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Fifty two degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. I'm Kyle Bray, and here's what's happening. It's the eve of New Year's Eve. Alongside Mayor Michelle wu and other city leaders, Boston Elise Commissioner Michael Cox says, they're ready for a safe and exciting celebration.
Come in act responsibly, behave responsibly during first night. It's the festive time. But this is a time for families and kids and to enjoy the first night. And you know, don't you know, violate any rules or regulations, because it's the law enforcement to hear to hold you accountable if you do. That's the main thing that we're really concerned. We're not overly concerned about a threat or anything of that nature.
Wbz's Drew mulholland has more on what we can expect this year in the city.
As you can imagine, a lot goes into First Night festivities, which go down it's City Hall for the second year in a row here in Boston. Last year there was a massive crowd and no major incidents. Mayor Michelle Woo says let's strive for that again. Safety preps. They've been in the makings for months. Some three hundred thousand people flocked to the city, ice, sculptures, fireworks, the whole deal.
It is a family affair. Festivities began as early as noon at City Hall, so you can get in there early. Maybe some of you are long gone before midnight. That'd be me Happy New Year, Drew Mohall and WBZ Boston's news radio.
Tributes continue to pour in from around the world for former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at his home Sunday at one hundred years old. Here's CBS's at O'Keefe.
World leaders also weighed in. King Charles first met Carter as a young prince in nineteen seventy seven, said his dedication and humility served as an inspiration to many. The President of Cuba, a country Carter visited several times, said his country will remember with gratitude his efforts to improve relations. His visits to Cuba got his calls for the release of imprisoned Cubans in the United States.
Pope Francis released a statement commending Carter's commitment to the cause of reconciliation and peace between peoples, the defense of human rights and the welfare of the poor and those in need. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Jidrou called Carter's legacy one of compassion, kindness, empathy and hard work. Time now is eleven oh two. Both the Bruins and Celtics are off tonight. They'll both be in back in action tomorrow.
But tonight, on Monday night, football countless Fantasy Football Championship games will be decided as the Detroit Lions travel to San Francisco to play the forty nine Ers. There's only one bowl game in college football today, as Iowa and Missouri square off and the Music City Bowl in Nashville. The college football and playoff zooms tomorrow with Penn State playing Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl and every want to play Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl just to
ask my Oklahoma sooners. Amazon says no more remote work in the new year, requiring employees to return to the office five days a week.
Amazon hopes it fosters collaborative teamwork, but according to the Seattle Times, some employee these are bracing four long commutes and noisy offices. More than five hundred employees from Amazon Web Services sent a letter in October to CEO Matt Garman, urging him to restore the flexibility of remote work. The letter came days after Garman told workers that there are other companies around if employees don't want to return.
I'm Monica Nelson coming up. Local homeless shelters are getting a boost in funding. Now. It's time for the four d a wbz ACU weather forecast from meteorologist Heather's there. So that rain that we saw this morning is starting to move out into the sea eastward, and it's going to clear out otherwise the clowns will start to break forth some sun hive around fifty seven. Tonight will be clear
to party, clowny, breezy low near forty. New Year's Eve will start to see increasing clouds throughout the day, a high in Year fifty and rain will begin as we move on into twenty twenty five. The temperature at twenty twenty five when it starts will be forty five and then dropping to a low forty two. On New Year's Day, the rain will be ending early but remaining mostly clowny, with eight chilly breeze hive around forty nine the day
after that. The second day of twenty twenty five will be brisk and chillier with clowns and Sunshine Hive around forty two. Right now in Boston it is fifty two degrees. Homeless shelters on the North Shore get a boost. Here's wbz's Jawilllett.
The assist from Governor Moore Healey's office. Heading into the new year, grant money is on the way. More than two hundred and ten hundred thousand dollars will help Lifebridge Salem get twelve new beds in their winter shelter. There will be roughly ten million in supplemental grants going to shelters all over the state. Recent reports have found Boston is doing a better job of providing shelter for the
homeless in twenty twenty four after some rough numbers. In twenty twenty three, Jay Willett, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Neighbors in Northend over lend a helping hand after vandals break into a liquor store and wreck the shop. McAloon's Liquors is owned by Billy Buco and says police called him at around one thirty Sunday morning to report someone had vandalized the store and smashed hundreds of bottles. He estimates about a quarter of a million dollars worth of inventory was destroyed. Once word got out about the mess, dozens of people showed up at the store to help
clean up. He says he's grateful for the community support and thankful no one got hurt. North Andover police are asking anyone with information about the break in to come forward. Tony winning actress and seventy sitcom item Linda Lavin has died. Michael Kasner reports.
The eighty seven year old passed away Sunday at her home in Los Angeles from recently discovered lung cancer. Lavin enjoyed a long career on Broadway. Starting in the nineteen sixties. She appeared on the small screen in shows like Barney Miller, before taking on the title role in Alice, a show about a widowed mom working at a diner in Arizona. The show ran for nine seasons through nineteen eighty five. She was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in twenty eleven.
Haveval City councilors are considering a proposal to build a large scale solar farm on Ayer's Hill. The Behavioral Gazette says Christopher Anderson of SBI Solar, Inc. Presented a detailed proposal to the city council last week. The project claims the farm's annual energy output would be equivalent to a year's worth of electricity consumed in thirteen hundred homes, and during a two decade period, the farm would generate more
than two million dollars in taxes for the city. The installation faces opposition from some Avil residents who are concerned about potentially negative effects the farm will have on the area's forestry and landscape. Thousands of trees would be removed in the process of building the farm. Anderson's lawyer assured the council that developers plan to replant more than eleven thousand trees after twenty years. You are now in the loop. For news updates throughout the day, Listen to WBZ News
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