Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio re defining local news.
Speaker 2: Fifty two degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. I'm Kyle Bray,
Speaker 2: and here's what's happening. It's the eve of New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2: Alongside Mayor Michelle wu and other city leaders, Boston Elise
Speaker 2: Commissioner Michael Cox says, they're ready for a safe and
Speaker 2: exciting celebration.
Speaker 3: Come in act responsibly, behave responsibly during first night. It's
Speaker 3: the festive time. But this is a time for families
Speaker 3: and kids and to enjoy the first night. And you know,
Speaker 3: don't you know, violate any rules or regulations, because it's
Speaker 3: the law enforcement to hear to hold you accountable if
Speaker 3: you do. That's the main thing that we're really concerned.
Speaker 3: We're not overly concerned about a threat or anything of
Speaker 3: that nature.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Drew mulholland has more on what we can expect
Speaker 2: this year in the city.
Speaker 4: As you can imagine, a lot goes into First Night festivities,
Speaker 4: which go down it's City Hall for the second year
Speaker 4: in a row here in Boston. Last year there was
Speaker 4: a massive crowd and no major incidents. Mayor Michelle Woo
Speaker 4: says let's strive for that again. Safety preps. They've been
Speaker 4: in the makings for months. Some three hundred thousand people
Speaker 4: flocked to the city, ice, sculptures, fireworks, the whole deal.
Speaker 4: It is a family affair. Festivities began as early as
Speaker 4: noon at City Hall, so you can get in there early.
Speaker 4: Maybe some of you are long gone before midnight. That'd
Speaker 4: be me Happy New Year, Drew Mohall and WBZ Boston's
Speaker 4: news radio.
Speaker 2: Tributes continue to pour in from around the world for
Speaker 2: former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at his home
Speaker 2: Sunday at one hundred years old. Here's CBS's at O'Keefe.
Speaker 5: World leaders also weighed in. King Charles first met Carter
Speaker 5: as a young prince in nineteen seventy seven, said his
Speaker 5: dedication and humility served as an inspiration to many. The
Speaker 5: President of Cuba, a country Carter visited several times, said
Speaker 5: his country will remember with gratitude his efforts to improve relations.
Speaker 5: His visits to Cuba got his calls for the release
Speaker 5: of imprisoned Cubans in the United States.
Speaker 2: Pope Francis released a statement commending Carter's commitment to the
Speaker 2: cause of reconciliation and peace between peoples, the defense of
Speaker 2: human rights and the welfare of the poor and those
Speaker 2: in need. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Jidrou called Carter's legacy
Speaker 2: one of compassion, kindness, empathy and hard work. Time now
Speaker 2: is eleven oh two. Both the Bruins and Celtics are
Speaker 2: off tonight. They'll both be in back in action tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But tonight, on Monday night, football countless Fantasy Football Championship
Speaker 2: games will be decided as the Detroit Lions travel to
Speaker 2: San Francisco to play the forty nine Ers. There's only
Speaker 2: one bowl game in college football today, as Iowa and
Speaker 2: Missouri square off and the Music City Bowl in Nashville.
Speaker 2: The college football and playoff zooms tomorrow with Penn State
Speaker 2: playing Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl and every want
Speaker 2: to play Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl just to
Speaker 2: ask my Oklahoma sooners. Amazon says no more remote work
Speaker 2: in the new year, requiring employees to return to the
Speaker 2: office five days a week.
Speaker 6: Amazon hopes it fosters collaborative teamwork, but according to the
Speaker 6: Seattle Times, some employee these are bracing four long commutes
Speaker 6: and noisy offices. More than five hundred employees from Amazon
Speaker 6: Web Services sent a letter in October to CEO Matt Garman,
Speaker 6: urging him to restore the flexibility of remote work. The
Speaker 6: letter came days after Garman told workers that there are
Speaker 6: other companies around if employees don't want to return.
