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"I'm Tim stanev Lenny had in our second hour of the weekend edition of Bloomberg businessweek including a look at the promising and increasingly competitive world of genetic testing We'll do that with the CEO of gene DX We're also going to be joined by the cofounders of the baby food startup yumi They're looking to crack a fast growing market and blaze a trail for women in venture capital You know a little bit about baby food Yeah too much actually All right plus our Bloomberg pursuits team with its special wellness section Everything from prehab and hitting mung Yep that's a thing To kelp avocado oil and blueberries as food and perhaps even skin care it's kind of getting fluid back and forth there That's markets Yeah but not necessarily you want to eat the stuff that you're supposed to put on your face right I don't know All right first up this hour this week's technology section takes a look at the potential devastation of a cyberattack on America's power infrastructure and what the federal government is doing to get us ready for such an event A large part of what it's been doing is running drills on a small island that's actually not too far from where we are right now These exercises have been taking place on plumb island It's an isolated spit of land just off of the northeastern tip of Long Island New York Let's bring in Bloomberg news cybersecurity our Mike Riley He wrote this story with hell from William turton and Jordan Robertson Mike joins us now So Mike I have passed plum island gone through plum gut in Long Island sound I'm glad you're okay now I'm not sure if suffering from plum go Well it comes up on maps and it's like you can not go there If somebody who spends time in the waters you're not allowed to stop there Tell us about plum island Yeah it's got a long and interesting history It's also an object of curiosity for people who live in the area because you're not allowed to access it There's a private area that's run by the government It's just behind the guard post That's the only way that you can get to the island And if you get too close to it as a boat like you're told about it because another boat will come out and shoot your way And what's on the island is a lab for studying animal diseases One of the reasons why this is so isolated is because they're worried the terrorists might attack a lot like that and use the diseases for bioterrorism But the other thing that they've been doing on it is running these exercises of to try and understand and get better at responding to a major hack on the grid And so they literally built out a small version of a grid with substations and transmission lines And over a period from 2018 to 2020 they would run these exercises that involved the National Guard and utility crews from some of the major utilities and they would practice what happens trying to recover from a major cyberattack And suffice to say that it's a really really hard thing to do And utilities are not trained well enough to do it And so often things went badly wrong Okay so talk to us a little bit about that because what exactly is the worst case scenario here that the darpa and other authorities are actually trying to plan for And why are being a great position to actually respond to it Well it turns out the grid is a unique kind of target for cyberattack very different than just about anything else gas pipeline or other infrastructure because of the physics involved in operating the grid So even though we don't think much about it there's a very delicate balance that has to go on of electricity going onto the grid and electricity coming off of the grid And usually this is heavily computerized and they do a lot of planning for this And usually it all goes swimmingly well But in very unique cases if it gets out of balance and that balance disturbs the physics of the grid enough the entire grid or large section of it I should say can collapse the power essentially That is and that can leave millions of people without power The last time this really happened in a significant scale was terrifying We're basically the whole grid went down in the northeast and millions of people were at how power it So getting it back up from that state is really really hard And if hackers are already in the system it's especially hard And so they practice doing that trying to recover a system from the grid after it had been de powered And the hackers were able to create all sorts of chaos and make that recovery very difficult Bottom line is the attackers could extend a blackout from what might have been a few hours to days or even weeks under these circumstances And what's interesting Mike and you remind us hackers are in the system and thank you United States go back to what was a 2010 and you guys were doing the hacking when it comes to what was going on in Iran That's right There's a special kind of hacking that sort of is meant to impact actual the real world In fact physical systems And it's hacking of industrial computers and the big example that you're citing is stuxnet that where hackers from thousands of miles away were able to destroy centrifuges in Iran's nuclear development program But is that exactly that kind of hacking and that approach which is hitting these industrial computers that can also do things like shut down airports or shut down the electrical grid And so cyber warriors that people like Russia has in the U.S..
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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"Weekend for many people marked the end of summer for others and marks the beginning of a perfect season. For going to the beach. No better place to have a bachelorette party. Then the beach on Plum Island figures Sarah from lower and while her wedding still a month away the first week after Labor Day is the perfect time to do it on a cloud in the sky. Nobody on the beach not like people love all people. But that sounds very beach, where one week ago a patch of open stand would be a hot commodity. There's a lot of real estate between blankets that suits Duncan just fine We can After Labor Day everyone packs it in because I think summer's over, but definitely nice without the crowds. And if there is one type of person who Is really digging this. It's someone like Nancy, who actually owns beach. Real Estates Pretty disheartening in the summer, it gets a little crowded. This is really the nice time to be at the beach from the North Shore candle Bill WBZ you Boston's NewsRadio, Apparently a student, fell asleep on a bus and then missed morning drop off yesterday in Taunton at an elementary school But thanks to protocols in place was quickly found and then safely returned to school bus driver returned to the nearby Bus depot and did a routine check to ensure the bus was Empty while the bus driver then found a student asleep on one of the seats. And the driver woke the student up. The driver, then returned to the elementary school and dropped. The student of at no time was a child left unattended on attended. Rather, and the student was not late for school. The parents have since been notified. A food network baking competition will be featuring a pastry chef from Carver in his upcoming season. Let's find out more from WBC's Kim Tunnicliffe cannot divulge the outcome of the Halloween baking championship. You can't say whether you want or lost, right. I cannot say that Secrecy. Correct. But Stephen Suchocka can say that he baked a creepy cake for the competition. Under the theme of eighties slasher movies. The pastry chef was contacted to be on the food Network show earlier this year. I got all these messages online from a casting producer wondering if I had any interest. I was, of course, like, Yeah, sure, I'd love to. Stephen is one of 10 competitors.
