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News thirty two degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon on Ben Parker, Here's what's happening. The suspect in the deadly shooting of an insurance executive in Manhattan last week fight sex tradition. Back to New York.
CBS News special report, the accused killer of United Healthcare CEO will remain jailed in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He's fighting his extradition in New York and just says CBS News legal anols, theaned Rosenbaum.
ANGIONI was denied bail. No surprise there. It doesn't matter that he has no criminal record. He has already demonstrated he has a flight risk, and he has wanted for what might be first degree premeditated murder.
CBS is anti Chector on the evidence police found when they arrested Luigi Mangione.
The clothing that was found on his person in Altoona, Pennsylvania matched that of what the shooter was wearing, so there's fat. He also presented the local police with this very same fake New Jersey driver's license that he used to check into that hostel on the.
Upper West Side.
They also found three handwritten pages verre Mangioni acknowledges his actions and describes his anger at corporate America. CBS News special report I'm Peter King and police in the Big Apple have examined writings of the accused killer.
Luigi Mangioni's handwritten notes talk about his disdain for corporate America, in particular the healthcare industry, says NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney.
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States, how we are the number one most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet the life expectancy of an American is ranked forty two in the world. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish says Mangioni's gun and suppressor looks similar to the one used in the attack, and his driver's license, a fake one from New Jersey, was the one used to check into a Manhattan hostel that.
Is ABC's Chuck Siegertson. Shrewsbury police say a high school student reported that she was grabbed by an older man on her way home from school. The Shrewsbury School superintendent says the student was walking on a path toward Cherry Hill with another student when the unknown man grabbed her. Police say the student described the man as in his fifties or sixties and that he let her go and fled when she reacted. Officials didn't find anyone in their
sorts of the area. They are increasing patrols, however, and police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. President Biden touting his economic progress during a speech in Washington, planning to pass the torch to the next administration.
The President says his economic playbook of building the economy from the middle out and the bottom up was a recipe for success.
Most economists degree the new administration is going to inherit a fairly strong economy, at least at the moment.
Biden says, the fundamental transformation has created a strong foundation for the future.
As my profound hope that the new administration will preserve and build on this progress.
The President also warned against the incoming administration's plans to impose major tariffs, saying, in his view, it would be a major mistake. Lindy Canyon, CBS News.
The White House the Healy administration handing out sixteen million dollars in grants to support clean energy initiatives in affordable housing. This is the third round of awards through the Climate Ready Housing Program, helping affordable housing properties across eight Massachusetts communities significantly reduce their energy use. The governor says this round of funding goes even further toward lowering emissions, which reduces costs for Massachusetts residence and she says is good
for the environment and our health. We do have some low clouds, rounds and fog this afternoon, and we have the wind and rain coming, but as of right now, we're just dealing with a little bit of drizzle in a few places. Thing is it is below freezing in some spot, so some of that drizzle could be making roads and certainly sidewalks untreated areas a little bit slick. Something to be aware of as we head into the evening.
Although later tonight we are going to see territories rise through the forties and eventually land in the sixties tomorrow, So tonight rain gets in here toward midnight, it will be steadier overnight, and then it could come down pretty heavily at times during the day, especially late in the day tomorrow, and some of that heavy rain could cause as you would expect some ponding on roadways, and some flooding in low lying and port drainage areas. The wind that is going to be a big issue as well.
It could lead to some power outages across the region. Fifty to sixty mile an hour wind gusts near the coast and even a little bit higher as you head down toward the Cape and islands. There is a high wind warning that goes into effect tomorrow afternoon. It stays windy tomorrow night, the rain gets out of here, skis will actually start to partially clear. Temperatures in the upper thirties mid forties with some sunshine and wind on Thursday,
plenty of sunshine. Friday, it'll be chilly, not as harsh, though the winds died down thirty seven. The high temperature on Friday looks like an okay weekend coming up. It's thirty two degrees right now. In Boston, the plan to hike property taxes on commercial buildings in Boston to spare residential homeowners is dead at the State House. Some of the busas Mike Macklin tells us there's no agreement and has more on what could or should happen next.
Mayor Michelle Wo's controversial proposal would have increased the property tax burden on the city's business community to spare residential homeowners from what Wo warned would be a catastrophic tax increase. But her plan died in the State Senate, where the State Revenue Department shot holes through the fiscal numbers. Her proposal was based.
On the numbers that were provided to city councilors and state senators. Was inaccurate and I'm being polite.
Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn says he wants the State Inspector General to conduct an independent investigation into the mayor's tax revenue figures.
We have to make sure that we are providing the most relevant, inaccurate data so elected officials can make the best decisions.
Clinton says what the city needs to do is cut spending before raising taxes at city Hall. Mike mclin WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Two weeks from tomorrow is Christmas. A day after that, we'll start the Christmas returns, and there'll be a lot of them.
A new report by the National Retail Federation and return management company Happy Returns expects this year's returns to reach seventeen percent of all merchandise sales, making for eight hundred and ninety million dollars in return to products. The return rate in twenty twenty three was at fifteen percent, which totaled seven hundred and forty three billion dollars. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Just give me cash. I won't return it. Promise you are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WDZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WBZ, Boston's news radio