Speaker 2: I'm Monica Nelson coming up. Local homeless shelters are getting
Speaker 2: a boost in funding. Now. It's time for the four
Speaker 2: d a wbz ACU weather forecast from meteorologist Heather's there. So
Speaker 2: that rain that we saw this morning is starting to
Speaker 2: move out into the sea eastward, and it's going to
Speaker 2: clear out otherwise the clowns will start to break forth
Speaker 2: some sun hive around fifty seven. Tonight will be clear
Speaker 2: to party, clowny, breezy low near forty. New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: will start to see increasing clouds throughout the day, a
Speaker 2: high in Year fifty and rain will begin as we
Speaker 2: move on into twenty twenty five. The temperature at twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five when it starts will be forty five and
Speaker 2: then dropping to a low forty two. On New Year's Day,
Speaker 2: the rain will be ending early but remaining mostly clowny,
Speaker 2: with eight chilly breeze hive around forty nine the day
Speaker 2: after that. The second day of twenty twenty five will
Speaker 2: be brisk and chillier with clowns and Sunshine Hive around
Speaker 2: forty two. Right now in Boston it is fifty two degrees.
Speaker 2: Homeless shelters on the North Shore get a boost. Here's
Speaker 2: wbz's Jawilllett.
Speaker 1: The assist from Governor Moore Healey's office. Heading into the
Speaker 1: new year, grant money is on the way. More than
Speaker 1: two hundred and ten hundred thousand dollars will help Lifebridge
Speaker 1: Salem get twelve new beds in their winter shelter. There
Speaker 1: will be roughly ten million in supplemental grants going to
Speaker 1: shelters all over the state. Recent reports have found Boston
Speaker 1: is doing a better job of providing shelter for the
Speaker 1: homeless in twenty twenty four after some rough numbers. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Jay Willett, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Neighbors in Northend over lend a helping hand after vandals
Speaker 2: break into a liquor store and wreck the shop. McAloon's
Speaker 2: Liquors is owned by Billy Buco and says police called
Speaker 2: him at around one thirty Sunday morning to report someone
Speaker 2: had vandalized the store and smashed hundreds of bottles. He
Speaker 2: estimates about a quarter of a million dollars worth of
Speaker 2: inventory was destroyed. Once word got out about the mess,
Speaker 2: dozens of people showed up at the store to help
Speaker 2: clean up. He says he's grateful for the community support
Speaker 2: and thankful no one got hurt. North Andover police are
Speaker 2: asking anyone with information about the break in to come forward.
Speaker 2: Tony winning actress and seventy sitcom item Linda Lavin has died.
Speaker 2: Michael Kasner reports.
Speaker 7: The eighty seven year old passed away Sunday at her
Speaker 7: home in Los Angeles from recently discovered lung cancer. Lavin
Speaker 7: enjoyed a long career on Broadway. Starting in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 7: She appeared on the small screen in shows like Barney Miller,
Speaker 7: before taking on the title role in Alice, a show
Speaker 7: about a widowed mom working at a diner in Arizona.
Speaker 7: The show ran for nine seasons through nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 7: She was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in
Speaker 7: twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Haveval City councilors are considering a proposal to build a
Speaker 2: large scale solar farm on Ayer's Hill. The Behavioral Gazette
Speaker 2: says Christopher Anderson of SBI Solar, Inc. Presented a detailed
Speaker 2: proposal to the city council last week. The project claims
Speaker 2: the farm's annual energy output would be equivalent to a
Speaker 2: year's worth of electricity consumed in thirteen hundred homes, and
Speaker 2: during a two decade period, the farm would generate more
Speaker 2: than two million dollars in taxes for the city. The
Speaker 2: installation faces opposition from some Avil residents who are concerned
Speaker 2: about potentially negative effects the farm will have on the
Speaker 2: area's forestry and landscape. Thousands of trees would be removed
Speaker 2: in the process of building the farm. Anderson's lawyer assured
Speaker 2: the council that developers plan to replant more than eleven
Speaker 2: thousand trees after twenty years. You are now in the loop.
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