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BOG fifty two. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning on Laurie Kirby. A funeral mass is getting underway right now on Cape cod for Kennedy family matriarch Ethyl Kennedy. The services voumentation only. No media is permitted. The mass is taking place at our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville. Ethyl Kennedy died last week after suffering a stroke. She was ninety six.
On the campaign trail, the latest polling shows a tightening race between Vice President Harrison former President Trump with the election just over three weeks away, and the rhetoric is really heating up. ABC's Allison Kosick with Moore.
During an interview with Fox News, Trump using increasingly dark language to describe his political opponents.
We have some sick people, radical left, lunatic, and I think they and it should be very easily handled by if necessary, by national gun or if really necessary, by the military.
Vice President Harris's spokesperson responding immediately, writing this should alarm every American who cares about their freedom and security. What Donald Trump it's promising is dangerous and returning him to office is simply a risk Americans cannot afford. Alison Cossack, ABC News New York.
A man arrested for carrying illegal guns near a California Trump rally over the weekend is now released on bail. ABC's Pierre Thomas.
With that federal authorities are looking into the background of a man arrested at a security checkpoint near a Trump rally with a loaded handgun, shotgun ammunition, and fake documents including several passports, found in his vehicle. But Vin Miller, forty nine, was released on five thousand dollars bond and
is charged on mistermeteror gun offenses. Sources selling ABC News that so far the investigation has not turned up evidence of Miller making threats against Trump, which may explain why he's been released again.
Federal officials releasing a statement confirming that Trump was not in any danger. When voters in Massachusetts go to the polls, they won't just be deciding on president and some ballad referendums. They'll also be choosing who gets to occupy a powerful US Senate seat. Republican John Deeton is challenging incumbent Senator Elizabeth Warren the two Square off in their first debate tomorrow night. We will carry it live both here and streaming on the iHeartRadio app starting at eight thirty pm.
A change is in the air this winter. Our old weather alerts on windshill are out the door.
The terms wind chill watch and wind chill warning will not be used beginning with the upcoming winter season, says the National Weather Service.
The change in the way we're defining our products simplification process.
Meteorologist Tom Frieders tell us what to listen for.
Or similar conditions and temperatures will be issuing the extreme cold watches in mornings.
That will allow the National Weather Service to communicate that cold is dangerous with or without wind. Stephen Kaufman CEEBS News.
Coming up new details in the Boston hotel struck. So the rain that we've been seeing on the south shore in the Cape is primarily moving out to sea, but you might be getting some last second showers because the rest of the day we actually have a chance at some sunshine. Believe it or not, it is hard to believe because so many of you are in the fog right now and very cool. Natick forty seven, Holiday's sixty four in Boston on the Cape and Island seventy. Talk
about a contrast there, but don't be full. We're back in the thirties tonight in those inland areas forty three. In Boston. The rest of the week looks dry, breezy, and sunny. We warm up eventually and we'll love more coming up. It's eleven oh five. The hotel workers strike in Boston is expanding in a big way. Wbz's Jim McKay has to.
Nearly seven hundred hotel workers from the Omni Parker House in Omni Boston Seaport will be joining those already on strike from the Hilton Logan and Hilton Park Plaza hotels. The number of hotel workers in Boston on the picket lines is now up to nearly thirteen hundred. Both groups previously walked off the job together in late September for a three day strike. Big difference here. They're now both vowing to be off the job until a deal is done,
and they're not alone. Right now. Some five thousand hotel workers are on strike all over the country, with unionized hotel workers in Seattle the latest to walk off the job over the weekend. Jim mcka WBZ, Boston's news radio.
President Biden vows to help Florida rebuild, and he made those comments during a weekend visit there. ABC's Victor Kenda reports from Lakeland, Florida, one of the communities torn apart by Hurricane Milton.
President Biden promising assistance to the Sunshine State, announcing ninety four million dollars in federal programs, meeting with state and local officials in Saint Petersburg.
And some moments like this, we come together to take care of each other, now as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans, Americans who need help.
Search and rescue efforts taking place over the weekend.
And again, hundreds of thousands of customers across Florida are still without power and IV shortage, in part because of the hurricane, is now canceling some surgeries. At Mass General Brigham and Boston, the plant that manufactures the critical product was ravaged by Hurricane Heleen. This is a nationwide shortage, so it means rationing of stocks of IV fluetz. The hospital says the deferral started Sunday will continue through Wednesday.
Beyond that it's unclear. They call it an unpredictable occurrence. Germany is adding some new tech to the musical mix, a robot conductor.
Each of the robots three arms held a different colored, illuminated baton, allowing it to conduct the musicians of the Dresden Orchestra in three wildly different time signatures. Since there are too many compositions calling for that, the orchestra's human conductor suggests his job is safe for now anyway. Vicki Barker, CBS News London.
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