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"We'll take it. Thank you, my friend and moving on for the rest of the weekend, looking okay out there, whether wise I do have the radar up. Very light showers in the Springfield stretch right now a couple of spotty ones throughout central mass. But again we're talking drizzle if anything at this point otherwise later on tonight, maybe some patchy fog in the mid fifties downtown 50 closer to that north and West. Really outside 4 95 Great night to open up the window. Let that nice cool Aaron for tomorrow. Great day as well. Sunny skies, A couple of clouds are high in the mid seventies, Feeling a bit more muggy out there on Sunday. Plenty of sun, though, with the high in the eighties showers on Monday near 80. Live local and fiercely independent. This is WBC news radio. Take a deep breath. We have made it to Friday. Thanks for spending part of your Friday night with us. I'm Nicole Davis. Always good to be with you. Here are the five things you need to know. At 7 45 U. S bound flights carrying Afghan evacuees from covering Germany are paused. Tonight is the White House says four refugees who already got to the U. S have come down with the measles. Tomorrow with the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. President Biden releasing a video message tonight tomorrow, visiting all three sites 18 more people have died tonight from Covid and Massachusetts 1726 new cases, seven day average positivity rate of 22.52% and the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office tonight confirming to WBZ and scaling back its relationship with ice. But will still hold detainees in its jail. 7 46 help is on the way for North Shore Island Plum Island, where homes are under threat from erosion. But the question is, will it get there in time, devastating for our neighbors and us? Ken is standing on a wash down street in front of his house on Plum Island's reservation terrorists. The first floor of one neighbor's houses boarded up another's moved out, and the city was forced to shut off water to three houses were getting watery routed from our neighbors. Through a pipe, which during winter wolf freeze. Ken gets high march to the city for its efforts to help but notes that much larger mitigation is necessary. Dredging of the mirror Mac is slated for next month, which state Senator Bruce Tarr notes will bring 160,000 yards of sand to the barrier.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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"Due to dredge the Merrimack River and deliver 160,000 cubic yards of sand to the barrier island to alleviate beach erosion but recent storms of washed out parts of reservation terrorists and threatened the local water supply. Which anybody is it and hoping that the dredging will kind of help mitigate some of this, but To be candid with you. Just this morning. We're talking about evacuating state Senator Bruce Tarr, helping coordinate federal, state and local responses to the erosion acknowledges that while dredging is on its way and longer term solutions being pursued Short term is indeed a concern on this is a particular challenge to find something that will offer protection to these homeowners and to the public infrastructure between now, and the dredging project from Plum Island can will be old WBZ, Boston's news radio and a jail on the South Shore now scaling back its connection with Immigration and Customs enforcement. Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph MacDonald, saying his office is ending its program with ice. Which deputize is some of its staff to act as ice agents. McDonald says the jail will still hold detainees making it the final facility to do so here in the Bay State, he says. This has to do with staffing shortages and not any pressure from immigrant rights activists. The Massachusetts applauding that move tonight in a statement calling Barnstable County and the Department of Corrections to follow suit. 6 38, All right. We are done for the week on Wall Street. Let's see how we did in Bloomberg business. Here's Andrew Day, the mountain tally of covid cases and a report today showing stronger than forecast wholesale inflation. Convince more market analyst to talk cautiously about US economic growth and that did not sit too well with investors fell. 272 NASDAQ Down 133 Has to be 500 lost. 35 dating app Tinder has a new boss. She's not a knee board, former executive at mental Health APP headspace and tenders first female CEO. She is not just the boss but a former client. The board says she met her husband on tinder Andrew wrote a Bloomberg business on WBZ Boston's NewsRadio covid woes and the Red Sox dugout. More on that coming up at 6 42. You didn't know that you're smart speaker can play the news. You're not very bright are you know I'm not now, you know, Tell yours to play WBZ NewsRadio I heart radio mattress.
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"And west. Maybe some patchy fog developing, especially along the coast. So if you're working a late shift tonight, maybe you've just got plans. Just keep that in mind on the ride home. For tomorrow, though, Great day. Get outside. Enjoy it. Sunny to partly cloudy high in the mid seventies bit warmer on Sunday, a bit more humid than to summer. Tropical feel not done with us just yet High in the low to mid eighties, maybe a couple of showers as well on Monday, otherwise plenty of sun and a high just about 80. Certainly cooler out there today. 68 degrees in Woburn 69 in Brockton 66 in Belcher Town. Right now, in Boston. At 6 35. It is partly cloudy and 69 degrees. Speaking of the Hub, the superintendent of the Boston Public Schools now has the proper state licensed to do her job. Globe Tonight reporting, Brenda Salinas has passed the state's licensing exam and now on paper, she is qualified to run the state's largest school system. Back in July. Her license lapsed after she failed to take the test to get certified. During the two years she was on the job. Education Commissioner Jeff Reilly reactivated her temporary license. Until she got her exam results. She took that exam back in mid August north of Boston at 6 36. It is a race against time tonight on Plum Island, residents are waiting on help to save their shrinking shoreline as they look ahead to the fall and winter weather. It'll just make the problem even worse, What's worse, being at the mercy of Mother nature or federal red tape? Can who lives on Plum Island Preservation Terrorist is at the mercy of both. Next month, The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is due to dredge the Merrimack River and deliver 160,000 cubic yards of sand to the barrier island to alleviate beach erosion but recent storms of washed out parts of reservation terrorists and threatened the local water supply. Which anybody is it and hoping that the dredging will kind of help mitigate some of this, but To be candid with you. Just this morning. We're talking about evacuating state.
