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Is snowing and we have thirty degrees in the city at eleven o'clock. Good Saturday morning. I'm Sherry Small. As always, thanks for tuning in. Here's what's happening all right. There is cold with a side of snow on today's weather menu, shaving up to be a cloudy wan with often on snow and flurries. Watch for slippery travel and that doac you. Weather Meteorologist Bill Digger will have the black weather forecast
coming right up. Governor Mora Healy says change is coming when it comes to security oversight at the state's emergency shelters. Here's wbz's Kendall Buell without report for US.
Governor Healy says it was news to her.
Last spring, I ordered the unprecedented step to have Corey criminal background checks conducted on all shelter residents, not just at temporary respite sites, but across the entire system. I was recently have informed that by my team that that did not happen.
The governor says she's ordered an acceleration of Corey checks at all shelter sites and expects that to be done soon. Meanwhile, she announced she's appointed former Boston Police Commissioner Rad Davis to do a top to bottom review of the entire emergency shelter system that she expects to be done within the next month. From the State House. Kennill BWBSY, Boston's news radio.
A multi state police chase ends with four in custody. Authorities tracking down a car that was connected, they say, to an armed robbery of a FedEx delivery driver earlier this week in Harvard, mass Yesterday, state police say they spotted the car starting a chase that crossed into Rhode Island. Providence. Police say that the car crashed near the Cranston Line.
Four people in all were arrested. America runs on Duncan, but that apparently doesn't include the sweet treat Some Duncans are lacking in the donut department after a manufacturing error that happened this week. Some stores in Nebraska it signs on the doors, saying the temporary shortage left them munchkinless. New Mexico also dealing with the doughnut drought, but around Boston, no problems getting our hands on the sweet treats. Here.
The College football playoffs down to two teams old Midwestern rival.
A huge win by Ohio State Friday night, the Buckeyes advanced to the National title game, knocking off Texas in the Cotton Bowl twenty eight to fourteen.
Powered under center second and goal from the lawn hay Off Henderson Bulls to the Enzoni ten touchdown quin Shawn Junkins.
The call courtesy of the Buckeyes Radio Network. Junior running back quin Shawn judkins second touchdown run of the game snapped a fourteen all tie in the fourth, punching Ohio State's ticket to Atlanta. The Buckeyes will be playing for their first national title in a decade when they take on Notre Dame on January twentieth. Erica Herskowitz for CBS News.
And now, let's check the ecather forecast. Cloudy today, occasional snow and showers, and floor ending from west to east. By this evening, when all of a sudden done, we could see an inch or two for most of us. Slippery travel possible because highs will not go above the about the freezing mark, or will hover around that. I
should say later tonight, clearing skies. It'll be breezy, cooling down to twenty five Tomorrow, mostly sunny, but Jillie hies thirty six to forty Monday, we start off the work week a mix of sun and clouds. Highs again near forty. Brisk Tuesday with a mix of sun and clouds will only get up to about thirty eight, and if we look ahead midweek Wednesday, it's going to remain breezy. We will see sun most of the time, but highs will
remain in the mid thirties. In Boston, we are seeing we're seeing some snow showers and thirty degrees in the city. The real field tempt twenty one. It's eleven oh five. Rhode Island officials are updating residents who may be victims of a major cyber attack. Here's WBC's Brooke McCarthy to explain it.
Island residents are being asked to walk their mailbox because letters are going out to those impacted by a cyber attack on the state system for health and Human service Benefits. Governor Dan McKee says over six hundred and fifty thousand residents had their information exposed on the dark web.
And we know that this is a remains a concerting situation for the people who have been impacted, and we appreciate your patients. While the letters are.
Delivered to combat this, impacted residents can sign up for five years of free credit monitoring.
The deadline to sign up for the free credit monitoring is April thirtieth of this year.
Governor McKee says the threat has been fixed, but files are still being reviewed and they expect the number of impacted residents to go up and they will be notified. Burke McCarthy WBZ Boston's news radio.
Time maybe running out for TikTok. The Supreme Court hearing arguments yesterday on whether to enforce a sale of the popular video based social media platform later this month.
A lawyer for the Biden administration told the justices the Chinese company has spied on Americans there.
With a well publicized incident where ByteDance in China surveiled US journalists.
But TikTok and free speech advocates say the law amounts to censorship.
There's never been a law like this that had such a sweeping effect, and such a sweeping ban on such a widely used speech platform.
One possible approach with that. Next Sunday, develine looming, the court could enter a brief pause, and that would give TikTok a little more time to find a US buyer.
And that's CBS Legal correspondent Jen Crawford reporting, there really shameful. President Biden's response to Meta's decision to end its fact checking program, Mister Biden telling reporters that it will lead to millions of people reading things that are simply not true. The President adding that this contradicts what America is about,
saying that quote, we want the truth. The backlash comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would put an end to fact checkers and use a similar user driven system to excess community notes. 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