Mid Day Report: Saturday, November 16, 2024

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News Sonny and fifty three degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock. Hello, thanks for being with us. It is November sixteenth. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. All right, another day, another warning.

Red flag warning is in effect. The gusty breeze combined with low relative adminity leading to a.

High fire threat.

And that's going to be the case, probably right through the next couple of days.

And that red flag warning in effect today until six pm. Again, likely to see a red flag warning again tomorrow. That was ac you weather meteorologist John Farrick. And of course the full forecasts will be coming up in three Now to news, the mayor of Gloucester apologizing for making an obscene gesture toward picketers in the ongoing teacher strike. Here's WBZ TV's Beth Tremano.

Shameful, It really is shameful, Gloucester High School social worker Dan Graham saying that tension between teachers and the city could not be higher, and got higher still when video captured Mayor Greg Virga making an obscene gesture to a chanting crowd as he left contract negotiations Thursday night.

I'm a little shocked.

I've been teaching in the school for thirty one years, half of my life, and we deserve better.

We tried to speak with the mayor ourselves this but he sent out a video message of regret at what happened, saying it was frustration directed at a former public safety official. He says hurled an insult.

The gesture, which I wish I hadn't done, was directed toward that individual, not the crowd, and certainly not the teachers.

Anyone who knows me knows that this is not a character.

And the mayor also releasing video footage of crowds outside of his own home, saying that his family members have felt threatened. And as for the latest at the bargaining table, negotiations can continuing Gloucester this morning, but the school committee voted unanimously last night to bring back high school sports and extracurricular activities. In the meanwhile, negotiations also resume in

Tens of thousands of people are flocking to the Convention and Exhibition Center this weekend, getting hype to hit the slope.

We have trampoline displays, we have an indoor slope. We have the hugest range of retail from ski snowballs, gears, equipment, hard goods, soft goods.

Steve Morgan is running the show here. People are coming out to see speakers like Paxton Massachusetts own snowboarding star Todd Richards, and they're also coming out to see each other. This is a tradition for folks like Donna Marie.

Meeting lots of STEA club friends here bumping into them and people at.

The mountains, and we know which is lots of fun.

Snowbound goes through Sunday afternoon.

It's to start the stoke, get everyone down there, get the community together, and kick off the season.

In style in the seaport. I'm Madison Rogers WBZY, Boston's.

News radio, and now let's check the ACU weather forecast. Pretty much sunny skies all across the board today, a few clouds out there, but it's going to be mild, a gusty wind as well, and because of the dry conditions that we've been seeing that wind. We will still see a red flag warning in effect again today that's lasting until six pm. Likely see that up again tomorrow. High's near sixty today, cooler on the cape in the Islands.

Robert F. Kennedy, Junior is a prominent and outspoken anti vaccine activist, so when President elect Donald Trump announced he'll nominate Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the announcement alarmed many in the public health sector. After speaking at a healthcare for but the JFK Library and Museum Governor Mourray heely added her voice to those expressing concern.

You know, it's really.

Concerning because of some of the positions that he's taken, and we're gonna have to wait to see whether he gets confirmed and then what he does. But look, we're going to do everything we can to protect public health here in Massachusetts.

Heally, telling the conference she hopes Trump does not try to undermine the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. At the Kennedy Library and Museum. Mike maclum WBZ Boston's news.

Radio nowt to politics in Maine, where Democratic Congressman Jared Golden has one re election to a fourth term representing the second district. An initial ballot count had Republican challenger Austin Terio trailing Golden by about two thousand votes, and with both candidates receiving forty nine percent of the vote, falling short of the majority. Main's ranked choice process was triggered.

It's a sideline meeting in Peru at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Meeting or APEC. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says it's happening at a critical time.

Transitions are uniquely consequential moments.

And as the President prepares to leave office, Sullivan says Biden wants that transition to be as smooth as possible.

There is actual work to do in this critical moment between the US and China to ensure that we don't run into any problems.

And that includes continuing fair trade policies we.

Have to sustain over the long term, the channels of communication.

Linda Kenyon, CBS News Washington.

Scary moments for passengers and crew aboard of Southwest Airlines sply.

The plane was preparing for departure at Dallas love Field when it was reportedly struck by a bullet. According to a Southwest spokesperson, it hit the right side of the aircraft, just under the flight deck.

We act to return to.

The gate to need to have a push on here on the Aircreser.

That's the pilot, alerting air traffic control they needed to return to the gate, but he made no mention of the shooting. Dallas Police said there were no injuries and they are investigating the incident. Stacy Lynn, CBS News.

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