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"And the worst of the pike is eastbound. It's jammed up from the 1 28 exit in towards Newton Corner My king WBC's traffic on the thirties. We have a couple of showers around this afternoon. We will continue to see some spotty showers. There could be an embedded downpour or two, but this is not widespread. Just around the area. You may see one or two that have been some south of Boston. Plymouth was in on some of that activity earlier, pretty heavy downpour in and around that area. Right now, the radar seems to have quieted down. A bit, but be wary as we head through the afternoon for one of those pop up showers. 57 tonight for the low downtown will be about 50 or so in the suburbs, with some fog developing late sunshine tomorrow 77 for the high clear tomorrow night in the mid sixties and then a little more humid on Sunday, we'll have some sunshine low to mid eighties temperatures about 80 or so on Monday, partly sunny still the chance of a shower, however. Right now. It is 74 degrees in Boston. More than a month after her temporary license expired. The superintendent of Boston Public schools is officially licensed to do her job again. Brenda Castle uses temporary license expired in July after failing to take the test in the two years century had taken the job. Education Commissioner Jeff Riley reactivated or temporary license until she got results of her exam, which he took in mid August. The Boston Globe report sheet now has passed the state's licensing examined received her license to run the state's largest school system. The shrinking short at Plum Island is causing problems for residents and the fall and winter weather. Could make it all more worse. What's worse, being at the mercy of Mother Nature or federal red tape can who lives on Plum Island reservations. Terrorist is at the mercy of both next month, The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is due to dredge the Merrimack River and deliver 160,000 cubic yards of sand in the barrier island to alleviate beach erosion, But recent storms have washed out parts of reservation terrorists. And threatened the local water supply. We're trying to manage it and hoping dredging will kind of help mitigate some of this, but to be candid with you just this morning. We're talking about evacuating state.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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"Due to dredge the Merrimack River and deliver 160,000 cubic yards of sand in the barrier island to alleviate beach erosion, But recent storms have washed out parts of reservation terrorists. And threatened the local water supply. We're trying to manage it and hoping dredging will kind of help mitigate some of this, but to be candid with you just this morning. We're talking about evacuating state Senator Bruce Tarr, helping coordinate federal, state and local responses to the erosion acknowledges that while dredging is on its way and longer term solutions being pursued Short term is indeed a concern on club on. This is a particular challenge to find something that will offer protection to these homeowners and to the public infrastructure between now, and the dredging project from Plum Island will be all WBZ Boston's NewsRadio. The White House says four cases of measles so why the US has stopped all inbound flights of Afghan evacuees from Germany and Qatar. Press secretary Jen Psaki talked about it. Welcome flights into the United States have been temporarily paused at the request of the CDC and out of an abundance of caution because of four diagnosed cases of measles. Among Afghans who recently arrived in the United States. Measles vaccines are required for Afghans coming to America. Meantime, according to a British spy chief, the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan might lead to the return of major Al Qaeda style attack plots against the West. Head of the U. K's domestic intelligence agency says Britain and others could now face more risks because of the withdrawal of NATO forces. With the Taliban regaining control. Am I five Director General Ken McAllen believes Extremists may well feel emboldened the Kabul takeover, providing a psychological or morale boost terrorists already in Europe and beyond countering the risky fields requires once again increased vigilance. Tom Rivers, ABC News at the Foreign Desk, 4 38 we had to Wall Street brought to you by Enterprise Wealth management Division of Enterprise Bank, Andrew Day is at Bloomberg. And the week is over. That's the good news. It is a good news. It was a zigzag day for Wall Street with index zigging up in zagging down, then up, then, ultimately down again. We close at session Lows down fell. 272, NASDAQ lost 133 S and P 500. Down 35. That's five losing days in a row for the Dow and S and P Harvard University will look to a different place to help energize its massive investments. Harvard Management, which runs the schools, $42 billion endowment, will stop investing in fossil fuels. And instead put money into the green economy. The announcement follows years of pressure from students and amid increasingly urgent demands from investors that financial institutions withdraw their support from businesses contributing to man made climate change. Andrew wrote Bloomberg Business on WBZ Boston's NewsRadio Hey, Alexa, play WBZ.
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"Degrees in Boston at 2 30. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. One day before the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks that killed nearly 3000 Americans remembering and mourning continues two decades later. And New York City is preparing here at ground zero in lower Manhattan, where the twin towers once stood. Family members and those who were here that day will gather tomorrow doesn't seem possible. It's 20 years, Lynn Tierney was an F. D. N y, deputy commissioner on 9 11. Her job at ground zero was to provide the fire commissioner with the latest info the world watched those towers come down at the New York Stock Exchange. Traders held a moment of silence this morning to mark the day. Nearly 3000 people died on 9 11, including 343, F d N y. Firefighters. Michael George, CBS NEWS New York, The widow of one of the Massachusetts victims of 9 11 has made the decision that 20 years is long enough to hold the road race in his honor. Details from WBZ Skim Tunnicliffe was a difficult one to make. Christie Coombs quotes the phrase all good things must come to an end in talking about her decision to wrap up the Jeff Koons Memorial Road race. This year comes admit Sunday, September, 19th will be more emotional than usual. It's going to be even more bitter sweet because it's going to be like saying goodbye to an old friend. Christy says She and her family have learned a lot over these last 20 years about compassion, community spirit about the community's desire who remember and come together. In a positive light around such a tragic event comes isn't worried about the public forgetting about her husband or the other 9 11 victims. She does have one simple request. When you go to those memorials, pick out a name or to say that name out loud as long as that name is being said out loud. Those people are being remembered Kim Tunnicliffe WBZ Boston's news radio, the White House Covid response team laid out the most recent information in the fight. To get control of the pandemic. White House chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci says vaccination is the only way to improve chances of beating the virus and all of its variants to protect against any variant. The A Delta U or C 1.2 is to get vaccinated. Governor Charlie Baker is being urged to mandate vaccines in Massachusetts in care settings for those with disabilities. The arc of Massachusetts wants to mandate for vaccines for anyone providing care to people with disabilities in group living or day programs and is urging the state to provide direct financial support for surveillance, testing and other Infection control measures. Chris Sale has covid again. Sale had a round of Covid back in January. He called it a mild case with some symptoms. But now he has tested positive ahead of the Red Sox series in Chicago with the White Sox and therefore sale will not start for Boston against Chicago on Sunday. No replacement has yet been named. A number of Sox players and coaches have tested positive for Covid this season still to come on WBZ Plum Island. Running out of sand to 35 traffic and weather together. The Subaru retailers of New England all wheel drive traffic on the threes. Where would you like to take us, Michael? Well, we've got troubles up to the North Here Band. This is 1 28 south down, just backed up a few miles through Lexington. It's a crash, not a serious