Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local.
Speaker 2: News Sunshine twenty nine in Boston. It's eleven o'clock Good
Speaker 2: Friday Morning on Laurie Kirby, and we have a lot
Speaker 2: of breaking news. The Supreme Court with gun us to
Speaker 2: save TikTok, but it's still unclear exactly what will happen
Speaker 2: Sunday when the law of ban it goes into effect.
Speaker 2: More now in this special report from CBS News.
Speaker 3: The Supreme Court has just upheld a ban on TikTok,
Speaker 3: refusing to block a federal loss eight set to take
Speaker 3: effect this Sunday if the app isn't sold to a
Speaker 3: non Chinese company Loyola Laws Lori Levinson.
Speaker 4: The Supreme Court said that Congress's ban on TikTok did
Speaker 4: not violate the First Amendment. It said that there was
Speaker 4: enough reason for Congress to ban TikTok because of its
Speaker 4: data gathering practices and threats to mash security.
Speaker 3: President Biden has said he will not enforce the ban. Correspondent,
Speaker 3: we judge anks as that leaves it up to the
Speaker 3: Trump administration.
Speaker 5: The incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz that we will
Speaker 5: put measures in place to keep TikTok from going dark,
Speaker 5: but there aren't that many options that they have on
Speaker 5: the table right now.
Speaker 3: TikTok CEO is set to attend President elect Trump's inauguration Monday,
Speaker 3: CBS News special Report. I'm Deborah Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: And just now President Elect Donald Trump just hold CNN News.
Speaker 2: He will be making the decision on TikTok's fate. It's
Speaker 2: not entirely clear how that would work. Of course, he's
Speaker 2: teased a potential executive order without elaborating on how he
Speaker 2: would bypass Congress. And of course now we have the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court ruling. But keep it right here. Sunday is
Speaker 2: going to be a very interesting day Monday as well
Speaker 2: for our team coverage both here and streaming on the
Speaker 2: new iHeartRadio. Israel's security Cabinet has approved a ceasefire deal
Speaker 2: in Gaza with a Moss That deal is now headed
Speaker 2: to the Fools Habitat for review and a final vote
Speaker 2: by sundown, hopefully. CBS is Linda Gradstein with War.
Speaker 6: The Israeli government has notified the families of the thirty
Speaker 6: three Israeli hostages expected to be freed in the first
Speaker 6: phase of the ceasefire deal. Including two American citizens. The
Speaker 6: list includes women, children, elderly people, and people who are sick.
Speaker 6: Hamas has not yet informed Israel how many of the
Speaker 6: thirty three people on the list are still alive, although
Speaker 6: Israel believes most of them are. The first three hostages
Speaker 6: are due to be released on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Six students are injured in a school bus crash in Waltham, Pelisa.
Speaker 2: The crash was reported just before a thirty to string.
Speaker 2: A collision evolved three vehicles. Here is school bus from
Speaker 2: Waltham's dual language school of VAM and a mini van
Speaker 2: and the van was with Ram Services. They provide transportation
Speaker 2: for seniors and people with disabilities. The driver was the
Speaker 2: only person on board at the time. He was injured
Speaker 2: in the crash, but again his injuries are believed to
Speaker 2: be minor. Police are investigating. Mostly sunny right now, pretty nice.
Speaker 2: It's not that cold because it's not that windy. I'm
Speaker 2: seeing thirty in Falmouth, Wooster, Boston twenty nine. We're ahead
Speaker 2: of her high of forty clear tonight. To start, we're
Speaker 2: in the twenties, mid twenties or so, so it gets
Speaker 2: interesting this weekend. First, we've got some rain tomorrow afternoon
Speaker 2: and Saturday night pretty mild forty five degrees tomorrow and
Speaker 2: then here it comes a change. This is significant, you know.
Speaker 2: Every day this keeps evolving, which is why we bring
Speaker 2: you traffic and weather together every ten minutes here and
Speaker 2: of course on the new iHeartRadio app. So on Sunday,
Speaker 2: it's getting cold and we have a coastal storm is
Speaker 2: going to be south and east of us. Here are
Speaker 2: the dicted forecast as snow amounts right now from Joe
Speaker 2: over at ACU Weather. Half a foot of snow you
Speaker 2: heard right, half a foot on the maximum side. In general,
Speaker 2: if you're on the cape or the south coast, we're
Speaker 2: looking at one to three inches of snow. A lot
Speaker 2: of you have Monday off. That's going to help in
Speaker 2: terms of how much time we have to shovel out
Speaker 2: and driving and traffic and all of that. But we'll
Speaker 2: stay with us. Storms can bounce, it can change. We
Speaker 2: could have more, we could have less, you know the drill.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to our top story. The
Speaker 2: Supreme Court, which is the nation's highest court in the land,
Speaker 2: is just upheld the law to ban TikTok in the
Speaker 2: United States. If the popular social media app owned by
Speaker 2: a Chinese company does not find a new parent company
Speaker 2: by Sunday, and wbz's James Rojas is asking if people
Speaker 2: will miss it if it goes away.
Speaker 1: For some, like Hailey from Summerville, a ban of TikTok
Speaker 1: would be a good thing.
Speaker 4: I tried it once. I was on it for seven
Speaker 4: hours and I was like, never again on a for
Speaker 4: seven hour and you're like, yeah, ended that. I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't want to have this impatient.
Speaker 1: Jody from Franklin uses TikTok occasionally, and.
Speaker 3: I don't like the talk of the algorithm and how
Speaker 3: it's gathering data.
Speaker 2: So I think that it's useful, but I won't miss it.
Speaker 1: But there are supporters of the app. I'm a Christian,
Speaker 1: I use it from ministry. I have like twenty thousand followers.
Speaker 1: I really like the platform.
Speaker 4: I think it's government over each This is going to
Speaker 4: take a lot of jobs from people because some people
Speaker 4: make a living off of TikTok.
Speaker 1: Some are concerned that a band would stifle free speech.
Speaker 1: James Rojas w b Z BOSTON'SNOWS Radio.
Speaker 2: So why did the Supreme Court uphold the ban? They
Speaker 2: decided the risk to national security posed by TikTok ties
Speaker 2: to communist China. Overcoming concerns about limiting speech. We'll have
Speaker 2: a lot more coming up with another special report shortly.
Speaker 2: The federal government says it will soon scrutinize the hot
Speaker 2: prices of popular weight loss drugs, which are all the rage.
Speaker 2: Ceb IF says. Alex Tim has.
Speaker 7: That Medicare has announced fifteen more drugs that is targeting
Speaker 7: for its drug price negotiation program. It includes blockbuster diabetes
Speaker 7: and weight loss drug Ozampic and Wagovi. President Biden has
Speaker 7: hailed the program, created by the Inflation Reduction Act as
Speaker 7: one of his signature accomplishments, saving Medicare and seniors and
Speaker 7: billions of dollars. The second round of talks also comes
Speaker 7: as the Biden administration has proposed to expand Medicare to
Speaker 7: cover weight loss drugs. It is unclear how or if
Speaker 7: the incoming Trump administration will finalize that proposal.
Speaker 2: President Biden takes more weight off thousands of shoulders.
Speaker 8: President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly twenty five
Speaker 8: hundred people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses and serving what
Speaker 8: the Winehouse says are disproportionately long sentences compared to what
Speaker 8: they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice.
Speaker 8: The President says in a statement that with this action,
Speaker 8: he's now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any
Speaker 8: president in history, but he's not yet finished using his
Speaker 8: clemency power, saying he'll continue to review additional commutations and pardons.
Speaker 8: Karen Travers, ABC News Washington.
Speaker 2: He was supposed to deliver the packages, not steal them.
Speaker 2: William Page, a former US Postal Service worker from Duxbury,
Speaker 2: faced his punishment in Worcester Federal Court yesterday. He got
Speaker 2: two years probation. You are now in the loop. For
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