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Shiori StraussWKNJ NewscastOctober 11, 2013

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(00:00-00:30 )Good afternoon, its ________, October 11, 2013 at _______o’ clock and

you’re listening to the New WKNJ-FM, Union, New Jersey, and I’m Shiori Strauss with

the news.

(00:30-1:00) In International News… 45 seconds

The British government has announced plans to build two new nuclear reactors in

southwest England. The agreement is worth nearly $26 billion. The deal is the first of its

kind since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 —  and the first new British

nuclear power station in two decades. The French Firm EDF will have a leading interest

in this project and a couple of chinese firms will have a combined 30- 40% stake.

Expected to come online in ten yaers time and They should be able to power 7 million

homes.

(1:00 -1:30) In National news… There's a group of Americans who've been dubbed the

Young Invincibles. They're not, of course. But they are young, healthy and people the

administration needs to buy health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The new

health insurance exchanges opened October 1st and officials want at least 2.7 million of

the seven million estimated new enrollees to fall inside that 18 to 35 age range to keep

insurance rates low. The president and Hollywood stars have made special appeals to this

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group, nicely reminding them that those who choose not to enroll have to pay a fine. In

2011, over 18 million of these young adults were not insured for health care. 

(1:30-2:00) In Sports… (more than scores and statistics) 

On October 19, 2013 The Boston Red Sox clinched the

American League pennant last night during a 5-2 win over the

Detroit Tigers in Game 6 of the American League

Championship Series.That means the World Series matchup is

set: It'll be the Red Sox vs. the St. Louis Cardinals beginning

Wednesday in Boston. The Sox have redeemed themselves

this year. Last season, they ended in last place with only 69

wins; this season, they clinched the American League East

with 97 wins, tying with the Cards for the best season in

 baseball. This will be the first time since the Braves and

Yankees played in 1999 that league win leaders will face off

in the World Series.

(2:00-2:30) (Human Interest story)

Painkiller Overdose Deaths Strike New York City's Middle

Class Drug overdoses are usually thought to afflict mainly the

 poor and troubled. But it looks like OxyContin and other

opioid painkillers are changing the picture.People in stable,

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middle-class neighborhoods are also dying from opioid

overdoses, a study in New York City finds.Opioids have

 become among the most popular drugs of abuse in the past

decade, with deaths from overdoses of oxycodone,

hydrocodone and codeine eclipsing those from heroin and

cocaine combined.Fatal overdoses from prescription

 painkillers more than tripled from 1991 to 2007, according to 

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.