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Mostly sunny and forty two degrees in Boston. It is November twenty ninth. Hello, thanks for being with us on this Friday morning. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening, all right? It is Black Friday. Are you heading out to do a little shopping? Well, bundled up. It's cold, but at least it will be dry.
It'll be dry for the rest of the holiday weekend. We'll see sunshine mixing with clouds today and highs the mid forties, a bit colder the rest of the weekend.
And that's ach you. Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg of full forecast coming up in three to News Now. A wrong way crash on I ninety five claims the life of an Endicott College police sergeant. We got the very latest from CBS Boston's Tammy Mutassa.
Sergeant Jeremy Cole was beloved for his kindness, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to the campus community.
Wrong way driver believe it's going up out of the north bound out two miles from.
The state line, but on his way home from working on campus Thanksgiving morning, new dash Camp video captured a wrong way driver on ninety five. Soon after, state police say that's feeding tesla hit Sergeant Cole's suv in Newbery.
A white cat brock.
Under the left lane speed of approximately one hundred and ten miles an hour.
New Hampster State Police first got the call about a Tesla driving in the opposite lanes heading into Massachusetts around midnight.
Troopers from both.
States try to stop the car, setting up spike strips in Georgetown, but the wrong way driver crashed into the sergeant's suv head on before reaching those spikes.
The Essex County DA's office says the driver of the Tesla is expected to face charges. Sergeant Cole was just forty nine years old. It's eleven o two. Two Attleborough residents arrested in the October twenty first shooting of a sixty one year old man at a Hampton Inn on Route one in North Attleborough. The Sun Chronicle reporting twenty seven year old Erica Joseph and twenty seven year old Joshua Montgomery are being held in custody pending a hearing
next week. North Attleborough Police say in a statement the victim was an innocent bystander who was shot in the face in the lobby of the hotel. A person is expected to make a full recovery. Still trying to figure out when to start that trip home while here's WBC's Jarrett Brosnan.
Yeah, Sherry, here's a look at what Triple A expects will be the best and worst times to hit the road these next few days. For Saturday, the best time to travel is before one pm. The worst is well anytime after that, but especially between four and eight pm. On Sunday, you'll want to start your journey well before the clock strikes noon. It'll be a rough trip between twelve and six pm. And for those of you making the most of your Thanksgiving weekend, you'll want to leave
before eight am or after seven pm on Monday. Jerre Brosnan WBZ Boston Snooze Radio.
And now the four day WBC ACU weather forecast. Bundle up. It's a chilly day today. Hi's only reaching about fourty six degrees with a breeze as well. We will see sunny skies and no rain today. Just a few clouds Tonight, turning out mainly clear again, breezy, chilly, a low of thirty two in Boston in the suburbs, we're going to see the upper twenties Saturday, mostly sunny, breezy again, a high forty two Sunday, a mix of sun and clouds,
that breeze hanging on high near forty. And then Monday just back to work with mostly sunny skies, but we'll only reach a high of forty. We're already past that right now in Boston. We do have mostly sunny skies right now and forty two degrees. But again we keep talking about a breeze in the forecast for today and the next several days. The real field temp right now is thirty three degrees. The breeze likely the culprit there. It's eleven o five all right. Black Friday is here.
The big question is is the time honored bargain hunting tradition fading away?
Doorbusters of course, what they call the big Black Friday deals, evoking images of huge and rowdy crowds waiting outside when stores open up. But the early birds who came to a major box store in PEVD before sunrise found they had plenty of elbow room.
It's much easier getting in, but there's less deals. I thought it would be more hectic, not as chaotic. This yeus seems barren that.
Last chopper came out with a full carts, but says he's still disappointed with this year's Black Friday experience.
It seems like they're open and landed than they should usually and the majority of the stuff theysually have on sale at nod.
And it wasn't just that big retailer cars at the parking lot of a major mall nearby were similarly sparse. Whatever deals people are finding, the big crowd seemed to be a ghost of Christmas past from the North Shore. Kenn'll be able to be a busy Boston's News Radio.
As David Augustus tells us, though there are some traffic problems around some of the shopping districts, so maybe people are getting a little bit of a late start out there, all right. The so Wall Winter Festival is hoping for opening rather for its ninth year to speaking of shopping, it is the largest indoor holiday marketplace in the region. It's held inside the Sowa Power Station that's Imposton's South End.
Visitors can find more than one hundred local small business vendors, craft workshops, a holiday lounge several food trucks this year at the festival will be open seven days a week, beginning today and lasting through December twenty second. The hours today it will be open from ten am to eight pm today.
All right.
Turning now to the war in Ukraine, Russia launches a massive drone attack overnight against Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said nearly twenty targets, including military and defense sites, were hit, and at a security summit in neighboring Kazakhstan, he warned Kiev's decision making centers could be next targeted by Russia's new Roshnik ballistic missiles carrying multiple warheads and which Moscow unleashed last week, hitting Ukraine's
eastern city of News. After today's newest bombardments, more than one million people across Ukraine lost power as the first snow fell on the eastern front lines.
And that CBS is Raimi and Esensio. Putin calling the assault a response to quote continued attacks using US supplied missiles on Russian soil. A tense week at UN treaty talks over how to handle pollution from plastic with more.
Than one hundred countries, industry and environmental groups represented.
It's been a fractious process since the very beginning.
Jane Paramore, with a global sustainability group anthhasis.
Particularly around things like production caps of plastic, looking at things like chemicals of concern and toxins that are used in the production of plastic and trying to phase out some of those more problematic materials.
Plastic is used in a vast range of products from food packaging to cosmetics, cars, and more. Heather Bosch Cbsnew You.
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