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Forty nine degrees and partly study in Boston. It's eleven o'clock Good Morning on Laurie Kirby and getting underway right now, a Boston City Council hearing on property taxes. And this is on the home rule of position two point zero that Mayor wu and business leaders hammered out and a compromised last week. It still shifts temporarily a greater burden of city property taxes onto commercial payers to make up for lost revenue. And again business owners and residents of
Boston were encouraged to attend. Will follow up on that. And again it is now unhealthy out there epa New England warning about unhealthy air quality on the North Shore and very unhealthy in Lynn. And this is because of those brushfires. Crews again battling a number of brush fires today. If you're in these communities, you might want to limit
out door activity, especially if you have respiratory problems. Again, firefighters focusing on one of their priority fires in Middleton that has now blackened over two hundred acres absolutely torched. And WBZTV's Tammy Mutasa has more from the air.
As the sunset, smoldering smoke rose above the woodlands of Middleton. The fight against flames continued with buckets of water being dumped over the brush fire burning a second day. The fire started near the power lines by Upton Fields Road, then soon spread to a fifty acre brushfire, leaving overwhelming thick smoke. Firefighters ran several water lines through the tricky terrain. With dry weather and dry ground, it's the perfect recipe for a spark.
Which is exactly why the dc your Chief fire Warden Dave Salino, is asking everybody just be careful of anything that could ignite or spark an open fire, or even mowing your lawn on a dry day, believe it or not, could be a problem. And the Woocester County DA's office has now released the name of the person who died in a small brush fire at an encampment in Milbury
as forty nine year old Marianne Augdebt. Medicare costs or pushing older Americans to their financial limits in this country, CBS's Stacy Lynn is more up.
To half of all people on Medicare don't have enough money to pay for a single hospital visit. They're deductible for hospital stays is sixteen hundred dollars. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Pearlman School of Medicine found that many beneficiaries would face severe financial hardships after reaching that According to the report, the struggle was most prevalent among black and Hispanics, people with lower levels of education, and those
with multiple chronic conditions. Stacey Lynn CBS News.
We need rain. We need rain very badly in Massachusetts. Drought conditions helping to fan those flames out there. As a whole lot of folks are battling the fire by air and on the ground, and task force teams are out there too, and of course wishing you a safe experience out there is you battle these brush fires, some of them getting quite large. Now in this forecast, we're getting a little bit windy today. That's not good. High fifty six, cloudy and breezy tonight with a little bit
of rain. We need a lot the rain. By the way, the timeline is going to be probably while you're sleeping, sometime after midnight, and then we're going to shoot up from the fifties to the seventies to the eighties. Maybe on Halloween could be a record breaker, and election Day is now a week out. Mis President Harris will be giving her campaign's closing argument tonight, symbolically from the same spot that riotors swarm the Capitol.
Fight like how Trump was at the ellipse just outside the White House refusing to say he'd lost his re election bid, and not long after tonight, Harris will speak from the Ellipse to offer what her campaign says is a hopeful, optimistic message in sharp contrast to Trump's. Donald Trump spends full time trying.
To have America's point to figure at each.
Other fans the fuel of hate and division.
If Trump wins, he'll focus on himself and his enemy's list.
If she does, I will be working on behalf of the American people.
On my to do list, saying Trump's dark vision is exhausting for her and the nation.
People are literally ready to turn.
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Apparently Donald Trump is about to speak any moment now from mar A Lago, and of course he's been on the defensive since giving his closing message during a controversial Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night. The moment in the sun was overshadowed by a comedian's comments comparing Puerto Rico to garbage another vulgar language. Oz are also turning toward Trump supporter Elon Musk, and ABC's Rachel Scott is more at is rally last night.
Former President Donald Trump also praising billionaire Elon Musk, who has been holding events and support of him in those key battleground states, including in Pennsylvania, and he's been giving away million dollar checks to register voters who signed his super Packs petition. Will sources did tell us that the Justice Department sent a letter to us warning that that
could violate federal law. This morning, we are learning that the Philadelphia District Attorney has officially filed a lawsuit over that giveaway. A hearing is expected on Friday.
Biking our Ways to the polls, Blue Cross Blue Shield is sponsoring free blue bike rides on election Day. On November fifth, Blue Bike Day passes will be free. That will give writers' access to a complimentary two hour classic bike ride. Okay, we have time. I'm going to squeeze this in guys and master control there before we check in with Bloomberg, Amazon founder in Washington. Post owner Jeff Bezos is defending the paper's decision to stop presidential endorsements.
Beings and Swines did an article on the Post's website that presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. He says, what they actually do is create a perception of bias and non independence. The billionaire's comments came three days after Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis announced that the paper would not endorse any presidential candidate in this election or any in the future. In PR reports, the Post has lost more than two hundred thousand digital
subscribers since Lewis made the announcement last Friday. I'm Mark Mayfield.
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