Speaker 1: This is VS Boston's news radio, redefining local news.
Speaker 2: A couple clouds but mostly sunny in Boston, twenty seven
Speaker 2: degrees at eleven o'clock on this Christmas Day. Thanks for
Speaker 2: being with us. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening, a
Speaker 2: sunny Christmas Day ahead.
Speaker 3: We will dry Christmas Day with sunshine at so clouds
Speaker 3: and high's and little to mid thirties.
Speaker 4: It'll stay dry through Friday and that hack you.
Speaker 2: Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. The full forecast is coming up
Speaker 2: in three all right, Christmas and Hanukkah falling on the
Speaker 2: same day for just the fifth time in the last
Speaker 2: one hundred and fourteen years.
Speaker 5: The dates for Honocut change every year because Judaism is
Speaker 5: following a Luna's so large calendar, that is following both
Speaker 5: the passage of the sun and the passage of the moon.
Speaker 6: Whereas Christians are following the Gregory calendar. It just follows
Speaker 6: the sun.
Speaker 5: University of Birmingham theology professor Canada Moss says both holidays
Speaker 5: are interested in light and in God's presence in dark times,
Speaker 5: and she says the holiday's falling on the same day.
Speaker 6: Of course, this creates a huge opportunity for interfaith families
Speaker 6: to celebrate both traditions alongside one another.
Speaker 5: The two holidays won't converge again until twenty thirty five,
Speaker 5: Jennifer Kuiper, CBS News.
Speaker 2: And Hanukkah begins at sundown tonight. Kwanza starts tomorrow and
Speaker 2: runs through January. First, Well, we do have snow on
Speaker 2: the ground in many areas here in Massachusetts, so are
Speaker 2: we officially labeling today as a white Christmas? According to
Speaker 2: the National Weather Service, they say there must be at
Speaker 2: least one inch of snow on the ground at exactly
Speaker 2: seven am Christmas morning to qualify as a white Christmas,
Speaker 2: which is indeed the case here prior to today. Twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: was Boston's last white Christmas. But in twenty seventeen we
Speaker 2: had snow Christmas Day, but it was after seven am.
Speaker 2: The snow purists would add that day to the white
Speaker 2: Christmas mix. Boston Mayor Michelle Wou reflecting back on twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four and look ahead to the new year.
Speaker 7: I love this job. It's just the greatest gift in
Speaker 7: the whole world to be able to be part of
Speaker 7: this community and to see how much we can accomplish
Speaker 7: when Boston comes together and.
Speaker 3: Mary Michelle wou voicing her enthusiasm for the job Boston
Speaker 3: voters offered her three years ago for the city's first
Speaker 3: woman mayor the next year offers the promise of welcoming
Speaker 3: a third child to her family in January. The expected
Speaker 3: mayor also expected to soon announce that she's a candidate
Speaker 3: for a second term. Although an official announcement has not
Speaker 3: yet been made, all indications are she's ready to run.
Speaker 7: Especially as we enter into the next four years. There
Speaker 7: is a lot of work to do, and we know
Speaker 7: that people all across the country are going to be
Speaker 7: looking to Boston for what that leading light looks like
Speaker 7: and how our communities can continue to inspire others all
Speaker 7: around the country.
Speaker 3: With the final year of her first term just around
Speaker 3: the corner, still no word on whether anyone will challenge
Speaker 3: Wu so far just idle speculation. Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio Celtics hosting the seventy six Ers at the Garden,
Speaker 2: tip off at five pm. This is the ninth consecutive
Speaker 2: year that the Celtics are playing on Christmas, and the
Speaker 2: fifth time they're playing at home. On the holiday. Ruins
Speaker 2: and Patriots have Christmas Day off to NFL games later
Speaker 2: today Kansas City at Pittsburgh, at won Baltimore at Houston.
