Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news fifty
Speaker 1: seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. As the year comes to
Speaker 1: a close. It's time to celebrate, but the City of
Speaker 1: Boston wants you to do it safely and not take
Speaker 1: matters into your own hands, like blowing things up.
Speaker 2: Preparations are at full steam ahead of Boston's typically raucous
Speaker 2: First Night's celebrations. City officials like Mayor Michelle Woo are
Speaker 2: out with a couple reminders.
Speaker 3: So we want to remind everyone celebrating First Night with
Speaker 3: us that using, selling, or having fireworks is both illegal
Speaker 3: and dangerous.
Speaker 2: Other not goes include public drinking or smoking weed, and
Speaker 2: flying drones over the festivities, which Police Commissioner Michael Cox
Speaker 2: says has become a real problem recently.
Speaker 1: It's more of an issue now because it seems like
Speaker 1: more people have them and they're using them inappropriately. So
Speaker 1: now we need to remind folks.
Speaker 2: The city is set for two rounds of fire works
Speaker 2: into movie twelve hours of events before the clock strikes midden.
Speaker 2: Boston MS Chief Jim Hooley says staying safe on first
Speaker 2: night really just means common curzy and being a good friend.
Speaker 4: Be a good wingman, wingwoman, whatever it is. College buddy
Speaker 4: go off on their own.
Speaker 2: Tea services free after eight pm Tomorrow, with subways running
Speaker 2: till two thirty am. Kyle Schaffel WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: As the year comes to a close, It'll be a
Speaker 1: parade from City Hall Plaza to the Boston Common six
Speaker 1: o'clock Tomorrow night. That leads up to the family fireworks
Speaker 1: over the Common starting at seven, and that midnight fire
Speaker 1: works over the Harbor will cap off the evening. Remembering
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter, the thirty ninth President of the United States
Speaker 1: DOT Sunday, at the age of one hundred. There will
Speaker 1: be remembrances and eventually funeral services for Carter, who served
Speaker 1: a single term as president from nineteen seventy seven until
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. ABC Stephen Portnoy takes up look back.
Speaker 5: The legacy of the Carter administration includes the Departments of
Speaker 5: Energy and Education, both created on Carter's watch. Key government
Speaker 5: reforms were enacted by him in the post Watergate era,
Speaker 5: including the Pfizer Law curving states Carter pardon, Vietnam draft dodgers,
Speaker 5: He oversaw the response to disasters a three mile island
Speaker 5: and Love Canal in Iran. Americans were taken hostage on
Speaker 5: his watch, and an attempted rescue was a deadly failure,
Speaker 5: but the Camp David Accords, which marked peace between Israel
Speaker 5: and Egypt endured.
Speaker 1: Former President Carter's state funeral will be held January ninth
Speaker 1: services at the Washington National Cathedral. The former president is
Speaker 1: expected to lie in state in the rotunda at the
Speaker 1: US capital. President Biden declaring January ninth a National Day
Speaker 1: of mourning. There will be public events in Atlanta, Georgia
Speaker 1: as well, and a private interment is planned in Carter's
Speaker 1: hometown of Plains, Georgia. Local memories of the former president,
Speaker 1: among them Senator Elizabeth Warren, who on ex calls Carter
Speaker 1: a true public servant and peacemaker. Senator Red Markey says
Speaker 1: President Jimmy Carter led with compassion, integrity, and a heroic
Speaker 1: determination to lift humanity's spirit. For some, post Christmas means
Speaker 1: back at home, but for others, they still need to
Speaker 1: get there and corresponded. Rita Foley has more on what
Speaker 1: tra travelers are facing on the roads.
Speaker 6: If you're trying to get somewhere for New Year's Day tomorrow,
Speaker 6: Tuesday might be a good time to be on the
Speaker 6: road in Rex, the data provider says not a lot
Speaker 6: of traffic impact is expected tomorrow or on New Year's
Speaker 6: Day itself, but if you're returning on Thursday, January two,
Speaker 6: the best time to travel by car is before three pm,
Speaker 6: the worst time between four and eight pm. Gas is
Speaker 6: three dollars two cents a gallon today, says the Triple A.
