Speaker 1: This is w b Z, Boston's news radio re defining
Speaker 1: local news.
Speaker 2: Grace guys. That's a lot of fog and miss out
Speaker 2: there some dampness as well. Right now freezing in Boston,
Speaker 2: but our winter weather advisory has expired. Get ready for
Speaker 2: round two more severe late tonight, wind and rain and flooding.
Speaker 2: I'll get to that eleven o'clock. Good morning on Laurie
Speaker 2: Kirby and its voting day despite the weather. In the
Speaker 2: city of Massouan, a special election is underway to choose
Speaker 2: a new mayor after the recent death of Mayor Neil Perry.
Speaker 2: On the ballot acting Mayor DJ Beauregard, former city councilor
Speaker 2: in Mathsouan, along with James Sarcioni, lifelong Mtsoon resident who
Speaker 2: now runs an insurance company. Polls close at seven PM
Speaker 2: and the suspect charge and the death of the United
Speaker 2: Healthcare CEO is still in a Pennsylvania jail this morning,
Speaker 2: awaiting extradition to New York to face the charge of murder.
Speaker 2: CBS's Naomi Ruckham with the very latest this morning.
Speaker 3: Luigi Mangioni is behind bars. The twenty six year old
Speaker 3: was arraigned and later charged with second degree murder yesterday
Speaker 3: in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Speaker 1: Justice will be delivered in this case.
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania police were called to the scene after the Maryland
Speaker 3: native was spotted at a McDonald's in Altoona around nine
Speaker 3: to fifteen am yesterday. Investigators say they approached him and
Speaker 3: asked if he had recently been to New York.
Speaker 2: The Mangioni family says they are shocked by the news.
Speaker 2: They are praying for the family of Brian Thompson. But
Speaker 2: who exactly is Luigi Mangioni. CBS's Lilia Luciano tells us
Speaker 2: what we know so far.
Speaker 4: Manjoni comes from a prominent Maryland family, which owns multiple
Speaker 4: country clubs in the state. He graduated from Gilman, an
Speaker 4: elite all boys private school, one of the highest ranked
Speaker 4: in the country.
Speaker 3: We all knew each other.
Speaker 5: I wasn't took a close with him, but I knew
Speaker 5: of him.
Speaker 3: I knew him somewhat well.
Speaker 1: He's a nice kid.
Speaker 4: He then attended the Ivy Leagues University of Pennsylvania, earning
Speaker 4: a bachelor and master's degree in computer science.
Speaker 2: Authority Saint Menchioni was carrying a passport and ten thousand
Speaker 2: dollars in cash at the time of the arrest Sashore drivers.
Speaker 2: The four River Bridge is going up this afternoon at
Speaker 2: three pm for an inbound vessel. Maybe you saw the
Speaker 2: blinking sign. I'm just your friendly reminder here because we
Speaker 2: know what that means. That means Ruth three A will
Speaker 2: come to a standstill for roughly twenty miss in the
Speaker 2: Quincy Weymouth area. And of course this barge coming in
Speaker 2: has to go, and it's leaving tomorrow morning at around
Speaker 2: nine am, and again the bridge will be up. I
Speaker 2: have a little more information about tomorrow's storm, but let
Speaker 2: me just do today's weather very quickly. Here in the forties,
Speaker 2: touch of drizzle, what you see is what you get.
Speaker 2: And then tonight too little rain, little drizzle. Here comes
Speaker 2: some rain around midnight. That's set a pretty good clip.
Speaker 2: But the wind is going to come in and we
Speaker 2: might even hear some thunder and lightning overnight. But the
Speaker 2: timeline here looks like three to four o'clock in the
Speaker 2: afternoon tomorrow for our heaviest stuff. That could lead to
Speaker 2: some flooding in the area, some power outages. I am
Speaker 2: seeing wind watches that's probably going to become a warning
Speaker 2: as we get closer to that timeline. And then again,
Speaker 2: I'm seeing some flood watches in particular for Western mass
Speaker 2: Thursday looks beautiful, mostly sunny, windy's still high forty four.
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve is fast upon us, and Boston's biggest
Speaker 2: party of the year is now shaping up. With our
Speaker 2: list of performers.
Speaker 1: The lineup for First Night Boston twenty twenty five is
Speaker 1: looking incredible, filled with some of the Bay States best performers,
Speaker 1: including those with the Boston Music Project. Hill House, the
Speaker 1: band made up of recent graduates of Worcester Polytechnic, is
Speaker 1: also bringing the beats. Her terms are really short, so
Speaker 1: we all get burnt out really really quickly, and so
Speaker 1: we wrote a song about it.
Speaker 2: Enjoy.
Speaker 1: Over two dozen performers have been announced for the day
Speaker 1: long celebration, with eleven different venues across the city, including
Speaker 1: Boston Common, the Public Market, the City Hall, and the
Speaker 1: Rose Kennedy Greenway. James Rojas WVZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: Wow, those musicians sounded great. It's going to be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. I hope the weather's nice for that.
Speaker 2: Fading gone apparently Boston merwu's tax plan to protect homeowners
Speaker 2: dies on the political vine at the State House. After
Speaker 2: several punts in the state Senate, President Karen Spilker released
Speaker 2: his statement last night saying not enough support. She's not
Speaker 2: going to take it to the floor for any further debate. Now,
Speaker 2: this should be a interesting The final Boston City Council
Speaker 2: meeting of the year is tomorrow, and at that point
Speaker 2: the council will have to really set that twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five property tax rate in the eleventh hour. Here time
Speaker 2: is running out. Looks like city property owners residential owners
Speaker 2: are looking at a ten percent hike next year. New
Speaker 2: research suggests the world's climate could still cross a critical
Speaker 2: red line even if emissions are slashed in the coming years.
Speaker 2: And here's CBS is Tracy Woolf.
Speaker 5: With twenty twenty four expected to be the hottest year
Speaker 5: on record, a new study from Stanford University estimates there
Speaker 5: is a fifty percent chance that global warming will breach
Speaker 5: two degrees celsius even if the world rapidly cuts greenhouse
Speaker 5: gas emissions by twenty fifty. Utilizing AI, researchers say there
Speaker 5: is a nine to ten chance that the hottest year
Speaker 5: of this century will be at least a half a
Speaker 5: degree celsius hotter, even under rapid decarbonization. Tracy Wolf, CBS
Speaker 5: News New York.
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Speaker 2: I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ, Boston's news radio