire were believe That's Bo
Speaker 3: were banned from the games for wearing pink wristbands and
Speaker 3: protest of a transgender girl on another team, So the
Speaker 3: parents sued school officials because they saw the whole thing
Speaker 3: is a violation of their free speech rights. Now they're
Speaker 3: being allowed back at their kids' events as long as
Speaker 3: they promise not to wear the wristbands or hold any signs.
Speaker 3: And a new CDC survey shows high rates of sadness
Speaker 3: among transgender high schoolers.
Speaker 7: A CDC survey finds at about three point three percent
Speaker 7: of high school students identify as transgender and another two
Speaker 7: point two percent are questioning their gender identity, but seventy
Speaker 7: percent of them reported feeling persistent sadness or hopelessness for
Speaker 7: a period of more than two weeks last year at
Speaker 7: a protest to Colorado State Capital.
Speaker 4: If these children can't consent.
Speaker 7: The divide on full display. Allison Key, CBS News.
Speaker 3: Ten percent of transgender students reported receiving medical treatment for
Speaker 3: suicide attempt last year, a rate significantly higher than CIS
Speaker 3: gender students. The US government files the lawsuit against one
Speaker 3: of the largest gym chains in the nation.
Speaker 2: Federal prosecutors here in LA led JLA Fitness is not
Speaker 2: been accommodating customers who have disabilities and has not been
Speaker 2: making their gyms and equipment accessible. The US attorney here
Speaker 2: alleges LA Fitness has failed to fix broken pool elevators
Speaker 2: and his charge those with disabilities to bring a friend, nurse,
Speaker 2: or personal assistant to help them get exercise. The DOJ
Speaker 2: saying under the Americans with Disabilities Act, LA Fitness must
Speaker 2: make sure its gyms are accessible to all customers. Alex Stone,
Speaker 2: ABC News Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: In his statement, LA Fitness says they take their obligation
Speaker 3: to comply with the ADA seriously and they intend to
Speaker 3: vigorously defend against the lawsuit. You are now in the loop.
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