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Speaker 2: Sonny and Cole. We're seeing forty degrees feels like twenty
Speaker 2: two degrees in Boston. Nice to be with you on
Speaker 2: this day after the storm, and again a lot of
Speaker 2: you cleaning up and hearted work after yesterday's powerful storm
Speaker 2: left the state with puddles big enough for fish to
Speaker 2: swim around in and tree branches strewn across the roadways.
Speaker 2: Boston saw more than two inches of torrential rain combined
Speaker 2: with the wind, and the Ted Williams Tunnel turned into
Speaker 2: a river after a pump failed and debre clogged a drain,
Speaker 2: a nightmare ride for drivers in Boston. CBS News Boston's
Speaker 2: Brandon Truett now with more than what happened around the area.
Speaker 3: The strong downpours and when Gus caused significant travel troubles
Speaker 3: in our area. Water puddled up on roadways, heavy pockets
Speaker 3: of rain let to several crashes on the Pike. Hundreds
Speaker 3: of Commuterel writers were stranded during the storm due to
Speaker 3: power line issues, and at Boston's Logan Airport, a sea
Speaker 3: of orange and red. The airport reporting roughly four hundred
Speaker 3: delayed and one hundred canceled flights on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're seeing total delays at Logan at seventy
Speaker 2: two six cancelations, and we're whittling down our power outages
Speaker 2: now in the hundreds, not in the thousands. And days
Speaker 2: after he made the controversial decision to let his own
Speaker 2: Sun off the hook, President Biden commutes the sentences of
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred other people. CBS's Lenda Kenyon is at the
Speaker 2: White House.
Speaker 4: The largest single day active clemency in modern history has
Speaker 4: gone to those released from prison and placed in home
Speaker 4: confinement during the COVID pandemic. In addition, the president is
Speaker 4: pardoning thirty nine Americans convicted of non violent crimes. Pardons
Speaker 4: are traditional at the end of presidential terms, but some
Speaker 4: can be controversial, like the President's pardon of his son Hunter,
Speaker 4: and Biden has been under pressure to issue preemptive part
Speaker 4: for those who may be targeted for political retribution by
Speaker 4: President elect Donald Trump. Linda Kenyon, CBS News the White House.
Speaker 2: Some colleges are trying to prepare their students for big changes.
Speaker 2: On day one of President elect Donald Trump's second administration.
Speaker 2: Simeus is Debora Ronriguez with that Harvard, Cornell, and USC
Speaker 2: are among schools advising international students to make plans to
Speaker 2: cut short winter breaks and return to campus before President
Speaker 2: elect Trump is sworn in on January twentieth. During his
Speaker 2: last administration, thousands were stranded when mister Trump imposed restrictions
Speaker 2: on entry into the US from seven majority Muslim countries.
Speaker 2: Later in his term, he added more countries to the list.
Speaker 2: Colleges are also warning all students to be prepared for
Speaker 2: possible delays at the border and for processing paperwork. Deborah
Speaker 2: Rodriguez CBS News. Concession workers at TD Garden are planning
Speaker 2: a strike vote this weekend. Some six hundred workers say
Speaker 2: they're really concerned the venue has moved toward more self
Speaker 2: checkout kiosk, and while the prize of a beer cup
Speaker 2: has gone up over the years, their pay hasn't. I'm
Speaker 2: seeing some snow flurries crossing from New Hampshire into Massachusetts
Speaker 2: right now. This is north of Leminster just a little
Speaker 2: bit and this is not the forecast, but you know,
Speaker 2: it's that time of years, very cold out there. It
Speaker 2: feels like we're in the twenties right now. We're really
Speaker 2: seeing forty one degrees in places like Broughton and Boston.
Speaker 2: But it's that win some gus to thirty five miles
Speaker 2: an hour, Starlett Tonight, the real Temp twenty five, the
Speaker 2: real feel well below that Friday, lots of sun High
Speaker 2: thirty four and b s. This is what former US
Speaker 2: attorney Rachel Rawlins calls the corruption charges against Boston City
Speaker 2: Councilor Tanya Fernandez Anderson. On a live stream with Boston
Speaker 2: City Councilor Julia Mahea, Rawlins criticized the tactics of federal
Speaker 2: prosecutors who brought the corruption charges against the city councilwoman.
Speaker 2: Rawlins believe that prosecutors used questionable legal maneuvers to establish
Speaker 2: federal jurisdiction.
Speaker 4: So because Citizens Bank, even though you came to Citizens
Speaker 4: Bank in Boston, they didn't go to Rhode Island. Citizens
Speaker 4: is based in Rhode Island, so it's federal.
Speaker 2: And that's when she called the maneuver bull expletive. You
Speaker 2: can fill in the blank. Fernandez Anderson is accused of
Speaker 2: giving a staffer a thirteen thousand dollars bonus and a
Speaker 2: kickback scheme in the bathroom. Rollins resigned as US attorney
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three after two government watchdogs found that
Speaker 2: she violated ethical standards and misused the power of her
Speaker 2: office and updating this story. An American walks free after
Speaker 2: months of captivity under the Assaud regime in Syria, but
Speaker 2: he's not the one that American officials were hoping to
Speaker 2: find or expecting to find. ABC Shannon Kingston.
Speaker 1: Travis P. Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary
Speaker 1: earlier this year, has been identified in Syria. He was
Speaker 1: Officials say they're offering support and that they weren't aware
Speaker 1: he was in the country before now. Videos of Timmerman
Speaker 1: circulating online initially claimed to show another American journalist, Austin Tice,
Speaker 1: who was kidnapped in Syria twelve years ago. Shannon Kingston
Speaker 1: ABC News the State Department.
Speaker 2: In New Hampshire vandals shattered Satanic statue on the state
Speaker 2: House lawn. Authorities tell The Eagle Tribune the Satanic temple
Speaker 2: legally obtained a permit before placing that figure next to
Speaker 2: the Nativity scene. State Rebellen Reed was the one originally
Speaker 2: reached out to the tempile in a move she thought
Speaker 2: would encourage diversity, but the mayor says he opposes the permit.
Speaker 2: He does agree that vandalism has no place in conquered
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