Speaker 1: Clouds in Boston thirty five degrees at six o'clock. Good morning,
Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Burger On. Here's what's happening. The sunny days
Speaker 1: of the past few days now hidden by a cloud cover.
Speaker 1: Watch for some rain and drizzal at times today. Then
Speaker 1: the rain can freeze on some surfaces for Good morning,
Speaker 1: especially to the north and west of Boston, so watch
Speaker 1: out for icy spots with a late day high near
Speaker 1: forty Thank you Weather's Latroit Thornton. We'll get the four
Speaker 1: day four cast coming up in just a few minutes now.
Speaker 1: The Celtics got their act back together last night and
Speaker 1: in a two games skid beat the Pacers beat them
Speaker 1: up at the Garden final one two to one oh
Speaker 1: five forty four for Jalen Brown. Two teams play again
Speaker 1: tomorrow night at the Garden at six. Bruins lose big
Speaker 1: on the road to the Jackets in Columbus final score
Speaker 1: of six to two. Same two teams tonight at the
Speaker 1: Garden at seven o'clock. The three and twelve Patriots host
Speaker 1: the nine and six Charges today at Julett. They'll kick
Speaker 1: at one o'clock. College football back at Fenway Park today,
Speaker 1: North Carolina facing Yukon and the wast Sabbie Ball. The
Speaker 1: tar Heels focused on the big game while all the
Speaker 1: buzz is about their new head coach.
Speaker 2: He's not expected to be on the sidelines in Fedway
Speaker 2: Park when UNC plays Yukon, but the specter of Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick was undeniably in the air at Fedway Park on
Speaker 2: the eve of the WSABI Bowl.
Speaker 3: I talked to coach every day, but not during the
Speaker 3: game and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: He understands what we have a job to do here.
Speaker 2: UNC interom coach Freddie Kitchens will lead the tar Heels
Speaker 2: in Saturday's ball game, his focus keeping his players focused
Speaker 2: on the game against Yukon. UNC wide receiver JJ Jones.
Speaker 3: Obviously coming with a great coach like coach Balachick itself,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be buzz, there's gonna be high, But as
Speaker 3: a team, I feel like as a unit, coach, kidses
Speaker 3: were all focused on this game and winning this game.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of outside of noise.
Speaker 2: At Fedway Park. Mike Macklin WB's a Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Early start for the Sabbi Bull at Fenway today kicks
Speaker 1: at eleven and in the Big Apple, it's Boston College
Speaker 1: in Nebraska. They'll kick at noon the Pinstripe Bowl being
Speaker 1: played at Yankees Stadium. A threat to the bird population
Speaker 1: in Vermont and perhaps to other parts of New England.
Speaker 1: State officials say bird flu detected in a backyard flock
Speaker 1: of birds in Franklin County, Vermont, a week before Christmas.
Speaker 1: It's the fourth time this flu has been detected in
Speaker 1: a flock of birds in Vermont since the spring of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Health officials say it poses only a
Speaker 1: minor threat to humans. Federal health officials keeping a close
Speaker 1: watch on a Louisiana patient and the potential threat of
Speaker 1: human to human infection from bird flu.
Speaker 4: The Centers for Disease Control finding potentially concerning new mutations
Speaker 4: in the bird flu from a patient recently hospitalized with
Speaker 4: a serious case of the virus, but the agency making
Speaker 4: it clear that the risk to the general public has
Speaker 4: not changed and remains low. The CDC has confirmed at
Speaker 4: least sixty five cases of bird flu in people in
Speaker 4: the US this year, and officials in California have actually
Speaker 4: issued a state of emergency over the bird flu at
Speaker 4: dairy farms and are asking people to avoid raw dairy products.
Speaker 1: ABC's filled Lopoff reporting. Let's check the four day wbz
Speaker 1: ACU weather forecast. There is a winter weather Advisory in
Speaker 1: effect until one o'clock this afternoon for the metro Boston
Speaker 1: area and points north and west. So we're going to
Speaker 1: have some rain, some drizzle at times, and again that
Speaker 1: concern is north and west. As mentioned, we could see
Speaker 1: the rain freeze on surfaces and we could really have
Speaker 1: some icy conditions on the roads and also under foot.
Speaker 1: Now we'll get to about forty degrees for a high
Speaker 1: and if you are further south down around the Cape
Speaker 1: and the islands, we could get to the mid forties.
Speaker 1: Some rain, some drizzle overnights tonight with some areas of fog,
Speaker 1: temperature stays about forty and then for tomorrow cloudy, milder,
Speaker 1: more rain and drizzle at times, get to about fifty tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That becomes steadier and heavier tomorrow night. So on Monday
Speaker 1: will be breezy and mild and some rain to start
Speaker 1: the day, but as a day moves on on Monday
Speaker 1: could see some sunshine and get to fifty seven degrees Tuesday.
Speaker 1: For New Year's Eve, not as mild with increasing clouds,
Speaker 1: but still temperatures in the mid and upper forties thirty
Speaker 1: five degrees right now with clouds in Boston at six
Speaker 1: oh five. Boston City officials say the city has never
Speaker 1: been safer following a decrease in violent crimes. Here's wbz's
Speaker 1: Brooke McCarthy.
Speaker 5: Ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations, Boston officials are touting
Speaker 5: strategies that they say have made Boston the safest major
Speaker 5: city in the country.
Speaker 6: I'm proud and grateful for all the work that has
Speaker 6: gone into making us the national leader with numbers that
Speaker 6: are really lower comparable to no other major city.
Speaker 5: Mayor Michelle wou Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, and other
Speaker 5: city officialcy overall instances of gunfire in the city have
Speaker 5: declined fourteen percent this year. Twenty twenty four was also
Speaker 5: the third consecutive year of declines in shooting incidents in
Speaker 5: the city. So far this year, Commissioner Cox says there's
Speaker 5: been twenty four homicides, which is much lower than years past.
Speaker 3: In the entire time that I've been a police officer,
Speaker 3: going back since when I came on, the city has
Speaker 3: never been safer.
Speaker 5: City officials are encouraging people to have a safe and
Speaker 5: happy New Years in Boston, Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: Organizers of the two hundred and fifty re enactments of
Speaker 1: the Battles of Lexington and Conquered next spring are having
Speaker 1: a tough time raising funds for the event. Hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of people are expected to show up Eprom nineteenth
Speaker 1: to watch the rebels the Redcoats. The Massachusetts House approved
Speaker 1: about three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for transportation
Speaker 1: and other costs for Lexington and Conquered Lincoln and Arlington,
Speaker 1: but the Globe reporting the funds failed to pass out
Speaker 1: of year end budget negotiations with the Senate. The Biden
Speaker 1: administration expected to an on Monday that it is sending
Speaker 1: another one and a quarter billion dollars in military aid
Speaker 1: to Ukraine, part of an effort to send as much
Speaker 1: aid to Kiev before President Biden leaves office on January twentieth.
Speaker 1: Officials say the aid package includes a range of munitions
Speaker 1: from Stinger missiles, artillery round, surface to air missile systems,
Speaker 1: and the Hawk air defense system. Survivors of this week's
Speaker 1: crash of the Azerbaijan passenger jet speaking out as questions
Speaker 1: linger about what brought the plane down in Kazakhstan. Here's
Speaker 1: ABC Zarinshaw.
Speaker 7: This passenger says he heard a loud sound as the
Speaker 7: plane descended toward Grasney. He says, I already realized that
Speaker 7: it was all over. I decided I should fill my
Speaker 7: last minutes now. And the investigation into how it happened
Speaker 7: still lingering, including if Russia's anti aircraft systems could have
Speaker 7: accidentally shot the plane from the sky. White House National
Speaker 7: Security Communications Advisor John Kirby says there are early indications
Speaker 7: the plane could have been brought down by Russian air
Speaker 7: defense system.
Speaker 1: The head of Russia State Aviation Agency does say the
Speaker 1: plane might have been hit during a separate operation as
Speaker 1: it attempted to land in the Russian city of Grosby.
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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Berger ONBDBZ, Boston's news radio