This is w b Z, Boston's news radio re defining local news fifty two degrees Seeing Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Teachers from across the Commonwealth will be coming together tomorrow morning to support striking teachers in Beverly and Marblehead. Wvz's Brook McCarthy as the tale.
As teacher strikes continue in Beverly and Marblehead, union leaders from across the state will descend on the State House to show their support. Deb Jiswaldo is the president of the Malden Education Association and says leaders from Malden, Quinsy, Brookline, and Worcester will be there, to name just a few.
I think this will be the first time in my recollection that I can remember leaders from so many unions coming together and heading into the State House to say, Hey, you need to meet with us.
Deb says they can't remain silent, adding they will call for a meeting with Governor Mori Healy to discuss the ongoing strikes. She says the governor campaigned as a supporter of public education and they want to see that.
Using her position as the Executive Officer of the Commonwealth issue that statement of support for educators in Beverly and Marblehead.
They will meet at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Brook McCarthy WBZ, Boston's NewsRadio.
WZ has reached out to the governor for comment and we are continuing to follow this story the strikes continuing among teachers and keep it to a to WBZ for the very latest and always streaming on the Guyheart Radio app. Special counsel Jack Smith is dropping President elector Donald Trump's twenty twenty election interference case. CBS's Matt Piper tells us what could happen next.
Donald Trump was accused of conspiring to overturn the results of the twenty twenty election he lost to President Biden and mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House, but neither case ever came to trial, and says legal analyst Laurie Levinson.
No one should expect that we're going to have any type of trial against Donald Trump for the next four years while he's the president, because in our country, according to the Justice Department, in the Office of Legal Council, a city president cannot stand trial on criminal charges.
Matt Piper CBS News sid the.
Federal Dodge overseeing the case still has to decide whether to accept the dismissal. A police chase through several Massachusetts communities ends late this morning in northern Worcester County. Drivers taken into custody and Stirling after leading police on a chase that included a number of roadways, including MY one
ninety and Route twelve. It was about ten am Massachusetts State Police from Troope located in Mercedes traveling on I ninety three South that was reported stolen in Derry, New Hampshire. Troopers initiated to pursuit. It continued onto four ninety five
South and onto Route two. Speeds reached ninety miles an hour in State Police say they terminated the pursuit and used the vehicle's GPS to track it that as v pulled over near the West Boylston Line, and State Police say Andrew mckinnis of Methuen was taken into custody without incident. While millions of turkeys will sit on dining room tables this week, two turkeys will instead be living out their
days at some cushy digs. In Minnesota, Resident Biden with the official pardoning of the birds at the White House.
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Blossom. The birds are both from Minnesota. They'll be brought back to live at Farm America. Boston Mayor Michelle Will announcing Youth Development Fund grantees for the upcoming year. Ninety nine grantees have been selected for the program for the twenty twenty four to twenty five year, which totals one and a half million dollars. The funding supports organizations that provide high quality and engaging programming for Boston youth ages
fourteen to twenty four. The mayor says the goal of the grants is to increase the variety of youth programming in the city and to offer a positive outlet for young people when they are not in school. Rain is headed in our direction for tomorrow. We get through tonight. Okay, it'll be clear, early clouds get in here. Late temperatures mainly in the thirties. The chilliest spots has expected the inland suburbs about thirty for the low cloudy for tomorrow
period of rain. It'll become a little breezy, temperatures in the low fifties, a little warmer upper fifties south coast Cape Islands, and then we clear out the rain and we clear out the skies, becoming clear to partly cloudy tomorrow and ilo thirty seven. Wednesday's a pretty decent day, some sunshine, breezy conditions, but again some sunshine, Temperatures in the low fifties. And then on Thursday, for Thanksgiving, we'll have clouds. We'll have some rain that will overspread the area,
continuing through the afternoon and evening at various intensities. We may pick up as few snowflakes mixed in, especially as you head north and west of town. Temperatures on Thursday in the mid forties. Right now it is fifty two degrees See in Boston, a Red Sox pitcher gets recognized by the league for overcoming the odds and making his major league debut at the age of thirty one. WBC's Kyle Bray with the tail.
Kem Boozer's life has almost played out like a sequel to The Rookie. After taking an improbable path to making his major league debut earlier this year, he's won the MLB's Tony Caniglieriro Award, honoring the late Red Sox legend and given to a player who's overcame adversity. Whoser retired from baseball in twenty seventeen after a few years in the miners. At the time, he was battling alcoholism and
a rough injury history. He started working as a carpenter back in Seattle, but as he told CBS News earlier this year, his love for the game never faded.
I got an opportunity to go coach some kids and some lessons and kind of help Alison Camps back home.
It's like the second I stepped back on the field, it was just like I couldn't help them smile. I was kind of like, all right, I need to get back here.
He started training again, played a few years of indie ball, and signed with the Socks in twenty twenty three. He appeared in forty three games this year after debuting in April. Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio.
It is now a full speed go on the MBTA's red line. As we've been telling you, slow zones on the line are so last week. The busiest Jared Brosnan has our update.
Recognize that sound. It's the Red Line running at full speed now that there are no slow zones for the first time in more than twenty years.
I go from here to the Charles Mgh stop every single day.
I stopped by Broadway station, where I found Carl, who's cautiously optimistic about a faster commute to work, even if she didn't know about it.
I was not aware of that.
Now.
I think that's going to make your trips a little bit better going forward.
I hope.
So.
I found myself taking hubers a lot of the time because it's really inconvenient to take the replacement shuttles.
Over at the JFK.
You messed up. Jordan is happy to hear the news, so it's actually really convenient.
You prompt. You won't see those shuttle busses happening as much anymore.
Oh, thank god.
It's going to be such a relief.
Honestly, now only the Green line has the need for speed, with two speed restrictions in place covering just over a quarter mile. The MBTA expects to lift those restrictions by next month. Jared Brosnan WBZ Boston's news radio.
I were into the season of Turkey and also into the season of spending. It turns out how much we spend for the holidays is a generational thing, Correspondent Scott Carr telling us big spenders might come as a bit of a surprise.
The generation planning to spend the most this year is millennials. According to a report by TransUnion, sixty three percent of millennials they plan to spend the same or more on
their holiday shopping than they did last year. The National Retail Federation says between November one and December third, holiday spending is expected to jump to a record nine hundred eighty nine billion dollars, and according to Deloitte's Holiday Retail Survey, shoppers are expected to spend eight percent more than they did last year, for an average of nearly seventeen hundred eighty dollars. I'm Scott Carr.
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