Speaker 1: Thirty five degrees in Boston at three thirty good afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. The snow is here.
Speaker 1: The Great Holiday Escape is underway, and the weather's been
Speaker 1: leading to some major problems on the highways. We have
Speaker 1: a crash on the Turnpike in Auburn. We have traffic
Speaker 1: everywhere and it's going pretty slowly. It'll get you caught
Speaker 1: up on traffic and weather together in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. And there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 1: traffic through the holiday season as Triple A is expecting
Speaker 1: record travelers, projecting one hundred and nineteen million people will
Speaker 1: travel fifty miles or more from home tomorrow and until
Speaker 1: New Year's Day. Over seven million people will be flying,
Speaker 1: but most travelers will be driving. They'll be treated to
Speaker 1: the lower gas prices this year compared to last and
Speaker 1: Triple as as those hitting the road should follow the
Speaker 1: speed limit, void overnight drives, and expect some delays. If
Speaker 1: you're flying today out of Boston, yeah, there are delays.
Speaker 1: According to Flight to Where, there have been four hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty four delayed flights over at Logan Airport today
Speaker 1: in twenty six cancelations. The weather, of course not helping.
Speaker 1: Christmas falls on a Wednesday this year, so W The
Speaker 1: bz's Kendall Bule last locals what days they're getting off.
Speaker 2: With Chipley saying this weekend begins a record travel period.
Speaker 2: I think everyone's on the cosp of a holiday break.
Speaker 2: That's not what I found though, when I asked people
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: I do have to work next week.
Speaker 1: I don't start Tell Wednesday.
Speaker 2: You have working next week?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I have to work next week.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 3: We got Christmas off, we celebrate Baby Jesus, and back
Speaker 3: to reality we go.
Speaker 2: And those aren't even the essential workers. I talked to
Speaker 2: the first responders, hospital staff and others who work at jobs.
Speaker 2: Were the doors never ever closed? Now, I will say this,
Speaker 2: while the few people I spoke to for whom the
Speaker 2: weekend is indeed the start of their holiday seemed extra giddy,
Speaker 2: the ones who will be working don't seem to have
Speaker 2: lost any of their Christmas time goodwill.
Speaker 1: The holiday for me is what I make of it.
Speaker 2: Kendall Bull WBSY Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: My makers making a mad dash to try to put
Speaker 1: together a government spending bill to pass the House following
Speaker 1: yesterday's that was voted down.
Speaker 3: Well, there is apparently a planned c in the works.
Speaker 3: Democratic lawmakers like Representative Promila Jayapaul are pushing for the
Speaker 3: House Speaker to put the original bipartisan stopgap funding deal
Speaker 3: up for another vote.
Speaker 2: He could grow a spine right now, ignore his puppeteers,
Speaker 2: and then he could put this negotiated bill on the floor.
Speaker 3: But Republican Anna Paulina Luna says, I'm not cutting.
Speaker 6: Gild of Democrats.
Speaker 3: We're going to work it out here. I do not
Speaker 3: believe the government is going to be shutting down. Stacey Lynn,
Speaker 3: CBS News Washington.
Speaker 1: Number of Amazon delivery drivers are off the job right
Speaker 1: now during the busiest time of the year.
Speaker 6: Thousands of Amazon workers who belong to the Teamsters union.
Speaker 6: They're on strike for a second day at seven of
Speaker 6: the company's delivery hubs in New York, Georgia, Illinois, and California.
Speaker 6: Justin Sharer is president of Teamster's Local seven eighty three
Speaker 6: in Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 7: It's about our workforce, and it's about improving this workforce.
Speaker 3: This corporation has made billions, if not trillions, of dollars
Speaker 3: on the backs of Labor.
Speaker 6: Says the striking workers who are delivery drivers actually work
Speaker 6: for a third party company. Jim Chrysilli Cibesta.
