Speaker 1: This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local.
Speaker 2: News thirty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Boston City Councilor Tanya
Speaker 2: Fernandez Anderson appears today in federal court on corruption charges.
Speaker 2: She pleads not guilty to all charges and asks the
Speaker 2: judge to appoint a public defender for her and she's
Speaker 2: unable to afford a lawyer, and of the Viz's Kendall
Speaker 2: Buell has more. Fernandez Anderson was in dire financials traits.
Speaker 1: US attorney Josh Levy says due to a five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars fine she paid for violating state ethics laws by
Speaker 1: hiring her son as an office manager. According to investigators,
Speaker 1: that led to a kickback scheme involving hiring a family member.
Speaker 1: This unidentified person was then given a bonus more than
Speaker 1: twice as large as given to the rest of the staff,
Speaker 1: combined thirteen thousand dollars, allegedly with the agreement that the
Speaker 1: District seven councilor would get a kickback, and she did,
Speaker 1: Levy says, in the form of seven grand in cash
Speaker 1: handed over in a city hall bathroom, and.
Speaker 3: Not only was these taxpayer's funds being stallboves happening right
Speaker 3: in the building where she works.
Speaker 2: So my personal opinion, I think it adds the egregiousness
Speaker 2: of this conduct.
Speaker 1: No one else has been charged, Levy says. The investigation
Speaker 1: continues from the mostly federal courthouse Canni BUWBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: The judge releasing Fernandez Anderson on certain conditions today, including
Speaker 2: surrendering her passport and staying in Massachusetts. Meantime, Boston Mayor
Speaker 2: Michelle Wou in a statement, is calling for the counselor
Speaker 2: to step down from her job. Looking for more clues
Speaker 2: in the ongoing manhunt for the person who shot United
Speaker 2: Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson to death outside of New York City, hotel,
Speaker 2: investigators tell ABC News they believe they were able to
Speaker 2: score DNA samples from several pieces of evidence discovered at
Speaker 2: or near the murder scene.
Speaker 4: The mayor said today that police are on the right
Speaker 4: path to catching this guy, but they still haven't formally
Speaker 4: identified him. That they have him arriving at the Port
Speaker 4: Authority bus terminal at nine pm on November twenty fourth,
Speaker 4: checking in and out of the hostel on the upper west.
Speaker 2: Side, that is ABC's Aaron Katirski. The US Department of
Speaker 2: Agriculture ordering the testing of raw milk for bird flu.
Speaker 3: No cases of bird flu virus have been confirmed in
Speaker 3: people who drank raw milk, but with bird flu already
Speaker 3: detected in seven hundred and eighteen US cow herds, the
Speaker 3: new federal order requires raw unpasteurized milk samples nationwide to
Speaker 3: be tested. This comes after a California farm producing raw
Speaker 3: milk recalled products which tested positive for the bird flu virus.
Speaker 3: Pasteurized milk, which is he treated, kills the virus and
Speaker 3: remains safe to drink. Michael Toscano, CBS News Washington.
Speaker 2: A federal appeals court in DC has upheld the law
Speaker 2: that requires the sale of TikTok.
Speaker 5: The unanimous holding of the three judge panel is that
Speaker 5: China based Byte Dance must sell TikTok by January nineteenth,
Speaker 5: or rely on President Biden to grant a ninety day
Speaker 5: extension as the company works toward a sale. If not,
Speaker 5: the court says, TikTok will effectively be unavailable in the
Speaker 5: United States at least for a time, and its millions
Speaker 5: of users will quote need to find alternative media of communication.
Speaker 5: The company has insisted TikTok is safe for Americans, but
Speaker 5: the judges site China's hybrid commercial threat to US national
Speaker 5: security and Beijing's desire to gather data on America.
