This is WBZY, Boston's news radio, redefining local news fifty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. As the year comes to a close. It's time to celebrate, but the City of Boston wants you to do it safely and not take matters into your own hands, like blowing things up.
Preparations are at full steam ahead of Boston's typically raucous First Night's celebrations. City officials like Mayor Michelle Woo are out with a couple reminders.
So we want to remind everyone celebrating First Night with us that using, selling, or having fireworks is both illegal and dangerous.
Other not goes include public drinking or smoking weed, and flying drones over the festivities, which Police Commissioner Michael Cox says has become a real problem recently.
It's more of an issue now because it seems like more people have them and they're using them inappropriately. So now we need to remind folks.
The city is set for two rounds of fire works into movie twelve hours of events before the clock strikes midden. Boston MS Chief Jim Hooley says staying safe on first night really just means common curzy and being a good friend.
Be a good wingman, wingwoman, whatever it is. College buddy go off on their own.
Tea services free after eight pm Tomorrow, with subways running till two thirty am. Kyle Schaffel WBZ, Boston's news radio.
As the year comes to a close, It'll be a parade from City Hall Plaza to the Boston Common six o'clock Tomorrow night. That leads up to the family fireworks over the Common starting at seven, and that midnight fire works over the Harbor will cap off the evening. Remembering Jimmy Carter, the thirty ninth President of the United States
DOT Sunday, at the age of one hundred. There will be remembrances and eventually funeral services for Carter, who served a single term as president from nineteen seventy seven until nineteen eighty one. ABC Stephen Portnoy takes up look back.
The legacy of the Carter administration includes the Departments of Energy and Education, both created on Carter's watch. Key government reforms were enacted by him in the post Watergate era, including the Pfizer Law curving states Carter pardon, Vietnam draft dodgers, He oversaw the response to disasters a three mile island
and Love Canal in Iran. Americans were taken hostage on his watch, and an attempted rescue was a deadly failure, but the Camp David Accords, which marked peace between Israel and Egypt endured.
Former President Carter's state funeral will be held January ninth services at the Washington National Cathedral. The former president is expected to lie in state in the rotunda at the US capital. President Biden declaring January ninth a National Day of mourning. There will be public events in Atlanta, Georgia as well, and a private interment is planned in Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia. Local memories of the former president, among them Senator Elizabeth Warren, who on ex calls Carter
a true public servant and peacemaker. Senator Red Markey says President Jimmy Carter led with compassion, integrity, and a heroic determination to lift humanity's spirit. For some, post Christmas means back at home, but for others, they still need to get there and corresponded. Rita Foley has more on what tra travelers are facing on the roads.
If you're trying to get somewhere for New Year's Day tomorrow, Tuesday might be a good time to be on the road in Rex, the data provider says not a lot of traffic impact is expected tomorrow or on New Year's Day itself, but if you're returning on Thursday, January two, the best time to travel by car is before three pm, the worst time between four and eight pm. Gas is three dollars two cents a gallon today, says the Triple A. That's cheaper than a year ago, when it was almost
three twelve a gallon. Nearly ninety percent of holiday travelers are driving to their destinations this year, but Triple A expects almost eight million passengers to travel by air. I'm rida, fol Lane.
We have some clouds that'll be around tonight, but overall just a partly cloudy evening. Breezy. Temperature is near forty tomorrow, not quite as mild as today, but pretty mild by late December standards fifty for the high sun'll give way to clouds and as we head into first night times around the city, we will probably stay dry most of the time. However, toward midnight and timings everything. We'll get some rain starting to arrive and continuing overnight into the
first part of twenty twenty five. Temperatures at midnight Tomorrow night forty five, dropping into about forty Temperatures on Wednesday get into the upper forties with the rain coming to an end and the clouds hanging around. Thursday will break out some sunshine, Temperatures about forty two right now fifty seven degrees in Boston. Rhode Islanders are being encouraged to protect their identity. Wz's Brook McCarthy explains why.
Earlier this month, the state of Rhode Island learned about a major cyber attack impacting their health and human service benefits, and now they say cyber criminals have released the information of some Rhode Islanders onto the dark web.
Contents of those files are still being analyzed by experts. Identifying what is in those files is a complex process.
Governor Dan McKee says they're working to generate a list of those in impacted by the attack. They're still encouraging residents that use services like Snap, Rhode Island Works and Medicaid to monitor their credit and request for fraud alerts. The governor says he understands that this is concerning.
Making sure that benefits are not interrupted, making sure that people understand how to identify, you know, protect their identity. And then the third issue is getting back online as quickly as we can.
Brook McCarthy, WBZ, Boston's news radio.
President elected Donald Trump is endorsing House Speaker Mike Johnson to stay in his role. In a truth social post, the President elect calls Johnson a good, hard working religious man and says he will do the right thing and we will continue to win. The endorsement coming as the House is set to vote for the speaker on Friday. You would think there would be consensus when it comes to the word of the year, but there isn't. Multiple outlets have spoken differently.
Dictionary dot com says the twenty twenty four word of the year is demure after a social media creator described how to use the term in different settings, some in agreement.
Demur. I don't know. I just love the word demir.
I call it. I think it was probably the word. It was definitely the word of the summer.
Demir was not my word. It was amazing and grateful.
Meantime, Miriam Webster says the words most searched this year include polarization, along with totality and demure. Oxford University surveyed thirty seven thousand people, with respondents helping to choose brain rot as the word of twenty twenty four. I'm Natalie mcgliori.
It is college football Bowl Season one bowl game is being played today. It's this afternoon as Iowa takes on number nineteen Missouri at the Music City Bowl in Nashville. Coming up toward the half, Iowa leeds Missouri twenty one to fourteen. Missouri finished the regular season with a record of nine and three. One of those wins was silver
Boston College in September. Iowa a record of eight and four when its last two regular season games, including a win over Nebraska, who beat BC in the Pinstride Bowl this weekend. Call it six degrees of Boston College. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parkner, WBZ Boston's news radio