Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Right now, it is thirty three degrees in Boston, really
Speaker 2: starting to warm up out there with the sun a
Speaker 2: We'll have that forecast for you just one second. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm a Friedman and here's what's happening. Well, it's a
Speaker 2: chilly start out the door today.
Speaker 3: Plenty of sunshine today with highs not far from forty.
Speaker 1: A rainy weekend is on the way.
Speaker 2: Well, there's some warmer weather in store for us this weekend.
Speaker 2: That there from Joe Lumberg. We'll have more forecast details
Speaker 2: for you coming up in just about two minutes now
Speaker 2: and developing this morning. Well, there's no comments yet from
Speaker 2: Russia on reports that it's air defenses down in Asbahan
Speaker 2: Airlines plane, but speculations into the crash continued.
Speaker 4: Still isn't clear what caused a plane to crash, but
Speaker 4: Azerbaijan Airline says it's suspending flow to seven Russian cities.
Speaker 4: The plane crash during a flight to Grosney in Russia's Chechenya.
Speaker 4: It had diverted, possibly due to bad weather, and there
Speaker 4: was some speculation that is when it may have been
Speaker 4: fired on it crashed while trying to land in Kazakhstan.
Speaker 4: After initially saying a bird strike was to blame. Russia
Speaker 4: has since refused to comment.
Speaker 2: That was CBS's Cammie McCormick reporting there Edler's. At least
Speaker 2: thirty eight people died in that crash, over two dozen survived.
Speaker 2: Massachusetts State Police bomb squad were called to a home
Speaker 2: in Duxbury for reports of a potentially dangerous device. Officials
Speaker 2: say the bomb squad helps get rid of the incinerary
Speaker 2: device yesterday morning at a home on Amato Way. Duxbury
Speaker 2: Fire Department hasn't shared what led to the device being
Speaker 2: reported or exactly what it is, but it was rendered
Speaker 2: safe by officials and no injuries were reported. And you
Speaker 2: still got time today to grab those tickets. Magamillion's jackpots
Speaker 2: or to over one point one billion dollars drawing set
Speaker 2: for tonight. It's the fifth largest jackpot prize in the
Speaker 2: game's history, seventh time the lottery game has surpassed one
Speaker 2: billion with its overall jackpot. Keeping things in perspective, your
Speaker 2: chances aren't exactly in your favor. It's one in three
Speaker 2: and three hundred and two million, but someone's got to
Speaker 2: win it eventually, so what I'll let it be you
Speaker 2: and a classic holiday movie the way it was meant
Speaker 2: to be seen and heard.
Speaker 3: Boston Pops will be playing the soundtrack of a different
Speaker 3: kind of Christmas classic tonight at Symphony Hall.
Speaker 5: Donys give Up, Yeah, Thirsty for More?
Speaker 3: Home Alone in concert first of three shows this weekend
Speaker 3: tonight at Symphony Hall. The movie is brilliantly scored by
Speaker 3: the great composer John Williams, and the show tonight will
Speaker 3: feature the movie Home Alone playing in the backdrop as
Speaker 3: the Boston Pops performs the soundtrack to this amazing Christmas classic.
Speaker 3: Truly a show the whole family can enjoy as we
Speaker 3: soak in the last drops of the holiday spirit before
Speaker 3: the new year. Got to admit, though this is a
Speaker 3: tough ticket to get, there's a few available online that
Speaker 3: they are very expensive. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: And Touching the Face of the Sun, ABC's Jim Ryan
Speaker 2: says a probe launched six years ago has reached its destination.
Speaker 6: Twelve, twenty eighteen, the long journey began.
Speaker 3: Lift off oh NASA's Parker's Solar Probe.
Speaker 6: Not your typical spacecraft. Parker's an engineering marvel, says NASA's
Speaker 6: Nikki Rail.
Speaker 2: The heat shield itself is going to face temperatures around
Speaker 2: twenty five hundred degrees and a short distance behind it
Speaker 2: where the instrument start, it's at room temperature.
Speaker 6: Passing within three point eight million miles of the Sun's surface.
