This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news thirty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Well, it's something you hear in Foxborough at Patriots games. It's crazy trained that apparently the Patriots new head coach Mike Rabel is all aboard.
We're going to work like crazy, and we're going to compete like crazy. We're going to give the players a plan and they're going to form an identity on the field and the way that we're going to play and play for each other that they're going to be proud of.
Just crazy.
Rabel introduced in Foxborough today as a replacement for Gerrod Mayo as a player. If Rabel won three Super Bowls. Here he is in the Patriots Hall of Fame, and he says, they're going to remove entitlem it from the football team and are going to earn the right to be here every day. Tough job coming up for Rabel.
The Patriots coming off of four and thirteen season. The wildfires in Los Angeles had left at least twenty four people dead and destroyed entire neighborhoods, and now ABC's Alex Stone tells us dangerous winds are set to make a return.
Already those Santa Ana wins are blowing again. Now another PDS red flag warning has been issued. PDS standing for particularly dangerous situation. Up to seventy mile per hour winds are possible through Wednesday. The fires already burning could rage back to life, or new ones could start. La City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, we.
Are not in the clear as of yet, and we must not let our guard down.
Vehicle parking rules are being enforced to keep roads clear for fire engines to access narrow roads. Alex Stone, ABC News Los Angeles.
President Biden says an Israel Hamas cease fire deals finally on the horizon. He made that announcement in a final foreign policy speech. The President says he's working with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan, Yahoo and other leaders in the area cure an agreement. The President says his presidency has strengthened American power in every dimension.
To four years.
Ago, America is stronger, Our alliances are stronger, Our adversaries and competitors are weaker. We have not gone to war to make these things happen.
When it comes to Russia's war in Ukraine, the President says he's garnered support from fifty nations to assist Ukraine, but still there's more to do. High levels of respiratory viruses across the nation are becoming more the norm than the exception. The CDC out with a warning thirty five states now reporting high levels ABC. Medical correspondent doctor Darien Sutton says illnesses are putting a strain on the hospitals.
When we talk about blue covid, RSV, neurovirus, we're talking about those infections as well as other common emergencies taught heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, and so this puts a strain in terms of the ability to treat all of these patients and also space, and it becomes incredibly difficult.
New Hampshire's reporting very high levels of acute respiratory illness, while most of the rest of New England is at a moderate level, including Massachusetts. A drop of the birth rate around the world. The twenty twenty four reports from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shows that from the US to Singapore, the global birth rate is down in comparison to nineteen sixty. The International Group's made up of thirty eight countries, including the US, to create solutions
for social, economic, and environmental changes. In this report, cite's main factors for a decrease in the birth rate to be increased education for women, birth control, accessibility, the growth and dual earner households, and reinforced public policies like paid leave and early childhood education and care. Some clouds that are hanging in as we head into the evening, they will eventually start to break up. We'll get a little
clearing later on Tonight. It is going to be on the chiley side, temperatures in the upper twenties, the probably low twenties of the suburbs, and the breeze is going to start to pick up, so it'll feel a little chillier. And then tomorrow a mixture of sun and clouds. It will be windy, a snowshower possible in the afternoon, and we're going to start to get into where the real
fields are going to matter. It again thirty four for the high tomorrow, but those real fields with the wind in the teens and low twenties, the chills in the air on Wednesday, temperatures around thirty will feel like it's in the teens despite the sunshine around thanks to that wind, and then still blustery. On Thursday, the temperature is close to thirty with some sunshine, feeling like it's in the upper teens. Right now it is thirty nine degrees in Boston.
Gone but not forgotten. And now we're not even sure if they're gone Arrowsmith.
They've already announced they're done touring. Oh wait a minute, maybe not so fast. My friend, Aerosmith basist Tom Hamilton says the band could do something in the future if Steven Tyler wishes to.
That's a mighty big if.
Though the seventy six year old front man has been battling vocal issues. But Hamilton tells AARP he puts the chances of seeing Arrowsmith come together at about a seven, maybe even as high as a nine out of ten.
Wow.
Arrowsmith, of course, was centering in the New Year at the Garden a couple of weeks back. But no dice. We'll see where the future brings them, maybe back to a stage near you.
We shall see. Drew Moho WBZ.
In Boston's news radio.
Jeff Bezos Space company putting a halt to its debut launch of a massive new rocket in just the final few minutes of the countdown to lift off. Loue Origin stopping things this morning because of technical troubles and a three hundred and twenty foot rocket was supposed to blast off just before dawn with the prototype satellite launch controllers at Cape Canaverl had to deal with an unspecified rocket issue in the final minutes and just ran out of time.
No new launch date's been set so far by Blue Origin. It's good to have a hobby, you know, something like reading. But should you read a book? Let's say at work. A star NFL player was thumbing through a book when TV cameras caught him on the sidelines and yesterday's playoff game.
During the Eagles win over the Packers, Philadelphia receiver AJ Brown was seen on the sidelines reading a book Inner Excel by Jim Murphy. He tried to explain later, it wasn't a one time thing. He often went to one of the passages in it.
He is always reverted back to, like a beginning on a blue These days, you can just hyber.
Clear through mind, a clear mind, he says. Brown who had just one reception for ten yards in the game, says he often reads on the sidelines because football, he says, is ninety percent mental and ten percent physical for him. In Her Excellence is now the top best seller on Amazon. Steve Kaithan CBS News.
A top NFL draft prospect turning himself in the face charges related to a deadly car crash.
Looking for Lacey Spinning.
I written Lacy was a standout wide receiver at LSU.
Touchdown Kidkiren Lacy in on the act.
The twenty four year old had declared for the NFL draft, but two days before that investigator's sake, he was racing down a Louisiana highway and caused a crash that killed a seventy eight year old man. Last night, Lacey turned himself in to face chargers that include negligent homicide. He posted a one hundred and fifty one thousand dollars bond and went home. Jim Ryan, ABC News.
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