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Breezing cold and clear in Boston. It's thirty seven degrees. I'm Laurie Kirby. It's eleven o'clock and topping our news. The town of Wilmington is honoring the life and the legacy of one of their own today, MIT police officer in Wilmington, native Shann Coulier, was killed in the line of duty after the twenty thirteen Boston Marathon bombings. He was shot on campus by the Zarnaia brothers, who were
found responsible for the bombings, and died shortly after. Wilmington remembers the fallen officer every January third, on Shawn Collier Day, which is also his birthday. He would have been thirty eight today, and the community is invited to come out to pay tribute at the San Collier Memorial Park in Rotary Park at two thirty this afternoon. In Wilmington, President
Biden is headed to New Orleans. The White House says he will travel there on Monday with the First Lady to grieve with those impacted by the New Year's terror attack in the French Quarter. Meanwhile, the investigation goes on. The FBI says Texas native and US Army veteran shamsu Din Jabbar acted alone when he drove a truck onto a crowd on Bourbon Street New Year's morning, killing more
than a dozen revelers and injuring dozens more. Officials say Jabbar planted explosives in ice coolers in two locales a few hours before the attack. Let's get more from ABC's Jim Ryan.
The men who sped down Bourbon Street in a pickup truck, killing fourteen people were shot dead by police seconds later. But the FBI's Christopher Rayes says too many questions about shimsu Din Jabbar are left unanswered. To that end, we have received just over four hundred tips from the public, and that information is being followed up both here in New Orleans across the country. Reyes says that on his drive from Houston, Jabbar posted several videos declaring his support
for ISIS. Jim Riyan ABC News New Orleans, the.
New Congress is about to convene on Capitol Hill in just about an hour. They're preparing to elect a House speaker. EBC Stephen port Noy says this is going to be a tough task for incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson to keep his job.
Two years ago, it took the House fifteen rounds over four days to elect Kevin McCarthy speaker, and when he was ousted, the body went without a leader for three weeks. Mike Johnson emerged from that chaos, but to maintain the gavel, he needs to keep practically every member of the GOP conference in line behind him. South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman said yesterday he was still undecided.
Look the vital Tyke place. You'll see how it comes out.
Stephen port Noy, ABC News Washington.
We'll have more as it happens, both here and streaming on the iHeartRadio app. Beautiful sunshine out there, just a few snowflourries, very breezy, win gus to thirty five miles per hour today, high thirty nine tempts really in the real feel in the low twenties. That's during the daytime, So imagine tonight when the real temp is twenty seven. Starlet though, and then a weekend of clarity sun and clouds by day and by night. But we'll barely get
above freezing by daytime. So imagine this weekend, it's going to be very frigid at night. Let's warm it up. Embracing the hopes of the new year means burning away the baggage from the past. One bebldebs's Jim McKay tells us about an annual event on Cape Case.
Well, they'll be letting it burn in Provincetown as they're about to hold their annual ceremony of the International Rerouters Society, where people gather along a beach in Province down and watch a Christmas tree burn along the shoreline as a symbol of burning away all the bad stuff from the
previous year and welcoming in the new year. A large tree will be taken to the beach along Commercial Street and people are invited to bring old letters, photos and other small items they can attach to the tree and watch it burn up and the new Year's Inferno, a tradition that goes back forty two years. This year's is taking places upcoming Tuesday night. Jim MCKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
A surgeon General, doctor vimcmurphy is calling for stronger warning labels on alcohol. ABC. Stephen Portnoy reports.
The current government warning label on alcoholic beverages hasn't changed since nineteen eighty eight. It warns of the risk of birth defects if pregnant women consume alcohol, and says consumption impairs one's ability to drive and operate machinery. The message also vaguely warns of health problems, but the Surgeon General now says the label should explicitly call alcohol use a cause of cancer, similar to the warnings on packs of cigarettes.
And the Surgeon General points out that alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in this nation, after tobacco and obesity. Now it's a go for stop. The bill to stop drivers in Massachusetts from illegally zooming pass stop school buses. Legislation is on the way to Governor Moore Healey's desk and it could be signed within days.
And this potential new law will legalize the use of cameras on the outside of school buses to penalize drivers who illegally pass those buses when the arm is out and students are being picked up or dropped off. Now there is some agency here. Every school district will get to vote on whether they want them or not, and
they'll have to pick up the tab for the cameras. Now, it was a Peaboty mother who helped renew interest in this decade's old proposal went way back after her mother and her young children were struck and seriously injured walking to school in twenty twenty two. So Peaboty launched a pilot program using those school bus cameras and it really worked. And again Peebety this mom making the push on Beacon Hill to make this state wide funeral services for former
President Jimmy Carter get underway this weekend. ABC's Faith of Bube is already in Planes, Georgie, with more within.
The next twenty four hours. When they gather here in Sumter County, it'll be to start their final goodbyes to the family. Patriarch in this community, which has held up the former president for an entire century, will be the first and the last to honor his memory on this
final journey. Funeral services begin here tomorrow morning. Current and former Secret Service agents who have protected quarters since he took office will carry his remains to a hers and then join the family for a motocade through town.
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