Speaker 1: This is wb Z Boston's news radio, redefining local news sixty.
Speaker 2: One degrees in Boston at four o'clock good Saturday afternoon
Speaker 2: on Madison Rogers. We've seen dueling protests on Boston Common
Speaker 2: this afternoon after an anti abortion crowd took to the streets.
Speaker 2: Several arrests have been made. The men's march started late
Speaker 2: this morning outside Boston's Planned Parenthood in Alston, before making
Speaker 2: the three mile journey to the Common. Police and riot
Speaker 2: gear we'reund in forced clearing the way for that march
Speaker 2: and clashing with pro abortion counter demonstrators, some of them
Speaker 2: in clown costumes. Police tell us a number of people
Speaker 2: were taken into custody around Kenmore Square. We are expecting
Speaker 2: to learn more details from BPD soon. Keep it right
Speaker 2: here on WBZ News Radio for the latest, and stream
Speaker 2: us on the iHeartRadio app. It's another weekend on the
Speaker 2: picket lines for teachers in Beverly, Gloucester and Marblehead. In Gloucester,
Speaker 2: tensions seem to boil over, as WBZTV's Beth dromanas.
Speaker 1: Shameful, it really is shameful. Gloucester High School social worker
Speaker 1: Dan Graham saying the Tension between teachers and the city
Speaker 1: could not be higher, and got higher still when video
Speaker 1: captured Mayor Greg Virga making an obscene gesture to a
Speaker 1: chanting crowd as he left contract negotiations Thursday night.
Speaker 2: I'm a little shocked. I've been teaching in the school
Speaker 2: for thirty one years, half of my life, and we
Speaker 2: deserve better.
Speaker 3: We tried to speak with the mayor ourselves, but he
Speaker 3: sent out a video message of regret at what happened,
Speaker 3: saying it was frustration directed at a former public safety
Speaker 3: official he says hurled an insult.
Speaker 2: He also says that his family feels threatened, sharing a
Speaker 2: video of crowds protesting outside his home. And we are
Speaker 2: watching closely for any developments in those contract talks. As
Speaker 2: President Electromp builds his cabinet, there's some growing scrutiny around
Speaker 2: the choice of now former Congressman Matt Gates for Attorney General.
Speaker 2: It is unclear right now whether the House Ethics investigation
Speaker 2: into sexual misconduct and drug allegations we'll ever see the
Speaker 2: light of day.
Speaker 4: Growing number of Republican Senators making it clear they want
Speaker 4: to see the House Ethics Committee report into Trump's pick
Speaker 4: for attorney General Matt Gates, sources telling us the committee
Speaker 4: was preparing to vote to release that report as early
Speaker 4: as this week, but then Gates resigned from Congress after
Speaker 4: being nominated by Trump, abruptly ending their investigation. House Speaker
Speaker 4: Mike Johnson on Friday, after spending the night at Bar
Speaker 4: Logo with President elect Trump, arguing, now the report should
Speaker 4: be shell.
Speaker 2: That's ABC's Mary Alice Parks. The DOJ ended its own
Speaker 2: probe without charging Gates last year. In Maine, Democratic US
Speaker 2: Congressman Jared Golden will keep his seat. The razor thin
Speaker 2: race was finally called last night after a rank choice
Speaker 2: run off. Golden has been facing a challenge from Republican
Speaker 2: Austin Terrio. The Ape s has Golden won by just
Speaker 2: a tenth of a percent around seven hundred votes. Terrio's
Speaker 2: campaign says they'll try for a recount. There are now
Speaker 2: just a handful of undecided seats in the House, and
Speaker 2: looking at the four day wbz ACU weather forecast, it
Speaker 2: stays fairly nice out there this weekend, though the risk
Speaker 2: for fires continues. Mainly clear tonight low forty two and brisk. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: we're up near sixty with sun and clouds, it's breezy.
Speaker 2: Then Monday, a mix of sun and clouds. It's again
Speaker 2: mild and breezy, with a higher round fifty nine, mid
Speaker 2: fifties and mostly sunny. On Tuesday, it's a mostly clear
Speaker 2: sky right now over Boston, sixty one with the wind
Speaker 2: out there making it feel like the mid upper fifties
Speaker 2: and a red flag warning in effect until six. I'm
Speaker 2: in dangerously dry conditions across much of the state. We
Speaker 2: do have an update on the brush fire situation. Mass
Speaker 2: DFS is listing more than a dozen significant active fires.
Speaker 2: Two of them are still less than fifty percent contained,
Speaker 2: the Blaze and Boxford State Forest that's burned over one
Speaker 2: hundred acres, and in the Lynn Woods, where more than
Speaker 2: four hundred acres have been torched meantime. Northwest of New
Speaker 2: York City, there's concern that a wildfire that's torched of
Speaker 2: acres could grow again.
Speaker 5: Dry, windy and warming conditions this weekend could complicate efforts
Speaker 5: to bring a deadly wildfire burning across the New Jersey
Speaker 5: New York border under control. The Jennings Creek fire has
Speaker 5: scorched more than seven square miles. It's about ninety percent contained.
Speaker 2: CBS's Dana Jacobson. There from southern Delaware up to Vermont
Speaker 2: and New Hampshire, that red flag of warning is again
Speaker 2: in effect. A ceremony in the Boston Harbor today commissions
Speaker 2: a new naval warship. Wbz's Mike Macklin has the story.
Speaker 6: It was a day of Navy pride in Charlestown, as
Speaker 6: the shipyard that is home to the Navy's oldest commissioned warship,
Speaker 6: the USS Constitution, host to the commissioning of the Navy's
Speaker 6: newest warship, the USS Nantucket.
Speaker 7: As we add the Nantucket to our roster, we are
Speaker 7: giving our Navy new agility and reach essential for supporting
Speaker 7: our interests in a world where competition and uncertainty are
Speaker 7: the norm.
Speaker 6: Vice Admiral Michael Boyle called the Nantucket a fast, flexible,
Speaker 6: capable vessel of a twenty first century Navy. Boston Mayor
Speaker 6: Michelle Wou told the ship's crew they carry on a
Speaker 6: proud legacy, the.
Speaker 5: Charge to uphold and protect the highest aspirations of our values,
Speaker 5: to deter aggression, maintain freedom, and help us shape.
Speaker 1: A world where peace is what we deserve.
Speaker 6: The Nantucket will be based at the Mayport Naval Station
Speaker 6: in Jacksonville, Florida. Mike Macklin, WBZ Boston's News Radio Wooster.
Speaker 2: Families are reacting after a fight at Burncote High School
Speaker 2: yesterday sent one girl to the hospital. The district sent
Speaker 2: a message to families expressing disappointment that instead of calling
Speaker 2: for help, some students apparently recorded the fight on their
Speaker 2: cell phones. This is being described as a fight between
Speaker 2: two students. A girl was taken away in an ambulance.
Speaker 2: There's no update right now on her condition. The students
Speaker 2: involved in the fight will be facing discipline.
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