This is WBZ, Boston's news radio, redefining local news forty three degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening. We are following some developments, says. Multiple reports say President elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Junior to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. After RFK dropped out of the presidential race as an independent,
he endorsed Trump for president. The president elect has mentioned him joining his cabinet on multiple occasions, saying RFK Junior will help make America healthy again. Kennedy, among other things, has been an outspoken critic of vaccine mandates. A man is seriously heard after a bus slams into a building in Fitchburg, trapping that man underneath of the bctv's Beth Grumano tells us it happened at the Intermodal Transportation Building in downtown Fitchburg.
Marianna Payne had just gotten onto the Fitchburg City bus before eight am when she says, it suddenly started rolling.
I realized that we were moving, and once we started moving, the glasshow came into the bus. There was someone in front of the bus, he got dragged by the bus.
Paine says it appeared the driver had no control when the bus went through the glass wall of the bus terminal in downtown Fitchburg, striking a sixty five year old male sitting on a bench who became pinned underneath.
Crews were able to lift the bus up using airbags in our electronic jaws of life, we were able to pull them out. How medics went to work on them and Life flightd them to UMass.
Investigators are now trying to determine what happened in the moments before the crash.
A number of witnesses had tried unsuccessfully to lift the bus off the victim. The driver of the bus wasn't injured, the only other only one other person was on the
bus at the time. As the teachers strike continues in Gloucester, Beverly and Marblehead, some good news for student athletes in Marblehead, the school superintendent says, after due diligence and meeting with the athletic director and administrators, he's determined that athletic and extracurricular activities in town can equitably and safely go on as schedule. These superintendent says they'll be utilizing non teacher, non union personnel to support the activities and appreciate the
assistance in ensuring student participation. Meantime, schools are still closed in Beverly, Glocester, and Marble Lad, though the towns are going to court. It is illegal in Massachusetts to engage in a teachers strike. Beverly and Gloucester teachers already facing fines and will face more if they don't get back into the classroom. Nearly a dozen state representatives are going
to travel to Cuba tomorrow. The Beacon Hill lawmakers will meet with public officials, hospital staff, and members of academic and research institutes, along with several charities. Representative James govern says he hopes the trip will be a step toward improving relations between Cuba and the US and foster critical conversations about getting humanitarian aid into the island nation. A couple of overseas summit meetings are on the schedule for President Biden.
The President will attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit or APEX in Peru. Biden will have a sideline meeting with Chinese pre is It Ajijinping. It will be the third meeting between the two and the final one with Biden as president. After Peru, the President will travel to Brazil, where he will become the first US president ever to visit the Amazon rainforest. Later, it's on to Rio de
Janeiro for the g twenty Summit. The leaders of twenty nations responsible for much of the world's carbon emissions, will focus on a number of issues, including global climate change. Linda Kenyon CBS News clear.
To partly cloudy skies Tonight. It is going to be chilly again, back into the twenties, maybe even the low twenties and some of the coldest suburbs about thirty four downtown, upper thirties over the Cape and islands. Then weather starts to improve as we get into warmer air fifty eight
for the high. Tomorrow it will become breezier, so we will have that fire risk getting a little bit to higher with some sunshine and a few clouds around Tomorrow night it's partly cloudy, thirties in the suburbs, forty two downtown and then a windy Saturday, so again fire risks abound sixty one for the high temperature with that gusty wind in a mix of sun and clouds. Sunday, we'll have a breeze, some sunshine, sixty one in or I didn't say rain anywhere in that forecast. Right now, forty
three degrees in Boston no longer a desert. What local town is celebrating the end of the Dark Ages. When it comes to getting a cup of Joe. WBC's Matt Shearer takes a sip.
The former Beef and Ale restaurant in Stowe has been quietly rotting on the side of the road for sixteen years, but suddenly it's rotting loudly. We're doing the demo for the Duncanonis. That's Lewis and you heard him right. He's turning it into a Duncan. Best news ever, So why is this such a big deal. Well, for that we go back in time two years.
There is no more duck Donuts and Stuf.
Yeah, it sucks.
In twenty twenty two, Stow lost both its Duncan locations, which made international news because of my video about it, featuring this local teenager named Elizabeth.
There's nothing fun to do and Dunkin Donuts was the one place where everyone likes to go.
Well, two years later, are you good? Good to see you get to tell her the good news.
That's wild, that's actually amazing.
Oh my, oh gosh.
Hopefully the Facebook moms will be happy.
Now they are. They're saving our town and still nasher or WVZ, Boston's news radio.
All right, check out more of Matt's Duncan adventure on our TikTok at WBZ News Radio. The PBADESX Museum giving the color blonde a glimpse into a whole new world. As we hear from wz's Heile Shaffele, for.
Basically the first time in her entire life, Kat is about to see red.
I've remember times before.
Honestly, I've been really nervous to try it. You really, I guess know what You've been missing out on your whole life, which is kind of sad.
She, like four others wandering around the Pbdesx Museum now has a pair of tinted glasses on. They're all red, green, color blind, but they get a break from it today.
Reds are popping, reds and oranges are really popping.
The specs are from in Chroma, a company partnering with the museum to supply these special glasses that let colorblind visitors see the art and truer colors. Patro Slinkard is a curator here.
I think for many museums on low vision has become a priority, but unfortunately, I think color blindness was ever looked.
Many of the participants in the glasses gave the art more depth. The museum will not lend out these glasses to visitors for free. Kyle Shaffeld Toms Boston's News Radio.
Looking to get a few ski runs in this weekend, try Sunday, not the day, but Sunday River. They opened up today for the first time. The trail there was ungroomed, so just expert skiers were encouraged to ski, snowmaking guns, or running when the temperatures permitted until nature takes over. I suppose, in addition to Sunday River, Killington opening for pass holders today, a general public opening tomorrow. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day.
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