Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news. Well,
Speaker 1: good morning, it is Thursday in Boston, six o'clock and
Speaker 1: it's still cold. Clear sky's twenty one degrees. But what
Speaker 1: is this a lack of wind? It's true out the
Speaker 1: door this morning, The News at six brought to us
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Speaker 1: drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. Welcome aboard. We're still doing
Speaker 1: our January thing. Sunshine today, we'll give way to increasing
Speaker 1: clouds that'll remain brisk and cold with a high round
Speaker 1: freezing is WBZ ACI weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Maybe a
Speaker 1: couple of snowflakes a little bit later on today. Firefighters
Speaker 1: in southern California catch another break as the Santa Ana
Speaker 1: winds begin to die down. Some progress is being made
Speaker 1: to contain the deadly blazes that have left behind tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of acres of scorched earth. Estimates on damages
Speaker 1: and economic fallout from these fires now stand at at
Speaker 1: least a quarter billion dollars. Government financial aid from Washington
Speaker 1: for the fires is itself coming under fire. On Capitol Hill,
Speaker 1: Democrats are outraged over Republicans' plans to put political policy
Speaker 1: strings on any pay package. No deal yet, the planned
Speaker 1: cease fire in the Gaza Strip is on thin ice.
Speaker 1: Israel says Hamas has reneged on a key part of
Speaker 1: the agreement that would end hostilities and include a hostage
Speaker 1: release among the hostages three Americans. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah,
Speaker 1: who says Israel's cabinet will not vote on the agreement
Speaker 1: as scheduled today and will not take it up until
Speaker 1: Hamas backs down on what is being called a last
Speaker 1: minute crisis. Terms of the cease fire are to take
Speaker 1: effect on Sunday. President Biden delivers a heartfelt farewell addressed
Speaker 1: to the nation.
Speaker 2: I'm so proud of.
Speaker 3: How much we've accomplished together for the American people.
Speaker 1: The forty sixth Commander in Chief says being in the
Speaker 1: Oval Office has been the biggest honor of his life.
Speaker 1: But as he passes the torch, he warns Americans that
Speaker 1: the incoming administration will lead to an oligarchy, with power
Speaker 1: consolidated among the tech world and the ultra rich.
Speaker 4: Participating in our democracy becomes exhausting and even disillusioning.
Speaker 3: If people don't feel like they have a fair shot.
Speaker 1: Mister Biden's fifteen minute nationwide address includes a reference to
Speaker 1: high tech mobiles as moguls as becoming modern day robber barons.
Speaker 1: Senate confirmation hearings continue for a third day on Capitol
Speaker 1: Hill Today. Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi returns for a
Speaker 1: second day of grilling. Former Governor of North Dakota Doug
Speaker 1: Bergham is up for the Interior Department lead. Scott Bessant
Speaker 1: faces the music to lead the Treasury Department. Senators will
Speaker 1: also question the nominees for Housing in Urban Development, as
Speaker 1: well as the Environmental Protection Agency. Lift off in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night for Blue Origins New Glen Rocket
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos's third try is the charm as the massive
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty foot rocket blasts off with a
Speaker 1: prototype satellite on board. The New Glen reached orbit just
Speaker 1: thirteen minutes after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center. Until
Speaker 1: last night, the Ractors had won just nine games this year,
Speaker 1: but they beat the Celtics in Toronto. Bruins are off
Speaker 1: until Saturday, when their travels take them to Ottawa and
Speaker 1: down Under at the Australian Open. Tennis tournament American Madison
Speaker 1: Keys survives a three set battle swit first.
Speaker 3: Strike forward, ultimately those Seine Sea, who prevails seven five.
Speaker 1: In a show off to the next round she goes.
Speaker 1: So the winds have died down out the door this morning,
Speaker 1: but this is the coldest morning of this recent stretch.
Speaker 1: Temperatures are in the teens in many locations, and in
Speaker 1: fact here in Boston it's just twenty one degrees. But
Speaker 1: the winds have calmed down substantially. We're seeing gusts still
Speaker 1: in the area of ten to fifteen miles per hour,
Speaker 1: but that's a bit of a break from days past.