Speaker 2: That's at four thirty. Now, let's check the ACU weather
Speaker 2: forecast Sun and Patchie Klaus today. Highs thirty two to
Speaker 2: thirty six tonight, partly to mostly cloudy, cooling down to
Speaker 2: twenty five in the city and surrounding areas teens in
Speaker 2: most of those western suburbs, near thirty on the Cape
Speaker 2: and the Islands. Tomorrow, we're going to see some clouds
Speaker 2: to start off the day. Then it'll become mostly sunny,
Speaker 2: but still chili. High's only reaching thirty seven degrees, low
Speaker 2: forties on the Cape. In the Islands, highs not far
Speaker 2: from forty on Friday, with mostly sunny sky Saturday, once
Speaker 2: again that high sticking around forty degrees, but it'll be
Speaker 2: mostly cloudy on the Saturday, toward the mid forties on
Speaker 2: the Cape and the Islands. Right now, checking the tempts
Speaker 2: we're seeing, Let's see Pittsfield twenty three degrees, Northampton twenty seven.
Speaker 2: We have twenty eight in Springfield, twenty seven in Worcester
Speaker 2: twenty seven as well in Framingham up on the north
Speaker 2: shore twenty eight degrees, in Ipswich twenty seven, in Denvers
Speaker 2: along the south SouthShore twenty nine, in Quincy twenty nine
Speaker 2: as well in Plymouth. We have thirty one degrees in
Speaker 2: New Bedford and Taunton. In the city right now mostly
Speaker 2: Sunnay twenty seven degrees at eleven oh five. Back to newsdown.
Speaker 2: Many businesses are closed on this Christmas Day, but not
Speaker 2: a Christmas store in downtown Crossing. We get that from
Speaker 2: WBC's Carl Stevens.
Speaker 4: The Old Corner Christmas Store here in Downtown Crossing is
Speaker 4: open today. It's opened every day. In fact, manager Vanessa
Speaker 4: Silva says their busiest time of year is in Christmas time.
Speaker 4: It's summertime because of all the tourists, so.
Speaker 8: You can't answer here on the summer and still feel
Speaker 8: like Christmas time.
Speaker 4: Some of their most popular items are Boston themed ornaments.
Speaker 8: We have on Dafeniel Hall ornament, we have the States House,
Speaker 8: we have Preday show, so it's very unique.
Speaker 4: And of course the Old Corner Christmas Store gets a
Speaker 4: lot of visitors this time of year, like this woman.
Speaker 2: It's so cute.
Speaker 7: There's got a lot of different stuff, a lot of
Speaker 7: stuff you can't see other places.
Speaker 4: And it says Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. It absolutely says Christmas.
Speaker 4: From Downtown Crossing Carl Stevens WBC Boston's News radio.
Speaker 2: Dozens of residents in the Broadway Glenn Building on Broadway
Speaker 2: and Chelsea have been without heat and hot water in
Speaker 2: this cold snap since the weekend. The buildings owners say
Speaker 2: that the issues have been addressed, with two boilers now
Speaker 2: repaired one more boiler to go. They also say that
Speaker 2: fifty electric space heaters have been provided to residents, but
Speaker 2: tennants say the cold water is making shower very showering
Speaker 2: very difficult, especially for the elderly and the complex since
Speaker 2: some of the residents are also on oxygen. The bald
Speaker 2: eagle is officially designated the national bird of the United States.
Speaker 1: It had gone unnoticed for decades that the majestic bird,
Speaker 1: with its white head, yellow beak, and brown body, a
Speaker 1: symbol of the power and strength of the United States
Speaker 1: for more than two hundred and forty years, had never
Speaker 1: been officially designated as our national bird. That oversight was
Speaker 1: rectified when President Biden signed into law legislation sent to
Speaker 1: him by Congress that amends the United States Code to
Speaker 1: make the bald eagle our national bird.
Speaker 2: Now that was CBS News reporter Christopher Cruz there. The
Speaker 2: bald Eagle has appeared on the Great Seal of the
Speaker 2: United States, which is used in official documents since seventeen
Speaker 2: eighty two, when the design was finalized, a seal made
Speaker 2: up of the eagle and olive branch and arrows. Not
Speaker 2: the King of Rock and Roll, but police in Stoton
Speaker 2: searching for Elvis Elvis Andrate of Broughton, suspected of breaking
Speaker 2: into several vehicles. Police obtaining an arrest warrant on charges
Speaker 2: including eight counts of breaking and entering in five counts
Speaker 2: of larceny. Back on December fourth, a stolen debit card
Speaker 2: was used out of CBS investigators obtaining video footage of
Speaker 2: the suspect, who was wearing Grinch pajamas at the time.
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