Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty
Speaker 1: three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm
Speaker 1: Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. We are following some developments, says.
Speaker 1: Multiple reports say President elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Speaker 1: After RFK dropped out of the presidential race as an independent,
Speaker 1: he endorsed Trump for president. The president elect has mentioned
Speaker 1: him joining his cabinet on multiple occasions, saying RFK Junior
Speaker 1: will help make America healthy again. Kennedy, among other things,
Speaker 1: has been an outspoken critic of vaccine mandates. A man
Speaker 1: is seriously heard after a bus slams into a building
Speaker 1: in Fitchburg, trapping that man underneath of the bctv's Beth
Speaker 1: Grumano tells us it happened at the Intermodal Transportation Building
Speaker 1: in downtown Fitchburg.
Speaker 2: Marianna Payne had just gotten onto the Fitchburg City bus
Speaker 2: before eight am when she says, it suddenly started rolling.
Speaker 3: I realized that we were moving, and once we started moving,
Speaker 3: the glasshow came into the bus. There was someone in
Speaker 3: front of the bus, he got dragged by the bus.
Speaker 2: Paine says it appeared the driver had no control when
Speaker 2: the bus went through the glass wall of the bus
Speaker 2: terminal in downtown Fitchburg, striking a sixty five year old
Speaker 2: male sitting on a bench who became pinned underneath.
Speaker 4: Crews were able to lift the bus up using airbags
Speaker 4: in our electronic jaws of life, we were able to
Speaker 4: pull them out. How medics went to work on them
Speaker 4: and Life flightd them to UMass.
Speaker 2: Investigators are now trying to determine what happened in the
Speaker 2: moments before the crash.
Speaker 1: A number of witnesses had tried unsuccessfully to lift the
Speaker 1: bus off the victim. The driver of the bus wasn't injured,
Speaker 1: the only other only one other person was on the
Speaker 1: bus at the time. As the teachers strike continues in Gloucester,
Speaker 1: Beverly and Marblehead, some good news for student athletes in Marblehead,
Speaker 1: the school superintendent says, after due diligence and meeting with
Speaker 1: the athletic director and administrators, he's determined that athletic and
Speaker 1: extracurricular activities in town can equitably and safely go on
Speaker 1: as schedule. These superintendent says they'll be utilizing non teacher,
Speaker 1: non union personnel to support the activities and appreciate the
Speaker 1: assistance in ensuring student participation. Meantime, schools are still closed
Speaker 1: in Beverly, Glocester, and Marble Lad, though the towns are
Speaker 1: going to court. It is illegal in Massachusetts to engage
Speaker 1: in a teachers strike. Beverly and Gloucester teachers already facing
Speaker 1: fines and will face more if they don't get back
Speaker 1: into the classroom. Nearly a dozen state representatives are going
Speaker 1: to travel to Cuba tomorrow. The Beacon Hill lawmakers will
Speaker 1: meet with public officials, hospital staff, and members of academic
Speaker 1: and research institutes, along with several charities. Representative James govern
Speaker 1: says he hopes the trip will be a step toward
Speaker 1: improving relations between Cuba and the US and foster critical
Speaker 1: conversations about getting humanitarian aid into the island nation. A
Speaker 1: couple of overseas summit meetings are on the schedule for
Speaker 1: President Biden.
Speaker 5: The President will attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit
Speaker 5: or APEX in Peru. Biden will have a sideline meeting
Speaker 5: with Chinese pre is It Ajijinping. It will be the
Speaker 5: third meeting between the two and the final one with
Speaker 5: Biden as president. After Peru, the President will travel to Brazil,
Speaker 5: where he will become the first US president ever to
Speaker 5: visit the Amazon rainforest. Later, it's on to Rio de
Speaker 5: Janeiro for the g twenty Summit. The leaders of twenty
Speaker 5: nations responsible for much of the world's carbon emissions, will
Speaker 5: focus on a number of issues, including global climate change.
Speaker 5: Linda Kenyon CBS News clear.
Speaker 1: To partly cloudy skies Tonight. It is going to be
Speaker 1: chilly again, back into the twenties, maybe even the low
Speaker 1: twenties and some of the coldest suburbs about thirty four downtown,
Speaker 1: upper thirties over the Cape and islands. Then weather starts
Speaker 1: to improve as we get into warmer air fifty eight
Speaker 1: for the high. Tomorrow it will become breezier, so we
Speaker 1: will have that fire risk getting a little bit to
Speaker 1: higher with some sunshine and a few clouds around Tomorrow
Speaker 1: night it's partly cloudy, thirties in the suburbs, forty two
Speaker 1: downtown and then a windy Saturday, so again fire risks
Speaker 1: abound sixty one for the high temperature with that gusty
Speaker 1: wind in a mix of sun and clouds. Sunday, we'll
Speaker 1: have a breeze, some sunshine, sixty one in or I
Speaker 1: didn't say rain anywhere in that forecast. Right now, forty
Speaker 1: three degrees in Boston no longer a desert. What local
Speaker 1: town is celebrating the end of the Dark Ages. When
Speaker 1: it comes to getting a cup of Joe. WBC's Matt
Speaker 1: Shearer takes a sip.
Speaker 6: The former Beef and Ale restaurant in Stowe has been
Speaker 6: quietly rotting on the side of the road for sixteen years,
Speaker 6: but suddenly it's rotting loudly. We're doing the demo for
Speaker 6: the Duncanonis. That's Lewis and you heard him right. He's
Speaker 6: turning it into a Duncan. Best news ever, So why
Speaker 6: is this such a big deal. Well, for that we
Speaker 6: go back in time two years.
Speaker 7: There is no more duck Donuts and Stuf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 6: In twenty twenty two, Stow lost both its Duncan locations,
Speaker 6: which made international news because of my video about it,
Speaker 6: featuring this local teenager named Elizabeth.
Speaker 3: There's nothing fun to do and Dunkin Donuts was the
Speaker 3: one place where everyone likes to go.
Speaker 6: Well, two years later, are you good? Good to see
Speaker 6: you get to tell her the good news.
Speaker 2: That's wild, that's actually amazing.
Speaker 3: Oh my, oh gosh.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the Facebook moms will be happy.
Speaker 6: Now they are. They're saving our town and still nasher
Speaker 6: or WVZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: All right, check out more of Matt's Duncan adventure on
Speaker 1: our TikTok at WBZ News Radio. The PBADESX Museum giving
Speaker 1: the color blonde a glimpse into a whole new world.
Speaker 1: As we hear from wz's Heile Shaffele, for.
Speaker 7: Basically the first time in her entire life, Kat is
Speaker 7: about to see red.
Speaker 6: I've remember times before.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I've been really nervous to try it. You really,
Speaker 1: I guess know what You've been missing out on your
Speaker 1: whole life, which is kind of sad.
Speaker 7: She, like four others wandering around the Pbdesx Museum now
Speaker 7: has a pair of tinted glasses on. They're all red, green,
Speaker 7: color blind, but they get a break from it today.
Speaker 1: Reds are popping, reds and oranges are really popping.
Speaker 7: The specs are from in Chroma, a company partnering with
Speaker 7: the museum to supply these special glasses that let colorblind
Speaker 7: visitors see the art and truer colors. Patro Slinkard is
Speaker 7: a curator here.
Speaker 3: I think for many museums on low vision has become
Speaker 3: a priority, but unfortunately, I think color blindness was ever looked.
Speaker 7: Many of the participants in the glasses gave the art
Speaker 7: more depth. The museum will not lend out these glasses
Speaker 7: to visitors for free. Kyle Shaffeld Toms Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Looking to get a few ski runs in this weekend,
Speaker 1: try Sunday, not the day, but Sunday River. They opened
Speaker 1: up today for the first time. The trail there was ungroomed,
Speaker 1: so just expert skiers were encouraged to ski, snowmaking guns,
Speaker 1: or running when the temperatures permitted until nature takes over.
Speaker 1: I suppose, in addition to Sunday River, Killington opening for
Speaker 1: pass holders today, a general public opening tomorrow. You are
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Speaker 1: Ben Parkner, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.