Speaker 1: This is WBZ at Boston's news radio. We defining local.
Speaker 2: News thirty three degrees in Boston on this Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon. I'm I'm a Friedman, and here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: It's the final day of a nationwide Starbucks strike and
Speaker 2: it's hitting close to home. Wez's Hyle Shaffle has the details.
Speaker 3: Fledgeling Starbucks workers union has expanded its strike to more
Speaker 3: than three hundred stores today. One of those stores is
Speaker 3: right here in Brighton.
Speaker 4: Starbucks refuses to come to the table with suitable proposals
Speaker 4: for the contract and like work with us as we
Speaker 4: are in bargaining sessions.
Speaker 3: Andy Gonzalez Paloto is a Borisa here. She says the
Speaker 3: two sides are still miles apart in wage increases. The
Speaker 3: union says the company isn't playing ball in negotiations, so
Speaker 3: they're striking. Other closed locations include a store in Worcester. Locally,
Speaker 3: Andy says, inconsistent hours have been a problem and that's
Speaker 3: part of the demands nationally.
Speaker 4: How can anybody sustain staying in a career when you
Speaker 4: have no idea what week to week you're going to
Speaker 4: be able to get scheduled for It's.
Speaker 3: A tricky week to strike too, with a bit of
Speaker 3: cold with a snack table outside the Miami Natives as
Speaker 3: they've been making.
Speaker 4: Do we have like handwarmers and things like that. We
Speaker 4: brought a bunch of extra gloves. You know. The whole
Speaker 4: point of like being in a union is the fact that,
Speaker 4: like we show up for each other.
Speaker 3: Kyle Shaffle to BBZ Bosonson's Radio.
Speaker 2: President Biden approves a new defense bill that includes a
Speaker 2: pay raise for service members.
Speaker 5: This year's Defense policy bill provides a four and a
Speaker 5: half percent pay raise for all service members and a
Speaker 5: fourteen and a half percent increase for junior enlisted troops.
Speaker 5: The measure invests in new military technologies such as artificial intelligence,
Speaker 5: and ramps up US production of ammunition. President Biden signed
Speaker 5: the bill, but he noted his misgivings and a statement
Speaker 5: pointing to a provision blocking the military's try Care health
Speaker 5: program from covering gender dysphoria treatments for the children of
Speaker 5: service members.
Speaker 2: That was ABC's Stephen Portnoy reporting there. And former President
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton is now out of the hospital after being
Speaker 2: treated for the flu.
Speaker 5: His office is the seventy eight year old former president
Speaker 5: was discharged after being hospitalized overnight a diagnosis the flu.
Speaker 5: A spokesman says Clinton and his family are deeply grateful
Speaker 5: for the exceptional care he received at Georgetown University Hospital.
Speaker 2: And the woman burned to death on a Brooklyn subway
Speaker 2: train is still unidentified.
Speaker 6: The victim, who was deliberately set on fire by Matt
Speaker 6: she didn't know, dying a horrific death, still has no name.
Speaker 6: She was burned so badly police are struggling to lift
Speaker 6: a fingerprint, and she had no ID in the multiple
Speaker 6: bags she was carrying. She had a walker with he too.
Speaker 6: The Brooklyn Medical Examiner says an autopsy showed that the
Speaker 6: woman died of smoke inhalation and thermal injuries. An illegal
Speaker 6: Guatemalan immigrant, Sebastian's Paida Khalil, is charged with first degree
Speaker 6: murder and arson. I'm Sarah Leeks Slur.
Speaker 2: Police and Stodent are looking for a man dressed in
Speaker 2: great pajamas for a possible vehicle break ins and car theft.
Speaker 2: Surveillance video shows that Elvis a Door day of wearing
Speaker 2: the pajamas and using a debit card that was stolen
Speaker 2: from a parking complex in Stoden Adre is suspected of
Speaker 2: vehicle break ins in Stoden, and police say he's wanted
Speaker 2: on five active arrest warrants. Anyone with information is encouraged
Speaker 2: to call police. Right now, it is four to five.
Speaker 2: It's about thirty three degrees in Boston. That sun is
Speaker 2: still out at the moment, making it a little warmer,
Speaker 2: but when it starts to go down, the attempts are
Speaker 2: going to drop down to a low of twenty three
Speaker 2: in Boston in the teens and most inland suburbs. As
Speaker 2: for our Christmas Day forecast, well, it's gonna be sunny
Speaker 2: with a patch of clouds, high of thirty two to
Speaker 2: thirty six degrees and it's going to stay partly cloudy
Speaker 2: throughout the day with a low of twenty four. As
Speaker 2: for the rest of the week Thursday and Friday, very
Speaker 2: similar forecast, partly to mostly sunny with a high of
Speaker 2: thirty five on Thursday, and it goes up a few
Speaker 2: degrees on Friday, where we once again are going to
Speaker 2: be seeing that sun in the sky. Right now now,
Speaker 2: it is four to six thirty three degrees in Boston.
Speaker 2: A license and registration is required for all drivers in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts and even Santa Claus. W bz's Jared Brosnan explains.
Speaker 7: Governor Heally and Mass Wildlife have officially granted a special
Speaker 7: permit to Santa Claus and his reindeer to fly through
Speaker 7: Massachusetts airspace. There was some prep work here too, as
Speaker 7: Mass Wildlife's dear biologist Martin Fien personally checked in with
Speaker 7: all nine reindeer before they took off earlier this morning.
Speaker 7: According to Norad, he set off from the North Pole
Speaker 7: at around six am. We've still got plenty of time
Speaker 7: before Santa gets to Boston, but it's crunched on to
Speaker 7: get off that naughty list, hoping not to get coal.
Speaker 7: I'm Jared Brosnan WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: And if those holiday family gatherings bring you stress, CBS's
Speaker 2: Heather Gustafson has some tips for you.
Speaker 8: Don't blame yourself for having feelings other than joy. It's
Speaker 8: the human experience.
Speaker 9: Doctor Claudia Allen with UVa's Health Family Stress Clinic, says
Speaker 9: she knows that families are not perfect. Doctor Allen says
Speaker 9: keep the peace this holiday season by limiting your exposure
Speaker 9: to stressful FAI. Family members.
Speaker 8: Don't expect to spend twenty four to seven together. Instead
Speaker 8: of going for seven days, maybe go for three days.
Speaker 9: And realize that no family is perfect.
Speaker 8: Sometimes we think that the happy families everyone's altogether. No,
Speaker 8: it can be fun to mix it up.
Speaker 9: Kather Gustafson for CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: Many of us check reviews before we buy something online,
Speaker 2: especially for the holidays, but lots of those reviews are fake,
Speaker 2: and CBS's Christopher Cruz says new technology is making it worse.
Speaker 1: Researchers and watchdog groups say the emergence of generative artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence tools that allow people to quickly produce detailed reviews
Speaker 1: could lead to sites getting swamped with phony reviews. Amazon
Speaker 1: and Yelp have long been plagued by scammers who get
Speaker 1: paid to post fraudulent five star reviews for products.
Speaker 2: The deceptive practice is illegal in the United States. You
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