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Speaker 1: Good morning, six o'clock with a full moon illuminating the
Speaker 1: nighttime sky. We've got clear skies in thirty degrees here
Speaker 1: in Boston. The News at six has brought to us
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Speaker 1: drive headquarters. Thanks for being here on this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown, and here we go again. Sunshine mixing
Speaker 1: with clouds at a windy and colder the story after
Speaker 1: the evening snowshower. That is WBZ achi weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Cold, quiet,
Speaker 1: and mostly dry, though in the coming days. New this morning,
Speaker 1: another round of talks is underway, and the potential cease
Speaker 1: fire agreement between Israel and Hamas appears to be imminent.
Speaker 1: Negotiations to include the end of hostilities and the release
Speaker 1: of the remaining hostages taken during the October seventh attack
Speaker 1: on Israel all on the table. An official announcement could
Speaker 1: come as soon as today. Meantime, Secretary of State Anthony
Speaker 1: Blincoln is expected to announce post war plans for the
Speaker 1: region and an effort to build rebuild Gaza later today.
Speaker 1: No rest for the weary. In southern California, firefighters renew
Speaker 1: their battle with the Santa Anna winds, which are expected
Speaker 1: to whip themselves into a seventy mile per hour frenzy
Speaker 1: again today and tomorrow. The National Weather Service has issued
Speaker 1: a rare particularly dangerous red flag warning some forty thousand
Speaker 1: acres of scorched earth since New Year's Day. Official say
Speaker 1: the winds threatened to erase all of the progress made
Speaker 1: in containing those filefires in recent days. They warn of
Speaker 1: explosive fire growth in the coming hours. All the winter illnesses,
Speaker 1: it's the stuff that certainly keeps you up at night
Speaker 1: and your doctor might share in you're insomnia. Doctor Darien
Speaker 1: Sudden says, we've only just begun.
Speaker 2: I don't think yet we are near the peak. But
Speaker 2: what's different about this year is that it's not just
Speaker 2: one pathogen, not just two, but it's four different diseases
Speaker 2: that are going around and spreading different times symptoms. We're
Speaker 2: talking about flu, covid, RSV, as well as neurovirus.
Speaker 3: Doctor Sutton says the most common positive test he gets
Speaker 3: back is the flu. He says it's important to remember
Speaker 3: the basics, avoid contact with those infected, and regular hand
Speaker 3: washing can help reduce the risk of infection. Jaywilllett WBZ
Speaker 3: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1: New research suggests new cases of dementia in the United
Speaker 1: States will double in the coming decades. Scientists say that
Speaker 1: by the year twenty sixty one million American adults will
Speaker 1: develop the debilitating memory robbing disease. Every year. The risk
Speaker 1: factors for developing dementia appear to be higher than previous estimates.
Speaker 1: Bruins are back in action tonight. They'll take on Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay at the Garden. Celtics hit the road. They're in
Speaker 1: Toronto tomorrow night and gone in a flash. The Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings lose in an upset to the La Rams to
Speaker 1: wrap up the NFL's wildcard round. Early round play in
Speaker 1: the Australian Open tennis tournaments continues, and it's going on
Speaker 1: right now on the land down under wbz's Drew mo'holland
Speaker 1: as the first major tennis tournament of the year.
Speaker 4: Always fun, isn't it, Jeff Yes, Indean Yanick Sentator Carlos
Speaker 4: Alkaaz Novak Djokovic all through to the second round already
Speaker 4: for the men. No surprises there, but in Novak's case,
Speaker 4: he defeats A nineteen year old youngster who get this,
Speaker 4: used the Novak Djokovic picture as his WhatsApp profile pick
Speaker 4: did you follow me there?
Speaker 1: That I think I did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Novak is Nichez Basar Vodi's hero, and Djokovic addressed
Speaker 4: it after he, you know, well beat him.
Speaker 5: I don't know what to say to that.
Speaker 3: To be honest, I do appreciate the support.
Speaker 4: Is a nice boy.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's a teenager still, you know. I'm sure
Speaker 5: we'll see a lot of him in the future.