Speaker 2: That is ABC Stephen portnoit we get a check now
Speaker 2: of the four dawbz ACCU weather forecast with partly Cloudy's
Speaker 2: guys Tonight, We'll hang on to a little bit of
Speaker 2: the breeze, though, though the real windy conditions will start
Speaker 2: to die down. Temperatures overnight in the mid twenties downtown,
Speaker 2: a little chillier in the suburbs. Sunshine tomorrow mixes with
Speaker 2: some clouds, still a little breezy, Temperatures a little better
Speaker 2: than today. We'll get into the upper thirties by Tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: We'll have clouds around, Temperatures close to freezing, and a
Speaker 2: little snow gets in here late at night into Sunday morning,
Speaker 2: and that could create a few slick spots. After that,
Speaker 2: just mostly cloudy Sunday, a little breezy, temperatures in the
Speaker 2: low to mid forties. By Monday, we're in the low
Speaker 2: to mid forties. We'll have some sun to start, we'll
Speaker 2: bring in some clouds, and we'll bring in a bit
Speaker 2: of rain late in the day. Right now, thirty two
Speaker 2: degrees in. Some Cambridge street signs are now honoring the
Speaker 2: city's Native American history, as WC Suzanne Sosville tells us,
Speaker 2: nearly one hundred signs. Eventually we'll include translations to the
Speaker 2: language of the Massachusetts tribe.
Speaker 6: On a rainy day recently, Sage Carbone went outside her
Speaker 6: East Cambridge apartment and was shocked to see the first
Speaker 6: translated sign was up.
Speaker 7: I think I'm still in awe of this project starting,
Speaker 7: and I feel really full of joy.
Speaker 6: She's Native American and it was her idea to translate
Speaker 6: the signs, something she had seen on reservations.
Speaker 7: But I hadn't seen any municipality make an effort to
Speaker 7: include indigenous language in their signs.
Speaker 6: Even those city residents voted for the new signs. Vice
Speaker 6: Mayor Mark McGovern says some people have commented online that
Speaker 6: it's un American.
Speaker 2: It's honoring the culture that that existed before we got here,
Speaker 2: and that doesn't hurt anybody. I see it as only
Speaker 2: a positive thing in Cambridge.
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Speaker 2: Earlier, we told you about Randy Moss saying he's saying
Speaker 2: he's battling something internal. Now, the former New England Patriot
Speaker 2: and Pro Football Hall of Famer is stepping away from
Speaker 2: ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown as he battles a serious health issue.
Speaker 2: ESPN says in a statement Moss will be away for
Speaker 2: an extended period of time and that he has been
Speaker 2: an invaluable member of their team for almost a decade.
Speaker 2: The forty seven year old had said he's optimistic and
Speaker 2: has a great team of doctors and family support. It's
Speaker 2: fight night in New England, not tonight. Over the weekend.
Speaker 2: WBC's Jamal Holland has more in a rising MMA star
Speaker 2: with local roots.
Speaker 8: His name is Lucas Rosa.
Speaker 2: For the transition, so well, you'll get one, you tried
Speaker 2: the other.
Speaker 8: Originally from PbD, then Seabrook, New Hampshire, He's now training
Speaker 8: in Florida and in a Saturday night showdown in Barry, Vermont,
Speaker 8: here we go, Lucas Rosa is set to put his
Speaker 8: undefeated pro record of four and zero on the line.
Speaker 8: I spoke with Lucas Rosa just ahead of his battle
Speaker 8: in Barry First, Matt Denning.
Speaker 2: This guy is a real step up to you know, veteranos.
Speaker 8: Sport amateurst joke like how long I could last if
Speaker 8: I jumped in the ring with you, you know, like,
Speaker 8: if I jumped in with you, it's probably five to
Speaker 8: six seconds.
Speaker 2: Is out a book.
Speaker 6: It wouldn't be long.
Speaker 2: I mean that's people with It wouldn't be long. He
Speaker 2: said that so politely.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll stay out of the cage with Lucas. And
Speaker 8: the name might be familiar to Lucas's brother. Charles Rosa
Speaker 8: is a former UFC star has helped Lucas pave his way.
Speaker 8: Big fight Saturday night in Barry, Vermont. Good luck to
Speaker 8: Lucas Rosa. Drew moholland WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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