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Speaker 2: It's eleven o'clock. We've got sunshine and seventy degrees in Boston.
Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Laurie Kirby. This just into the WBZ newsroom.
Speaker 2: There's been another wave of explosions in Lebanon today. Blast
Speaker 2: have been heard across Bay Route. It comes a day
Speaker 2: after at least a dozen people were killed and thousands
Speaker 2: more injured when pagers used by hesbe Law simultaneously exploded
Speaker 2: in Lebanon. Hesbelaw says it's hand held radios are the
Speaker 2: ones that are exploding today. Meanwhile, the top diplomat from
Speaker 2: the United States is reacting to yesterday's coordinated attack, and
Speaker 2: ABC's Karen Travers has more.
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln in Egypt this morning says
Speaker 1: the Biden administration played no role in this deadly attack.
Speaker 3: States did not know nor was it involved in these incidents,
Speaker 3: and we're still gathering the information and gathering the facts.
Speaker 1: Blincoln said the US remains clear about the importance of
Speaker 1: all parties avoiding stemps that could further escalate the conflict
Speaker 1: in Gaza and see it spread beyond there, saying it's
Speaker 1: not in the interest of anyone involved to see that happen.
Speaker 2: Karen Travers, ABC News Washington. Israel is not publicly commenting
Speaker 2: on the apparent pager sabotage, but there are multiple reports
Speaker 2: that Israeli officials brief their American counterparts after the fact. Again,
Speaker 2: the number of casualties from this latest wave of explosions
Speaker 2: on handheld radios in Lebanon is unclear. This is just
Speaker 2: breaking searching for answers in the death of State Police
Speaker 2: recruit Enrique Delgado Garcia during recent training. The state Attorney
Speaker 2: General says she's in conversation with the wister DA's office
Speaker 2: and others to identify the most objective authority to investigate
Speaker 2: his death. Early declined, citing a possible conflict of interest,
Speaker 2: and he urged that mass d Police not take the lead.
Speaker 2: Garcia took a blow to the head in a boxing
Speaker 2: ring as part of the ninetieth Recruit Training Troop training
Speaker 2: exercises last week. A former State police instructor tells The
Speaker 2: Telegram a Gazette the boxing component at the Massachusetts State
Speaker 2: Police Academy had been suspended back in the nineties because
Speaker 2: of injury concerns. They revamped it. But here we go.
Speaker 2: The Federal Reserve is getting ready to cut a key
Speaker 2: interest rate in hours for the first time in more
Speaker 2: than four years. ABC's Rebecca Jarvis report.
Speaker 4: The reason the Fed is doing this right now. Inflation
Speaker 4: is now at a three year low. It's well below
Speaker 4: the nine percent peak. It is back in what they
Speaker 4: would consider the normal zone where the Fed wants to
Speaker 4: see it.
Speaker 2: At two and a half percent.
Speaker 4: Meantime, unemployment still historically low four point two percent, but
Speaker 4: it is starting to take higher. You may have heard
Speaker 4: this term soft landing. That is exactly what the Fed
Speaker 4: is trying to do here. They want to land this
Speaker 4: plane nice and easy.
Speaker 2: Still not clear will it be a quarter point rate
Speaker 2: cut or a more drastic step, so we will have
Speaker 2: it either way. This will be two o'clock this afternoon. Again,
Speaker 2: take us on the go. We'll be streaming that information
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. The FBI is investigating a suspicious
Speaker 2: envelopes and to the state's election division headquarters, and we've
Speaker 2: got the story unexpected and delightful sunshine out there. We
Speaker 2: really thought it would be mostly cloudy from the get go.
Speaker 2: If you're an early riser, your warm got a sunrise today,
Speaker 2: but it may be the last in several days. We're
Speaker 2: definitely getting some stormy weather with some rain tonight and
Speaker 2: this is everywhere, but especially the south coast, sath Shore,
Speaker 2: the Cape in the Islands, and it could be earlier
Speaker 2: supper time and then Thursday, Friday, even Saturday now cloudy, windy, breezy.
Speaker 2: This is a little storm, not a northeaster. But there
Speaker 2: you have it. And these are the final days of summer.
Speaker 2: Did you forget that? I know I keep saying it,
Speaker 2: but you know we're transitioning into fall this Sunday and
Speaker 2: it looks quite dry and cool with some sun on Sundays,
Speaker 2: so I think we clear up for our new season.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the beach as the summer winds down.
Speaker 2: It means is now time for our four legged friends
Speaker 2: to finally join us for a little fun in the sun.
Speaker 2: Wdbsy's Jim McKay is at Nantasket Beach and Hull.
Speaker 5: Mid September is when many beaches loosen their restrictions so
Speaker 5: Fido and they're.
Speaker 3: Human can enjoy the beach together.
Speaker 2: You have a dog, you want him to enjoy life
Speaker 2: as much as you do.
Speaker 5: Each town is different, but for many dog owners during
Speaker 5: the summer months, their four legged friends have to stay
Speaker 5: at home when they hit the beach, which begs the
Speaker 5: question should more beaches open up for dogs year round?
Speaker 5: I love the idea, Leslie is here where their yellow lab.
Speaker 5: It is behind the idea one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people that would appreciate being
Speaker 2: able to go to the beach and have their dogs
Speaker 2: with them.
Speaker 5: For now, enjoy your late summer and early four all
Speaker 5: strolls in the sand with fidoh, just make sure to
Speaker 5: check your town's beach restrictions before you do. At then
Speaker 5: Taska Beach. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio, the FBI.
Speaker 2: And US Postal Service are investigating a suspicious envelope sent
Speaker 2: to one Ashburton Place in Boston. That building houses the
Speaker 2: state's election division with top officials. A spokesperson tells WBZ
Speaker 2: News Radio the envelope was intercepted before it reached the
Speaker 2: election's office. The contents are being analyzed, but sources tell
Speaker 2: us that the envelope contained a white powder. A spokesperson
Speaker 2: with the FBI Boston offices it's not clear how many
Speaker 2: letters were sent or the motive, but suspicious package aren't
Speaker 2: a problem unique to Massachusetts. Now. These were letters. Election
Speaker 2: officials in a growing number of states have been receiving
Speaker 2: suspicious envelopes in the mail.
Speaker 3: The envelopes and packages received at government offices in at
Speaker 3: least sixteen states have contained a white powder, which so
Speaker 3: far has ten It is harmless, but Colorado Secretary of
Speaker 3: State Jennet Griswold calls it an attempt to intimidate election workers,
Speaker 3: plain and simple.
Speaker 2: Threatening them is so disgraceful because all they are doing
Speaker 2: is their job.
Speaker 3: Last November, similar envelopes were sent to election offices in
Speaker 3: five states. In four of those cases, the FBI said
Speaker 3: the powder tested positive for fentanyl. Jim rillyon ABS.
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