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Gorgeous. It's sunny, it's warm, It's sixty nine degrees in downtown Boston. We're not stopping there. We're headed for nearly eighty degrees today. I'm Laurie Kirby. The News at eleven is brought to you by the Good Feed Store. Improving people's lives two feet at a time. President Biden is headed to New Hampshire tomorrow for the first time since he dropped out of the race for the White House, and he plans to highlight as administration's work to lower
prescription drug cost. President Biden is holding an event at the New Hampshire Technical Institute and Conquered and school officials and police too are asking students who live off campus to avoid the school grounds tomorrow. There's a lot of closures and a lot of disruptions to both operates and classes. Will have more as it happens. Meantime, at the White House, President Biden proposes a new rule to make birth control more accessible.
President Biden announced plans today to expand access to contraceptive products, including free over the counter birth control. Just two weeks before elections where reproductive rights are a key issue. In a statement, the President said this new action would help ensure that millions of women with private health insurance can
access the no cost contraception they need. Sayb have some, Stacy Lyn says, right now, health insurance cover the cost of prescriptions if you have a prescribed contraception.
But this new rule obviously would expand that. And both presidential candidates are very busy in the battleground states. With is fifteen days to go until election day two weeks tomorrow, Vice President Harris is focusing on three critical states today, and ABC's Karen Travers says.
That Vice President Harris is holding events in the so called Blue Wall state. It's Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, three battlegrounds that are key to a Democratic victory. She'll be joined by former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney for a series of conversations, part of an effort to reach out to independence and Republicans and peel them away from former President
Donald Trump. Cheney campaigned with Harris earlier this month in Wisconsin, telling the crowd that this year will mark the first time she's cast her vote for a Democrat in a presidential election. Karen Travers, ABC News Washington.
Former President Trump plans to see Hurricane Helene's storm damage in Asheville, North Carolina, today before rallying with supporters in Greenville. But it's what Trump had to say in Pennsylvania over the weekend that's raising a few eyebrows.
Use profanity to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.
We can't stand you, your vice president.
The worst.
Trump drifted throughout his speech.
He got fourteen million votes, twenty one, twenty two people running, twenty two Democrats. They're running. I'm looking at my hair up there. Let's ooh.
Despite please from his allies to focus on the issues, Trump has only escalated his rhetoric for the third time in just one week, repeating claims that his political opponents are the enemy from within.
That was ABC's Rachel Scott reporting and coming up a battle over how to pay Boston's bills and maybe is coming to an end. No trouble with this weather forecast is going to be incredibly mild pretty much most of the week until Friday. We cool down at the end of the week until then close to eighty today, cooler in the Cape. In the Islands, ample sun today, lots of moonlight. Tonight fifty six are low back near seventy. Tomorrow,
Boston mid seventies. Inland ample sunshine. Wednesday, sun much of the time near eighty, but a couple of showers at least at night, and then Thursday a couple of showers early, and then we break again for sun. Breezy, mid sixties, terrific forecast unseasonably mild, and there could be an end ins to the month's long battle on how to pay the city bills. In Boston. The Boston Globe reports business leaders and Mayor Michelle Wu are near a compromise on
a property tax increase. Now. As we've been reporting here, the mayor has been trying to shift the burden onto commercial properties in Boston to spare residents of potential fourteen percent property tax hike. Well, businesses push back, saying small businesses would wither. The compromise and details are Scares reportedly scales back that commercial tax hike and slightly lowers the cap on the residential tax increase to about eight and
a half percent. It's not clear yet whether there's a deal on this home rule petition that would actually make it through the state legislature, but we'll let you know if you don't have the season's flu in COVID shots. The City of Boston has you covered. Wbz's Mike Macklin.
With more privaccination clinics will take place across the city over the next three weeks. The hope is that Boston residents will take advantage of them and protect themselves against the flu and COVID nineteen as we head into the colder winter months. The clinics are free. This week, there's a clinic at City Hall on Monday from nine am to one pm and on Thursday from one to five pm.
Next week there's a clinic on Tuesday at the Hyde Park Community Center and on Saturday at the Mattapean Community Center, And the following week there are clinics in East Boston and South Boston. No identification and no insurance is required. Mike Macklin WBZ Boston's.
News Radio updating. Hundreds of Omni Hotel workers in Boston reach a deal to end their strike. They are back at board today at the Omni Parker House in Omni Boston Seaport. The union says the compromise deal calls for ten dollars an hour rais for non tip workers, have that for tip workers, but I goes on indefinitely for workers at the Hilton Park Plaza and the Hilton Logan and the Boeing strike sees a white flag.
The new contract would include a thirty five percent wage increase over the next four years, higher four oh one K contributions, guaranteed payouts in a bonus program, and a higher signing bonus. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers will vote to ratify the deal on Wednesday. This would end the strike that began September thirteenth, when thirty thousand workers walked off the job after rejecting a new contract. I'm Lisa Carton.
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