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Mid Day Report: Saturday, September 21, 2024

Sep 21, 20246 min
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Five members of the Tufts men's lacrosse team recovering in the hospital. A homicide investigation is underway in New Bedford. New information about the top Hezbollah commander killed during yesterday's Israeli strike in Beirut. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

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This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news.

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Fifty eight degrees rain coming down in the city at eleven o'clock. I'm Sherry Small. Thanks for being with us. Here's what's happening. Rain helping to ease a month of dry weather.

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Day and tonight it is going to be rather cloudy, breezy, and cool. We'll have periods of rain, especially near the coast, with a couple of hours farther inland.

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And that's accuather Meteorologist Matt Rindy. The Cape and the Islands got hit hard with rain yesterday and it's more the same for them today. We'll have the Fullaccy weather forecasts coming right up. Five members of the Toughts Champion men's lacrosse team recovering in the hospital days after a workout led by a Navy seal graand.

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Toff says a dozen student athletes have been diagnosed with a serious medical condition. On Monday, the university tells us about fifty lacrosse players took part in the workout, led by a graduate of Navy seal training. Details are still on clear, but twelve players have since developed rabdomyolysis. RABDO is a potentially life threatening condition that can be caused by over exertion. Tuff says, our thoughts are with the players and their families, and we're hoping for their quick

return to good health. No word right now on the condition of the five players who remain hospitalized. The university says it's bringing in an independent investigator. All practices for the men's lacrosse team are postponed while athletes are evaluated. The team won the Division III championship back in May. Madison Rogers WBZ, Boston's news radio.

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Homicide investigation is under way in New Bedford. Police finding the victim with a stab wound in a home at eighty six Atlantic Street late yesterday afternoon. The thirty one year old woman died later at Saint Luke's Hospital. Her name has not been released. It's eleven oh two. President Biden hosting the leaders of Japan, Australia, and India this weekend in Wilmington, Delaware. We get a preview from CBS's Linda Kenya.

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The fourth annual Quad Summit is toaking place in the President's hometown.

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And he's very excited about that, about showing them a place in a community that shaped so much of the public servant and the leader that he became.

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The National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says, this summit is about so much more than that.

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Priorities such as health security, natural disaster response, maritime security, quality, infrastructure, critical and emerging technologies, climate and clean energy, and cybersecurity.

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And tensions in the Taiwan Strait. Linda Kenyon CBS News Washington.

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In a rare unanimous vote, the House passing legislation to bolster Secret Service protection for both presidential and vice presidential candidates.

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Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Row was under a microscope. The mission of the Secret Service is clear.

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We cannot afford to.

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Fail outlining Friday systemic failures that allowed a twenty year old gunman to fire shots at the former president from a rooftop roughly four hundred feet away.

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I think that was a failure to challenge our assumptions, the assumption that local police were going to have more of a pre in that AGR building.

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CBS is Nicole Skanga reporting there. Let's check the ECU weather forecast. We're seeing quite a bit of rain, especially if you're along the coastal areas today Otherwise it'll just be windy and chilly for other parts, and maybe some scattered showers. The rain much more intermittent west and north of one twenty eight. Today's high sixty two degrees. Tonight, cloudy and breezy, rain tapering to a couple of showers,

dropping down to fifty six Tomorrow. We'll just see a shower or two in the morning again, especially toward the south coast, the Cape and the Islands. Otherwise for the rest of us, breezy and cool. We will see cloudy skies, maybe the sun peeking out a bit. High of sixty four degrees again. Monday and Tuesday, both days highs of sixty four degrees, but with just a mix of sun and clouds. Right now we're seeing the brunt of it.

Let's see the coast. All along the coastal areas from the north shore, the south coast, capean Islands have really been getting hit hard from early this morning. It's now traveled farther west. Of course, Boston has been seeing rain for a while now, Framingham seeing some rain, Lowell, Leminster, Fitchburg, Wooster being clipped right now as far as temp wise. Right now in the city, we are seeing let's see fifty eight degrees and rain coming down in Boston. It's

eleven oh six. Our new information about the top HESBELA commander killed during yesterday's Israeli strike in Berut. We get this from ABC's Marcus Moore.

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The airstrike killing Ibrahim A. Kiel, one of Hesbela's top commanders. This is the worst attack there has ever been against the United States in the Middle East. Akiel was wanted by the US for his role in the nineteen eighty three bombing of the American Embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beyrout that killed more than three hundred Americans. Friday's airstrike littering the streets with rubble and debris from destroyed buildings.

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And meanwhile, Gaza health workers say more than twenty people died in an Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza. The Israeli Army says today's strike targeted a hamas command and a control center embedded inside a compound previously used as a school. All right back here at home. Police in Webster arresting Cordel Gignilliat on Wednesday at his home on Nelson Street. The twenty six year old is facing three counts of animal cruelty allegedly abusing a dog named

Ziggy who suffered serious injuries. Animal control in Webster says treatment of Ziggy will cost in the neighborhood of six thousand dollars. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm sharing small WBZ, Boston's news radio

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