Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Good morning,
Speaker 1: six o'clock as we chip away at what for many
Speaker 1: will be the final workwake of twenty twenty four. We're
Speaker 1: getting started on this Wednesday morning under mostly clear skies
Speaker 1: and thirty nine degrees. The News at six is brought
Speaker 1: to us by your new England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid
Speaker 1: all wheel drive headquarters. Welcome aboard. I'm Jeff Brown. One
Speaker 1: week to go till Christmas.
Speaker 2: I'm shy to start today.
Speaker 1: We'll get way to increasing clout later on. It won't
Speaker 1: be as mild as yesterday.
Speaker 2: Able to heine out far from fifteen.
Speaker 1: That is WBZ AKI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. As Christmas
Speaker 1: does close in winter arrives this weekend with cold air
Speaker 1: moving in coldest of the season so far. Impressive comeback
Speaker 1: by the Bruins on the road in Calgary, and it
Speaker 1: took overtime to do it. Bruins will be in Edmonton
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Celtics are off till tomorrow night. In the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks win the NBA Cup over Oklahoma City. Another
Speaker 1: change of plans for the Payriots next week's game against
Speaker 1: the chargers at Gillette has been moved to Saturday. It
Speaker 1: is part of an NFL tripleheader. Saying They're strong and
Speaker 1: they're ready. Thousands of baristas that Starbucks vote to authorize
Speaker 1: a strike. The union says the vote was almost unanimous,
Speaker 1: but it only approves of the work stoppage but does
Speaker 1: not set a date. Both sides have been talking in
Speaker 1: hundreds of hours of negotiations over several months, but workers
Speaker 1: claim that the company has not yet brought a comprehensive
Speaker 1: pay package to the table. Going on vacation is soon
Speaker 1: to become crystal clear.
Speaker 3: Giftc is out with its latest rules that bands hidden
Speaker 3: or junk fees for hotels and short term rentals, even
Speaker 3: of vent tickets. These add ons are typically identified as
Speaker 3: convenience or service fees, but the new rules mean these
Speaker 3: companies have to tell you precisely what you're paying for,
Speaker 3: so it won't necessarily be any cheaper for these things,
Speaker 3: but officials say the transparency will save millions of hours
Speaker 3: and wasted time. Jay Willett WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: The worst kept secret inside America's central banking system will
Speaker 1: be out of the bag this afternoon. It is expected
Speaker 1: that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates once again.
Speaker 1: Experts say the pace of the rate cuts will slow
Speaker 1: substantially next year as the Fed continues to try to
Speaker 1: get its arms around a stubborn elevated inflation rates. Once again,
Speaker 1: no winner in Mega Millions. Next up is Friday Night's jackpot,
Speaker 1: worth an estimated eight hundred and twenty five million dollars.
Speaker 1: No one has hit all the numbers in the Big
Speaker 1: Prize since September, and the last billion dollar winner was
Speaker 1: months ago. This past spring, no one's hit the power
Speaker 1: ball of late either. Tonight's jackpot is a less than
Speaker 1: impressive seventy million dollars. More pressure on Boston's mayor to
Speaker 1: pull the plug on a controversial plan for a professional
Speaker 1: soccer stadium.
Speaker 2: City Councilor Ed Flynn is calling for the immediate cancelation
Speaker 2: of the proposal and renovation work of White Stadium. He's
Speaker 2: citing the growing cost of the project that has nearly
Speaker 2: doubled to ninety one million dollars. He says they should
Speaker 2: work together to provide the best option not only for
Speaker 2: the city and the professional women's soccer team, the one
Speaker 2: that incorporates the voice of residents and sudent athletes as well.
Speaker 2: This comes after plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the
Speaker 2: city received a small victory of their own when a
Speaker 2: judge allowed additional time to collect more evidence at White Stadium.
