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Speaker 1: Good morning, six o'clock. Mainly clear skies on this Friday morning.
Speaker 1: It's very windy still here in Boston, thirty four degrees.
Speaker 1: As we walk out the door, it feels colder than that.
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Speaker 1: for being with us this Friday morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
Speaker 1: You ready for this more sun than clouds today. It
Speaker 1: will be blustering and cold with a high thirty nine,
Speaker 1: but acual the real field temperatures little to mid twenty.
Speaker 1: Is WBZ ackiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. We are about to
Speaker 1: enter the coldest stretch Greater Boston has seen in seven years.
Speaker 1: For five hundred and thirty five elected officials. The pinnacle
Speaker 1: of power begins with the swearing in ceremony for the
Speaker 1: one hundred nineteenth Congress in the nation's capital. Today, for
Speaker 1: the first time in six years, Republicans will control both
Speaker 1: the House and the Senate. It's perhaps an even bigger
Speaker 1: day for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who fights
Speaker 1: for his political life. It is no sure bet that
Speaker 1: Johnson will hang on to the speaker's gavel. He's got
Speaker 1: the full support of President elect Donald Trump, but many
Speaker 1: in the GOP field Johnson has given too much of
Speaker 1: the store to Democrats with the recent bill to avoid
Speaker 1: a government shutdown. A vote on Johnson's future takes place
Speaker 1: at noontime today, almost four years to the day of
Speaker 1: the January sixth attack on the US Capitol. One of
Speaker 1: the continuing mysteries of who planted pipe bombs throughout Washington
Speaker 1: the night before picks up renewed interest. The FBI is
Speaker 1: out with new video surveillance showing a face masked and hooded,
Speaker 1: sweatshirt wearing suspect prowling the streets of DC, presumably planting
Speaker 1: those devices. Official say the suspect was also wearing distinctive
Speaker 1: Nike Air Max sneakers. Despite a manhunt and prior videos released,
Speaker 1: the trail has gone cold. Neither of the devices, by
Speaker 1: the way, ever detonated. The funeral procession or former President
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter begins tomorrow in Georgia. Current and former US
Speaker 1: Secret Service agents will accompany the hearst carrying the body
Speaker 1: of the thirty ninth president from the Medical Center in
Speaker 1: Americas through his hometown of Planes, where representatives of the
Speaker 1: National Park Service will ring the bell at the Carter
Speaker 1: family Farm thirty nine times. The procession will continue to
Speaker 1: the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta and the Carter Center,
Speaker 1: where mister Carter will lie in repose following an afternoon ceremony.
Speaker 1: The journey continues to the nation's capital next week before
Speaker 1: Memorial Services one week from today. Salem is already making
Speaker 1: more security upgrades that this year's Haunted happenings.
Speaker 2: Officials say they will speed up the installation of security
Speaker 2: barriers and ballards this year and warn people that this
Speaker 2: year's celebration may feel more crowded due to the additional measures.
Speaker 2: Police say it would be shortsighted not to expect an
Speaker 2: attack similar to the likes of what just happened in
Speaker 2: New Orleans. Matt Phipps WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Celtics begin the toughest road trip of their SEAC with
Speaker 1: a win over the Wolves, leaving Minnesota players to wonder
Speaker 1: what they can do to stop Boston Bruins stall from
Speaker 1: pock drop, and they lose to the Rangers in Madison Square,
Speaker 1: Garden Notre Dame Upstates Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. The
Speaker 1: college football playoffs continue next week as the teams advance
Speaker 1: to the semi finals and new props forign Olympic icons.
Speaker 3: Sports Illustrated has named Simone Biles the most decorated gymnast
Speaker 3: of all time. It's twenty twenty four Sportsperson of the Year,
Speaker 3: but her athletic journey could end before the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: eight Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The eleven time champ
Speaker 3: tells SI she's humble enough to know when to retire.
Speaker 3: The twenty seven year old says there are consequences for
Speaker 3: being greedy. She says she'd rather look back at her
Speaker 3: accomplishments and say, quote, damn, she was good. Deborah Rodriguez,
Speaker 3: CBS News.
Speaker 1: For many of us, our grueling two day work week
Speaker 1: is about to come to a close, and we're going
Speaker 1: to finish in cold fashion. Today. It's still windy in
Speaker 1: Boston and it's just a tick above freezing right now.
