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Speaker 2: people's lives two feet at a time. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 2: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Back on track and back underway.
Speaker 2: Greenlight service resuming between North Station and Union Square and
Speaker 2: at North Station and Medford toffs following Tuesday's derailment near Leechmere,
Speaker 2: the t announcing today repairs had been made in a
Speaker 2: test train man successfully this morning. There is also an
Speaker 2: ongoing investigation into what caused the derailment, including with federal
Speaker 2: and state officials. In a statement, m BTA General manager
Speaker 2: Phil Lang says, we sincerely apologize for this incident and
Speaker 2: thanked the public for their patients. While we worked to
Speaker 2: resume service, our thoughts continued to be with the writers
Speaker 2: who were aboard this trolley and those who were injured.
Speaker 2: He goes on to say, know that we share a
Speaker 2: common goal with the NTSBFTA and DPU and are fully
Speaker 2: committed to continuously improve and deliver safe and reliable service
Speaker 2: to all that we serve. The death toll from Hurricane
Speaker 2: Helene hits two hundred. That death toll likely to go
Speaker 2: higher as hundreds of people remain missing. One hundreds of
Speaker 2: thousands of people are still without power in Georgia and
Speaker 2: the Carolinas. President Biden surveying damage today in parts of
Speaker 2: the South, and with all the damage and all of
Speaker 2: the deaths, there are questions about preparations for this storm.
Speaker 3: It's a one in one thousand year storm.
Speaker 4: Major General Windberghead says while they were watching the storm approach.
Speaker 3: It's very difficult to think that you're completely prepared, he said.
Speaker 4: Right now, they're focused on helping the area's hit hardest.
Speaker 3: All eyes right now are on North Carolina in Tennessee.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a long recovery.
Speaker 2: Process and if additional help is needed.
Speaker 3: I'm very very pleased with the communication that we have
Speaker 3: here in the Pentagon that if it's determined that they're needed,
Speaker 3: they can be placed into action very very quickly.
Speaker 2: Stacey Lynn, CBS News Washington. No sign of progress in
Speaker 2: tox aim to ending a strike by forty five thousand
Speaker 2: dock workers on the east end Gulf Coast.
Speaker 5: Seeking International Longshoreman's Association is demanding more than a wage increase.
Speaker 5: Its members claim that automation is costing jobs, but because
Speaker 5: automation means efficiency.
Speaker 6: That's something that ports will not negotiate.
Speaker 5: University of New Orleans economics professor Walter Lane says a
Speaker 5: strike of a week shouldn't affect consumer prices.
Speaker 6: Those are much longer than that. As there seem to
Speaker 6: be indications at will, these impacts will get bigger than bicker.
Speaker 5: Jim Ryan ABC News.
Speaker 2: When something is free, people jump on board. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: turns out a lot of people have been taking that
Speaker 2: free ride to college. In Massachusetts, about ten thousand students
Speaker 2: are newly taking advantage of the cost free community college
Speaker 2: in the first semester of the program. Go the Morehley
Speaker 2: and higher education leaders are celebrating the no cost option,
Speaker 2: with the governors saying interest is already high and could
Speaker 2: swell significantly in the coming months. In fact, within a year,
Speaker 2: the governor says as many as forty five thousand students
Speaker 2: could be tapping in to the state's community college with
Speaker 2: no out of pocket costs free to students, though does
Speaker 2: costs officials have projected the state will pay about one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventeen million dollars this year to cover the program.
Speaker 2: Peaks of sunshine through the afternoon, and as we head
Speaker 2: into the evening, no sunshine, but peaks of well sky.
Speaker 2: We'll have partly cloudy skies overnight. What we need to
Speaker 2: watch out for late tonight is the fog that'll start
Speaker 2: to roll in. Temperatures mainly in the fifties. The fog
Speaker 2: starts us off Tomorrow morning, but it burns away with
Speaker 2: partly sunny skies developing. Temperatures in the low to mid seventies,
Speaker 2: partly mostly cloudy Tomorrow night fifty nine for the low
Speaker 2: and then on Saturday, some clouds, a couple of shours
Speaker 2: early later in the day afternoon, Let's say we'll get
Speaker 2: some sunshine in here and temperatures rise to around seventy
Speaker 2: mid to upper sixties on Sunday with a mix of
Speaker 2: stun and clouds. It is sixty seven degrees right now
Speaker 2: in Boston. A unique tropical fish has a new home
Speaker 2: that the New England Aquarium wbz's Brook McCarthy explains.
Speaker 4: Among some oyster cages in Little Pleasant Bay and Orleans,
Speaker 4: some farmers recently noticed a teeny tiny fish that stuck
Speaker 4: out like a sore thumb thanks to its bright blue
Speaker 4: and yellow colors, and.
Speaker 7: So the folks tending to their oysters were able to
Speaker 7: scoop up the fish and bring it to a wildlife
Speaker 7: rehabilitator down the cape.
Speaker 4: That's Michael O'Neill with the New England Aquarium. He says
Speaker 4: it's a blue angelfish that made its way up north
Speaker 4: because of warmer water temperatures, and Michael says this is
Speaker 4: becoming more common.
Speaker 7: This year definitely stands out as a year where a
Speaker 7: lot of tropical fish are showing up.
Speaker 4: The little blue angelfish will now call the aquarium home,
Speaker 4: growing and thriving in their different tropical tanks. Brook McCarthy WBZ,
Speaker 4: Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: They're shaking things up with the Grammy Awards. They for
Speaker 2: years have been criticized over a lack of diversity. An
Speaker 2: evolving voting body is working to remedy that, the Recording
Speaker 2: Academy announcing that since twenty nineteen, more than three thousand
Speaker 2: women have been added to the electorate and now sixty
Speaker 2: six percent of the voting body is made up of
Speaker 2: members who've joined in just the past five years. The
Speaker 2: Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Junior says it's the most
Speaker 2: of everse Grammy electorate ever. There are over sixteen thousand members.
Speaker 2: Now more than thirteen thousand of them are voting members.
Speaker 2: New questions about the death of actor John Amos CBS
Speaker 2: is Steve Kathan as the tales.
Speaker 6: You ain't got the foggiest idea a few.
Speaker 1: John Amos rose to fame on the CBS sitcom Good Times.
Speaker 1: His death was revealed this week. His publicist says he
Speaker 1: died back on August twenty first of natural causes. Now,
Speaker 1: family members and friends have posted a statement on Facebook saying, quote,
Speaker 1: we refuse to rule out the possibility of foul play.
Speaker 1: Some close to him had been unaware of his death.
Speaker 1: Amos was cremated. His son and daughter had disagreed over
Speaker 1: the actor's dementia care. Daughter Shannon last year alleged elder abuse,
Speaker 1: but police closed the case citing a lack of evidence.
Speaker 1: Steve Kaithan, CBS News.
Speaker 2: John Amos was eighty four. You are now in the loop.
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