Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. It
Speaker 1: is a breezy twenty six degrees in Boston at four o'clock.
Speaker 1: I'm Emma Friedman, and here's what's happening. Well, we start
Speaker 1: off at Logan Airport, where the winter mix has been
Speaker 1: putting a wrinkle in the holiday spirit. W BZ Suzanne
Speaker 1: Soasville is talking with travelers at terminal A.
Speaker 2: You guys got by process already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you have about it.
Speaker 2: Prom Let me shoot lots of delays, but just a
Speaker 2: handful of cancelations. Unfortunately for Patrick, his is one of them.
Speaker 4: My first one kept getting delayed and then eventually got canceled.
Speaker 4: I got put on a flight that never even happened
Speaker 4: after that, and then now have three or two layovers
Speaker 4: before I get to one him.
Speaker 2: He's frustrated as he travels to see his family for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Is it worthing?
Speaker 4: Questioning it? But yeah, it will be once I'm there.
Speaker 2: Nicole, who's wrangling or two year old before their flight
Speaker 2: to Saskatchewan, has the right at it.
Speaker 5: I think if you just leave enough time for flying,
Speaker 5: then that alleviates a lot of stress, especially this time
Speaker 5: of the year.
Speaker 2: Some flights are actually taking off a little early, so
Speaker 2: make sure you get to the airport with plenty of
Speaker 2: time to spare At Logan's Suzanne Slausville WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Right now at Logan Airport, there's around three hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty eight delays according to flight Aware, eighty eight cancelations,
Speaker 1: so that's more delays than we saw about twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Definitely check on your flight before going to the airport today,
Speaker 1: and you can always stay tuned into US here on
Speaker 1: WBZ news Radio or stream US on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: Now to Washington, where President Biden has now signed a
Speaker 1: bill averting a government shutdown. Congress passed a short term
Speaker 1: government funding bill late last night, dropping President Elecdonnald Trump's
Speaker 1: demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.
Speaker 1: CBS's Erica Brown has more.
Speaker 6: The new spending package will fund the government for the
Speaker 6: next three months with more than one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 6: and disaster aid and ten billion and aids of farmers.
Speaker 6: This comes after a dramatic showdown unfolded on Capitol Hill
Speaker 6: this week after President elected Donald Trump and a billionaire
Speaker 6: Elon Musk preussured Republican lawmakers to vote against the original
Speaker 6: bipartisan spending bill or risk being voted out themselves.
Speaker 1: The Senate has also passed a separate measure to fund
Speaker 1: pediatric cancer research. The funding was one of the provisions
Speaker 1: in Congress's original bipartisan package before it was taken out.
Speaker 1: And yesterday's snowstorm brought anywhere from a dusting to several
Speaker 1: inches of snow for several parts of Massachusetts. Wbz's Sherry
Speaker 1: Small has more.
Speaker 7: The jackpot from friday snowstorm was in Milton, with reports
Speaker 7: of more than a half foot of snow. Benway Park
Speaker 7: saw six inches, while places like Needham and Norwood saw
Speaker 7: five and a half. The storm caused major problems on
Speaker 7: the roadway's. Mass State Police say they responded to two
Speaker 7: hundred crashes statewide, and more than one hundred of those
Speaker 7: were deemed serious. And Friday was quite the man At
Speaker 7: Logan Airport, we're according to fly to war. By the
Speaker 7: end of the day, Logan had seen five hundred and
Speaker 7: seventy two flights delayed, one hundred and eighty eight flights canceled.
Speaker 7: Sherry Small WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Right now it is four to oh four. It is
Speaker 1: a very chilly twenty six degrees in Boston. We were
Speaker 1: just seeing a smidge of snow coming around into the
Speaker 1: South Boston area. It's right around fort in dependence right now,
Speaker 1: So if you're driving around Boston, just keep an eye
Speaker 1: out for that. And it's gonna get colder as we
Speaker 1: go into the evening here. It's gonna get as low
Speaker 1: as fourteen degrees, but it's gonna feel below zero at times.
