Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: seventy four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: We've got some big troubles on the turnpike the Hopkins
Speaker 2: In area, back through Framingham, back through Natika boy at
Speaker 2: truck roll over at Juna Tempesta. We did get a
Speaker 2: little good news, but not enough yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly been. The good news is they have reopened
Speaker 3: that left hand lane, but not enough to really make
Speaker 3: that much of an impact. At one point of the
Speaker 3: road it was fully shut down. So we're getting some
Speaker 3: progress made, but we're still looking at some very heavy volume,
Speaker 3: and like you said, you're pretty much backing up into
Speaker 3: the Native stretcher, backing up but beyond Route twenty seven,
Speaker 3: that's at least a good by six miles there. Really
Speaker 3: feeling the heat as well. From four ninety five sound
Speaker 3: as you make your way down to the turnpike, you're
Speaker 3: backing up beyond Main Street.
Speaker 2: Ben all right, of course, avoid the turnpike if you
Speaker 2: can this afternoon, but if you can't keep it, tune
Speaker 2: to WBZ we'll tell you where to go. Yes, this
Speaker 2: crash messes up our Thursday afternoon commute. There are other
Speaker 2: bad spots as well, so Gina, we'll be back in
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. With that last month, Stewart close
Speaker 2: to hospitals in Massachusetts after the company went bankrupt. Now
Speaker 2: lawmakers in Washington are taking action in a second hearing
Speaker 2: on Capitol Hill to hold the company's CEO accountable. WUS's
Speaker 2: book McCarthy with the.
Speaker 4: Latest strong words from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders about bankrupt
Speaker 4: Stewart Healthcare CEO Ralph Delatory.
Speaker 3: Deserve to know.
Speaker 5: How doctor Delatory became extraordinarily wealthy while the hospitals he
Speaker 5: managed when bankrupt.
Speaker 4: Dallatory refused to attend a committee hearing last week where senators,
Speaker 4: former employees, and more hoped to get answers on what
Speaker 4: led to the healthcare company's financial ruin. The committee voting
Speaker 4: unanimously to adopt two resolutions aimed at holding Dlatory in
Speaker 4: contempt for both civil and criminal violations. Here's Senator at
Speaker 4: marquee Hey.
Speaker 5: We are making clear that doctor Delattori, that yaw millions
Speaker 5: do not shield you from accountability.
Speaker 1: To a legal order issued by the United.
Speaker 4: States Attorneys for Daily. Tory sent a letter to the
Speaker 4: Senate committee saying he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right
Speaker 4: not to testify and denying any wrongdoing. The resolution now
Speaker 4: heads to the full Senate. Burke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: A corrections officer is still hospitalized after an attack on
Speaker 2: guard's last night as the Susan Beronowski Correctional Center. In all,
Speaker 2: five officers were hurt, Two were stabbed inside the prison,
Speaker 2: three others injured when they tried to help. That is Martin,
Speaker 2: as president of the Massachusets correction Officers Federated Union, and
Speaker 2: says person official should have known something like this would
Speaker 2: happen again. We've been worn in this department for over
Speaker 2: two years.
Speaker 1: Two years we've been warning them.
Speaker 2: This wasn't isolated attack here. This is an attempted murder
Speaker 2: on a correctional officer. Two officers were performing routine rounds
Speaker 2: when they were attacked from behind. One officer, who was
Speaker 2: stabbed a dozen times, is still hospitalized in serious but
Speaker 2: stable condition. Martin says he suffered a punctured lung. Increased
Speaker 2: tensions in the Middle East between Israel and has Blah
Speaker 2: after attacks on electronic devices, and today Israeli airstrikes in southern.
Speaker 5: As well.
Speaker 6: As leader called the attacks on his group's communication devices
Speaker 6: a severe blow, but said they will not stop targeting
Speaker 6: Israel until the war in Gaza ends. And as tensions grow,
Speaker 6: the families of hostages held by Hamas are growing more
Speaker 6: worried about the ceasefire talks.
Speaker 7: We hope that our leaders will choose the life of
Speaker 7: their own people over their own political surviving.
