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We've got some big troubles on the turnpike the Hopkins In area, back through Framingham, back through Natika boy at truck roll over at Juna Tempesta. We did get a little good news, but not enough yet.
Yeah, exactly been. The good news is they have reopened that left hand lane, but not enough to really make that much of an impact. At one point of the road it was fully shut down. So we're getting some progress made, but we're still looking at some very heavy volume, and like you said, you're pretty much backing up into the Native stretcher, backing up but beyond Route twenty seven, that's at least a good by six miles there. Really
feeling the heat as well. From four ninety five sound as you make your way down to the turnpike, you're backing up beyond Main Street.
Ben all right, of course, avoid the turnpike if you can this afternoon, but if you can't keep it, tune to WBZ we'll tell you where to go. Yes, this crash messes up our Thursday afternoon commute. There are other bad spots as well, so Gina, we'll be back in a couple of minutes. With that last month, Stewart close to hospitals in Massachusetts after the company went bankrupt. Now lawmakers in Washington are taking action in a second hearing
on Capitol Hill to hold the company's CEO accountable. WUS's book McCarthy with the.
Latest strong words from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders about bankrupt Stewart Healthcare CEO Ralph Delatory.
Deserve to know.
How doctor Delatory became extraordinarily wealthy while the hospitals he managed when bankrupt.
Dallatory refused to attend a committee hearing last week where senators, former employees, and more hoped to get answers on what led to the healthcare company's financial ruin. The committee voting unanimously to adopt two resolutions aimed at holding Dlatory in contempt for both civil and criminal violations. Here's Senator at marquee Hey.
We are making clear that doctor Delattori, that yaw millions do not shield you from accountability.
To a legal order issued by the United.
States Attorneys for Daily. Tory sent a letter to the Senate committee saying he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to testify and denying any wrongdoing. The resolution now heads to the full Senate. Burke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
A corrections officer is still hospitalized after an attack on guard's last night as the Susan Beronowski Correctional Center. In all, five officers were hurt, Two were stabbed inside the prison, three others injured when they tried to help. That is Martin, as president of the Massachusets correction Officers Federated Union, and says person official should have known something like this would happen again. We've been worn in this department for over two years.
Two years we've been warning them.
This wasn't isolated attack here. This is an attempted murder on a correctional officer. Two officers were performing routine rounds when they were attacked from behind. One officer, who was stabbed a dozen times, is still hospitalized in serious but stable condition. Martin says he suffered a punctured lung. Increased tensions in the Middle East between Israel and has Blah after attacks on electronic devices, and today Israeli airstrikes in southern.
As well.
As leader called the attacks on his group's communication devices a severe blow, but said they will not stop targeting Israel until the war in Gaza ends. And as tensions grow, the families of hostages held by Hamas are growing more worried about the ceasefire talks.
We hope that our leaders will choose the life of their own people over their own political surviving.
The Israeli military struck hasma lot of targets in Lebanon. Shortly before the speech by Hassan israela Israeli jets flew low over Beirut and broke the sound barrier.
That is CBS's Kemmi McCormick. The rain and showers over the cape right now, and that's where most of this rain has been hanging out today. We've had a couple of showers randomly in a few other places, but the Cape and Islands is getting in on the steadiest and heaviest of the rain, and that likely will be the way through the next couple of days. Tonight it's cloudy, it's breezy again. Some more rain steadiest over the Cape and Islands. Sixty two for the low Tomorrow, a cloudy wind, cool.
There will be some rain at times, and then rain. Tomorrow night will feature a couple of showers, probably in the inland spots, but the steadiest and heaviest again over the Capean Islands. We do need to watch out tomorrow too. Coastal flood watches up for tomorrow morning and afternoon in a high surf advisory kicks in at seven o'clock tomorrow morning. By Saturday, we're getting out of the mess. We may see a few showers, Temperatures in the mid sixties, and
then on Sunday breaks the sunshine. Temperatures load the mid sixties. Right now seventy four degrees in Looston. It's not magic, but it sure feels like it. A new futuristic coffee shop serving up customers in Lowell.
It's green, it glows, and it's serving up Joe. Oh my god, there it is. It's coming. When you drive up, a stripe two opens up like magic, and there's your coffee.
So ping is an automated drive through experience. You download the app and you order on the app and share your location.
Co founder Rob Witten tells me they're even using some AI tech to scan your car and make sure the drink pops out at the perfect height.
Our goal is to work on this for another two months and then raise money so that we can fully automate it over the winter and then re release it in the spring.
Set Up in a parking lot outside a currently empty office building, Rob says they have the worker shortage in mind, but more than anything, ping is about getting coffee without waiting in line. Thank you. In Lowell, I'm Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Maybe beer's more your thing. In Britain, a pint of beer is a staple at the pub, but now there's talk of cutting down the size of pints.
Academics at Cambridge University want the government to force pubs here to reduce the size of pint glasses by a third in the name of health concerns. The country's House Secretary says.
I'm really not interested being the fun police or telling people how to live their lives.
But Will Streeting appears to be sipping out of both sides of us.
Now.
We do have to tell you this issue of chronic disease seriously and the impact is having on our lives.
Typical angry reaction from pubgoers here who say fold my beer.
Tom, ABC News London, don't mess with Octoberfest. It starts on Saturday in Germany and security is going to be tied.
It's expected six million people will take part in Octoberfest. I'll talk this how any easy. Six hundred German police officers and two thousand security staffers will work the event, and metal detectors will be used for the first time in the festival's one hundred and eighty nine year history. They'll be at entrances and some security people will have handheld detectors. Concern is heightened after a deadly knife attack last month in western Germany. The organizer says he wants
Octoberfests to be the safest place in the country. Steve Kaith and CBS News.
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