Speaker 1: This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news
Speaker 1: twenty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening after last night's deadly
Speaker 1: mid air collision in Washington between an American Airlines passenger
Speaker 1: jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter. We've learned an FAA
Speaker 1: report says staffing was not normal for the time of
Speaker 1: day and volume of traffic. According to the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: the report says one air traffic controller was working two
Speaker 1: positions at the time of that crash. Earlier today, President
Speaker 1: Trump reacted, the President vowing to find out why the
Speaker 1: two collided over the Potomac River, killing everyone on both aircraft.
Speaker 2: We are a.
Speaker 1: Country, really, we are in mourning. This is really shaking
Speaker 1: a lot of people, including people very sadly from other
Speaker 1: nations who were on the flood. The President says their
Speaker 1: travel safety standards were lowered during the previous administrations, and
Speaker 1: he criticized former presidents and Biden for putting politics first.
Speaker 1: He also claims DEEI policies are to blame. The President
Speaker 1: says he'll restore America's faith in air travel and says
Speaker 1: people need to be hired based on intellect and brain power.
Speaker 1: The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Hammandy,
Speaker 1: says they will leave no stone unturned when investigating the
Speaker 1: deadly collision. We are going to conduct a thorough investigation
Speaker 1: of this entire tragedy looking at the facts. Man So far,
Speaker 1: officials have not recovered the flight data recorders. A crushing
Speaker 1: blow for an esteemed local skating club as they reel
Speaker 1: from this disaster. WZ Hiles Shaffle has more from Norwood.
Speaker 3: It's a horrible echo in time here at the Skating
Speaker 3: Club of Boston.
Speaker 4: And I personally feel that this club, the Skating cub
Speaker 4: of Boston, has just now almost sixty years later and
Speaker 4: been coming out of the shadow of that nineteen sixty
Speaker 4: one crash. So this is particularly devastating. See you.
Speaker 3: Doug zeg Hives says this is the second time in
Speaker 3: its history that the club is morning after a deadly
Speaker 3: plane crash. This time it's the loss of six people
Speaker 3: who were aboard that American flight that crashed over night
Speaker 3: in DC.
Speaker 4: You know, it's senseless, but accidents happen.
Speaker 3: Then, includes two teenagers, sixteen year old Spencer Lane of
Speaker 3: Rhode Island and thirteen year old Ginahan of Mansfield and
Speaker 3: their mothers also a board. Two noted coaches with them,
Speaker 3: No Mov and Genyas Shishkova, the lead behind a son, Max,
Speaker 3: who is also competing in Wichita.
Speaker 4: He was actually on a plane on Monday. I came
Speaker 4: back with him.
Speaker 3: There's been a steady trickle of shock skaters in and
Speaker 3: out of the center here, which will remain open this week.
Speaker 3: Kyle Schaffel, BBZ Boston's News race Stay.
Speaker 1: With WZ will have continuing coverage of a reaction and
Speaker 1: more information about this crash. WBC can also be heard
Speaker 1: on the new iHeartRadio app and you can set us
Speaker 1: as one of your set stations on that app. Governor
Speaker 1: more Hilly making some changes to a Patrick administration error
Speaker 1: task force that's focused on the state's military installations. The
Speaker 1: governor has put Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and the state's
Speaker 1: entire congressional delegation in charge. The Stachusetts Military Asset and
Speaker 1: Security Strategy Task Force has been working for more than
Speaker 1: a decade to stay on top of the possibility of
Speaker 1: base realignment and closure efforts and to key in on
Speaker 1: economic development opportunities. The task Force convenes state and federal lawmakers,
Speaker 1: along with military officials and representatives of the higher education
Speaker 1: and defense industry to promote these six military installations in
Speaker 1: Massachusetts that are together responsible for more than thirteen billion
Speaker 1: dollars in annual economic activity and account for about fifty
Speaker 1: seven thousand jobs. It's got clouds that are going to
Speaker 1: build in as we head through the evening tonight, although
Speaker 1: temperatures aren't going to go terribly far, and we'll settle
Speaker 1: in probably the mid twenties, and then eventually temperatures are
Speaker 1: going to start to climb tonight into the thirties. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: will land around forty degrees or so. We'll have those
Speaker 1: clouds in place, and some rain comes in here probably
Speaker 1: around midday and sticks with us through the afternoon and
Speaker 1: into the early evening. As it departs, the parting gift
Speaker 1: will be a little bit of snow mixed in, and
Speaker 1: so a slushy coding to an inch could fall in
Speaker 1: and around Boston. Bit more than that, as you head
Speaker 1: out into the suburbs north and west of town, there'll
Speaker 1: be some icy spots Tomorrow night two thirty for the
Speaker 1: low only about thirty two with some sunshine Saturday Sunday,
Speaker 1: we'll have some sun to start, we'll have some clouds
Speaker 1: to finish, and maybe a mix of rain and snowshowers
Speaker 1: getting in here Sunday night. Right now, twenty eight degrees
Speaker 1: in Boston. Anita Master Dot is keeping busy at the
Speaker 1: International Space Station. Wuz's Brooke McCarthy has the tails hy
Speaker 1: above Earth.
Speaker 5: Needham's Sunny Williams completed the ninth spacewalk of her career
Speaker 5: along with fellow NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore.
Speaker 1: This is Mission Control, Houston.
Speaker 2: We just concluded our EVA at twelve oh nine pm
Speaker 2: Central Time.
Speaker 5: The duo spending over five hours outside the International Space
Speaker 5: Station to gather samples to see whether micro organisms exist
Speaker 5: on the outside of the orbiting laboratory. With the help
Speaker 5: of Mission Control, they also fixed a broken antenna.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's a backup position.
Speaker 1: I'm going to reconfigure for a couple of darkenests to
Speaker 1: Skipchin fronyst for after that, I'm ready.
Speaker 5: Both Sunny and Butch have been stuck the ISS since June,
Speaker 5: following issues with their Boeing Starliner capsule that prevented them
Speaker 5: from returning home now. They're expected to come back in
Speaker 5: late March or early April, almost ten months after they arrived.
Speaker 5: Brooke McCarthy WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Dinner with a View. There's a lighthouse no with the
Speaker 1: Boston where you can have both. CBS News Boston's Chris
Speaker 1: Tanakat takes us there.
Speaker 2: Range lighthouses work in pairs, with a taller one and
Speaker 2: a shorter one. When aligne, the two lights helped seafarers
Speaker 2: navigate tricky waters. It's also why these lighthouses are on
Speaker 2: shore and not some remote cliff for island.
Speaker 1: This one is somewhat unique in that it's right downtown.
Speaker 2: Jay Hyland is the president of the Lighthouse Preservation Society.
Speaker 2: The nonprofit owns and maintains the one in Newburyport. It
Speaker 2: takes a lot of money, but the society has found
Speaker 2: an ingenious way to raise funds.
Speaker 4: We wanted to.
Speaker 1: Show what could be done with an abandoned.
Speaker 2: Lighthouse tower, and what they've done is partner with six
Speaker 2: local restaurants to create an unforgettable experience. The lantern room
Speaker 2: has been remodeled and can comfortably see a party of four,
Speaker 2: but more intimately a party of two.
Speaker 1: The experience includes climb of fifty five stairs to reach
Speaker 1: the Lantern room. After dining, you can go out on
Speaker 1: the catwalk. There are views that are as tasty as
Speaker 1: the meal. You are now in the loop. For news
Speaker 1: updates throughout the day, listen to WVZ News Radio on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio