Seventy nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Some new life for Saint Elizabeth Medical Center. Governor Morrich Healey formerly seizing the medical center in Brighton through eminent domain to keep that hospital open. It allows the state to take control of the property and transition operations to a new medical services provider, Boston Medical Center. This has continued to fallout from Stuart
Healthcare's bankruptcy. Boston Medical Center and Stewart had previously reached an agreement transfer operations of Saint Elizabeth's to BMC, an asset management firm Apollo, refused to accept BMC's bid for the real estate. Now, the action by the governor will allow a hospital to remain open and serving patients. New York City's Mayor Merrick Adams pleading not guilty at his arraignment today on federal corruption charges.
Adams, joined by his defense attorney, turned himself in Friday morning at Manhattan Federal Court, where he was processed, finger printed, photographed, and read his rights before entering his plea. The judge agreed that Adams be released on his own signature. Provided he has no contact with witnesses or others listed by
the government regarding the indictment. Prosecutors hit Adams with a five count indictment Thursday, claiming he accepted lavish gifts and trips from Turkish officials, as well as solicited campaign contributions. Adams has been resisting growing calls to resign and is the first sitting mayor to be federally charged.
That's correspondent Christen Marx a visit to the border for Vice President Kamala Harris. The VP heading to Arizona.
Hearrist delivers remarks in the border town of Douglas, Arizona. She'll again call out Trump for his role in killing the bipartisan border bill earlier this year, saying, quote, the American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games. The Vice President will meet with border patrol agents and tout the pay raises they received under the Biden administration, but she'll also argue they
need more resources to do their jobs. Karen Travers ABC News Washington.
Polls now show former President Donald Trump has an advantage over Harris when it comes to immigration issues. Today, the former president meeting with Ukraine's president to discuss Valatimirzelinsky's victory plan to defeat the Russians.
Just discuss it and if we have a win.
I think low before January twentieth, before I would take the presidency.
It's January twentieth, but long before that.
I think that we can work out something that's good.
For both, said Today's meeting, coming as many Republicans have been reluctant to support Ukraine's war effort. She's won Oscars, Baptis, Emmys, Golden Globes, and a tony. Actress Maggie Smith has died. She impressed for years on stage and screen and got a whole new group of fans in recent years.
Maggie Smith was known for her recent role in TV's Downton Abbey. I remember the Malleton in the eighteen sixties, dar Old Lady Darley.
Always liked to stuff the place with royalty.
Smith also won fans in the Harry Potter movies. She won Academy Awards for the Prime of Miss g Ian Brody in nineteen sixty nine and for a supporting role in nineteen seventy eight California Sweet Steve Kith and CBS News.
Mattie Smith was eighty nine. We've got some sunshine hanging in there as we go into the latter part of the afternoon. It's been a pretty nice day, comfortable too, well into the seventies in many places. Tonight we'll have a few clouds around. We'll fall back to about sixty in the city, fifties in the suburbs tomorrow, more clouds than sun, but they'll be sun. So that's nice upper
sixties along the coast, low seventies inland. It's going to be a cooler day on Sunday, a mix of clouds and sun, with temperatures in the mid sixties and then maybe the seventy again by Monday, with sun and clouds. Right now seventy nine degrees in Boston more now on Deployables Day. That's today, and wdz's Jablett tells us Boston is preparing the public for a rising tide.
Rushing water of waterfront homeowner's worst nightmare. The inaugural Deployables Day here in City Hall Plaza is a chance for the public to learn and test barricades of all shapes and sizes flood water.
It's like trying to hold a beach ball underwater it pops up.
Victor Altoff shows me the flood break gate, which is a pillar that automatically fills up and pushes down to protect lots, homes lives.
It slowly rises so that people were out there they wouldn't become a human projectile when the gate went flying up.
Meantime, Joshua Brownfelt with Garrison Flood Control shows me the Guppy Max, a giant orange trapezoid filled with water to blockwater.
A lot of people are starting to retrofit their homes.
It's also ample time for Bostonians to figure out their hurricane evacuation zone timely with the EBB and flow seen in the south from downtown Boston. J Willette WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Massachusetts a privaty Public Health announcing the thirteenth human case of West Nile virus this year. Officials say the case is a man in his forties exposed in southern Essex County. As a result, the West Nile risk levels are being raised moderate in Middleton in Essex County and North Redding
in Middlesex County. There have been three hundred and thirty two West Nile positive mosquito samples so far this year in the state, officials reminding everyone to avoid mosquito bites using mosquito proof of clothing as well as a lot of bug spray. Helene has been downgraded to a topical depression, but it's still causing widespread damage across the southeast.
The National Weather Service says the remnants of Hurricane Helene will stall over the Tennessee Valley over the weekend. That means there'll be a lot more rain in places that don't need any more rate. It's already been soggy across much of the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, and they'll have more rain through the weekend. Flooding continues to be a life threatening problem across the southern Appalachian Mountains. Many roads and highways and bridges are closed flooded by several feet of water.
Now is CBS is Jim Cursula. Heleen made landfall in Florida overnight. It was Category four at the time. There have been at least two dozen storm related deaths across four states. Nothing like free and tomorrow free admission to national parks and another freebeast coming up later this year.
Fee free days like National public Lands Day every year on September twenty eighth and Veterans Day on November eleventh, are among five days observed by US for Service and other federal agencies overseeing operations of day use parks on public lands. Alice Cohen of the US Four Services, the no charge days include national forests, national parks, any other public lands, wildlife refugees. She says other government agencies may
add fee free days throughout the year. The agencies might recognize when they started, so Army Corps of Engineer in June sixteenth is their birthday. Learnmore at FS dot USDA dot com. I'm Rebecca Hughes.
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