This is w b Z, Boston's news radio, redefining local news twenty seven degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. Former President Jimmy Carter's remains are heading to his Georgia hometown for the final time. CBS is Jim Cursuhler is there.
I'm Jim Krisuhl In Plains, Georgia. Stephanie Young has been friends with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Roslyn for many years. Speaking about mister Carter's death, she told me, we're.
All sad and we knew it was coming, but we're also celebrating because he and Rosalind.
Are back together again, and we have to look at it that way.
I mean, the man lived a.
Full life rather than Poppin's circumstance. Jimmy Carter wanted a simple burial service alongside his wife Rosalind, near their home on eleven acres of wooded land. Jim Krysula sibbyas News Plains, Georgia.
Things have been going from bad to worst in parts of California. The wildfire in the Pacific Palisades continues to grow. LA's fire chief Christian Crowley, says the fire is chewing through acres of land at a rapid pace.
It is safe to say that the Palisades Fire is one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles.
Crowley says the fire has charred over seventeen one thousand acres of land, and the fires destroyed thousands of structures, including multimillion dollar homes. The fires in the Los Angeles area have killed at least five people and torn through communities from the Pacific coast to Pasadena, and have caused
tens of thousands of people to flee. The ferocious Santa Ana winds that drove the flames and prompted chaotic evacuations have calmed a bit and are not expected to be quite as powerful through today, and that may provide an opportunity for firefighters to make progress. And President Biden's expected to hold a briefing this hour on the federal responses
to the wildfires. As those fires and the firefighters continue to work to battle them burning in the La area, President Biden has canceled a trip over.
President Biden canceled a three day trip to Italy to stay in the US and focus in the coming days on the federal response to the fires in Los Angeles. He was scheduled to depart today for Rome after the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter. During the trip, he planned to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican and Italy's Prime Minister and President. This is the second time in recent months that a weather disaster forced the president
to change overseas travel plans. He postponed a trip to Germany and Angola in the fall because of Hurricane Milton Karen Travers ABC News Washington no.
From New York's highest Court, as it has declined to block Donald Trump's sentencing tomorrow in his hush money case.
The president elect's seemingly final option is the US Supreme Court, which his lawyers have already asked to block the Friday New York sentencing. This is in mister Trump's trial and conviction last May on thirty four felon accounts of falsifying business records. Trump has denied wrongdoing. His lawyers argued that as president elect and though not yet in office, he has presidential immunity. Prosecutors say a president elect has no Article two fund under the Constitution.
That is ABC's Chuck Siegertson cover to Morrow Hilly's signing the Boston Home Rule petition allowing local officials to significantly stiffen penalties for non criminal violations of city ordinances. Boston now has the authority to impose fines of up to two thousand dollars for property owners, landlords, and small businesses that violate these cities sanitary code. Under the new law, city leaders are allowed to adjust the maximum fine for inflation every five years, and the new fine hike won't
immediately impact violators. Ordinances. Establishing those fines for specific violations will need to be separately approved by the City Council and the mayor. Wind advisory stays up until one o'clock in the morning, and we do have windy conditions right now, and as we head into the evening there could be some wind gusts of forty even fifty miles an hour before the winds eventually die down a bit. As we head into tomorrow overnight, we'll feel like we're in the
single digits with temperatures in the twenties, plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Again, that wind is subsiding, so It'll still be breezy, but not Harshay nine for the high temperature Tomorrow night becoming cloudy, especially in the evening late in the evening, with some snow late at night, temperatures in the mid twenties. Saturday, we'll have clouds around. We'll have some snow showers and temperatures in the low thirties, mid to upper thirties on
Sunday with sunshine right now twenty seven degrees. In Boston, a new gym at Lowell High School's been plagued with problems, and city leaders are speaking out. As we hear from wz's Madison Rodgers.
Facility has everything, but it's no good if it's not working properly.
At a meeting this week, city councilors like Corey Blanger went over a long and troubling list of issues with the Rittick Athletic Center. Athletic director Scott well That says, it feels like every day there's something simple, things like door handles falling off or not being repaired, or shot clocks that won't work for a basketball game, leaks, bleachers that don't work. This is a four hundred million dollars still underway project.
I just want to make sure that we take the time to get it right now.
Counselor Wayne Jeness calling for a report on the failures and an action plan for repair and holding the developer accountable for this building in Lowell. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
No Short business that sells rubbert ducks, is partnering with various foundations, including the Red Sox Foundation. Wbz's Carl Stevens with the story.
Courtney Lbreco, a neuropsychologist, and her wife Mandy, a philosophy professor, are the owners of Wicked Ducks here in Marblehead. Courtney says they were inspired by the European craze of rubber ducks.
And whenever we would go to Europe, we would love to find a rubber ducks store and we'd bring home a rubber duck and we just fell in love with it. So we decided, okay, let's spread this joy and laughter here and we opened up Wicked Ducks in twenty twenty four.
And they established the Wicked Ducks Foundation to support a number of causes. For example, they're partnering with the Red Sox Foundation because in the future they will create a red Soize and a percentage of the sale of that duck we'll go to the Red Sox Foundation. From Marblehead Carl Stevens do BVZ, Boston's News Radio.
Some scientists say climate change is in an extreme volatile state at the hands of humans. CBS's Tracy Wolf explains.
Human cause climate change is making climate extremes of swinging from periods of tremendous drought to intense precipitation, what scientists call hydroclimate volatility, more frequent and is expected to increase as global warming accelerates. In a new study from the journal Nature Reviews, scientists say the atmosphere's ability to evaporate, absorb, and release seven percent more water for every degree celsius of warming is driving this climate whiplash. Tracy Wolf, CBS News New York.
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