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Right now, it is thirty three degrees in Boston, really starting to warm up out there with the sun a We'll have that forecast for you just one second. I'm I'm a Friedman and here's what's happening. Well, it's a chilly start out the door today.
Plenty of sunshine today with highs not far from forty.
A rainy weekend is on the way.
Well, there's some warmer weather in store for us this weekend. That there from Joe Lumberg. We'll have more forecast details for you coming up in just about two minutes now and developing this morning. Well, there's no comments yet from Russia on reports that it's air defenses down in Asbahan Airlines plane, but speculations into the crash continued.
Still isn't clear what caused a plane to crash, but Azerbaijan Airline says it's suspending flow to seven Russian cities. The plane crash during a flight to Grosney in Russia's Chechenya. It had diverted, possibly due to bad weather, and there was some speculation that is when it may have been fired on it crashed while trying to land in Kazakhstan. After initially saying a bird strike was to blame. Russia has since refused to comment.
That was CBS's Cammie McCormick reporting there Edler's. At least thirty eight people died in that crash, over two dozen survived. Massachusetts State Police bomb squad were called to a home in Duxbury for reports of a potentially dangerous device. Officials say the bomb squad helps get rid of the incinerary device yesterday morning at a home on Amato Way. Duxbury Fire Department hasn't shared what led to the device being reported or exactly what it is, but it was rendered
safe by officials and no injuries were reported. And you still got time today to grab those tickets. Magamillion's jackpots or to over one point one billion dollars drawing set for tonight. It's the fifth largest jackpot prize in the game's history, seventh time the lottery game has surpassed one billion with its overall jackpot. Keeping things in perspective, your
chances aren't exactly in your favor. It's one in three and three hundred and two million, but someone's got to win it eventually, so what I'll let it be you and a classic holiday movie the way it was meant to be seen and heard.
Boston Pops will be playing the soundtrack of a different kind of Christmas classic tonight at Symphony Hall.
Donys give Up, Yeah, Thirsty for More?
Home Alone in concert first of three shows this weekend tonight at Symphony Hall. The movie is brilliantly scored by the great composer John Williams, and the show tonight will feature the movie Home Alone playing in the backdrop as the Boston Pops performs the soundtrack to this amazing Christmas classic. Truly a show the whole family can enjoy as we soak in the last drops of the holiday spirit before
the new year. Got to admit, though this is a tough ticket to get, there's a few available online that they are very expensive. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.
And Touching the Face of the Sun, ABC's Jim Ryan says a probe launched six years ago has reached its destination.
Twelve, twenty eighteen, the long journey began.
Lift off oh NASA's Parker's Solar Probe.
Not your typical spacecraft. Parker's an engineering marvel, says NASA's Nikki Rail.
The heat shield itself is going to face temperatures around twenty five hundred degrees and a short distance behind it where the instrument start, it's at room temperature.
Passing within three point eight million miles of the Sun's surface. Parker is sending back reams of data about Earth's closest star. Jim Ryan ABC News.
Right now, it is thirty four degrees in Boston and the sun is out, which is making things nice and nice and bright forests out there even though it is still cold. The high today is thirty eight to round forty two degrees and that sun will be sticking around throughout the day today. This clouds are coming in tonight, though Tomorrow is when we will start to see those clouds turning into a little bit of rain and drizzle. At times in the morning when it's the coldest out,
the rain can potentially freeze on surfaces. In tomorrow Tomorrow morning, it will be warming up in the afternoon though tomorrow it'll turn into around and near forty is the high mid forties for the Cape and the islands. But on Sunday it'll stay rainy out there, cloudy with some milder rain. The rain is gonna kind of pick up in the evening, becoming steadier at night and heavier there with a high
of fifty two degrees. But our Monday morning commute, well, it'll be breezy, very mild with rain to start the day, and then that's the clouds for the rest of the day. Cloudy weather in the afternoons, sticking around throughout the day with a high of fifty four to fifty eight degrees. Right now, it's thirty four in Boston at eleven o five. Health officials are concerned about a silent COVID surge hitting over the holidays.
They're worried for two reasons. First, because this year's winter COVID wave is getting off to a pretty late start, and recent CDC data shows high or very high levels of the virus that causes COVID in wastewater in twenty one states. Yet a lot of people are unaware of that, and public health experts are concerned they might not get tested if they get sick, especially if it's minor, and that can cause COVID to spread during holiday travel and parties. I'm Sarah Lee Kissler.
Meantime, the number of whooping cough cases in the US is at its highest in a decade. Data from the CDC shows more than thirty two thousand cases have been reported this year through mid December, which is six times higher than this time last year. The disease, also known as pertius, is highly contagious, with children under the age of one being the.
Most at risk.
State lawmakers are looking to crack down on drivers who mosey their way into designated bus lanes.
Bus only lanes have sprouted up across Boston to speed up travel time for commuters who ride t buses, but passenger vehicles frustrate that goal when drivers operate cars and SUVs in the bus only lanes, slowing the buses down. Now, state lawmakers are considering legislation to install cameras on buses to monitor traffic in the bus lanes and record the registration numbers of offending vehicles. Police could then follow up and issue tickets, finding drivers twenty five to one hundred
and twenty five dollars for bus lane violations. The bill to install the cameras and impose the fines has passed the Senate and with just days left in the legislative year could get a House vote at the State House. Mike mclum, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
This year marks ten years since the Amazing Ice Bucket Challenge went viral and raised millions of dollars for as l als. This weekend, Plunge for Pete is back, where you can take an icy dip at the Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester to honor the ongoing mission of the late Great Pete Freights and for those brave enough. It all kicks off tomorrow morning in Gloucester at ten thirty. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app.
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