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News sixty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. The news brought to you by the Good Feed Store, Improving people's lives two feet at a time. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Back on track and back underway. Greenlight service resuming between North Station and Union Square and at North Station and Medford toffs following Tuesday's derailment near Leechmere, the t announcing today repairs had been made in a
test train man successfully this morning. There is also an ongoing investigation into what caused the derailment, including with federal and state officials. In a statement, m BTA General manager Phil Lang says, we sincerely apologize for this incident and thanked the public for their patients. While we worked to resume service, our thoughts continued to be with the writers who were aboard this trolley and those who were injured.
He goes on to say, know that we share a common goal with the NTSBFTA and DPU and are fully committed to continuously improve and deliver safe and reliable service to all that we serve. The death toll from Hurricane Helene hits two hundred. That death toll likely to go higher as hundreds of people remain missing. One hundreds of thousands of people are still without power in Georgia and
the Carolinas. President Biden surveying damage today in parts of the South, and with all the damage and all of the deaths, there are questions about preparations for this storm.
It's a one in one thousand year storm.
Major General Windberghead says while they were watching the storm approach.
It's very difficult to think that you're completely prepared, he said.
Right now, they're focused on helping the area's hit hardest.
All eyes right now are on North Carolina in Tennessee. This is going to be a long recovery.
Process and if additional help is needed.
I'm very very pleased with the communication that we have here in the Pentagon that if it's determined that they're needed, they can be placed into action very very quickly.
Stacey Lynn, CBS News Washington. No sign of progress in tox aim to ending a strike by forty five thousand dock workers on the east end Gulf Coast.
Seeking International Longshoreman's Association is demanding more than a wage increase. Its members claim that automation is costing jobs, but because automation means efficiency.
That's something that ports will not negotiate.
University of New Orleans economics professor Walter Lane says a strike of a week shouldn't affect consumer prices.
Those are much longer than that. As there seem to be indications at will, these impacts will get bigger than bicker.
Jim Ryan ABC News.
When something is free, people jump on board. Yeah, it turns out a lot of people have been taking that free ride to college. In Massachusetts, about ten thousand students are newly taking advantage of the cost free community college in the first semester of the program. Go the Morehley and higher education leaders are celebrating the no cost option, with the governors saying interest is already high and could
swell significantly in the coming months. In fact, within a year, the governor says as many as forty five thousand students could be tapping in to the state's community college with no out of pocket costs free to students, though does costs officials have projected the state will pay about one hundred and seventeen million dollars this year to cover the program. Peaks of sunshine through the afternoon, and as we head into the evening, no sunshine, but peaks of well sky.
We'll have partly cloudy skies overnight. What we need to watch out for late tonight is the fog that'll start to roll in. Temperatures mainly in the fifties. The fog starts us off Tomorrow morning, but it burns away with
partly sunny skies developing. Temperatures in the low to mid seventies, partly mostly cloudy Tomorrow night fifty nine for the low and then on Saturday, some clouds, a couple of shours early later in the day afternoon, Let's say we'll get some sunshine in here and temperatures rise to around seventy mid to upper sixties on Sunday with a mix of stun and clouds. It is sixty seven degrees right now
in Boston. A unique tropical fish has a new home that the New England Aquarium wbz's Brook McCarthy explains.
Among some oyster cages in Little Pleasant Bay and Orleans, some farmers recently noticed a teeny tiny fish that stuck out like a sore thumb thanks to its bright blue and yellow colors, and.
So the folks tending to their oysters were able to scoop up the fish and bring it to a wildlife rehabilitator down the cape.
That's Michael O'Neill with the New England Aquarium. He says it's a blue angelfish that made its way up north because of warmer water temperatures, and Michael says this is becoming more common.
This year definitely stands out as a year where a lot of tropical fish are showing up.
The little blue angelfish will now call the aquarium home, growing and thriving in their different tropical tanks. Brook McCarthy WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
They're shaking things up with the Grammy Awards. They for years have been criticized over a lack of diversity. An evolving voting body is working to remedy that, the Recording Academy announcing that since twenty nineteen, more than three thousand women have been added to the electorate and now sixty six percent of the voting body is made up of members who've joined in just the past five years. The Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Junior says it's the most
of everse Grammy electorate ever. There are over sixteen thousand members. Now more than thirteen thousand of them are voting members. New questions about the death of actor John Amos CBS is Steve Kathan as the tales.
You ain't got the foggiest idea a few.
John Amos rose to fame on the CBS sitcom Good Times. His death was revealed this week. His publicist says he died back on August twenty first of natural causes. Now, family members and friends have posted a statement on Facebook saying, quote, we refuse to rule out the possibility of foul play. Some close to him had been unaware of his death. Amos was cremated. His son and daughter had disagreed over
the actor's dementia care. Daughter Shannon last year alleged elder abuse, but police closed the case citing a lack of evidence. Steve Kaithan, CBS News.
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