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News fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon, night' Ben Parker, Here's what's happening. Batten down the hatches and batten down the Christmas decorations if you don't, Lasanta, my friend could be blowing in the wind.
Roughly round four, perhaps even five pm. The very latest is going to be the onset through about midnight. At the latest overnight tonight, I think about tia two am, we start to see a lot of the activity begin to sort of wind down.
Gay to CBS News Boston meteorologist Jason Michael, we do have a high wind warning up until one o'clock in the morning, and the rain overspreading the area. Some will come down heavily. We'll get you caught up coming up in just a few minutes with traffic and weather together. There are more updates on the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO. Brian Thompson, the New York City Police Commissioner, says the gun found on shooting south back to Luigi Maggioni.
Matches shellcasings that were found at the crime scene. Lisa so say Mangioni's fingerprints match prints on items also found at the crime scene. The shooting is also increasing threats against sitting corporate executives, since the.
Top United healthcare officers, killing corporate heads potentially face harassment and violence, says a law enforcement bulletin gotten by ABC News. It says many social media users have urged more killings of company officials, some posting hit lists. The bulletin includes photos of a banner draped on a highway overpass that includes the words deny, defend, depose, the same words police said were found on shell casings at the scene of Brian Thompson's murder.
At his ABC's Chuck siewerts in days after her arrest, the Boston City Councilor Tamya Fernandez Anderson is responding to calls for her to resign. WBC's Madison Rodgers has the story.
Counselor Tanya Fernandez Anderson says she's not going anywhere.
I can focus on my work.
Despite Mayor Wu's argument that the federal corruption case she's facing will prevent her from being effective. Prosecutors say the counselor took seven thousand dollars in taxpayer cash after paying out a thirteen thousand dollars bonus to a relative. She wouldn't say if she maintains innocence.
That is not something you talk on, right.
Let's allow to process.
Let's go through that process, and when it's time to speak, then we speak.
For some residents like Michelle, that's enough. I think that people are innocent until they're proven guilty.
It's her decision as to whether she wants to go through that.
The councilor has surrendered her passport and she's been assigned to public defender, facing counts of wire fraud and a betting theft at city Hall. I'm Madison Rogers, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Going somewhere for the holidays. Buckle up, It's going to be busy.
Are you traveling for the holidays? Triple A expects more than one hundred and nineteen million of US will this year. Christmas is on a Wednesday. Triple A is expecting record breaking numbers the weekend before Christmas Day and the weekend after. Of course, most of us will go buy car, but air travel is expected to set a new record this
holiday season, with seven point eight million passengers. A Triple A spokesperson says this is the time of year when lifelong memories are made with loved ones, and travel plays a big role on that.
I'm readA foley the rain falling and the wind blowing and some of those wind gusts depending on where you are, in the thirties even forty miles an hour. We've had a wind gust of forty seven miles an hour in New Bedford. And all of this precipitation in the storm pushing up from the south to the north and slightly to the east, so we're bringing in more of this precipitation, and it's a long line of precipitation down the east coast, so plenty of rain to get through as we go
through the afternoon and into the evening. Eventually overnight it'll fade away. There's a high wind warning up until one o'clock tomorrow morning, with some of the wind gusts topping fifty or sixty miles an hour, and power outages certainly could be a concern for some areas. We have a few scattered power outages this afternoon, a little over thirty
two hundred according to the numbers from MIMA. As we get into tomorrow, the rain will be gone, the wind will not thirty five mile an hour gus not out of the question. With mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the low forties Friday and Saturday. Look at Okay, it will be chilly temperatures mid thirties mainly, but there will be plenty of sunshine around. Right now fifty nine degrees
in Boston. While Honikah doesn't technically start until later this month, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is getting a head start and celebrating early with an evening full of fun, education and food.
Tomorrow night, Honukah, the Festival of Lights, is shining bright at the Museum of Fine Arts. A special holiday event is set to highlight Jewish culture and identity.
It's a very exciting opportunity the folks that come into the museum and check out some music, dance, and art making that kind of highlights this very important cultural celebration.
That's a Moni Vieira, the manager of Public Programs at the MFA.
There is an opportunity or program for folks of all ages. We like to call it to choose your own adventure.
An everything from face painting to photography, exhibits, seminars, to special tours, and a resource fair too featuring local Jewish organizations.
Folks have the opportunity to hear about the programs that they offer so that those organizations can also have a wider reach.
And in hopes of getting everyone involved, the MFA is cutting in mission prices down to just five bucks throughout the event. On Thursday night, Nicole Davis WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Some workers at TD Garden are considering going on strike. The globes as concession workers who staff the pizza stalls and beer taps at the garden will decide whether to take a strike on Sunday. After three months of union contract negotiations. The union says requests for better pay, better retirement benefits, pay and more protections have been ignored. The ice cream for ice cream you hear coming from the North Shore is for an ice cream joint that everyone's
screaming for the including those across the country. Has It's made waves at a national level.
Pullycow ice Cream on the North Shore Notch is another win. They've been named an ice cream grand Master by the committee that deals with these things.
I think there's only like a dozen coming into this year in the entire country.
The award means national recognition for ice cream par excellence. As a cherry on top, they took home another win for their Pistachio bacla baf flavor. That's the third dub in a row.
It's a honey and fused pistachio butter ice cream with bits of pistachio toffee and crispy bits of Philo do.
I asked founder of Mike Shafino how he keeps doing it. He's had a constant stream of wacky, wonderful flavors of the lifeblood of a store that operates around the calendar.
We kind of have to keep things fresh and keep people coming in to get the new stuff.
The chain of cafes here on the North Shore are open all year round, even in the dead of winter. Kyle schaffeld to be busy. Boston's News Radio.
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