one. But it is their southbound after route to be a little closer to Winter Street, neither way it is backed up there. North beyond delays getting up towards that scene, of course, and then 1 28 north is backed up getting by 93 about a mile there and 1 28 south. Bad as usual Route 35 in Danvers into Peabody delays a 93 north start on the upper deck and reach up into Medford. This is about 15 minutes. Hold up for you. And then more delays conquered straight up pass through 1 25 in Wilmington. No surprise there. Delays on 4 95 north, as usual, coming up passed through three and the local connector. The southbound Express way up Looks like a Friday. Here. It's all brake lights from the tunnel to South Bay, then granted AV to route 24 Northwest. Bad coming in from Braintree of past Neponset Circle and really slow coming up towards the tunnel to Route three. South is tough most of the way down a Derby Street. Over a mile Wait for the Sagamore Bridge. Same at the born but it's after Labor Day. I don't get it over a mile on 28 sandwich Road into the born rotary too. So busy at the cape. Alright, 95 North is locked up a mile up towards 1 28 downtown, the lower decks already back to Sullivan Square store. Oh, drives backed up in and out of Lefferts circle, and there goes the Ted Williams Tunnel westbound. This report sponsored by Duck Duck, Go Protect your privacy for free with Doc Doc. Oh, what is it? That makes you uniquely you? Well, Dr Cho doesn't think that's any of their business. And frankly, it shouldn't be the business of any tech company. Protect your privacy online for.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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"Products found exclusively at Shaw's and pay with your visa card to earn a $10 rewards card. Kevin Brennan. WBC's traffic on the threes. Sunshine on a Friday could see a pop up shower out there. Otherwise, he's going to be clearer, dry and sunny, more coming up with Bob Larson. Live local and fiercely independent. This is WBC news radio. And good afternoon. I'm Laurie Kirby or the five things you need to know. At 12 45 former catch. Quarterback Cam Newton says Being cut was a surprise. Chris sale, not going to pitch this Sunday, the Red Sox player tested positive for Covid 19. According to multiple sources. Plum Island in Newburyport is getting some much needed reinforcement from the Army Corps of Engineers. A young truck driver from Taunton dies after serious crash in Milford And the story. Now the widow of 1911 victim from having to decides 20 years is long enough. This year will be the last for the five K road race she's been holding in honor of her late husband, WBC's Kim Tunnicliffe with more it was a difficult one to make. Christie Coombs quotes the phrase All good things must come to an end. In talking about her decision to wrap up the Jeff Koons Memorial Road race This year comes admit Sunday, September, 19th will be more emotional than usual. It's going to be even more bitter Sweet because it's going to be like saying goodbye to an old friend. Christy says she and her family have learned a lot over these last 20 years about compassion community. Spirit about the community's desire who remember and come together in a positive light around such a tragic event comes isn't worried about the public forgetting about her husband or the other 9 11 victims. She does have one simple request. When you go to those memorials, pick out a name or to say that name out loud as long as that name that being said out loud. Those people are being remembered. Kim Tunnicliffe WBZ. Boston's news radio Medal of Honor recipients are in Boston, recognizing the brave Marie of Everyday people are James RoHaas With this story, Riley Howell is among the seven being recognized by Medal of Honor recipients for practicing the values behind that metal. Like courage, sacrifice and integrity. Two years ago, he gave his life to save others during an active shooter situation at the University of North Carolina. His mom, Natalie is receiving the single Act of Heroism Award on his behalf. You're so so proud of the fact that he stood up for others and try to stop that deadly act, but at the same time you just want them here. It's just equal amounts of absolute heartbreak, an absolute pride and it's just it's hard to hold. This is organized by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, recognizing both 2020 and 2021 honorees after last year's ceremony was postponed. James RoHaas WBZ Boston's NewsRadio Deja boo all over again For the second time this year, a massive container ship blocks the Suez Canal. In Egypt, The Panama flag coral Crystal briefly got stuck yesterday. And then, of course, officials were very busy redirecting shipping traffic. Tugboats to the rescue tug boats managed to free the ship and send it on its way becomes less than six months after the huge ever given container ship got stuck in the canal, blocking up traffic for nearly a week. The Great Stone Dam Classic is back this summer in the Merrimack River and Lawrence raising money for a good cause. One of the organizers, the state's former of a secretary spoke with Carl Stevens, former Massachusetts secretary of Veterans affairs. Francisco Urania helped to start the Great Stone Dam Classic in 2010 in Lawrence. It didn't happen last year because of Covid, but it's happening on the Merrimac River Sunday. This is a community race of canoe kayak Stand up, paddleboards. Anybody who loves to race to be underwater and first time paddlers. They just want to be part of a good cause in the city of Lawrence that causes the Greater Lawrence Community voting program. And he says, the canoes, kayaks and paddleboards come from all over the place. And in previous years we have had racers as far as New York and Virginia come up to the Merrimack Valley to be part of this event. Registration starts at nine o'clock Sunday morning at the Boathouse Uneaten ST Lawrence. Carl Stevens, WBC, Boston's news radio or some football fans. The real fond of going to the game is the tailgate. And for that you mass students are out of luck. This weekend. There will be some tailgating going on in Amherst tomorrow before you, mass takes on bc. However, it will be limited outside of their football stadium to only people who have a valid game day parking pass, which not a lot of students have. There are other lots adjacent to stadium parking that usually have student game day activities that turns into a hot spot for students who tailgate. That's not going to be the case tomorrow that space will be closed. You Mass saw rise of Covid 19 cases, 150 reported this week compared to just 20 the previous week. School officials in an email to students say the move is intended to minimize transmission risk even outdoors. The U mass Football Stadium holds 17,000 fans. There are no capacity limits for the game. Jim McKay, wbz Boston's NewsRadio It's 12 50 WBZ NewsRadio looks back as we turn 100 easy to Birdie. WBZ has been asking the tough questions since the very beginning,.
Light Hearted
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"Did they have any reaction to the Kind of unusual of work you've done in the interior of the lighthouse. I'm sure you know the teams go through a lot of lighthouses trove. Never seen anything quite like what you. It's actually been pretty quiet. My favorite favorite interaction with them. As i first got out there. I got a phone call from plum island from a someone in charge there and they said we just called to give you our number and to get your number so that we both have each other's number ace. Either of us needs something in the future. We should have each other's numbers. And i said wow. I'm really flattered. That's kind generous of you. Because i have a couple of buckets. Some duct tape some drinking water with algae in it. And i know you guys have to hospitals a couple of various stations to lighthouses awfully two boats. I think they were just being nice. In case i got in trouble or not been super helpful and they have. I guess there's a lot of other stuff going on around there. So there's there's often activity they mostly haven't had anything to say at one point. They they asked me to change the lady in on the rotating or on the top level because they felt like it could be confusion navigation. I did that. And then. I wound up just turning the lights off because i didn't want to cause any trouble but to begin with the only site that was really illuminated. Was the one pointing back at orient. So well you'd have to be in the rocks. Lighthouse was designed to protect you from being stuck on certainly. Didn't want to cause any trouble. I also haven't really done that much work. I mostly things that were broken and you know. Put a table and some odds and ends. But someday when..
