Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Well,
Speaker 1: that happened quickly, almost too quickly, as it always does.
Speaker 1: Right back at it, following the long holiday weekend for
Speaker 1: many of us. At is six o'clock Monday morning, bright
Speaker 1: and early, under clear skies. It is just twenty nine
Speaker 1: degrees in Boston. The News at six brought to us
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Speaker 1: drive headquarters. Welcome back. I'm Jeff Brown. We're right back
Speaker 1: at it.
Speaker 2: The start of the work week will be cold and dry,
Speaker 2: with sunshine for the most part in high's near forty.
Speaker 1: At is WBZ acuweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Chance for some
Speaker 1: snow is actually coming up. Later on this week, Celtic's
Speaker 1: seven game winning streak comes to a halt. The Cavaliers
Speaker 1: outlast the Seas in Cleveland. Celtics will host the Heat tonight.
Speaker 1: Bruins celebrate a century with a big win over Montreal
Speaker 1: at the Garden. They get the Red Wings tomorrow and
Speaker 1: the Patriots enter there bye week. They are a few
Speaker 1: eliminated from the NFL playoffs. In a White House one eighty,
Speaker 1: President Biden offers full and unconditional pardon to his son Hunter.
Speaker 1: The decision will clear the younger Biden of a guilty
Speaker 1: verdict in attacks and drug case in Delaware, and also
Speaker 1: clears him of his guilty plea in attacks of Asian
Speaker 1: case in California. The pardon comes just weeks before Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden was expected to be sentenced in both and faces
Speaker 1: decades behind bars. President Biden once said he would not
Speaker 1: grant clemency to his son, but now says Hunter was
Speaker 1: selectively and unfairly treated by the US justice system. President
Speaker 1: elect Donald Trump blasts the decision on social media by
Speaker 1: raising the issue of pardons for those convicted in the
Speaker 1: January sixth attack on the US Capitol. In what is
Speaker 1: expected to be his final overseas trip as president of
Speaker 1: the United States, President Biden is currently on Air Force one.
Speaker 1: He headed for the African nation of Angola. Once on
Speaker 1: the ground, mister Biden will become the first sitting US
Speaker 1: president to visit that country and the first president since
Speaker 1: Barack Obama to visit Africa back in twenty fifteen. The
Speaker 1: President delivers on a promise that was postponed earlier this
Speaker 1: fall following hurricanes Milton and Helene. It is a working
Speaker 1: long holiday weekend for President elect Donald Trump, who continues
Speaker 1: to fill out positions of power in his new administration.
Speaker 1: It is becoming a bit of a family affair as well,
Speaker 1: as some in laws get some plumb assignments, starting with
Speaker 1: Charles Kushner as ambassador to France and Massad Bulos top
Speaker 1: advisor position to mister Trump, both fathers in law of
Speaker 1: the president Elect's daughters also getting the nod Republican firebrand
Speaker 1: Kash Patel as head of the FBI. He'd replace mister
Speaker 1: Trump's own appointee, Christopher Ray, three years before Ray's ten
Speaker 1: year term expires. Can't get used to this. It is Monday,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden from a long holiday weekend, and
Speaker 1: we're right back at it this morning, and we're in
Speaker 1: pretty decent shape as far as the weather is concerned.
Speaker 1: It is a little bit frosty, though very cold, some
Speaker 1: of the coldest of the season so far. This morning.
Speaker 1: It's just twenty nine degrees in Boston out the door
Speaker 1: and barely getting to forty today. But it's going to
Speaker 1: be a bright, sunny day with some breezy conditions as well.
Speaker 1: Overnight continued clear low's back in the twenties. Tomorrow, more
Speaker 1: sun than clouds, highs once again right around forty sort
Speaker 1: of a carbon copy of today Wednesday. We're looking at
Speaker 1: sunshine to start, clouds on the increase, and the possibility
Speaker 1: of some snow moving into the area. This is mainly
Speaker 1: going to be north and west of four ninety five,
Speaker 1: and in those areas we could see an inch or
Speaker 1: two of accumulation. But here in Greater Boston looks like
Speaker 1: it's going to be mostly rain. Right now in Boston,
Speaker 1: mainly clear. Sky's twenty nine degrees on this Monday morning,
Speaker 1: it is six oh six. For the first time in
Speaker 1: three weeks, thousands of students on the North Shore begin
Speaker 1: a full week of classes this morning. Wb'z eas Drew
Speaker 1: m'holland is here in the aftermath of those teacher strikes.
Speaker 3: Good morning Groop, Good morning Jeffrey. Do we also have
Speaker 3: to put in a full week?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm told. I'm not sure I'm going to deliver,
Speaker 1: but that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: Teacher strikes in Gloucester, Marblehead and Beverly are now in
Speaker 3: the rearview mirror. Teachers in all three communities winning big raises,
Speaker 3: better benefits and better working conditions. The job action costs
Speaker 3: each community school districts dearly though hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 3: dollars in fines. There are court efforts to grant the
Speaker 3: districts the ability to donate the fines to local charities.
Speaker 3: We will see how that all plays.
Speaker 1: Out, Yes we will. It is also busy and back
Speaker 1: to reality at Logan Airport this morning, where many holiday
Speaker 1: travelers are leaving the area. Many still are coming home.
Speaker 1: Wbz's James Rojas is there.
Speaker 4: The cold weather officially feels like it's rolled in, which
Speaker 4: for some means perfect timing to roll out for something
Speaker 4: warmer like Florida.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's like a cool seventy something, agrees, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be nice to get back to though.
Speaker 4: That's Matt, originally a Boston boy who's ready to fly
Speaker 4: back to his new home, our money. He's off to
Speaker 4: vacation somewhere even hotter.
Speaker 1: I was actually playing in the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing off to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4: Puerto Rico, I would imagine Puerto Rico's weather is a
Speaker 4: little bit warmer than Boston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I check the weather, it was it's going
Speaker 2: to be a a week so it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: Real nice, extremely nice compared to other parts of the
Speaker 4: country that are dealing with winter warnings and feet of
Speaker 4: snow at Logan James Rojas, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Big Weekend at the movies.
Speaker 2: Balt Disney's More two smashed box office records with two
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty one million dollars in ticket sales over
Speaker 2: the five day holiday weekend. That's according to studio estimates.
Speaker 2: The musical Wicked took it more than one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventeen million in its second weekend in theaters, not accounting
Speaker 2: for inflation. Wicked is now the highest grossing Broadway adaptation,
Speaker 2: followed by nineteen seventy eight's Grease and director Ridley Scott's
Speaker 2: sequel Gladiator two, also in its second weekend, collected forty
Speaker 2: four million dollars. Overall Thanksgiving weekend ticket sales surpassed four
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars of record that.
Speaker 1: Is CBS's Matt Piper. You are now in the loop.
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