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Speaker 2: Thirty one Blustery and SUNNYAM Boston and Good Friday morning
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock on Laurie Kirby. Weekend Weather coming up?
Speaker 2: Will it snow again? You'll find out, But first Boston's Counselor.
Speaker 1: Time you up.
Speaker 2: Bernandez Anderson will be in a federal courthouse this afternoon
Speaker 2: in Boston. Demy bz's Kendal Buell report she was arrested
Speaker 2: this morning by the FBI on corruption charges.
Speaker 1: Seven thousand dollars in cash was handed to Fernanda's Anderson
Speaker 1: in a city hall bathroom, federal prosecutor say by a
Speaker 1: family member hired by the District seven councilor who lied
Speaker 1: about the relationship to city hall employees. According to a
Speaker 1: grand jury indictment handed down yesterday, the money came from
Speaker 1: a thirteen grand bonus Fernandas Anderson gave that employee I
Speaker 1: saw more than twice as large as that given to
Speaker 1: all other staff members combined. I RAS Special Agent Jonathan
Speaker 1: Wanica says this was not a victimless crime.
Speaker 2: The victims of the citizens that inhabit these communities. The
Speaker 2: victims of the taxpayers whose money was used for the
Speaker 2: enrichment of one instead of the greater good of all.
Speaker 1: US attorney Josh Levy says Bernandas Anderson was motivated by
Speaker 1: financial hardship caused in part by a five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: fine she paid last year for a state ethics violation,
Speaker 1: hiring her son for a seventy thousand dollars a year
Speaker 1: job from the locally federal courthouse. Kennebuild You Busy, Washington's
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Speaker 2: A killer remains on the loose two days after the
Speaker 2: CEO of United Healthcare was gunned down fatally in the
Speaker 2: streets of Manhattan, and police right now are pouring over
Speaker 2: security camera footage in an effort to retrace the gunman
Speaker 2: steps in the days before the shooting. Aby's's Aaron Kotursky report.
Speaker 3: They have him all over the city, focused on this
Speaker 3: ten day period from when he arrived November twenty fourth
Speaker 3: to the day of the shooting December fourth. He was
Speaker 3: in a taxi, he went to a McDonald's, he went
Speaker 3: to the Starbucks, and he paid cash, and he made
Speaker 3: sure to keep his mask on.
Speaker 2: Investigators believe the suspect may have taken a bus to
Speaker 2: New York all the way from Atleta, and they believe
Speaker 2: it was a targeted killing. They don't think the suspect
Speaker 2: was a professional hit man. And a Boston senator DeLay's
Speaker 2: action on Mayor Wu's controversial home rule petition for the
Speaker 2: second time this week after new data is released about
Speaker 2: the city's property tax outlook. Senator Nick Collins says they
Speaker 2: need time to consider their decision in the light of
Speaker 2: this new data, which shows Boston residents would not pay
Speaker 2: fourteen percent more in property taxes, but more like ten
Speaker 2: and a half percent more. The lower tax estimate also
Speaker 2: has the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and several other
Speaker 2: business groups rethinking the compromise plan they drafted with Mayor Wu,
Speaker 2: to be continued certainly next week on Beacon Hill. And
Speaker 2: the job market bounces back big time from a two
Speaker 2: I'm in October, even as unemployment ticks up. ABC's Brian
Speaker 2: Clark has.
Speaker 4: That the November jobs report, highlighting the resilience of the
Speaker 4: labor market. It beat expectations with two hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: seven thousand private sector jobs added last month. The revision
Speaker 4: to the September and October reports also promising fifty six
Speaker 4: thousand more jobs added for those two months, including twenty
Speaker 4: four thousand four October, when hurricanes and strikes kept the
Speaker 4: number low. All this could set the stage for another
Speaker 4: interest rate cut when the Fed meets later this month.
Speaker 4: Brian Clark ABC News.
Speaker 2: In terms of weather searching, and this is where our
Speaker 2: stronger wind gust star Provincetown wins sustain wins right now
Speaker 2: out of the northwest at twenty nine to thirty miles
Speaker 2: an hour. So this is the strongest wind gust I'm seeing,
Speaker 2: but they could bload of forty even fifty miles per
Speaker 2: hour elsewhere throughout the day. I am seeing on the
Speaker 2: Doppler what looks like a snowfloury just west of Danvers.
Speaker 2: And in this forecast from Aquare, I'm also seeing a
Speaker 2: little bit of snow and rain on Sunday morning. Believe
Speaker 2: it or not, we'll have a lot more on that
Speaker 2: coming up. Good morning. The Marvelhead School Committee is trying
Speaker 2: to decide how to make up the ten days that
Speaker 2: students lost during last month's teachers strike. Last night, they
Speaker 2: opted to hold class on the Monday before Christmas. That
Speaker 2: would leave nine more days to make up. The Salem
Speaker 2: News says the committee is weighing two options. Option one
Speaker 2: would shave days off the February and Spring vacation breaks
Speaker 2: and add an extra day of class in June, heading
Speaker 2: into summer. Option two would only sacrifice the February break,
Speaker 2: but it would also push graduation back. Parents, you get
Speaker 2: to weigh in. A survey will be coming your way
Speaker 2: by next week. So many of us text nowadays, and
Speaker 2: the fbis out with another cybersecurity warning, Watch what you
Speaker 2: say over text. Christina rex was CBS News Boston has
Speaker 2: More was cybersecurity expert Peter Tran how to protect your privacy.
Speaker 3: The rule of thumb is don't text message anything that
Speaker 3: you wouldn't grab a bullhorn and say in the middle
Speaker 3: of Harvard Square.
Speaker 2: Like your social security number or your credit card information.
Speaker 2: I think my mom might have sent me that by text.
Speaker 2: Actually once, I should probably look at that. If you're
Speaker 2: concerned about hackers in your texts, you can use encrypted
Speaker 2: texting programs or that's a rare solution these days. Well,
Speaker 2: of course, of course.
Speaker 1: I never talked to my daughter. The only way I
Speaker 1: get to hers through a text.
Speaker 2: And this is all based on a recent FBI investigation
Speaker 2: that uncovered a broad cyber espionage campaign by the Chinese government.
Speaker 2: Transgender advocates leave the US capital in handcuffed. Nancy. The
Speaker 2: demonstrator is holding banners that said things flush bathroom bigotry.
Speaker 2: They were demonstrating against a new rule recently announced by
Speaker 2: Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson restricting which bathrooms transgender people
Speaker 2: are allowed to use on Capitol Hill. Johnson announced the
Speaker 2: rule weeks before Representative Alex Sarah McBride is set to
Speaker 2: become the first openly transgender member of Congress. You are
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