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Good morning, It's eleven o'clock on a Friday, and hope you're going to enjoy this forecast. Coming up, we have a super moon today and that's going to be beautiful, otherwise known as the beaver Moon. Stand by for moon news coming up. I'm Laurie Kirby. Good morning. It is no deal, no school again in three more shore communities. You know, it was a week ago today the teachers in Beverly and Gloucester hit the picket lines, and then four days ago Marblehead educators did the same. We have
an update. Friday night football is on in Marblehead. The superintendent has had a change of heart lifting a pause on all extracurricular activities. Now this means any weekend event too. If you're a cheerleader or a runner, whatever you're doing. The competition is now back on. However, the teachers there will pay the price, the union having to pay fines, just like Beverly and Gloucester for every day they remain on strike. The Teachers' Union in Marblehead is holding a
rally this afternoon at one at Salem State University. We will have more as it happens. The United Nations and other international aid groups say that famine once again looms large over in northern Gaza. The State Department has decided not to impose an arms embargo on Israel, despite giving the country a thirty day deadline to improve humanitarian conditions. ABC's Jordanna Miller has.
More the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza falling nearly to the lowest levels since the first few months of the war. For many months, we saw about two hundred and fifty trucks a day, entering in October, we only saw a daily average of about seventy, and so far this month about one hundred. Major distribution problems also a huge factor. Whether it's idea of combat, looting by Hamas and other groups, or un logistics, the aid simply isn't
getting into the hands of people who need it. Jordanah Miller, ABC News Jerusalem.
President elect Trump stirs the pot with his cabinet pick for the Department of Health and Human Services. ABC's Mary Bruce report Robert F.
Kennedy, junior in charge of one of the biggest departments in the federal government. AJHS includes agencies that touch every aspect of American life, from the foods you eat to the medicine you take. The former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control, doctor Richard Besser, saying Kennedy as AHHS secretary would pose incredible risks to the health of the nation and that he's worsening mistrust in the public health system.
RFK, Junior has been an outspoken skeptic of public health norms like vaccines and water fluoridation. Senator Warren also expressed her concerns. She says she's got a lot of questions for RFK when he appeared on Capitol Hill for confirmation hearings. The former treasurer of a North a youth football league on the North Shore has just pleaded guilty to larceny. James Potenza was first charged with embezzling eighty grand from
the Pentucket Youth Football League in twenty eleven. Now he was supposed to go on trial the next year, and then he fled to the Middle East. Authorities caught him arrested him when he came back here to renew his passport. He was nailed. He has now been sentenced to jail time and he has to pay back at least some of the money he stole from the Football League. Achi weather Breezey's Sonny red flag warning today and a high to day of fifty seven tonight are low forty two,
much warmer in Boston. If you're inland, maybe thirty six. Here comes fifty nine degrees. Now this is a little bit cooler. We were thinking this weekend we'd be in the sixties zone. Close it says fifty nine. I'm assuming that's for downtown Boston on average, so maybe interior sections will be warmer. But there it is on the cooler side. And again Sonny and gusty. Our rain, which is going to be just a little bit, not enough to mitigate our drought, is Monday, and actually I think we're all
looking forward to some rain. In fact, the ongoing drought and threat of brushfires is causing one South Shore town to cancel a potentially dangerous Thanksgiving Day tradition. Wbz's Jim McKay is in Hall.
It's been affecting everything. Our reservoirs are low. Ryan from Hall knows all too well just how serious the ongoing drought is. That's why he wasn't surprised to hear Hall would be postponing the Fantaskic Beach Thanksgiving bonfire this year.
I've lived here around thirty years.
Cindy can't remember a situation ever like this, at least not on the South Shore. But for people with family elsewhere across the country, it's now hitting home.
My daughter lives in Colorado and they expect fire.
Helen says she understands why they called it off and just helps some mother nature. It provides us with some rain showers soon.
We don't expect it here. It's that bad, the lack of range at hole.
Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's news radio.
And an emergency meeting in Attleborough was just held on their ongoing drought, and of course it's across the northeast, but they are running low on water. The mayor says the city is only three months left of their water supply before it runs out. Now, as we've been reporting, they're working to get a pipe, a simple pipe into the ground to connect with the Pawtucket water supply by early December. That's going to be a huge relief. And also the Sun Chronicles says they're trying to hook up
with towns like Mansfield nearby. You're going to hook up hydrants that will supply Addleborough with more water every day. But again, in the meantime, the mayor is reminding everybody please conserve your water where you can. And it may sound funny or it may sound like an infringement on your showering activity. Take shorter showers. We heard that from Governor Morehey earlier this week as well. Even restaurants and
bars can do their part. A former late night host from Brookline will MC the Oscars for the first time, and I think a lot of us are looking forward to it. And the Oscar Awards go to Oh No No.
Brian, the former late night talk show host, will emc the ninety seventh Oscars, his first time.
In the role.
We're already five minutes over and I am not joking.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the past two years. Last year, Ceremony won an Emmy for Outstanding Live Variety Special. O'Brien said in a statement, America demanded it, and now it's happening. Taco Bell's new cheesy Chloupa Supreme, and other news. I'm hosting the Oscars. Wendy Jillette CBS News.
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