Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Light snow coming down thirty three degrees in Boston on
Speaker 2: this Friday morning. It's eleven o'clock, December twentieth. Hello, I'm
Speaker 2: Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. Congress racing against the clock
Speaker 2: to pass the funding bill and avoid a government shutdown.
Speaker 2: Lawmakers appear to have reached a deal earlier this week,
Speaker 2: but scathing social media posts from the President elect and
Speaker 2: Elon Musk proved death blows for the bill. Now, mister
Speaker 2: Trump is speaking out again.
Speaker 3: In a post on truth social the President elect said,
Speaker 3: if there's going to be a shutdown of the government,
Speaker 3: let it begin now under the Biden administration, not after
Speaker 3: January twentieth under Trump. He added, this is a Biden
Speaker 3: problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it,
Speaker 3: they will.
Speaker 2: And that's CBS's Stacy Lynn reporting. How Speaker Mike Johnson meanwhile,
Speaker 2: has said that he was expecting a vote on a
Speaker 2: new deal this morning. We've yet to hear word of
Speaker 2: any such movement. Will continue to monitor this and bring
Speaker 2: you the latest developments as they break. If you're away
Speaker 2: from your radio, bring us with you on the go
Speaker 2: with the iHeartRadio app stick. Our shock appears to be
Speaker 2: wearing off. New data shows the Federal Reserves preferred inflation
Speaker 2: gauge barely inched up last month. Prices rose just one
Speaker 2: tenth of a percent from October to November. That news
Speaker 2: comes just days after the FED announced its third interest
Speaker 2: rate cut of the year. This week, FED cher Jerome
Speaker 2: Powell says that they're eyeing a less active twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: with just two cuts on the agenda for next year.
Speaker 2: Celtic star Jalen Brown speaking out for the first time
Speaker 2: about a break in at his mother's home in Wellesley
Speaker 2: this week, CBS News Boston's Brandon Truitt has more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously, to go through that experience and you know,
Speaker 4: you know, people still in there, still in the crib
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, it just makes you think about
Speaker 4: some things differently.
Speaker 5: For the first time. Jalen Brown speaking about the break
Speaker 5: in at his mother's home. It happened on Sunday, when
Speaker 5: the team was away for a game. Police say Brown's
Speaker 5: mother was home at the time but is uninjured. Officers
Speaker 5: found a broken window, but they say it doesn't appear
Speaker 5: anything is missing.
Speaker 4: Serious or physical or threatening appen with the fact that
Speaker 4: it could have, you know, it's just kind of lingers in.
Speaker 5: Mr WBZ. Sources also say on that same night, assistant
Speaker 5: coach Emil Jefferson's Newton home was also hit. Thieves getting
Speaker 5: away with this. Twenty twenty four Championship ring head coach
Speaker 5: Joe Mizula addressing it all before Thursday's game.
Speaker 4: You may see it have it around different sports, and
Speaker 4: you're obviously aware of it, but when it happens to you,
Speaker 4: you have an understanding of their risk there. So we're
Speaker 4: just happy that.
Speaker 2: They're saved, and police say the investigation on both incidents
Speaker 2: are ongoing. A massive jackpot is on the line in
Speaker 2: tonight's Mega Million strawing.
Speaker 1: Now it's not quite a billion dollars, but it's close.
Speaker 1: The Mega Million's jackpot is soaring to eight hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars for tonight's drawing. It's the largest
Speaker 1: jackpot ever for the month of December. Talk about a
Speaker 1: Christmas gift. The last winner of the Mega Millions was
Speaker 1: back on September tenth. One lucky winner in Massachusetts did
Speaker 1: get a million dollars from one of last week's drawings.
Speaker 1: That means they got all five lucky numbers but did
Speaker 1: not get the megaplier ouch. That ticket was sold at
Speaker 1: a gas station in Norwood. Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The four d awbz ACU Weather Forecast. As we just heard,
Speaker 2: there's snow out there, light snow coming down. We'll see
Speaker 2: snow much of the time today, mixed with rain near
Speaker 2: the coast and on the south coast of Cape and Islands.
