Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio redefining local.
Speaker 2: News Sunshine sixty eight in Boston. It's eleven o'clock Good
Speaker 2: Morning on Laurie Kirby and the Tripoli death toll rises
Speaker 2: in the state of New England or the region, I
Speaker 2: should say. Wbz's Madison Rogers has more.
Speaker 3: New Hampshire officials confirm a second resident has died from
Speaker 3: eastern Eckwine encephalitis. The patient was an adult man from Danville.
Speaker 3: The first death, announced in late August, was in neighboring Hampstead.
Speaker 3: In total, the Granite State has confirmed five patients with
Speaker 3: the mosquito borne illness. There have been four here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: Bay State health officials do not release information on deaths
Speaker 3: until the end of the season, but there are now
Speaker 3: reports that an acting man has died from the illness.
Speaker 3: Triple E risk levels have now started to fall, but
Speaker 3: the threat won't be eliminated until the first hard frost.
Speaker 3: As of the latest from ASDBH, there are still several
Speaker 3: high risk areas, including southern Worcester County and southern Bristol
Speaker 3: and Plymouth Counties. Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Hotels in Boston have been given an ultimatum buy workers
Speaker 2: approved their contract demands by the end of day to
Speaker 2: day or they will start an indefinite strike. Since September fourteenth,
Speaker 2: more than twenty five hundred room attendants, bell hops, cooks,
Speaker 2: front desk attendants more have gone on strike for several
Speaker 2: days in waves. Their employers hire temporary staff to try
Speaker 2: to cover in the short term. All across the nation,
Speaker 2: we've seen hotel workers go on strike with Unit here
Speaker 2: and keep it right here for an update on that,
Speaker 2: and of course streaming on the iHeartRadio app. But their
Speaker 2: strike is over temporarily. Dock workers in Boston and beyond
Speaker 2: are back at the dogs working. ABC's Elizabeth Sholsey brings
Speaker 2: us up to speed.
Speaker 4: It's along the Eastern Gulf Coast are up and running
Speaker 4: after they shut down for three days during that massive
Speaker 4: dock worker strike. The union and the Shipping Industry group
Speaker 4: reaching a tentative agreement to suspend the strike until January fifteenth.
Speaker 4: Sources familiar with the negotiations tell us that wages will
Speaker 4: go up by sixty two percent over the new six
Speaker 4: year contract, not as much as the union wanted, but
Speaker 4: a lot more than the shipping companies had originally offered.
Speaker 2: So this tentative deal suspends their strike until January fifteenth
Speaker 2: if the two sides can't reach a deal, and of
Speaker 2: course they reach a deal on higher pay, but they
Speaker 2: still have to iron out the automated machines portion of
Speaker 2: those talks. The State Department now says about three hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty Americans have been evacuated from Lebanon on US
Speaker 2: contract flights. US citizens, Green card holders, family members and
Speaker 2: more are struggling right now to get out while they can,
Speaker 2: as that violence really kind of escalates between Israel and
Speaker 2: has Belah militants. CBS and Stacy Lynn has the very latest.
Speaker 1: A second flight carrying Americans of Lebanon landed in Frankfort today.
Speaker 1: The State Department facilitated in getting ninety seven US citizens
Speaker 1: and their family members out. This is the second of
Speaker 1: the State Department organized flights this week. On Wednesday, one
Speaker 1: took one hundred Americans and their family members to Istanbul
Speaker 1: amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Hesbaala loving this forecast,
Speaker 1: starting from right now now, we're seeing tempts in the
Speaker 1: high seventies Norwal sixty seven. Brockton sixty six, and now Braintree,
Speaker 1: you're just shy of seventy.
Speaker 2: How about that. We're getting into the seventies today pretty
Speaker 2: much everywhere, seventy to seventy four with some nice sunshine.
Speaker 2: It's just nice. It even seys on my sheet. Nice.
Speaker 2: So it's not just me Zachy Weather saying it's going
Speaker 2: to be nice this weekend too. Now the only fly
Speaker 2: in the ointment is very late tonight north and west
Speaker 2: of Boston, just a little bit of rain, that's a shower,
Speaker 2: and then in the morning maybe a lingering shower. But
Speaker 2: it's all going to kind of get out of here
Speaker 2: for beautiful afternoons Saturday, so elsely sonny in most places
Speaker 2: by tomorrow after new attempts in the higher seventy zone.
Speaker 2: Gorgeous weather Sunday at tag cooler high sixties, but sun
Speaker 2: and clouds next week starting out with rain. And one
Speaker 2: of the most beloved managers in Red Sox history has
Speaker 2: returned to the game after announcing that he was retiring.
Speaker 2: Is this a Tom Brady Jim McKay.
Speaker 3: We set out today to win, that was our only objective,
Speaker 3: and somehow we did.
Speaker 5: Terry Francona, speaking after the pivotal Game four of the
Speaker 5: two thousand and four ALCS. One of the most passionate,
Speaker 5: straightforward voices in all of baseball, will be back as
Speaker 5: the new skip of the Cincinnati Reds. Francona stepped down
Speaker 5: as manager of the Cleveland Guardians last fall to focus
Speaker 5: on his health. A year later, and he's back. The
Speaker 5: sixty five year old is on his way to Cincinnati.
Speaker 5: Francona led the Red Sox to their historic two thousand
Speaker 5: and four World Series title and then once again three
Speaker 5: years later. He then spent ten years heading up Cleveland
Speaker 5: after leaving the Red Sox in twenty eleven with the Guardians.
Speaker 5: Here earned an al pennant in twenty sixteen. Jim MCKAWBZ
Speaker 5: Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio and Costco Goes Platinum.
Speaker 6: Sales of its gold bars and silver coins have been
Speaker 6: so popular, Costco is adding one ounced platinum bars to
Speaker 6: its lineup. The chain describes them as nine to nine
Speaker 6: to nine point five pure platinum, made in Switzerland and
Speaker 6: the refiner has the good Delivery accreditation from the London
Speaker 6: Bullion Market. There's a limit of five per customer per transaction.
Speaker 6: Costco sold more than one hundred million dollars in twenty
Speaker 6: four carrot gold bars in three months last fall at
Speaker 6: two thousand dollars a pop. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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