Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: A beautiful sunny sky and fifty three degrees in the
Speaker 2: city at eleven o'clock. It's Tuesday, November nineteenth. I'm Sherry Small.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us. Here's what's happening. Striking teachers
Speaker 2: are taking their fight from the North Shore to the
Speaker 2: State House. In just about fifteen minutes, Marblehead, Beverly, and
Speaker 2: Gloucester will hold a rally on the State House steps.
Speaker 2: Their strike now in its second week. Negotiations with school
Speaker 2: committees in each districts are stalled on several sticking points.
Speaker 2: Some include paid parental leave and also paraprofessionals salaries. Now,
Speaker 2: the Beverly School Committee says if the strike there doesn't
Speaker 2: end soon, they may have to cancel spring vacation. The
Speaker 2: Gloucester School committee says mis days will be added to
Speaker 2: the end of their school year to Revere, where teachers
Speaker 2: and the school committee strike a deal. After a marathon
Speaker 2: bargaining session held last night, lasting more than seven hours,
Speaker 2: a tentative deal was struck just after midnight. The new
Speaker 2: deal offers wage increases, paid parental and family leave, school
Speaker 2: safety reforms, and agreements on other issues Revere educators they
Speaker 2: have been working one hundred and twenty days without a contract.
Speaker 2: Firefighter is battling a brush blaze in the Blue Hills
Speaker 2: Reservation in Milton, and WBC S James Rojas says this
Speaker 2: comes as much of the state as dealing with red
Speaker 2: flag warnings.
Speaker 1: A dozen counties in the Commonwealth are at high risk
Speaker 1: of wildfires, including Norfolk County. That is evident here at
Speaker 1: Blue Hills Reservation, where conditions are very dry and firefighters
Speaker 1: are busy keeping a forty plus acre brush fire under control.
Speaker 3: Pretty crazy again, I've been here for twenty four years,
Speaker 3: never seen anything like it.
Speaker 2: We need rain, We need rain badly.
Speaker 1: The brushfire erupted yesterday afternoon and has since led to
Speaker 1: road closures, including here at Hillside Street and Blue Hill
Speaker 1: River Road, affecting many people's commute. So what's the d
Speaker 1: plan like that to go the long way or what's the.
Speaker 2: Moving I just have to go to the highway.
Speaker 1: There doesn't add much more time to your community.
Speaker 2: Probably fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes. Nothing was season yeah. Meanwhile, additional fire task
Speaker 1: forces have been dispatched to how Milton and Canton firefighters
Speaker 1: at Blue Hills Reservation. James Rojas w b Z Boston
Speaker 1: Snooth Radio.
Speaker 2: President elect Trump says he elected on a controversial campaign promise.
Speaker 2: As soon as he takes off on the.
Speaker 4: Campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged to carry out the largest
Speaker 4: deportation program in American history, and in a social media post,
Speaker 4: he confirmed yesterday that he's planning to declare a state
Speaker 4: of national emergency and use military assets to do it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: By declaring national emergency, that would allow Trump to tap
Speaker 4: into national additional resources and funding needed to carry out
Speaker 4: a program of this scale.
Speaker 2: And the CBS is Huey Burns reporting there. Now, let's
Speaker 2: check the weather. It's going to be mostly sunny today,
Speaker 2: a high fifty seven, breezy as well, so we do
Speaker 2: have a red flag warning in effect until six pm
Speaker 2: tonight for a high fire threat. That's due to the
Speaker 2: gusty breeze, the low humidity, the dry brush, the drought
Speaker 2: conditions that we've been seeing. Clear to partly cloudy tonight,
Speaker 2: cooling down to about thirty nine in the city in
Speaker 2: many of those inland suburbs, it'll be closer to thirty
Speaker 2: tomorrow midweek, more sun than cloud's highs rolled back a
Speaker 2: bit in the low to mid fifties. It'll become cloudy
Speaker 2: at night and then rain arriving toward dawn, so factor
Speaker 2: that into your morning commute. Thursday, rain much of the time,
Speaker 2: increasingly windy, a high near just fifty degrees. Even cooler
Speaker 2: come Friday. Highs in the high forties to low fifties,
Speaker 2: mostly cloudy, breezy again with a couple of showers around.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's sunny and fifty three in Boston at
Speaker 2: eleven oh five. Dozens of police officers here in Massachusetts
Speaker 2: are accused of not completing mandatory training. WBZTV's Luisa Muller
Speaker 2: has to tail Ever.
Speaker 3: The sworn police officer in Massachusetts is required to do
Speaker 3: forty hours of training a year, much of it online
Speaker 3: through a portal called acatus. But WBZ obtained this letter
Speaker 3: sent to every police chief in the state. It says
Speaker 3: the Municipal Police Training Committee, or MPTC, found officers skirting
Speaker 3: the system. The letter states, quote, we have discovered instances
Speaker 3: where trainings that should take hours to complete are finish
Speaker 3: in a matter of minutes using techniques that override controls
Speaker 3: meant to prevent fast forwarding through the training sources tel WBZ.
Speaker 3: As of last week, EMPTC identified seventy officers in eleven
Speaker 3: departments who had bypassed a CAADUS training. EMPTC is now
Speaker 3: shut down the ACATUS portal while it investigates requiring all
Speaker 3: training to be in person.
Speaker 2: And the updated trainings for the police officers. They can
Speaker 2: contain anything from new laws and guidelines to CPR training.
Speaker 2: Abington Police chief meanwhile wants a former police officer with
Speaker 2: his department meant desertified amid fallout from the Sandra Birchmore case.
Speaker 2: This according to the Broughton Enterprise. Ex police officer Joshua
Speaker 2: Heel resigned from Abington Police back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Desertification would mean that he would be prohibited from working
Speaker 2: in law enforcement. Three Stoton police officers are accused of
Speaker 2: grooming Sandra Birchmore for sex when she was a minor.
Speaker 2: One is accused of staging her alleged twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: murder to look like a suicide. Heel's attorney claims that
Speaker 2: his client was initially wrongfully implicated. Heel was dropped from
Speaker 2: the case. President elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk
Speaker 2: take their a fledgling partnership to new heights. Today, ABC's
Speaker 2: Jim Ryan says, mister Trump will be on hand when
Speaker 2: SpaceX launches a new rocket.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump has made no secret of his admiration for
Speaker 5: Elon Musk, is, the.
Speaker 1: Characters, especially Guy as a super genius. We have to
Speaker 1: protect geniuses. We don't have that many of them.
Speaker 5: The weather and technology permitting, Trump plans to be in
Speaker 5: Boca Chica, Texas for today's test launch of SpaceX Super
Speaker 5: Heavy Booster from Elon Musk's starbase.
Speaker 2: The President LEC has selected Musk to co lead a
Speaker 2: new Department of Government Efficiency, along with businessmen Vivek Ramaswami.
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Speaker 2: I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio