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<v Speaker 1>This is WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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<v Speaker 2>We defining local.

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<v Speaker 1>News Sunshine in sixty seven in Boston on this beautiful Thursday.

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<v Speaker 1>ACU weather coming up, and we've got some great news

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<v Speaker 1>for Tea riders. Green Line Tea riders, listen up. We've

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<v Speaker 1>learned that regular train service is up and running right

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<v Speaker 1>now on both branches of the Green Line Extension. Shuttel

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<v Speaker 1>buses had been in places Tuesday afternoons derailment that sent

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<v Speaker 1>seven people to the hospital with minor injuries, So this

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<v Speaker 1>is real progress. Today, investigators are still working to determine

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<v Speaker 1>exactly what happened to force that train off the tracks.

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<v Speaker 1>Both the TEA and Governor Healy say they don't think

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<v Speaker 1>there was a problem with the tracks or the train,

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<v Speaker 1>and instead are suggesting it was perhaps human error of

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<v Speaker 1>Federal investigators want to know for sure. They've been on

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<v Speaker 1>scene gathering records, event recorders, signal data, and witness statements.

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<v Speaker 1>The FTA says this was the eighteenth reported MBTA train

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<v Speaker 1>derailment this year alone. President Biden is scheduled to arrive

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<v Speaker 1>in Tallahassee, Florida, anytime now. He'll be in Georgia later

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<v Speaker 1>today delivering remarks there. This is the second day in

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<v Speaker 1>a row that the President is traveling south to survey

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<v Speaker 1>the wreckage from Hurricane Helene. Yesterday he flew down to

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<v Speaker 1>the Carolinas. We're ABC's Jim Ryan says life won't get

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<v Speaker 1>back to normal for a long time.

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<v Speaker 3>In hard hit Buncombe County, North Carolina, nearly two thirds

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<v Speaker 3>of the homes and businesses are still without power. As

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<v Speaker 3>for water and sewer, we.

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<v Speaker 4>Have experienced tatastrophic damage to our production systems.

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<v Speaker 3>Clay Chandler is with the City of Ashville. Water is

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<v Speaker 3>being trucked in in tanker trucks and water bottles are

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<v Speaker 3>being ferried in by helicopter.

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<v Speaker 1>Jim Ryan abcnais and while flooding from Helene is forcing

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<v Speaker 1>one of the largest IV fluid factories in the country

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<v Speaker 1>to shut down, hospitals in Boston are among those impacted.

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<v Speaker 1>We get more from wbz's Jim McKay.

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<v Speaker 5>Mass General Brigham is sending out emails to their hospital

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<v Speaker 5>system employees calling for an immediate conservation of IV fluids.

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<v Speaker 5>After the closure of a manufacturing facility owned by Baxter

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<v Speaker 5>International in Maria, North Carolina that was devastated from flooding,

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<v Speaker 5>It's unclear when they'll be able to open again, and

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<v Speaker 5>they're responsible for producing sixty percent of the nation's IV

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<v Speaker 5>fluids used at hospitals and medical centers all over the country.

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<v Speaker 5>They're expecting shortages in the weeks ahead. The FDA is

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<v Speaker 5>working with Baxter, hoping they can amp up production at

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<v Speaker 5>other facilities around the country. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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<v Speaker 1>The acting mayor of Mthuen is now running for the

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<v Speaker 1>permanent position. David DJ. Beauregard tells The Eagle Tribune he

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<v Speaker 1>will run for mayor when the town holds a special

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<v Speaker 1>election after the death of Mayor Neil Perry, his friend

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<v Speaker 1>and mentor. The city council is working to finalize a

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<v Speaker 1>date for the special election. All Right, we're seeing some

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<v Speaker 1>really nice sunshine and some clouds out there. I won't

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<v Speaker 1>lie chatam mostly cloudy down at the fish pier, always

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<v Speaker 1>thinking of fish and chips. No matter what time of

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<v Speaker 1>day is sixty four. Our high today will be seventy four. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>the early part of the evening will be the best part.

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<v Speaker 1>We can see those stars really really nice viewing. But

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<v Speaker 1>by the very late hours and tomorrow morning very early

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<v Speaker 1>for you early commuters is going to be quite foggy,

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<v Speaker 1>and then it burns off for another beautiful sunny day

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<v Speaker 1>high seventy four. The weekend all in all is pretty good.

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<v Speaker 1>We could see some showers briefly on Saturday, but we're

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<v Speaker 1>warm and certainly much more sunshine each day. I want

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<v Speaker 1>to update the Middle East now at eleven oh five,

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<v Speaker 1>Israel has expanded as its evacuation warnings to more communities.

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<v Speaker 1>Now in southern Lebanon, Israeli troops are still taking the

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<v Speaker 1>fight to Hesbela militants there. Of course, they're fighting on

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<v Speaker 1>two fronts. Right ABC's Matt Gutman says Americans are among

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<v Speaker 1>those trying to get out while they can.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean Israel's unrelenting bombing campaign against the Iran backed

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<v Speaker 2>Militia Isabella in Lebanon. Thousands of Americans they're desperate to escape,

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<v Speaker 2>the State Department saying seven thousand people contacted the US

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<v Speaker 2>embassy in Beirut, many trying to get out. The first

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<v Speaker 2>government charter flight departing Wednesday carrying more than one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>Americans and their families.

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<v Speaker 1>The latest State Department data shows close to ninety thousand

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<v Speaker 1>US citizens were living in Lebanon. As of twenty twenty two,

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<v Speaker 1>Governor Healy says the state's new free community college program

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<v Speaker 1>is off to a very strong start, and the program

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<v Speaker 1>let students attend these schools without having to pay tuition.

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<v Speaker 1>At about ten thousand students have already enrolled, officials say

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<v Speaker 1>is going to cost the state more than one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>million dollars this year. Governor Heally says the program could

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<v Speaker 1>swell in popularity in the coming months, suggesting as many

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<v Speaker 1>as forty five thousand students could attend community college for free.

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<v Speaker 1>And the CIA has some advice for people in North Korea, China,

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<v Speaker 1>and Iran on how to share info with intelligence without

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<v Speaker 1>getting caught.

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<v Speaker 4>The CIA this week has posted tips in Mandarin, Farsi,

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<v Speaker 4>and Korean on several leading internet platforms, giving advice to

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<v Speaker 4>potential informants. The tips include using a private browser and

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<v Speaker 4>virtual private network to evade government surveillance and Internet restrictions.

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<v Speaker 4>The CIA posted similar instructions in Russian two years ago,

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<v Speaker 4>and the success of that program prompted US intelligence officials

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<v Speaker 4>to expand the effort.

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<v Speaker 1>You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Laurie Kirby WBZ, Boston's news radio