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Speaker 1: All right, Friday, Listen to me. We've had this discussion before.
Speaker 2: We have asked you to be home when the street
Speaker 2: lights come on, and every week you're gone for seven days.
Speaker 2: But come in here, you have big lud. Let's hug
Speaker 2: it out. Good morning. It's six o'clock and we've got
Speaker 2: thirty degrees under cloudy skies in Boston. The News at
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Speaker 2: your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. I'm Jeff Brown. We're
Speaker 2: gonna warm it on up.
Speaker 3: Cloudy with rain arriving around midday that'll continue through the afternoon.
Speaker 2: How's it forty to forty four? That is WBZ AKI
Speaker 2: weather meteorologist Tether's are rain might change to snow overnight.
Speaker 2: Bruins get clobbered again. This time they're wiped out by
Speaker 2: the Jets at the Garden. They get the Rangers at
Speaker 2: the Garden tomorrow afternoon. Celtics are in New Orleans with
Speaker 2: the Pelicans tonight, and Patriots quarterback Drake May falls flat
Speaker 2: at the NFL Pro Bowl Skills competent, he comes in
Speaker 2: dead last while competing against fellow quarterbacks. Cruise head back
Speaker 2: to the icy waters of the Potomac River this morning.
Speaker 4: We're still in a recovery mode, first and foremost to
Speaker 4: get the perishable evidence and specifically the bodies out. Once
Speaker 4: we get a little bit closer into that, we'll be
Speaker 4: able to better understand the dynamics of what may have happened.
Speaker 2: Recovery mission continues following this week's deadly airline crash. Official
Speaker 2: say the critical black boxes from the American Airlines passenger
Speaker 2: debt have now been recovered. A report also indicates the
Speaker 2: control tower at Reagan National was understaffed at the time
Speaker 2: of the collision. There are also indications that the Blackhawk
Speaker 2: helicopter was operating outside of its approved flight path. We are,
Speaker 2: as Americans flying in record numbers, which means the skies
Speaker 2: are increasingly crowded, but experts say it's still the safest
Speaker 2: way to travel. More from CBS's Mark Strasman.
Speaker 5: Given that congestion in the skies, US aviation has a
Speaker 5: remarkable safety record, it.
Speaker 6: Is safer to get on an airplane and go coast
Speaker 6: to coast at third one thousand feet and six hundred
Speaker 6: miles an hour. Than it is to drive yourself to
Speaker 6: the airport at sixty miles an hour with four wheels
Speaker 6: on the ground.
Speaker 5: Kit Darby is a retired commercial and military pilot who
Speaker 5: now consults for businesses hiring pilots. He has flown in
Speaker 5: and out of Washington's Reagan National Airport for years.
Speaker 6: You've got to hit your spot, you know, you've got
Speaker 6: to do a good job of being a pilot to
Speaker 6: fly successfully.
Speaker 7: With that airport.
Speaker 6: Trickier than most, far trickier than most.
Speaker 2: Air Traffic controllers and pilots have complained for years of
Speaker 2: traffic jams in the skies over Washington, but lawmakers on
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill have tended to often call for more flights.
Speaker 2: Senate confirmation hearings have come to a close for this week,
Speaker 2: and lawmakers had a loft to sift through. Early indications
Speaker 2: are it's going to be a very uphill battle for
Speaker 2: Health and Services nominee RFK Junior, who seems to need
Speaker 2: a full court press to get enough Republicans on board.
Speaker 2: FBI nominee Cash Pattel seems to have climbed that mountain,
Speaker 2: and Tulsey Gabbard, who's in line to be the National
Speaker 2: Intelligence Director appears to have some bipartisan support. Meantime, the
Speaker 2: vote is in and the A's have it for former
Speaker 2: North Dakota Governor Doug Berman Bergham, that is, to take
Speaker 2: a seat as Secretary of the Interior. Artificial intelligence could
Speaker 2: help the Beatles win another Grammy award this weekend.
Speaker 3: The last time the Fab four snaged to Grammy was
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety seven, but that could change Sunday night
Speaker 3: or tests back in the competition for Record and Rock
Speaker 3: Performance for their tune salvaged from a money demo from
Speaker 3: John Lennon, doctored with artificial intelligence mixed technology to include
Speaker 3: all four members together. The Beatles won their first Grammy
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty four. Denbraa Rodriguez, CBS News.
Speaker 2: Today is going to be a little bit milder day, However,
Speaker 2: it comes with a catch. We are seeing readings right
Speaker 2: now around the upper twenties to low thirties. We'll get
Speaker 2: into the low to mid forties later on today as
Speaker 2: we're under a blanket of clouds now. Those clouds will
Speaker 2: start to squeeze out some rain a little bit later
Speaker 2: on this morning. It could come down heavy at times
Speaker 2: this afternoon and as the temperature drops overnight tonight, we
Speaker 2: could find ourselves with a coating to an inch of
Speaker 2: snow by this time tomorrow. Now, as the weekend gets underway,
Speaker 2: some lingering snow certainly can't be ruled out tomorrow, but
Speaker 2: otherwise we're going to see some sunshine breaking through later
Speaker 2: in the day. High temperatures will be more seasonable in
Speaker 2: the low to mid thirties, pretty much same temperature range
Speaker 2: on Sunday, but another chance for some rain and perhaps
Speaker 2: some snow moves in late Sunday into Monday as well,
Speaker 2: And the long term forecast is we turn the calendar
Speaker 2: to February, by the way, and the groundhog makes an
Speaker 2: appearance on Sunday, we'll know our future for spring coming up.
Speaker 2: We're going to be seeing limited sunshine and highs will
Speaker 2: jump back into the forties on Monday. Right now in Boston,
Speaker 2: it's thirty degrees under cloudy skies at six oh six
Speaker 2: on this Friday morning. The city of Boston is taking
Speaker 2: a big step to address the local housing crisis.
Speaker 8: Vision Hotel on South Huntington AV has officially been acquisitioned
Speaker 8: by Victory Programs. The Boston based group has run the
Speaker 8: facility since twenty twenty one, helping over two hundred people
Speaker 8: experiencing homelessness and substance abuse. The nonprofit purchased the hotel
Speaker 8: through a loan from the City of Boston using federal
Speaker 8: funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. Mayor WU says
Speaker 8: preserving and expanding shelter and supportive options are essential to
Speaker 8: addressing homelessness with capassion, dignity, and care. James Rojas WBZ,
Speaker 8: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Starbucks will start stirring a little dose of mediation in
Speaker 2: your coffee cup. The world's largest coffee chain will bring
Speaker 2: in a mediator in hopes of jump starting union contract negotiations,
Speaker 2: which have been stuck on raise wages. Both sides say
Speaker 2: they have made progress on money in recent months and
Speaker 2: remain committed to the task to get a fair contract.
Speaker 2: The union that represents Burrista's in some five hundred Starbucks
Speaker 2: shops in the US says it hopes to nail down
Speaker 2: an agreement by the end of last year, but to
Speaker 2: no avail. Former Celtic star Terry Rozier may be in
Speaker 2: some very hot water with the federal government. Details now
Speaker 2: from wbz's Drew moholland Good morning, Andrew.
Speaker 7: Good morning Jeffery. Yes, prosecutors are nosing around the NBA
Speaker 7: ve trend. He was pretty electric here during his four
Speaker 7: years with the Celtics starting in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yet under the rim, going to the left hand.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a concern here, jeff is gambling and that Rosier
Speaker 7: may be part of an illegal sports betting scheme. By
Speaker 7: all indications, Rosier is tied up in a wide ranging
Speaker 7: investigation into a gambling ring with rigged games. Officials questioned
Speaker 7: Rosier's performance in two games last season, of course, not
Speaker 7: with the Celtics anymore. Miami Heat latest team that led
Speaker 7: to indications of inside information that may have tipped the scales.
Speaker 7: We're talking here about these things called prop bets, Jeffrey,
Speaker 7: where if you know, you can bet on a player
Speaker 7: to get a certain amount of points in a game,
Speaker 7: and if that person, that player leaves the game early with, oh,
Speaker 7: I don't know, a foot injury, Yeah, then they're probably
Speaker 7: not going to get the points.
Speaker 2: So if they got those points and then stopped there, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's all sorts of things, So a lot of twists
Speaker 2: and turns in sports gambling. Drew, Thank you. You are
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