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News Sunshine in sixty seven in Boston on this beautiful Thursday. ACU weather coming up, and we've got some great news for Tea riders. Green Line Tea riders, listen up. We've learned that regular train service is up and running right now on both branches of the Green Line Extension. Shuttel buses had been in places Tuesday afternoons derailment that sent seven people to the hospital with minor injuries, So this
is real progress. Today, investigators are still working to determine exactly what happened to force that train off the tracks. Both the TEA and Governor Healy say they don't think there was a problem with the tracks or the train, and instead are suggesting it was perhaps human error of Federal investigators want to know for sure. They've been on scene gathering records, event recorders, signal data, and witness statements. The FTA says this was the eighteenth reported MBTA train
derailment this year alone. President Biden is scheduled to arrive in Tallahassee, Florida, anytime now. He'll be in Georgia later today delivering remarks there. This is the second day in a row that the President is traveling south to survey the wreckage from Hurricane Helene. Yesterday he flew down to the Carolinas. We're ABC's Jim Ryan says life won't get back to normal for a long time.
In hard hit Buncombe County, North Carolina, nearly two thirds of the homes and businesses are still without power. As for water and sewer, we.
Have experienced tatastrophic damage to our production systems.
Clay Chandler is with the City of Ashville. Water is being trucked in in tanker trucks and water bottles are being ferried in by helicopter.
Jim Ryan abcnais and while flooding from Helene is forcing one of the largest IV fluid factories in the country to shut down, hospitals in Boston are among those impacted. We get more from wbz's Jim McKay.
Mass General Brigham is sending out emails to their hospital system employees calling for an immediate conservation of IV fluids. After the closure of a manufacturing facility owned by Baxter International in Maria, North Carolina that was devastated from flooding, It's unclear when they'll be able to open again, and they're responsible for producing sixty percent of the nation's IV fluids used at hospitals and medical centers all over the country.
They're expecting shortages in the weeks ahead. The FDA is working with Baxter, hoping they can amp up production at other facilities around the country. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.
The acting mayor of Mthuen is now running for the permanent position. David DJ. Beauregard tells The Eagle Tribune he will run for mayor when the town holds a special election after the death of Mayor Neil Perry, his friend and mentor. The city council is working to finalize a date for the special election. All Right, we're seeing some really nice sunshine and some clouds out there. I won't lie chatam mostly cloudy down at the fish pier, always thinking of fish and chips. No matter what time of
day is sixty four. Our high today will be seventy four. Now, the early part of the evening will be the best part. We can see those stars really really nice viewing. But by the very late hours and tomorrow morning very early for you early commuters is going to be quite foggy, and then it burns off for another beautiful sunny day high seventy four. The weekend all in all is pretty good. We could see some showers briefly on Saturday, but we're
warm and certainly much more sunshine each day. I want to update the Middle East now at eleven oh five, Israel has expanded as its evacuation warnings to more communities. Now in southern Lebanon, Israeli troops are still taking the fight to Hesbela militants there. Of course, they're fighting on two fronts. Right ABC's Matt Gutman says Americans are among those trying to get out while they can.
I mean Israel's unrelenting bombing campaign against the Iran backed Militia Isabella in Lebanon. Thousands of Americans they're desperate to escape, the State Department saying seven thousand people contacted the US embassy in Beirut, many trying to get out. The first government charter flight departing Wednesday carrying more than one hundred Americans and their families.
The latest State Department data shows close to ninety thousand US citizens were living in Lebanon. As of twenty twenty two, Governor Healy says the state's new free community college program is off to a very strong start, and the program let students attend these schools without having to pay tuition. At about ten thousand students have already enrolled, officials say is going to cost the state more than one hundred
million dollars this year. Governor Heally says the program could swell in popularity in the coming months, suggesting as many as forty five thousand students could attend community college for free. And the CIA has some advice for people in North Korea, China, and Iran on how to share info with intelligence without getting caught.
The CIA this week has posted tips in Mandarin, Farsi, and Korean on several leading internet platforms, giving advice to potential informants. The tips include using a private browser and virtual private network to evade government surveillance and Internet restrictions. The CIA posted similar instructions in Russian two years ago, and the success of that program prompted US intelligence officials to expand the effort.
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