This is WBZ, Boston's news radio re defining local news forty degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Take one of our holiday rush home. Throw in some bad weather marching across parts of the country, and you've got some tough sledding for some. Flight Aware says dozens of flights around the country have also already been canceled today.
It's a little bit crowdy, but I mean I'll get through it.
Several passengers at New York's LaGuardia Airport told us they're prepared for the holiday rush. Some are urging others to make the best out of any travel hiccups.
Delay, isn't they great adventures?
And you never know you're going to meet?
Triple A also advises travelers to know their rights. Federal guidelines now require airlines to give travelers a refund for canceled flights. Bradley Blackburn, CBS News, New York I.
Had a logan airport today. Five flights have been canceled and one hundred and sixty six delays, according to Flight Awares and Numbers. A US official says an early investigation shows a Russian anti aircraft system likely brought down the Azerbaijan jet that crashed this weekend in Kazakhstan.
Certainly there are lots of indicators put to points towards a asue down of that aircraft.
Andrew Nicholson runs Osprey, a company that advises carriers flying in the region. He pointed to photos of the plane's wreckage that appeared to show what he says is damaged consistent with surface to air fire.
There are no scuffs or bumps or dents that would also indicate you know, aircraft or birds hitting the aircraft fuselage, and also the direction of the shrapnel which looks like it's coming from below.
But the Kremlin urging the public to wait for the results of the investigation.
That is ABC signe as delicate. RAM renewed warnings from fire officials after the Christmas tragedy in Wakefield, New Hampshire. WBC's Kendall Buel with details.
Please install Cobb monoxide alarms in your house. Please make sure that they're working.
That's former New Hampshire Fire Marshall Paul Perezi, two days after four people were found poison to death in a home with no carbonn eye, excited arms, breezy now, fire chief and NIPS, which says there's no other way to know if there's a leak in your home of the colorless odorless killer.
Gas unless you begin to exhibit signs and symptoms of cob monoxide poisoning, which by then it could be too late, or if you're asleep, you may never wake up.
Finally, preeze, or just homeowners to never assume that an activated alarm is malfunctioning, but rather call their fire department.
Sometimes people feel like, well, I don't want to bother them, You're not to bother to us. We want to come out. We want to make sure you're safe in your home once a fight department clears your house.
Kennebu on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Brooklyn Middle school teacher Matt Gouldstein's identified as one of the four people found dead in that home on Christmas. Now evidence of something we've heard for years. A reporting jam of the Journal of the American Medical Association says working out's the way to go. A review of more than one hundred clinical trials finds at least two and a half hours of moderate or higher intensity exercise a week can produce some meaningful disease decrease in body fat along with weight, size and weight.
Any kind of exercise can get you there. The question is how strenuous and for how long. So what this analysis found analysis of over one hundred different studies of aerobic exercise, is that if you exercise for let's say, twenty minutes a day, seven days a week, or thirty minutes day, five days a week, you will achieve a significant weight loss.
I is CBS News medical contributor doctor Seline Gownder. Some clouds building in as we head into the evening, temperatures fall back to about thirty in Boston, twenties in most of the suburbs. And those temperatures are going to be important first thing tomorrow morning, because we're going to bring it a little bit of rain and drizzle, and if it's still below freezing, we will have some slick spots to contend with. In fact, there is a winter weather advisory.
It goes into effect at four o'clock tomorrow morning until one o'clock tomorrow afternoon for areas Metro West and points north and west, with that potential for some freezing and
slippery conditions early tomorrow. By afternoon we're to about forty and we stay there as we head through Tomorrow night, occasional rain and drizzle, warming up on Sunday into the low fifty with rain and drizzle and a steadier, heavier rain Sunday night before we taper off some of that rain on Monday and get the temperatures up into the upper fifties. Right now, it is forty degrees in Boston, so Immer calling it a Christmas miracle. In Maine, WBC's Matt Phipps as details.
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Businessman and former radio host in Bangor, Maine, is stepping up to save a radio station owned by author Stephen King. Classic rocker WKIT was set to go up the air before the holidays due to financial reasons, but now we'll continue to rock thanks to Jeff Solari and his business partner, who have taken over ownership. Two other stations, however, owned by King, are set to shut down before the end of the year. Matt phipps WBZ Boston's news Radio it is one of the.
Biggest lottery prizes ever, and it's up for grabs tonight. ABC's Andrew Dimberg tells us the mega Millions jackpot one point two to two billion dollars.
Mega Million's winner could take home the fifth largest prize in Mega Million's history. There were some big winners on Christmas Eve, four new millionaires each a Mega Ball shy of the grand prize, though Ray Wentworth. CaTiO also missed the billion dollar powerball jackpot in twenty twenty three, but she still won life changing money.
I scanned our tickets from the previous night on the app and it had all kinds of confetti and it said you want a million.
Dollars tonight another chance for players to begin twenty twenty five as a billionaire.
And when April rolls around, the price of a Mega Million's ticket will more than double to five dollars. Lottery officials say it will produce bigger jackpots and increase the odds of winning. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WDZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio