Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio.
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Speaker 1: News fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: night' Ben Parker, Here's what's happening. Batten down the hatches
Speaker 1: and batten down the Christmas decorations if you don't, Lasanta,
Speaker 1: my friend could be blowing in the wind.
Speaker 3: Roughly round four, perhaps even five pm. The very latest
Speaker 3: is going to be the onset through about midnight. At
Speaker 3: the latest overnight tonight, I think about tia two am,
Speaker 3: we start to see a lot of the activity begin
Speaker 3: to sort of wind down.
Speaker 1: Gay to CBS News Boston meteorologist Jason Michael, we do
Speaker 1: have a high wind warning up until one o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, and the rain overspreading the area. Some will
Speaker 1: come down heavily. We'll get you caught up coming up
Speaker 1: in just a few minutes with traffic and weather together.
Speaker 1: There are more updates on the shooting of the United
Speaker 1: Healthcare CEO. Brian Thompson, the New York City Police Commissioner,
Speaker 1: says the gun found on shooting south back to Luigi Maggioni.
Speaker 1: Matches shellcasings that were found at the crime scene. Lisa
Speaker 1: so say Mangioni's fingerprints match prints on items also found
Speaker 1: at the crime scene. The shooting is also increasing threats
Speaker 1: against sitting corporate executives, since the.
Speaker 4: Top United healthcare officers, killing corporate heads potentially face harassment
Speaker 4: and violence, says a law enforcement bulletin gotten by ABC News.
Speaker 4: It says many social media users have urged more killings
Speaker 4: of company officials, some posting hit lists. The bulletin includes
Speaker 4: photos of a banner draped on a highway overpass that
Speaker 4: includes the words deny, defend, depose, the same words police
Speaker 4: said were found on shell casings at the scene of
Speaker 4: Brian Thompson's murder.
Speaker 1: At his ABC's Chuck siewerts in days after her arrest,
Speaker 1: the Boston City Councilor Tamya Fernandez Anderson is responding to
Speaker 1: calls for her to resign. WBC's Madison Rodgers has the story.
Speaker 5: Counselor Tanya Fernandez Anderson says she's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: I can focus on my work.
Speaker 5: Despite Mayor Wu's argument that the federal corruption case she's
Speaker 5: facing will prevent her from being effective. Prosecutors say the
Speaker 5: counselor took seven thousand dollars in taxpayer cash after paying
Speaker 5: out a thirteen thousand dollars bonus to a relative. She
Speaker 5: wouldn't say if she maintains innocence.
Speaker 2: That is not something you talk on, right.
Speaker 1: Let's allow to process.
Speaker 6: Let's go through that process, and when it's time to speak,
Speaker 6: then we speak.
Speaker 5: For some residents like Michelle, that's enough. I think that
Speaker 5: people are innocent until they're proven guilty.
Speaker 2: It's her decision as to whether she wants to go
Speaker 2: through that.
Speaker 5: The councilor has surrendered her passport and she's been assigned
Speaker 5: to public defender, facing counts of wire fraud and a
Speaker 5: betting theft at city Hall. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 5: News Radio.
Speaker 1: Going somewhere for the holidays. Buckle up, It's going to
Speaker 1: be busy.
Speaker 7: Are you traveling for the holidays? Triple A expects more
Speaker 7: than one hundred and nineteen million of US will this year.
Speaker 7: Christmas is on a Wednesday. Triple A is expecting record
Speaker 7: breaking numbers the weekend before Christmas Day and the weekend after.
Speaker 7: Of course, most of us will go buy car, but
Speaker 7: air travel is expected to set a new record this
Speaker 7: holiday season, with seven point eight million passengers. A Triple
Speaker 7: A spokesperson says this is the time of year when
Speaker 7: lifelong memories are made with loved ones, and travel plays
Speaker 7: a big role on that.
