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Grace Guys seventy in Boston is eleven o'clock. I'm Laurie Kirby. Good morning. This just in to the WBZ newsroom. A Senate committee has just passed two content resolutions after Stewart Healthcare CEO Ralph Delottori defied a sub poena and refused to testify. Senators wanted the CEO to explain how Stewart got itself into a financial crisis that led to the closure of hospitals in Massachusetts and at times the death
of patients. Before the votes we heard from Massachusetts Senator at Marquee today.
We are making clear that doctor d Lattori and the other CEOs, private equity investors, and corporate executives who treat the healthcare system like their own personal piggybank that you'all millions do not share, do not shield you from accountability. To a legal order issued by the United States Senate.
It's not just Massachusetts. Steward operates other facilities and hospitals across the nation. Now, one of these resolutions allows the Senate to sue the CEO to compel him to testify. The other sends the matter to the Justice department for potential criminal prosecution. Again, both resolutions just passed unanimously. Two dozen people were killed and thousands more wounded when walkie talkies and pagers held by Hesbela members suddenly exploded simultaneously
this week. Israel's defense minister declared a new phase of war yesterday, hours before his country's military launched new strikes on targets in southern Lebanon. So what does it mean for the war in Gaza.
The families of hostages held by Hamas believe attention is being diverted away from Gaza and their loved ones will pay the price.
Will the people well, the lives of the hostages.
We don't grant an ail out, never envy.
That's the worry of many. Following the attacks on Hesbealaz communication devices and Israel's resumption of air strikes.
Hesbeloved vows retaliation, spiking fears have an escalation across the region. Revere is trying to crack down on violence in its high school. Violence at the school came into the public spotlight last month when video from a student on student brawl surfaced on social media. Well. Now, a district subcommittee is voted to hire a security consultant who can suggest ways to curb the chaos. This is on top of the extra school resource officer district hired over the summer.
By the way, the school committee can weigh in on the issue themselves during a public forum at the high school. Little rain out there. We're seeing that rain right now in Yarmouth on the Cape also the Islands, we have a rip current statement. It's a warning essentially if you swim. That's a very strong rip current out there. Through eight o'clock tonight, mostly cloudy, breezy. We do have a strong chance of rain anywhere along the north Shore, Sashore, south coast,
the Capean Islands through this evening. And again we're seeing that sunshine in central mass Wooster at sunny right now and substantially warmer. It's seventy degrees there. The rest of the week, through the first part of the weekend is going to be dreary and damp and breezy. In fact, we'll have some steady or rain on Saturday before bottomn
arrives on Sunday and the sun arrives as well. The city of Quinsy is getting millions of dollars in federal funding to give a decade old pier the makeover it so desperately needs. Apparently. Wbz's James Rojas is in Quinsy.
The pier here at Marina Bay is over thirty years old, so it has its fair share of wear and tear, but there's a plan to modernize it thanks to a multimillion dollar federal grant awarded to the city of Quinsy for a new peer float and ramp system.
Are ecstatic, very excited, very excited.
Yeah, it's wonderful.
Anything to you know, improve it, keep it going, music great. It's definitely a great investment.
The MBTA says the initiative will specifically benefit elderly writers and those with disabilities by enhancing the accessibility and overall experience.
I agree it will be handicapped accessible if they fix.
That and Quinsey James Rojas WBZ Boston Snooze Radio.
Once again, Boston Hotel workers walk off the job and onto the picket lines. This is the third wave of citywide Stridson's Labor Day weekend. Nearly twelve hundred room attendants, bell persons, cooks, banquet servers, and front desk agents are on strike. They're demanding higher wages and better benefits. Again, we do have a reporter unseen. We've been bringing you some of that sound. Keep it here. We're also streaming on the iHeartRadio app. Britain loves its pobs, but some
are saying beer bellies are no laughing matter. ABC's Tom Rivers with some stout advice.
Academics at Cambridge University want the government to force pubs here to reduce the size of pint glasses by a third in the name of health concerns. The country's how Secretary says.
I'm really not interested being the fun police or telling people how to live their lives.
But Will Streeting appears to be sipping out of both sides of us mouth.
We do have to take this issue of chronic disease seriously and the impact it's having on our lives.
Typical angry reaction from pubgoers here who say fold my beer, Tom Rivers, ABC News London.
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