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Sixty one degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Extending the range of war. President Biden now authorizing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to use American made long range weapons in its war with Russia.
Something that the United States needed to do to help Ukraine defend itself.
Former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan justified President Biden's decision and warned that there will likely be a response from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He's got to do something, but I believe it will be a man a response that the United States and its allies can manage.
The authorization came after thousands of North Korean troops joined the Russian side, expected to fight in Ukraine within weeks. Wendy July CBS.
News President elected Donald Trump's continuing to pick his cabinet. Some of the picks have raised an eyebrower to a couple of picks face allegations involving sexual misconduct against women, allegations both men denied.
CBS News has learned Trump's choice to lead the Department of Defense. Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth paid a settlement to a woman who had accused him of sexual assault back in twenty seventeen, As first reported by The Washington Post. Hegsath's attorney told CBS News that the Army veteran paid the woman to ward off a baseless lawsuit that would have likely gotten him fired from Fox News, and that she initiated a consensual encounter while Hegseth was intoxicated.
Now the CBS's Kaylee Caitlin Huey Burns, the President elect, also was named the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission as the new chairman of that agency. Brendan Carr's a longtime member of the Commission and served previously as the FCC's General counsel. A former police lieutenant from Winthrop Changes is plead guilty in a child rape case. James Feely was arrested last year on suspicion of raping a
child at is home. He entered the guilty plate today, sentenced to four to six years in prison plus five years probation. He will also be required to register as a sex offender. The case was scheduled to go on trial in March. The sexual assaults of the child at allegedly taken place at Phelly's family home between August twenty twenty two and December of twenty twenty three. Next week will be a busy week for travel. Triple A expects the Thanksgiving travel season to be a record breaker, and
that means packed planes and potentially packed roads. Nearly eighty million Americans are expected to travel fifty miles or more from home or from CBS Transportation, corresponding Chris van Cleeve.
Gas prices are more than twenty five cents a gallon, cheaper than this time last year, and about half the country is paying three dollars or less a gallon. Triple A says domestic airfare will cost you a bit more though compared to twenty twenty three, up about three percent, but that's not stopping people from flying. United Airlines is planning for the busiest Thanksgiving travel period it's ever seen. The nation's four largest carriers all expect more flyers than last year.
Airlines expect traffic to start picking up as soon as this Friday. The busiest day to fly will be the Sunday after Thanksgiving coming home, of course, with a similar situation on the roads. A gusty bree is still hanging in, and we've had clear skies through the day today, clear skies to night, temperatures about forty or a couple degrees above that in the city. Overnight we'll be back in
the thirties in some of the inland suburbs, mostly sunny. Tomorrow, mid fifties or so, still rather breezy, and then by Wednesday we'll have more sun than clouds, temperatures in the low to mid fifties. Finally, some relief getting in here in the form of some rain on Thursday, with breezy conditions that rain falling, temper tapering off in the afternoon, a high near fifty. We may get in on some shower reactivity Friday too, depending on this storm and how
long it hangs around, so we'll keep you posted. Of course, rain is something we haven't seen around here, certainly in any big numbers, in quite some time. Sixty one right now in Boston. The Celtics and their fans were flying high last summer after the team's eighteenth World championship. Now flying high at Logan Airport, which is paying tribute to the Celtics.
It's been five months since the Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks in Game five of the NBA Finals, scoring a record setting eighteenth championship. Logan Airport now celebrating that win in a special way. Massport's CEO Rich Davy.
Today, we keep the celebrations rolling as we raise Banner eighteen.
Banner eighteen now included in the lineup of forty some odd championship banners.
In a minute for us, as they say, two thousand and eight was our last one.
That's Celtics president Rich Gotham. The championship banners are from all of Boston's major pro sports teams, dating back to the early nineteen hundreds. They hang proudly at the security checkpoint at Terminal C.
But I do think if you count them all, we may actually have the most.
I know we have the most of the NBA.
At Logan's Sherry Small WBZ, Boston's news radio.
No school again in three North Shore communities. Teacher strives continue in Beverly, Glocester and Marblehead. After more failed negotiations, About two thousand people showed up in Beverly this afternoon for eight kids for class student March supporting fair contracts. Students send their parents. Her and others are asking the school committee and the mayor to negotiate in good faith,
marching from the high school to city Hall today. Got ANOUCHI there's an app that can help you act as your own personal orthopedist on demand Wbz'shile Shaffle with the tamps.
Thanks to a new app, you can know whether that ankle is broken or spraying pretty much instantly. The app is called Hurt. You take a photo or video and send it in at any time of day or night.
They then turn around and call you and say, hey, what happened. You slipped, you fell, you hurt your arm. They'll give you some advice.
LeAnn Hummel is the CEO of Boston Orthopedic and Spine, the first orthopractice to partner with Hurt in Massachusetts. Patients get triage and refer to her practice. She says, this kind of thing feels a real post injury care gap that exists right now.
And when people sometimes don't think about as they think I'm going to go to urgent care, I'm going to go to the er. They're not orthopedic specialists most of the time.
And that can meet a misdiagnosis that sets you on the wrong path to recovery. The app and it's twenty four to seven staff of bone experts, is free.
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