Speaker 1: Forty two degrees with some showers in Boston at six o'clock.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Charlie Burger on. Here's what's happening, and
Speaker 1: if you're traveling today, you may want to allow for
Speaker 1: a little extra time to get to your destination. Rain
Speaker 1: for much of Thanksgiving Day, it dries out with sunshine
Speaker 1: returning tomorrow. Yeah, it looks like it's going to be
Speaker 1: pretty nasty this afternoon. Some heavy rain coming through. Joe
Speaker 1: Lundberg and the Acua of the forecast on the way.
Speaker 1: A pair of high school football rivalries settle the score
Speaker 1: at Fenway Park. It's wbez's Jared Brosman.
Speaker 2: On Wednesday night, Central Catholic took on Lawrence on the
Speaker 2: makeshift football field in the middle of Fenway Park. Ahead
Speaker 2: of the game, Lawrence head coach Emilio Cologne said, it
Speaker 2: was a special moment for everyone involved.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. It's an amazing event for the kids. It's
Speaker 3: something that they lovely going to forget I was. I
Speaker 3: had the privilege of being here a couple of years
Speaker 3: ago as an official. I refereed the end of the
Speaker 3: north end of a game, so it was an experience
Speaker 3: I never forget. And I'm sure the kids will not forget.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately for Lawrence, Central Catholic got the win thirty four
Speaker 2: to twelve. Afterwards, it was a north Shore showdown between
Speaker 2: Swapskit and Marblehead, the magicians making some magic under the
Speaker 2: Fenway lights, beating swaps Get forty two to six, and
Speaker 2: marble head Head coach Jim Rudloff was able to return
Speaker 2: to the sidelines after the teacher strikes Intown ended on
Speaker 2: Tuesday night. Jar Brosnan WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: No rain up on the International Space Station the twenty
Speaker 1: fifth Thanksgiving for Americans living there, including Needham native Sunny Williams.
Speaker 4: Greetings from the International Space Station. Our crew up here
Speaker 4: just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends
Speaker 4: and family who are down on Earth and everyone who
Speaker 4: is supporting us and william.
Speaker 1: Sosh plans on watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade before
Speaker 1: sharing a feast with fellow astronauts. Whether it's having far
Speaker 1: away families or a tight wallet, sitting around the Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: dinner table isn't always an option for Bostonians, and One
Speaker 1: Cafe aims to mend the holiday blues at least a
Speaker 1: little here's wbz's Jay Willlette.
Speaker 5: If you can't tell by the name, Tried and Booksellers
Speaker 5: and Cafe is a hybrid bookshop, restaurant and now Thanksgiving
Speaker 5: dinner table. This week for our friends give events.
Speaker 6: We want to do something for people who didn't have
Speaker 6: anywhere to go for Thanksgiving or just aren't gonna be
Speaker 6: able to be with their families.
Speaker 5: Organizer Jordan Saley encourages those who can't reunite with family
Speaker 5: to meet others, play board games, and take a bite
Speaker 5: out of a gobbler sandwich slathered in cranberry mayo.
Speaker 6: Stuff like this is like the best thing, I mean,
Speaker 6: the close thing to Oh, I guess it's something different.
Speaker 5: Also like it as well. I like the selection games
Speaker 5: they got.
Speaker 7: Hopefully we'll meet some people as well.
Speaker 3: Also, we were hoping to run into Sundaya here.
Speaker 5: It's an environment catered to make new pals, even welcoming
Speaker 5: a stranger like me who's clutching a microphone like it
Speaker 5: owes me money social anxiety From Newberry Street Jawill at WBZ,
Speaker 5: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: And it is six oh three and coming up, hitting
Speaker 1: the road a little bit cheaper on this holiday. Let's
Speaker 1: check the four day wdbz ACUA the forecast, and Joe
Speaker 1: Lindberg tells us today we'll have some rain this morning.
Speaker 1: It will mix with wet snow north and west of
Speaker 1: four ninety five. Rain will be heavy at times this
Speaker 1: afternoon and tonight. Now a high today will be about
Speaker 1: forty eight in Boston. South Coast Cape in the Islands
Speaker 1: will be in the mid fifties, but only about forty
Speaker 1: north and west of four ninety five, and that's where
Speaker 1: the concern is about travel with those colder temperatures. It's breezy,
Speaker 1: it's clearing out overnight. Tonight we'll drop back to about
Speaker 1: freezing and then tomorrow sunshine, clouds, breezy, high forty five.