Speaker 1: Cannot stress enough. Now's the time to bundle up, grab
Speaker 1: those hats, anything you need to keep warm out there,
Speaker 1: especially those mittens or whatever you want to keep your
Speaker 1: hands warm. As for tomorrow, we're gonna see some sun,
Speaker 1: but it's still very cold. Once again, bundle up. Weather
Speaker 1: high of twenty one degrees and going into Monday, morre
Speaker 1: same thing as we're seeing this weekend, sun and clouds,
Speaker 1: a high of twenty seven and that's how it's going
Speaker 1: to stay going into Tuesday and our holiday week. Right now,
Speaker 1: it is four to five, and it's so long to
Speaker 1: the slow zones. The MBTA is about to free these
Speaker 1: speed restrictions.
Speaker 8: It's been a long wait, but it's finally here. The
Speaker 8: MBTA reports there are no longer any speed restrictions on
Speaker 8: the Green Line. Track repairs are completed, and the closed
Speaker 8: sections of the trolley line reopens Saturday morning. MBTA General
Speaker 8: manager Philippang says the Tea can now monitor track conditions
Speaker 8: and make repairs quickly when needed.
Speaker 3: No longer will a speed restriction or condition linger for
Speaker 3: years or months. We will be tackling them in days, weeks,
Speaker 3: maybe the same day, as we've done with some recent
Speaker 3: speed restrictions that have occurred.
Speaker 8: Like the Green Line, the Red Line and Blue Line
Speaker 8: are also operating at full capacity, and the Tea says
Speaker 8: that it's committed to robust inspections, maintenance, and track repairs
Speaker 8: so the sister will operate reliably going forward. Mike Macklin WBZ,
Speaker 8: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: And soon there won't be any restrictions on the Orange
Speaker 1: Line either. MBTA officials say that the work was supposed
Speaker 1: to be done last night, but the snow forced them
Speaker 1: to reschedule it to tonight. Once that's complete, the Orange
Speaker 1: Line will also be slow zone free. And a New
Speaker 1: York man pleads guilty to targeting and stealing from Asian
Speaker 1: families homes in several Massachusetts Towns. Prosecutors say Juan Casanto
Speaker 1: racially targeted homes in Newton, Quincy, Wellesley, and Andover in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, stealing two hundred thousand dollars worth of cash, jewelry, watches,
Speaker 1: and even a gun. Gastano pleaded guilty to twenty one
Speaker 1: indictments for targeting and burglarizing homes owned by Asian and
Speaker 1: South Asian families. He is already serving a prison sentence
Speaker 1: up to eleven years in New York for similar conduct,
Speaker 1: but for his Massachusetts crimes, he'll be tacking on four
Speaker 1: to five years to HISS, which will run consecutively with
Speaker 1: his sentence in New York. A co defendant is due
Speaker 1: to face trial in April. And forget the Witches, it's
Speaker 1: time for holiday shopping. Wbz's Jared Brosnan explains.
Speaker 5: Salem's best known for its Halloween festivities, but there's no
Speaker 5: shortage of Christmas fund in the Witch City. Unlike in
Speaker 5: October when they encourage you to take public transportation, they're
Speaker 5: offering free parking now through Christmas. This applies to municipal lots, garages,
Speaker 5: and those pesky meters, so you won't have to sprint
Speaker 5: back to your car after shopping. Jared Brosnan, WBZ Boston's
Speaker 5: news radio.
Speaker 1: And tire pressure problems forced Tesla to recall almost seven
Speaker 1: hundred thousand vehicles. The recall affects the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: Cyber Truck, the twenty seventeen through twenty twenty five Model three,
Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty to twenty twenty five Model Wise.
Speaker 1: In a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
Speaker 1: TESLA says there's a problem with the tire pressure warning light,
Speaker 1: so that light will not necessarily go on when your
Speaker 1: tire pressure is low, which could result in an accident.
Speaker 1: TESLA says it's re leasing a software update that will
Speaker 1: fix the issue. You are now in the loop for
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