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Twenty four degrees, windy and cold in Boston. We're seeing some snow flurries out there. Eleven o'clock. Good morning on Laurie Kirby and our top story, the funeral for the thirty ninth President. Dignitaries including all living presidents, past and president, are packed now to the National Cathedral in Washington, d c. They're paying their respects to the late President Jimmy Carter, and President Carter's grandson Joshua remembers his granddad.
My grandfather has spent the entire time I've known and helping those in need. You've built houses for people that need at homes. He eliminated diseases and forgotten places.
More now in the special report from ABC News.
This is a report from ABC News celebrating Jimmy Carter. I'm Chuck Steverson. The ongoing state funeral at Washington's National Cathedral minutes ago, featuring a eulogy written by President Gerald Ford, whom mister Carter defeated in the nineteen seventy sixth election. Ford's son Steve Ford, read his dad's remark that included him saying that he and the thirty ninth president forged a friendship after that election, not seen since John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson. A grandson, Joshua Carter, also spoke.
My grandfather has bent the entire time I've known who helping those in need. He built houses for people that needed homes. He eliminated diseases and forgotten places.
Also speaking at the funeral, ted Mondale reading a eulogy written by his father for Vice President Walter Mondale before his death. Also there President Biden, former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump. This is ABC News Back Home.
Wbz's Jim McKay catches up with one of the former in his closest White House staffers.
We spent a lot of time with a lot of places with Bob Kelly, who's retired in Dennis played a pivotal role in the Carter administration, mapping and planning events with the Secret Service, remembering the little things. When talking about his former boss and friend, who he refers to as Jimmy, it.
Seems to be so deadpans supposedly.
A sense of humor behind a more serious public persona recalling a speech at Georgia Tech where there was such an overflow with the crowd. President Carter wanted everyone to get a seat. He called to Bob while on stage.
And the President turns out to Bob.
I said, yes, what and he said, do you have them? Are of those tickets?
And you can see the.
Crowd, the trips across all fifty states.
Diving along the roads in America with a motor carriage and on the bridges everywhere.
That's how much they respect.
The person reporting from Dennis Jim McKay WBZ Boston's news radio.
Tracking some snow. We're seeing snow falling in Bedford, twenty three degrees there also Wooster seeing some light snow. Also, the bird cheers, seeing some flurries. Lauren seeing some flurries. It's only twenty two degrees, so our high today again just like yesterday twenty eight. But the real feels with that sun up, what little there is in the single ditchits bind day clear to night, blustery again, Wind advisory low twenty four, the real field below zero. We finally
warm up tomorrow. We're going to feel that difference, even though it's still in the thirties with a high of thirty nine degrees. It looks like a little bit of snow on Saturday, and then a nice Sunday, mostly sunny, a bit warmer. It's eleven o five. Good morning on Laurie Kirby. Nice to be with you and remember to take us on the go on the new iHeartRadio app indicted in quinsy of former Quincy city official is in hot water over steak tips and namely the card he
used to foot the bill. Wbz's j Willlette with More.
Thomas Clasby, Junior of Fitchburg, used to work for Quincy's elder Services department. Now he's staring down fraud and embezzlement charges. Prosecutors say he was using the money as a personal slush fund. The US Attorney's Office in Boston says he's accused of taking some forty thousand dollars from the city to buy a Toyota Prius, over one hundred and fifty pounds of steak tips, and produce a mixtape, among other things.
He was working within the department starting in nineteen ninety nine until last year, but this scheme didn't begin until twenty nineteen. Officials say Jay will Att WBZ, Boston's news radio.
A massive school data breach across North America hits home. Cyber criminals have compromised student and staff information by hacking into the cloud based software called powers School. Multiple school districts in Massachusetts have been hit, including Canton, Wellesley, Stoton, Westford, Milton, Needham, and Nashoba, to name a few. Millions of users may be impacted overall. In investigators say they are on it. A Thursday deadline loom submit a Beacon Hill Powers showdown
between the state auditor and state legislature. Auditor Diana Dezaglio sent a formal records requests this week to both the House and the Senate with a seventy two hour order to comply. She has demanded records of non disclosure agreements and financial receipts. Time's up at three point fifteen this afternoon.
Going back in time, last November, you, the voter in Massachusetts overwhelmingly gave the auditor the power to audit the chambers on Beacon Hill, But then Beacon Hill leaders immediately approved a rules change that would instead give that oversight to an independent auditor. The auditor was mad and threatened to go to court. Reporters asked the House Speaker this week, will you turn over these records by today's deadline? As answer was, compliance is in the eyes of the beholder.
Firefighters are trying to capitalize on a break in the winds to contain devastating wildfires burning in southern California. ABC's Matt Gudman has more.
The Palisades Fire grows to over seventeen thousand acres, becoming the most destructive wildfire in LA history. At least one thousand structures burned in the Palisades, added Malibu number expected to grow significantly Roughly thirty miles to the east, the deadly ten thousand acre Eaten fire, killing at least five people, entire deadsly packed neighborhoods erupting in flames.
President Biden, delaying his trip over Seas, expected now to receive a full briefing on the federal response to the devastation later today. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Laurie Kirby, WBZ Boston's news radio