Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty
Speaker 1: two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. An act of terror. That
Speaker 1: is what the FBI in New Orleans is saying about
Speaker 1: the deadly attack on Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning.
Speaker 2: First and foremost, let me be very clear about this point.
Speaker 2: This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and
Speaker 2: an evil act.
Speaker 1: FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raya, who now says the
Speaker 1: suspect in the attack that killed more than a dozen
Speaker 1: people did not have help.
Speaker 2: We do not assess at this point that anyone else
Speaker 2: involved in this attack is involved in this attack except
Speaker 2: for Shamsa Din Jabbar, the subject you've already been briefed on.
Speaker 1: Jabbar, who had served in the US military, is said
Speaker 1: to have professed allegiance to the Islamic State. The family
Speaker 1: of the man police deemed responsible for that attack in
Speaker 1: New Orleans or expressing shock over what happened.
Speaker 3: The brother of this suspect in the New Orleans attack
Speaker 3: is speaking out, telling ABC News in an interview he
Speaker 3: is in shock. Abder Jabbar said his half brother, now
Speaker 3: accused of mowing down fourteen people on New Year's Day,
Speaker 3: was quote loving, was a sweetheart, but Abdur said his
Speaker 3: half brother was isolated.
Speaker 2: Just not having anybody else to maybe talk to, maybe express.
Speaker 3: His viewpoints, something he believes could have led him to
Speaker 3: commit this crime. Olivia Rubin ABC News Washington.
Speaker 1: In Las Vegas, the sheriff there, Kevin mcmahill, says he
Speaker 1: can't definitively identify the person inside the cyber truck that
Speaker 1: exploded New Year's Day outside of Trump Hotel, but says
Speaker 1: enough evidence points to Matthew Levelsberger, an active duty US
Speaker 1: soldier who was highly decorated.
Speaker 4: But I would like to highlight a couple of things
Speaker 4: that the teams found inside of the cyber truck that
Speaker 4: are useful to the investigation, and that first and foremost
Speaker 4: is a military identification. We also found a passport, We
Speaker 4: found a Desert Eagle fifty caliber semi automatic pistol.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas officials say the person inside the truck was
Speaker 1: shot in the head before the explosion, complicating the process
Speaker 1: of identifying him. Seven people were injured in that blast.
Speaker 1: A lot of things change as a New year unfolds,
Speaker 1: among them. Millions of Americans who get their prescription drugs
Speaker 1: through Medicare could get a major financial break when a
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars out of pocket spending cap on medications
Speaker 1: takes effect.
Speaker 5: Now we're seeing a two thousand dollars per year spending
Speaker 5: limit on out of pocket costs for drugs, which is
Speaker 5: going to be a big relief to many seniors who
Speaker 5: might be on expensive medications. For example, for cancer.
Speaker 1: Man is doctor Celine Gownder, a CBS News medical contributor
Speaker 1: in Washington. Vote is set for tomorrow in the House
Speaker 1: for a new speaker. Despite an endorsement from President elect Trump,
Speaker 1: some Republicans believe the current Speaker, Mike Johnson, doesn't have
Speaker 1: what's needed for votes to remain in the role. A
Speaker 1: number of Republics grew frustrated with Johnson late last year
Speaker 1: as Congress worked to avoid a government shutdown. We do
Speaker 1: have a wind advisory up until ten o'clock tonight. Wind's
Speaker 1: been whipping around pretty good today and as we head
Speaker 1: into the early evening still could see GUS forty forty
Speaker 1: five miles an hour thirty five mile an hour gus
Speaker 1: later tonight as the wind dies down, a tad thirty
Speaker 1: for the low actur whether real field temperatures overnight will
Speaker 1: fall into the lower teens. Tomorrow, it's a partly sunny day.
Speaker 1: It will be blustery again with some wind gusts of
Speaker 1: thirty to thirty five miles an hour, Temperatures in the
Speaker 1: upper thirties, reel fields in the twenties. Saturday, where brisk,
Speaker 1: we're cold, We've got some sunshine and some clouds, Temperatures
Speaker 1: in the mid thirties, reel fields in the teens. And
Speaker 1: then still a little blustery on Sunday, some suns and
Speaker 1: clouds and temperatures in the mid thirties. Right now forty
Speaker 1: two degrees in Boston, covering more. Heay's been busy signing
Speaker 1: quite a few bills this week, more than two dozen
Speaker 1: so far, all past in the late days of the
Speaker 1: most recent legislative session. On Beacon Hill, wdbc's Nicole Davis
Speaker 1: takes a look at what's been signed so far.
Speaker 6: Most of the bills that governor signed are pretty hyper
Speaker 6: local stuff like naming bridges and amending town charters, but
Speaker 6: some are more broad, including House Bill forty eight to forty.
Speaker 6: That bill was originally filed by James Murphy, the co
Speaker 6: chair of the House Financial Services Committee. This bill specifically
Speaker 6: focuses on money transmission during transactions on apps like cash
Speaker 6: app or Venmo. This new law now requires those companies
Speaker 6: to report quarterly on their financial condition and also requires
Speaker 6: them to get a license from the state's banking commissioner.
Speaker 6: The law gives that commissioner the permission to revoke those
Speaker 6: licenses if need be. Governor Healy's pen's not done quite yet.
Speaker 6: She still has some bills to look over, including one that,
Speaker 6: if signed, would expand oversight of hospital systems here in
Speaker 6: Massachusetts in the wake of the Stewart healthcare crisis. Nicole
Speaker 6: Davis WBZ Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1: There's a new bridge planned to span the mass Turnpike
Speaker 1: in western Massachusetts, though this one isn't for cars, it's
Speaker 1: for deer and hikers. CBS News Boston reporting the project
Speaker 1: will replace an existing bridge that crosses in the town
Speaker 1: of Beckett, where the Appellation Trail intersects with the pike.
Speaker 1: It's an area that has seen a high number of
Speaker 1: collisions between drivers and deer. Mastot was awarded one point
Speaker 1: seven million dollars in grant money for the bridge. In all,
Speaker 1: sixteen wildlife crossing projects across the country received one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five million in grants from the infrastructure law
Speaker 1: signed by the President in twenty twenty one. Oh, they
Speaker 1: live a whale of a life, don't they whales? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's research too on the giants of the ocean and
Speaker 1: how long their lives might be there.
Speaker 7: She blows Moby Dick, the giant sperm whale immortalized by
Speaker 7: novelist Herman Melville in the novel by that name. Now
Speaker 7: researchers say some of the sperm whales swimming in our
Speaker 7: oceans today may have been born before the book appeared
Speaker 7: in eighteen fifty one. They provised upward the potential life
Speaker 7: expectancy of the species the whale one in the novel.
Speaker 7: In real life, though, most sperm whales are dead by
Speaker 7: the age of thirty seven, killed by US humans. Vicky Barker,
Speaker 7: CBS News London.
Speaker 1: Back on Land, there's a new dog in town. It
Speaker 1: is not a bulldog, but Jim Krisula has more on
Speaker 1: the latest dog in the American Kennel Club's lineup of
Speaker 1: recognized breaths.
Speaker 8: The Danish Swedish farm dog DSSET for short, has joined
Speaker 8: at the pack, making the breed eligible to compete for
Speaker 8: many Best in Show trophies. It's also more likely to
Speaker 8: bring more widespread interest in the small, sprightly dogs that
Speaker 8: were initially popular in Scandinavia going back decades.
Speaker 1: In their original homelands, the dog's main job was rodent patrol,
Speaker 1: but they would also herd a bit, act as watchdogs,
Speaker 1: and play with farmers children. Some of them even performed
Speaker 1: in circuses. You are now in the loop. For news
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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's news radio