Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local
Speaker 1: news twenty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Former President Jimmy Carter's
Speaker 1: remains are heading to his Georgia hometown for the final time.
Speaker 1: CBS is Jim Cursuhler is there.
Speaker 2: I'm Jim Krisuhl In Plains, Georgia. Stephanie Young has been
Speaker 2: friends with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Roslyn
Speaker 2: for many years. Speaking about mister Carter's death, she told me, we're.
Speaker 3: All sad and we knew it was coming, but we're
Speaker 3: also celebrating because he and Rosalind.
Speaker 1: Are back together again, and we have to look at
Speaker 1: it that way.
Speaker 4: I mean, the man lived a.
Speaker 2: Full life rather than Poppin's circumstance. Jimmy Carter wanted a
Speaker 2: simple burial service alongside his wife Rosalind, near their home
Speaker 2: on eleven acres of wooded land. Jim Krysula sibbyas News Plains, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Things have been going from bad to worst in parts
Speaker 1: of California. The wildfire in the Pacific Palisades continues to grow.
Speaker 1: LA's fire chief Christian Crowley, says the fire is chewing
Speaker 1: through acres of land at a rapid pace.
Speaker 4: It is safe to say that the Palisades Fire is
Speaker 4: one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history
Speaker 4: of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Crowley says the fire has charred over seventeen one thousand
Speaker 1: acres of land, and the fires destroyed thousands of structures,
Speaker 1: including multimillion dollar homes. The fires in the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: area have killed at least five people and torn through
Speaker 1: communities from the Pacific coast to Pasadena, and have caused
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people to flee. The ferocious Santa
Speaker 1: Ana winds that drove the flames and prompted chaotic evacuations
Speaker 1: have calmed a bit and are not expected to be
Speaker 1: quite as powerful through today, and that may provide an
Speaker 1: opportunity for firefighters to make progress. And President Biden's expected
Speaker 1: to hold a briefing this hour on the federal responses
Speaker 1: to the wildfires. As those fires and the firefighters continue
Speaker 1: to work to battle them burning in the La area,
Speaker 1: President Biden has canceled a trip over.
Speaker 5: President Biden canceled a three day trip to Italy to
Speaker 5: stay in the US and focus in the coming days
Speaker 5: on the federal response to the fires in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: He was scheduled to depart today for Rome after the
Speaker 5: funeral for former President Jimmy Carter. During the trip, he
Speaker 5: planned to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican and
Speaker 5: Italy's Prime Minister and President. This is the second time
Speaker 5: in recent months that a weather disaster forced the president
Speaker 5: to change overseas travel plans. He postponed a trip to
Speaker 5: Germany and Angola in the fall because of Hurricane Milton
Speaker 5: Karen Travers ABC News Washington no.
Speaker 1: From New York's highest Court, as it has declined to
Speaker 1: block Donald Trump's sentencing tomorrow in his hush money case.
Speaker 6: The president elect's seemingly final option is the US Supreme Court,
Speaker 6: which his lawyers have already asked to block the Friday
Speaker 6: New York sentencing. This is in mister Trump's trial and
Speaker 6: conviction last May on thirty four felon accounts of falsifying
Speaker 6: business records. Trump has denied wrongdoing. His lawyers argued that
Speaker 6: as president elect and though not yet in office, he
Speaker 6: has presidential immunity. Prosecutors say a president elect has no
Speaker 6: Article two fund under the Constitution.
Speaker 1: That is ABC's Chuck Siegertson cover to Morrow Hilly's signing
Speaker 1: the Boston Home Rule petition allowing local officials to significantly
Speaker 1: stiffen penalties for non criminal violations of city ordinances. Boston
Speaker 1: now has the authority to impose fines of up to
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars for property owners, landlords, and small businesses
Speaker 1: that violate these cities sanitary code. Under the new law,
Speaker 1: city leaders are allowed to adjust the maximum fine for
Speaker 1: inflation every five years, and the new fine hike won't
Speaker 1: immediately impact violators. Ordinances. Establishing those fines for specific violations
Speaker 1: will need to be separately approved by the City Council
Speaker 1: and the mayor. Wind advisory stays up until one o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning, and we do have windy conditions right now,
Speaker 1: and as we head into the evening there could be
Speaker 1: some wind gusts of forty even fifty miles an hour
Speaker 1: before the winds eventually die down a bit. As we
Speaker 1: head into tomorrow overnight, we'll feel like we're in the
Speaker 1: single digits with temperatures in the twenties, plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Again,
Speaker 1: that wind is subsiding, so It'll still be breezy, but
Speaker 1: not Harshay nine for the high temperature Tomorrow night becoming cloudy,
Speaker 1: especially in the evening late in the evening, with some
Speaker 1: snow late at night, temperatures in the mid twenties. Saturday,
Speaker 1: we'll have clouds around. We'll have some snow showers and
Speaker 1: temperatures in the low thirties, mid to upper thirties on
Speaker 1: Sunday with sunshine right now twenty seven degrees. In Boston,
Speaker 1: a new gym at Lowell High School's been plagued with problems,
Speaker 1: and city leaders are speaking out. As we hear from
Speaker 1: wz's Madison Rodgers.
Speaker 7: Facility has everything, but it's no good if it's not
Speaker 7: working properly.
Speaker 4: At a meeting this week, city councilors like Corey Blanger
Speaker 4: went over a long and troubling list of issues with
Speaker 4: the Rittick Athletic Center. Athletic director Scott well That says,
Speaker 4: it feels like every day there's something simple, things like
Speaker 4: door handles falling off or not being repaired, or shot
Speaker 4: clocks that won't work for a basketball game, leaks, bleachers
Speaker 4: that don't work. This is a four hundred million dollars
Speaker 4: still underway project.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that we take the
Speaker 1: time to get it right now.
Speaker 4: Counselor Wayne Jeness calling for a report on the failures
Speaker 4: and an action plan for repair and holding the developer
Speaker 4: accountable for this building in Lowell. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ,
Speaker 4: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: No Short business that sells rubbert ducks, is partnering with
Speaker 1: various foundations, including the Red Sox Foundation. Wbz's Carl Stevens
Speaker 1: with the story.
Speaker 7: Courtney Lbreco, a neuropsychologist, and her wife Mandy, a philosophy professor,
Speaker 7: are the owners of Wicked Ducks here in Marblehead. Courtney
Speaker 7: says they were inspired by the European craze of rubber ducks.
Speaker 8: And whenever we would go to Europe, we would love
Speaker 8: to find a rubber ducks store and we'd bring home
Speaker 8: a rubber duck and we just fell in love with it.
Speaker 8: So we decided, okay, let's spread this joy and laughter
Speaker 8: here and we opened up Wicked Ducks in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 7: And they established the Wicked Ducks Foundation to support a
Speaker 7: number of causes. For example, they're partnering with the Red
Speaker 7: Sox Foundation because in the future they will create a
Speaker 7: red Soize and a percentage of the sale of that
Speaker 7: duck we'll go to the Red Sox Foundation. From Marblehead
Speaker 7: Carl Stevens do BVZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Some scientists say climate change is in an extreme volatile
Speaker 1: state at the hands of humans. CBS's Tracy Wolf explains.
Speaker 3: Human cause climate change is making climate extremes of swinging
Speaker 3: from periods of tremendous drought to intense precipitation, what scientists
Speaker 3: call hydroclimate volatility, more frequent and is expected to increase
Speaker 3: as global warming accelerates. In a new study from the
Speaker 3: journal Nature Reviews, scientists say the atmosphere's ability to evaporate, absorb,
Speaker 3: and release seven percent more water for every degree celsius
Speaker 3: of warming is driving this climate whiplash. Tracy Wolf, CBS
Speaker 3: News New York.
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