Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty
Speaker 1: four degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. A suspect is arrested in
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania connected with the murder of the United Healthcare CEO
Speaker 1: Brian Thompson in New York City. CBS's Matt Piper tells
Speaker 1: us he was spotted at a fast food restaurant.
Speaker 2: It was someone at a McDonald's in the middle of
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania who saw something and said something. After photos had
Speaker 2: been circulating online over the last six days of the
Speaker 2: man police he killed United Healthcare CEO. Someone in that
Speaker 2: fast food restaurant recognized him and called police. NYPD Chief
Speaker 2: of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Speaker 1: And Altoona, Pennsylvania. He's going to be facing gun charges
Speaker 1: there and at some point we'll work out through our
Speaker 1: tradition to bring him back to New York to face
Speaker 1: charges here, working with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
Speaker 2: That person of interest is twenty six year old Luigi
Speaker 2: Mangioni Matt Piper, CBS News.
Speaker 1: The now former president of Bashar al Assad has been
Speaker 1: granted asylum by Russia. The dictator was outed over the
Speaker 1: weekend by Jahadi insurgents, but what comes next?
Speaker 3: White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says it's good
Speaker 3: for the US and the world that the Assad regime
Speaker 3: was brought down in Syria, but Sullivan reiterated the President's
Speaker 3: warning about the potential for a power vacuum now in
Speaker 3: Syria and the risk that brings.
Speaker 4: There's an opportunity to build something better in Syria, but
Speaker 4: there is concern the terrorists, jihadists, and other people who
Speaker 4: do not have the United States best interests at heart,
Speaker 4: to say the least, could take advantage of this.
Speaker 3: Karen Travers ABC News Washington.
Speaker 1: As the state auditor looks to get a peek at
Speaker 1: the legislature's books, the one time head of the Massachusetts
Speaker 1: Republican Party is filing sued seeking to force the legislature
Speaker 1: to comply. According to The Salem News, the lawsuit, filed
Speaker 1: Friday in Suffolk Superior Court by and over state Rep.
Speaker 1: Jim Lyons. Former rep, alleges that a recent vote by
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives amending its rules to hire an
Speaker 1: outside audit violates the preventis of question one and does
Speaker 1: it in a derogation of the separation of powers and
Speaker 1: the rights of the voters. Ballot Question one was overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: approved in the November election, empowering State Auditor Diana Dezaglio
Speaker 1: to audit the legislature. The auditor and those who put
Speaker 1: Question one on the ballots say they would likely take
Speaker 1: a legal challenge to force leaders on Beacon Hill to comply.
Speaker 1: There'll be a change of date for the Karen Reid
Speaker 1: second criminal trial of the Busy's Brook McCarthy. With the
Speaker 1: latest on the decision from a judge in Norfolk Superior Court.
Speaker 5: Both sides in the Karen Reid case now have more
Speaker 5: time to prepare for her upcoming second criminal trial after
Speaker 5: Judge Beverly Canoni approved a joint motion by the prosecution
Speaker 5: and defense to move the trial from January to April
Speaker 5: of next year. A hearing to go over the exact details,
Speaker 5: including scheduling for the second trial, is set for Thursday.
Speaker 5: In their filings, both sides wanted more time because of
Speaker 5: new expert witnesses and retesting of Reed's suv. The Commonwealth
Speaker 5: has also hired Special Prosecutor Hank Brennan to lead the
Speaker 5: second trial Reid's first criminal trial, and it was a
Speaker 5: mistrial in July after the jury said they were deadlocked.
