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We defining local news. Forty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here's what's happening first sight in Boston. Maybe keep the umbrella handy.
Clouds will increase tonight and some rain will arrive toward midnight, continuing overnight midnight temperature right around forty five degrees.
That is WZ active where the mediaorologists carries schwinden Hammer. We will have a fairly mild day to start twenty twenty five tomorrow, that a cool down and wintery temperatures moving in by the weekend. A public square in Boston's Back Bay is reopening with some big upgrades in the new year. Wbz'sma Friedman with details.
It's time for the first sneak peek into the renovated Copley Square Park.
People can come and visit this section of the park and they will be having a seat in some of our new lovely benches.
Each Hotfield is the senior project manager with Boston Parks and Red She says the area right between Trinity Church and Boylston Street has new benches and planters. By the end of January into February, the new plaza, tree canopies, and a shady deck called the Raised Grove area will be open, and then in the spring a new fountain
and lawn area. The new flexible event spaces will be used for things like the Boston Marathon, the Compley Square, Farmers Market, and just normal things on a day to day.
I also want to go there for some concert and just see how it feels where the backdrop, instead of being Trinity Church will now be the Library. And I think that's just going to be a breath of fresh air and kind of exciting and a new way to experience the Square.
I'm a Freedman WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Just under eight hours surround these parts until a new year is rung in, and there will be some new laws starting on New Year's Day. In Massachusetts, Ober and lyft drivers will receive new benefits also going into effect on January first, the Patient First Act. It changes the state's healthcare laws by requiring healthcare providers to inform patients how much they'll pay for hospital stays, meta procedures, and
the like, based on the patient's insurance plan. There's also changes to the maximum weekly benefit amount and employee contribution rates under Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave. Rhode Island, by the way, hikes their minimum wage tomorrow a buck to fifteen dollars per hour. Burglaries of the rich and famous, some pro athletes may have to change their social media soon. ABC's Jim Ryan tells us they're being told not to show off those wealthy lifestyles.
In the past four months, at least ten pro athletes, most recently look at Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks on Christmas Day, were victims of home burglaries. The FBI says South American criminal organizations are responsible for at least some of the break ins, insurging celebrities to refrain from posting pictures of their valuables and the interiors of their homes on social media.
Recently, former Bruins player and current Dallas starr Tyler Sagan had his house hit by Roberts. The mother of Celtics star Jalen Brown had her home broken into a few weeks ago while the Celtics were on the road watching twenty twenty five. As it continues to meander around the globe, many countries just bringing in the new year at the top of the hour. As of three minutes ago, twenty twenty five is here in another part of Russia, Turkey,
Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. In Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya celebrating the new year. Coming up at five o'clock. Places like recent Egypt will ring in the new year. Boston gets icy for New Year's Eve. We'll have more on that coming up. We are heading into a new year, and we're going to bring it in with perhaps a little bit of rain in Boston. It's going to be
a timing issue. We do have the clouds that are building in as we go through the latter half here of the afternoon and into the evening, and eventually some rain will come in here. The thing is it could come in right around midnight, so we'll have to wait and see if it slows down a tiny bit, maybe we'll get past midnight. Who's to say, keep the umbrella handy just in case. Tonight midnight will feature temperatures of about forty five and we'll lose a few degrees during
the overnight hour. Tomorrow, rain ends early. It's still cloudy though through the day, temperatures near fifty by Thursday. We're windy, in fact, quite windy around these parts, with a mix of clouds and sun. Temperatures in the low forties. Friday, brisk chili thirty seven for the high and we'll have a chili weekend coming up as well. It'll well feel like January. Weird forty nine degrees right now in Boston, frozen artists scattered all about the city tonight as the
new year approaches. WBC's Kyle Shaffield taking a look.
If you want to see all the ice sculptures on the Boston Harbor Walk before the New Year, you would have had to start walking yesterday.
Today we have forty ice sculptures that are spanning all the way up from Revere down to Nubian Square.
Rebecca Smirling is with Boston Harbor now.
They're celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Harbor Walk with ice sculptures spread all around.
They start carving in November and house them and then bring them out. But a small handful or made the day up. This one in Martin's Park near.
The Children's Museum, gathered a big crowd of onlookers. The ice cover says he's lucky it's warm out so he doesn't freeze himself.
Not on today, with weather like this, this will be pretty refreshing.
Actually, the carver started giving out quick melting salvenirs to the dozens of families that were watching big chunks of ice.
But to see the project finished, they're gonna need patients.
We'll be here for three hours.
Kyle Shaffle Tobe Busy boston'son's radio.
Perhaps you're making a list and checking it twice to figure out what you'll do to make next year nice. And the last day of the old year has many people thinking about what they want from the new one. Wbuz's Kendall Bull went to find out what's on people's minds.
The resolutions for twenty twenty five run the gamut among the pre dawn patrons of Salem's Coffee Time bake Shop. Fromkicking bad habits, quit cigarettes. That's a tough one, it is. But I'm determined to be in a good person, just to be a better husband and father.
That's about it.
To the most basic of plans, be happy.
Now.
That's not to say everyone has a resolution. Some just don't see the point.
I don't know, I guess I'm too old.
No plans on changing at this point.
Nope, nope, nope, not enough.
Which I suppose is a resolution in itself. Kettle Buld WBSY, Boston's news Radio.
One resolution that many people make every year is to be healthier and to hit the gym. Certified personal trainer Sierra Lucas telling CBS Mornings that when people hit the gym with their new year goal, keep it simple and stick with it.
Feels like there's a lot of pressure this time of year, so we like to remind people to start exactly where you are. It's not about finding the perfect time or the perfect opportunity. It's about embracing and honoring exactly where you are, just to get started.
Data shows about twelve percent of new gym memberships begin in January. Fifty percent of new members, though, quit within the first six months. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Ben Parker, WDBC, Boston's News Radio