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Speaker 1: News Sunshine in sixty seven in Boston on this beautiful Thursday.
Speaker 1: ACU weather coming up, and we've got some great news
Speaker 1: for Tea riders. Green Line Tea riders, listen up. We've
Speaker 1: learned that regular train service is up and running right
Speaker 1: now on both branches of the Green Line Extension. Shuttel
Speaker 1: buses had been in places Tuesday afternoons derailment that sent
Speaker 1: seven people to the hospital with minor injuries, So this
Speaker 1: is real progress. Today, investigators are still working to determine
Speaker 1: exactly what happened to force that train off the tracks.
Speaker 1: Both the TEA and Governor Healy say they don't think
Speaker 1: there was a problem with the tracks or the train,
Speaker 1: and instead are suggesting it was perhaps human error of
Speaker 1: Federal investigators want to know for sure. They've been on
Speaker 1: scene gathering records, event recorders, signal data, and witness statements.
Speaker 1: The FTA says this was the eighteenth reported MBTA train
Speaker 1: derailment this year alone. President Biden is scheduled to arrive
Speaker 1: in Tallahassee, Florida, anytime now. He'll be in Georgia later
Speaker 1: today delivering remarks there. This is the second day in
Speaker 1: a row that the President is traveling south to survey
Speaker 1: the wreckage from Hurricane Helene. Yesterday he flew down to
Speaker 1: the Carolinas. We're ABC's Jim Ryan says life won't get
Speaker 1: back to normal for a long time.
Speaker 3: In hard hit Buncombe County, North Carolina, nearly two thirds
Speaker 3: of the homes and businesses are still without power. As
Speaker 3: for water and sewer, we.
Speaker 4: Have experienced tatastrophic damage to our production systems.
Speaker 3: Clay Chandler is with the City of Ashville. Water is
Speaker 3: being trucked in in tanker trucks and water bottles are
Speaker 3: being ferried in by helicopter.
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan abcnais and while flooding from Helene is forcing
Speaker 1: one of the largest IV fluid factories in the country
Speaker 1: to shut down, hospitals in Boston are among those impacted.
Speaker 1: We get more from wbz's Jim McKay.
Speaker 5: Mass General Brigham is sending out emails to their hospital
Speaker 5: system employees calling for an immediate conservation of IV fluids.
Speaker 5: After the closure of a manufacturing facility owned by Baxter
Speaker 5: International in Maria, North Carolina that was devastated from flooding,
Speaker 5: It's unclear when they'll be able to open again, and
Speaker 5: they're responsible for producing sixty percent of the nation's IV
Speaker 5: fluids used at hospitals and medical centers all over the country.
Speaker 5: They're expecting shortages in the weeks ahead. The FDA is
Speaker 5: working with Baxter, hoping they can amp up production at
Speaker 5: other facilities around the country. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: The acting mayor of Mthuen is now running for the
Speaker 1: permanent position. David DJ. Beauregard tells The Eagle Tribune he
Speaker 1: will run for mayor when the town holds a special
Speaker 1: election after the death of Mayor Neil Perry, his friend
Speaker 1: and mentor. The city council is working to finalize a
Speaker 1: date for the special election. All Right, we're seeing some
Speaker 1: really nice sunshine and some clouds out there. I won't
Speaker 1: lie chatam mostly cloudy down at the fish pier, always
Speaker 1: thinking of fish and chips. No matter what time of
Speaker 1: day is sixty four. Our high today will be seventy four. Now,
Speaker 1: the early part of the evening will be the best part.
Speaker 1: We can see those stars really really nice viewing. But
Speaker 1: by the very late hours and tomorrow morning very early
Speaker 1: for you early commuters is going to be quite foggy,
Speaker 1: and then it burns off for another beautiful sunny day
Speaker 1: high seventy four. The weekend all in all is pretty good.
Speaker 1: We could see some showers briefly on Saturday, but we're
Speaker 1: warm and certainly much more sunshine each day. I want
Speaker 1: to update the Middle East now at eleven oh five,
Speaker 1: Israel has expanded as its evacuation warnings to more communities.
Speaker 1: Now in southern Lebanon, Israeli troops are still taking the
Speaker 1: fight to Hesbela militants there. Of course, they're fighting on
Speaker 1: two fronts. Right ABC's Matt Gutman says Americans are among
Speaker 1: those trying to get out while they can.
Speaker 2: I mean Israel's unrelenting bombing campaign against the Iran backed
Speaker 2: Militia Isabella in Lebanon. Thousands of Americans they're desperate to escape,
Speaker 2: the State Department saying seven thousand people contacted the US
Speaker 2: embassy in Beirut, many trying to get out. The first
Speaker 2: government charter flight departing Wednesday carrying more than one hundred
Speaker 2: Americans and their families.
Speaker 1: The latest State Department data shows close to ninety thousand
Speaker 1: US citizens were living in Lebanon. As of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: Governor Healy says the state's new free community college program
Speaker 1: is off to a very strong start, and the program
Speaker 1: let students attend these schools without having to pay tuition.
Speaker 1: At about ten thousand students have already enrolled, officials say
Speaker 1: is going to cost the state more than one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars this year. Governor Heally says the program could
Speaker 1: swell in popularity in the coming months, suggesting as many
Speaker 1: as forty five thousand students could attend community college for free.
Speaker 1: And the CIA has some advice for people in North Korea, China,
Speaker 1: and Iran on how to share info with intelligence without
Speaker 1: getting caught.
Speaker 4: The CIA this week has posted tips in Mandarin, Farsi,
Speaker 4: and Korean on several leading internet platforms, giving advice to
Speaker 4: potential informants. The tips include using a private browser and
Speaker 4: virtual private network to evade government surveillance and Internet restrictions.
Speaker 4: The CIA posted similar instructions in Russian two years ago,
Speaker 4: and the success of that program prompted US intelligence officials
Speaker 4: to expand the effort.
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Speaker 1: I'm Laurie Kirby WBZ, Boston's news radio