Speaker 6: The Israeli military struck hasma lot of targets in Lebanon.
Speaker 6: Shortly before the speech by Hassan israela Israeli jets flew
Speaker 6: low over Beirut and broke the sound barrier.
Speaker 2: That is CBS's Kemmi McCormick. The rain and showers over
Speaker 2: the cape right now, and that's where most of this
Speaker 2: rain has been hanging out today. We've had a couple
Speaker 2: of showers randomly in a few other places, but the
Speaker 2: Cape and Islands is getting in on the steadiest and
Speaker 2: heaviest of the rain, and that likely will be the
Speaker 2: way through the next couple of days. Tonight it's cloudy,
Speaker 2: it's breezy again. Some more rain steadiest over the Cape
Speaker 2: and Islands. Sixty two for the low Tomorrow, a cloudy wind, cool.
Speaker 2: There will be some rain at times, and then rain.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night will feature a couple of showers, probably in
Speaker 2: the inland spots, but the steadiest and heaviest again over
Speaker 2: the Capean Islands. We do need to watch out tomorrow too.
Speaker 2: Coastal flood watches up for tomorrow morning and afternoon in
Speaker 2: a high surf advisory kicks in at seven o'clock tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: By Saturday, we're getting out of the mess. We may
Speaker 2: see a few showers, Temperatures in the mid sixties, and
Speaker 2: then on Sunday breaks the sunshine. Temperatures load the mid sixties.
Speaker 2: Right now seventy four degrees in Looston. It's not magic,
Speaker 2: but it sure feels like it. A new futuristic coffee
Speaker 2: shop serving up customers in Lowell.
Speaker 8: It's green, it glows, and it's serving up Joe. Oh
Speaker 8: my god, there it is. It's coming. When you drive up,
Speaker 8: a stripe two opens up like magic, and there's your coffee.
Speaker 9: So ping is an automated drive through experience. You download
Speaker 9: the app and you order on the app and share
Speaker 9: your location.
Speaker 8: Co founder Rob Witten tells me they're even using some
Speaker 8: AI tech to scan your car and make sure the
Speaker 8: drink pops out at the perfect height.
Speaker 9: Our goal is to work on this for another two
Speaker 9: months and then raise money so that we can fully
Speaker 9: automate it over the winter and then re release it
Speaker 9: in the spring.
Speaker 8: Set Up in a parking lot outside a currently empty
Speaker 8: office building, Rob says they have the worker shortage in mind,
Speaker 8: but more than anything, ping is about getting coffee without
Speaker 8: waiting in line. Thank you. In Lowell, I'm Madison Rogers WBZ,
Speaker 8: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Maybe beer's more your thing. In Britain, a pint of
Speaker 2: beer is a staple at the pub, but now there's
Speaker 2: talk of cutting down the size of pints.
Speaker 7: Academics at Cambridge University want the government to force pubs
Speaker 7: here to reduce the size of pint glasses by a
Speaker 7: third in the name of health concerns. The country's House
Speaker 7: Secretary says.
Speaker 1: I'm really not interested being the fun police or telling
Speaker 1: people how to live their lives.
Speaker 7: But Will Streeting appears to be sipping out of both
Speaker 7: sides of us.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 8: We do have to tell you this issue of chronic
Speaker 8: disease seriously and the impact is having on our lives.
Speaker 7: Typical angry reaction from pubgoers here who say fold my beer.
Speaker 2: Tom, ABC News London, don't mess with Octoberfest. It starts
Speaker 2: on Saturday in Germany and security is going to be tied.
Speaker 5: It's expected six million people will take part in Octoberfest.
Speaker 5: I'll talk this how any easy. Six hundred German police
Speaker 5: officers and two thousand security staffers will work the event,
Speaker 5: and metal detectors will be used for the first time
Speaker 5: in the festival's one hundred and eighty nine year history.
Speaker 5: They'll be at entrances and some security people will have
Speaker 5: handheld detectors. Concern is heightened after a deadly knife attack
Speaker 5: last month in western Germany. The organizer says he wants
Speaker 5: Octoberfests to be the safest place in the country. Steve
Speaker 5: Kaith and CBS News.
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