Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Sonny in twenty one degrees in Boston. The real field
Speaker 2: temp seven degrees. It's eleven o'clock. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2: I'm Sherry Small. Let's get you caught up. A lot
Speaker 2: going on. Here's what's happening. We are now just one
Speaker 2: hour away from President Elecdonald Trump's inauguration for his second
Speaker 2: term as president, and this morning President Biden greeted mister
Speaker 2: Trump at the White House, saying, quote, welcome home. Now
Speaker 2: they've both arrived at the US Capitol where mister Trump
Speaker 2: will be sworn in as forty seventh president. We will
Speaker 2: take that swearing in ceremony live here on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Keep it with us, or you can take us anywhere
Speaker 2: on the go with the new iHeartRadio app. President Biden
Speaker 2: has issued pardons for doctor Anthony Fauci and retired General
Speaker 2: Mark Milly, along with the entire House MIDI that investigated
Speaker 2: the January sixth attack on the Capitol. Here's ABC's Karen
Speaker 2: Travers with more on the last minute executive action.
Speaker 3: Doctor Anthony Faunci tells ABC he accepts the pardon from
Speaker 3: President Biden. And is grateful for it, but he emphasized
Speaker 3: that he committed no crimes. Fauci did say to ABC
Speaker 3: the threats and possibility of prosecution quote creates immeasurable and
Speaker 3: intolerable distress on me and my family. Throughout his campaign,
Speaker 3: President elect Donald Trump vowed to exact retribution on his
Speaker 3: political enemies. Fauncy faced intense scrutiny and vitriol for the
Speaker 3: government's response to the COVID nineteen pandemic. Karen Traver's ABC News,
Speaker 3: the White House.
Speaker 2: And President LEC. Trump also hoping to get things done today.
Speaker 2: He's expected to sign a number of executive orders today,
Speaker 2: many of them aimed at changing America's immigration policies. A
Speaker 2: blanket of snow restsover Boston on this Martin Luther King
Speaker 2: Junior Day. The National Weather Service says that most of
Speaker 2: mainline massachusettot between four and six inches of snow. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of shoveling going on in Boston this morning.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Jay will Lett is out there surveying the scene.
Speaker 4: Bust out the snow brushes. It's a snow day in
Speaker 4: Boston without the canceled class thanks to the holiday.
Speaker 5: I expect the mark, but I think I was expecting
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 4: For snow cruise. It's touch and go on. Whether Mother
Speaker 4: Nature delivered on the forecast. Is this what you guys
Speaker 4: are expecting today at all?
Speaker 5: Kind of blew away? I think I don't know, not
Speaker 5: really much.
Speaker 4: They're shoveling and salting the sidewalks. Meantime, plows sit at
Speaker 4: every corner in the city, going great, and it's going great.
Speaker 4: It's not as much as expected, but just keep salting.
Speaker 5: And you know what I mean plowing with is a
Speaker 5: little snow and not much accumulation at all.
Speaker 4: Though the technique is to make periodic rounds so that
Speaker 4: every inch of asphalt is clear. In Boston. J Willett WBZ,
Speaker 4: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Now the four day WBC ACU weather forecast. All right,
Speaker 2: we can sum it up in two words, blustery cold.
Speaker 2: I was seeing some sunshine today in Boston, but still
Speaker 2: very cold. High's twenty seven degrees. Those real field temps
Speaker 2: they're going to hover mainly in the single digits today,
Speaker 2: So don't be fooled by that sunshine. If you're warm
Speaker 2: and inside looking out the window, it is really chilly
Speaker 2: out there tonight. It'll drop down to fourteen degrees. Real
Speaker 2: fields in the single digits and below zero, depending on
Speaker 2: where you are. Tuesday mainly cloudy, highs about nineteen to
Speaker 2: twenty three, not much different on Wednesday, highs once again
Speaker 2: around twenty decreasing cloudiness on Wednesday. Thursday, we'll see some
Speaker 2: partial sun and we'll warm all the way up to
Speaker 2: twenty eight degrees. It's twenty one right now in Boston.
Speaker 2: We are seeing the sun, but the real field temp
Speaker 2: is seven degrees at eleven o five. On this Monday,
Speaker 2: Quincy celebrated Martin Luther King Junior Day with a breakfast
Speaker 2: at the Terrell Room. It's WBCs and Sauceville.
Speaker 6: Norfolk County. Sheriff Patrick McDermott was shoveling snow when he
Speaker 6: got a call saying the person who was supposed to
Speaker 6: sing the national anthem was sick and couldn't make it.
Speaker 6: He stepped up, Oh see can you see.
Speaker 5: By the dolls lie?
Speaker 6: Then a prayer by Reverend Matt Thomas, inspired by MLK.
Speaker 5: May we never believe that violence is ever the solution.
Speaker 5: May we live in harmony with one another. May we
Speaker 5: challenge an oppressive system that marginalizes some while privileging others.
Speaker 6: Then the keynote speaker former Boston Police Commissioner Willie Gross,
Speaker 6: who says MLK understood as we all must that we're
Speaker 6: all God's children.
Speaker 1: You look around this room, We're going to see all
Speaker 1: God's children, all ethnicities. We all built this nation. We
Speaker 1: should all be treated the same. Equality, civil rights, human rights.
Speaker 6: In Quincy Suzanne so Osville, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Embrace Boston held its third annual Embrace Honors MLK event
Speaker 2: last night to add Big Night Live. Governor morrahally among
Speaker 2: the hundreds of attendees.
Speaker 7: It's always such an important day and important weekend. I
Speaker 7: think this year especially, it's so important that people come together,
Speaker 7: enjoy and in support of all that is good, and
Speaker 7: so to be here tonight to recognize and help honor
Speaker 7: some fantastic people, couldn't have a better way to begin Mlkday.
Speaker 2: And among those honored for continuing the work of doctor
Speaker 2: Martin Luther King Junior and Coretta Scott King were former
Speaker 2: Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker, and Governor
Speaker 2: Deval Patrick and First Lady Diane Patrick, among some others.
Speaker 2: Award winning journalist Ed Bell has passed away. Bell was
Speaker 2: the news director here at WBZ News Radio back in
Speaker 2: the seventies, overseeing groundbreaking stories like the segregation of Boston
Speaker 2: schools and other stories. Bell also later served as news
Speaker 2: director for WHDH radio and then the Associated Press in Boston.
Speaker 2: He also founded the weekly publication Marblehead. Current funeral arrangements
Speaker 2: have not yet been announced. At Bell was eighty four
Speaker 2: years old. You are now in the loop for news
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Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio