Speaker 1: Fifty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Israel's Foreign minister says
Speaker 1: Hamas head ya Ya Sinhwak was killed by Israeli soldiers
Speaker 1: in Gaza today. Sinhwar is considered to be the mastermind
Speaker 1: behind the October seventh attacks. ABC's Karen Travers has more.
Speaker 2: President Biden said an escapement, the death of Hamas leader
Speaker 2: Yahya Sinhwar is a good day for Israel, the US,
Speaker 2: and the world. He sent for Israelis. This brings relief,
Speaker 2: comparing it to the feeling among Americans after the raid
Speaker 2: that killed Osama bin Laden in twenty eleven. President Biden
Speaker 2: said Sinwar's death gives the opportunity for a quote day
Speaker 2: after in Gaza without Hamas in power, saying Sinwar was
Speaker 2: a quote insurmountable obstacle to achieving a political settlement between
Speaker 2: the Israelis and Palestinians. Karen Travers ABC News Washington.
Speaker 1: Meantime, President Biden arrives in Germany. He is due to
Speaker 1: hold meetings with leaders of some of the key European nations.
Speaker 3: The President had originally planned to go to Germany last week,
Speaker 3: but he postponed that trip due to Hurricane Milton. Now
Speaker 3: he will meet with Germany's President Steinmeier and Chancellor Schulz,
Speaker 3: as well as with leaders from the UK and France.
Speaker 3: Topping the agenda for these meetings in Berlin will be
Speaker 3: shared global security, the war in Ukraine, conflicts in the
Speaker 3: Middle East, and bolstering trade. Biden will also make special
Speaker 3: note of Germany's role in helping to bring about the
Speaker 3: complex prisoner exchange earlier this year with Russia that secured
Speaker 3: the release of several Americans. Linda Kenyon, CBS News the
Speaker 3: White House.
Speaker 1: A shakeup could be coming to the Secret Service. An
Speaker 1: independent advisory panel is recommending big changes at the agency
Speaker 1: after the assassination attempt to former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4: An independent panel investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump
Speaker 4: in Pennsylvania's as the Secret Service needs fundamental reform. The
Speaker 4: panel's experts include former Homeland Security Chief Janet Apolitano, who
Speaker 4: says unless the Secret Service makes big changes.
Speaker 5: We believe another Butler can and will happen again.
Speaker 4: The review echoes other findings faulting Secret Service communications and
Speaker 4: tactics that day in Pennsylvania. But it also blasts the
Speaker 4: agency's culture, with former White House Homeland Security advisor Francis
Speaker 4: Townsend saying the Secret Service not only must refocus on protection,
Speaker 4: but also bring in new outside leadership.
Speaker 2: They need a fresh start across the.
Speaker 4: Board, Sagur Magonie, Washington.
Speaker 1: Months after a vineyard wind turbine blade broke, sending pieces
Speaker 1: into the ocean, the work has started to retrieve and
Speaker 1: remove pieces that sank to the ocean floor. The company
Speaker 1: says it could take as long as two weeks to
Speaker 1: do that. Boston City councilors are considering a Plan B
Speaker 1: for the budget shortfall and a threat of spiking property
Speaker 1: taxes in the city, but.
Speaker 6: The hearing today, counselors are now looking at ways to
Speaker 6: provide some tax relief to homeowners, including a potential fifteen
Speaker 6: million dollar fund. Greg Maynard with the Boston Policy Institute
Speaker 6: says the city needs to get creative to solve its
Speaker 6: money problems. There is every reason to believe that commercial
Speaker 6: property values will continue to decline in the years to come.
Speaker 1: That decline creates a perfect storm for Boston.
Speaker 6: This is homeowners worry about higher tax rates and business
Speaker 6: owners worry about the mayor's plan to temporarily raise THEIRS.
Speaker 5: I believe that residents have been off in a false choice.
Speaker 6: Ed Flynn and Julia Mhea are among the counselors saying
Speaker 6: they need to look at alternatives to the current plan.
Speaker 3: One that does not begin and end with impacting our
Speaker 3: small businesses.
Speaker 6: There is Mountain concern the mayor's proposal won't get the
Speaker 6: approval it needs. On Beacon Hill, Madison Rogers w b Z,
Speaker 6: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Last night, the mayor kicked off a series of town
Speaker 1: halls trying to shore up support for her plan. There's
Speaker 1: another town hall at Charlestown High about ninety minutes from now.
Speaker 1: We've had a chill in the air around these parts,
Speaker 1: but we will start to remove that chill as we
Speaker 1: go through the next several days. Tonight we will fall
Speaker 1: back into the thirties in most inland suburbs, about forty
Speaker 1: five downtown, and then sunshine Tomorrow it'll be a little breezy.
Speaker 1: Temperatures do rise into the low to mid sixties. The
Speaker 1: warm up continues Saturday as we get to near seventy
Speaker 1: with plenty of sunshine. Sunday, load of mid seventies again
Speaker 1: with plenty of sunshine, and we may get real close
Speaker 1: to eighty degrees on Monday. Right now, fifty two degrees
Speaker 1: in Boston. Some of us did get frost on the
Speaker 1: pumpkin overnight, and all of us felt a chill in
Speaker 1: the air. Still others, well, they think it's short season,
Speaker 1: Jay let checking out people's pants on the common.
Speaker 7: Ah New England fall. The temps drop drastically, the leaves change.
Speaker 7: But you know what doesn't baby refuse not to come
Speaker 7: out with shorts on Bostonians wearing shorts clutching a nice
Speaker 7: cold coffee.
Speaker 5: I know people that wear them year round.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I Gilbert says, he sees it all the time.
Speaker 1: There's strong I got strong bodies, is strong salts.
Speaker 4: The long and short of it is.
Speaker 7: For the most part, folks in the common were forgiving
Speaker 7: to the free need individuals, especially with temps expected to
Speaker 7: bounce back up.
Speaker 4: How late do you think it's too late? November? December's
Speaker 4: coming up?
Speaker 5: They still got time left forgot.
Speaker 7: I think we got a three or four days of
Speaker 7: walking through a sawber. But how long will they last?
Speaker 7: Only time can tell. Jay will ed WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty important part of American history. In fact,
Speaker 1: it is one of the most important pieces of the
Speaker 1: United States, and it's up for sale.
Speaker 5: Up for sale a rare copy of the US Constitution,
Speaker 5: printed two hundred and thirty seven years ago.
Speaker 3: This document was discovered in a plantation in Edenton, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: This was found in a foul covenant.
Speaker 5: Lauren Bronc of the auction house that will sell the
Speaker 5: piece of history Tonight says the plantation was once owned
Speaker 5: by Samuel Johnston, North Carolina governor, who represented the state
Speaker 5: at the Continental Congress. A minimum bid of a million
Speaker 5: dollars is already in Steve Kith and CBS News.
Speaker 1: Fewer teenagers are using tobacco these days, but experts are
Speaker 1: still concerned. ABC's Brian Clark with the tails Owes.
Speaker 8: Experts say the drop off in youth tobacco is a
Speaker 8: good thing, but there are still too many high school
Speaker 8: and middle school students using tobacco products. The National Youth
Speaker 8: Tobacco Survey found that two point two five million students
Speaker 8: said they used a tobacco product within the past thirty days.
Speaker 8: That's down from two point eight million a year ago.
Speaker 8: The most commonly used product e cigarettes followed by nicotine pouches.
Speaker 8: Brian Clark, ABC News.
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