This is WBZY, Boston's news radio. We defining local news twenty eight degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening after last night's deadly mid air collision in Washington between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter. We've learned an FAA report says staffing was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic. According to the Associated Press, the report says one air traffic controller was working two
positions at the time of that crash. Earlier today, President Trump reacted, the President vowing to find out why the two collided over the Potomac River, killing everyone on both aircraft.
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Country, really, we are in mourning. This is really shaking a lot of people, including people very sadly from other nations who were on the flood. The President says their travel safety standards were lowered during the previous administrations, and he criticized former presidents and Biden for putting politics first. He also claims DEEI policies are to blame. The President says he'll restore America's faith in air travel and says people need to be hired based on intellect and brain power.
The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Hammandy, says they will leave no stone unturned when investigating the deadly collision. We are going to conduct a thorough investigation of this entire tragedy looking at the facts. Man So far, officials have not recovered the flight data recorders. A crushing blow for an esteemed local skating club as they reel from this disaster. WZ Hiles Shaffle has more from Norwood.
It's a horrible echo in time here at the Skating Club of Boston.
And I personally feel that this club, the Skating cub of Boston, has just now almost sixty years later and been coming out of the shadow of that nineteen sixty one crash. So this is particularly devastating. See you.
Doug zeg Hives says this is the second time in its history that the club is morning after a deadly plane crash. This time it's the loss of six people who were aboard that American flight that crashed over night in DC.
You know, it's senseless, but accidents happen.
Then, includes two teenagers, sixteen year old Spencer Lane of Rhode Island and thirteen year old Ginahan of Mansfield and their mothers also a board. Two noted coaches with them, No Mov and Genyas Shishkova, the lead behind a son, Max, who is also competing in Wichita.
He was actually on a plane on Monday. I came back with him.
There's been a steady trickle of shock skaters in and out of the center here, which will remain open this week. Kyle Schaffel, BBZ Boston's News race Stay.
With WZ will have continuing coverage of a reaction and more information about this crash. WBC can also be heard on the new iHeartRadio app and you can set us as one of your set stations on that app. Governor more Hilly making some changes to a Patrick administration error task force that's focused on the state's military installations. The governor has put Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and the state's
entire congressional delegation in charge. The Stachusetts Military Asset and Security Strategy Task Force has been working for more than a decade to stay on top of the possibility of base realignment and closure efforts and to key in on
economic development opportunities. The task Force convenes state and federal lawmakers, along with military officials and representatives of the higher education and defense industry to promote these six military installations in Massachusetts that are together responsible for more than thirteen billion dollars in annual economic activity and account for about fifty
seven thousand jobs. It's got clouds that are going to build in as we head through the evening tonight, although temperatures aren't going to go terribly far, and we'll settle in probably the mid twenties, and then eventually temperatures are going to start to climb tonight into the thirties. Tomorrow will land around forty degrees or so. We'll have those clouds in place, and some rain comes in here probably around midday and sticks with us through the afternoon and
into the early evening. As it departs, the parting gift will be a little bit of snow mixed in, and so a slushy coding to an inch could fall in and around Boston. Bit more than that, as you head out into the suburbs north and west of town, there'll be some icy spots Tomorrow night two thirty for the low only about thirty two with some sunshine Saturday Sunday, we'll have some sun to start, we'll have some clouds to finish, and maybe a mix of rain and snowshowers
getting in here Sunday night. Right now, twenty eight degrees in Boston. Anita Master Dot is keeping busy at the International Space Station. Wuz's Brooke McCarthy has the tails hy above Earth.
Needham's Sunny Williams completed the ninth spacewalk of her career along with fellow NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore.
This is Mission Control, Houston.
We just concluded our EVA at twelve oh nine pm Central Time.
The duo spending over five hours outside the International Space Station to gather samples to see whether micro organisms exist on the outside of the orbiting laboratory. With the help of Mission Control, they also fixed a broken antenna.
Hey, that's a backup position.
I'm going to reconfigure for a couple of darkenests to Skipchin fronyst for after that, I'm ready.
Both Sunny and Butch have been stuck the ISS since June, following issues with their Boeing Starliner capsule that prevented them from returning home now. They're expected to come back in late March or early April, almost ten months after they arrived. Brooke McCarthy WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Dinner with a View. There's a lighthouse no with the Boston where you can have both. CBS News Boston's Chris Tanakat takes us there.
Range lighthouses work in pairs, with a taller one and a shorter one. When aligne, the two lights helped seafarers navigate tricky waters. It's also why these lighthouses are on shore and not some remote cliff for island.
This one is somewhat unique in that it's right downtown.
Jay Hyland is the president of the Lighthouse Preservation Society. The nonprofit owns and maintains the one in Newburyport. It takes a lot of money, but the society has found an ingenious way to raise funds.
We wanted to.
Show what could be done with an abandoned.
Lighthouse tower, and what they've done is partner with six local restaurants to create an unforgettable experience. The lantern room has been remodeled and can comfortably see a party of four, but more intimately a party of two.
The experience includes climb of fifty five stairs to reach the Lantern room. After dining, you can go out on the catwalk. There are views that are as tasty as the meal. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WVZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio