My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 11/24/2009

[0:03]" Women's news. Never --"

[0:14]" Good afternoon it's 4 o'clock it's cloudy in Boston 47 degrees I'm Diane Stern here's what we're following in the WBZ newsroom we already have the stimulus plan a local congresswoman wants to take that one step further I'm Lisa Meyer. Raw milk some people prefer a training camp armour makes a bid to sell raw milk or --"

[0:57]" to drop three of five home to Philadelphia tomorrow we top our news with the story president of promises within days will know what his plans are for Afghanistan. Here's more."

[1:08]" CBS news update I'm Harley -- The -- will be over soon President Obama plans to announce his decision on Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving. Sometime next week is the expectation."

[1:19]" I think they've been reviewed we've gone through has been. Comprehensive and extremely useful."

[1:40]" In Afghanistan winter's coming on fast which only makes the mission harder and more miserable. With the decisions on troops more pressure is expected on Afghanistan's government to clean up its act CBS's Mindy Clarke. Mandy Clark is in --"

[1:53]" The Karzai government had been under enormous pressure. I spoke to one US official who exactly what they wanna see in the next six months from the Karzai government is measurable result."

[2:57]" Has 18% low post at 13% so here's what she wants to do I'm essentially arguing for a fact. Cost effective direct investment in creating jobs around preserving and restoring our civic landmark."

[3:10]" The WPA built a lot of them during the depression Saunders is calling for sort of WPA to."

[3:15]" Point I'll put people to work yes it took an expenditure of federal funds but in the meantime we're also spending significant funds and unemployment benefits."

[3:24]" tells me it's not so much that the stimulus plan has failed it's just that it is based in overtime in people need help now Lisa -- WBZ Newsradio 1030 WBZ news time just about 406. A Framingham farmer will be asking the board of health tonight to let him sell raw milk. WBZ's Lana Jones reports he would be joining a small Massachusetts farming fraternity like a lot of small dairy farmers Doug Steffen of east reform is having trouble getting by on what he's paid for milk by the big producers so after asking around he found the demand for raw milk among those who contend that pastors patient takes a lot of good stuff out with a --"

[4:01]" Seven that I wanted to say if we're going to present me safe product. And people can make sure they are hatcheries."

[4:10]" He says 25 other base state farms are producing and selling raw milk with few problems."

[4:14]" Because the state requires. Such ardent supervision -- that's why they haven't been -- I give credit --"

[4:21]" Stefan believes he's got sufficient support among immigrants and homeopathic medicine practitioners to give -- ago in Framingham Lana Jones WBZ Newsradio 1030."

[4:30]" Falls in older people are big cause of injuries hospitalizations. And long term care now in new local study finds that pain increases the risk of falling down. Suzanne leveling is professor of nursing at UMass Boston she speculates on why the link."

[4:46]" Certainly implement and having pain Torrington in the AP -- able to move their arms or legs quickly in the present levels fall hazard. Another possibility is that pain could be distracting for people."

[4:59]" Compared with study participants who reported no pain those who had chronic pain in two or more joints had a 50% greater risk of falling. -- will now try to answer this important question."

[5:11]" If people have better control of their chronic pain. Good that we do their risk of following."

[5:16]" The study appears in tomorrow's journal of the American Medical Association. A warning for parents days before the unofficial kick off to the holiday shopping season. A local consumer advocacy group is finding improvements among toys but there are still dangerous ones out there. As we hear from WBZ's Carl Stevens --"

[5:35]" The commonwealth children's center in Boston was the studying for the release today of mass -- putting -- annual survey of towards safety what they found according to mass purge from on -- Was that -- are safer than they used to be but there are still plenty of issues over the past year there in nineteen -- related acts. War thousand emergency room visits because of Lansing afterwards he demonstrated toys that pose serious choking hazards toys he said that are too loud and toys that contain elites were linked. To the trouble in toyland report. From mass purging go to our website WBZ dot com Carl Stevens WBZ Newsradio 1030 coming up."