Speaker 6: Parker is sending back reams of data about Earth's closest star.
Speaker 6: Jim Ryan ABC News.
Speaker 2: Right now, it is thirty four degrees in Boston and
Speaker 2: the sun is out, which is making things nice and
Speaker 2: nice and bright forests out there even though it is
Speaker 2: still cold. The high today is thirty eight to round
Speaker 2: forty two degrees and that sun will be sticking around
Speaker 2: throughout the day today. This clouds are coming in tonight,
Speaker 2: though Tomorrow is when we will start to see those
Speaker 2: clouds turning into a little bit of rain and drizzle.
Speaker 2: At times in the morning when it's the coldest out,
Speaker 2: the rain can potentially freeze on surfaces. In tomorrow Tomorrow morning,
Speaker 2: it will be warming up in the afternoon though tomorrow
Speaker 2: it'll turn into around and near forty is the high
Speaker 2: mid forties for the Cape and the islands. But on
Speaker 2: Sunday it'll stay rainy out there, cloudy with some milder rain.
Speaker 2: The rain is gonna kind of pick up in the evening,
Speaker 2: becoming steadier at night and heavier there with a high
Speaker 2: of fifty two degrees. But our Monday morning commute, well,
Speaker 2: it'll be breezy, very mild with rain to start the day,
Speaker 2: and then that's the clouds for the rest of the day.
Speaker 2: Cloudy weather in the afternoons, sticking around throughout the day
Speaker 2: with a high of fifty four to fifty eight degrees.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's thirty four in Boston at eleven o five.
Speaker 2: Health officials are concerned about a silent COVID surge hitting
Speaker 2: over the holidays.
Speaker 1: They're worried for two reasons. First, because this year's winter
Speaker 1: COVID wave is getting off to a pretty late start,
Speaker 1: and recent CDC data shows high or very high levels
Speaker 1: of the virus that causes COVID in wastewater in twenty
Speaker 1: one states. Yet a lot of people are unaware of that,
Speaker 1: and public health experts are concerned they might not get
Speaker 1: tested if they get sick, especially if it's minor, and
Speaker 1: that can cause COVID to spread during holiday travel and parties.
Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Lee Kissler.
Speaker 2: Meantime, the number of whooping cough cases in the US
Speaker 2: is at its highest in a decade. Data from the
Speaker 2: CDC shows more than thirty two thousand cases have been
Speaker 2: reported this year through mid December, which is six times
Speaker 2: higher than this time last year. The disease, also known
Speaker 2: as pertius, is highly contagious, with children under the age
Speaker 2: of one being the.
Speaker 1: Most at risk.
Speaker 2: State lawmakers are looking to crack down on drivers who
Speaker 2: mosey their way into designated bus lanes.
Speaker 5: Bus only lanes have sprouted up across Boston to speed
Speaker 5: up travel time for commuters who ride t buses, but
Speaker 5: passenger vehicles frustrate that goal when drivers operate cars and
Speaker 5: SUVs in the bus only lanes, slowing the buses down. Now,
Speaker 5: state lawmakers are considering legislation to install cameras on buses
Speaker 5: to monitor traffic in the bus lanes and record the
Speaker 5: registration numbers of offending vehicles. Police could then follow up
Speaker 5: and issue tickets, finding drivers twenty five to one hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty five dollars for bus lane violations. The bill
Speaker 5: to install the cameras and impose the fines has passed
Speaker 5: the Senate and with just days left in the legislative
Speaker 5: year could get a House vote at the State House.
Speaker 5: Mike mclum, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: This year marks ten years since the Amazing Ice Bucket
Speaker 2: Challenge went viral and raised millions of dollars for as
Speaker 2: l als. This weekend, Plunge for Pete is back, where
Speaker 2: you can take an icy dip at the Good Harbor
Speaker 2: Beach in Gloucester to honor the ongoing mission of the
Speaker 2: late Great Pete Freights and for those brave enough. It
Speaker 2: all kicks off tomorrow morning in Gloucester at ten thirty.
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Speaker 2: I'm a Freedman, WBZ Boston's News Radio