Forty seven degrees rain coming down in Boston. Hello and thanks for being with us. Happy Thanksgiving. It's eleven o'clock. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening right as you head out the door to that Thanksgiving feasts. You might want to give yourself a little extra time.
Rain for much of Thanksgiving Day, it dries out with sunshine returning tomorrow.
That's at you, Weather meteorol just Joe Lundberg. The full forecast coming right up. Hundreds of people in Wrentham started their Thanksgiving morning with a run. WBC Suzanne Sausville reports on the seventh annual Turkey Whacker Race.
It is shame, it is time.
A five k trail run. Reverend Blake offered the ode to the Turkey Whacker, what's the dawn of Thanksgiving?
And all through the house the runners were stirring and waking their spouse. It's a wonderful way for families to begin their Thanksgiving celebration.
More than five hundred runners, including Nate Sylvan, who came in first with a course record. Not a PR but I'll take it. Just a workout, he says, for his college cross country team. But it definitely built up his appetite for Thanksgiving dinner.
Definitely, I definitely time.
And run from Suzanne Saulsville WBZ, Boston's news radio.
All Right, this is the twenty fifth Thanksgiving for Americans living aboard the International Space Station. The US crew members they include astronaut and Needham native Sonny Williams. She and Butch Wilmore arrived in June board the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. They are stuck there until February because of technical problem.
Readings from the International Space Station.
Our crew up here just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and.
Family who are down on Earth and everyone who.
Is supporting us in Sonny says she plans to tune in to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade before enjoying a holiday meal of Get This Smoke turkey, Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, and apples in spice. A pair of high school football rivalries settle the score at Fenway.
On Wednesday night. Central Catholic took on Lawrence on the makeshift football field in the middle of Fenway Park. Ahead of the game, Lawrence head coach Emilia Cologne said it was a special moment for everyone involved.
It's amazing. It's an amazing event. For the kids, it's something that they lovely going to forget. I was. I had the privilege of being here a couple of years ago. As it official, I refereed the end of the North end of a game. So it was an experience I never will forget, and I'm sure the kids will don't forget.
Unfortunately for Lawrence, Central Catholic got the win thirty four to twelve. Afterwards, it was a North Shore showdown between Swapskit and Marblehead, the magicians making some magic under the Fenway lights, beating Swapskit forty two to six, and marblehead Head coach Jim Rudloff was able to return to the sidelines after the teacher strikes Intown ended on Tuesday night. Jared Brosnan w BZ, Boston's news.
Radio, and now let's check the four DA WBC ACCU weather four kids.
All right.
Unfortunately, it's going to be a gray and rainy Thanksgiving Day, rain much of the time, some of it at times heavy, ending this evening, though becoming breezy. Today's high in the city forty eight degrees for the South Coast Cape and Islands. Mid fifties near forty north and west of four ninety five. Breezy tonight, clearing skies dropping to about thirty three to thirty seven degrees. All right, Friday, if you're heading out to do some Black Friday shopping, you want to bundle up.
It looks like it's going to be dry but chilly. A high have just forty five degrees. We'll have a breeze, a mix of sun and clouds. Saturday, that is I believe it is a small business Saturday, another day to do some shopping and support our local small business owners. It's going to be even chillier though, I'll high a
forty three still breezy, more sun than clouds. Sunday, a mix of sun and clouds, but high is only near forty Right now in the city, we have seen a mixture of We've been going from rain to just cloudy. Now we're back to rainy skies in the city forty seven degrees at eleven oh five. A tradition around Methuin during the Thanksgiving season, everyone goes to Raymond's turkey farm.
It's a huge operation here, moving thousands of turkeys before Thanksgiving. Kim Ellis is part of the family that owns this farm where they raise and package their own turkeys. It's a beloved local favorite.
Most of our customers are regular customers, and a lot of them are all year.
Long for turkey.
Tip is to always use a meat thermometer.
The farm is so beloved they needed a police detail to manage traffic this week.
The officer here says, it's always like this.
The line was over one hundred deep plus, and so it's the quality of turkey that they get it. If people are willing to wait for it.
For one reason or another, something keeps the customers coming back.
I think it's just what we like to get a fresh turkey, and it's always tasted great, and we.
Just stay with that.
File Shaffle b Busy, Boston Serge Radio.
A contractor working on a home in Wellesley suffering an electrical s shock while installing holiday lights. It has happened at a home on Falmouth Circle. The man was using a large pole to string the lights on a tree when it came in contact with an electrical line on top of a utility pole. First responders arrived and found one of the man's coworkers performing CPR The victim taken by ambulance to Newton Wellesley Hospital, then transferred to mass
General with what police say were life threatening injuries. No words so far on the man's condition. This morning, officials in Boston have been overwhelmed with complaints about delays in mail delivery. Now members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation are calling on the Postmaster General for some ancer. Senator Ed Markey says the USPS has a responsibility to come and to testify before the Boston City Council to explain why
there is inadequate mail service across the city. City councilors included Ben Weber and Liz Breading. They've expressed similar concerns. A British soldier is convicted of spying for Iran. We get to Dale's on that story. From CBS's A Lane Colle.
The British court was told that soldier Daniel Abbad Khalife badly wanted to be a spy, but he was rejected because of his Iranian ancestry. He even wrote to Britain spy Agency six offering to be a double agent. Police described him as a fantasist, but admitted his actions had an effect on British security. The court found him guilty of gathering sensitive information for Iran Elaine Cobb, CBS News.
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