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Speaker 2: Twenty six degrees.
Speaker 3: We've got clear skies in Boston, but man, we're feeling
Speaker 3: like the teens at the moment on a frigid Friday
Speaker 3: morning at six o'clock.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us.
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Speaker 3: I'm Jim McKay. It's Friday morning. Let's get to it.
Speaker 2: Here's what's happening.
Speaker 3: Well, certainly, it is very chilly as we get out
Speaker 3: the front door this morning. You're definitely gonna want to
Speaker 3: bundle up because it's going to be cold over the
Speaker 3: next few hours.
Speaker 4: Twenty of sunshine today with highs not far from forty.
Speaker 4: A rainy weekend is on the way, and that is
Speaker 4: wbz ACU weather meteorologist Joe Loundberg. Eventually we will get
Speaker 4: that sunshine and things will feel a bit more comfortable.
Speaker 4: The air is changing late tonight into tomorrow, and again
Speaker 4: we're in the forties and fifties outside of a few
Speaker 4: rain drops. It's a pretty warm weekend driving around to
Speaker 4: England right now for a holiday return home conditions aren't
Speaker 4: too bad, except from a little ice out there, because
Speaker 4: it's certainly freezing elsewhere across the country, leaving town highly
Speaker 4: problematic and could have an impact for those heading to
Speaker 4: the skies.
Speaker 1: In this most wonderful time of the year. Sometimes all
Speaker 1: you need to pack is a good attitude.
Speaker 2: Delays make great adventures.
Speaker 5: It's a little bit crowdy, but I'll.
Speaker 1: Get through it. Nationwide, the TSA expects to screen nearly
Speaker 1: forty million passengers from December nineteenth through January two, a
Speaker 1: six percent increase from a year ago. Complicating things Thursday,
Speaker 1: punishing weather in certain parts of the country. Airports in
Speaker 1: Dallas and Houston are seeing delays and cancelations as the
Speaker 1: rain comes down. Bradley Blackburn, CBS News, New York.
Speaker 3: And so far only just a few delays going on
Speaker 3: over at Logan and there's no cancelations.
Speaker 2: At six oh one.
Speaker 3: There's a move underway at this Statehouse to crack down
Speaker 3: on drivers who stop, park or operate a motor vehicle
Speaker 3: and design to bus lanes.
Speaker 6: Bus only lanes have sprouted up across Boston to speed
Speaker 6: up travel time for commuters who ride t buses, but
Speaker 6: passenger vehicles frustrate that goal when drivers operate cars and
Speaker 6: SUVs in the bus only lanes, slowing the buses down. Now,
Speaker 6: state lawmakers are considering legislations to install cameras on buses
Speaker 6: to monitor traffic in the bus lanes and record the
Speaker 6: registration numbers of offending vehicles. Police could then follow up
Speaker 6: it issued tickets, finding drivers twenty five to one hundred
Speaker 6: and twenty five dollars for bus lane violations. The bill
Speaker 6: to install the cameras and impose the fines has passed
Speaker 6: the Senate, and, with just days left in the legislative year,
Speaker 6: could get a House vote at the State House. Mike
Speaker 6: Maclin WBZ, Boston's news.
Speaker 3: Radio ads six out two From the Roads to the Rails,
Speaker 3: Some service changes are coming next month for riders on
Speaker 3: the MBTA weekend schedule. Shifts are planned on the Orange, Red,
Speaker 3: and Silver lines in January, with additional changes posted for
Speaker 3: the newberry Port, Rockport Inhaviral commuter rail lines. It's all
Speaker 3: part of construction plans for the TEA and the new
Speaker 3: year of More details can be found on the MBTA website.
Speaker 2: And also new reports.
Speaker 3: This morning, some aviation experts saying Russian air defense fire
Speaker 3: was likely responsible for the crash of an Iserbaijani Airlines
Speaker 3: flight that killed thirty eight people.
Speaker 7: I spoke with Andrew Nicholson, who runs Osprey, a company
Speaker 7: that advises carriers flying in the region. He pointed to
Speaker 7: images of the plane's wreckage that appear to show what
Speaker 7: he says is damage consistent with surface to air fire.
Speaker 8: There are no stuffs or bumps or dents that would
Speaker 8: also indicate you know, aft or birds hitting the aircraft fuselage,
Speaker 8: and also the direction of the shrapnel which looks like
Speaker 8: it's coming from below and towards the front.