Speaker 5: Reid is accused of hitting her Boston Police officer boyfriend
Speaker 5: John O'Keeffe with her SUV and leaving him in the
Speaker 5: snow to eye. She says she was framed. Emotions hearing
Speaker 5: that was set for tomorrow has been canceled at the
Speaker 5: request of the defense. Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: In winter weather advisory up for parts of northern Worcester County,
Speaker 1: especially northern Worcester County and out into the Berkshires where
Speaker 1: we'll have some more frozen precipitation. Certainly some slick road
Speaker 1: conditions are a possibility as we go through the next
Speaker 1: several hours and overnight tonight. We do on the rain
Speaker 1: overspreading most of the area. Some of it's coming down
Speaker 1: fairly heavily as well. There's a pretty hefty downpour out
Speaker 1: in the Springfield area, out along the I ninety one corridor,
Speaker 1: in a little heavy burst of rain out toward the
Speaker 1: Conquered actin Littleton area, So watch out of that as
Speaker 1: we head through the afternoon. And then those frozen spots
Speaker 1: that could just slick up the roads and certainly untreated
Speaker 1: surfaces for some of those areas with the winter weather advisory.
Speaker 1: We do warm up, however, as we head through the
Speaker 1: next several days overnight to night, that rain and drizzle
Speaker 1: and maybe the little bit of slick spots showing up,
Speaker 1: then some lingering drizzle to start tomorrow, some clouds linger
Speaker 1: some drizzle could as well areas of fog forty one
Speaker 1: to forty five for the high tomorrow night. We bring
Speaker 1: the rain back in. A steadiest rain arrives late tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: temperatures in the upper thirties. Wednesday, we're going to see
Speaker 1: temperatures that'll make a run towards sixty degrees, but you're
Speaker 1: not going to probably want to be outside running around it.
Speaker 1: That's because it's going to be raining a lot. We
Speaker 1: could get some heavy downpours causing some low lying and
Speaker 1: poor drainage area flooding. And it will be very windy
Speaker 1: as well, fifty to sixty mile an hour gusts, especially
Speaker 1: near the coast, maybe even some higher gusts as you
Speaker 1: head down toward the Capean Islands. So a very soggy,
Speaker 1: windy day on Wednesday, and then we cool down a
Speaker 1: little bit. Thursday, mid forties, still a little windy, but
Speaker 1: mostly sunny skies develop Right now, it is forty four
Speaker 1: in Boston with a statewide free community college program in place,
Speaker 1: WUS Kyle Shaffle I went to see just how they're
Speaker 1: coping with the influx of students.
Speaker 6: The halls of north Shore Community College are fuller than.
Speaker 7: Ever, definitely double the number of applications to process.
Speaker 6: The surgeon interest caused by the state's free community college program.
Speaker 6: We checked in to see how north Shore and other
Speaker 6: colleges are doing. One semester in President Bill Hineman says
Speaker 6: they've seen a twenty percent bump in students.
Speaker 7: Nothing we can't handle, but definitely that many more students
Speaker 7: that quickly is a challenge.
Speaker 6: The flood of new students walking the halls means more
Speaker 6: work for professors and the admissions and Financial aid department.
Speaker 7: We're thrilled it happened fast and we're working through that,
Speaker 7: but we couldn't be more excited.
Speaker 6: The college and the others like it are asking the
Speaker 6: state for more funding to cover new hires and increased demand.
Speaker 6: Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Another MBTA line closure means another round of unlocked credits
Speaker 1: for Blue Bikes. Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Massachusetts and
Speaker 1: the City of Boston are offering the unlock credits for
Speaker 1: those affected by green line closures till the twentieth of
Speaker 1: the month. The unlocks are available to non members of
Speaker 1: Blue Bikes and can be redeemed both Classic bikes and
Speaker 1: e bikes. Individuals can access five free unlocks using the
Speaker 1: code MBTA green deec in the rewards section of the
Speaker 1: Blue Bikes app For swifties, Now what Babby Off to
Speaker 1: use cliche the end of an era. This is airis over.
Speaker 1: After nearly two years, one hundred and forty nine shows
Speaker 1: across five continents, Taylor Swift's Aris Tour came to close yesterday,
Speaker 1: final show in Vancouver. The first show was in Glendale, Arizona,
Speaker 1: March eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Swift played three nights at
Speaker 1: the Lette Stadium in May of twenty three. She now
Speaker 1: has more time to watch football and her boyfriend Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey's Kansas City Chiefs. You are now in the loop.
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