Speaker 1: We'll see some sunshine to begin the day today, Clouds
Speaker 1: around the increase later on. Cannot rule out the possibility
Speaker 1: of a couple passing showers in the form of snow
Speaker 1: showers or snow flakes later on. Today, mostly cloudy, continue
Speaker 1: to flew a few snow showers overnight. Tonight Tomorrow looks
Speaker 1: like it's going to be slightly warmer. We'll get above
Speaker 1: freezing for certain temperatures will get very close to forty degrees,
Speaker 1: and we'll see mostly sunny skies. Looks like a pretty
Speaker 1: decent start to the weekend, but it's going to be breezy.
Speaker 1: We might see some clouds popping into the picture on Saturday,
Speaker 1: but temperatures will top forty degrees and we're still watching
Speaker 1: the potential for some snow moving in late this holiday
Speaker 1: weekend on Sunday into Monday. Right now in Boston it's
Speaker 1: clear skies and twenty one here in the city this
Speaker 1: Thursday morning. Six oh six Americans catch a cold more
Speaker 1: than one billion times every single year. Healthy Drew mo'holland
Speaker 1: joins us.
Speaker 4: I hope excuse me while I knock on wood.
Speaker 1: Yes, there you go, or for make for micas the
Speaker 1: case may be. Can we stop this madness?
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see. It is a lot of that out there, right,
Speaker 4: Everybody seems to be getting sick. But pretty much every
Speaker 4: year this is the case, and while there's still no
Speaker 4: cure for the common cold, we still try it. Elderbury,
Speaker 4: are you familiar with these Jeffreys? I?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I haven't haven't dabbled.
Speaker 4: Okay, they played the hot hand these days, but doctors
Speaker 4: seem divided if the treatment is worth it. Pitched as
Speaker 4: a way to boost the immune system, it's one of
Speaker 4: the most popular herbal supplements out there. Recent studies suggest
Speaker 4: that elderberry will reduce the symptoms and severity of a
Speaker 4: cold quicker, but other research shows the effect as well
Speaker 4: barely noticeable. Still, we do anything to stop the sneezing
Speaker 4: and stuffy head symptoms, and we'll spend one hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy five million dollars a year to.
Speaker 1: Get there, and still no cure for the common cold.
Speaker 1: Another reminder, thank you, Drew, somebody's knocking. President Biden's long
Speaker 1: national political career is coming to an end with a cigarette.
Speaker 2: Jonathan from Boston has tried quitting cigarettes multiple times, but
Speaker 2: nothing seems to work.
Speaker 5: Not easy, using gum, using patches, using therapy, so many
Speaker 5: different ways.
Speaker 2: That's why he supports the FDA proposing a role that
Speaker 2: will limit the amount of nicotine and cigarettes and other
Speaker 2: tobacco products.
Speaker 5: Definitely, they should. They're super addictive and make life easier.
Speaker 5: They should do that with alcohol too, make that's stuff
Speaker 5: less strong. Yeah, I'm with it.
Speaker 2: Jorge from Cambridge as a longtime smoker, he likes the idea,
Speaker 2: but says they could backfire.
Speaker 3: If you're used to a certain nicotine, you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to buy most of it's it's just another tactic for
Speaker 3: them to tell siga bites. That's how that is.
Speaker 2: The FDA says less addictive cigarettes would help millions of
Speaker 2: Americans quit smoking and prevent future generations from starting In Cambridge.
Speaker 2: James Rojas w b Z Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 1: And with just days to go till Inauguration day, social
Speaker 1: media side TikTok continues to live seemingly on borrowed time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, better start saving your favorite TikTok videos now that
Speaker 3: are about to be gone, but there's still time. One
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy million subscribers continue to wait for the
Speaker 3: Supreme Courts decision on whether to uphold a law that
Speaker 3: will force its Chinese owner to sell it or shut
Speaker 3: it down. On Sunday, there's talk that President elects Donald
Speaker 3: Trump might try to rescue it by executive order next week. Meantime,
Speaker 3: we learn the CEO of TikTok will be at the
Speaker 3: swearing in ceremony on Monday, needed not far from President
Speaker 3: Biden and former Presidents Jay. We'll let WBZ Boston's News radio.
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