Speaker 1: Same deal for Saturday and then Sunday, sun clouds and
Speaker 1: little cool are only about forty for a high on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Thirty five degrees this morning and dry for now in
Speaker 1: Easton getting some showers right now around the Lowell area
Speaker 1: where it is thirty six, and then a little bit
Speaker 1: further north at least for the moment, dry round the
Speaker 1: Salisbury area, but rain is coming thirty five there and
Speaker 1: in Boston forty two degrees at six oh five South
Speaker 1: Station among the hubs of pre holiday madnesses. People rush
Speaker 1: for trains to get home in time for the big
Speaker 1: meal and the family fun. Here's wbz's Carl Stevens.
Speaker 6: I like seeing my family Because I work in Boston
Speaker 6: and the l Rhode Islands, I don't see them often,
Speaker 6: so it's nice to see them again.
Speaker 1: For so many it's a time to step away from
Speaker 1: the normal routine of going to work and instead spend
Speaker 1: the day hanging out with family and eating a lot
Speaker 1: of food. Easily.
Speaker 6: During the day it's filled with cooking. Then the menus
Speaker 6: like turkey, collie greens, baked mac and cheese, yams, mashed potatoes,
Speaker 6: and like things like that.
Speaker 1: Sounds pretty good from South Station Carl Stevens, WBC Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio and early holiday season gift if you are
Speaker 1: hitting the road for this holiday.
Speaker 8: If you're among the millions traveling this Thanksgiving, especially in
Speaker 8: a vehicle, gas buddies. Patrick de' han says.
Speaker 2: Gas but he's tracking now thirty states with average gas
Speaker 2: prices below the three dollars gallon mark.
Speaker 1: That number could rise to forty by the time Christmas
Speaker 1: rolls around.
Speaker 8: Triple A says the national average for a gallon of
Speaker 8: regular and leaded gas is three dollars and seven cents,
Speaker 8: nineteen cents cheaper than last Thanksgiving. Jennifer Kuiper CBS.
Speaker 1: A contractor stringing holiday lights in a Wellesley neighborhood wound
Speaker 1: up shocked and needing a defibrillator to revive him. This
Speaker 1: was said about ten o'clock yesterday morning outside a home
Speaker 1: on Falmath Circle, as the man was installing lights on
Speaker 1: a large tree. Police figure the pole he was using
Speaker 1: either got too close or came in contact with an
Speaker 1: electrical line. He was initially rushed to Newton Wesley Hospital,
Speaker 1: then transferred to Mass General. OSHA and local authorities are
Speaker 1: investigating a driver crashes through a popular diner on the
Speaker 1: Cape at CBS Boston's Tiffany Chan.
Speaker 7: The frightening sound of an suv barreling through this Chatham
Speaker 7: diner Wednesday morning, leaving a restaurant employee and a patron
Speaker 7: badly hurt. That patron had to be freed after being
Speaker 7: pinned by that vehicle.
Speaker 3: One was a cup more serious entry than the others.
Speaker 5: On top Scot.
Speaker 7: The suv came into a halt inside of Larry's PX,
Speaker 7: a popular breakfast spot, especially on the day before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
Speaker 8: It is a very busy spot.
Speaker 7: This woman was working a couple down when she saw
Speaker 7: the car flying through the Shopahoy Plaza parking lot. I
Speaker 7: A Olberdett here you saw the car moving very fast.
Speaker 7: Chattam police and fire crews responded quickly towing away the suv.
Speaker 7: Now the business is cleaning up. This is a pretty
Speaker 7: busy shopping plaza on Cape Cod and many people who
Speaker 7: work here are rattled because they knew that restaurant worker
Speaker 7: who was injured here right now, we're told the driver
Speaker 7: was not injured and we were waiting on an update
Speaker 7: on the condition of the employee and the patron. Police
Speaker 7: are investigating this crash.
Speaker 1: She bring businesses in the Shopahoy Plaza that we're not
Speaker 1: damaged will be able to remain open. You are now
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