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"Tests reduce hiring time by 27% on average, visit indeed dot com slash credit. My king WBC's traffic on the threes and we have a new severe thunderstorm warning up until 8 45 for parts of Norfolk and Plymouth County. Essentially the South Shore this storm that we've been following as it's tracked its way across central and western mass. Finally, here now on the South Shore, this storm has been dropping about ping pong sized hail, and it looks like it has 70 mile an hour wind gusts. It has taken down some trees as according to the National Weather Service and determine Canton and Dover and certainly causing some problems there. So right now, the storm sitting over Cohasset hang them. Getting up toward parts of Weymouth also went to Rockland and moving into situate over to hammer rock as well. Let's check the four day WBZ AccuWeather forecast A severe thunderstorm watches in effect until 11 p.m. will have a thunderstorm or two this evening could be locally severe with damaging winds. Flooding, downpours inhale Partly cloudy overnight with a small drop in humidity Low 66 mainly cloudy tomorrow with a thunderstorm in parts of the area in the afternoon, much cooler than recent days high 71 Couple of showers and maybe a thunderstorm tomorrow evening, then some rain from also later tomorrow night as also tracks towards southern New England. The best chance of a thunderstorm is west of 1. 28 temperatures nearly steady some wind and rain from Elsa on Friday. Now through the day Friday, a total of 1 to 2 inches of rain can be expected gusts to 40 to 60 miles an hour, especially on the Cape and Islands High 75. I'm AccuWeather's carry. Schwenn Did Hammer WBZ Boston's NewsRadio showers in Worcester right now, 73 degrees seeing some storms developing, actually write off Plum Island where at 74 degrees there south of town again. This big storm is what we're talking about right now seeing severe weather and hang them where it's 78 degrees right now in Boston, the worst of it seems to be moving out of the city right now. Just a bit of rain left behind him where it's 72 degrees at 7 56. Well, A local writer has published a new book, but he already knows he won't make any cash out of it. WBC's Matt Shearer explains why that's not a bad thing. Even if you're not a fan of routine clans, music, you might dig their cover art Matteo, your l A sure hope so elements of martial arts elements of comic books. And so they're just introducing this vast amount of influences that will be, um, in my opinion,.
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"The ritual every day, no matter what the time is, and what's it like jumping into the ocean in the middle of February? Snow on the ground? All right, love? Yeah, I love him. I can drive down the turnpike Drive back home. Hop in the shower off Plum Island, send the statement. Hey, cinema. True. Mohali WBZ Boston's news radio coming up on WB Seymour legal action being taken in the wake of the deadly riot at the U. S Capitol last month. Three. Oh, three. Traffic and weather together. The Subaru retailers of New England all wheel drive traffic called the Threes. Like Where do you want to start? Well, why don't we start south of the city here Being the afternoon rush is on here. The South bound expressway is all brake lights coming out of the O'Neill tunnel. You finally get some speed. Is he clear? The gas tank is pretty good after that, but at least 20 minutes top to bottom now. North bound delays you granted, have a past Neponset circle of familiar Stop and go. Their route Three South down is pretty good. Coming out of Braintree in Weymouth for now, and rich 24 95 cells. They're both off to a good start coming down from 93. Now up to the north Won 28 South is locked up a little before Route 62 down into Peabody, Almost two miles roadwork by Endicott Street is finally picking up for the day there. And we'll start to see those delays. He's out. He's out pretty soon. I'm sure 93 North. Yes, slow going for a little while up to Medford, but otherwise not too bad all the way to the New Hampshire line. Route. One is clear of get 18 minutes from the Tobin Bridge up to the Lynnfield Tunnel downtown. Things are pretty good. The lower deck of 93 the second bridge, they're okay. But the cell found O'Neill tunnel is backing up pretty quick getting word of a crash inside. Storrow Drive is good as you coming along the Charles the Tobin Bridge and delivered down wrapper. Okay to my king. What? Deputy visas. Traffic on the three. Well, we've got some showers that may affect us this afternoon and into the evening. Nothing significant could be A little bit of AH, Sprinkle activity as we head into tonight. Temperatures,.
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"It's this Possibility that got me thinking this, along with the reality of there being a number of examples and incidents of Roman era coins washing ashore along the north shore of Massachusetts. After major storms. There's six or seven different locations on the North Shore, where Roman coins have have come ashore, and at some point you can sort of explain away one or two of them. Well, you see that many Roman coins sort of clustered in the 10 mile area. You started the fallback toe Occam's razor, which probably means the simplest explanation is Was a Roman ship or ships wrecked out there. And as the storms come through, the shipwrecks get disturbed, and whatever was sitting, you know, they're gets blown off, gets disturbed and washed ashore and Metal detectors now know enough to go out there, especially when the storm comes up from the south. And they go out there and they find these points. So the ship itself and then these Recurring. Finds of Roman era coins. Many them question around the second century is really what got me looking and going down this rabbit hole of is there something more about this? This Roman possibility is there enough evidence to build a book around and the fact that you are talking about tonight indicates the answer to that question in my mind was yes. I love some of the explanations, the more prosaic whether not even prosaic. I mean, they're ridiculous, but some of the explanations that I guess. More mainstream historians and archaeologists have tried to offer up as as to why these coins have been found, and you've talked to me about this before. But can you share some of these with the Coast audience Because they're actually quite hysterical. They really are really. What does basically is, is the mainstream academic types Quint contorting themselves into into some kind of Bodily position that will allow them to explain this away without admitting the possibility of there actually haven't been a Roman ship. So, for example, the Siegels picked up the coins. In the Mediterranean flew across the Atlantic and dumped them on our shores. I mean, this This is hysterical, especially when you when you're writing some of these finds are as many as two dozen coins. I'm about to say, just silliness. Ah, second example that I heard this was actually in them. In a Massachusetts hearing involving coins found on Plum Island in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and again the way the process works is once you find the coins. Technically, they belong to the state. And so if you want to keep them, you need to file a petition and in order for the state to release him to you. This underwater archaeology board has to make a determination that they are of no Historical significance and otherwise, In other words, they don't really matter. You can keep them, Richard, you get to keep your coins. We don't believe there anything important and the way they got to the decision in the case of new report was One of the members of the board said, Well, I used to know somebody down in New Jersey, and he had grandkids and used very pennies and nickels and dimes of the beach and let the grandkids dig them out. And someone else said Well, maybe that's what happened here and all of a sudden they all jump in, and that's the actual written decision was Because we find it is likely that these were buried by a grand parent looking to have fun with his grandkids. We therefore let you keep the coins and that's sort of that's the explanation They gave for how these coins got here. And then the other one I heard I've heard before is that these coins were were balanced on Colonial era ship. And I suppose you could find a couple of coins that maybe made their way into the into the balance debris or whatever, but the idea