Speaker 1: Yeah, this is w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We defining local news.
Speaker 3: Twenty four degrees, windy and cold in Boston. We're seeing
Speaker 3: some snow flurries out there. Eleven o'clock. Good morning on
Speaker 3: Laurie Kirby and our top story, the funeral for the
Speaker 3: thirty ninth President. Dignitaries including all living presidents, past and president,
Speaker 3: are packed now to the National Cathedral in Washington, d c.
Speaker 3: They're paying their respects to the late President Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 3: and President Carter's grandson Joshua remembers his granddad.
Speaker 4: My grandfather has spent the entire time I've known and
Speaker 4: helping those in need. You've built houses for people that
Speaker 4: need at homes. He eliminated diseases and forgotten places.
Speaker 3: More now in the special report from ABC News.
Speaker 1: This is a report from ABC News celebrating Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 1: I'm Chuck Steverson. The ongoing state funeral at Washington's National
Speaker 1: Cathedral minutes ago, featuring a eulogy written by President Gerald Ford,
Speaker 1: whom mister Carter defeated in the nineteen seventy sixth election.
Speaker 1: Ford's son Steve Ford, read his dad's remark that included
Speaker 1: him saying that he and the thirty ninth president forged
Speaker 1: a friendship after that election, not seen since John Adams
Speaker 1: and Thomas Jefferson. A grandson, Joshua Carter, also spoke.
Speaker 4: My grandfather has bent the entire time I've known who
Speaker 4: helping those in need. He built houses for people that
Speaker 4: needed homes. He eliminated diseases and forgotten places.
Speaker 1: Also speaking at the funeral, ted Mondale reading a eulogy
Speaker 1: written by his father for Vice President Walter Mondale before
Speaker 1: his death. Also there President Biden, former Presidents Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump. This is
Speaker 1: ABC News Back Home.
Speaker 3: Wbz's Jim McKay catches up with one of the former
Speaker 3: in his closest White House staffers.
Speaker 5: We spent a lot of time with a lot of
Speaker 5: places with Bob Kelly, who's retired in Dennis played a
Speaker 5: pivotal role in the Carter administration, mapping and planning events
Speaker 5: with the Secret Service, remembering the little things. When talking
Speaker 5: about his former boss and friend, who he refers to
Speaker 5: as Jimmy, it.
Speaker 1: Seems to be so deadpans supposedly.
Speaker 5: A sense of humor behind a more serious public persona
Speaker 5: recalling a speech at Georgia Tech where there was such
Speaker 5: an overflow with the crowd. President Carter wanted everyone to
Speaker 5: get a seat. He called to Bob while on stage.
Speaker 2: And the President turns out to Bob.
Speaker 1: I said, yes, what and he said, do you have them?
Speaker 1: Are of those tickets?
Speaker 6: And you can see the.
Speaker 5: Crowd, the trips across all fifty states.
Speaker 1: Diving along the roads in America with a motor carriage
Speaker 1: and on the bridges everywhere.
Speaker 6: That's how much they respect.
Speaker 5: The person reporting from Dennis Jim McKay WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: Tracking some snow. We're seeing snow falling in Bedford, twenty
Speaker 3: three degrees there also Wooster seeing some light snow. Also,
Speaker 3: the bird cheers, seeing some flurries. Lauren seeing some flurries.
Speaker 3: It's only twenty two degrees, so our high today again
Speaker 3: just like yesterday twenty eight. But the real feels with
Speaker 3: that sun up, what little there is in the single
Speaker 3: ditchits bind day clear to night, blustery again, Wind advisory
Speaker 3: low twenty four, the real field below zero. We finally
Speaker 3: warm up tomorrow. We're going to feel that difference, even
Speaker 3: though it's still in the thirties with a high of
Speaker 3: thirty nine degrees. It looks like a little bit of
Speaker 3: snow on Saturday, and then a nice Sunday, mostly sunny,
Speaker 3: a bit warmer. It's eleven o five. Good morning on
Speaker 3: Laurie Kirby. Nice to be with you and remember to
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Speaker 3: indicted in quinsy of former Quincy city official is in
Speaker 3: hot water over steak tips and namely the card he
Speaker 3: used to foot the bill. Wbz's j Willlette with More.
Speaker 2: Thomas Clasby, Junior of Fitchburg, used to work for Quincy's
Speaker 2: elder Services department. Now he's staring down fraud and embezzlement charges.
Speaker 2: Prosecutors say he was using the money as a personal
Speaker 2: slush fund. The US Attorney's Office in Boston says he's
Speaker 2: accused of taking some forty thousand dollars from the city
Speaker 2: to buy a Toyota Prius, over one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: pounds of steak tips, and produce a mixtape, among other things.
Speaker 2: He was working within the department starting in nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: nine until last year, but this scheme didn't begin until
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. Officials say Jay will Att WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: A massive school data breach across North America hits home.
Speaker 3: Cyber criminals have compromised student and staff information by hacking
Speaker 3: into the cloud based software called powers School. Multiple school
Speaker 3: districts in Massachusetts have been hit, including Canton, Wellesley, Stoton, Westford, Milton, Needham,
Speaker 3: and Nashoba, to name a few. Millions of users may
Speaker 3: be impacted overall. In investigators say they are on it.
Speaker 3: A Thursday deadline loom submit a Beacon Hill Powers showdown
Speaker 3: between the state auditor and state legislature. Auditor Diana Dezaglio
Speaker 3: sent a formal records requests this week to both the
Speaker 3: House and the Senate with a seventy two hour order
Speaker 3: to comply. She has demanded records of non disclosure agreements
Speaker 3: and financial receipts. Time's up at three point fifteen this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Going back in time, last November, you, the voter in
Speaker 3: Massachusetts overwhelmingly gave the auditor the power to audit the
Speaker 3: chambers on Beacon Hill, But then Beacon Hill leaders immediately
Speaker 3: approved a rules change that would instead give that oversight
Speaker 3: to an independent auditor. The auditor was mad and threatened
Speaker 3: to go to court. Reporters asked the House Speaker this week,
Speaker 3: will you turn over these records by today's deadline? As
Speaker 3: answer was, compliance is in the eyes of the beholder.
Speaker 3: Firefighters are trying to capitalize on a break in the
Speaker 3: winds to contain devastating wildfires burning in southern California. ABC's
Speaker 3: Matt Gudman has more.
Speaker 6: The Palisades Fire grows to over seventeen thousand acres, becoming
Speaker 6: the most destructive wildfire in LA history. At least one
Speaker 6: thousand structures burned in the Palisades, added Malibu number expected
Speaker 6: to grow significantly Roughly thirty miles to the east, the
Speaker 6: deadly ten thousand acre Eaten fire, killing at least five people,
Speaker 6: entire deadsly packed neighborhoods erupting in flames.
Speaker 3: President Biden, delaying his trip over Seas, expected now to
Speaker 3: receive a full briefing on the federal response to the
Speaker 3: devastation later today. You are now in the loop for
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