Speaker 1: We've got these snow around. We have a winter weather
Speaker 1: advisor until four o'clock in the morning, and we're going
Speaker 1: to get varying amounts of snow falling and various amounts
Speaker 1: of snow on the ground. By the time all this
Speaker 1: said and done, one to three inches on average, but
Speaker 1: there could be some locally higher amounts as this coastal
Speaker 1: storm kind of gets revved up. It's not going to
Speaker 1: hit us directly, but as you can see, it is
Speaker 1: giving us a little wake up call. We'll have some
Speaker 1: slippery conditions on the roads already due and that'll continue
Speaker 1: into the evening. The snow will come to an end
Speaker 1: and we'll just linger with some flurries tomorrow morning, and
Speaker 1: then we'll get some sunshine to come through, but it
Speaker 1: won't warm us some much. Thirty two is going to
Speaker 1: do it for the high tomorrow real field temperatures with
Speaker 1: the wind around mainly in the teens. Tomorrow night, it'll
Speaker 1: be clear. It'll be cold fifteen in the city. Colder
Speaker 1: than that maybe single digits in the suburbs and the
Speaker 1: real fields below zero at times. Sunday, real fields in
Speaker 1: the single digits. The sunshine will be out, but we'll
Speaker 1: have blustery conditions. Temperatures load mid twenties downtown but probably
Speaker 1: not getting out of the teens in many of the
Speaker 1: coldest suburbs will be in the upper twenties with some sunshine. Monday.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's thirty five degrees in Boston. If you
Speaker 1: haven't finished your holiday shopping yet, well you're certainly not
Speaker 1: alan WBZ Sheerry Small as more.
Speaker 4: Checking over that shopping list twice. If there are still
Speaker 4: gifts to be bought, no sweat. You have this weekend
Speaker 4: to get that done, but get ready for some big crowds.
Speaker 4: This weekend is expected to be one of the busiest
Speaker 4: times of the holiday shopping season, and there's no shortage
Speaker 4: of spending this season. We're talking online and in stores.
Speaker 4: In fact, the National Retail Federation predicting records spending, with
Speaker 4: people on average spending more than nine hundred dollars on
Speaker 4: holiday gifts. Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: If you procrastinated then are scrambling to buy holiday presents,
Speaker 1: There is still time to make those last minute purchases,
Speaker 1: topping some gift lists this year, gifts that were also
Speaker 1: popular decades ago. Rabbly Blackburn with more on how our
Speaker 1: digital world has some staying power in the analog world.
Speaker 5: Over the last eight years, vinyl album sales have grown
Speaker 5: nearly three hundred percent, with nearly fifty million new records
Speaker 5: sold in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: CDs and even.
Speaker 5: Cassettes are making a modest comeback as physical gifts you
Speaker 5: can touch, and here.
Speaker 6: We're hitting that point where people want to break from
Speaker 6: just staring at the screen.
Speaker 5: It's not just analog audio. At one of New York's
Speaker 5: oldest toy shops, Mary Arnold Toys, many customers come in
Speaker 5: asking for low tech gifts.
Speaker 1: And according to Research and Markets, dot com board game
Speaker 1: sales are expected to double in the coming years, reaching
Speaker 1: more than forty billion dollars by twenty twenty nine. Do
Speaker 1: you have a real Christmas tree? How's it holding up?
Speaker 1: Bring Tennis tells us how to spruce it up?
Speaker 7: Yarden Garden says, even if you do everything right, your
Speaker 7: tree can stop drinking water and die. Experts say there's
Speaker 7: hope to bring it back, but it's going to take
Speaker 7: a bit of work because when the tree stops drinking water,
Speaker 7: it's usually because sap is covering the bottom of the trunk.
Speaker 7: They say, you need to pull that tree from its base,
Speaker 7: give it a fresh cut, then back into the water.
Speaker 7: Then you can clean up all the ornaments that dropped
Speaker 7: on the floor. I'm Bree Tennis.
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