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News forty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock good Sunday afternoon. I'm Madison Rogers, and we start off with breaking developments in the Middle East. The world is watching Syria today after rebels topple the government overnight. It brings an end to half a century of rule by the Assaud regime. And we get the very latest now in a special report from.
CBS CBS News special report, President Biden today celebrated the end of the Assaud family's reign of terror in Syria. The fathers is a fundamental lact of justice. It's a moment of historic opportunity along suffering people of Syria. From the White House, the President said, US Central Command attacked Islamic state sites in Syria today to ensure the terrorist group doesn't take advantage of the chaos in Syria. US first conduct does it of precisious tracks air stripes within
Syria targeting NISUS camps and isis offratis serious. Former President Bashar Alasada and his family fled the country from Moscow as rebels approached the capital Damascus. Asade and his family have now been granted asylum by Russia. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he's glad the Syrian people are finally free of Asad. I welcome the fat with ASATs golden the Syrian people how to put up with his brutal regime for far, far too long. CBS News special report, I'm Christopher Cruz.
President elect Donald Trump is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine one day after meeting with President Zelenski. Mister Trump says Kiev would like to make a deal. In a post online. Meantime, the Pentagon has pledged another major military aid package.
I'm proud to announce today the commitment of a new Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative package worth nearly one billion dollars.
And that was Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaking at the Reagan Nash Defense Forum in California. A Boston man's facing charges after shots rang out in the South End last night. Police say it was a road rage incident at the intersection of East Berkeley and Harrison. Av Officers responding around ten thirty pm. The suspect allegedly shot at another driver's car after an argument escalated. There's no word of any injuries, but that other car was damaged. Jayir Fortado is expected
to face assault and gun charges in court tomorrow. Westford officers are investigating, alongside state police and police from the US Capitol, after a bomb threat targeting Massachusetts Congresswoman Laurie Trehan and her family. That is according to the rep who made a post on social media yesterday. It is confirmed now by state police, who tell us they determined there was no credible threat. It appears to have been just the latest in a string of hoaxes targeting politicians
around the country. And looking at the fourt A WBZ ACI weather forecast, patchy clouds tonight with a low around thirty seven degrees. We start off sunny tomorrow, but clouds move in, followed by some rain arriving late Monday and continuing at night. Now, if you're well north or west of town, that rain could start off with some ice or snow mixed in. In Boston, though we will see
temps get into the mid forties tomorrow. Tomorrow night it stays pretty wet, and then lingering drizzle starts off Tuesday. We should stay dry for the most part. It's cloudy though with some areas of fog. Hies around forty five, but the rain returns Tuesday night and gets steadier as the night goes on. Soaking rain around for Wednesday, with potential flooding in low lying and poor drainage areas. Very
mild too, as the temps near sixty degrees. It's forty eight right now in Boston, feeling like the upper thirties with a chili breeze and a mostly cloudy sky. It's four oh five. There was a festive treat for passers by in the streets of downtown Boston. Today. Wbz's Kyle Schaffel explains.
The Harvard University Band is spreading the cheer downtown. More than a dozen band members dressed in Harvard maroon coats and played holiday classics, part of an annual tradition for the students around this time of year. The people were left sufficiently cheerful.
It's so cool.
I love it.
It's so like seasonal. We love the holidays so effective.
Nick or Placed Trombone says, it's important to spread a little joy this time of year.
You know.
I think as a student you can often feel like kind of trapped on campus.
You don't really see what's going on around here.
So anytime we can get out in the city and like see everybody spread music, I think that's a great time for Kyle Schaffel to be busy.
Bosster's huge radio hundred's turned out in Gloucester this weekend for an estate sale at the now former home of an embattled celebrity chef Boston restauranteur, Barbara Lynch. The Globe says there were countless items up for grabs, including cookbooks,
chef's coats, aprons, kitchenware, furniture, art, and clothes. Lynch had been a mainstay of the local restaurant's scene before a series of legal controversies, a class action lawsuit from two former employees who claimed she failed to pay out tips. Several former employees also accused her of behaving inappropriately in creating a toxic work environment. Lynch denies the allegations. Last month, she was sued by the City of Boston over unpaid property taxes. It's a sign of the season snow plow
naming contests. Submissions are open for mas dot's third annual contest, and a contest is wrapped up just outside Washington d C. We take a look at the winners with CBS's Christopher Cruz.
Each of Arlington County, Virginia's sixty plow salt trucks will bear a names suggested by the public. By the time the contest ended twelve hundred entries had arrived. The top three most suggested names Plowe, Mcplowface, Mister Plow, and Taylor Drift. Some other winners Alex Snovechkin, Control Old Salt, Delete Saline Dion and Plow. You doing, How you good? Christopher Cruz, CBS News Washington.
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