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Speaker 1: Got some light snow falling in Boston right now, twenty
Speaker 1: degrees at six o'clock. Good morning and welcome. I'm Charlie
Speaker 1: bergeron in. Here's what's going on, your most reliable news
Speaker 1: source for severe weather coverage. At least a WBC storm
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Speaker 1: A winter storm Morning is still in effect for the
Speaker 1: next hour as we begin this Martin Luther King Junior
Speaker 1: Holiday National Weather Service says a good portion of Massachusetts
Speaker 1: on average, got about four inches of snow. Lots of
Speaker 1: shoveling going on this morning. Wbzs Jaywilet out there surveying
Speaker 1: the scene.
Speaker 2: Bust out the snowbrush. Is it's a snow day in
Speaker 2: Boston without the canceled class thanks to the holiday.
Speaker 3: I expect the mark, but I think I was expecting.
Speaker 2: Like that for snow cruise. It's touch and go on.
Speaker 2: Whether Mother Nature delivered on the forecast. Is this what
Speaker 2: you guys are expecting today at all?
Speaker 1: Kind of blew away?
Speaker 4: I think I don't know, not really much.
Speaker 2: They're shoveling, insulting the sidewalks. Meantime, plows sit at every
Speaker 2: corner in the.
Speaker 4: City, going great. It's going great. It's not as much
Speaker 4: as expected, but just keeps softing. And you know what
Speaker 4: I mean plowing with is a little snow and not
Speaker 4: much accumulation at all.
Speaker 2: Though the technique is to make periodic rounds so that
Speaker 2: every inch of asphalt is clear. In Boston. J Willett
Speaker 2: WBZ Boston's news radiotes.
Speaker 1: Six oh one The News at six, brought to you
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Speaker 1: drive headquarters. President elect Donald Trump warming up for his
Speaker 1: inauguration today by holding a rally last night in Washington.
Speaker 1: Maybec's Christy and Cardero.
Speaker 3: At the Inauguration Eve rally, Kid Rock and the Village
Speaker 3: People performed alongside Trump's signature dance. The President elect then
Speaker 3: doubling down on a series of campaign promises within.
Speaker 5: Hours of taking office that will sign dozens of executive orders.
Speaker 3: Top officials tell ABC News Trump plans to take more
Speaker 3: than ten two hundred executive actions on his first day
Speaker 3: in office under one document, in what they are calling
Speaker 3: an omnibus executive.
Speaker 1: Action, mister Trump will be sworn into his second four
Speaker 1: year term at noon in the Capitol Rotunda. The event
Speaker 1: moved indoors because of the cold weather. WBZ News Radio
Speaker 1: will carry the swearing in ceremony and the incoming president's
Speaker 1: inaugural address lives stay right here with WBZ news Radio
Speaker 1: throughout the day. Today, Celtics and Bruins both in action
Speaker 1: on this holiday. The Bruins host the Sharks at the Garden.
Speaker 1: They'll drop the puck at one o'clock. Celtics and Warriors
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. We back to the NBA Finals from
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Tap time, five o'clock, Our time. Two
Speaker 1: great NFL playoff games yesterday in the cold and the snow,
Speaker 1: and the opener of the Eagles advancing to the NFC
Speaker 1: title game holding off the Rams twenty eight to twenty
Speaker 1: two in Philadelphia. So the Eagles will host the Commanders
Speaker 1: next week. And in Buffalo, Josh Allen and the Bills
Speaker 1: down Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. It was a classic.
Speaker 1: Twe twenty seven, twenty five. The final Bills will face
Speaker 1: the two time defending champion Chiefs in Kansas City next
Speaker 1: week for the AFC title. Let's check the four day.
Speaker 1: WBZ ACTU weather forecast Brian Thompson tells us the snow
Speaker 1: that's flying at this hour is headed offshore. It's now
Speaker 1: moved east of Framingham, slowly headed toward the shoreline and
Speaker 1: then out to sea. So probably not more than another
Speaker 1: hour or so of snow, and then it's just going
Speaker 1: to be a sunny, cold day today, temperatures only to
Speaker 1: the mid and upper twenties. Factor in the wind, it's
Speaker 1: going to feel like it's in the single digits today, clear,
Speaker 1: very cold overnight to night fourteen again it will feel
Speaker 1: in the single digits with de breeze, and then tomorrow
Speaker 1: it's cloudy. It's cold, only the low twenties for a high.
Speaker 1: Same deal for Wednesday, and then we get closer to
Speaker 1: Thursday to thirty with sunshine on Thursday. So right now,
Speaker 1: twenty degrees in Boston wins gusting to twenty seven miles
Speaker 1: per hour, feels like minus four at six oh five.
Speaker 1: The Chinese Lunar New Year celebrated yesterday at Braintree High School,
Speaker 1: where more than one thousand people attended. Here's wbz's Suzanne Sposville.
Speaker 5: This is the year snake, clever and smart.
Speaker 3: Thy guss Sailing Sun Lying Hyla.
Speaker 5: Organizer Justine Kong says, there are dozens of performances.
Speaker 4: We had the Lion Dance.
Speaker 6: We have different Kong Fu martiall art kids from different
Speaker 6: local Asian dance studio.
Speaker 5: More than thirty vendors, traditional Chinese arts and crafts and food.
Speaker 2: Sesame Boss filled in with repping paste.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a mochi.
Speaker 5: Taste for it. It's important his kids are here well Asian.
Speaker 2: My kids are Chinese and Filipino and we want to
Speaker 2: expose them to like some of the lunar New Year
Speaker 2: festivities that you know they don't get to see often.
Speaker 5: The Year of the Snake starts on January twenty ninth
Speaker 5: in Braintree. Suzanne Sasville WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: The great work done by doctor Martin the King Junior
Speaker 1: and Coretta Scott King honored last night during the Embrace
Speaker 1: Honors MLK event in Boston. Governor Moore heely among those
Speaker 1: in attendance.
Speaker 6: It's always such an important day and important weekend. I
Speaker 6: think this year especially, it's so important that people come together,
Speaker 6: enjoy and in support of all that is good and
Speaker 6: so to be here tonight to recognize and help honor
Speaker 6: some fantastic people. Couldn't have a better way to begin Mlkday.
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King met his future wife, Coretta Scott, while
Speaker 1: they were both studying in Boston. Among the honorees last
Speaker 1: night former Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker,
Speaker 1: Former Governor Daval Patrick and First Lady Diane Patrick, John
Speaker 1: n Sandra Borders, Jill Medvedo and Richard Kazis, and doctor THEA. James,
Speaker 1: and the Reverend Irene Munroe. The Boston Broadcast Family remembering
Speaker 1: former WBZ News Radio director At Bell, who died last
Speaker 1: week at the age of eighty four. While the news
Speaker 1: director at WBZ, he oversaw the station's coverage of the
Speaker 1: desegregation of Boston schools back in nineteen seventy four. He
Speaker 1: was also the news director at the old WHDH Radio
Speaker 1: and later worked at the Associated Present in various positions,
Speaker 1: including as bureau chief in Boston, where he oversaw the
Speaker 1: peace coverage of the two thousand and four Democratic Convention
Speaker 1: at TD Garden. You are now in the loop for
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