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Afternoon Report: Monday, January 6, 2025

Jan 06, 20257 min
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Patriots owner Robert Kraft talks about the firing of Jerod Mayo. Congress certifies President-elect Donald Trump winner of the election. Boston Calling announces its lineup. Stay in "The Loop" with #iHeartRadio.

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This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local.

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News twenty five degrees seen in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Patriots owner Robert Kraft putting it all on his shoulders after another losing season and a change at the top of the team. Wz's Hyles Schaffele has more from Gillette.

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With a short reign of drawn Mayo over in Foxborough. It was time for a post mortem from Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

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This whole situation is on me. I feel terrible for Girard because I'd put him in an untenable situation.

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He said he felt guilty about needing to let Mayo go as head coach, but his close personal friendship with Mayo didn't deliver what the team was lacking this year wins.

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I don't like losing. I don't like losing the way we lost.

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Craft emphasized that he felt the team had regressed, especially in the last month. He said he felt it was time to bring in someone new. He screwed around question on whether it would be former player and coach Mike Rabel.

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There are some wonderful people that we've heard about, so I'd rather respond to that after I've seen everyone.

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We talked to the players ahead of this news conference. Some of them seemed crushed to see Mayo go without a chance to say goodbye. Kyle Shaffele to b Busy, Boston's news radio.

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President elected Donald Trump declared the winner of the twenty twenty four presidential election in a joint session of Congress. Vice President Kamala Harris, presiding over the count of electoral votes in her role as President of the Senate. Votes for President of the United States are as follows.

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Donald J.

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Trump of the state of Florida has received three hundred and twelve votes.

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Kamala D.

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Harris. Heavy security surrounded the Capitol today following the insurrection on January sixth, four years ago. That day, the President elected rejected the election results. Crowds of his supporters stormed the capitol to our north. The leadership shake up candidate's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing the plans to stepped down as the Liberal Party leader, then as prime minister after a new leader is selected for his party.

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Good morning, I've woken up as Prime Minister. I've been inspired by the resilience, the generosity and the determination of Canadians. It is the driving force of every single day I have the privilege of serving in this office.

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Trudeau's ben at odds with President Elector Trump. Over the past couple of weeks. Trump has threatened to impose a twenty five percent tariff on all Canadian goods if Trudeau did not deal with the increase of migrants entering the US. The President elects also jokingly referred to Trudeau as the governor of the fifty first US state. In a week where a presidential election is certified, America is saying goodbye

to its thirty ninth president. Thousands have paid their respects to Jimmy Carter, and more respects will be paid throughout the week.

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I'm jim krisullin Atlanta. Despite often on cold, windy rain, people including DJ Bennett, continue to come to the Carter Presidential Center as the body of former President Jimmy Carter lies and repose.

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He did a lot diplomatic work, he did a lot for humanity.

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I think his legacy as a real kind gentle man withstand.

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Mister Carter's body will be flown with his large extended family to Washington, DC tomorrow ahead of an official state funeral at the National Cathedral Thursday. Jim Chrysuli sibs news at let.

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Following the Pompin's circumstance and honors for Carter, he'll be buried next to his wife in planes Georgia. If it's cold, we've got the wind blown around too. That makes it feel even colder than the air temperature by a lot. We've had temperatures this afternoon feeling like it's in the teens despite being in the twenties. Tonight we'll have temperatures in the upper teens, and late tonight we may drop down to real fields around zero with those breezy conditions

and partly cloudy skies. Another windy day tomorrow, more sun than clouds, so a little better in terms of what it looks like in the sky tomorrow, but not much better in the way it feels. Twenty nine for the high tomorrow, real fields single digits and teens, and on Wednesday, pretty much the same Dealay, same thing. We'll have some clouds, some sun, and temperatures close to thirty. Feeling a lot colder than that. Right now it is twenty five degrees

see in Boston. Boston Calling twenty twenty five has taking shape. Wbz's to mulholland with what you need to know.

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When this will be fun? It is another stack Memorial Day weekend for Boston Calling. Luke Combs helps bring the Friday home with the help of Megan Maroney.

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Wow.

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Also Friday is T Payne, Sheryl Crow TLC. That'll be fun. Saturday it's Fallout Boy and Avril Levigne. Cage the Elephant helps fill out the Saturday slate. Tom Morello Public Enemy, Vampire Weekend Rock the Harvard Athletic Complex on the Sunday before these guys bring it on home Rock and Roll Hall of Famers now the Dave Matthews Band, Pretty Cool, Drew moholland w Busy, Boston's News Radio and.

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Lawyers in Massachusetts ended last year a bit more optimistic about their economic outlook than they did the year before. However, they did raise some concerns in the process about the pace of future interest rate cuts and the state's competitiveness. A report from Associated Industries in Massachusetts Fine Business Confidence Index stood at fifty five point four in December. It's nearly five and a half points above the fifty point line,

which divides pessimistic and optimistic territory. For more than the third of workers, twenty twenty five will bring something new on the job front. A lot of us apparently planning to change jobs this year.

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That's according to the Global Talent Barometer from Manpower Group. It has more than twelve thousand workers across sixteen countries. For younger workers between eighteen and twenty seven, it's closer to one half planning on a job change this year. Meanwhile, over four in ten remote workers who tend to report better well being and work life balance reported themselves likely to change jobs. I'm Michael Kassner.

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A minor league ballpark in Florida and one step away from becoming a national landmark. CBS's Peter King explains why the park is so special.

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The ballpark in Daytonta Beach is where Jackie Robinson made his professional debut in nineteen forty six. While Robinson integrated the game, black and white fans were segregated. Historian Bill Schuman, the.

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White fans the African American fans in different sections.

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They gave him warm ovations. How called Jackie Robinson Ballpark President Biden has designated it as a commemorative site part of the African American Civil Rights Network. A feasibility study will determine whether it officially becomes a national landmark. Peter King, CBS News Orlando.

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You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ Boston's News video

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