Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio re defining local.
Speaker 2: News thirty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good
Speaker 2: afternoon on Ben Parker, Here's what's happening. The suspect in
Speaker 2: the deadly shooting of an insurance executive in Manhattan last
Speaker 2: week fight sex tradition. Back to New York.
Speaker 3: CBS News special report, the accused killer of United Healthcare
Speaker 3: CEO will remain jailed in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He's fighting his
Speaker 3: extradition in New York and just says CBS News legal anols,
Speaker 3: theaned Rosenbaum.
Speaker 4: ANGIONI was denied bail. No surprise there. It doesn't matter
Speaker 4: that he has no criminal record. He has already demonstrated
Speaker 4: he has a flight risk, and he has wanted for
Speaker 4: what might be first degree premeditated murder.
Speaker 3: CBS is anti Chector on the evidence police found when
Speaker 3: they arrested Luigi Mangione.
Speaker 5: The clothing that was found on his person in Altoona,
Speaker 5: Pennsylvania matched that of what the shooter was wearing, so
Speaker 5: there's fat. He also presented the local police with this
Speaker 5: very same fake New Jersey driver's license that he used
Speaker 5: to check into that hostel on the.
Speaker 1: Upper West Side.
Speaker 3: They also found three handwritten pages verre Mangioni acknowledges his
Speaker 3: actions and describes his anger at corporate America. CBS News
Speaker 3: special report I'm Peter King and police in the Big
Speaker 3: Apple have examined writings of the accused killer.
Speaker 6: Luigi Mangioni's handwritten notes talk about his disdain for corporate America,
Speaker 6: in particular the healthcare industry, says NYPD Chief of Detectives
Speaker 6: Joseph Kenney.
Speaker 3: To ABC New He.
Speaker 6: States, how we are the number one most expensive healthcare
Speaker 6: system in the world, yet the life expectancy of an
Speaker 6: American is ranked forty two in the world. NYPD Commissioner
Speaker 6: Jessica Tish says Mangioni's gun and suppressor looks similar to
Speaker 6: the one used in the attack, and his driver's license,
Speaker 6: a fake one from New Jersey, was the one used
Speaker 6: to check into a Manhattan hostel that.
Speaker 2: Is ABC's Chuck Siegertson. Shrewsbury police say a high school
Speaker 2: student reported that she was grabbed by an older man
Speaker 2: on her way home from school. The Shrewsbury School superintendent
Speaker 2: says the student was walking on a path toward Cherry
Speaker 2: Hill with another student when the unknown man grabbed her.
Speaker 2: Police say the student described the man as in his
Speaker 2: fifties or sixties and that he let her go and
Speaker 2: fled when she reacted. Officials didn't find anyone in their
Speaker 2: sorts of the area. They are increasing patrols, however, and
Speaker 2: police are asking anyone with information to give them a call.
Speaker 2: President Biden touting his economic progress during a speech in Washington,
Speaker 2: planning to pass the torch to the next administration.
Speaker 7: The President says his economic playbook of building the economy
Speaker 7: from the middle out and the bottom up was a
Speaker 7: recipe for success.
Speaker 8: Most economists degree the new administration is going to inherit
Speaker 8: a fairly strong economy, at least at the moment.
Speaker 7: Biden says, the fundamental transformation has created a strong foundation
Speaker 7: for the future.
Speaker 8: As my profound hope that the new administration will preserve
Speaker 8: and build on this progress.
Speaker 7: The President also warned against the incoming administration's plans to
Speaker 7: impose major tariffs, saying, in his view, it would be
Speaker 7: a major mistake. Lindy Canyon, CBS News.
Speaker 2: The White House the Healy administration handing out sixteen million
Speaker 2: dollars in grants to support clean energy initiatives in affordable housing.
Speaker 2: This is the third round of awards through the Climate
Speaker 2: Ready Housing Program, helping affordable housing properties across eight Massachusetts
Speaker 2: communities significantly reduce their energy use. The governor says this
Speaker 2: round of funding goes even further toward lowering emissions, which
Speaker 2: reduces costs for Massachusetts residence and she says is good
Speaker 2: for the environment and our health. We do have some
Speaker 2: low clouds, rounds and fog this afternoon, and we have
Speaker 2: the wind and rain coming, but as of right now,
Speaker 2: we're just dealing with a little bit of drizzle in
Speaker 2: a few places. Thing is it is below freezing in
Speaker 2: some spot, so some of that drizzle could be making
Speaker 2: roads and certainly sidewalks untreated areas a little bit slick.
Speaker 2: Something to be aware of as we head into the evening.
Speaker 2: Although later tonight we are going to see territories rise
Speaker 2: through the forties and eventually land in the sixties tomorrow,
Speaker 2: So tonight rain gets in here toward midnight, it will
Speaker 2: be steadier overnight, and then it could come down pretty
Speaker 2: heavily at times during the day, especially late in the
Speaker 2: day tomorrow, and some of that heavy rain could cause
Speaker 2: as you would expect some ponding on roadways, and some
Speaker 2: flooding in low lying and port drainage areas. The wind
Speaker 2: that is going to be a big issue as well.
Speaker 2: It could lead to some power outages across the region.
Speaker 2: Fifty to sixty mile an hour wind gusts near the
Speaker 2: coast and even a little bit higher as you head
Speaker 2: down toward the Cape and islands. There is a high
Speaker 2: wind warning that goes into effect tomorrow afternoon. It stays
Speaker 2: windy tomorrow night, the rain gets out of here, skis
Speaker 2: will actually start to partially clear. Temperatures in the upper
Speaker 2: thirties mid forties with some sunshine and wind on Thursday,
Speaker 2: plenty of sunshine. Friday, it'll be chilly, not as harsh,
Speaker 2: though the winds died down thirty seven. The high temperature
Speaker 2: on Friday looks like an okay weekend coming up. It's
Speaker 2: thirty two degrees right now. In Boston, the plan to
Speaker 2: hike property taxes on commercial buildings in Boston to spare
Speaker 2: residential homeowners is dead at the State House. Some of
Speaker 2: the busas Mike Macklin tells us there's no agreement and
Speaker 2: has more on what could or should happen next.
Speaker 9: Mayor Michelle Wo's controversial proposal would have increased the property
Speaker 9: tax burden on the city's business community to spare residential
Speaker 9: homeowners from what Wo warned would be a catastrophic tax increase.
Speaker 9: But her plan died in the State Senate, where the
Speaker 9: State Revenue Department shot holes through the fiscal numbers. Her
Speaker 9: proposal was based.
Speaker 10: On the numbers that were provided to city councilors and
Speaker 10: state senators. Was inaccurate and I'm being polite.
Speaker 9: Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn says he wants the State
Speaker 9: Inspector General to conduct an independent investigation into the mayor's
Speaker 9: tax revenue figures.
Speaker 10: We have to make sure that we are providing the
Speaker 10: most relevant, inaccurate data so elected officials can make the
Speaker 10: best decisions.
Speaker 9: Clinton says what the city needs to do is cut
Speaker 9: spending before raising taxes at city Hall. Mike mclin WBZ
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Speaker 2: Two weeks from tomorrow is Christmas. A day after that,
Speaker 2: we'll start the Christmas returns, and there'll be a lot
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: A new report by the National Retail Federation and return
Speaker 1: management company Happy Returns expects this year's returns to reach
Speaker 1: seventeen percent of all merchandise sales, making for eight hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety million dollars in return to products. The return
Speaker 1: rate in twenty twenty three was at fifteen percent, which
Speaker 1: totaled seven hundred and forty three billion dollars. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 2: Just give me cash. I won't return it. Promise you
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