Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio re defining
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Teachers from
Speaker 1: across the Commonwealth will be coming together tomorrow morning to
Speaker 1: support striking teachers in Beverly and Marblehead. Wvz's Brook McCarthy
Speaker 1: as the tale.
Speaker 2: As teacher strikes continue in Beverly and Marblehead, union leaders
Speaker 2: from across the state will descend on the State House
Speaker 2: to show their support. Deb Jiswaldo is the president of
Speaker 2: the Malden Education Association and says leaders from Malden, Quinsy, Brookline,
Speaker 2: and Worcester will be there, to name just a few.
Speaker 3: I think this will be the first time in my
Speaker 3: recollection that I can remember leaders from so many unions
Speaker 3: coming together and heading into the State House to say, Hey,
Speaker 3: you need to meet with us.
Speaker 2: Deb says they can't remain silent, adding they will call
Speaker 2: for a meeting with Governor Mori Healy to discuss the
Speaker 2: ongoing strikes. She says the governor campaigned as a supporter
Speaker 2: of public education and they want to see that.
Speaker 3: Using her position as the Executive Officer of the Commonwealth
Speaker 3: issue that statement of support for educators in Beverly and Marblehead.
Speaker 2: They will meet at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Brook McCarthy WBZ,
Speaker 2: Boston's NewsRadio.
Speaker 1: WZ has reached out to the governor for comment and
Speaker 1: we are continuing to follow this story the strikes continuing
Speaker 1: among teachers and keep it to a to WBZ for
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Speaker 1: Special counsel Jack Smith is dropping President elector Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty election interference case. CBS's Matt Piper tells us
Speaker 1: what could happen next.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump was accused of conspiring to overturn the results
Speaker 4: of the twenty twenty election he lost to President Biden
Speaker 4: and mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, but
Speaker 4: neither case ever came to trial, and says legal analyst
Speaker 4: Laurie Levinson.
Speaker 5: No one should expect that we're going to have any
Speaker 5: type of trial against Donald Trump for the next four
Speaker 5: years while he's the president, because in our country, according
Speaker 5: to the Justice Department, in the Office of Legal Council,
Speaker 5: a city president cannot stand trial on criminal charges.
Speaker 4: Matt Piper CBS News sid the.
Speaker 1: Federal Dodge overseeing the case still has to decide whether
Speaker 1: to accept the dismissal. A police chase through several Massachusetts
Speaker 1: communities ends late this morning in northern Worcester County. Drivers
Speaker 1: taken into custody and Stirling after leading police on a
Speaker 1: chase that included a number of roadways, including MY one
Speaker 1: ninety and Route twelve. It was about ten am Massachusetts
Speaker 1: State Police from Troope located in Mercedes traveling on I
Speaker 1: ninety three South that was reported stolen in Derry, New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: Troopers initiated to pursuit. It continued onto four ninety five
Speaker 1: South and onto Route two. Speeds reached ninety miles an
Speaker 1: hour in State Police say they terminated the pursuit and
Speaker 1: used the vehicle's GPS to track it that as v
Speaker 1: pulled over near the West Boylston Line, and State Police
Speaker 1: say Andrew mckinnis of Methuen was taken into custody without incident.
Speaker 1: While millions of turkeys will sit on dining room tables
Speaker 1: this week, two turkeys will instead be living out their
Speaker 1: days at some cushy digs. In Minnesota, Resident Biden with
Speaker 1: the official pardoning of the birds at the White House.
Speaker 5: They sign your temperamented commitment to being productive members society.
Speaker 1: Hi hereby pardon p.
Speaker 5: CHM.
