Speaker 1: This is WBZ Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: Good morning, six o'clock in Boston, waking up under partly
Speaker 2: cloudy skies and another ridiculous sixty five degrees as we
Speaker 2: could go in this Thursday morning, and the News at
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Speaker 2: I'm Jeff Brown. As November turns a little dangerous.
Speaker 3: Gusty wins an excessively dry weather rule result in a
Speaker 3: high fire throat for the next three days.
Speaker 2: As WBZ AKI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. But the weather
Speaker 2: couldn't be nicer. We'll see temperatures right around seventy once
Speaker 2: again today. Well, despite a furious comeback, the Celtics simply
Speaker 2: can't catch up. They lose to Golden State at the Garden.
Speaker 2: It's just the team's second loss this year. Ruins will
Speaker 2: host Calgary tonight on Causeway Street, and Week ten in
Speaker 2: the NFL gets underway tonight. The Bengals visit the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2: Just hours after declaring victory for a second term in
Speaker 2: the White House, President elect Donald Trump begins work on
Speaker 2: his transition with discussions with other world leaders, Israeli Prime
Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin Ettanyah, who says he was among the first
Speaker 2: to contact the soon to be forty seventh president of
Speaker 2: the United States to congratulate him on a stunning political comeback.
Speaker 2: Mister Trump also speaks with Canadian and leaders and South
Speaker 2: Korean leaders. Discussions are already underway on a transition team.
Speaker 2: The new administration will take full advantage of the seventy
Speaker 2: five days between election day and inauguration day in January
Speaker 2: to set up a cabinet and other policy agendas. A
Speaker 2: President Biden has already spoken to his predecessor and successor
Speaker 2: and has invited Donald Trump to the White House. It
Speaker 2: is not clear if the President elect will take him
Speaker 2: up on the offer. As Democrats in DC begin to
Speaker 2: claw their eyes out after getting clabbered on election night,
Speaker 2: the President, who will address the nation from the Rose
Speaker 2: Garden later this morning.
Speaker 3: In a statement, President Biden says of Kamala Harris quote,
Speaker 3: she will contino to be a leader our children will
Speaker 3: look up to for generations to come, as she puts
Speaker 3: her stamp on America's future. He'll speak from the White
Speaker 3: House at eleven am Eastern, his first appearance on camera
Speaker 3: since Harris was defeated by Donald.
Speaker 2: Trump's CBS's Matt Piper. The President is expected to call
Speaker 2: on unity during the transition and beyond. Special Counsel Jack
Speaker 2: Smith begins to discuss how to wind down active prosecutions
Speaker 2: of Donald Trump, in keeping with Justice Department policy not
Speaker 2: to prosecute sitting presidents. Smith is in charge of two investigations,
Speaker 2: the classified Documents case in Florida and claims Trump attempted
Speaker 2: to overturn twenty twenty's election results. The President elect has
Speaker 2: vowed to fire Smith immediately upon taking office. In a
Speaker 2: stunning fall, Germany's coalition government collapses with the termination of
Speaker 2: the country's finance minister. Chancellor Olaff Schultz also calls for
Speaker 2: a confidence vote that many insiders say is sure to fail.
Speaker 2: It's a run up to early elections next spring. This
Speaker 2: is the second May Your shock to a foreign government
Speaker 2: system this week, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natnyahuo fired
Speaker 2: his defense minister for working against him in the Middle
Speaker 2: East War, and the Pride of the Berkshires is about
Speaker 2: to meet the chainsaw.
Speaker 4: Today, a seventy four foot tall Norway spruce tree comes
Speaker 4: down in West Stockbridge to be sent over to Rockefeller Center.
Speaker 4: It's the first time since nineteen fifty nine that Massachusetts
Speaker 4: has been NYC's plug for the Christmas Tree, slated for
Speaker 4: a Saturday arrival. Later on, they'll spruce it up with
Speaker 4: some fifty thousand string lights and come Wednesday, December fourth,
Speaker 4: they'll light that sucker up. That's all kicking off with
Speaker 4: singer Kelly Clarkson hosting Jay Willett WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Beautiful stretch of weather is going to continue, at least
Speaker 2: for the next couple of days. In fact, today, once
Speaker 2: again we're going to get into the lower seventies, plenty
Speaker 2: of sunshine, continued breezy as well, and that is at
Speaker 2: least part of the reason why the brush fire risk
Speaker 2: will be elevated over the next several days. Of course,
Speaker 2: the other reason is that we simply haven't had any rain.
Speaker 2: We're looking at the potential for some rain in the
Speaker 2: long range forecast. We'll get to that in the second
Speaker 2: but in the meantime, again a mix of sun and clouds.
Speaker 2: Low seventies again today, clear and cooler overnight tonight. We'll
Speaker 2: drop into the forties now. Tomorrow we start to begin
Speaker 2: a cool off period. We'll see temperatures in the lower
Speaker 2: sixties tomorrow and through the weekend. We really won't get
Speaker 2: out of the fifties, although it will be mainly dry
Speaker 2: and mainly sunny for the first half of the weekend.
Speaker 2: We are expecting clouds on the increase on Sunday, with
Speaker 2: the potential for some rain moving into the area on
Speaker 2: Veterans Day on Monday. It may not be much, but
Speaker 2: every little bit helps in a situation like this. The
Speaker 2: US Drought Monitor will update the situation here in Massachusetts
Speaker 2: and around the country later on this morning. We'll keep
Speaker 2: you posted right now in Boston under partly cloudy skies,
Speaker 2: it is sixty five degrees here on November seventh. Good morning,
Speaker 2: it is six oh six. It is almost sunrise, but
Speaker 2: it will be dark in about ten and a half hours.
Speaker 2: It's no wonder many of us are depressed.
Speaker 5: That sun light is exactly what people prone to seasonal
Speaker 5: disorders need, and many have serious trouble getting through the
Speaker 5: dark days. Seasonal effective disorder is a type of depression
Speaker 5: that begins in the fall and gets better in the
Speaker 5: springer summer, doctor suggests, beginning in the morning, sit near
Speaker 5: a device that puts out light about twenty times brighter
Speaker 5: than regular light. Therapy is helpful for some. Other recommendations
Speaker 5: include walking outside and sticking to a regular sleep schedule.
Speaker 5: Allison Keys CBS.
Speaker 2: News forecasters say twenty twenty four is on track to
Speaker 2: be the hottest on record all around the world. Scientists
Speaker 2: in Europe say it looks like the planet will be
Speaker 2: warmer than the two point seven degree fahrenheit benchmark set
Speaker 2: in the Paris Climate Accords, and this will be the
Speaker 2: first time that's ever happened. A record this year would
Speaker 2: eclipse the previous record set just last year. Official say
Speaker 2: warming from greenhouse gas emissions increases sea level rise and
Speaker 2: makes extreme weather events even more extreme. Safety on Boston
Speaker 2: area streets is easier said than done. The BU Bridge
Speaker 2: Safety Alliance says more can be done to make this
Speaker 2: corridor safer for those on two wheels and for those
Speaker 2: on two feet. Now, these two BU students say there
Speaker 2: have been some close calls.
Speaker 6: Kids they are like trying to cross, like even while
Speaker 6: it's still like, how doesn't I show the walk sign,
Speaker 6: They're like trying to get across and cars just like,
Speaker 6: don't obey that.
Speaker 3: And or I would say sometimes if the walk sign
Speaker 3: just closed, people sold cross and then the cars don't
Speaker 3: really care that they're crossing.
Speaker 1: Members of the Safety Alliance are hosting a hybrid meeting
Speaker 1: next Thursday night, inviting everyone to join and give input
Speaker 1: from bicyclists and pedestrians to officials with DCR and mass
Speaker 1: dot on the bu Bridge James Rojas, WBZ Boston'snoos Radio.
Speaker 2: That's the spirit. You gotta get that blood flowing. We
Speaker 2: have another reason to get out and exercise this morning.
Speaker 2: Wbz's Drew mo'holland, an expert on that is here to
Speaker 2: tell us more.
Speaker 6: I did not get my morning run in today. Bad
Speaker 6: job by me. But size could lower your blood pressure, Jeffrey,
Speaker 6: And guess what. Nearly half of American adults they have
Speaker 6: high blood pressure. A study published by the journal Circulation
Speaker 6: found the benefit comes from raising your heart rate, whether
Speaker 6: it's from running, cycling, climbing stairs. So many of us
Speaker 6: feel that this is something we want to do right.
Speaker 6: We want to get out there, work out, We want
Speaker 6: to get fit and feel better. But maybe you say,
Speaker 6: who has the time, Who has the time. See, I
Speaker 6: know it's tough, but this study found that even five
Speaker 6: minutes of exercise, Jeff hugely beneficial.
Speaker 2: I think I can find five minutes.
Speaker 6: Let's all go five minutes.
Speaker 2: It's five minutes. I'll never get back, but I'll find it.
Speaker 2: Let's go. You are now in the loop. For news
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Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.