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Speaker 2: Grace Guys seventy in Boston is eleven o'clock. I'm Laurie Kirby.
Speaker 2: Good morning. This just in to the WBZ newsroom. A
Speaker 2: Senate committee has just passed two content resolutions after Stewart
Speaker 2: Healthcare CEO Ralph Delottori defied a sub poena and refused
Speaker 2: to testify. Senators wanted the CEO to explain how Stewart
Speaker 2: got itself into a financial crisis that led to the
Speaker 2: closure of hospitals in Massachusetts and at times the death
Speaker 2: of patients. Before the votes we heard from Massachusetts Senator
Speaker 2: at Marquee today.
Speaker 3: We are making clear that doctor d Lattori and the
Speaker 3: other CEOs, private equity investors, and corporate executives who treat
Speaker 3: the healthcare system like their own personal piggybank that you'all
Speaker 3: millions do not share, do not shield you from accountability.
Speaker 3: To a legal order issued by the United States Senate.
Speaker 2: It's not just Massachusetts. Steward operates other facilities and hospitals
Speaker 2: across the nation. Now, one of these resolutions allows the
Speaker 2: Senate to sue the CEO to compel him to testify.
Speaker 2: The other sends the matter to the Justice department for
Speaker 2: potential criminal prosecution. Again, both resolutions just passed unanimously. Two
Speaker 2: dozen people were killed and thousands more wounded when walkie
Speaker 2: talkies and pagers held by Hesbela members suddenly exploded simultaneously
Speaker 2: this week. Israel's defense minister declared a new phase of
Speaker 2: war yesterday, hours before his country's military launched new strikes
Speaker 2: on targets in southern Lebanon. So what does it mean
Speaker 2: for the war in Gaza.
Speaker 4: The families of hostages held by Hamas believe attention is
Speaker 4: being diverted away from Gaza and their loved ones will
Speaker 4: pay the price.
Speaker 2: Will the people well, the lives of the hostages.
Speaker 1: We don't grant an ail out, never envy.
Speaker 4: That's the worry of many. Following the attacks on Hesbealaz
Speaker 4: communication devices and Israel's resumption of air strikes.
Speaker 2: Hesbeloved vows retaliation, spiking fears have an escalation across the region.
Speaker 2: Revere is trying to crack down on violence in its
Speaker 2: high school. Violence at the school came into the public
Speaker 2: spotlight last month when video from a student on student
Speaker 2: brawl surfaced on social media. Well. Now, a district subcommittee
Speaker 2: is voted to hire a security consultant who can suggest
Speaker 2: ways to curb the chaos. This is on top of
Speaker 2: the extra school resource officer district hired over the summer.
Speaker 2: By the way, the school committee can weigh in on
Speaker 2: the issue themselves during a public forum at the high school.
Speaker 2: Little rain out there. We're seeing that rain right now
Speaker 2: in Yarmouth on the Cape also the Islands, we have
Speaker 2: a rip current statement. It's a warning essentially if you swim.
Speaker 2: That's a very strong rip current out there. Through eight
Speaker 2: o'clock tonight, mostly cloudy, breezy. We do have a strong
Speaker 2: chance of rain anywhere along the north Shore, Sashore, south coast,
Speaker 2: the Capean Islands through this evening. And again we're seeing
Speaker 2: that sunshine in central mass Wooster at sunny right now
Speaker 2: and substantially warmer. It's seventy degrees there. The rest of
Speaker 2: the week, through the first part of the weekend is
Speaker 2: going to be dreary and damp and breezy. In fact,
Speaker 2: we'll have some steady or rain on Saturday before bottomn
Speaker 2: arrives on Sunday and the sun arrives as well. The
Speaker 2: city of Quinsy is getting millions of dollars in federal
Speaker 2: funding to give a decade old pier the makeover it
Speaker 2: so desperately needs. Apparently. Wbz's James Rojas is in Quinsy.
Speaker 5: The pier here at Marina Bay is over thirty years old,
Speaker 5: so it has its fair share of wear and tear,
Speaker 5: but there's a plan to modernize it thanks to a
Speaker 5: multimillion dollar federal grant awarded to the city of Quinsy
Speaker 5: for a new peer float and ramp system.
Speaker 2: Are ecstatic, very excited, very excited.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Anything to you know, improve it, keep it going, music great.
Speaker 2: It's definitely a great investment.
Speaker 5: The MBTA says the initiative will specifically benefit elderly writers
Speaker 5: and those with disabilities by enhancing the accessibility and overall experience.
Speaker 2: I agree it will be handicapped accessible if they fix.
Speaker 5: That and Quinsey James Rojas WBZ Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 2: Once again, Boston Hotel workers walk off the job and
Speaker 2: onto the picket lines. This is the third wave of
Speaker 2: citywide Stridson's Labor Day weekend. Nearly twelve hundred room attendants,
Speaker 2: bell persons, cooks, banquet servers, and front desk agents are
Speaker 2: on strike. They're demanding higher wages and better benefits. Again,
Speaker 2: we do have a reporter unseen. We've been bringing you
Speaker 2: some of that sound. Keep it here. We're also streaming
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. Britain loves its pobs, but some
Speaker 2: are saying beer bellies are no laughing matter. ABC's Tom
Speaker 2: Rivers with some stout advice.
Speaker 1: Academics at Cambridge University want the government to force pubs
Speaker 1: here to reduce the size of pint glasses by a
Speaker 1: third in the name of health concerns. The country's how
Speaker 1: Secretary says.
Speaker 2: I'm really not interested being the fun police or telling
Speaker 2: people how to live their lives.
Speaker 1: But Will Streeting appears to be sipping out of both
Speaker 1: sides of us mouth.
Speaker 5: We do have to take this issue of chronic disease
Speaker 5: seriously and the impact it's having on our lives.
Speaker 1: Typical angry reaction from pubgoers here who say fold my beer,
Speaker 1: Tom Rivers, ABC News London.
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