Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News, beautiful, sunny and Boston. We're in the fifties, headed
Speaker 2: for the sixties. Today at eleven o'clock, Good morning on
Speaker 2: Laurie Kirby, and class is canceled again, kids for thousands
Speaker 2: of you. Educators are back in the picket lines on
Speaker 2: the North Shore after no progress at the negotiating cable
Speaker 2: over the weekend. I believe Hez's James Rohas' is in Beverly.
Speaker 1: Not enough progress is made over the weekend in negotiations
Speaker 1: to call off the strikes in Gloucester, Marblehead and here
Speaker 1: in Beverly. This comes as the school Committee's raise concerns
Speaker 1: about students needing to make up school days when this
Speaker 1: is all said and done. Educators like Caddie Chaconia say
Speaker 1: they don't know how it will be made up.
Speaker 3: Schools in the past have taken away either a February
Speaker 3: or an April break and then tacked on days to
Speaker 3: the end of the school year.
Speaker 1: Says they too want to get back into the classroom,
Speaker 1: and today their students are driving or marching that point home.
Speaker 3: The students with their parents will be marching from Beverly
Speaker 3: High School all the way to City Hall in Beverly.
Speaker 1: James Rojas WBZ Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2: This afternoon, teachers in Revere are rallying at their city
Speaker 2: hall in events of new contract negotiations in Revere. These
Speaker 2: teachers have been working for nearly a year without a contract. Meantime,
Speaker 2: some schools remain closed today and Chelsea after a massive
Speaker 2: warehouse fire breaks out overnight. That building is now in
Speaker 2: danger of falling down collapsing, posing a potential risk to
Speaker 2: schools in the area. Several fire departments came to help
Speaker 2: put the nine alarmer at the four story mill building
Speaker 2: on Crescent Avenue out, but they're going to remain unseen
Speaker 2: knocking down those hot spots, so they'll be there for
Speaker 2: most of the day. We have had some impact on
Speaker 2: the roads in the area as well, so far, no
Speaker 2: injuries reported. Brush Fires continue to burn across the state
Speaker 2: and now Atedinborough Police aid they've arrested a man responsible
Speaker 2: for starting some of them. Seventy two year old Gerard
Speaker 2: Jenness is accused of intentionally setting fires near Attleborough Elks Lodge,
Speaker 2: the Manchester Reservoir and Attleborough Animals Shelter. He's being a
Speaker 2: rain in Attleborough District Court today, and our state Department
Speaker 2: of Fires Services says as of last night, there have
Speaker 2: been one hundred and twenty three brush fires reported over
Speaker 2: the last seven days. It's a beautiful day out there.
Speaker 2: We've had such nice warm weather, but again it's too dry.
Speaker 2: We actually need rainy weather. Some of you saw a
Speaker 2: rain dropper too before that kind of shriveled up very
Speaker 2: quickly and too Hie. Today should be sixty two, but
Speaker 2: I'm seeing right now almost sixty fifty eight in New Bedford,
Speaker 2: fifty eight in Medford, Brockton. Right now you're on the
Speaker 2: cusp of sixty degrees, so we're warming up quickly. I
Speaker 2: anticipate maybe we'll be closer to sixty five. We'll see
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong. Clear breezy tonight forty three in Boston.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow mostly sunny, breezy, high fifty seven ditto on Wednesday, beautiful,
Speaker 2: maybe some rain on Thursday. President elect Donald Trump adds
Speaker 2: to the list of controversial nominees for his new cabinet.
Speaker 2: I'll get to that, but first, the latest on the
Speaker 2: man he wants to serve as his attorney general, which
Speaker 2: is Matt Gates, the former Florida congressman. Some members of
Speaker 2: his own party are raising questions and they want to
Speaker 2: see that report by the House Ethics Committee, which looked
Speaker 2: into accusations of drug use and sexual misconduct.
Speaker 4: ABC News previously reported a woman told the committee Gates
Speaker 4: had sex with her in twenty seventeen when she was
Speaker 4: seventeen years old. Now, another woman's lawyer tells ABC News,
Speaker 4: my client testified to the House Ethics Committee that she
Speaker 4: witnessed Matt Gates having sex with a minor. Gates has
Speaker 4: denied the allegations.
Speaker 2: And we're learning who the incoming administration was to head
Speaker 2: the FCC, Brendan Carr. Brendan Carr, who vowed to take
Speaker 2: on censorship by all the big tech companies like Facebook
Speaker 2: and the like. He just got tapped for that key post.
Speaker 2: Quincy's Granite Links is beautiful. It's considering, though, a huge expansion,
Speaker 2: and it would transform the local golf course into something
Speaker 2: much bigger than what you already see. I believe he's
Speaker 2: he's Jim McKay checked in with the neighbors.
Speaker 5: Some people who live near Granted Links aren't exactly too
Speaker 5: excited to hear about the potential of more expansion and
Speaker 5: more construction, putting.
Speaker 1: A bit a large business on the other end of
Speaker 1: the property.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 5: Bob objecting to the plans for a new hotel and
Speaker 5: expanded residential units at Granted Links. This city owns the property.
Speaker 5: It's leased out to Quarry Hills Associates. They're looking to
Speaker 5: re up their long term lease so they can get
Speaker 5: a project started. Residents who are concerned about local walking trails.
Speaker 2: Here and unfortunately I think they're just doing it for the.
Speaker 5: Money, are worried they may be left behind, despite assurances
Speaker 5: they won't be.
Speaker 4: The state it's to approve the move.
Speaker 5: It's up for discussion this week at Quincy City Council.
Speaker 5: For Bob, we know how he.
Speaker 1: Feels negative for the just the whole thing in Quincy.
Speaker 5: Jimmickada WLYBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Carrot they're supposed to be good for us, right, Well,
Speaker 2: here we go. One person has died and dozens of
Speaker 2: others are ill after eating carrots linked to an E.
Speaker 2: Coli out break, And we have one case in Massachusetts
Speaker 2: at this point in time, and the CDC is issuing
Speaker 2: a recall of organic carrots and organic baby carrots from
Speaker 2: supplier grim Way Farms. There have been nearly forty cases
Speaker 2: of E. Coli reported in eighteen States linked to those
Speaker 2: organic carrots, and they've been sold at stores like Walmart,
Speaker 2: Tarje Whole Foods, and Trader Joe's. If you have a
Speaker 2: bag of carrots you bought anytime from August to mid October,
Speaker 2: health officials say to check that bag. President Biden authorizes
Speaker 2: Ukraine to use a Marria ar and made long range
Speaker 2: weapons in its war with Russia on Russian soil.
Speaker 6: This is something that the United States needed to do
Speaker 6: to help Ukraine defend itself.
Speaker 7: Former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan justified President Biden's
Speaker 7: decision and warned that there will likely be a response
Speaker 7: from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 6: He's got to do something, but I believe it will
Speaker 6: be a response that the United States and its allies
Speaker 6: can manage.
Speaker 7: The authorization came after thousands of North Korean troops joined
Speaker 7: the Russian side, expected to fight in Ukraine within weeks.
Speaker 7: Wendy July CBS News.
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