Speaker 6: That's cheaper than a year ago, when it was almost
Speaker 6: three twelve a gallon. Nearly ninety percent of holiday travelers
Speaker 6: are driving to their destinations this year, but Triple A
Speaker 6: expects almost eight million passengers to travel by air. I'm rida,
Speaker 6: fol Lane.
Speaker 1: We have some clouds that'll be around tonight, but overall
Speaker 1: just a partly cloudy evening. Breezy. Temperature is near forty tomorrow,
Speaker 1: not quite as mild as today, but pretty mild by
Speaker 1: late December standards fifty for the high sun'll give way
Speaker 1: to clouds and as we head into first night times
Speaker 1: around the city, we will probably stay dry most of
Speaker 1: the time. However, toward midnight and timings everything. We'll get
Speaker 1: some rain starting to arrive and continuing overnight into the
Speaker 1: first part of twenty twenty five. Temperatures at midnight Tomorrow
Speaker 1: night forty five, dropping into about forty Temperatures on Wednesday
Speaker 1: get into the upper forties with the rain coming to
Speaker 1: an end and the clouds hanging around. Thursday will break
Speaker 1: out some sunshine, Temperatures about forty two right now fifty
Speaker 1: seven degrees in Boston. Rhode Islanders are being encouraged to
Speaker 1: protect their identity. Wz's Brook McCarthy explains why.
Speaker 3: Earlier this month, the state of Rhode Island learned about
Speaker 3: a major cyber attack impacting their health and human service benefits,
Speaker 3: and now they say cyber criminals have released the information
Speaker 3: of some Rhode Islanders onto the dark web.
Speaker 4: Contents of those files are still being analyzed by experts.
Speaker 4: Identifying what is in those files is a complex process.
Speaker 3: Governor Dan McKee says they're working to generate a list
Speaker 3: of those in impacted by the attack. They're still encouraging
Speaker 3: residents that use services like Snap, Rhode Island Works and
Speaker 3: Medicaid to monitor their credit and request for fraud alerts.
Speaker 3: The governor says he understands that this is concerning.
Speaker 4: Making sure that benefits are not interrupted, making sure that
Speaker 4: people understand how to identify, you know, protect their identity.
Speaker 4: And then the third issue is getting back online as
Speaker 4: quickly as we can.
Speaker 3: Brook McCarthy, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: President elected Donald Trump is endorsing House Speaker Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: to stay in his role. In a truth social post,
Speaker 1: the President elect calls Johnson a good, hard working religious
Speaker 1: man and says he will do the right thing and
Speaker 1: we will continue to win. The endorsement coming as the
Speaker 1: House is set to vote for the speaker on Friday.
Speaker 1: You would think there would be consensus when it comes
Speaker 1: to the word of the year, but there isn't. Multiple
Speaker 1: outlets have spoken differently.
Speaker 7: Dictionary dot com says the twenty twenty four word of
Speaker 7: the year is demure after a social media creator described
Speaker 7: how to use the term in different settings, some in agreement.
Speaker 2: Demur. I don't know. I just love the word demir.
Speaker 3: I call it. I think it was probably the word.
Speaker 3: It was definitely the word of the summer.
Speaker 1: Demir was not my word. It was amazing and grateful.
Speaker 7: Meantime, Miriam Webster says the words most searched this year
Speaker 7: include polarization, along with totality and demure. Oxford University surveyed
Speaker 7: thirty seven thousand people, with respondents helping to choose brain
Speaker 7: rot as the word of twenty twenty four. I'm Natalie mcgliori.
Speaker 1: It is college football Bowl Season one bowl game is
Speaker 1: being played today. It's this afternoon as Iowa takes on
Speaker 1: number nineteen Missouri at the Music City Bowl in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Coming up toward the half, Iowa leeds Missouri twenty one
Speaker 1: to fourteen. Missouri finished the regular season with a record
Speaker 1: of nine and three. One of those wins was silver
Speaker 1: Boston College in September. Iowa a record of eight and
Speaker 1: four when its last two regular season games, including a
Speaker 1: win over Nebraska, who beat BC in the Pinstride Bowl
Speaker 1: this weekend. Call it six degrees of Boston College. You
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