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Speaker 2: Seventy seven degrees, sunny skies in Boston, the humidity dialed down.
Speaker 2: It's eleven o'clock on this Saturday, July nineteenth. I'm Sherry Small.
Speaker 2: Let's get you caught up. Here's what's happening in news.
Speaker 2: Governor Mora Heeley ordering all assisted living facilities here in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts to share their fire protocols. This following last weekend's
Speaker 2: fire that killed ten people in Fall River. We get
Speaker 2: details from WBC's Mike Maclin.
Speaker 3: Massachusetts two hundred and seventy three assisted living facilities have
Speaker 3: until the end of next week to send a letter
Speaker 3: to all residents and families detailing fire safety protocols, evacuation procedures,
Speaker 3: and key contacts in cases of emergency. Governor Moura Heey
Speaker 3: issuing the order in the wake of last Sunday's fire
Speaker 3: at the Gabriel House facility in Fall River. The state's
Speaker 3: assisted living for facilities must also complete a state fire
Speaker 3: Safety Assessment survey. The survey will measure compliance with safety
Speaker 3: requirements regarding sprinkler systems, fire drills, that evacuation protocols. The
Speaker 3: statewide Safety initiative is aimed at strengthening regulations that are
Speaker 3: currently considered inadequate. In the wake of the Fall River
Speaker 3: tragedy at the state House, Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's News radio, the.
Speaker 2: Bristol County DA's Office confirms that the tenth victim has died,
Speaker 2: identified as sixty six year old Brenda Cropper. On Thursday,
Speaker 2: the DA's office reported a tenth victim died in error.
Speaker 2: Now that death has been confirmed, Cropper died yesterday. A
Speaker 2: community fundraiser held last night in Fall River is helping
Speaker 2: to support those affected by that deadly fire. CBS News
Speaker 2: Boston's Brandon Truett reports.
Speaker 4: It's mind boggling.
Speaker 2: The fact that I was not home.
Speaker 4: That night, of all nights I slept out.
Speaker 5: That just clows my mind. Donna Murphy has lived Gabriel
Speaker 5: House the last five years, but on Sunday night she
Speaker 5: was asked to babysit her great granddaughter. She missed the
Speaker 5: fire by hours. Donna lost friends in that fire, Others
Speaker 5: reuniting at Friday's event for the first time as the
Speaker 5: investigation into exactly what happened that fateful night moves forward.
Speaker 5: This night was about healing, a recognition of what was lost,
Speaker 5: and gratitude for the lives saved. God was watching you,
Speaker 5: so like he's saying he was watching. Over All of
Speaker 5: the proceeds from this event and go to the survivors.
Speaker 5: Many of them have been telling us they lost everything
Speaker 5: in that fire. These are grandparents, in some cases great grandparents.
Speaker 2: Starting from scratch again. Bristol County DA's officering ten people
Speaker 2: have died in that fire in East Los Angeles. Now
Speaker 2: more than two dozen people are hurt, some critically, after
Speaker 2: a car slams into a crowd outside of a club
Speaker 2: early this morning. We get details from ABC's Melissa don.
Speaker 6: At this point is under investigation as to why exactly
Speaker 6: that driver either targeted this area or what led him
Speaker 6: up to this, but the LA Fire captain telling us
Speaker 6: that there was about thirty injuries from those breaking it
Speaker 6: down for US, seven people in critical condition the most serious.
Speaker 6: Then another six also hospitalize in serious conditions, but more
Speaker 6: than a dozen with minor injuries.
Speaker 2: And authorities tell ABC News the driver may have lost consciousness.
Speaker 2: And now the four d A WBC ACU weather forecast.
Speaker 2: What a nice day today weather wise, a great deal
Speaker 2: of sunshine, low humidity, a high of eighty three degrees,
Speaker 2: but enjoy it. Tonight is going to turn humid. We'll
Speaker 2: see some clouds rolling in a spotty shower toward daybreak
Speaker 2: well south of Boston. The overnight low near seventy degrees. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: a warm and humid day, clouds and some sun at times,
Speaker 2: but a couple of showers and a thunderstorm in the
Speaker 2: mix as well, perhaps the gusty thunderstorm in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: A high of eighty five. Monday, We're back to more
Speaker 2: pleasant tempts and more pleasant humidity, any of sunshine, breezy,
Speaker 2: lower humidity with a high near eighty and then another
Speaker 2: pleasant day on Tuesday. Look cooler though a high of
Speaker 2: seventy four in the city. It's sunny and seventy seven
Speaker 2: degrees at eleven oh five. Back to news, Listen to this.
Speaker 2: A tech ceo is on leave after a kiss cam
Speaker 2: controversy during a concert in Foxboro. WBC's Emma Freedman with
Speaker 2: the Tales.
Speaker 7: Astronomer says it's launched a formal investigation after the tech
Speaker 7: company was thrown into the public eye when this happened
Speaker 7: at Gillette Stadium during a Coldplay concert on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: All right, everyone you think I do either having an
Speaker 3: affair or they're just very a shun.
Speaker 7: Chris Martin was jokingly singing about people in the crowd
Speaker 7: when the company's CEO, Andy Byron, was caught on the
Speaker 7: jumbo tron embracing the company's HR chief before quickly jumping
Speaker 7: off camera. The internet slides caught wind and the video
Speaker 7: started circulating. In an update, Astronomer says Byron has been
Speaker 7: placed on Lee, the chief Product officer, is serving as
Speaker 7: interim CEO. There was speculation that another woman standing next
Speaker 7: to them was also a co worker, but the company
Speaker 7: says that's not true and that no other employees were
Speaker 7: in the video. Astronomer says its leaders are expected to
Speaker 7: set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and that
Speaker 7: it will share more details as appropriate in the coming days.
Speaker 7: I'm a freedman, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: President Trump's terraffs are putting the squeeze on new parents.
Speaker 2: We get that from CBS's Stephan Kaufman.
Speaker 1: Thousands of baby products have been going up in price lightly.
Speaker 1: Consumer Reports says it's happening because most car seats, strollers,
Speaker 1: and cribs are manufactured in China, which is facing in
Speaker 1: August first tariff deadline. One example, price of a.
Speaker 8: Car seat we saw jump recently by ten dollars in
Speaker 8: price this month. That may not seem like a huge jump,
Speaker 8: but when you're a new parent and you need a
Speaker 8: lot of baby gear, every dollar counts.
Speaker 1: Consumer Reports Jessica Waller says retailers may be passing along
Speaker 1: higher prices now in anticipation of what's to come.
Speaker 8: The current stock they have may be tariff free, but
Speaker 8: their future deliveries lie won't be, and so the retailers
Speaker 8: may average prices across the current and future stock, probably
Speaker 8: in an effort to avoid a bigger sticker shock for
Speaker 8: the consumer down the line.
Speaker 1: Stephan Kaufman see thes News.
Speaker 2: And in California, there's now a new resource for mothers.
Speaker 4: A new law in California called the Human Milk Bill
Speaker 4: removed legal hurdles that had made it difficult for hospitals
Speaker 4: to provide donated breast milk to new moms who aren't
Speaker 4: yet able to breastfeed. In the months since the law
Speaker 4: went into effect, demand for donated milk has increased sharply.
Speaker 8: Breastnolk isn't just nutrition, it's medicine.
Speaker 4: Cynthia Ptacek with Mother's Milk Bank California.
Speaker 8: And if it's just two ounces at a time, all
Speaker 8: of that milk can save a baby's life.
Speaker 4: The organization has about twelve hundred thoroughly screened donors. Christopher Cruz,
Speaker 4: CBS News.
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