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Speaker 1: Grace Guys forty one in Boston. We've had some on
Speaker 1: and off showers out there. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning.
Speaker 1: I'm Laurie Kirby. But we started Fitchburgh this hour, where
Speaker 1: a police officer is on administrative leave while officials investigative
Speaker 1: police involved shooting. Fitchburg police say a shirtless man was
Speaker 1: making suicidal remarks walking on Lunenberg Street yesterday morning. When
Speaker 1: an officer tried to de escalate the situation, the man
Speaker 1: allegedly pointed a gun directly at them. That's when the
Speaker 1: officer shot him. The man was taken to the hospital
Speaker 1: where he is now in stable condition. Robert F. Kennedy,
Speaker 1: Junior President elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department
Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services, on Capitol Hill today and
Speaker 1: meeting with Republican Senators Mary Bruce, says there's a big
Speaker 1: focus on his views on vaccines.
Speaker 3: For years, Kennedy has spread false theories about vaccines, claiming
Speaker 3: they're not safe and effective, even though most of the
Speaker 3: vaccines used today have been used safely for decades. In fact,
Speaker 3: vaccines are considered one of the greatest public health accomplishments
Speaker 3: of modern medicine. Still, Kennedy's personal attorney once lobbied the
Speaker 3: FDA to revoke the polio vaccine. Over the weekend, Republican
Speaker 3: leader Mitch McConnell, a survivor of polio, with a blunt warning,
Speaker 3: saying efforts to undermine public confidence and proven cures are
Speaker 3: not just uninformed, they're dangerous.
Speaker 1: Democratic candidates are lining up to become the next DNC chair.
Speaker 1: ABC's Brittany Shepherd is in Washington well the.
Speaker 4: Election to replace outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison
Speaker 4: is in full swing. The race for vice chair is
Speaker 4: also heating up. Twenty four year old David Hogg, March
Speaker 4: for Our Lives co founder and Parkland School shooting survivor,
Speaker 4: is running for DNC vice chair. Hogg believes a party
Speaker 4: needs to grapple with your message failings and take more
Speaker 4: direct accountability. If elected, he would be one of the
Speaker 4: youngest members of DNC leadership. Brittany Shepherd ABC News.
Speaker 1: Washington concessions are flowing a td garden after workers vote
Speaker 1: to approve a new contract. Wbz's James Rojas is at
Speaker 1: the garden with details.
Speaker 5: The union representing six hundred concession workers at TD Garden
Speaker 5: says they feel relieved yet energized following the vote to
Speaker 5: approve a contract. This comes after what it calls months
Speaker 5: of grueling negotiations between them and Delaware North's hardline stances
Speaker 5: and demands for concessions. UFCW Local fourteen forty five says
Speaker 5: while there were some aspects of the contract still to
Speaker 5: be desired, a close vote in favor led to the
Speaker 5: contract's ratification on Sunday, ensuring better benefits for workers and
Speaker 5: that fans coming to the garden get their concession favorites
Speaker 5: at the garden. James Rojas WBZ, Boston's News radio.
Speaker 1: You know, it was raining and now it looks like
Speaker 1: the sun is trying to come out. I don't see
Speaker 1: some in this forecast at all. Thirty nine in the
Speaker 1: northwest part of the state, forty seven on the Capan
Speaker 1: Islands Boston. Right now forty one, we could still see
Speaker 1: some on and off light showers. Then later tonight midnight
Speaker 1: we could see some heavier rain and lingering showers. First
Speaker 1: thing tomorrow morning, it's going to feel almost bomby. We're
Speaker 1: headed for sixty tomorrow very mild and breaks of sun
Speaker 1: much more in the rest of the week stick around.
Speaker 1: So while investigators work to figure out who's controlling mysterious
Speaker 1: drones buzzing around the nation. Boston Police make an arrest
Speaker 1: of their own over the weekend, and police a Robert
Speaker 1: Duffy of Charlestown and Jeremy Fulchik of Bridgewater. We're flying
Speaker 1: drones too close to Logan Airport airspace. Both men are
Speaker 1: being charged with trespassing. Additional fines or charges could be
Speaker 1: added now they track that drone to the shuttered Long
Speaker 1: Island Health Campus. It hasn't been an operation for quite
Speaker 1: a while. They were hiding inside. Suspect they believe fled
Speaker 1: by boat. You're remindered you should not be flying near
Speaker 1: airports or military bases, but there's a growing number of
Speaker 1: drone sidings being reported all the way from Sacramento to here.
Speaker 1: New Jersey and New York have been experiencing the phenom
Speaker 1: for weeks. Senator Chuck Schumer s's US agency should use
Speaker 1: advanced tech to identify the mystery drones.
Speaker 6: Senator Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to deploy
Speaker 6: better drone tracking technology and says he is pushing for
Speaker 6: new legislation.
Speaker 2: What a co sponsor legislation that will combat these drones
Speaker 2: in a better way by allowing local police departments and
Speaker 2: state police departments to help the FEDS inciting these drones.
Speaker 6: The FBI says it's processing roughly five thousand drone related tips,
Speaker 6: but less than one hundred have generated credible leads.
Speaker 1: You know, there was an international airport about an hour
Speaker 1: tid of Manhattan, small one they had to close down
Speaker 1: over the weekend. I was listening in because of these
Speaker 1: drones getting into the airspace. And of course we finally
Speaker 1: heard from Governor Healley over the weekend who said she's
Speaker 1: aware of the growing number of drone sidings across our
Speaker 1: state and monitoring the situation closely. She said state police
Speaker 1: are working with local and federal agencies as well. We
Speaker 1: also heard from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcis, who says
Speaker 1: the drones pose no threat and if they learn of
Speaker 1: any cause for concern, they will be transparent with communication.
Speaker 1: A team of young astronomers at Wellesley College make a
Speaker 1: wondrous discovery a new galaxy and it looks a lot
Speaker 1: like our Milky Way, glittering with star clusters ten distinct
Speaker 1: star clusters. They named it Firefly Sparkle. Images from NASA's
Speaker 1: James Webb Space Telescope still doing its job well say
Speaker 1: the galaxy was actually taking shape around six hundred million
Speaker 1: years after the Big Bang, around in the same time
Speaker 1: that our own galaxy was beginning to take shait. The
Speaker 1: discovery was published in the journal Nature. From the junk
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Speaker 7: A crazy new food combination is snowballing on TikTok wow
Speaker 7: dummy bears doused in sprite, refrigerated, then frozen overnight without
Speaker 7: the liquid.
Speaker 1: WHOA, Oh my gosh, this is crazy.
Speaker 7: It's so big, a double in size as they morph
Speaker 7: into many popsicles. One fan gush is there's something extremely
Speaker 7: satisfying to the brain about the little pops the bears
Speaker 7: meet during osmosis. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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