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High clouds, beautiful sunny in Boston at sixty seven degrees eleven o'clock. Good Monday morning. Thanks for being with us on Laurie Kirby and updating the Stewart healthcare crisis. It is turning a critical corner that will see the state
cut ties with a bankrupt hospital operator. After a rare Sunday hearing in bankruptcy court, it's expected the sale will close today on the remaining hospitals that Stewart still controls in Massachusetts, Lawrence General will take over Holy Family and haverl and Massouan Lifespan will take over ops at Morton Hospital in Taunton and Saint Anne's in Fall River. Boston Medical will take control of Good Samaritan in Brockton and Saint Elizabeth in Brighton. Stewart's CEO, Ralph de Latouri, is
expected to formally step down tomorrow. He's still facing subpoenas in Washington, but the transfers of ownership will be over by tomorrow as well. And of course we are your breaking news station. We'll have more on this both here and streaming on the iHeartRadio app. The death toll from Helene rises to more than one hundred people across six states across the Southeast. Millions remain without power right now. Vice President Kamala Harris is reaching out to elected officials
in the hard hit region. ABC's Karen Travers with Moore.
Vice President Harris canceled her campaign events in Las Vegas Monday to return to Washington for a Hurricane Heleen briefing at FEMA. She'll get an update on the ongoing impacts of the storm and the federal actions being taken to support emergency response and recovery. The White House officials of the Vice President may clear to governors in the region Sunday the Biden administration will stand with the impacted communities
throughout their recovery. Harrison tends to visit impacted communities as soon as it's possible without disrupting emergency response operations. Karen Travers, ABC News Washington.
Former President Donald Trump is getting a first hand account of the damage in Georgia today, and the vice presidential candidates are gearing up for their first and only debate tomorrow night. CBS is Wendy Jillette with a preview of that.
The debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walls will serve different purposes for the candidates. According to former New York Democratic Legislator Josh Laffazan, he says Vance must demonstrate likability.
In his own home region. He is a twenty eight percent favorability compared to forty four percent on favorability.
He says it's more about policy.
For Walls, he has to show those moderate credentials for voters in those swing states who perhaps think he might be too liberal on policy.
The debate will be held at the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan. Wendy Jellette CBS News New York.
And US Tune in to the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate Tuesday, October first, at nine pm on CBS or simulcast on WBZ News Radio. Okay, absolutely pretty out there, very calm. We do have some high clouds. These are not rain clouds. In fact, the only precipitation I see is tomorrow morning, a spotty drizzle perhaps as we go back to work, but fine for this Monday. Seventy four are high inland, sixty eight along the coast, Sun and clouds.
We cloud up substantially tonight ahead of that little bit of drizzle tomorrow, and then it's going to be cloudy tomorrow. But we're in the sixties the higher end as well. Wednesday staying in the higher sixties, warming up to the seventies. Thursday mostly Sunday and Thursday looking good. We love and oh five. It is anything but quiet outside of eight schools in Lynn this morning, and wbz's Jay Willette tells us.
Why all the commotion outside Lynn Classical High and seven other schools for walk ins gathered against the city's KIP Academy charter school and a proposed expansion of it, you know, the.
Early childhood program that just opened and the expansion of it early college.
Win Teachers Union president Shila O'Neil tells me the plan would slash some twenty four million off the public budget.
Special programs that we have across the city for our students, those would be decimated.
When Public school superintendent doctor von Albare says, the response from students has been powerful.
We have a platform for our innovation and that KIP doesn't offer any of those programs, and so what would students do to actually get those offerings.
District officials say if this goes through, LPs will lose fifty four million each year to charter schools. WBZ News Radio has reached out to Kip Academy for comment. Jay will Let, WBZ, Boston's.
News Radio, and teachers rallied in Boston this morning. They're trying to drum up support as they negotiate a new union contract. Missing mail is a problem hitting close to home. Wbz's Drew Mholland with.
That story, Oh hey, maybe this would work out better. We got mail the old AOL brings back memories later missing mail though in several Boston neighborhoods, and that means missed bills and missing mail in election ballots. Officials aren't happy. Fingers of many being pointed at the US Postal Service, but the Post Office only says it's aware of a minor staffing issue that has since been resolved. But here's the deal. Many say this has been going on for months.
Mail in ballot registration already in the mail. Ballots must be postmarked no later than November fifth, So we get a problem. What's going on here? You got mail, but we don't, at least in some of these Boston neighborhoods searching for answers. Drew o'holland WBC Boston's news radio.
Robots and Ghouls Conquer the box office.
Animated science fiction film The Wild Robot won the weekend box office bring in thirty five million dollars. Domestically, Beddlejuice Middle Juice was second with sixteen million, while Transformers One was third with just over nine million. Francis Ford Coppola's self financed Megalopolis flopped in its debut, raking in just four million dollars, far short of the film's one hundred and twenty million dollar budget.
The music world is mourning the loss of Chris Christofferson, the country music star and actor and so much More was eighty eight.
Christofferson died Saturday at his mally Holme, with a family statement saying he passed peacefully. As a musician, Christofferson won three Grammys and a Lifetime Achievement Award with notable songs such as Me and Bobby McGhee and for the Good Times. Christofferson also went on to act in such films as the nineteen seventy six A Star Is Born, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and the Blade Trilogy. I'm Mark Mayfield.
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