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Grace Guys forty one in Boston. We've had some on and off showers out there. It's eleven o'clock. Good morning. I'm Laurie Kirby. But we started Fitchburgh this hour, where a police officer is on administrative leave while officials investigative police involved shooting. Fitchburg police say a shirtless man was making suicidal remarks walking on Lunenberg Street yesterday morning. When an officer tried to de escalate the situation, the man
allegedly pointed a gun directly at them. That's when the officer shot him. The man was taken to the hospital where he is now in stable condition. Robert F. Kennedy, Junior President elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, on Capitol Hill today and meeting with Republican Senators Mary Bruce, says there's a big focus on his views on vaccines.
For years, Kennedy has spread false theories about vaccines, claiming they're not safe and effective, even though most of the vaccines used today have been used safely for decades. In fact, vaccines are considered one of the greatest public health accomplishments of modern medicine. Still, Kennedy's personal attorney once lobbied the
FDA to revoke the polio vaccine. Over the weekend, Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a survivor of polio, with a blunt warning, saying efforts to undermine public confidence and proven cures are not just uninformed, they're dangerous.
Democratic candidates are lining up to become the next DNC chair. ABC's Brittany Shepherd is in Washington well the.
Election to replace outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison is in full swing. The race for vice chair is also heating up. Twenty four year old David Hogg, March for Our Lives co founder and Parkland School shooting survivor, is running for DNC vice chair. Hogg believes a party needs to grapple with your message failings and take more direct accountability. If elected, he would be one of the youngest members of DNC leadership. Brittany Shepherd ABC News.
Washington concessions are flowing a td garden after workers vote to approve a new contract. Wbz's James Rojas is at the garden with details.
The union representing six hundred concession workers at TD Garden says they feel relieved yet energized following the vote to approve a contract. This comes after what it calls months of grueling negotiations between them and Delaware North's hardline stances
and demands for concessions. UFCW Local fourteen forty five says while there were some aspects of the contract still to be desired, a close vote in favor led to the contract's ratification on Sunday, ensuring better benefits for workers and that fans coming to the garden get their concession favorites at the garden. James Rojas WBZ, Boston's News radio.
You know, it was raining and now it looks like the sun is trying to come out. I don't see some in this forecast at all. Thirty nine in the northwest part of the state, forty seven on the Capan Islands Boston. Right now forty one, we could still see some on and off light showers. Then later tonight midnight we could see some heavier rain and lingering showers. First
thing tomorrow morning, it's going to feel almost bomby. We're headed for sixty tomorrow very mild and breaks of sun much more in the rest of the week stick around. So while investigators work to figure out who's controlling mysterious drones buzzing around the nation. Boston Police make an arrest of their own over the weekend, and police a Robert Duffy of Charlestown and Jeremy Fulchik of Bridgewater. We're flying drones too close to Logan Airport airspace. Both men are
being charged with trespassing. Additional fines or charges could be added now they track that drone to the shuttered Long Island Health Campus. It hasn't been an operation for quite a while. They were hiding inside. Suspect they believe fled by boat. You're remindered you should not be flying near airports or military bases, but there's a growing number of drone sidings being reported all the way from Sacramento to here. New Jersey and New York have been experiencing the phenom
for weeks. Senator Chuck Schumer s's US agency should use advanced tech to identify the mystery drones.
Senator Chuck Schumer is urging the federal government to deploy better drone tracking technology and says he is pushing for new legislation.
What a co sponsor legislation that will combat these drones in a better way by allowing local police departments and state police departments to help the FEDS inciting these drones.
The FBI says it's processing roughly five thousand drone related tips, but less than one hundred have generated credible leads.
You know, there was an international airport about an hour tid of Manhattan, small one they had to close down over the weekend. I was listening in because of these drones getting into the airspace. And of course we finally heard from Governor Healley over the weekend who said she's aware of the growing number of drone sidings across our state and monitoring the situation closely. She said state police
are working with local and federal agencies as well. We also heard from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorcis, who says the drones pose no threat and if they learn of any cause for concern, they will be transparent with communication. A team of young astronomers at Wellesley College make a wondrous discovery a new galaxy and it looks a lot like our Milky Way, glittering with star clusters ten distinct
star clusters. They named it Firefly Sparkle. Images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope still doing its job well say the galaxy was actually taking shape around six hundred million years after the Big Bang, around in the same time that our own galaxy was beginning to take shait. The discovery was published in the journal Nature. From the junk food drawer to the lab, wanna be food scientists or hopping on a new trend?
A crazy new food combination is snowballing on TikTok wow dummy bears doused in sprite, refrigerated, then frozen overnight without the liquid.
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It's so big, a double in size as they morph into many popsicles. One fan gush is there's something extremely satisfying to the brain about the little pops the bears meet during osmosis. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
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