that colonial error ships would use coin Roman coins. As ballast, as opposed to just stones and rocks is up is equally silly. So these air just three examples of some of the really crazy explanations we get, and I got to go back to off Occam's razor. Maybe we should open our eyes to the possibility. That a Roman era ship either intentionally or accidentally blown off course found its way across the Atlantic was shipwrecked here and then maybe other ones either came to look for it or followed it over. And that's why we have Roman coins and other artifacts on our On our land. Maybe at some point they made their way over here and was at least open up our idea. I eyes to the possibility. Romerito Roman artifacts in America. David Brody, my guest here on coast to Coast am if even if there's a possibility that there is a sunken Roman ancient Roman vessel off the coast of Massachusetts I would think that would be Maybe not. Above the fold. Front page news may be below the fold, but still I mean, because that changes everything, doesn't it? Oh, to me, it's It's gotta be above the fold. I would hope it. And it look, I'm not 100% positive that the friend I have who claims he has has evidence of a Roman airship. I'm not sure he's right about that. Look, I don't know. You know, it's it's possible I would love him to figure out a way to investigate that. But I do know there is lots of evidence. Both in New England and in the Ohio River Valley off some kind of Roman Arab presence. Having been here now, I might not have all the details right? And you know, my book is fictional. So there's I take a little bit of poetic license, but There. There is a story to be told here. I mean, it's something we could figure it out. And I do think it should be above the fold. But this goes back to the whole idea. In your introduction you talked about Columbus. You know, we kick that door down, I think And so whether it was the Templars or the Celtics or the Phoenicians or the Romans or whoever it was that you want to say that was here before. The Minoan. Whoever you want to say was here before Columbus. I think we most people not recognize that Columbus was late to the party. And so once you open up your mind when you realize Definitions and the Romans. The ships that were talking about were three times as large is what Columbus has. And the Phoenicians who you know, we're the base of the Merchant Marine of the ancient world were amazing. Navigators could sail by night, and they basically taught the Romans had to do all this stuff anyway. The idea that Nobody crossed the Atlantic before Columbus. To me, that would be way more surprising than that people did. So let's talk about the sum of the coins on. Do you have photographs of some of these artifacts? Inr America, Uh, Wouldn't usually weaken weaken. Date them based on I guess the emperor of the Roman emperor that stamped on these coins. Well, so what's the date? What Which Emperor? Are we seeing on these coins? So most of the coins not on, but most of the coins that we're talking about both in New England and in the Ohio River Valley. Tend to be around the second century. Some are a little bit earlier some of that later, but basically what with there and you write every time there's a coin. It's very easy to date. It's It's really wonderful for historians because we know pretty much the exact date of the coin based on the face stamp on the front. We have other science. We'll get to that later. I'm sure other artifacts that we've we've been able T date using thermal luminescence and other kind of scientific methodology that again date back to the second century. But right these coins Um tend to tend to be clustered around the second century and and that's where I go with my story. I tie it back to incidents that were occurring in the Mediterranean region in the second century, and that's sort of how it's theorized. How this group came across and why.
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"Brody is a Boston Globe best selling fiction writer and author of Over a dozen novels. He's a graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown Law School and a former director of the New England Antiquities Research Association. And is an avid researcher in the subject of pre Columbian exploration of America. He's frequently appeared as a guest expert on documentaries airing on History Channel Travel Channel, PBS and Discovery Channel. All 10 of the books in his Templars in America Serious have been Kindle Top 10 Best sellers. His latest historical thriller is Row America. Roman artifacts in America. David Brody, Welcome back to coast. How are you? I'm doing great. Thank you for having me, Richard. My pleasure. Are you okay with the comparison to Dan Brown? Or does that irk you? Are you are you? Are you cool with that? I I'm fine with it actually many, many years ago. For anybody ever heard of Dan Brown? Anybody ever heard of David Rohde? We had a mutual publicists, and she kept trying to have a meeting. For whatever reason we never did, And I always regretted that, but no, he said. He's in great work. I'm happy with that comparison. So it's the historical thriller genre is It's interesting because when you think of what you have been revealing in the Templars in America, Syriza and now in America, it's pretty thrilling. All on its own. The idea that the Templars came to America, obviously, centuries before Columbus. Perhaps they brought treasures from Solomon's Temple or the second Temple. Buried it somewhere or that the Romans Were up and down the Ohio River Valley. 1000 and more years before Columbus that's pretty thrilling all on its own. So why the need to fictionalize it? I think that stems from the way I first came at this subject. I was a fiction writer before I was a historian. And, um, you know, I had written three legal thrillers. I'm a lawyer by training. And so I was casting about looking for an idea for what I thought was gonna be my fourth legal thriller and I was living at the time in a town in north of Boston. Westford, Massachusetts. We have a local legend. My daughter was in fourth grade. At the time. She came off the school with the story about the legend of the Westford Knight. The legend being that in the late 1300 Scottish explorers. Following in the path of the North Island, hopped away across the North Atlantic and ended up in Nova Scotia and then came down the coast to New England and one of their nights. One of their members of the party died at night. And to memorialize his death. They carved an effigy of the fallen knight on the rock ledge, and that effigy is still visible today in western and it's called the Legend of the Westford Knight. My daughter came home with that story. I never heard it before. I was fascinated by it. So I went to the went to view the site and I went to the library to do some reading and some research and talk to some local historians and one thing led to another and soon became very apparent to me that my legal thriller It's not gonna be illegal. Throw that Instead, it was gonna be something along the lines. What Dan Brown had done a couple years earlier. The DaVinci code on then the deeper I dug into this legend, and I discovered that this this group that came over here Was connected to the outlawed Knight Templars and that the family that came over built Rosslyn Chapel made famous in the DaVinci Code, and so not only was this amazing history On our side of the Atlantic. But it also tied into a lot of the things that was being discussed and debated in the DaVinci Code s o the way I came at it was through. What of the fictional Gateway and and because I bumped into so much a damn brown stuff, and he had just done historical fiction historical thriller that seemed to be the natural way for me to do it. I was once told as a young writer that it's best to write about this right in the same genre that you like to read, and I love to read that kind of stuff. And so I did it that way it was well received. I think there are a lot of people who enjoy being on a roller coaster ride as they're learning about ancient history. And had some success. And so here we are. It's actually 11 books in the series later, and this is still a John Doe right right in. So as as the former director of New England Antiquities Research Association, where you on friendly turf when you were exploring the what we'll call the Secret History of America, Pre Columbian America, where they simpatico with this kind of stuff. Right, and I'm director again. I was I was a director than I was sort