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Speaker 2: News, eleven o'clock. Good morning, on this Saturday, we have
Speaker 2: cloudy sky, sixty four degrees in Boston. Hello, I'm Sherry,
Speaker 2: small Things as always for being with us. Here's what's happening,
Speaker 2: mother Nature. Checking the calendar, it feels like fall today.
Speaker 3: Owd's that some sunshine today, a little bit cooler than yesterday.
Speaker 3: Hi's the arrange for the upper sixties along the coast
Speaker 3: of the low seventies inland.
Speaker 4: Part that I'm mostly cloudy tonight.
Speaker 2: That's ech you weather meteorologist Dan pittadous Pitta Mouski got
Speaker 2: that out all right. The full forecast is coming up
Speaker 2: in three minutes now to news. The fallout from Stewart
Speaker 2: Healthcare's bankruptcy continues, with one local lawmaker calling for more action.
Speaker 2: That story from WBC's Brook McCarthy.
Speaker 5: Senator Edmarky says this can never happen again. Following Stuart
Speaker 5: Healthcare's financial ruin, doctor.
Speaker 6: D Lectori actually was committed to enriching himself and his
Speaker 6: partners at the expense of the emergency rooms, the ICUs,
Speaker 6: the surgery capacity of hospitals.
Speaker 5: CEO Ralph Dallatry is now in criminal contempt of both
Speaker 5: the House and Senate, and he could face jail time
Speaker 5: depending on what the Justice Department decides going forward. Marky
Speaker 5: says safeguards need to be in place to ensure transparency,
Speaker 5: protections for patients, and accountability for corporate greed.
Speaker 7: And that would be my Health Overwealth Act, which is
Speaker 7: legislation that will ensure that private equity has God rails
Speaker 7: put around it.
Speaker 5: Brook McCarthy WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: And Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton remains open, the state
Speaker 2: taking it over by Eminent Domain. That move expected to
Speaker 2: ease the way for Boston Medical Center to take over
Speaker 2: Saint Ees. It's a move agreed to by former owner
Speaker 2: Stewart Healthcare, but held up by an asset management firm's
Speaker 2: refusal to accept BMC's bid. Governor Healy announcing the takeover yesterday.
Speaker 2: Beginning on Tuesday, new operators will begin managing five other
Speaker 2: hospitals previously owned by Stuart Lawrence General Hospital would become
Speaker 2: the new operator for both campuses of Holy Family and
Speaker 2: haverl and Methuen. Lifespan will assume operations of Morton Hospital
Speaker 2: in Taunton and Saint Anne's in Fall River, and BMC
Speaker 2: will take over Good Samaritan in Brockton, and meanwhile Beth
Speaker 2: Israel Lahy Health announcing layoffs. Yesterday, The Globe reporting the
Speaker 2: Massachusetts Nurses Association has confirmed the dismissal of nurses at
Speaker 2: Beth Israel Deaconess in Plymouth, Addison Gilbert Hospital, and Gloucester
Speaker 2: and Beverly Hospital. A spokesperson for Beth Israel Lahy's citing
Speaker 2: significant cost increases and that hospital leaders have identified opportunities
Speaker 2: to re structure staff roles, including eliminating some positions to
Speaker 2: meet local healthcare needs. Hesblah now confirmed ming Israel killed
Speaker 2: a long time Hesbala leader in yesterday's airstrike on the
Speaker 2: militant group's headquarters outside of Beirut.
Speaker 8: Statement the Israeli military said he was responsible for what
Speaker 8: it called the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers
Speaker 8: and the planning of thousands of terrorist activities. An army
Speaker 8: spokesman said the attack had been planned over a long
Speaker 8: period and carried out with precision. There are fears that
Speaker 8: the killing of the group's long term Shia Muslim leader
Speaker 8: could spark a full scale war.