Speaker 1: Under mainly clear skies. We will see more sun than
Speaker 1: clouds today. The winds will be howling into the thirty
Speaker 1: mile per hour range. That's slightly less than yesterday, and
Speaker 1: they'll start to die down late this afternoon as we
Speaker 1: head into the evening hours, but temperatures do not get
Speaker 1: out of the thirties today. It's even colder still overnight tonight,
Speaker 1: as we drop back into the twenties. We'll be right
Speaker 1: around the freezing mark both tomorrow, Sunday and into the
Speaker 1: new work week on Monday. We're watching the activities of
Speaker 1: a storm system that's going to hit the mid Atlantic
Speaker 1: on Sunday into Monday, quite possibly dumping between six and
Speaker 1: twelve inches of snow along the Eastern Seaboard. But it
Speaker 1: looks like that storm system is going to stay well
Speaker 1: to our south and the cold is going to continue
Speaker 1: for several more days. Right now in Boston's thirty four
Speaker 1: very windy, mainly clear skies at six oh six on
Speaker 1: this Friday morning, In fact, tens of millions of Americans
Speaker 1: are about to go into a deep freeze.
Speaker 4: If you've got a new winter hat or gloves for
Speaker 4: the holidays, now's the time to write a fank you
Speaker 4: note for the person who gave them to you, because
Speaker 4: you're going to need them. We're going to see some
Speaker 4: pretty cold temperatures with highs under forty for the next
Speaker 4: two weeks. It's the first time we've had a stretch
Speaker 4: like that since twenty eighteen, and with real fuels. Many
Speaker 4: of these days are going to feel like it's the
Speaker 4: teens outside, and while we have to bundle up, there's
Speaker 4: a good chance we won't need to dig out. While
Speaker 4: there is a big storm heading to the northeast Sunday
Speaker 4: night into Monday, it's expected to miss us to the
Speaker 4: south and hit New York and southern New England instead.
Speaker 4: Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1: Big changes they're coming to this year's Boston Calling Music Festival.
Speaker 1: Many who were there last year vent over packed and
Speaker 1: unsafe crowd conditions, and organizers say they hear you. Officials
Speaker 1: say they've invested in a state of the art rotating
Speaker 1: stage that will provide better views, more space, and a
Speaker 1: better overall listening experience. More water stations will also be
Speaker 1: scattered among the crowd too, and some ticket prices might
Speaker 1: actually be cheaper. This year, Boston Calling comes to the
Speaker 1: Harvard Athletic Complex Memorial Day weekend. The MBTA continues to
Speaker 1: take its victory lap with subway slow zones illimited, but
Speaker 1: a lonely commuter rail stop in Plymouth is badly in
Speaker 1: need of a makeover.
Speaker 5: At one point here at Cornage Park and Plymouth, this
Speaker 5: commuter rail station was bustling with riders from Plymouth to Boston.
Speaker 5: Now that this world commuter rail station is no more,
Speaker 5: it's turned into an eyesore more than anything. But people
Speaker 5: in a town want to change that.
Speaker 6: If we can make our town more suitable for walking
Speaker 6: and biking, I think it'd be a lot better.
Speaker 5: There's chatter about turning this waterfront property into walking and
Speaker 5: biking trails. Plymouth is turning into a very walkable town
Speaker 5: along Court Street only makes sense.
Speaker 4: And many of the downtown employees that often rely on
Speaker 4: walking or biking to get to.
Speaker 5: Work only discussions being had at the moment. But this
Speaker 5: out of service station is another painful reminder of the
Speaker 5: pandemics lasting impact in North Plymouth. Jim McKay WBZ Boston's
Speaker 5: News Radio.
Speaker 1: It appears Americans are making the most of their time
Speaker 1: at work. Wbz's Drew m'holland, what exactly does this mean?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 6: We go don't work harder, Jeffrey, work smarter, that's it.
Speaker 6: It's worker productivity is on the rise, the Labor Department says,
Speaker 6: so it's been more than a year of sustained increases
Speaker 6: to productivity.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind this is.
Speaker 7: While many of us continue to work from home. Many
Speaker 7: of our bosses want us back in the office. Though
Speaker 7: artificial intelligence given some of the credit for the advance here,
Speaker 7: some tasks only take minutes now that used to take
Speaker 7: a whole lot longer.
Speaker 5: It is the world we live in, Jeffrey.
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Brown, WBZ, Boston's news radio.