Speaker 1: Blossom. The birds are both from Minnesota. They'll be brought
Speaker 1: back to live at Farm America. Boston Mayor Michelle Will
Speaker 1: announcing Youth Development Fund grantees for the upcoming year. Ninety
Speaker 1: nine grantees have been selected for the program for the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to twenty five year, which totals one
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars. The funding supports organizations that
Speaker 1: provide high quality and engaging programming for Boston youth ages
Speaker 1: fourteen to twenty four. The mayor says the goal of
Speaker 1: the grants is to increase the variety of youth programming
Speaker 1: in the city and to offer a positive outlet for
Speaker 1: young people when they are not in school. Rain is
Speaker 1: headed in our direction for tomorrow. We get through tonight. Okay,
Speaker 1: it'll be clear, early clouds get in here. Late temperatures
Speaker 1: mainly in the thirties. The chilliest spots has expected the
Speaker 1: inland suburbs about thirty for the low cloudy for tomorrow
Speaker 1: period of rain. It'll become a little breezy, temperatures in
Speaker 1: the low fifties, a little warmer upper fifties south coast
Speaker 1: Cape Islands, and then we clear out the rain and
Speaker 1: we clear out the skies, becoming clear to partly cloudy
Speaker 1: tomorrow and ilo thirty seven. Wednesday's a pretty decent day,
Speaker 1: some sunshine, breezy conditions, but again some sunshine, Temperatures in
Speaker 1: the low fifties. And then on Thursday, for Thanksgiving, we'll
Speaker 1: have clouds. We'll have some rain that will overspread the area,
Speaker 1: continuing through the afternoon and evening at various intensities. We
Speaker 1: may pick up as few snowflakes mixed in, especially as
Speaker 1: you head north and west of town. Temperatures on Thursday
Speaker 1: in the mid forties. Right now it is fifty two
Speaker 1: degrees See in Boston, a Red Sox pitcher gets recognized
Speaker 1: by the league for overcoming the odds and making his
Speaker 1: major league debut at the age of thirty one. WBC's
Speaker 1: Kyle Bray with the tail.
Speaker 6: Kem Boozer's life has almost played out like a sequel
Speaker 6: to The Rookie. After taking an improbable path to making
Speaker 6: his major league debut earlier this year, he's won the
Speaker 6: MLB's Tony Caniglieriro Award, honoring the late Red Sox legend
Speaker 6: and given to a player who's overcame adversity. Whoser retired
Speaker 6: from baseball in twenty seventeen after a few years in
Speaker 6: the miners. At the time, he was battling alcoholism and
Speaker 6: a rough injury history. He started working as a carpenter
Speaker 6: back in Seattle, but as he told CBS News earlier
Speaker 6: this year, his love for the game never faded.
Speaker 7: I got an opportunity to go coach some kids and
Speaker 7: some lessons and kind of help Alison Camps back home.
Speaker 4: It's like the second I stepped back on the field,
Speaker 4: it was just like I couldn't help them smile. I
Speaker 4: was kind of like, all right, I need to get
Speaker 4: back here.
Speaker 6: He started training again, played a few years of indie ball,
Speaker 6: and signed with the Socks in twenty twenty three. He
Speaker 6: appeared in forty three games this year after debuting in April.
Speaker 6: Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: It is now a full speed go on the MBTA's
Speaker 1: red line. As we've been telling you, slow zones on
Speaker 1: the line are so last week. The busiest Jared Brosnan
Speaker 1: has our update.
Speaker 7: Recognize that sound. It's the Red Line running at full
Speaker 7: speed now that there are no slow zones for the
Speaker 7: first time in more than twenty years.
Speaker 2: I go from here to the Charles Mgh stop every
Speaker 2: single day.
Speaker 7: I stopped by Broadway station, where I found Carl, who's
Speaker 7: cautiously optimistic about a faster commute to work, even if
Speaker 7: she didn't know about it.
Speaker 1: I was not aware of that.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 7: I think that's going to make your trips a little
Speaker 7: bit better going forward.
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 4: I found myself taking hubers a lot of the time
Speaker 4: because it's really inconvenient to take the replacement shuttles.
Speaker 1: Over at the JFK.
Speaker 7: You messed up. Jordan is happy to hear the news,
Speaker 7: so it's actually really convenient.
Speaker 1: You prompt. You won't see those shuttle busses happening as
Speaker 1: much anymore.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank god.
Speaker 1: It's going to be such a relief.
Speaker 7: Honestly, now only the Green line has the need for speed,
Speaker 7: with two speed restrictions in place covering just over a
Speaker 7: quarter mile. The MBTA expects to lift those restrictions by
Speaker 7: next month. Jared Brosnan WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: I were into the season of Turkey and also into
Speaker 1: the season of spending. It turns out how much we
Speaker 1: spend for the holidays is a generational thing, Correspondent Scott
Speaker 1: Carr telling us big spenders might come as a bit
Speaker 1: of a surprise.
Speaker 8: The generation planning to spend the most this year is millennials.
Speaker 8: According to a report by TransUnion, sixty three percent of
Speaker 8: millennials they plan to spend the same or more on
Speaker 8: their holiday shopping than they did last year. The National
Speaker 8: Retail Federation says between November one and December third, holiday
Speaker 8: spending is expected to jump to a record nine hundred
Speaker 8: eighty nine billion dollars, and according to Deloitte's Holiday Retail Survey,
Speaker 8: shoppers are expected to spend eight percent more than they
Speaker 8: did last year, for an average of nearly seventeen hundred
Speaker 8: eighty dollars. I'm Scott Carr.
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