Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News cloud Easky's thirty degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock alone.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us on this Tuesday Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2: I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. A little more snow
Speaker 2: arriving ahead of Christmas Day this.
Speaker 3: Morning, with some snow that will accumulate a coding to
Speaker 3: an engine cause some slippery travel clouds will begin to
Speaker 3: break later this afternoon.
Speaker 2: And that's accu Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg will have the
Speaker 2: full accu weather forecast coming up in three. Back on
Speaker 2: track is the hope of the day at South Station.
Speaker 2: We get that from wbcj Will let.
Speaker 4: A planthora of Amtrak delays earlier this week spells a
Speaker 4: wave of cautious optimism in Boston. They're a number thirty minute,
Speaker 4: thirty leaves. Okay, cool official say the signal problems that
Speaker 4: the root of the delays yesterday, are fixed. Thank God. No, no,
Speaker 4: nothing about that. Oh we got the help worm I
Speaker 4: like it, come with it. But it's still a shaky situation.
Speaker 4: Amtrak's's some regular service had to be canceled to beef
Speaker 4: up the other lines and residual delays can pop up
Speaker 4: around the Northeast Corridor. Here's hoping for the best and
Speaker 4: on time trains this holiday season. Jawill at WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 4: news radio.
Speaker 2: The City of Boston sticking with a controversial plan to
Speaker 2: rebuild an aging stadium in Franklin Park and make it
Speaker 2: the new home of a woman's pro soccer team. Who's
Speaker 2: wbz's Hyle Shaffle With the latest sign sealed and not
Speaker 2: yet delivered, I.
Speaker 5: Am thrilled to share the City of Boston has signed
Speaker 5: a lease with Boston Unity Soccer Partners.
Speaker 6: The city has taken the next step in the White
Speaker 6: Stadium renovation saga. It's officially leased the space to Boston's
Speaker 6: future pro women's soccer team for at least a decade.
Speaker 6: BPS kids will still get to play at the rebuilt stadium,
Speaker 6: but they'll need to make room for the soccer team.
Speaker 6: Based on how the contract is written, the city seems
Speaker 6: to be leery of the job not getting finished.
Speaker 5: Prior to demolition. Boston Unity will fund a twenty five
Speaker 5: million dollar construction escrow account restricted exclusively to fund direct
Speaker 5: construction costs on the site.
Speaker 6: City councilor ed Flynn and a coalition of city groups
Speaker 6: have come out against the plan, even filing a lawsuit.
Speaker 6: They think it costs too much and makes a public
Speaker 6: resource private, But Mayor Wu wants this done quick.
Speaker 5: The least commits us to have the full facility on
Speaker 5: the city side finished by December of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6: Kyle Schaffele to BBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio, it is showtime for a NASA probe looking to
Speaker 2: unveil the secrets of the Sun more.
Speaker 1: Than sixty years after it left Florida. With NASA's Parker
Speaker 1: Solar Probe, Parker will be just three point eight million
Speaker 1: miles away from the Sun. It doesn't sound that close,
Speaker 1: but NASA Heliophysics Deputy Director Nikki Rail says, if you
Speaker 1: see the universe as a football field.
Speaker 2: We are within four yards of touchdown at the Sun
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Parker is also the fastest moving human made object in history,
Speaker 1: at about four hundred and thirty thousand miles per hour.
Speaker 1: At that rate, you could go from New York to
Speaker 1: Tokyo in about a minute. Siders hope to learn moreo
Speaker 1: solar storms that can disrupt communications here and could be
Speaker 1: dangerous to astronauts. And deep space, adding that the data
Speaker 1: already sent back Rail says after traveling hundreds of millions of.
Speaker 4: Miles, Parker's ready for primetime.
Speaker 1: Yes, Peter Kings, CBS News at the Kennedy Space Center.
