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News Sunshine sixty eight in Boston. It's eleven o'clock Good Morning on Laurie Kirby and the Tripoli death toll rises in the state of New England or the region, I should say. Wbz's Madison Rogers has more.
New Hampshire officials confirm a second resident has died from eastern Eckwine encephalitis. The patient was an adult man from Danville. The first death, announced in late August, was in neighboring Hampstead. In total, the Granite State has confirmed five patients with the mosquito borne illness. There have been four here in Massachusetts.
Bay State health officials do not release information on deaths until the end of the season, but there are now reports that an acting man has died from the illness. Triple E risk levels have now started to fall, but the threat won't be eliminated until the first hard frost. As of the latest from ASDBH, there are still several high risk areas, including southern Worcester County and southern Bristol and Plymouth Counties. Madison Rogers, WBZ Boston's news radio.
Hotels in Boston have been given an ultimatum buy workers approved their contract demands by the end of day to day or they will start an indefinite strike. Since September fourteenth, more than twenty five hundred room attendants, bell hops, cooks, front desk attendants more have gone on strike for several days in waves. Their employers hire temporary staff to try
to cover in the short term. All across the nation, we've seen hotel workers go on strike with Unit here and keep it right here for an update on that, and of course streaming on the iHeartRadio app. But their strike is over temporarily. Dock workers in Boston and beyond are back at the dogs working. ABC's Elizabeth Sholsey brings us up to speed.
It's along the Eastern Gulf Coast are up and running after they shut down for three days during that massive dock worker strike. The union and the Shipping Industry group reaching a tentative agreement to suspend the strike until January fifteenth. Sources familiar with the negotiations tell us that wages will go up by sixty two percent over the new six year contract, not as much as the union wanted, but a lot more than the shipping companies had originally offered.
So this tentative deal suspends their strike until January fifteenth if the two sides can't reach a deal, and of course they reach a deal on higher pay, but they still have to iron out the automated machines portion of those talks. The State Department now says about three hundred and fifty Americans have been evacuated from Lebanon on US
contract flights. US citizens, Green card holders, family members and more are struggling right now to get out while they can, as that violence really kind of escalates between Israel and has Belah militants. CBS and Stacy Lynn has the very latest.
A second flight carrying Americans of Lebanon landed in Frankfort today. The State Department facilitated in getting ninety seven US citizens and their family members out. This is the second of the State Department organized flights this week. On Wednesday, one took one hundred Americans and their family members to Istanbul amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Hesbaala loving this forecast, starting from right now now, we're seeing tempts in the
high seventies Norwal sixty seven. Brockton sixty six, and now Braintree, you're just shy of seventy.
How about that. We're getting into the seventies today pretty much everywhere, seventy to seventy four with some nice sunshine. It's just nice. It even seys on my sheet. Nice. So it's not just me Zachy Weather saying it's going to be nice this weekend too. Now the only fly in the ointment is very late tonight north and west of Boston, just a little bit of rain, that's a shower,
and then in the morning maybe a lingering shower. But it's all going to kind of get out of here for beautiful afternoons Saturday, so elsely sonny in most places by tomorrow after new attempts in the higher seventy zone. Gorgeous weather Sunday at tag cooler high sixties, but sun and clouds next week starting out with rain. And one of the most beloved managers in Red Sox history has returned to the game after announcing that he was retiring. Is this a Tom Brady Jim McKay.
We set out today to win, that was our only objective, and somehow we did.
Terry Francona, speaking after the pivotal Game four of the two thousand and four ALCS. One of the most passionate, straightforward voices in all of baseball, will be back as the new skip of the Cincinnati Reds. Francona stepped down as manager of the Cleveland Guardians last fall to focus on his health. A year later, and he's back. The sixty five year old is on his way to Cincinnati. Francona led the Red Sox to their historic two thousand and four World Series title and then once again three
years later. He then spent ten years heading up Cleveland after leaving the Red Sox in twenty eleven with the Guardians. Here earned an al pennant in twenty sixteen. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's news.
Radio and Costco Goes Platinum.
Sales of its gold bars and silver coins have been so popular, Costco is adding one ounced platinum bars to its lineup. The chain describes them as nine to nine to nine point five pure platinum, made in Switzerland and the refiner has the good Delivery accreditation from the London Bullion Market. There's a limit of five per customer per transaction.
Costco sold more than one hundred million dollars in twenty four carrot gold bars in three months last fall at two thousand dollars a pop. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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