Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: It's forty six degrees but feeling like thirty four in
Speaker 2: Boston at eleven o'clock. We have a chilly breeze and
Speaker 2: another round of rain on the way. Good Thursday morning.
Speaker 2: I'm Madison Rogers, and we start this half hour on
Speaker 2: the North Shore. Students have now been out of class
Speaker 2: for nearly two weeks and frustrations mounting. A deal is
Speaker 2: said to be close. In Gloucester, Striking teachers say paraprofessional
Speaker 2: pay is the only remaining major sticking point as negotiations
Speaker 2: drag on. School leaders in Beverly say they are going
Speaker 2: to have to hold classes during vacation or weekends even
Speaker 2: if we don't get a single snow day this winter.
Speaker 2: Marble Head leaders say February and April vacation could be canceled.
Speaker 2: Tens of thousands of dollars in fines continue to rack
Speaker 2: up every day, and we will continue to bring you
Speaker 2: all the latest updates right here on WBZ. More information
Speaker 2: is surfaced around sex assault allegations against the man picked
Speaker 2: to lead the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: A twenty two page police investigative report offers the first
Speaker 1: detailed account of an encounter between a woman and Pete
Speaker 1: Hegseth in twenty seventeen in Monterey, California. The woman told
Speaker 1: police when she tried to leave his hotel room, he
Speaker 1: took her phone, locked the door, and refused to let
Speaker 1: her leave. She says she believes Hegseth then sexually assaulted her.
Speaker 1: Hegseth told police the sexual encounter was consensual. Police recommended
Speaker 1: the case be forwarded to the district attorney for review.
Speaker 1: Christopher Cruz CBS News.
Speaker 2: Hegsath just one of the President alex nominees who will
Speaker 2: need to face the Senate confirmation process, and Trump transition
Speaker 2: advisors are said to be warning Republicans in the Senate
Speaker 2: about what could happen if they don't back the president
Speaker 2: Alex choices. ABC's Jonathan carl has more.
Speaker 3: One senior Trump advisor told ABC News the message is
Speaker 3: quote if you are on the wrong side of the vote,
Speaker 3: you're buying yourself a primary. Trump has suggested if any
Speaker 3: of his nominees are not confirmed, he would bypass the
Speaker 3: Senate by appointing cabinet members of what Congress is in recess,
Speaker 3: an idea some Republicans say is out of bounds.
Speaker 2: Meantime, Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted yesterday not
Speaker 2: to release their report on AG nominee Matt Gates. It
Speaker 2: was the fifty to fifty split along party lines. Gates
Speaker 2: has faced sexual misconduct allegations of his own. Today's rain
Speaker 2: will not be enough to extinguish the largest and most
Speaker 2: stubborn of the state's brushfires. That is the word today
Speaker 2: from state fire officials, who say the blaze in Great
Speaker 2: Barrington is the largest right now by far. Five Massachusetts
Speaker 2: towns now declaring states of emergency due to ongoing fires.
Speaker 2: That includes Boxford, Middleton, North Reading, North Andover, and Danvers.
Speaker 2: Fire officials say the silver lining is that the rain
Speaker 2: today should at least prevent any new blazes from sparking.
Speaker 2: The strongest weather is coming down from the Metro West
Speaker 2: up towards southern New Hampshire. We have quite a bit
Speaker 2: of rain across pretty much all areas of the Bay State.
Speaker 2: That is even potentially mixing with some wet snow out
Speaker 2: in Berkshire County. We will continue to see wind and
Speaker 2: rain the rest of the day, watch for ponding on
Speaker 2: the streets and highways, and then tonight we still see
Speaker 2: wind and the rain should taper off to a shower
Speaker 2: from south to north. Laid on forty to forty four
Speaker 2: for the low. Tomorrow, we do have a shower or two. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: it's mostly cloudy and breezy, with a high around fifty two.
Speaker 2: Periods of rain again on Saturday, though it should taper
Speaker 2: to a shower late on. It's also another windy one
Speaker 2: with a high around forty eight. Windy but dry for Sunday,
Speaker 2: some sun and a high around fifty three. Right now
Speaker 2: in Boston, I'm seeing some light rain. It looks dry
Speaker 2: outside my window. Really a mixed bag out there, and
Speaker 2: we are seeing those steady, chilly breezes out there. Eighteen
Speaker 2: miles an hour is what I'm seeing, eleven oh five
Speaker 2: right now. The Justice Department is calling for Google to
Speaker 2: sell off Google Chrome.
Speaker 4: Chrome is a major revenue generator for Google at its
Speaker 4: parent company Alphabet forty nine billion dollars in the third
Speaker 4: quarter alone, but federal regulators in at least one court
Speaker 4: have said that the browser gives Google an unfair advantage
Speaker 4: over its competitors. In a statement, Google says the DOJ
Speaker 4: demand for a Chrome spinoff represents unprecedented government overreach.
Speaker 2: That is ABC's Jim Ryan reporting. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea
Speaker 2: Campbell has now joined a multi state coalition in calling
Speaker 2: for the selloff. The International Criminal Court has issued warrants
Speaker 2: for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Speaker 2: his former defense minister, along with Hamas Leader. They're accused
Speaker 2: of war crimes in the war and Gaza and, in
Speaker 2: the case of the Hamas Leader, the October seventh massacre
Speaker 2: of last year. CBS as Linda Gradstein says, Israel is
Speaker 2: now firing back.
Speaker 5: Writing on X, Israeli Foreign Minister Guidonsar called it a
Speaker 5: dark moment for the ICC in the Hague and said
Speaker 5: it lost all legitimacy for its existence and activity. He
Speaker 5: said the ICC acted as a political tool in the
Speaker 5: service of what he called extreme terrorists. Israel says the
Speaker 5: court does not have jurisdiction to issue the arrest warrants
Speaker 5: against Nittanyahu and the recently fired Defense Minister Yoev Golland.
Speaker 2: To be clear, Israel does not recognize the International Criminal Court,
Speaker 2: nor does the US. A big name in the Wooster
Speaker 2: restaurant scene is accused of assaulting an activists as the
Speaker 2: city Council met Tuesday night, The Telegram reports screaming could
Speaker 2: be heard outside the chamber as local progressive organizer David
Speaker 2: Webb was targeted with black spray paint across his face.
Speaker 2: Belisa identified the suspect as John Piccolow. He's the owner
Speaker 2: of Piccolo's Italian on Shrewsbury Street. There is a warrant
Speaker 2: out for Piccolo's arrest. As of the latest we do
Speaker 2: not know if that arrest has been made. He's facing
Speaker 2: a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Don't even
Speaker 2: think about singing a if you're planning on seeing Wicked
Speaker 2: this weekend.
Speaker 6: Popular AMC theaters will play a reminder before every Wicked,
Speaker 6: showing that silence is golden screens. We'll call for no talking, texting, singing,
Speaker 6: wailing or flirting. A spokesperson says it's part of the
Speaker 6: chain's long standing policy prohibiting disruptive behavior, something this early
Speaker 6: TikTok viewer can go along with.
Speaker 2: Not only were people singing like at the top of
Speaker 2: their lungs, but what was almost worse as people whisper
Speaker 2: singing and their timing was off.
Speaker 6: Universal will offer interactive sing along screenings at Christmas Time.
Speaker 6: Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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