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Speaker 1: Gray skies in Boston right now at 11 o'clock. We're at 61 degrees in the hub. Good morning to you. I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening. Following developing news, Attorney General Andrea Campbell has released a report this morning detailing child sex abuse. in the Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester Diocese. This report provides something that did not previously exist. For the first time, a full public accounting of the abuse. Over the course of decades, the investigation found nearly a thousand children were abused by members of the clergy in those three dioceses, and church leaders failed to address the problem or protect victims from further harm. Now, stories like this have come out before. The AG's office as offending priests were often transferred to other parishes, where they were then able to abuse more victims. The Attorney General is calling for reforms both to church policy and state law, including getting rid of the statute of limitations for civil claims involving child sex abuse. And at 11.01 overseas, a terrifying scene playing out in the air on a flight from Dubai to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now says authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested a pilot after he tried to hijack the plane. He also credits the passengers on that flight for preventing a major disaster on that fly Dubai flight. ABC's Ian Pannell has more.
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Speaker 2: My witnesses are saying one of the pilots was stabbed with a knife and that there was a lot of blood on board. They say fellow passengers disarmed the attacker. An Israeli passenger telling Channel 12 News in Israel, there were moments when we were sure this was the end. We heard screams and screams and then we saw that the cockpit was being opened and there was blood there. An Israeli source telling ABC News it is now being treated as a terror incident. And as you would expect, Prime Minister Netanyahu is being kept updated. Ian Pannell, ABC News in London.
00:01:54
Speaker 1: Thousands of legal immigrants here in New England are about to lose their Medicaid coverage as of tomorrow. This is due to new federal restrictions mandated by Congress, all part of the president's spending bill passed last year. The Globe reports this includes victims of human trafficking, people who fled war zones, refugees and asylum holders. Many are eligible for green cards but don't have them yet. This will impact about 15,000 people here in New England overall tomorrow. The feds are hoping to cut more than $ 900 billion from Medicaid over the next decade. Now, as the cost of living here in the U.S. keeps rising, household budgets are barely able to keep up.
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Speaker 3: The Personal Consumption Expenditures Index is the federal reserve's preferred gauge of U.S.
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Speaker 4: Inflation.
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Speaker 3: The Fed targets 2% as the ideal year-over-year inflation rate, but last month it sat at 3.4%, which is still a bit lower than economists were expecting.
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Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan, the report also showed personal income rose 0.2%, spending increased 0.9%. Looking ahead at the forecast, this morning definitely saw some rain, a bit of drizzle out there in the Boston area. We had some fog as well, but it looks like that is now starting to shift and move out a bit. The clouds are lifting ever so slightly. Still pretty gray, though, here in the Boston area. We are seeing a bit of sun, though, further to the south and west. And later on this afternoon, we might even see some sun here in the hub. It looks like we have a high near 70 today. Forward tonight, partly to mostly cloudy, low 55 inland, 60 downtown. And then for your Thursday, a mix of sun and clouds, a high near 78 degrees tomorrow, 70 to 75 on the south coast, Cape and Islands. Friday, to finish the work week, increasing clouds, breezy and certainly warmer. We've got a high near 80. Temperatures right now, let's go get a look outside in Lawrence. Here at 63 degrees. South of Boston right now in Bridgewater, 63 as well. West of the city in Framingham, 62 degrees. In Boston right now at Logan Airport at 1105, it is cloudy and 61. More details are coming out about a sexual assault two years ago against a former Cornell student. It was an attack that allegedly involved ketamine and several frat members. ABC News has obtained the statement the alleged victim, Jane Doe, gave to Cornell University police after that assault played out. ABC's Aaron Katursky.
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Speaker 5: At one point, she said no to the foursome she claimed one of the fraternity brothers proposed. Another time, she recalled a group of multiple men walking into a room, and I was instantly horrified, and I remember squealing out loud and running across the room and hiding under the covers on another bed. Several of the frat brothers have issued statements saying they did nothing wrong.
