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News thirty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. House Speaker Mike Johnson has been reelected for a second term after a narrow vote in Washington this afternoon. The Republican rep was initially to vote short of winning, but after some activity on the House floor, two Republicans changed their vote.
The Honorable Mike Johnson of the State of Louisiana, having received a majority of the vote's cast, is duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the one hundred and nineteen comes.
Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Keith self of Texas changed their votes, and that put Johnson back in the Speaker's chair. With the gabble. President elect Donald Trump and previously endorsed Johnson after some House Republicans expressed frustration over Johnson's handling of the most recent spending bill. Tax cuts, and mass deportations are all at stake as Republicans step
into power across the board in Washington. Two days after a deadly vehicle attack in New Orleans, law enforcement officials are now concerned about copycats.
The FBI and other agencies issued an intelligence bulletin overnight that warns of copycat or retaliatory attacks. The bulletin warns law enforcement to be aware that attackers often have secondary weapons and may continue to threaten after the vehicle has stopped.
Some of the possible indicators involving rental vehicles include fake IDs, questions about whether vehicles can be modified for heavier loads or storage space, and reports of rental vehicles parked for prolonged periods of time near sensitive sites.
Matter is CBS is Cammy McCormick. There are still plenty of questions in Las Vegas, as investigators are still trying to figure out why a decorated active duty soldier shot himself in the head before the Teslas cyber truck he was in exploded outside of Trump Hotel of.
Matthew Livelsberger in Colorado. Springs say he was a nice guy, a soldier who loved his country, and they don't understand why he would explode the Cybertrocky in Las Vegas. Investigators are now trying to gain clues from Livelsberger's electronic devices, seeing no link to any terror group or the attack in New Orleans, his wife telling police, according to a source, that he had been out of the house since around Christmas after a fight over allegations of infidelity.
That is ABC's Alex Stone. There is a new report that puts a link between alcohol and cancer.
The Surgeon General's report calls alcohol use a leading and preventable cause of cancer, saying drinking is responsible for nearly one hundred thousand cancer cases and about twenty thousand cancer deaths per year. That puts alcohol behind tobacco and obesity as America's leading preventable cancer causes. The reports is consuming it increases the risk of cancers in the mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, colon,
and in women breasts. The report recommends new warning labels more explicitly tying alcohol use to that increased risk.
That is ABC Stephen Portnoin. It is the first weekend of the new year. Looking for something funny to get the year going. Comedy party off to Democracy Brewing this weekend with laughs and logger doors open at seven forty five Tomorrow night at thirty five Temple Place. Want some Inside into Beer Tomorrow at Lamplighter Brewing on Broadway and Cambridge a Beer's School, brewery tour and tasting class. It's an hour long starts at four pm, taking you behind
the scenes to look at how beer gets made. Then there's samples. Breezy conditions. They'll stay with us through the night. Tonight twenty six for the low real fields will be the teens. Tomorrow we'll have a little bit of sunshine poking out from behind clouds, breezy again, temperatures in the mid thirties, real fields in the teens. Sunday partly sunny, breezy, thirty four for the high. Real feels in the teens.
I feel like I'm repeating myself, remaining cold with clouds and limited sun on Monday, a high of thirty four, and we'll again have a little bit of a breeze around, so certainly it'll feel a bit chillier right thirty seven degrees here in Boston. We're following some developments out of New York where a judge is set President elected Donald Trump sentencing in this hush money case for January tenth, that's a little over a week before he is set
to return to the White House. The judge indicating he will not jail, Trump sentencing him to conditional discharge, which is when a case gets dismissed if a defendant avoids re arrest. The president's elect was convicted of thirty four counts false flying business records to cover up hush money payments to storm Meet Daniels. You say you want a resolution, Hey,
try putting down that phone. Noble Di Visi's Kyle Brady tells us some people are working on trying to keep the screen time at a minimum this year.
It's common to hear the saying kids these days are always on their phones, but the kids these days are also trying to do something about that.
I like hate my phone. It kind of pisses me off, like anytime I find myself using it too long, or like sort of reverting to it automatically.
We like many a the people this new year, is looking to cut back on screen time, particularly his phone. In this day and age, it's hard to avoid mindless scrolling, but excessive phone use can lead to trouble, sleeping, mood changes, and a poor attention spam. That's why Rue uses his phone's screen time function to limit how often he can use certain apps.
What I try and do is like make the passwords so annoying that I like am not like torn to try and like enter the sixteen digit code that I set up.
Brendan, on the other hand, as trying third party apps to try to limit his phone time.
I have this thing where you can make your screen look black and white, so it kind of makes the phone look dead.
It's less enticing. I want to go on it from the common Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Bakery and Maine getting some top honors picked by The New York Times is one of the best in the country. It's called The Place in Camden, Maine. Its website describes itself as a neighborhood bakery operating out of a workshop in what used to be the owner's garage. The bakery's owners writing on Instagram they weren't aware of the article in The Times until a customer told them about it. Every year, there's something that wasn't trending last year when
it comes to food. The top trends of twenty twenty five include a rise in popularity of Southeast Asian cuisines.
An increase and popularity of Korean and Vietnamese cuisines. Are two of the top five food trends of this year according to the National Restaurant Association. Kevin Tnn is chef and owner of Moon Rabbit, a popular, critically acclaimed Vietnamese restaurant in downtown Washington, DC that serves innovative dishes like.
Quail that's stuff with the duck sausage that has kind of like a v a cajon and jambalaia with it.
He says, the entire cuisine is shifting.
Yeah, Chefs like us are really combining a lot of our techniques in our heritage.
The top five also include sustainability and local sourcing, cold brew and hot honey.
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