Speaker 2: James rohas WBZ Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 1: We're starting this Wednesday morning under mainly clear skies and
Speaker 1: thirty nine degrees here in Boston. Winds have dived down
Speaker 1: substantially as well, so we are going to see some
Speaker 1: sunshine this morning, followed by increasing clouds this afternoon, and
Speaker 1: our next round of rain is going to move in
Speaker 1: in the overnight hours and quite possibly right after midnight
Speaker 1: through the earliest stages of tomorrow's rush hour. Could be
Speaker 1: the heaviest downpours of this system. Once it's out of
Speaker 1: the way, we'll see some sun breaking later on the day.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow highs in the mid forties as we round the
Speaker 1: corner and head for home on Friday, still looks like
Speaker 1: it's going to be cloudy and breezy with a couple
Speaker 1: of showers. Best chance for some snowflakes going to be
Speaker 1: falling later in the day. On Friday, first day of
Speaker 1: winter arrived since Saturday morning before sunrise It's going to
Speaker 1: be cold this weekend too, with highs only in the
Speaker 1: thirties on Saturday, and it doesn't look like we're going
Speaker 1: to get out of the twenties on Sunday. Right now
Speaker 1: in Boston it's thirty nine and mainly clear, quiet degrees
Speaker 1: here in Boston. On this Wednesday morning, at six oh five,
Speaker 1: police send people in Worcester come face to face over
Speaker 1: a recently revealed controversy.
Speaker 4: City must apologize for the abuse of prostituted women by
Speaker 4: the Worcester Police.
Speaker 5: One by one, residents making their voices heard demanding changes
Speaker 5: in action from not only the Worcester PD, but also
Speaker 5: the city.
Speaker 4: Allo create a shelter two Project Crisis to support homeless women,
Speaker 4: hold abusers accountable while decriminalizing women.
Speaker 5: Worcester officers also defending their department, calling the DOJ report,
Speaker 5: which alleged everything from racism to excessive force to prostitution,
Speaker 5: a political witch hunt, but also said they're open to change.
Speaker 6: We say this knowing that there are better ways to
Speaker 6: improve policing in Worcester that does not slow the process down,
Speaker 6: and it is by working directly with the whole community.
Speaker 5: At Lodge Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio survey says
Speaker 5: most Americans feel exactly the same way about Donald Trump
Speaker 5: as they do about Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: The pair have been joined at the hip almost since
Speaker 1: the very moment on election day and the victory for
Speaker 1: the incoming President's new Associated Press poll finds less than
Speaker 1: half of voters have a favorable opinion of each, and
Speaker 1: about half do not. Experts aren't sure what to make
Speaker 1: about this or what it actually says about the world's
Speaker 1: richest man, his businesses, or the president elects politics heading
Speaker 1: into the Oval office. Republicans say it's a dumpster fire,
Speaker 1: and they blame Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for
Speaker 1: cutting a bad deal to avoid this weekend's government shutdown.
Speaker 1: Some in the GOP say they won't vote for it,
Speaker 1: Others say they'll make up their mind when the time comes.
Speaker 1: The new short term funding plan, which will keep the
Speaker 1: government's lights on through March. It is a continuing resolution.
Speaker 1: It includes more than one hundred billion dollars in disaster
Speaker 1: relief aid money to fully fund the rebuild of Baltimore's
Speaker 1: Francis Scott Keee Bridge, and extends the Farm Bill money
Speaker 1: for a full year. A spending plan will be taken
Speaker 1: up by both branches tomorrow and, if approved, must be
Speaker 1: signed by President Biden by Friday night at midnight to
Speaker 1: avoid a government shutdown. I'll take your vitamins may not
Speaker 1: be what the doctor ordered for older Americans. WBZ s
Speaker 1: Drew moholland is here with details on a new study.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Andrew, Good morning Jeffrey.
Speaker 7: New research reveals taking a daily dose of vitamin D
Speaker 7: and a calcium supplement for those over sixty shows no
Speaker 7: signs of preventing falls and fractures. What now. The Council
Speaker 7: for Responsible Nutrition finds there are risks associated with both
Speaker 7: in the absence of testing and diagnosis for vitamin D
Speaker 7: deficiency or the bone disease osteoporosis. Now Falls among older
Speaker 7: Americans often do lead to death, but among those who
Speaker 7: survive in the older sixty five crowd, the CDC says
Speaker 7: falls and fractures cost the United States health system eighty
Speaker 7: billion dollars a year.
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