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Eleven o'clock. Here comes the son Que the Beatles sixty three in Boston. Nice to be with you on Laurie Kirby. Here's what's happening right now. President Joe Biden has just wrapped up his speech before the UN General Assembly in New York, his final as sitting president. We get the very late now and his special report from CBS News.
Stand behind the principles of Uniteds. We stand firm against aggression. Well, we add in the conflicts that are raging today. We take on global challenges like climate change, hunger.
And disease.
He talked about Israel and new air strikes that have killed more than eight hundred and fifty people in Lebanon this week, and he called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza.
Put forward a cutter in Egypt to cease fire, and hostage deal spend in doors by the US Security Council. Now is the time for the parties of finalize's terms bring the hostages home.
There is no meeting scheduled between mister Biden and Israel's Prime Minister net and Yahoo on the sidelines of the UN meeting. Before he exited the stage, the President also warned of the dangers of AI, including the way it will change wars CBS News special report. I'm Deborah Rodriguez well more throughout the day, both here in streaming on the iHeartRadio app in other news. It's a disappointing finish for school kids statewide as the state tries to claw
its way back from the pandemic. Wbz's Hiles Shaffle has more.
It's definitely not what the state was looking for.
English Language Arts results show low achievement in all grades.
The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education was hoping for a post pandemic rebound, but this year's MCAST score say differently. Kids across the board scored worse than the English Language exam compared to last year. They were basically flat or a little worse at men and the science results are mixed to no clear win. THEREDESSI Interim Commissioner Russell Johnson put it like this.
These results are concerning as we continue to combat pandemic related.
Learning loss, and this may seem bad, but the numbers are even worse compared to the pre pandemic, down double digits in English. This all comes a minute ballot pushed by the mass Teachers Association to kill the mcasss graduation requirement. They say it's just not a fair way to evaluate students. Kyle Shaffel WBZ Boston Snows Radio.
It's eleven ZHO two. Governor Healy has ordered all state and US flags to fly at half staff today. They are honoring. We are honoring a World War II hero. US Marine Corporal Irwin King was killed in the August nineteen forty two Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific theater of the war, but his remains only returned home to Massachusetts last week. King hail from Clarksburg. This is a small community of sixteen hundred that separates North Adams from the
from mop border. A burial with full military honors will follow today's funeral, and King will be laid to rest at South UW. Cemetery in North Adams. Oh, it's so pretty out. Those clouds were very ominous and now they're beautiful cumulus clouds and that sun blue skies breaking through in the Greater Boston area. We have a nice day all in all. I was thinking this week would be all clouds and some showers, But here's another bonus day.
Nice and again, first full week of autumn. High sixty six, low fifties tonight Inland and again a little bit cool for some of you. You were in the forties last night. How about that? Mostly cloudy Thursday, two, Wednesday and Thursday with some showers looking nice and warm and dry and sunny Friday into the weekend eleven oh five, Last Springs. Campus turmoil over the war in Gaza is spilling into the new semester. Wbz's Jim McKay says, yet another university president is now in the hot seat.
At Brandeis and Waltham, the faculty senate with a no confidence vote for university president Ronald Leebowitz one fifty nine to forty nine results. The vote was taken because of budget shortfalls, fundraising, student protests, and staff layoffs. Last November, there was a student walkout as part of a demonstration over the Israel Hamas war, with some professors believing it
turned from a protest into an incident of hate. Earlier this year, Brandeis leadership announced they were cutting some sixty positions because of declining enrollment. The faculty Senate no vote now goes to the Board of Trustees for potential additional action. Jim McKay WLIBS, Boston's news radio.
On Edge in schools across the nation and Massachusetts. School districts across as date have been dealing with an influx of kux threats that turned out to be non credible. Halfway across the nation, a ten year old boy in Texas is now being charged with making a terror's threat against his school.
These's Jim Ryan. Schools nationwide, according to Education Week, have seen a spike in hoax threats and actual violence since they're shooting at Georgia's Appalachi High earlier this month. Since the beginning of the new school year, FBI Houston alone has received more than thirty hope school threats. The FBI's Christopher Soyez this.
Number is more than any given month last year.
He's renewing the agency's plea to social media users, if you see threats posted online, reach out to law enforcement. Jim Ryan ABC NOS.
Eight new England schools plays high and a new ranking of the nation's best colleges. This list was compiled by US News and World Report. Are you guessing number one? Well, it's Princeton leading the pack, MIT and Harvard not far behind in second and third place, respectively. Boston College and Tufts tying for the thirty seventh spot, bu Tyme for the forty first spot, and Northeastern is in this list but just outside the top fifty. You are now in
the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Laurie Kirby WBZ, Boston's news radio