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Speaker 2: Sonny breezy mild sixty nine degrees headed for seventy four
Speaker 2: in downtown Boston today. Good morning, I'm Laurie Kirby. And
Speaker 2: President Biden is expected to deliver a post election speech
Speaker 2: shortly from the White House Rose Garden, and that is
Speaker 2: happening any moment now. WBZ News Radio will take that
Speaker 2: live as soon as it gets under way. And the
Speaker 2: President called his vice president to congratulate her for a
Speaker 2: hard fought campaign for the White House. Kamala Harris conceding
Speaker 2: the race to the Republican President elect Donald Trump in
Speaker 2: his speech at her alma mater, Howard University, late yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2: She said, while she concedes this election, she does not
Speaker 2: concede the fight that fueled this campaign. Again, we can
Speaker 2: see some people gathered in the white folding chairs on
Speaker 2: the green lawn of the Rose Garden, and of course
Speaker 2: the American flags waiting for the President to appear shortly.
Speaker 2: Do stay with us. We'll keep our eyes and ears
Speaker 2: on that. The Trump transition effort is already revving up. ABC.
Speaker 2: Stephen Portnoy brings us to tales from Washington.
Speaker 3: Sources say the President elect yesterday with Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 3: Junior and with Elon Musk, two men who are expected
Speaker 3: to hold senior roles in the next Trump administration. Musk
Speaker 3: is likely to have a perch overseeing federal spending, and
Speaker 3: Kennedy says he'd prefer to be something of a White
Speaker 3: House healthzar. The Trump transition team is now sorting through
Speaker 3: possible picks to fill four thousand roles in the executive branch,
Speaker 3: with some twelve hundred requiring Senate confirmation.
Speaker 2: Rfk Junior has been an outspoken skeptic of many vaccines,
Speaker 2: and Elon Musk made headlines when he's slash spending and
Speaker 2: announced major layoffs at Twitter soon after buying the company
Speaker 2: two years ago. Even Massachusetts has been seeing a rising
Speaker 2: Republican time as a red wave washes over much of
Speaker 2: the nation. In this twenty twenty four election, Bay State
Speaker 2: voters sent an all Democratic congressional delegation back to Washington
Speaker 2: on election day, but President elect Donald Trump still carves
Speaker 2: some new inroads in our deep blue state. The AP
Speaker 2: says Trump has gained popularity in nearly every Massachusetts community
Speaker 2: over the last four years. He even flipped nearly two
Speaker 2: dozen towns that he lost in twenty twenty. The state
Speaker 2: Republican chairwoman says voters are flipping red and response to
Speaker 2: the state's migrant crisis and years of high inflation. Leaders
Speaker 2: from the left are also wanion of the vice president's
Speaker 2: loss at the ballot box. With more on that, here's
Speaker 2: ABC's Christian Cordero.
Speaker 4: York Congressman Ritchie trus a Democrat, saying Trump has no
Speaker 4: greater friend than the far left, which has managed to
Speaker 4: alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from
Speaker 4: the Democratic Party with absurdities like defund the police. Independent
Speaker 4: Senator Bernie Sanders called it no great surprise that a
Speaker 4: Democratic party which has abandoned working class people would find
Speaker 4: that the working class has abandoned them.
Speaker 2: We've been talking every day about that elevated fire wrist,
Speaker 2: so I like to look at the wind strength, and
Speaker 2: right now in the Pittsfield area, it's flowing out of
Speaker 2: the west northwest at around seventeen miles an hour. Those
Speaker 2: are sustained winds. We're not even talking gusts, so that's problematic.
Speaker 2: It is extraordinarily dry. We do need the rain, and
Speaker 2: this is a lovely forecast for those of us who
Speaker 2: don't have to fight fires for a living. Mostly sunny, breezy,
Speaker 2: high seventy four to day, clear and cool tonight inland
Speaker 2: areas in the thirties, so frost out there. Are your
Speaker 2: pumpkins still there? Or they tossed? Did the squirrels eat them?
Speaker 2: But nonetheless we could see a little frost on those
Speaker 2: leftover pumpkins. Lots of sun for Friday. It's been a
Speaker 2: long week. Breezy sixty three. You have a nice weekend
Speaker 2: all in all, cooler but nice. Suspect is about to
Speaker 2: plead guilty to his alleged involvement in a high end
Speaker 2: brothel ring prostitution in and outside of Greater Boston all
Speaker 2: the way to the nation's capital. Wbz's Jim McKay with
Speaker 2: the update.
Speaker 5: Sixty nine year old James Lee of California to now
Speaker 5: has maintained his innocence, but a change of plea hearing
Speaker 5: is now set for next month. This hearing follows two
Speaker 5: others in which his alleged co conspirators, Han Lee and
Speaker 5: Young Minglee both admitted to charges. None of the Lees
Speaker 5: are related. Twenty eight Johns currently face state charges connected
Speaker 5: to this federal case. While none of those names are
Speaker 5: being released, it's said to be a who's who of politicians, doctors,
Speaker 5: even military officers. James Lee is expected in court on
Speaker 5: December eighteenth. Jim YKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: A new test could let patients predict what's in store
Speaker 2: during their bounce with COVID nineteen. Here's CBS's Michael George.
Speaker 1: A new nasal swab test could predict how severe COVID
Speaker 1: will be for a person. A study by Emory University
Speaker 1: found that by using nasal swabs, researchers could see which
Speaker 1: people developed COVID antibodies and which people didn't. With this test,
Speaker 1: doctors may be able to develop more effective treatments for
Speaker 1: people at risk for severe COVID.
Speaker 2: And the study is published. You can read it in
Speaker 2: the journal's Science Translational Medicine. All Right, we were talking about
Speaker 2: those drought conditions. There are a couple of fires out
Speaker 2: there right now, including a large fire in Youar homes
Speaker 2: and businesses along root one in Saugus, and our drought
Speaker 2: conditions have more than doubled, extending now into the central
Speaker 2: part of the Commonwealth. You are now in the loop
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