Speaker 2: It'll be mainly rain. Hi's today thirty four. That's near
Speaker 2: four ninety five, near forty on the coast, forty five
Speaker 2: for the Cape and the Island. Snow Tonight it'll be
Speaker 2: mixed with rain early on the Cape and the Islands,
Speaker 2: ending late Snow could accumulate one to three inches locally
Speaker 2: six inches. That depends on the exact track of this
Speaker 2: developing coastal storm. Of course, that means roads could be
Speaker 2: snow coverslippery, so watch out. We'll drop down to a
Speaker 2: low of twenty seven. We'll start your Saturday off with
Speaker 2: a few snow flurries early. Otherwise, just be windy but
Speaker 2: very cold, a mix of sun and clouds, but high's
Speaker 2: only reaching thirty two and real field temps mainly in
Speaker 2: the teens, so bundle up as you head out. Sunday
Speaker 2: another cold day, a high of twenty four, real fields
Speaker 2: in the single digits and teens. Monday mix of sun
Speaker 2: and clouds with a high of twenty seven. Christmas Eve snow,
Speaker 2: likely highs in the mid thirties and remaining cloudy on Christmas.
Speaker 2: Right now, quickly checking the radar, we're seeing snow in
Speaker 2: and around the Boston area, also parts of the North
Speaker 2: Shore and South Shore, and then all the way over
Speaker 2: into let's see Brockton, Rammedolph, Norwood, Needham, clipping parts of
Speaker 2: Franklin right now, as well as thirty three in Boston.
Speaker 2: A big loss for the New England media. WBC's Drew
Speaker 2: mcholland has the.
Speaker 6: Latest, seventy three year old former Providence Journal sports calling
Speaker 6: this Jim donald has died. He had all the sports
Speaker 6: beats over the years, but was maybe most known for
Speaker 6: his coverage of the New England Patriots for all those
Speaker 6: glory years in Foxborough. If there was a big story
Speaker 6: the pro Joe intend to put Jim Donaldson on it.
Speaker 6: He was as good as it gets over his forty
Speaker 6: year career and could really write about anything. Donaldson was
Speaker 6: a Rhode Islander through and through. Born in Pawtucket, he
Speaker 6: graduated from Notre Dame. When he retired eight years ago,
Speaker 6: he simply wrote, I've been fortunate to have spent my
Speaker 6: life doing a job I love. Jim Donaldson, a Providence
Speaker 6: journal legend, dead at the age of seventy three, Drew
Speaker 6: moholland WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate next week,
Speaker 2: and we're not just talking about Christmas in Honkkah.
Speaker 7: If only there was a holiday for the rest of us.
Speaker 1: Let's do it then, all right, says back, I'll get
Speaker 1: the pull out of the crawl's.
Speaker 7: Face, thanks, mister Costanza. Yes, that's right. The fictional holiday
Speaker 7: from Seinfeld is this Monday. It's the time to get
Speaker 7: your whole family around the dinner table.
Speaker 5: And tell him all the ways they have disappointed you
Speaker 5: over the past year.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know about that. That comes before a
Speaker 7: natual Winer's Day on the twenty sixth, which is the
Speaker 7: time to complain about all that call in your stocking,
Speaker 7: and National Short Film Day on the twenty eighth, which
Speaker 7: is the day to watch films that are short Jeremy Russ,
Speaker 7: WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: The Kennedy Center Honors will be awarded this week's CBSS.
Speaker 2: Jared Hill has more than one of the honore It was.
Speaker 7: This music that artural, son of All says, saved his life.
Speaker 2: The Cuban born trumpeter and composer used jazz to escape
Speaker 2: political persecution.
Speaker 6: To be to Nay and a Kenni centered get in
Speaker 6: this huge armor is beyond my immagination.
Speaker 1: The Kennedy Center has honored more than two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty people and groups for their contributions to American art
Speaker 1: and culture.
Speaker 2: Some other honorees include The Grateful Debt and Godfather director
Speaker 2: Francis Ford Coppola. You are now in the loop. For
Speaker 2: news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ News Radio
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