Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio re defining
Speaker 1: local news.
Speaker 2: Sixty one degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Extending the range of war.
Speaker 2: President Biden now authorizing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to use
Speaker 2: American made long range weapons in its war with Russia.
Speaker 3: Something that the United States needed to do to help
Speaker 3: Ukraine defend itself.
Speaker 4: Former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan justified President Biden's
Speaker 4: decision and warned that there will likely be a response
Speaker 4: from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3: He's got to do something, but I believe it will
Speaker 3: be a man a response that the United States and
Speaker 3: its allies can manage.
Speaker 4: The authorization came after thousands of North Korean troops joined
Speaker 4: the Russian side, expected to fight in Ukraine within weeks.
Speaker 4: Wendy July CBS.
Speaker 2: News President elected Donald Trump's continuing to pick his cabinet.
Speaker 2: Some of the picks have raised an eyebrower to a
Speaker 2: couple of picks face allegations involving sexual misconduct against women,
Speaker 2: allegations both men denied.
Speaker 5: CBS News has learned Trump's choice to lead the Department
Speaker 5: of Defense. Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth paid a
Speaker 5: settlement to a woman who had accused him of sexual
Speaker 5: assault back in twenty seventeen, As first reported by The
Speaker 5: Washington Post. Hegsath's attorney told CBS News that the Army
Speaker 5: veteran paid the woman to ward off a baseless lawsuit
Speaker 5: that would have likely gotten him fired from Fox News,
Speaker 5: and that she initiated a consensual encounter while Hegseth was intoxicated.
Speaker 2: Now the CBS's Kaylee Caitlin Huey Burns, the President elect,
Speaker 2: also was named the senior Republican on the Federal Communications
Speaker 2: Commission as the new chairman of that agency. Brendan Carr's
Speaker 2: a longtime member of the Commission and served previously as
Speaker 2: the FCC's General counsel. A former police lieutenant from Winthrop
Speaker 2: Changes is plead guilty in a child rape case. James
Speaker 2: Feely was arrested last year on suspicion of raping a
Speaker 2: child at is home. He entered the guilty plate today,
Speaker 2: sentenced to four to six years in prison plus five
Speaker 2: years probation. He will also be required to register as
Speaker 2: a sex offender. The case was scheduled to go on
Speaker 2: trial in March. The sexual assaults of the child at
Speaker 2: allegedly taken place at Phelly's family home between August twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two and December of twenty twenty three. Next week
Speaker 2: will be a busy week for travel. Triple A expects
Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving travel season to be a record breaker, and
Speaker 2: that means packed planes and potentially packed roads. Nearly eighty
Speaker 2: million Americans are expected to travel fifty miles or more
Speaker 2: from home or from CBS Transportation, corresponding Chris van Cleeve.
Speaker 6: Gas prices are more than twenty five cents a gallon,
Speaker 6: cheaper than this time last year, and about half the
Speaker 6: country is paying three dollars or less a gallon. Triple
Speaker 6: A says domestic airfare will cost you a bit more
Speaker 6: though compared to twenty twenty three, up about three percent,
Speaker 6: but that's not stopping people from flying. United Airlines is
Speaker 6: planning for the busiest Thanksgiving travel period it's ever seen.
Speaker 6: The nation's four largest carriers all expect more flyers than
Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 2: Airlines expect traffic to start picking up as soon as
Speaker 2: this Friday. The busiest day to fly will be the
Speaker 2: Sunday after Thanksgiving coming home, of course, with a similar
Speaker 2: situation on the roads. A gusty bree is still hanging in,
Speaker 2: and we've had clear skies through the day today, clear
Speaker 2: skies to night, temperatures about forty or a couple degrees
Speaker 2: above that in the city. Overnight we'll be back in
Speaker 2: the thirties in some of the inland suburbs, mostly sunny. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: mid fifties or so, still rather breezy, and then by
Speaker 2: Wednesday we'll have more sun than clouds, temperatures in the
Speaker 2: low to mid fifties. Finally, some relief getting in here
Speaker 2: in the form of some rain on Thursday, with breezy
Speaker 2: conditions that rain falling, temper tapering off in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: a high near fifty. We may get in on some
Speaker 2: shower reactivity Friday too, depending on this storm and how
Speaker 2: long it hangs around, so we'll keep you posted. Of course,
Speaker 2: rain is something we haven't seen around here, certainly in
Speaker 2: any big numbers, in quite some time. Sixty one right
Speaker 2: now in Boston. The Celtics and their fans were flying
Speaker 2: high last summer after the team's eighteenth World championship. Now
Speaker 2: flying high at Logan Airport, which is paying tribute to
Speaker 2: the Celtics.
Speaker 7: It's been five months since the Celtics defeated the Dallas
Speaker 7: Mavericks in Game five of the NBA Finals, scoring a
Speaker 7: record setting eighteenth championship. Logan Airport now celebrating that win
Speaker 7: in a special way. Massport's CEO Rich Davy.
Speaker 6: Today, we keep the celebrations rolling as we raise Banner eighteen.
Speaker 7: Banner eighteen now included in the lineup of forty some
Speaker 7: odd championship banners.
Speaker 1: In a minute for us, as they say, two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight was our last one.
Speaker 7: That's Celtics president Rich Gotham. The championship banners are from
Speaker 7: all of Boston's major pro sports teams, dating back to
Speaker 7: the early nineteen hundreds. They hang proudly at the security
Speaker 7: checkpoint at Terminal C.
Speaker 1: But I do think if you count them all, we
Speaker 1: may actually have the most.
Speaker 3: I know we have the most of the NBA.
Speaker 7: At Logan's Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: No school again in three North Shore communities. Teacher strives
Speaker 2: continue in Beverly, Glocester and Marblehead. After more failed negotiations,
Speaker 2: About two thousand people showed up in Beverly this afternoon
Speaker 2: for eight kids for class student March supporting fair contracts.
Speaker 2: Students send their parents. Her and others are asking the
Speaker 2: school committee and the mayor to negotiate in good faith,
Speaker 2: marching from the high school to city Hall today. Got
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Speaker 8: They'll give you some advice.
Speaker 1: LeAnn Hummel is the CEO of Boston Orthopedic and Spine,
Speaker 1: the first orthopractice to partner with Hurt in Massachusetts. Patients
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Speaker 8: This is really peace of mind.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.