Thirty two degrees cloudy in Boston at eleven o'clock on this Thursday morning. Hello and thanks for being with us. Is December twenty sixth I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening, all right, Be patient. We'll let the sunshine return today same time.
Will turn out mostly sunny today, with highest staying in the thirties, Lots of sunshine again tomorrow, with highes closer.
To forty, a bit warmer as we get closer towards the weekend. We will actually get back into the fifties on Sunday, but we do have a few chilly days to get through before that. Back to news now. At Christmas morning tragedy. Two people are dead after a fire breaks out at a home in a cushion.
Louise Stadie lives across the street and says that instead of waking up to Santa coming down her chimney, she woke up to firefighters pounding on her door. When she looked outside.
I saw the ball of five.
Louis says. The flames took the lives of her longtime neighbors, a devout, kind, married couple with two grown children. Another adult was injured in the fire, and everyone else within the multifamily home was displaced.
Known each other for almost forty years.
The whole neighborhood with just like an old community, very sweet, gentle people.
That report from CBS News Boston's Penny Commit, a firefighter was taken to the hospital. He is expected to recover. The Essex DA's office believes a thirty year old woman fell into a freezing lake in Beverly while walking her dog on Christmas Eve. Her body found yesterday afternoon. Investigators believe thirty year old Owen Cassosi was walking her dog when she fell in and was unable to escape. The area is said to be a popular dog walking spot.
Her dog was later found walking alone in Topsfield. There will be a vigil for Owen later today in Danvers, according to a post on social media from her family. It's eleven oh two danger on New Hampshire's Mount Washington and you're listening to actual sound from the mountain. A natural avalanche taking place near Hillman's Highway. There were several inches of snow and strong winds, according to the Mount
Washington Avalanche Center. The center we'll be making assessments about future guidance when it comes to stability and risk potential. A few neighborhoods in Quinsy may resemble skating rinks this morning. After a water main break last night flooded out Hancock and clived In. As a result, there was little or no water pressure for residents and businesses in that area on Christmas night. There were a few road closures in the overnight hours in that area of Quinsy. It's unclear
this morning if things are all patched up. And speaking of water, with the CDC reporting high levels of respiratory illnesses in parts of the country, doctors are reminding people to stay hihdrated.
Brink warm fluids, soups, frods, tease, you can try nasle space for congestion and the honey is a big thing that we've been doing for a sore throat or a cough, but make sure you do not give it to anyone under the age of one or infants, because they're too young to develop that and it can make them sick. And of course ibuprofin it's in a minifin our medications that can help with body.
Aches and chills, and that's Doctor Neil Bovzar, New Hampshire is one of the states seeing a significant increase in respiratory illness. And now the four dawbz ACU weather forecast. We're going to start out cloudy, but then we promise it'll turn out mostly sunny. That's according to meteorologist Joe Lundberg HIHS. Today thirty six, low forties on the Cape. In the Islands, it's going to be clear skies but cold tonight down to twenty two in the city teens
in those inland suburbs. Friday, mostly sunny, highs not far from forty. Saturday, cloudy, but a bit of rain at times that could freeze on some of the surfaces. Early on Saturdays, if you can be out and about early, expect for some ice see spots, especially in those inland areas. But later on Sunday we'll see a high near forty, mid forties for the Capan Islands. And then Sunday uh cloudy with some rain and drizzle around, but we'll see a high near fifty. Rain will become steadier and heavier
come Sunday night. And let's see, let's refresh the page here. Yeah, we are still stuck at thirty two degrees in Boston. Those clouds hanging on for now. It's eleven oh five. When it comes to one of the biggest lottery games in the country, we're not talking just millions anymore for that jackpot prize. We're talking about billions. And no one grabbed it on New Year's Eve, so that means you still have another chance at it.
Mega Million's jackpot is now more than one billion dollars. That is billion with a B, and that's because no one matched all six numbers in the Christmas Eve drawing. Yes, it is a big jackpot, but it's only the fifth largest jackpot in the game's history. So if you'd like to get in on the action, pay close attention to those lottery tickets. You might have gotten his stocking stuffers.
The next drawing is Friday. CBS is Linda Kenyon. That jackpot on Friday just over one point one billion one time cash payout sits at five hundred and sixteen million. Speaking of Lockett was a Christmas miracle in Minnesota this.
Past Monday was a day Annabelle Whalen won't soon forget. First, she found an injured great gray owl on the ground in two Harbards, Minnesota.
He had an eye injury, so I'm thinking that he probably hit whatever vehicle it was head on.
Whalan dropped the owl off at Wildwoods, a wildlife rehabilitation center in Duluth. Hours later, she rescued another owl from the grill of a car in Duluth, but wild Woods was closed for the day, so Whalan wrapped the owl up in a blanket and created her over night in a dark, quiet room in her home.
We got a little dog creek together with some blankets in the bottom, and we kept You're in a spare bedroom.
Whelan says she cried happy tears when she saw the album moving and awake the next morning when she took it to Wild Woods. Helping two injured owls in one day, it was a crazy day. I'm Mike Hampan.
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