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Speaker 2: News, dark clouds, chance of rain, just a little bit
Speaker 2: of Boston sixty three. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning, Hope
Speaker 2: you had a nice weekend. On Laurie Kirby. We start
Speaker 2: this hour in Lebanon, where Israel is now urging civilians
Speaker 2: to evacuate as they fire a new wave of deadly
Speaker 2: missiles at Hesbelon targets in Lebanon. ABC's Matha Ratus is
Speaker 2: in Tel Aviv.
Speaker 3: President Biden says his administration is doing everything possible to
Speaker 3: prevent a wider war, but a US official telling me
Speaker 3: the table is set for escalation, that the Israelis are
Speaker 3: not listening to the US, and that what we saw
Speaker 3: here overnight is a prelude of what is to come.
Speaker 1: That is why we have.
Speaker 3: Seen the State Department warren Americans to get out of
Speaker 3: Lebanon while commercial means are still available.
Speaker 2: Thousands of people right now are fleeing south. And what's
Speaker 2: the biggest excident since the two thousand and six Israel
Speaker 2: has Belah war. Hundreds have been killed, and fears of
Speaker 2: an escalating conflict, a wider conflict in the Middle East
Speaker 2: is pulling focused at the UN General Assembly this week.
Speaker 2: Over now to ABC's jo'brien.
Speaker 1: President Biden will address the UN on Tuesday. White House
Speaker 1: officials say the top priority for him is reaffirming American
Speaker 1: leadership on the world stages, also trying to end brutal
Speaker 1: conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. It was just a few
Speaker 1: weeks before the start of the Israel Hamasquare that was
Speaker 1: the last time at these more than one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty world leaders gathered together. That conflict in that region
Speaker 1: will take center stage.
Speaker 2: Congressional leaders reach a deal to prevent a looming shutdown.
Speaker 2: ABC Steven Portnoy has that the.
Speaker 4: Bipartisan measure is expected to avert a government shutdown next
Speaker 4: week and keep agencies fully funded through December twentieth. It
Speaker 4: includes an additional two hundred and thirty one million dollars
Speaker 4: for the Secret Service, but that money comes with strings attached.
Speaker 4: The agency must deliver to Congress its initial review of
Speaker 4: its time failures in Butler, Pennsylvania, and respond in a
Speaker 4: timely manner to requests for answers and documents from House
Speaker 4: and Centered oversight investigators.
Speaker 2: A bill extending government funding for three months is expected
Speaker 2: on the House floor on Wednesday and a big honor
Speaker 2: in the seaport. Today. In Boston, a ceremony is being
Speaker 2: held at the Omni Boston Hotel to honor the New
Speaker 2: Englanders of the year, and the New England Council says
Speaker 2: over sixteen hundred members and guests are coming from all
Speaker 2: over New England. On the list of nominees, there's retired
Speaker 2: Brigadier General Jack Hammond and retiring Congresswoman Annie Christoph New
Speaker 2: York make that New Hampshire Eastern Bank CEO Bob Rivers
Speaker 2: and the Burton family that includes WBZTV sportscasters Steve Burton
Speaker 2: and a lot more. Congresswoman Laurie Trehan and Red Sox
Speaker 2: chair Tom Werder will attend. The celebration is happening around
Speaker 2: four pm. There's a strike on the way at that hotel,
Speaker 2: but the Council does not expect any disruptions and more
Speaker 2: patrols are at schools in Chelmsford and Worcester after threats
Speaker 2: are made. Some sprinkles falling out there in various locations,
Speaker 2: but all in all just clouds and sun today, cool
Speaker 2: breezes and high surf. We have an advisory for the
Speaker 2: surf that's just been pounding the coastline through eight o'clock
Speaker 2: tonight and then the rest of the week. We're in
Speaker 2: the clouds, breezy at night tonight some of you will
Speaker 2: be in the forties. You're definitely going to feel like
Speaker 2: it's fall. It is our first full week, first full day.
Speaker 2: Now by Thursday, we're warming it up near seventy and
Speaker 2: we should dry out for some sunshine and a much
Speaker 2: better Friday into the weekend.
Speaker 5: So there is.
Speaker 2: Heightened security at some schools around Massachusetts today. You know,
Speaker 2: I was reporting on Chelmsford High where an unspecified threat
Speaker 2: was found in a school bathroom Friday. Police deemed it
Speaker 2: not credible, but of course they were upping patrols there today.
Speaker 2: I've also just learned there are more police at some
Speaker 2: schools in Woocester today. Are multiple students from various schools
Speaker 2: reported threatening messages on social media. Wister. Police don't think
Speaker 2: those threats are credible either, but they're obviously investigating. Right
Speaker 2: in the heart of the fall sports season, an athletic
Speaker 2: complex concession stand in Kingston is ransacked. Wbz's Jim McKay
Speaker 2: reports nearly one thousand dollars worth of snacks meant for
Speaker 2: kids have been stolen.
Speaker 5: I was very upset. Chris is a parent of an
Speaker 5: eight year old, a native of Kingston and silver Lake grad,
Speaker 5: obviously ticked off when he found out about what happened
Speaker 5: here at the Opachinski Athletic Complex. I've been doing this
Speaker 5: for a long time and my kids have been through
Speaker 5: here for a long time. This is the home of
Speaker 5: Silver Lake Youth Football, where some two hundred kids across Halifax,
Speaker 5: Plimpton and Kingston hone their skills. Chris Nathan wondering why
Speaker 5: anyone would do such a thing. It's bad because it
Speaker 5: makes the kids not feel safe. Now the program is
Speaker 5: getting donations from local businesses and families looking to replenish
Speaker 5: the items stolen over the weekend. Trying to not let
Speaker 5: it TARTI should time of the the entire community looks
Speaker 5: forward to.
Speaker 2: They really like playing here in Kingston.
Speaker 5: Jim McKay WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: In an effort to stop six season free COVID tests
Speaker 2: are coming back soon. We get more on that from
Speaker 2: CBS's Linda Kenyon.
Speaker 6: The Department of Health and Human Services says the tests
Speaker 6: will be available for home delivery later this month. The
Speaker 6: exact date has not yet been said. To order, you
Speaker 6: can go to COVID tests dot gov. Health of US
Speaker 6: will say it's a good idea to order ahead of
Speaker 6: the holidays to avoid getting COVID at a time when
Speaker 6: family and friends gather for celebrations, and also just to
Speaker 6: be forewarned. While most Americans have some degree of immunity
Speaker 6: from prior infections or vaccinations or both, that protection does
Speaker 6: wane over time. Linda Kenyon, CBS News, Washington.
Speaker 2: And a not so little penguin is getting a ton
Speaker 2: of attention down under.
Speaker 7: Pesto the penguin is packing on the pounds. The three
Speaker 7: foot tall kingbird weighs a whopping fifty pounds and he's
Speaker 7: only nine months old. He lives at the Sea Life
Speaker 7: Aquarium in Melbourne, Australia, where he eats thirty fish a day.
Speaker 7: That's twice as many as the average adult penguin. The
Speaker 7: aquarium says Pesto's growth will plateau as he matures and
Speaker 7: enters his fledgling period. Pesto's mom and dad, Hudson and Tango,
Speaker 7: weigh about twenty five pounds each. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News.
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Speaker 2: I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ, Boston's news radio