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It's eleven o'clock. We've got sunshine and seventy degrees in Boston. Good morning. I'm Laurie Kirby. This just into the WBZ newsroom. There's been another wave of explosions in Lebanon today. Blast have been heard across Bay Route. It comes a day after at least a dozen people were killed and thousands more injured when pagers used by hesbe Law simultaneously exploded in Lebanon. Hesbelaw says it's hand held radios are the
ones that are exploding today. Meanwhile, the top diplomat from the United States is reacting to yesterday's coordinated attack, and ABC's Karen Travers has more.
Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln in Egypt this morning says the Biden administration played no role in this deadly attack.
States did not know nor was it involved in these incidents, and we're still gathering the information and gathering the facts.
Blincoln said the US remains clear about the importance of all parties avoiding stemps that could further escalate the conflict in Gaza and see it spread beyond there, saying it's not in the interest of anyone involved to see that happen.
Karen Travers, ABC News Washington. Israel is not publicly commenting on the apparent pager sabotage, but there are multiple reports that Israeli officials brief their American counterparts after the fact. Again, the number of casualties from this latest wave of explosions on handheld radios in Lebanon is unclear. This is just breaking searching for answers in the death of State Police
recruit Enrique Delgado Garcia during recent training. The state Attorney General says she's in conversation with the wister DA's office and others to identify the most objective authority to investigate his death. Early declined, citing a possible conflict of interest, and he urged that mass d Police not take the lead. Garcia took a blow to the head in a boxing ring as part of the ninetieth Recruit Training Troop training
exercises last week. A former State police instructor tells The Telegram a Gazette the boxing component at the Massachusetts State Police Academy had been suspended back in the nineties because of injury concerns. They revamped it. But here we go. The Federal Reserve is getting ready to cut a key interest rate in hours for the first time in more than four years. ABC's Rebecca Jarvis report.
The reason the Fed is doing this right now. Inflation is now at a three year low. It's well below the nine percent peak. It is back in what they would consider the normal zone where the Fed wants to see it.
At two and a half percent.
Meantime, unemployment still historically low four point two percent, but it is starting to take higher. You may have heard this term soft landing. That is exactly what the Fed is trying to do here. They want to land this plane nice and easy.
Still not clear will it be a quarter point rate cut or a more drastic step, so we will have it either way. This will be two o'clock this afternoon. Again, take us on the go. We'll be streaming that information on the iHeartRadio app. The FBI is investigating a suspicious envelopes and to the state's election division headquarters, and we've got the story unexpected and delightful sunshine out there. We really thought it would be mostly cloudy from the get go.
If you're an early riser, your warm got a sunrise today, but it may be the last in several days. We're definitely getting some stormy weather with some rain tonight and this is everywhere, but especially the south coast, sath Shore, the Cape in the Islands, and it could be earlier supper time and then Thursday, Friday, even Saturday now cloudy, windy, breezy. This is a little storm, not a northeaster. But there you have it. And these are the final days of summer.
Did you forget that? I know I keep saying it, but you know we're transitioning into fall this Sunday and it looks quite dry and cool with some sun on Sundays, so I think we clear up for our new season. Let's go to the beach as the summer winds down. It means is now time for our four legged friends to finally join us for a little fun in the sun. Wdbsy's Jim McKay is at Nantasket Beach and Hull.
Mid September is when many beaches loosen their restrictions so Fido and they're.
Human can enjoy the beach together.
You have a dog, you want him to enjoy life as much as you do.
Each town is different, but for many dog owners during the summer months, their four legged friends have to stay at home when they hit the beach, which begs the question should more beaches open up for dogs year round? I love the idea, Leslie is here where their yellow lab. It is behind the idea one hundred percent.
There are a lot of people that would appreciate being able to go to the beach and have their dogs with them.
For now, enjoy your late summer and early four all strolls in the sand with fidoh, just make sure to check your town's beach restrictions before you do. At then Taska Beach. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio, the FBI.
And US Postal Service are investigating a suspicious envelope sent to one Ashburton Place in Boston. That building houses the state's election division with top officials. A spokesperson tells WBZ News Radio the envelope was intercepted before it reached the election's office. The contents are being analyzed, but sources tell
us that the envelope contained a white powder. A spokesperson with the FBI Boston offices it's not clear how many letters were sent or the motive, but suspicious package aren't a problem unique to Massachusetts. Now. These were letters. Election officials in a growing number of states have been receiving suspicious envelopes in the mail.
The envelopes and packages received at government offices in at least sixteen states have contained a white powder, which so far has ten It is harmless, but Colorado Secretary of State Jennet Griswold calls it an attempt to intimidate election workers, plain and simple.
Threatening them is so disgraceful because all they are doing is their job.
Last November, similar envelopes were sent to election offices in five states. In four of those cases, the FBI said the powder tested positive for fentanyl. Jim rillyon ABS.
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