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Speaker 2: Forty nine degrees and partly study in Boston. It's eleven
Speaker 2: o'clock Good Morning on Laurie Kirby and getting underway right now,
Speaker 2: a Boston City Council hearing on property taxes. And this
Speaker 2: is on the home rule of position two point zero
Speaker 2: that Mayor wu and business leaders hammered out and a
Speaker 2: compromised last week. It still shifts temporarily a greater burden
Speaker 2: of city property taxes onto commercial payers to make up
Speaker 2: for lost revenue. And again business owners and residents of
Speaker 2: Boston were encouraged to attend. Will follow up on that.
Speaker 2: And again it is now unhealthy out there epa New
Speaker 2: England warning about unhealthy air quality on the North Shore
Speaker 2: and very unhealthy in Lynn. And this is because of
Speaker 2: those brushfires. Crews again battling a number of brush fires today.
Speaker 2: If you're in these communities, you might want to limit
Speaker 2: out door activity, especially if you have respiratory problems. Again,
Speaker 2: firefighters focusing on one of their priority fires in Middleton
Speaker 2: that has now blackened over two hundred acres absolutely torched.
Speaker 2: And WBZTV's Tammy Mutasa has more from the air.
Speaker 3: As the sunset, smoldering smoke rose above the woodlands of Middleton.
Speaker 3: The fight against flames continued with buckets of water being
Speaker 3: dumped over the brush fire burning a second day. The
Speaker 3: fire started near the power lines by Upton Fields Road,
Speaker 3: then soon spread to a fifty acre brushfire, leaving overwhelming
Speaker 3: thick smoke. Firefighters ran several water lines through the tricky terrain.
Speaker 3: With dry weather and dry ground, it's the perfect recipe
Speaker 3: for a spark.
Speaker 2: Which is exactly why the dc your Chief fire Warden
Speaker 2: Dave Salino, is asking everybody just be careful of anything
Speaker 2: that could ignite or spark an open fire, or even
Speaker 2: mowing your lawn on a dry day, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: could be a problem. And the Woocester County DA's office
Speaker 2: has now released the name of the person who died
Speaker 2: in a small brush fire at an encampment in Milbury
Speaker 2: as forty nine year old Marianne Augdebt. Medicare costs or
Speaker 2: pushing older Americans to their financial limits in this country,
Speaker 2: CBS's Stacy Lynn is more up.
Speaker 4: To half of all people on Medicare don't have enough
Speaker 4: money to pay for a single hospital visit. They're deductible
Speaker 4: for hospital stays is sixteen hundred dollars. Researchers from the
Speaker 4: University of Pennsylvania Pearlman School of Medicine found that many
Speaker 4: beneficiaries would face severe financial hardships after reaching that According
Speaker 4: to the report, the struggle was most prevalent among black
Speaker 4: and Hispanics, people with lower levels of education, and those
Speaker 4: with multiple chronic conditions. Stacey Lynn CBS News.
Speaker 2: We need rain. We need rain very badly in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Drought conditions helping to fan those flames out there. As
Speaker 2: a whole lot of folks are battling the fire by
Speaker 2: air and on the ground, and task force teams are
Speaker 2: out there too, and of course wishing you a safe
Speaker 2: experience out there is you battle these brush fires, some
Speaker 2: of them getting quite large. Now in this forecast, we're
Speaker 2: getting a little bit windy today. That's not good. High
Speaker 2: fifty six, cloudy and breezy tonight with a little bit
Speaker 2: of rain. We need a lot the rain. By the way,
Speaker 2: the timeline is going to be probably while you're sleeping,
Speaker 2: sometime after midnight, and then we're going to shoot up
Speaker 2: from the fifties to the seventies to the eighties. Maybe
Speaker 2: on Halloween could be a record breaker, and election Day
Speaker 2: is now a week out. Mis President Harris will be
Speaker 2: giving her campaign's closing argument tonight, symbolically from the same
Speaker 2: spot that riotors swarm the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Fight like how Trump was at the ellipse just outside
Speaker 1: the White House refusing to say he'd lost his re
Speaker 1: election bid, and not long after tonight, Harris will speak
Speaker 1: from the Ellipse to offer what her campaign says is
Speaker 1: a hopeful, optimistic message in sharp contrast to Trump's. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump spends full time trying.
Speaker 4: To have America's point to figure at each.
Speaker 2: Other fans the fuel of hate and division.
Speaker 1: If Trump wins, he'll focus on himself and his enemy's list.
Speaker 2: If she does, I will be working on behalf of
Speaker 2: the American people.
Speaker 1: On my to do list, saying Trump's dark vision is
Speaker 1: exhausting for her and the nation.
Speaker 3: People are literally ready to turn.
Speaker 1: The pay saga Maganie Washington.
Speaker 2: Apparently Donald Trump is about to speak any moment now
Speaker 2: from mar A Lago, and of course he's been on
Speaker 2: the defensive since giving his closing message during a controversial
Speaker 2: Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night. The moment in the
Speaker 2: sun was overshadowed by a comedian's comments comparing Puerto Rico
Speaker 2: to garbage another vulgar language. Oz are also turning toward
Speaker 2: Trump supporter Elon Musk, and ABC's Rachel Scott is more
Speaker 2: at is rally last night.
Speaker 5: Former President Donald Trump also praising billionaire Elon Musk, who
Speaker 5: has been holding events and support of him in those
Speaker 5: key battleground states, including in Pennsylvania, and he's been giving
Speaker 5: away million dollar checks to register voters who signed his
Speaker 5: super Packs petition. Will sources did tell us that the
Speaker 5: Justice Department sent a letter to us warning that that
Speaker 5: could violate federal law. This morning, we are learning that
Speaker 5: the Philadelphia District Attorney has officially filed a lawsuit over
Speaker 5: that giveaway. A hearing is expected on Friday.
Speaker 2: Biking our Ways to the polls, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Speaker 2: is sponsoring free blue bike rides on election Day. On
Speaker 2: November fifth, Blue Bike Day passes will be free. That
Speaker 2: will give writers' access to a complimentary two hour classic
Speaker 2: bike ride. Okay, we have time. I'm going to squeeze
Speaker 2: this in guys and master control there before we check
Speaker 2: in with Bloomberg, Amazon founder in Washington. Post owner Jeff
Speaker 2: Bezos is defending the paper's decision to stop presidential endorsements.
Speaker 6: Beings and Swines did an article on the Post's website
Speaker 6: that presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of
Speaker 6: an election. He says, what they actually do is create
Speaker 6: a perception of bias and non independence. The billionaire's comments
Speaker 6: came three days after Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis
Speaker 6: announced that the paper would not endorse any presidential candidate
Speaker 6: in this election or any in the future. In PR reports,
Speaker 6: the Post has lost more than two hundred thousand digital
Speaker 6: subscribers since Lewis made the announcement last Friday. I'm Mark Mayfield.
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