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Light snow coming down thirty three degrees in Boston on this Friday morning. It's eleven o'clock, December twentieth. Hello, I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. Congress racing against the clock to pass the funding bill and avoid a government shutdown. Lawmakers appear to have reached a deal earlier this week, but scathing social media posts from the President elect and Elon Musk proved death blows for the bill. Now, mister Trump is speaking out again.
In a post on truth social the President elect said, if there's going to be a shutdown of the government, let it begin now under the Biden administration, not after January twentieth under Trump. He added, this is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will.
And that's CBS's Stacy Lynn reporting. How Speaker Mike Johnson meanwhile, has said that he was expecting a vote on a new deal this morning. We've yet to hear word of any such movement. Will continue to monitor this and bring you the latest developments as they break. If you're away from your radio, bring us with you on the go with the iHeartRadio app stick. Our shock appears to be wearing off. New data shows the Federal Reserves preferred inflation
gauge barely inched up last month. Prices rose just one tenth of a percent from October to November. That news comes just days after the FED announced its third interest rate cut of the year. This week, FED cher Jerome Powell says that they're eyeing a less active twenty twenty five, with just two cuts on the agenda for next year. Celtic star Jalen Brown speaking out for the first time about a break in at his mother's home in Wellesley this week, CBS News Boston's Brandon Truitt has more.
Yeah, obviously, to go through that experience and you know, you know, people still in there, still in the crib and stuff like that, it just makes you think about some things differently.
For the first time. Jalen Brown speaking about the break in at his mother's home. It happened on Sunday, when the team was away for a game. Police say Brown's mother was home at the time but is uninjured. Officers found a broken window, but they say it doesn't appear anything is missing.
Serious or physical or threatening appen with the fact that it could have, you know, it's just kind of lingers in.
Mr WBZ. Sources also say on that same night, assistant coach Emil Jefferson's Newton home was also hit. Thieves getting away with this. Twenty twenty four Championship ring head coach Joe Mizula addressing it all before Thursday's game.
You may see it have it around different sports, and you're obviously aware of it, but when it happens to you, you have an understanding of their risk there. So we're just happy that.
They're saved, and police say the investigation on both incidents are ongoing. A massive jackpot is on the line in tonight's Mega Million strawing.
Now it's not quite a billion dollars, but it's close. The Mega Million's jackpot is soaring to eight hundred and twenty five million dollars for tonight's drawing. It's the largest jackpot ever for the month of December. Talk about a Christmas gift. The last winner of the Mega Millions was back on September tenth. One lucky winner in Massachusetts did get a million dollars from one of last week's drawings. That means they got all five lucky numbers but did
not get the megaplier ouch. That ticket was sold at a gas station in Norwood. Kyle Bray WBZ Boston's news radio.
The four d awbz ACU Weather Forecast. As we just heard, there's snow out there, light snow coming down. We'll see snow much of the time today, mixed with rain near the coast and on the south coast of Cape and Islands. It'll be mainly rain. Hi's today thirty four. That's near four ninety five, near forty on the coast, forty five for the Cape and the Island. Snow Tonight it'll be mixed with rain early on the Cape and the Islands, ending late Snow could accumulate one to three inches locally
six inches. That depends on the exact track of this developing coastal storm. Of course, that means roads could be snow coverslippery, so watch out. We'll drop down to a low of twenty seven. We'll start your Saturday off with a few snow flurries early. Otherwise, just be windy but very cold, a mix of sun and clouds, but high's only reaching thirty two and real field temps mainly in the teens, so bundle up as you head out. Sunday another cold day, a high of twenty four, real fields
in the single digits and teens. Monday mix of sun and clouds with a high of twenty seven. Christmas Eve snow, likely highs in the mid thirties and remaining cloudy on Christmas. Right now, quickly checking the radar, we're seeing snow in and around the Boston area, also parts of the North Shore and South Shore, and then all the way over into let's see Brockton, Rammedolph, Norwood, Needham, clipping parts of Franklin right now, as well as thirty three in Boston.
A big loss for the New England media. WBC's Drew mcholland has the.
Latest, seventy three year old former Providence Journal sports calling this Jim donald has died. He had all the sports beats over the years, but was maybe most known for his coverage of the New England Patriots for all those glory years in Foxborough. If there was a big story the pro Joe intend to put Jim Donaldson on it. He was as good as it gets over his forty year career and could really write about anything. Donaldson was a Rhode Islander through and through. Born in Pawtucket, he
graduated from Notre Dame. When he retired eight years ago, he simply wrote, I've been fortunate to have spent my life doing a job I love. Jim Donaldson, a Providence journal legend, dead at the age of seventy three, Drew moholland WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Well, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate next week, and we're not just talking about Christmas in Honkkah.
If only there was a holiday for the rest of us.
Let's do it then, all right, says back, I'll get the pull out of the crawl's.
Face, thanks, mister Costanza. Yes, that's right. The fictional holiday from Seinfeld is this Monday. It's the time to get your whole family around the dinner table.
And tell him all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year.
Well, I don't know about that. That comes before a natual Winer's Day on the twenty sixth, which is the time to complain about all that call in your stocking, and National Short Film Day on the twenty eighth, which is the day to watch films that are short Jeremy Russ, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
The Kennedy Center Honors will be awarded this week's CBSS. Jared Hill has more than one of the honore It was.
This music that artural, son of All says, saved his life.
The Cuban born trumpeter and composer used jazz to escape political persecution.
To be to Nay and a Kenni centered get in this huge armor is beyond my immagination.
The Kennedy Center has honored more than two hundred and fifty people and groups for their contributions to American art and culture.
Some other honorees include The Grateful Debt and Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio