Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: It's fifty degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock good Wednesday
Speaker 2: morning on Madison Rogers, and we start off this hour
Speaker 2: with some breaking news. A shooting suspect in Attleborough the
Speaker 2: police considered armed and dangerous is now in custody. Police
Speaker 2: say they located Jacob Lecourse at a home in Attleborough
Speaker 2: yesterday and took him into custody without incident. La Course
Speaker 2: is wanted on charges or was wanted on charges related
Speaker 2: to a shooting in Attleborough this past weekend. He's charged
Speaker 2: with a sultan battery with a firearm and has been
Speaker 2: ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing. At the
Speaker 2: same time, police also arrested another person, Alexandra Elliott, is
Speaker 2: charged with intimidating a witness. The sky is finally about
Speaker 2: to open up. Rain will soon break through critical drought
Speaker 2: conditions across much of the state, and wbz's James Rojas
Speaker 2: says it is a very welcome change of pace.
Speaker 1: The rain forecasted for Thursday and Friday cannot come at
Speaker 1: a more crucial time, as we are experiencing an unprecedented
Speaker 1: low amount of precipitation. We're also experiencing longer lasting wildfires,
Speaker 1: with over three dozen active fires burning across the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1: This frequent Fowls Reservation visitor is looking forward to the rain.
Speaker 3: I actually like the rain. I'm shooting it from macgrass
Speaker 3: and let's good for everything once in a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely knew it.
Speaker 1: However, even with rain this week, we still run the
Speaker 1: chance of finishing this season as the driest meteorological autumn
Speaker 1: on record at the Fowls Reservation. James Rojas WBZ Boston's
Speaker 1: News Radio.
Speaker 2: Today is a day of vigils for the local LGBTQ community,
Speaker 2: the Transgender Day of Remembrance that serves as a moment
Speaker 2: to more and trans people lost to violence. It was
Speaker 2: founded in honor of a trans woman murdered in Boston
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety eight, Rita Hester. Among the local events,
Speaker 2: there is a vigil tonight at the Unitarian Universalist Church
Speaker 2: in Quincy Center and name reading un Dartmouth. More than
Speaker 2: three hundred names were read at a vigil in Boston
Speaker 2: over the weekend. The Speaker of the House moves to
Speaker 2: keep the first transgender member of US Congress from using
Speaker 2: women's restrooms on Capitol Hill. CBS is Alison Keys.
Speaker 4: House Speaker Mike Johnson, citing as Christian faith, says, we're
Speaker 4: not going to have men in women's bathrooms, but ads.
Speaker 5: I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity, and
Speaker 5: so what we can do and believe all those things.
Speaker 4: At the same time, House Minority Leader HACKEM. Jeffrey says,
Speaker 4: the Republicans want to bully a member of Congress. Are
Speaker 4: you really focused on housing prices? Apparently not, Alison Keys,
Speaker 4: CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: Incoming Representative Sarah McBride is calling the resolution a blatant
Speaker 2: attempt to distract from the issues Americans actually face. This
Speaker 2: just into our newsroom. President elect Donald Trump has chosen
Speaker 2: former acting Attorney General Matt Whittaker as the country's next
Speaker 2: NATO ambassador. Meantime, the bipartisan how the House Ethics Committee
Speaker 2: could decide to day whether to release findings from its
Speaker 2: investigation into former Rep. Matt Gates. It comes as more
Speaker 2: controversy swirls around Gates, who President elect Trump has picked
Speaker 2: to be the next Attorney General.
Speaker 5: One woman told the committee she allegedly saw Gates having
Speaker 5: sex with her seventeen year old friend. Sources now say
Speaker 5: a hacker obtained documents from a civil case involving a
Speaker 5: friend of Gates and that seventeen year old girl. Senators
Speaker 5: are conflicted over whether the ethics reports should be made
Speaker 5: public before Gates' nomination hearing. The Justice Department separately investigated
Speaker 5: sex trafficking allegations against Gates without bringing charges.
Speaker 4: Gates has denied all wrongdoing.
Speaker 2: Meantime, the former president has tapped longtime ally Linda McMahon
Speaker 2: to lead the Education Department and doctor mehmet Oz to
Speaker 2: oversee Medicare and Medicaid. Looking at the four to a
Speaker 2: wbz ACU weather forecast will top out in the mid
Speaker 2: upper fifties this afternoon with times of sun and clouds.
Speaker 2: More clouds move in tonight with a breeze picking up
Speaker 2: late forty one to forty eight degrees for the low,
Speaker 2: and then tomorrow it is some long awaited rain, arriving
Speaker 2: mostly in the late morning hours and then through the
Speaker 2: rest of the day. It's also increasingly windy as the
Speaker 2: day goes on, and we'll see a hinh near fifty
Speaker 2: low fifties, mostly cloudy and breezy, with a couple more
Speaker 2: showers around for Friday, and we can't rule out a
Speaker 2: shower for Saturday as well. Otherwise, that's another mostly cloudy
Speaker 2: day in the low fifties. Right now in Boston, it's
Speaker 2: fifty degrees and mostly sunny at eleven oh six. Schools
Speaker 2: on the North Shore still look like ghost towns. We
Speaker 2: get an update on the teacher strikes from wbz's Jay
Speaker 2: will Lette.
Speaker 3: While Glosster teachers say they're narrowing down on a deal
Speaker 3: with its school committee for better paying working conditions. It's
Speaker 3: been over a week of no school there. The district
Speaker 3: is holding a vigil tonight in gratitude for those who
Speaker 3: are withstanding the picket lines. Marble Head and Beverly remain
Speaker 3: a whizz off from a handshake for every day students
Speaker 3: aren't sitting in desks. Teacher unions are being fined ten
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. School committee says they're finding common ground on
Speaker 3: personal days and missed prep period demands, not so much
Speaker 3: on wage proposals. Teachers have been calling on Governor Heally
Speaker 3: to stand out for them, and while she empathizes, her
Speaker 3: focus is getting kids back to class, urging both sides
Speaker 3: to reach a deal asap. J Willlett WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: A class in the which city is coaching the Stephen
Speaker 2: Kings of Tomorrow. The BBC's Hyle Shaffle explains.
Speaker 6: Horror isn't often thought of as a kid friendly genre,
Speaker 6: but these kids at Collins Middle School and Salem are
Speaker 6: trying to master it.
Speaker 1: They're trying to write the scariest story. Like they're almost
Speaker 1: like competing against each other to write the scariest story.
Speaker 6: That's their teacher, Mike. This horror writing class is a
Speaker 6: volunteer after school lesson taught the semester to help the
Speaker 6: kids own their skills. Madison says one of her stories
Speaker 6: was so scary she was able to spook her horror
Speaker 6: Officionado sister Satira, and the fact that I.
Speaker 7: Was able to scare her in four sentences, I was so.
Speaker 6: Crad Shatira says she's excited for the final class project.
Speaker 7: I'm really excited to have it done because I really
Speaker 7: want to see how like all the perspectives, because me
Speaker 7: and me, Mary and Maddie were all doing different perspectives
Speaker 7: on one story.
Speaker 6: The class is hosted by Leap for Education and north
Speaker 6: Shore nonprofit that runs after school programs. The kids I
Speaker 6: talked to so they might try to make writing into
Speaker 6: a career. Kyle Shaffele to be busy, Boston's News Radio.
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