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Mostly cloudy twenty one degrees on this Monday morning. Hello, thanks for being with us. It's January sixth. Thanks Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. In just about an hour from now, Congress will gather to certify President elect Donald Trump's election victory. ABC's Rachel Scott is in Washington with one.
Of course, it was just four years ago that Donald Trump urged his own supporters to march to the Capitol on January sixth, pressuring his own Vice President Mike Pence, to try to overturn the twenty twenty election that he lost. We were here reporting live. We saw hundreds of people storm in the United States Capital, where than fifteen hundred people have been criminally charged. Donald Trump has vowed to pardon many of them.
And Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over the joint session of Congress where she will certify her own defeat. In a recorded video message about her role, says that it is a sacred obligation that she will uphold. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is calling on a judge to delay his sentencing in his hush money case. While he appeals the ruling upholding the verdict. The President elect is set
to be sentenced this Friday. His lawyers say they're planning to ask a state appeals court to reverse the judge's decision, and that should trigger a pause in the proceedings. Last week, Judge Juan Mrshawn rejected the President elect's bid to throw out the verdict and dismiss his indictment, but did signal that he would give mister Trump no jail time. He was convicted on thirty four felony counts of falsifying business records.
The Patriots are back on the head coaching market after firing Gerrod Mayo last night.
It was but one season, but to this member of Patriots Nation, it was a failure.
They need to move on to reorganize.
Others believe the first year head coach was dealt an impossible hand.
I think it's unfit.
They left them with nothing. I blame the ownership more than anythink agreer. Disagree with your Rod Mayo's firing. Now that he's gone, one names already bouncing around as a possible replacement.
Rables. I love my Brabel, so yeah, I'd love to see Rabel.
Is Rabel walking the sidelines next season?
He should be.
Hopefully they make the right choices going forward in clean house. Do you think Mike Grabel is the right guy?
I do you gotta bring him in?
You glad about this move?
Absolutely?
What do you think it says to the fan base doing it so quickly?
Let's go Chris Fauma, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
It is almost time for the lineup drop for this year's Boston Calling Festival. The festival will have a brand new look when it kicks off on Memorial Day weekend. This year, the Green and Red stages will be merged into one in an effort to give concert goers a better view and more space to move around. And after complaints last year about pack crowds and a lack of water, the festival will also be adding more water stations and bringing back an indoor air conditioned space in a nearby
arena to help people cool off. And good news here, they'll also be lowering the cost of some tickets.
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The four to a WBZ ACU weather forecast is breezy out there. There are clouds, limited amount of sunshine today a high of thirty two. Because of that, breeze. There is that biting wind chill, so make sure if you're
heading out the door to bundle up. Partly cloudy tonight, it'll remain breezy, dropping down to nineteen as the low, but real field tempts will be near zero overnight Tonight Tuesday, windy, more sun than clouds, a high of only twenty nine degrees, real feels in the single digits and low teens, and we see that pattern playing out nearly exact on Wednesday
and Thursday. Looking ahead, not as harsh on Friday, with a little bit of a warm up, hies in the mid thirties and less wind, but a little snow may arrive on Saturday. Looking at the radar map, we are starting to see that snow to the south of US Connecticut, New York, and farther down a lot on the east coast. We'ren't the clear though this time around, and we're just
looking at these chili temperatures. Is right now nineteen degrees in Pittsfield, we have twenty four in Springfield, nineteen in Worcester. Let's see Lynn checking in at twenty twenty three in Plymouth. Along the cape anywhere from it looks like twenty four to twenty seven degrees, twenty six in New Bedford, and in the city twenty one degrees mostly cloudy, but again because of the wind chill, it feels like it's eight
degrees New Year New scams. Boston Police are warning about scammers going after drivers in Boston with fraudulent text messages.
How they get parking tickets all the time.
Caleb lives in Southey, and he begrudgingly told me he does get a ticket from time to time, well aware of how to pay it, but a bit surprised about a scam where people in Boston are being contacted via texts about an overdue parking ticket and it's all a hoax.
That's wow, that's would I would have never guessed.
That Boston Police now haven't alert about it.
I couldn't see how that would be a problem.
The part that's most concerning the message directs you to a fake payment website that looks all too real with the City of Boston logos and ask for your info. And that's where you're really in trouble.
It's something you wouldn'tick spay.
If you do get the message, contact Boston police and sell Boston Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news radio.
An arrest is made in Boston's first homicide of twenty twenty five, a deadly weekend shooting in Charlestown Saturday night. Police were called to a seven to eleven parking lot located at one forty Main Street. Now. The initial call was for a pedestrian struck and on the ground, but when police arrived, they found forty six year old Joseph Donahue of Charlestown suffering from a gunshot wound. He was
pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not yet released the name of the suspect that was arrested, but say he will be arraigned or they will be arraigned rather in Charlestown District Court today. According to The Globe, this is the first deadly shooting in Charlestown in nearly four years. President Biden makes a big move as he looks to protect the environment before leaving office. Here's ABC's Elizabeth Shulsey with.
The tails the President banning new oil and gas drilling along six hundred and twenty five million acres of ocean. This includes the eastern West coast part of Alaska. And the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, though most drilling in the golf will stay in tack, the presidents saying in a statement, drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation's energy needs. It is not worth the risks.
President elect Donald Trump meanwhile says that he will change the ruling. On day one, public employees will be getting bigger Social Security checks after President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act. The legislation gives police officers, firefighters, postal workers, teachers, and others with a public mention the ability to collect their full Social Security benefits.
Americans worked card all their lives. They're earn and honest living should be able to retire with economic security and dignity.
The bill affects nearly three million people.
The law that existed denied millions of Americans access to the full Social Security benefits they earn by thousands of dollars a year.
Stacey Lynn, CBS News Washington. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small. WBZ Boston's news radio