of about out for a while. But now I'm back on the board. This is a group of amateur historians and amateur archaeologists in New England. And our our goal are the group's goal is to figure out who was in America when who build all these mysterious stone structures and carvings and towers. That we find scattered around the landscape in the Northeast. You know what? The answers. So this group, This is what we do. I mean, we go out in the woods and we get down and dirty and then we get together and try to figure it out. So The group has been incredibly supportive of my research and other researchers. Essentially, it's you know, we're the ones who are skeptical of what we learned in our high school history classes and were skeptical of what the archaeologists tell us that we're skeptical of sort of the mainstream. That is kuo with explanations of history, and this is again. This is what we do, Mike, my kids. They call the Iraq nerd, because when I you know when they were young Grace has spent a lifetime going into the woods looking at rocks, and they just thought that was the funniest thing so that that nickname is sort of stuck, but they call me the rock dirt. You put that on a T shirt, Dave, that a guy like that the rock nerd rock so So you've left the Templars in America Serious aside for the time being, and now we're talking about ancient Romans in America and the book or America begins with The same protagonist, Cameron Thorne, hired hired by some millionaire to investigate the discovery of what appears to be an ancient Roman ship. Off the coast of Plum Island. Yeah. Have there been Such discoveries that maybe we haven't heard about in North America, South America. These ancient Roman ships is a matter of fact. That's what got me started. Actually, two things. Let me start on this. We'll get to the second one, probably later when we get out to talking about the Ohio River Valley and the lost Roman Legion that you've into that in your introduction That was one thing book written by Rick Lakshman. The second thing, though, was This is a reader who became a friend who contacted me 78 years ago because, um, he himself was involved in some Treasure hunting and had Discover what he believed to be in beliefs to be an ancient Roman shipwreck off the coast of the North Shore. Massachusetts and his problem is that the way things are set up legally, and this is one of the reasons why it came to me. He was interested in some legal advice. Eyes. The way things are set up. Is that for him? T gain jurisdiction over this fine. He first needs to file a petition with the Massachusetts state government. But part of that petition Includes specific information about where the find is and information that would allow other Treasure hunters to basically jump his fine while he's tied up in the procedural, uh, Labyrinth of trying to get permission Tol his big and so essentially, He can't really file the paperwork because he'll lose his dig and lose his Lose whatever's there, so we'll jump is fine. And so it basically sits there and he's he's not sure what to do. It is. It's a real shame if he had, you know, unlimited funds. He could pay to have a patrol out there, but he doesn't And so it's this..
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"Sides agreeing to this move, giving Democrats time to confirm President Biden's Cabinet and giving former President Trump time to beef up his legal defense. Meantime, we've now learned who will preside over that trial when it gets started. Details from a B C's in Esta Loca Terra, a Senate source, telling ABC News that the Senate president pro tempore, a Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, and not Chief Justice John Roberts, is expected to preside at the president's Senate trial. Senators typically preside when the impeached is not the president of the United States. Democrats, for their part, say that because Trump isn't a sitting president, he should be treated as any federal official who is not president. Has delicate Terry ABC News Washington and the nation's highest court, giving former President Trump a bit of a reprieve now when it comes to lawsuits, claiming he improperly profited from the office almost immediately after President Trump took office Maryland in Washington, D C. Business owners said they were being deprived of business because foreign leaders wanted to curry favor with the new president by staying at his upon Imus hotel near the White House, a government watchdog made similar claims that Trump's New York properties enabled the same violations of the emoluments clause. Critics. Booking a room at a trump property was an unmistakable violation. The Supreme Court dismissed the case is, though, as moot effectively saying Since Trump is no longer president, there's no point in contemplating a violation. Aaron Carter Ski ABC NEWS New York and it's 6 47, a child Tonight is in the hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries after officials say they fell from a chair lift over in Canton at the Blue Hill ski area. Happened right around five o'clock the child brought to the hospital in Boston by helicopter. The ski area says This happened right at the highest point of the chairlift again. These injuries his child serious but not life threatening. We don't know the gender or the age of that child. The child has not been identified. All we know is they were brought to the hospital in Boston with serious but not life threatening injuries. We're learning about these new variants of the coronavirus popping up here in the U. S. And all over the globe to as of now, ABC is Marc Rayman Lard reports. It appears the vaccines we have here in the U. S are effective against those variants. Attorney says it's seen no significant impact on its vaccine's effectiveness and tests against the UK Varian. And while there was some impact from the South African Berry in the company says it was not enough to drop below a protective level. Even. Still, the company says it's looking into whether it can modify the vaccine or whether an additional booster shot might help visor and its partner beyond text says they're vaccine remains effective against the UK Varian and it's studying the South African one. Our grandma lard ABC News and a bit of hope tonight on the icy coast of Newburyport, devastated by the effects of climate change and sea walls in pieces in this part of new report on Plum Island, the beach used to reach out across the Salisbury Now it's short. The jetty used to stretch out like a cat know what Stumpy and that leaves homes vulnerable and millions and infrastructure at risk. Congressman Seth Moulton and State Senator Bruce Starr hoped the millions of dollars in San coming from the dredging of Newburyport Harbor will help And rebuilding dunes. But our wants a long term, innovative solution that could serve as a model for the rest of the state. We are facing unprecedented circumstances due to climate change. 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"The snow very quickly making its way off the coast of Essex County, right by Plum Island. Right now, I've seen 29 degrees and clearing skies in Ipswich, west of town, where 29 in Springfield as well 35 right by the Cape Cod Canal. Right now, in Boston at 7 25. It's overcast and 32. It's time for doing them business. And upon further review, Amazon will not open a distribution center in New Hampshire. After all, there have been rumors flying that a brand new, massive warehouse was to be built in Kingston, and it would feature fulfillment Center from the planet's largest retailer. But the news coming after a planning board meeting this week again, Amazon not in the cards. When it comes to work. Some new research suggesting the cove in 19 has been a main source of sick calls as we hear from CBS is Diane King home. The Corona virus triggered a record number of work absences in 2020. According to new analysis from U. S. A. Today 1.5 million people a month called out sick last year. It is 45% more than normal over the past two decades, now paid leave for illnesses expired in December. The Biden administration, though, has expressed an intention to reinstate and expand those benefits. The impact of the virus is taking a toll on a wide range of industries. We talked about that all the time here on WBZ, but it's also putting enormous strain as you can imagine on the dry cleaning business. Don Avery with the National Cleaners Association, says many cleaners are now offering new services. Alterations or washing fold for families because households.