Speaker 7: Kremlin saying it would be wrong to speculate before the
Speaker 7: investigation is complete.
Speaker 3: ABC's and as de la Katerra reporting, Yeah, it is
Speaker 3: certainly frozen and out there, very cold morning. As we're
Speaker 3: getting started. We are mid twenties in Boston, but feeling
Speaker 3: like the teens and single digits in and around town
Speaker 3: and north and west of Boston. Especially for later on
Speaker 3: this afternoon, we'll have highs climbing up into the mid
Speaker 3: to upper thirties with a good deal of sunshine, and
Speaker 3: then we're off into the forties and fifties. This weekend,
Speaker 3: where it should be really just a warm trend here
Speaker 3: all the way into the new year in the middle
Speaker 3: of next week. It starts tomorrow, and we could see
Speaker 3: some scattered showers both Saturday and Sunday. Some of that
Speaker 3: in central and western mass by the way, could be
Speaker 3: in the form of some scattered snow showers as well,
Speaker 3: and may complicate things that are already frozen in the
Speaker 3: western part of the state. Outside of that, though, we're
Speaker 3: at a warming trend here for Greater Boston all the
Speaker 3: way through the middle of next week. At the moment
Speaker 3: right now in Boston twenty six degrees and we're certainly
Speaker 3: feeling colder than that at six oh six. A new
Speaker 3: report from the World Weather Attribution and Climate Central saying
Speaker 3: human cause climate change added an average of forty one
Speaker 3: days of dangerous heat this year.
Speaker 9: Twenty twenty four is expected to be the warmest on record,
Speaker 9: which is why it should be no surprise that the
Speaker 9: world experienced an average of forty one extra days of
Speaker 9: dangerous heat last year, made worse due to human cause
Speaker 9: climate change. Scientists say that climate change intensified twenty six
Speaker 9: major global weather events that killed more than thirty seven
Speaker 9: hundred people and displaced millions around the globe. They warned
Speaker 9: that unless people speed up the transition away from fossil
Speaker 9: fuels and provide finance to help adapt to climate change,
Speaker 9: the dangers will only increase. Tracy Wolf CBS News New York.
Speaker 3: And at six oh seven, a scene that is becoming
Speaker 3: disturbingly familiar on south shore beaches. Another whale washes ashore
Speaker 3: this week. This time it was at Wrexham Beach in Marshfield,
Speaker 3: as maritime officials were receiving calls from people walking the
Speaker 3: beach when they discovered the small whale carcass. It was
Speaker 3: just a few weeks ago two other whales had washed ashore,
Speaker 3: one on a beach in Plymouth and the other on
Speaker 3: the cape in Brewster. At six oh seven on WBZ
Speaker 3: News Radio, oh a Christmas Miracle and Maine the Radio,
Speaker 3: a businessman and former radio host in Bangor stepping up
Speaker 3: to save a legendary radio station owned by Stephen King,
Speaker 3: who sold off the stations recently and put them up
Speaker 3: for auction, Classic rocker wk It was set to go
Speaker 3: off the air before the holidays, but now it will
Speaker 3: continue to rock thanks to generous fan to other stations
Speaker 3: owned by King are set to shut down just before
Speaker 3: the end of the year, and the annual debate is
Speaker 3: heating up in living rooms across the Commonwealth.
Speaker 5: The presidents have been opened, the meal has been devoured,
Speaker 5: but there's still a seven foot tree in my living room?
Speaker 5: How long can I wait before taking it down? Once
Speaker 5: we get close to New Year's everything comes down.
Speaker 2: Christmas is over, I feel like into the new year,
Speaker 2: it's fine. A week at the most, a week at
Speaker 2: the most a week in the moment. What about the
Speaker 2: Twelve Days of Christmas? What about them?
Speaker 10: I'm Jewish, but for some people there is a religious
Speaker 10: reason to leave it up, because the Twelve Days of
Speaker 10: Christmas only starts on the twenty fifth, lasting all the
Speaker 10: way until the Feast of Epiphany, which is well into January.
Speaker 5: That being said, other people leave the tree up just
Speaker 5: to keep the good times rolling.
Speaker 8: I mean, Christmas is a special season, and like, you know,
Speaker 8: just having that up there till like into the new year,
Speaker 8: let's like continue the good vibes.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Jeremy Russ, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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