Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio. We defining
Speaker 1: local news thirty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Well less
Speaker 1: than a week until President elect takes office, some of
Speaker 1: his cabinet choices and now starting their long road to confirmation.
Speaker 1: CBS is Cammy McCormick tells us the President elect's choice
Speaker 1: for Defense and Secretary, Pete Hegseth, fakes tough questions from
Speaker 1: the Senate Armed Services Committee today.
Speaker 2: His hearing was interrupted by protesters, great with Publican Chairman
Speaker 2: Roger Wicker, admittedly this nomination is unconventional. Ranking Member Jack
Speaker 2: read about whether he would be a political.
Speaker 3: The challenge of the Secretary of Defense is to remove
Speaker 3: partisan politics from the military.
Speaker 2: Heg said said Trump's elected him, though he's different than
Speaker 2: past defense chiefs.
Speaker 4: He believes and I humbly agree that it's time to
Speaker 4: give someone with dust on his.
Speaker 1: Boots a change agent. Still to come. Confirmation hearings for,
Speaker 1: among others, Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio and Homeland
Speaker 1: Security Secretary nominee Or Christy nom Volume, one of former
Speaker 1: Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report has been released over.
Speaker 5: Roughly one hundred and fifty pages. Jack Smith lays out
Speaker 5: the argument he intended to make before a jury, alleges
Speaker 5: the then defeated president made up claims about fraud, inspired
Speaker 5: allies to sign fake documents, and encouraged rioters to storm
Speaker 5: the capitol. Smith calls the lawyers who assisted Trump co conspirators.
Speaker 5: Trump's attorneys responded to Smith's report in writing, calling it
Speaker 5: a politically motivated attack. In his cover letter, Smith calls
Speaker 5: Trump's claims he was influenced by the Biden Whitehouse in
Speaker 5: a word laughable.
Speaker 1: At ABC Stephen Portnoy. Fire officials in LA say the
Speaker 1: fire risk is still critical, with the worst wins to
Speaker 1: fuel flames continuing into Wednesday. LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley
Speaker 1: says firefighters are balancing their efforts.
Speaker 4: We are carefully managing operations to ensure that we can
Speaker 4: quickly respond to any new fires. In addition to the
Speaker 4: increased call value across the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: The chief says cruise are better prepared, but warns that
Speaker 1: everyone in the potential fire zones should be ready to evacuate.
Speaker 1: The Biden administration announcing some big changes to US Cuba policy.
Speaker 3: President Biden on Tuesday lifted Cuba's state sponsor of terrorism designation.
Speaker 3: A senior Administration official said this action by the President
Speaker 3: comes in conjunction with an effort by the Catholic Church
Speaker 3: to secure the release of prisoners in Cuba. The White
Speaker 3: House did not clearly explain why the President was doing
Speaker 3: this with less than a week in office. Donald Trump's
Speaker 3: nominee for Secretary of State, Senator Marc or Rubio of Florida,
Speaker 3: is a fierce critic of Cuba. Karen Travers ABC News
Speaker 3: the White House.
Speaker 1: She's in remission. Kate Middleton visited the hospital where she
Speaker 1: was treated for cancer. Catherine, the Princess of Wales, offering
Speaker 1: gratitude to the medical teams who helped her and support
Speaker 1: to patients who are now undergoing treatment. In a post
Speaker 1: on X from the Kensington Royal account, the princess says,
Speaker 1: it is a relief to now be in remission and
Speaker 1: I remain focused on recovery. As anyone who's experienced a
Speaker 1: cancer diagnosis will know, it takes time to adjust to
Speaker 1: a new normal. I am, However, the Princess says, looking
Speaker 1: forward to a fulfilling year ahead a snowshower or two
Speaker 1: as we head into the evening tonight, but radar's pretty
Speaker 1: clean right now, so we'll keep tabs on it to
Speaker 1: see what happens, but it's not going to be anything
Speaker 1: significant even if it does occur. Partly cloudy as we
Speaker 1: go through the night, blustery and cold twenty three for
Speaker 1: the low downtown, probably some upper teens in a few
Speaker 1: of the suburbs. The real fields mostly will be in
Speaker 1: the single digits Tonight, mostly sunny and blustery. Tomorrow thirty
Speaker 1: one for the high, real fields and the teens. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: night mainly clear, low of seventeen with real fields dropping
Speaker 1: to close to zero sunshine, followed by increasing clouds. Still
Speaker 1: cold on Thursday, temperatures around thirty not quite as chilly.
Speaker 1: On Friday will have sun and clouds and temperatures in
Speaker 1: the mid maybe even upper thirties. Right now thirty three
Speaker 1: degrees in Boston. You don't have to go home, but
Speaker 1: you can't stay here. That's what Starbucks is saying. Non
Speaker 1: customers who just want to hang out.
Speaker 6: As the espresso machines churn away here at the Starbucks
Speaker 6: and handover. I'm asking customers about the coffee giants new
Speaker 6: policy where you got to buy something if you want
Speaker 6: to stay here.
Speaker 1: The main focus is to have your customers feel comfortable.
Speaker 6: Eric is saying she understands that one hundred percent, saying
Speaker 6: sometimes people can wind up loitering for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: And if that isn't happening, even if they are busy,
Speaker 1: it'd really be a dragon.
Speaker 6: Staff Ready, though, believes it's going to be hard to.
Speaker 1: Police whether or not they bought something or not. He
Speaker 1: thinks the crowded storefront just leads to more people.
Speaker 7: When they're still driving business and other people into your place.
Speaker 6: Starbucks Corporate saying this is all an effort to prioritize
Speaker 6: the experience for their customers who are paying to be there.
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Speaker 1: Actor John Ham is named Man of the Year by
Speaker 1: Harvard University's Hasty Putting Theatricals. The theater group says Ham
Speaker 1: will receive his Putting Pot award at a celebratory roast
Speaker 1: on January thirty first. The actor is best known for
Speaker 1: or his time playing doc Don Draper on the long
Speaker 1: running series mad Men. If your Ham has appeared in
Speaker 1: the new drama series land Man Hasty putting giving the
Speaker 1: award to people who've made a lasting impression in the
Speaker 1: world of entertainment. How's that job going for you?
Speaker 5: The me have work, work, work, work, work, work.
Speaker 1: That works. Not supposed to be all sunshine and rainbows,
Speaker 1: But as it turns out, many of us aren't happy
Speaker 1: cameras at all on the job w busy to Maul
Speaker 1: Holland takes a look at what bugs us.
Speaker 8: The results of a new gallup hole. Find out our
Speaker 8: enthusiasm or whatever that is, is now at a ten
Speaker 8: year low. Millions say they feel stuck at their jobs.
Speaker 2: This sort of a problem here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, did you see the memo about this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Off the space.
Speaker 8: While overall opportunities to advance for few and far between.
Speaker 8: For twenty twenty four, experts say when people have clear
Speaker 8: roles at work, bosses who care about them, feel connected
Speaker 8: to the mission, that's what drives involvement and enthusiasm. But
Speaker 8: fewer than four and ten workers say that applies to them.
Speaker 7: I'm also are going to need you to go ahead
Speaker 7: and come in on Sunday.
Speaker 8: Oh come on, Drew m'hallan WBZ Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1: If you didn't accept a government stimulus check during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: you might want to keep an eye on your mailbox.
Speaker 7: As part of a two trillion dollar COVID nineteen relief bill,
Speaker 7: payments of up to fourteen hundred dollars were sent out
Speaker 7: to individuals making less than seventy five thousand dollars a
Speaker 7: year or under one hundred and fifty thousand as a household.
Speaker 7: In checking its records, the Internal Revenue Services found about
Speaker 7: a million Americans who didn't take the payment. To determine
Speaker 7: whether you were eligible, check your twenty twenty one tax
Speaker 7: return to see if you took the recovery rebate credit.
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