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News, eleven o'clock. Good morning, on this Saturday, we have cloudy sky, sixty four degrees in Boston. Hello, I'm Sherry, small Things as always for being with us. Here's what's happening, mother Nature. Checking the calendar, it feels like fall today.
Owd's that some sunshine today, a little bit cooler than yesterday. Hi's the arrange for the upper sixties along the coast of the low seventies inland.
Part that I'm mostly cloudy tonight.
That's ech you weather meteorologist Dan pittadous Pitta Mouski got that out all right. The full forecast is coming up in three minutes now to news. The fallout from Stewart Healthcare's bankruptcy continues, with one local lawmaker calling for more action. That story from WBC's Brook McCarthy.
Senator Edmarky says this can never happen again. Following Stuart Healthcare's financial ruin, doctor.
D Lectori actually was committed to enriching himself and his partners at the expense of the emergency rooms, the ICUs, the surgery capacity of hospitals.
CEO Ralph Dallatry is now in criminal contempt of both the House and Senate, and he could face jail time depending on what the Justice Department decides going forward. Marky says safeguards need to be in place to ensure transparency, protections for patients, and accountability for corporate greed.
And that would be my Health Overwealth Act, which is legislation that will ensure that private equity has God rails put around it.
Brook McCarthy WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
And Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton remains open, the state taking it over by Eminent Domain. That move expected to ease the way for Boston Medical Center to take over Saint Ees. It's a move agreed to by former owner Stewart Healthcare, but held up by an asset management firm's refusal to accept BMC's bid. Governor Healy announcing the takeover yesterday.
Beginning on Tuesday, new operators will begin managing five other hospitals previously owned by Stuart Lawrence General Hospital would become the new operator for both campuses of Holy Family and haverl and Methuen. Lifespan will assume operations of Morton Hospital in Taunton and Saint Anne's in Fall River, and BMC will take over Good Samaritan in Brockton, and meanwhile Beth
Israel Lahy Health announcing layoffs. Yesterday, The Globe reporting the Massachusetts Nurses Association has confirmed the dismissal of nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess in Plymouth, Addison Gilbert Hospital, and Gloucester and Beverly Hospital. A spokesperson for Beth Israel Lahy's citing significant cost increases and that hospital leaders have identified opportunities to re structure staff roles, including eliminating some positions to
meet local healthcare needs. Hesblah now confirmed ming Israel killed a long time Hesbala leader in yesterday's airstrike on the militant group's headquarters outside of Beirut.
Statement the Israeli military said he was responsible for what it called the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers and the planning of thousands of terrorist activities. An army spokesman said the attack had been planned over a long period and carried out with precision. There are fears that the killing of the group's long term Shia Muslim leader could spark a full scale war.
And in addition to killing has Son Nazraala, several Hesbela commanders were also killed in that attack. Iran says a Revolutionary Guard general was also a victim. And now the ACU weather forecast feels like fallout there or we're going to see more clouds than sunshine today and it's going to be a little cooler than yesterday. We'll see highs in the upper sixties. That's along the coast. The inland
areas will see lower seventies Tonight. It will remain partly mostly cloudy, cool off to about fifty six Tomorrow, a mix of sun and clouds. High's near sixty five. Pretty much the same deal on Monday, pretty close, that is, we'll see a high of sixty eight. Tuesday a high of sixty four, and again a mix of sun and clouds, but mostly clouds than sun. Right now, we're seeing sixty five degrees in Framingham, sixty seven in Norwood, sixty six in Lynn, sixty five in Revere, and in the city
right now, mostly cloudy, sixty four degrees. It's ten O eleven oh five. That is, the legacy of slavery in Boston was front and center yesterday in a meeting with the city's clergy. Here's WBC's Kendall Bull to explain there.
Was a dark history behind many of the points of light that are Boston's churches.
White churches in Boston were founded really in the colonial era on the proceeds of the slave trade.
That's Reverend John Gibbons with other members of Boston's white clergy gathered at the Islington Street Church to sign an atonement statement formerly apology, using for their church's complicity and slavery and its legacy. Also at any we're black faith leaders who signed the document his witnesses, among them Reverend Kevin Peterson, who calls this an important first step.
The second part is reparations, restoring what is owed to those who are harmed. And then the third part of this process is reconciliation to come in together of whites and blacks.
Peterson says proceedings are the first of their kind in the nation's history. Kendall Bull w Busy in Boston's news radio.
The eighteenth Daniel lois Wells Memorial Kicks for Cancer Soccer fundraiser is taking place today at Conquered Carlisle High School. Sixteen boys and and sixteen boys and Girl soccer matches that is will be played with teams from Boston and surrounding towns taking part. Players will wear special jerseys that
carry the names of loved ones impacted by cancer. The Kicks for Cancer began back in two thousand and seven in order to honor Lois Wells, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and passed away in March of two thousand and seven after being treated at Dana Farber. Well So far, the event Listen to This Is raised more than nine hundred thousand dollars for Dana Farber since its inception and hopes to reach the one million dollar mark this year.
It's eleven h seven more of us facing sticker shock to stream the top TV shows, and experts predict it's going to continue to get even more expenses is a sad story.
It happened again this week with a streamer announcing a password sharing crackdown. Disney plus customers will pay more to share an account. Netflix started it.
I think the fact that Netflix went first is allowing Disney and the others to tread into this world and feel that they can also pull it off.
Matthew Belleny writes about Hollywood for the digital media company PUK. He says, get used to it.
These shows and movies cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make. The free ride era of streaming is coming to an end. These companies need to make money and they are going to extract that money from their customers.
Steve Kathon, CBS News.
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