Speaker 1: I'm readA foley the rain falling and the wind blowing
Speaker 1: and some of those wind gusts depending on where you are,
Speaker 1: in the thirties even forty miles an hour. We've had
Speaker 1: a wind gust of forty seven miles an hour in
Speaker 1: New Bedford. And all of this precipitation in the storm
Speaker 1: pushing up from the south to the north and slightly
Speaker 1: to the east, so we're bringing in more of this precipitation,
Speaker 1: and it's a long line of precipitation down the east coast,
Speaker 1: so plenty of rain to get through as we go
Speaker 1: through the afternoon and into the evening. Eventually overnight it'll
Speaker 1: fade away. There's a high wind warning up until one
Speaker 1: o'clock tomorrow morning, with some of the wind gusts topping
Speaker 1: fifty or sixty miles an hour, and power outages certainly
Speaker 1: could be a concern for some areas. We have a
Speaker 1: few scattered power outages this afternoon, a little over thirty
Speaker 1: two hundred according to the numbers from MIMA. As we
Speaker 1: get into tomorrow, the rain will be gone, the wind
Speaker 1: will not thirty five mile an hour gus not out
Speaker 1: of the question. With mostly sunny skies and temperatures in
Speaker 1: the low forties Friday and Saturday. Look at Okay, it
Speaker 1: will be chilly temperatures mid thirties mainly, but there will
Speaker 1: be plenty of sunshine around. Right now fifty nine degrees
Speaker 1: in Boston. While Honikah doesn't technically start until later this month,
Speaker 1: the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is getting a
Speaker 1: head start and celebrating early with an evening full of fun,
Speaker 1: education and food.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, Honukah, the Festival of Lights, is shining bright
Speaker 2: at the Museum of Fine Arts. A special holiday event
Speaker 2: is set to highlight Jewish culture and identity.
Speaker 8: It's a very exciting opportunity the folks that come into
Speaker 8: the museum and check out some music, dance, and art
Speaker 8: making that kind of highlights this very important cultural celebration.
Speaker 2: That's a Moni Vieira, the manager of Public Programs at
Speaker 2: the MFA.
Speaker 8: There is an opportunity or program for folks of all ages.
Speaker 8: We like to call it to choose your own adventure.
Speaker 2: An everything from face painting to photography, exhibits, seminars, to
Speaker 2: special tours, and a resource fair too featuring local Jewish organizations.
Speaker 8: Folks have the opportunity to hear about the programs that
Speaker 8: they offer so that those organizations can also have a
Speaker 8: wider reach.
Speaker 2: And in hopes of getting everyone involved, the MFA is
Speaker 2: cutting in mission prices down to just five bucks throughout
Speaker 2: the event. On Thursday night, Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Some workers at TD Garden are considering going on strike.
Speaker 1: The globes as concession workers who staff the pizza stalls
Speaker 1: and beer taps at the garden will decide whether to
Speaker 1: take a strike on Sunday. After three months of union
Speaker 1: contract negotiations. The union says requests for better pay, better
Speaker 1: retirement benefits, pay and more protections have been ignored. The
Speaker 1: ice cream for ice cream you hear coming from the
Speaker 1: North Shore is for an ice cream joint that everyone's
Speaker 1: screaming for the including those across the country. Has It's
Speaker 1: made waves at a national level.
Speaker 6: Pullycow ice Cream on the North Shore Notch is another win.
Speaker 6: They've been named an ice cream grand Master by the
Speaker 6: committee that deals with these things.
Speaker 9: I think there's only like a dozen coming into this
Speaker 9: year in the entire country.
Speaker 6: The award means national recognition for ice cream par excellence.
Speaker 6: As a cherry on top, they took home another win
Speaker 6: for their Pistachio bacla baf flavor. That's the third dub
Speaker 6: in a row.
Speaker 9: It's a honey and fused pistachio butter ice cream with
Speaker 9: bits of pistachio toffee and crispy bits of Philo do.
Speaker 6: I asked founder of Mike Shafino how he keeps doing it.
Speaker 6: He's had a constant stream of wacky, wonderful flavors of
Speaker 6: the lifeblood of a store that operates around the calendar.
Speaker 9: We kind of have to keep things fresh and keep
Speaker 9: people coming in to get the new stuff.
Speaker 6: The chain of cafes here on the North Shore are
Speaker 6: open all year round, even in the dead of winter.
Speaker 6: Kyle schaffeld to be busy. Boston's News Radio.
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