Speaker 4: Maybe I should make my profile pictures Novak.
Speaker 1: Good good job sorting out all those vowels and concepts.
Speaker 4: Very difficult to the tennis front.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Andrew. The early morning sky has lit up
Speaker 1: with the January full moon as we are seeing temperatures
Speaker 1: hovering right around the freezing mark right now, wins are
Speaker 1: relatively calm for the moment, but that's going to change today.
Speaker 1: We're going to see a mix of sun and clouds
Speaker 1: and win conditions are back in play. Also cannot rule
Speaker 1: out a late day snowshower or some flurry activity in
Speaker 1: your neighborhood. Temperatures are going to be right around freezing
Speaker 1: all day today, but with the wind the akiweather, real
Speaker 1: field temperatures will be suppressed in the teens and twenties
Speaker 1: more the same Tomorrow and likely Thursday as well, with
Speaker 1: temperatures really not moving much above the freezing mark. But
Speaker 1: it turns milder as we head towards the weekend on Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: and into Sunday as well, with high temperatures getting closer
Speaker 1: to forty pretty much every day in that stretch. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's thirty under crystal clear skies here in Boston on
Speaker 1: this Tuesday morning, it's six oh six. Quenching your midday
Speaker 1: thirst could soon come with a new cost ice.
Speaker 6: Cold and refreshing, but also filled with sugar. We know
Speaker 6: soda is no good for us, and Boston City council
Speaker 6: Or Sharon Durkin wants to drive that point home with
Speaker 6: a new citywide sugary drink tax.
Speaker 7: It's a really great idea.
Speaker 6: Aaron used to drink a few orange sodas a day,
Speaker 6: but kick the habit to the curb years ago.
Speaker 1: I've cut it out.
Speaker 5: I don't drink soda anymore, and I actually have lost a.
Speaker 6: She thinks Boston is overdue for a soda search art
Speaker 6: something things.
Speaker 7: To be done about the childhood a.
Speaker 6: B ST Counselor. Durkin's proposal calls for a hearing to
Speaker 6: further investigate the viability of a sugary drink tax in Boston, Philly,
Speaker 6: San Francisco, and Seattle have had one for years. Feedback
Speaker 6: I'm getting seems to be a thumbs up.
Speaker 4: Putting out stuff that's bad forth for a long time.
Speaker 4: So I think it's time for them to pay back
Speaker 4: and Charlestown.
Speaker 6: Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: You gotta pay to play at Starbucks. The world's biggest
Speaker 1: coffee chain updates its playbook and from now on, if
Speaker 1: you want to sit and talk or just hang out
Speaker 1: inside a Starbucks, you're gonna have to be a paying customer.
Speaker 1: The new policy update means anyone inside of Starbucks must
Speaker 1: buy something. An update to an easing of the code
Speaker 1: of conduct from seven years ago also includes restrictions on
Speaker 1: panhandling and bans, discrimination, harassment, as well as violence and
Speaker 1: abusive language. Revere would like a word. Community safety is
Speaker 1: on the line with a recent misstep at an emergent
Speaker 1: agency housing shelter.
Speaker 5: Revere City councilors want to talk with the state's Housing
Speaker 5: Office about the vetting process for those staying at emergency shelters.
Speaker 5: This comes after an undocumented immigrant was arrested at the
Speaker 5: quality in allegedly in possession of ten pounds of fenomil
Speaker 5: and an assault rightful.
Speaker 7: Illustrating an overwhelming failure in procedural safeguards by the.
Speaker 1: Commonwealth Counselor Michelle Kelly, the.
Speaker 7: Healy administration finally released public records revealing that over one
Speaker 7: thousand serious incidents were reported at stage shelters between January
Speaker 7: twenty twenty three. In August twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: The City Council voted unanimously on a motion calling for
Speaker 5: the Heey administration to detail a plan that insures background
Speaker 5: checks at emergency shelters, also that those in the system
Speaker 5: are not involved in illegal activity. At Revere City Hall,
Speaker 5: James rohas w b Z Boston's News Radio.
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