Speaker 2: We are looking at the Norrad Santa tracker showing Santa
Speaker 2: over Thailand right now, and he's delivered one point seven
Speaker 2: billion gifts so far. Let's check our weather now snow
Speaker 2: ending from the northwest to southeast across the area. By
Speaker 2: midday today, we'll see accumulations of a coding to an
Speaker 2: inch that is just enough to make it slow and
Speaker 2: slippery out there for travel. Not so cold this afternoon.
Speaker 2: High's thirty six a low forties though on the Cape
Speaker 2: in the Islands, clear and cold tonight, cooling off to
Speaker 2: twenty seven in the city, teens in most of the
Speaker 2: inland suburbs, near thirty on the Capean Islands. All right, Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Christmas Day, we're going to see high's thirty two to
Speaker 2: thirty six degrees, even partly sunny. Sky's Thursday partly to
Speaker 2: mostly sunny, high thirty five, lows low forties, I should
Speaker 2: say on the Cape and the Islands, mostly sunny on Friday,
Speaker 2: with a high near forty in the city. Right now
Speaker 2: it's cloudy. We're seeing thirty degrees thirty one in Brockton,
Speaker 2: thirty in loll thirty four in New Bedford, thirty one
Speaker 2: degrees in Medford, and we're seeing some snow flurries, very
Speaker 2: light snow over parts of southeast Massachusetts. Right now it's
Speaker 2: eleven oh five. Back to the New City, officials are
Speaker 2: asking residents to do their part to shovel Boston sidewalks.
Speaker 3: Boston's Public Works Department says they're all over the case,
Speaker 3: monitoring calls and posts around the clock, but it's a
Speaker 3: partnership between homeowners and the city to keep sidewalks clear.
Speaker 3: A spokesperson for the Public Works Department says, quote, property
Speaker 3: and business owners are responsible for clearing snow, slush, and
Speaker 3: ice from sidewalks and pedestrian ramps that about their property
Speaker 3: within three hours of snowfall ending or three hours after
Speaker 3: sunrise if it snows overnight. Kirsten just wants to see
Speaker 3: her streets in safer condition for all of the walkers.
Speaker 5: I think I'm you know, I wish my neighbors would
Speaker 5: do really a better job of shoveling or at least
Speaker 5: putt e sal their sand down.
Speaker 3: Until then she's slipping and sliding her way through walking
Speaker 3: her pop.
Speaker 2: And the CBS News Boston's Logan Hall reporting there the
Speaker 2: Department of Public Works is responsible for clearing roads, bridges, hills,
Speaker 2: and bus routes. First responders rescue a teenager after he
Speaker 2: fell through the ice on Arlington Reservoir. This happened yesterday.
Speaker 2: Emergency crews were able to save the teen after the
Speaker 2: boy's father was unsuccessful. The teen appeared to be okay,
Speaker 2: but had to be evaluated on the scene. The town
Speaker 2: is reminding people to not walk out on the ice,
Speaker 2: even if it looks thick enough to be safe. Massachusetts
Speaker 2: woman seriously injured after a snowmobile crash in bartlet, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: This after she went off the trail with her ten
Speaker 2: year old son. The Globe reports a woman was writing
Speaker 2: a rented snowmobile in a group tour. She failed to
Speaker 2: make a downhill left hand turn and crashed into a
Speaker 2: tree inside of a ditch. The woman from Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: was taken to a local hospital with head injuries. Her son,
Speaker 2: though was not injured in that accident. Former President Bill
Speaker 2: Clinton spends the night in a hospital.
Speaker 7: A spokesperson says the former president had a fever and
Speaker 7: is now undergoing some testing at Georgetown University Medical Center.
Speaker 7: He is said to be in good spirits. The former
Speaker 7: president does have a history of heart issues, having had
Speaker 7: a quadruple bypass after leaving office. The spokesperson said Clinton
Speaker 7: deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receding.
Speaker 2: The former President's condition not believed to be urgent. And
Speaker 2: that was CBS's Shanil Call reporting its bowl season in
Speaker 2: college football. We have one game on tap for today,
Speaker 2: the Hawaii Bowl. South Florida and San Jose State will
Speaker 2: play each other in that one. You are now in
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