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Speaker 1: Breezing cold and clear in Boston. It's thirty seven degrees.
Speaker 1: I'm Laurie Kirby. It's eleven o'clock and topping our news.
Speaker 1: The town of Wilmington is honoring the life and the
Speaker 1: legacy of one of their own today, MIT police officer
Speaker 1: in Wilmington, native Shann Coulier, was killed in the line
Speaker 1: of duty after the twenty thirteen Boston Marathon bombings. He
Speaker 1: was shot on campus by the Zarnaia brothers, who were
Speaker 1: found responsible for the bombings, and died shortly after. Wilmington
Speaker 1: remembers the fallen officer every January third, on Shawn Collier Day,
Speaker 1: which is also his birthday. He would have been thirty
Speaker 1: eight today, and the community is invited to come out
Speaker 1: to pay tribute at the San Collier Memorial Park in
Speaker 1: Rotary Park at two thirty this afternoon. In Wilmington, President
Speaker 1: Biden is headed to New Orleans. The White House says
Speaker 1: he will travel there on Monday with the First Lady
Speaker 1: to grieve with those impacted by the New Year's terror
Speaker 1: attack in the French Quarter. Meanwhile, the investigation goes on.
Speaker 1: The FBI says Texas native and US Army veteran shamsu
Speaker 1: Din Jabbar acted alone when he drove a truck onto
Speaker 1: a crowd on Bourbon Street New Year's morning, killing more
Speaker 1: than a dozen revelers and injuring dozens more. Officials say
Speaker 1: Jabbar planted explosives in ice coolers in two locales a
Speaker 1: few hours before the attack. Let's get more from ABC's
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan.
Speaker 2: The men who sped down Bourbon Street in a pickup truck,
Speaker 2: killing fourteen people were shot dead by police seconds later.
Speaker 2: But the FBI's Christopher Rayes says too many questions about
Speaker 2: shimsu Din Jabbar are left unanswered. To that end, we
Speaker 2: have received just over four hundred tips from the public,
Speaker 2: and that information is being followed up both here in
Speaker 2: New Orleans across the country. Reyes says that on his
Speaker 2: drive from Houston, Jabbar posted several videos declaring his support
Speaker 2: for ISIS. Jim Riyan ABC News New Orleans, the.
Speaker 1: New Congress is about to convene on Capitol Hill in
Speaker 1: just about an hour. They're preparing to elect a House speaker.
Speaker 1: EBC Stephen port Noy says this is going to be
Speaker 1: a tough task for incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson to keep
Speaker 1: his job.
Speaker 3: Two years ago, it took the House fifteen rounds over
Speaker 3: four days to elect Kevin McCarthy speaker, and when he
Speaker 3: was ousted, the body went without a leader for three weeks.
Speaker 3: Mike Johnson emerged from that chaos, but to maintain the gavel,
Speaker 3: he needs to keep practically every member of the GOP
Speaker 3: conference in line behind him. South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman
Speaker 3: said yesterday he was still undecided.
Speaker 2: Look the vital Tyke place. You'll see how it comes out.
Speaker 3: Stephen port Noy, ABC News Washington.
Speaker 1: We'll have more as it happens, both here and streaming
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Beautiful sunshine out there, just a
Speaker 1: few snowflourries, very breezy, win gus to thirty five miles
Speaker 1: per hour today, high thirty nine tempts really in the
Speaker 1: real feel in the low twenties. That's during the daytime,
Speaker 1: So imagine tonight when the real temp is twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Starlet though, and then a weekend of clarity sun and
Speaker 1: clouds by day and by night. But we'll barely get
Speaker 1: above freezing by daytime. So imagine this weekend, it's going
Speaker 1: to be very frigid at night. Let's warm it up.
Speaker 1: Embracing the hopes of the new year means burning away
Speaker 1: the baggage from the past. One bebldebs's Jim McKay tells
Speaker 1: us about an annual event on Cape Case.
Speaker 4: Well, they'll be letting it burn in Provincetown as they're
Speaker 4: about to hold their annual ceremony of the International Rerouters Society,
Speaker 4: where people gather along a beach in Province down and
Speaker 4: watch a Christmas tree burn along the shoreline as a
Speaker 4: symbol of burning away all the bad stuff from the
Speaker 4: previous year and welcoming in the new year. A large
Speaker 4: tree will be taken to the beach along Commercial Street
Speaker 4: and people are invited to bring old letters, photos and
Speaker 4: other small items they can attach to the tree and
Speaker 4: watch it burn up and the new Year's Inferno, a
Speaker 4: tradition that goes back forty two years. This year's is
Speaker 4: taking places upcoming Tuesday night. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: A surgeon General, doctor vimcmurphy is calling for stronger warning
Speaker 1: labels on alcohol. ABC. Stephen Portnoy reports.
Speaker 3: The current government warning label on alcoholic beverages hasn't changed
Speaker 3: since nineteen eighty eight. It warns of the risk of
Speaker 3: birth defects if pregnant women consume alcohol, and says consumption
Speaker 3: impairs one's ability to drive and operate machinery. The message
Speaker 3: also vaguely warns of health problems, but the Surgeon General
Speaker 3: now says the label should explicitly call alcohol use a
Speaker 3: cause of cancer, similar to the warnings on packs of cigarettes.
Speaker 1: And the Surgeon General points out that alcohol is the
Speaker 1: third leading preventable cause of cancer in this nation, after
Speaker 1: tobacco and obesity. Now it's a go for stop. The
Speaker 1: bill to stop drivers in Massachusetts from illegally zooming pass
Speaker 1: stop school buses. Legislation is on the way to Governor
Speaker 1: Moore Healey's desk and it could be signed within days.
Speaker 1: And this potential new law will legalize the use of
Speaker 1: cameras on the outside of school buses to penalize drivers
Speaker 1: who illegally pass those buses when the arm is out
Speaker 1: and students are being picked up or dropped off. Now
Speaker 1: there is some agency here. Every school district will get
Speaker 1: to vote on whether they want them or not, and
Speaker 1: they'll have to pick up the tab for the cameras. Now,
Speaker 1: it was a Peaboty mother who helped renew interest in
Speaker 1: this decade's old proposal went way back after her mother
Speaker 1: and her young children were struck and seriously injured walking
Speaker 1: to school in twenty twenty two. So Peaboty launched a
Speaker 1: pilot program using those school bus cameras and it really worked.
Speaker 1: And again Peebety this mom making the push on Beacon
Speaker 1: Hill to make this state wide funeral services for former
Speaker 1: President Jimmy Carter get underway this weekend. ABC's Faith of
Speaker 1: Bube is already in Planes, Georgie, with more within.
Speaker 5: The next twenty four hours. When they gather here in
Speaker 5: Sumter County, it'll be to start their final goodbyes to
Speaker 5: the family. Patriarch in this community, which has held up
Speaker 5: the former president for an entire century, will be the
Speaker 5: first and the last to honor his memory on this
Speaker 5: final journey. Funeral services begin here tomorrow morning. Current and
Speaker 5: former Secret Service agents who have protected quarters since he
Speaker 5: took office will carry his remains to a hers and
Speaker 5: then join the family for a motocade through town.
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