Mid Day Report: Sunday, December 8, 2024

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You clouds in the sky forty two degrees in the city at eleven o'clock. Hello, thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small and here's what's happening. The snow is out of here, but for the rest of the day it's going to be dry.

The wag of the snow we saw overnight this afternoon looks dry. We're eazy and mile there with some sunshine returning. We're into the mid to upper forties tonight, a few clouds, low thirty five.

That's ACCU weather. Meteorologist Bill Degger will have the full accu weather forecast coming up in three all Right to News, its original branding set high standards, and the Cambridge neighborhood continues to live up to and even grow its tech reputation.

Originally a salt marsh, then a booming industrial center, to an empty waste landtern biotech capital. Kendall Square has been through it all, but these days it's all about innovation. For Aria, a student at MIT Sloan.

Today, we had a class and what reality even means and what a perception is.

So we're thinking about everything very deeply here. Kendall Square has been titled the most innovative square mile on Earth because of the high concentration of entrepreneurial startups, biotech companies and ideas here that have developed into a way of life since around twenty ten.

Educated innovative.

There's always new stuff coming out of MIT Kendall Square and all the surrounding companies and everything like that. Just down the street from one another, there's Biogen Maderna, Pfizer, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.

Eric says the title is fitting all the brightest minds collectively work together.

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For more, check out our TikTok page at WBZ News Radio. Massachuset's Congresswoman Laurie Trehan is the target of a bomb threat. Mass Date Police saying that a preliminary investigation determining that it appears to be one of several unfounded threats against political figures across the country. The congress woman posting on social media that threats of violence and intimidation have no

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About one hundred and fifty people, many dressed like Santa Claus or an ugly Christmas sweaters. Kick catch or miss the ball.

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They collect while we are playing mid season, which is awesome and it's just great to get back.

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And now let's check the four DA WBZ ACU weather forecast. Here's meteorologist Bill Decker.

In the wake of the snow we saw overnight. This afternoon looks dry, breezy, and mile there with some sunshine returning. We're into the mid to upper forties tonight. A few clouds, low thirty five clouds build tomorrow, high forty one to forty five. Rain arrives late in the day, continues through tomorrow night. May start us some snow. Tour four ninety five Tuesday, a cloudy, foggy, drizzly day, high forty five, rain back Tuesday night, heavy rain, Wednesday, highs near sixty.

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Checking the region right now on the Cape, we're seeing anywhere tamps forty six to about forty eight degrees, forty four in Plymouth, Quincy forty four as well. Let's check the north shore forty three in Revere, forty in Gloucester, thirty nine degrees right now in Worcester, forty three in Framingham, forty two in Springfield, and up in Fischburg and Leminster forty one degrees in the city. Right now we do have mostly cloudy skies, but forty two degrees at eleven

Lookalike contests just keep popping up. A few weeks ago there was a Tom Holland one on the Common, but supposedly this afternoon there's one for the late President John F.

Kennedy.

Pictures of flyers for the competition have been floating around on social media, and those say there's a fifty dollars prize for the winner. Obviously, these things are anything but official, but if you see some presidential looking figures on the common around one o'clock at least you'll know why. Jared brows And and WBZ Boston's news.

Radio all Right. Today is the last day for a dog adoptathon that is going on waiving adoption fees. It is called Home for the Holidays. The MSPCA angel and several of its coalition partners are teaming up for the adoption where the fees will be waived for all dogs age one year and older, a right. People often think of gifting or taking in a puppy this time of year, but there's a lot to be said for the benefits