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Speaker 2: Good Morning sixty four with Sunshine in Boston on this Wednesday,
Speaker 2: It's eleven o'clock and we'll have the weather coming up
Speaker 2: with traffic and weather together on Laurie Kirby on the
Speaker 2: Road to the White House. Vice President Harris, who's deeped
Speaker 2: into a media blitz less than two weeks out from
Speaker 2: election day. She sat for an interview with NBC last night,
Speaker 2: and ABC's Mary Bruce tells us about.
Speaker 3: It overnight, Harris again saying Trump tried to undo a
Speaker 3: free and fair election and that this is part of
Speaker 3: the very serious choice that is now facing voters. She
Speaker 3: was also pressed on the role sexism and racism maybe
Speaker 3: playing in this campaign, as Harris could now potentially make history,
Speaker 3: but she made it clear she's running on her record,
Speaker 3: not her identity, saying voters are making a choice based
Speaker 3: on substance, not electing someone based on gender or race.
Speaker 2: And Vince President. Harris will appear on CNN tonight for
Speaker 2: a town hall with undecided voters from the battleground state
Speaker 2: of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump is now battling
Speaker 2: new criticisms from his former chief of staff, John Kelly.
Speaker 2: HER's ABC Stephen Portnoy with that the.
Speaker 1: Trump campaign furiously denies that the former president ever said
Speaker 1: what John Kelly says Trump said, But the former White
Speaker 1: House chief of Staff and retired Marine general is adamant
Speaker 1: he heard what he heard, Telling the New York Times
Speaker 1: he caught.
Speaker 4: As it more than on said the Hitler did some
Speaker 4: good things too.
Speaker 1: Kelly went on to echo a former Joint Chief's chairman,
Speaker 1: Mark Milly, told author Bob Woodward that Trump meets the
Speaker 1: definition of a fascist. Trump's campaign says that Kelly has
Speaker 1: quote totally beclowned himself. Stephen port Noy, ABC News Washington.
Speaker 2: Lynnfield holds a public hearing tonight on controversial MBTA's zoning
Speaker 2: that The meeting is going to be held over the
Speaker 2: al Merritt Center on Market Street starting at six thirty pm.
Speaker 2: Residents of Linfield, you were urged to come out tonight
Speaker 2: and share your thoughts, your concerns, ask questions about changing
Speaker 2: the zoning in parts of town to allow for the
Speaker 2: building of multifamily units. This mandate is part of a
Speaker 2: statewide push to create more housing near public transportation. Now
Speaker 2: town meeting votes on the controversial issue in just a
Speaker 2: few weeks. We'll have more on that as it happens.
Speaker 2: And now to Norton, and this is going, you know,
Speaker 2: town to town here. Norton is also strongly questioning the
Speaker 2: MBTA's strict new law requirements. At last night's town meeting,
Speaker 2: residents voted against approving the new zoning by laws and
Speaker 2: opted instead to table it until the spring. The select
Speaker 2: Board voted to oppose the by law. Earlier this month,
Speaker 2: the district would have been rezoned for multi family housing
Speaker 2: right near the golf course in Norton on Route one
Speaker 2: point forty, but again they're voting to table that for
Speaker 2: a few months. Whether front, there's a hurricane in the
Speaker 2: Pacific Ocean today, Hurricane Christy, which just was strengthened to
Speaker 2: a Cat three storm by the national folks. This is
Speaker 2: again in the Pacific. It's not going to impact us here,
Speaker 2: but just seeing that flashing now mostly sunny, breezy, high
Speaker 2: seventy five, dry to day. It was very foggy this morning,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be pretty cloudy tonight with the
Speaker 2: chances of rain drops quite late maybe first thing tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: That's still on target here We're in the fifties in
Speaker 2: the cooler birds tonight near sixty along the coast, mostly sunny, breezy,
Speaker 2: high sixty five tomorrow, Friday, sun and sixty. So we're
Speaker 2: incrementally going down by about five degrees every day. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's all relative. We were at a record
Speaker 2: high of eighty three degrees in spots earlier this week.
Speaker 2: All right in. The heat is on on Beacon Hill.
Speaker 2: The Massachusetts State Auditor is accusing lawmakers of refusing to
Speaker 2: be transparent, and WBC's Mike maclin and gives us the deal.
Speaker 5: It is immral and unethical for any politician up on
Speaker 5: Beacon Hill to withhold information about how taxpayer dollars are
Speaker 5: being spent.
Speaker 6: State Auditor Diana Desauglio took direct aim at Hobson Senate
Speaker 6: leaders as she released a highly critical audit of the legislature,
Speaker 6: accusing them of failing to live up to their constitutional
Speaker 6: responsibilities with respect to accountability.
Speaker 5: It is our duty as elected officials to abide by
Speaker 5: the Constitution, which says that we are at all times
Speaker 5: accountable to the people.
Speaker 6: Legislative leaders fired back, accusing Dizaglio of political grand standing
Speaker 6: and trying to violate the separation of powers in state government.
Speaker 5: Separation of powers and the Constitution of this Commonwealth exists
Speaker 5: to protect the people and not the politicians.
Speaker 6: At the State Housepike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Whimsay based Stop and Shop is closing eight Massachusetts stores
Speaker 2: by the end of this moth and now we have
Speaker 2: the list. Stop and Shop is closing supermarkets in Brockton, Raynham, Halifax,
Speaker 2: Shrewsbury and Newton, and is shutting down one of their
Speaker 2: two stores in Springfield, the one on Cooley Street. The
Speaker 2: Stop and Shop on West Boylston and Woocester is closing.
Speaker 2: The Stop and Shop on Mattachisaid Street in Pembroke is closing.
Speaker 2: And the closures come amid a wave of retail endings
Speaker 2: from bob stores to Christmas tree shops. We saw big lots,
Speaker 2: bed bath and beyond going to the great retail beyond.
Speaker 2: But it could be coming back like a phoenix. Apparently
Speaker 2: there's reports of that as well. We'll see. Okay, just
Speaker 2: when you thought I'm going to the drive through and
Speaker 2: getting me a burger, health officials link Mickey DA's quarter
Speaker 2: pounders to a deadly e Coli outbreak. I want to
Speaker 2: add this that we don't have any Massachusetts stats supporting
Speaker 2: anybody getting sick here. We're looking into it. Brian Shook
Speaker 2: has more.
Speaker 4: On Tuesday, this announced they're working with McDonald's to determine
Speaker 4: what ingredient in the burgers was contaminated. The fast food
Speaker 4: chain has halted use of fresh onions and quarter pound
Speaker 4: beef patties in several states as a precaution. At least
Speaker 4: forty nine people in ten different states were sickened, and
Speaker 4: one person has died. Cases have been reported in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin,
Speaker 4: and Wyoming. I'm Brian Shook.
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