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"A close call for three swimmers off the sandbar in Plum Island. They wandered in at low tide. And then the tide shifted, swallowing the sandbar, double BBC TV's Ken McCloud with a water rescue at low tide, it seems safe. It's just simply not safe with the current is not a place that you want to swim. It was just before 3 31 911 caller reported a couple struggling in the channel. Only to be joined by a good Samaritan who jumped in trying to help There are no lifeguards on duty because of covert 19 But the harbormaster and the Coast Guard were quick to arrive and pluck the exhausted trio fromthe water. Current Thank you ate. Many others have perished here. But not this time. All three people were rescued and brought to the doc for medical evaluations on Lee. The one went to the hospital. But authorities and locals are quick to urge visitors not to misjudge the North Plum Island sand bar. Maybe just they lose track of time or they don't look behind them and where they think they could make it on the
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"For years, plenty of wild. Rumors infringed theories have swirled around an island the size of New York's central park that rests a mile and a half about two and a half kilometers off of Long Island, Plum island is home to a high security federal research facility that internet fueled urban legends made into the east coast equivalent of area fifty one some have speculated that animal human hybrids and biological warfare. Weapons are being developed inside the Plum island animal disease center, opened by the US department of agriculture in the nineteen fifties. And under the control of the US department of homeland security since two thousand and three. John Barikot a spokesman for homeland security science and technology directorate said I've had questions about Nazi scientists alien technology in genetically modified monsters, but inside these security fences end Biocontainment area checkpoints described in the unredacted parts of a two thousand seven government report government, researchers work to stave off more tangible threats for an animal diseases such as foot and mouth disease and African swine fever which have the potential to recap acc- with the US food supply if they ever spread across the nation's farms in the US, which hasn't had an outbreak of foot and mouth disease since nineteen twenty nine. An outbreak of the highly contagious affliction could cause billions and billions of dollars in economic losses. Erica says because infected farm animals would have to be culled from the herds and destroyed meat exports would come to a halt until the disease was radically did and consumers might face shortages of meat and dairy products. Farmers who produce animal feed would be harmed as well. A two thousand one outbreak in the UK. Cost the nation. The equivalent of more than ten billion dollars. That longstanding danger led congress to authorize the department of agriculture to create a laboratory to fight animal. Diseases back in the nineteen fifties with one major condition the facility had to be located on an island to reduce the danger of pathogens or infected animals escaping and spreading to farms Plum island, the site of the US army's fort Terry from eighteen seventy nine to nineteen forty-eight fit that criteria. Nineteen seventy-one New York Times article described the facility as devil's island for the deadliest animal disease germs known to man and describes the elaborate security measures those included round the clock patrols along the island's perimeter intended to warn away boaters who might be attracted by the pristine beaches buildings with air locks to keep bacteria and viruses from escaping and holding tanks to sterilize the wastewater from mandatory showers taken by staffers before leaving at the end of the work day. In part because of the risk of a terrorist attack on the facility in two thousand three it was transferred to the department of homeland security, although agriculture researchers continue to work there with additional measures such as door sensors and alarms, and it's not for nothing an Al Qaeda operative who was arrested in two thousand eight in Afghanistan had a handwritten list of various potential targets in the US that included Plum island. Despite all the security measures, the Plum island facility doesn't work in secrecy Vercoe said we actually don't do any classified work at all. Our scientists published reports on everything we do. Plum island houses, the only foot and mouth disease vaccine Bank in North America, which maintains and regularly updates. If Ryan evac scenes that have been developed to combat the more than sixty different strains of the disease. Those vaccines could be deployed in the event of the disease began to spread in the US, Canada or Mexico. Additionally, if an animal becomes sick and develops suspicious, lesions or other possible signs of the disease tissue. Samples can be sent to Plum island for analysis in veterinarians come to Plum island for training, a work at the facility was instrumental in the conquest of rinderpest a deadly cattle disease that is one of the only two diseases smallpox being the other that have been totally radical. Although the Plum island facility, and it's four hundred person workforce have been an important part of the nation's defenses against animal diseases for decades. It's scheduled to shut down by proximity. Twenty twenty three it gradually will be replaced by the national bio and agro defense facility at one point two five billion dollar project under construction in Manhattan, Kansas that facility will be larger than Plum island and be able to conduct more studies simultaneously. It will also have added layers of security to enable it to function as a level four laboratory. Meaning that will be able to study animal diseases that have the potential to be transmitted to humans. It will be the first large animal facility capable of such research advances in security measures will make it unnecessary for it to be located offshore. What will happen to Plum island after the animal disease center shuts down isn't yet clear. The US General Services Administration already has advertised the island in its buildings for sale in keeping with provisions tucked into the two thousand nine economic stimulus package that requires it to be auctioned off to defray the construction cost of the Kansas City, and or homeland security's new headquarters complex, but
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"Is also under a winter soren our morning except for some portions of northwestern vermont so wbz tv meteorologist danielle niles breaks down what to expect and when we can expect as as a mainly snow event that's the highest impact we will also see some minor coastal flooding for tomorrow morning's high tide with a one two three foot surge strong wind gusts who at the cosigned to our morning through the afternoon now plum island it's the calm of course before yet another storm carl stevens as their checking out the preparations there's a serbheld side the beach komorous drug here at reads eight days joe spring owner grigg pulic everybody else on this island knows the impact a nor'easter can have on the place but he also knows you can't stop mother nature and you can't beat this island anand nice day you see the sun you see the the oceans beautiful yeah we take a beating from timetotime but the island uh residents sir hardy budge sandbags are up in some areas cranes putting boulders down to shore up a c while they're getting ready physically and psychologically for another one from plo island carl.