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Speaker 2: no deal, no school again in three more shore communities.
Speaker 2: You know, it was a week ago today the teachers
Speaker 2: in Beverly and Gloucester hit the picket lines, and then
Speaker 2: four days ago Marblehead educators did the same. We have
Speaker 2: an update. Friday night football is on in Marblehead. The
Speaker 2: superintendent has had a change of heart lifting a pause
Speaker 2: on all extracurricular activities. Now this means any weekend event too.
Speaker 2: If you're a cheerleader or a runner, whatever you're doing.
Speaker 2: The competition is now back on. However, the teachers there
Speaker 2: will pay the price, the union having to pay fines,
Speaker 2: just like Beverly and Gloucester for every day they remain
Speaker 2: on strike. The Teachers' Union in Marblehead is holding a
Speaker 2: rally this afternoon at one at Salem State University. We
Speaker 2: will have more as it happens. The United Nations and
Speaker 2: other international aid groups say that famine once again looms
Speaker 2: large over in northern Gaza. The State Department has decided
Speaker 2: not to impose an arms embargo on Israel, despite giving
Speaker 2: the country a thirty day deadline to improve humanitarian conditions.
Speaker 2: ABC's Jordanna Miller has.
Speaker 3: More the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza falling nearly
Speaker 3: to the lowest levels since the first few months of
Speaker 3: the war. For many months, we saw about two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty trucks a day, entering in October, we only
Speaker 3: saw a daily average of about seventy, and so far
Speaker 3: this month about one hundred. Major distribution problems also a
Speaker 3: huge factor. Whether it's idea of combat, looting by Hamas
Speaker 3: and other groups, or un logistics, the aid simply isn't
Speaker 3: getting into the hands of people who need it. Jordanah Miller,
Speaker 3: ABC News Jerusalem.
Speaker 2: President elect Trump stirs the pot with his cabinet pick
Speaker 2: for the Department of Health and Human Services. ABC's Mary
Speaker 2: Bruce report Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy, junior in charge of one of the biggest departments
Speaker 1: in the federal government. AJHS includes agencies that touch every
Speaker 1: aspect of American life, from the foods you eat to
Speaker 1: the medicine you take. The former acting director of the
Speaker 1: Centers for Disease Control, doctor Richard Besser, saying Kennedy as
Speaker 1: AHHS secretary would pose incredible risks to the health of
Speaker 1: the nation and that he's worsening mistrust in the public
Speaker 1: health system.
Speaker 2: RFK, Junior has been an outspoken skeptic of public health
Speaker 2: norms like vaccines and water fluoridation. Senator Warren also expressed
Speaker 2: her concerns. She says she's got a lot of questions
Speaker 2: for RFK when he appeared on Capitol Hill for confirmation hearings.
Speaker 2: The former treasurer of a North a youth football league
Speaker 2: on the North Shore has just pleaded guilty to larceny.
Speaker 2: James Potenza was first charged with embezzling eighty grand from
Speaker 2: the Pentucket Youth Football League in twenty eleven. Now he
Speaker 2: was supposed to go on trial the next year, and
Speaker 2: then he fled to the Middle East. Authorities caught him
Speaker 2: arrested him when he came back here to renew his passport.
Speaker 2: He was nailed. He has now been sentenced to jail
Speaker 2: time and he has to pay back at least some
Speaker 2: of the money he stole from the Football League. Achi
Speaker 2: weather Breezey's Sonny red flag warning today and a high
Speaker 2: to day of fifty seven tonight are low forty two,
Speaker 2: much warmer in Boston. If you're inland, maybe thirty six.
Speaker 2: Here comes fifty nine degrees. Now this is a little
Speaker 2: bit cooler. We were thinking this weekend we'd be in
Speaker 2: the sixties zone. Close it says fifty nine. I'm assuming
Speaker 2: that's for downtown Boston on average, so maybe interior sections
Speaker 2: will be warmer. But there it is on the cooler side.
Speaker 2: And again Sonny and gusty. Our rain, which is going
Speaker 2: to be just a little bit, not enough to mitigate
Speaker 2: our drought, is Monday, and actually I think we're all
Speaker 2: looking forward to some rain. In fact, the ongoing drought
Speaker 2: and threat of brushfires is causing one South Shore town
Speaker 2: to cancel a potentially dangerous Thanksgiving Day tradition. Wbz's Jim
Speaker 2: McKay is in Hall.
Speaker 4: It's been affecting everything. Our reservoirs are low. Ryan from
Speaker 4: Hall knows all too well just how serious the ongoing
Speaker 4: drought is. That's why he wasn't surprised to hear Hall
Speaker 4: would be postponing the Fantaskic Beach Thanksgiving bonfire this year.
Speaker 2: I've lived here around thirty years.
Speaker 4: Cindy can't remember a situation ever like this, at least
Speaker 4: not on the South Shore. But for people with family
Speaker 4: elsewhere across the country, it's now hitting home.
Speaker 2: My daughter lives in Colorado and they expect fire.
Speaker 4: Helen says she understands why they called it off and
Speaker 4: just helps some mother nature. It provides us with some
Speaker 4: rain showers soon.
Speaker 2: We don't expect it here. It's that bad, the lack
Speaker 2: of range at hole.
Speaker 4: Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And an emergency meeting in Attleborough was just held on
Speaker 2: their ongoing drought, and of course it's across the northeast,
Speaker 2: but they are running low on water. The mayor says
Speaker 2: the city is only three months left of their water
Speaker 2: supply before it runs out. Now, as we've been reporting,
Speaker 2: they're working to get a pipe, a simple pipe into
Speaker 2: the ground to connect with the Pawtucket water supply by
Speaker 2: early December. That's going to be a huge relief. And
Speaker 2: also the Sun Chronicles says they're trying to hook up
Speaker 2: with towns like Mansfield nearby. You're going to hook up
Speaker 2: hydrants that will supply Addleborough with more water every day.
Speaker 2: But again, in the meantime, the mayor is reminding everybody
Speaker 2: please conserve your water where you can. And it may
Speaker 2: sound funny or it may sound like an infringement on
Speaker 2: your showering activity. Take shorter showers. We heard that from
Speaker 2: Governor Morehey earlier this week as well. Even restaurants and
Speaker 2: bars can do their part. A former late night host
Speaker 2: from Brookline will MC the Oscars for the first time,
Speaker 2: and I think a lot of us are looking forward
Speaker 2: to it. And the Oscar Awards go to Oh No No.
Speaker 5: Brian, the former late night talk show host, will emc
Speaker 5: the ninety seventh Oscars, his first time.
Speaker 2: In the role.
Speaker 4: We're already five minutes over and I am not joking.
Speaker 5: Jimmy Kimmel hosted the past two years. Last year, Ceremony
Speaker 5: won an Emmy for Outstanding Live Variety Special. O'Brien said
Speaker 5: in a statement, America demanded it, and now it's happening.
Speaker 5: Taco Bell's new cheesy Chloupa Supreme, and other news. I'm
Speaker 5: hosting the Oscars. Wendy Jillette CBS News.
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