00:04:27
Speaker 1: This case, of course, high profile now in its renewing debate over consent laws in New York. At the time, the D.A. said he chose not to file because the statement did not meet the legal definition of nonconsensual sex, as it said that she was voluntarily intoxicated. This was the statement given to the district attorney. Jane Doe has since filed a lawsuit against the seven frat brothers and the school district. The incident is once again under investigation. Meantime, an annual report at Boston College shows there's been a spike in stalking and dating violence on campus.
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Speaker 4: Boston College has released crime statistics that the campus hasn't seen this high in well over a decade. Stalking cases had the highest increase with 17 instances compared to eight the previous two years. That's on top of dating violence, rape and fondling cases also going up. Adriana, a BC junior, is concerned by the numbers.
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Speaker 6: Scary for me is that you have to think about how many went unreported then. And we also didn't hear about any of these as they happened, which is understandable for confidentiality and protection of the victims. But it's just not something that's really... talked about on campus.
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Speaker 4: But Adriana says those crimes are not just a BC problem, but an issue on college campuses across the country. In Chestnut Hill, James Rojas, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
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Speaker 1: It's been almost 90 years now since Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific during her push to fly around the world. This week, a team of researchers is heading out to that part of the ocean, trying to determine whether a tiny image on Apple Maps could actually be the wreckage of her plane. Rick Pettigrew is from the Archaeological Legacy Institute. He says this object was spotted back in 2020. It is sitting in a lagoon within the tiny island nation of Kiribati.
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Speaker 3: It is a very remote island. There couldn't be anything there, but there's something big there.
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Speaker 5: It looks like a big metal thing.
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Speaker 1: This was a delayed expedition. It was supposed to take place back in November, but it had to be put off over permitting issues. You are now in The Loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ Newsradio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Gray skies in Boston right now at 11 o'clock. We're at 61 degrees in the hub. Good morning to you. I'm Nicole Davis. Here is what's happening. Following developing news, Attorney General Andrea Campbell has released a report this morning detailing child sex abuse. in the Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester Diocese. This report provides something that did not previously exist. For the first time, a full public accounting of the abuse. Over the course of decades, the investigation found nearly a thousand children were abused by members of the clergy in those three dioceses, and church leaders failed to address the problem or protect victims from further harm. Now, stories like this have come out before. The AG's office as offending priests were often transferred to other parishes, where they were then able to abuse more victims. The Attorney General is calling for reforms both to church policy and state law, including getting rid of the statute of limitations for civil claims involving child sex abuse. And at 11.01 overseas, a terrifying scene playing out in the air on a flight from Dubai to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now says authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested a pilot after he tried to hijack the plane. He also credits the passengers on that flight for preventing a major disaster on that fly Dubai flight. ABC's Ian Pannell has more.
00:01:21
Speaker 2: My witnesses are saying one of the pilots was stabbed with a knife and that there was a lot of blood on board. They say fellow passengers disarmed the attacker. An Israeli passenger telling Channel 12 News in Israel, there were moments when we were sure this was the end. We heard screams and screams and then we saw that the cockpit was being opened and there was blood there. An Israeli source telling ABC News it is now being treated as a terror incident. And as you would expect, Prime Minister Netanyahu is being kept updated. Ian Pannell, ABC News in London.
00:01:54
Speaker 1: Thousands of legal immigrants here in New England are about to lose their Medicaid coverage as of tomorrow. This is due to new federal restrictions mandated by Congress, all part of the president's spending bill passed last year. The Globe reports this includes victims of human trafficking, people who fled war zones, refugees and asylum holders. Many are eligible for green cards but don't have them yet. This will impact about 15,000 people here in New England overall tomorrow. The feds are hoping to cut more than $ 900 billion from Medicaid over the next decade. Now, as the cost of living here in the U.S. keeps rising, household budgets are barely able to keep up.
