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Sonny and Cole. We're seeing forty degrees feels like twenty two degrees in Boston. Nice to be with you on this day after the storm, and again a lot of you cleaning up and hearted work after yesterday's powerful storm left the state with puddles big enough for fish to swim around in and tree branches strewn across the roadways. Boston saw more than two inches of torrential rain combined with the wind, and the Ted Williams Tunnel turned into a river after a pump failed and debre clogged a drain,
a nightmare ride for drivers in Boston. CBS News Boston's Brandon Truett now with more than what happened around the area.
The strong downpours and when Gus caused significant travel troubles in our area. Water puddled up on roadways, heavy pockets of rain let to several crashes on the Pike. Hundreds of Commuterel writers were stranded during the storm due to power line issues, and at Boston's Logan Airport, a sea of orange and red. The airport reporting roughly four hundred delayed and one hundred canceled flights on Wednesday.
Right now, we're seeing total delays at Logan at seventy two six cancelations, and we're whittling down our power outages now in the hundreds, not in the thousands. And days after he made the controversial decision to let his own Sun off the hook, President Biden commutes the sentences of fifteen hundred other people. CBS's Lenda Kenyon is at the White House.
The largest single day active clemency in modern history has gone to those released from prison and placed in home confinement during the COVID pandemic. In addition, the president is
pardoning thirty nine Americans convicted of non violent crimes. Pardons are traditional at the end of presidential terms, but some can be controversial, like the President's pardon of his son Hunter, and Biden has been under pressure to issue preemptive part for those who may be targeted for political retribution by President elect Donald Trump. Linda Kenyon, CBS News the White House.
Some colleges are trying to prepare their students for big changes. On day one of President elect Donald Trump's second administration. Simeus is Debora Ronriguez with that Harvard, Cornell, and USC are among schools advising international students to make plans to cut short winter breaks and return to campus before President
elect Trump is sworn in on January twentieth. During his last administration, thousands were stranded when mister Trump imposed restrictions on entry into the US from seven majority Muslim countries. Later in his term, he added more countries to the list. Colleges are also warning all students to be prepared for possible delays at the border and for processing paperwork. Deborah Rodriguez CBS News. Concession workers at TD Garden are planning
a strike vote this weekend. Some six hundred workers say they're really concerned the venue has moved toward more self checkout kiosk, and while the prize of a beer cup has gone up over the years, their pay hasn't. I'm seeing some snow flurries crossing from New Hampshire into Massachusetts right now. This is north of Leminster just a little bit and this is not the forecast, but you know, it's that time of years, very cold out there. It
feels like we're in the twenties right now. We're really seeing forty one degrees in places like Broughton and Boston. But it's that win some gus to thirty five miles an hour, Starlett Tonight, the real Temp twenty five, the real feel well below that Friday, lots of sun High thirty four and b s. This is what former US attorney Rachel Rawlins calls the corruption charges against Boston City
Councilor Tanya Fernandez Anderson. On a live stream with Boston City Councilor Julia Mahea, Rawlins criticized the tactics of federal prosecutors who brought the corruption charges against the city councilwoman. Rawlins believe that prosecutors used questionable legal maneuvers to establish federal jurisdiction.
So because Citizens Bank, even though you came to Citizens Bank in Boston, they didn't go to Rhode Island. Citizens is based in Rhode Island, so it's federal.
And that's when she called the maneuver bull expletive. You can fill in the blank. Fernandez Anderson is accused of giving a staffer a thirteen thousand dollars bonus and a kickback scheme in the bathroom. Rollins resigned as US attorney in twenty twenty three after two government watchdogs found that she violated ethical standards and misused the power of her
office and updating this story. An American walks free after months of captivity under the Assaud regime in Syria, but he's not the one that American officials were hoping to find or expecting to find. ABC Shannon Kingston.
Travis P. Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary earlier this year, has been identified in Syria. He was Officials say they're offering support and that they weren't aware he was in the country before now. Videos of Timmerman circulating online initially claimed to show another American journalist, Austin Tice, who was kidnapped in Syria twelve years ago. Shannon Kingston ABC News the State Department.
In New Hampshire vandals shattered Satanic statue on the state House lawn. Authorities tell The Eagle Tribune the Satanic temple legally obtained a permit before placing that figure next to the Nativity scene. State Rebellen Reed was the one originally reached out to the tempile in a move she thought would encourage diversity, but the mayor says he opposes the permit. He does agree that vandalism has no place in conquered You are now in the loop for news updates throughout
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