Speaker 2: And in addition to killing has Son Nazraala, several Hesbela
Speaker 2: commanders were also killed in that attack. Iran says a
Speaker 2: Revolutionary Guard general was also a victim. And now the
Speaker 2: ACU weather forecast feels like fallout there or we're going
Speaker 2: to see more clouds than sunshine today and it's going
Speaker 2: to be a little cooler than yesterday. We'll see highs
Speaker 2: in the upper sixties. That's along the coast. The inland
Speaker 2: areas will see lower seventies Tonight. It will remain partly
Speaker 2: mostly cloudy, cool off to about fifty six Tomorrow, a
Speaker 2: mix of sun and clouds. High's near sixty five. Pretty
Speaker 2: much the same deal on Monday, pretty close, that is,
Speaker 2: we'll see a high of sixty eight. Tuesday a high
Speaker 2: of sixty four, and again a mix of sun and clouds,
Speaker 2: but mostly clouds than sun. Right now, we're seeing sixty
Speaker 2: five degrees in Framingham, sixty seven in Norwood, sixty six
Speaker 2: in Lynn, sixty five in Revere, and in the city
Speaker 2: right now, mostly cloudy, sixty four degrees. It's ten O
Speaker 2: eleven oh five. That is, the legacy of slavery in
Speaker 2: Boston was front and center yesterday in a meeting with
Speaker 2: the city's clergy. Here's WBC's Kendall Bull to explain there.
Speaker 1: Was a dark history behind many of the points of
Speaker 1: light that are Boston's churches.
Speaker 9: White churches in Boston were founded really in the colonial
Speaker 9: era on the proceeds of the slave trade.
Speaker 1: That's Reverend John Gibbons with other members of Boston's white
Speaker 1: clergy gathered at the Islington Street Church to sign an
Speaker 1: atonement statement formerly apology, using for their church's complicity and
Speaker 1: slavery and its legacy. Also at any we're black faith
Speaker 1: leaders who signed the document his witnesses, among them Reverend
Speaker 1: Kevin Peterson, who calls this an important first step.
Speaker 9: The second part is reparations, restoring what is owed to
Speaker 9: those who are harmed. And then the third part of
Speaker 9: this process is reconciliation to come in together of whites
Speaker 9: and blacks.
Speaker 1: Peterson says proceedings are the first of their kind in
Speaker 1: the nation's history. Kendall Bull w Busy in Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The eighteenth Daniel lois Wells Memorial Kicks for Cancer Soccer
Speaker 2: fundraiser is taking place today at Conquered Carlisle High School.
Speaker 2: Sixteen boys and and sixteen boys and Girl soccer matches
Speaker 2: that is will be played with teams from Boston and
Speaker 2: surrounding towns taking part. Players will wear special jerseys that
Speaker 2: carry the names of loved ones impacted by cancer. The
Speaker 2: Kicks for Cancer began back in two thousand and seven
Speaker 2: in order to honor Lois Wells, who was diagnosed with
Speaker 2: ovarian cancer and passed away in March of two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven after being treated at Dana Farber. Well So far,
Speaker 2: the event Listen to This Is raised more than nine
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars for Dana Farber since its inception and
Speaker 2: hopes to reach the one million dollar mark this year.
Speaker 2: It's eleven h seven more of us facing sticker shock
Speaker 2: to stream the top TV shows, and experts predict it's
Speaker 2: going to continue to get even more expenses is a
Speaker 2: sad story.
Speaker 4: It happened again this week with a streamer announcing a
Speaker 4: password sharing crackdown. Disney plus customers will pay more to
Speaker 4: share an account. Netflix started it.
Speaker 3: I think the fact that Netflix went first is allowing
Speaker 3: Disney and the others to tread into this world and
Speaker 3: feel that they can also pull it off.
Speaker 4: Matthew Belleny writes about Hollywood for the digital media company PUK.
Speaker 4: He says, get used to it.
Speaker 3: These shows and movies cost hundreds of thousands of dollars
Speaker 3: to make. The free ride era of streaming is coming
Speaker 3: to an end. These companies need to make money and
Speaker 3: they are going to extract that money from their customers.
Speaker 4: Steve Kathon, CBS News.
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