00:02:28
Speaker 3: The Personal Consumption Expenditures Index is the federal reserve's preferred gauge of U.S.
00:02:33
Speaker 4: Inflation.
00:02:34
Speaker 3: The Fed targets 2% as the ideal year-over-year inflation rate, but last month it sat at 3.4%, which is still a bit lower than economists were expecting.
00:02:43
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan, the report also showed personal income rose 0.2%, spending increased 0.9%. Looking ahead at the forecast, this morning definitely saw some rain, a bit of drizzle out there in the Boston area. We had some fog as well, but it looks like that is now starting to shift and move out a bit. The clouds are lifting ever so slightly. Still pretty gray, though, here in the Boston area. We are seeing a bit of sun, though, further to the south and west. And later on this afternoon, we might even see some sun here in the hub. It looks like we have a high near 70 today. Forward tonight, partly to mostly cloudy, low 55 inland, 60 downtown. And then for your Thursday, a mix of sun and clouds, a high near 78 degrees tomorrow, 70 to 75 on the south coast, Cape and Islands. Friday, to finish the work week, increasing clouds, breezy and certainly warmer. We've got a high near 80. Temperatures right now, let's go get a look outside in Lawrence. Here at 63 degrees. South of Boston right now in Bridgewater, 63 as well. West of the city in Framingham, 62 degrees. In Boston right now at Logan Airport at 1105, it is cloudy and 61. More details are coming out about a sexual assault two years ago against a former Cornell student. It was an attack that allegedly involved ketamine and several frat members. ABC News has obtained the statement the alleged victim, Jane Doe, gave to Cornell University police after that assault played out. ABC's Aaron Katursky.
00:04:08
Speaker 5: At one point, she said no to the foursome she claimed one of the fraternity brothers proposed. Another time, she recalled a group of multiple men walking into a room, and I was instantly horrified, and I remember squealing out loud and running across the room and hiding under the covers on another bed. Several of the frat brothers have issued statements saying they did nothing wrong.
00:04:27
Speaker 1: This case, of course, high profile now in its renewing debate over consent laws in New York. At the time, the D.A. said he chose not to file because the statement did not meet the legal definition of nonconsensual sex, as it said that she was voluntarily intoxicated. This was the statement given to the district attorney. Jane Doe has since filed a lawsuit against the seven frat brothers and the school district. The incident is once again under investigation. Meantime, an annual report at Boston College shows there's been a spike in stalking and dating violence on campus.
00:05:00
Speaker 4: Boston College has released crime statistics that the campus hasn't seen this high in well over a decade. Stalking cases had the highest increase with 17 instances compared to eight the previous two years. That's on top of dating violence, rape and fondling cases also going up. Adriana, a BC junior, is concerned by the numbers.
00:05:20
Speaker 6: Scary for me is that you have to think about how many went unreported then. And we also didn't hear about any of these as they happened, which is understandable for confidentiality and protection of the victims. But it's just not something that's really... talked about on campus.
00:05:36
Speaker 4: But Adriana says those crimes are not just a BC problem, but an issue on college campuses across the country. In Chestnut Hill, James Rojas, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
00:05:48
Speaker 1: It's been almost 90 years now since Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific during her push to fly around the world. This week, a team of researchers is heading out to that part of the ocean, trying to determine whether a tiny image on Apple Maps could actually be the wreckage of her plane. Rick Pettigrew is from the Archaeological Legacy Institute. He says this object was spotted back in 2020. It is sitting in a lagoon within the tiny island nation of Kiribati.
00:06:14
Speaker 3: It is a very remote island. There couldn't be anything there, but there's something big there.
00:06:18
Speaker 5: It looks like a big metal thing.
00:06:20
Speaker 1: This was a delayed expedition. It was supposed to take place back in November, but it had to be put off over permitting issues. You are now in The Loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ Newsradio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Nicole Davis, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
