Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: High clouds, beautiful sunny in Boston at sixty seven degrees
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Good Monday morning. Thanks for being with us
Speaker 2: on Laurie Kirby and updating the Stewart healthcare crisis. It
Speaker 2: is turning a critical corner that will see the state
Speaker 2: cut ties with a bankrupt hospital operator. After a rare
Speaker 2: Sunday hearing in bankruptcy court, it's expected the sale will
Speaker 2: close today on the remaining hospitals that Stewart still controls
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, Lawrence General will take over Holy Family and
Speaker 2: haverl and Massouan Lifespan will take over ops at Morton
Speaker 2: Hospital in Taunton and Saint Anne's in Fall River. Boston
Speaker 2: Medical will take control of Good Samaritan in Brockton and
Speaker 2: Saint Elizabeth in Brighton. Stewart's CEO, Ralph de Latouri, is
Speaker 2: expected to formally step down tomorrow. He's still facing subpoenas
Speaker 2: in Washington, but the transfers of ownership will be over
Speaker 2: by tomorrow as well. And of course we are your
Speaker 2: breaking news station. We'll have more on this both here
Speaker 2: and streaming on the iHeartRadio app. The death toll from
Speaker 2: Helene rises to more than one hundred people across six
Speaker 2: states across the Southeast. Millions remain without power right now.
Speaker 2: Vice President Kamala Harris is reaching out to elected officials
Speaker 2: in the hard hit region. ABC's Karen Travers with Moore.
Speaker 3: Vice President Harris canceled her campaign events in Las Vegas
Speaker 3: Monday to return to Washington for a Hurricane Heleen briefing
Speaker 3: at FEMA. She'll get an update on the ongoing impacts
Speaker 3: of the storm and the federal actions being taken to
Speaker 3: support emergency response and recovery. The White House officials of
Speaker 3: the Vice President may clear to governors in the region
Speaker 3: Sunday the Biden administration will stand with the impacted communities
Speaker 3: throughout their recovery. Harrison tends to visit impacted communities as
Speaker 3: soon as it's possible without disrupting emergency response operations. Karen Travers,
Speaker 3: ABC News Washington.
Speaker 2: Former President Donald Trump is getting a first hand account
Speaker 2: of the damage in Georgia today, and the vice presidential
Speaker 2: candidates are gearing up for their first and only debate
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. CBS is Wendy Jillette with a preview of that.
Speaker 4: The debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor
Speaker 4: Tim Walls will serve different purposes for the candidates. According
Speaker 4: to former New York Democratic Legislator Josh Laffazan, he says
Speaker 4: Vance must demonstrate likability.
Speaker 5: In his own home region. He is a twenty eight
Speaker 5: percent favorability compared to forty four percent on favorability.
Speaker 4: He says it's more about policy.
Speaker 5: For Walls, he has to show those moderate credentials for
Speaker 5: voters in those swing states who perhaps think he might
Speaker 5: be too liberal on policy.
Speaker 4: The debate will be held at the CBS Broadcast Center
Speaker 4: in Manhattan. Wendy Jellette CBS News New York.
Speaker 2: And US Tune in to the CBS News Vice Presidential
Speaker 2: Debate Tuesday, October first, at nine pm on CBS or
Speaker 2: simulcast on WBZ News Radio. Okay, absolutely pretty out there,
Speaker 2: very calm. We do have some high clouds. These are
Speaker 2: not rain clouds. In fact, the only precipitation I see
Speaker 2: is tomorrow morning, a spotty drizzle perhaps as we go
Speaker 2: back to work, but fine for this Monday. Seventy four
Speaker 2: are high inland, sixty eight along the coast, Sun and clouds.
Speaker 2: We cloud up substantially tonight ahead of that little bit
Speaker 2: of drizzle tomorrow, and then it's going to be cloudy tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But we're in the sixties the higher end as well.
Speaker 2: Wednesday staying in the higher sixties, warming up to the seventies.
Speaker 2: Thursday mostly Sunday and Thursday looking good. We love and
Speaker 2: oh five. It is anything but quiet outside of eight
Speaker 2: schools in Lynn this morning, and wbz's Jay Willette tells us.
Speaker 6: Why all the commotion outside Lynn Classical High and seven
Speaker 6: other schools for walk ins gathered against the city's KIP
Speaker 6: Academy charter school and a proposed expansion of it, you know, the.
Speaker 2: Early childhood program that just opened and the expansion of
Speaker 2: it early college.
Speaker 6: Win Teachers Union president Shila O'Neil tells me the plan
Speaker 6: would slash some twenty four million off the public budget.
Speaker 2: Special programs that we have across the city for our students,
Speaker 2: those would be decimated.
Speaker 6: When Public school superintendent doctor von Albare says, the response
Speaker 6: from students has been powerful.
Speaker 2: We have a platform for our innovation and that KIP
Speaker 2: doesn't offer any of those programs, and so what would
Speaker 2: students do to actually get those offerings.
Speaker 6: District officials say if this goes through, LPs will lose
Speaker 6: fifty four million each year to charter schools. WBZ News
Speaker 6: Radio has reached out to Kip Academy for comment. Jay
Speaker 6: will Let, WBZ, Boston's.
Speaker 2: News Radio, and teachers rallied in Boston this morning. They're
Speaker 2: trying to drum up support as they negotiate a new
Speaker 2: union contract. Missing mail is a problem hitting close to home.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Drew Mholland with.
Speaker 7: That story, Oh hey, maybe this would work out better.
Speaker 7: We got mail the old AOL brings back memories later
Speaker 7: missing mail though in several Boston neighborhoods, and that means
Speaker 7: missed bills and missing mail in election ballots. Officials aren't happy.
Speaker 7: Fingers of many being pointed at the US Postal Service,
Speaker 7: but the Post Office only says it's aware of a
Speaker 7: minor staffing issue that has since been resolved. But here's
Speaker 7: the deal. Many say this has been going on for months.
Speaker 7: Mail in ballot registration already in the mail. Ballots must
Speaker 7: be postmarked no later than November fifth, So we get
Speaker 7: a problem. What's going on here? You got mail, but
Speaker 7: we don't, at least in some of these Boston neighborhoods
Speaker 7: searching for answers. Drew o'holland WBC Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Robots and Ghouls Conquer the box office.
Speaker 8: Animated science fiction film The Wild Robot won the weekend
Speaker 8: box office bring in thirty five million dollars. Domestically, Beddlejuice
Speaker 8: Middle Juice was second with sixteen million, while Transformers One
Speaker 8: was third with just over nine million. Francis Ford Coppola's
Speaker 8: self financed Megalopolis flopped in its debut, raking in just
Speaker 8: four million dollars, far short of the film's one hundred
Speaker 8: and twenty million dollar budget.
Speaker 2: The music world is mourning the loss of Chris Christofferson,
Speaker 2: the country music star and actor and so much More
Speaker 2: was eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Christofferson died Saturday at his mally Holme, with a family
Speaker 1: statement saying he passed peacefully. As a musician, Christofferson won
Speaker 1: three Grammys and a Lifetime Achievement Award with notable songs
Speaker 1: such as Me and Bobby McGhee and for the Good Times.
Speaker 1: Christofferson also went on to act in such films as
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy six A Star Is Born, Pat Garrett
Speaker 1: and Billy the Kid and the Blade Trilogy. I'm Mark Mayfield.
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