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Sonny breezy mild sixty nine degrees headed for seventy four in downtown Boston today. Good morning, I'm Laurie Kirby. And President Biden is expected to deliver a post election speech shortly from the White House Rose Garden, and that is happening any moment now. WBZ News Radio will take that live as soon as it gets under way. And the President called his vice president to congratulate her for a
hard fought campaign for the White House. Kamala Harris conceding the race to the Republican President elect Donald Trump in his speech at her alma mater, Howard University, late yesterday afternoon. She said, while she concedes this election, she does not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. Again, we can see some people gathered in the white folding chairs on the green lawn of the Rose Garden, and of course the American flags waiting for the President to appear shortly.
Do stay with us. We'll keep our eyes and ears on that. The Trump transition effort is already revving up. ABC. Stephen Portnoy brings us to tales from Washington.
Sources say the President elect yesterday with Robert F. Kennedy Junior and with Elon Musk, two men who are expected to hold senior roles in the next Trump administration. Musk is likely to have a perch overseeing federal spending, and Kennedy says he'd prefer to be something of a White House healthzar. The Trump transition team is now sorting through possible picks to fill four thousand roles in the executive branch, with some twelve hundred requiring Senate confirmation.
Rfk Junior has been an outspoken skeptic of many vaccines, and Elon Musk made headlines when he's slash spending and announced major layoffs at Twitter soon after buying the company two years ago. Even Massachusetts has been seeing a rising Republican time as a red wave washes over much of the nation. In this twenty twenty four election, Bay State voters sent an all Democratic congressional delegation back to Washington on election day, but President elect Donald Trump still carves
some new inroads in our deep blue state. The AP says Trump has gained popularity in nearly every Massachusetts community over the last four years. He even flipped nearly two dozen towns that he lost in twenty twenty. The state Republican chairwoman says voters are flipping red and response to the state's migrant crisis and years of high inflation. Leaders from the left are also wanion of the vice president's loss at the ballot box. With more on that, here's ABC's Christian Cordero.
York Congressman Ritchie trus a Democrat, saying Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like defund the police. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders called it no great surprise that a Democratic party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
We've been talking every day about that elevated fire wrist, so I like to look at the wind strength, and right now in the Pittsfield area, it's flowing out of the west northwest at around seventeen miles an hour. Those are sustained winds. We're not even talking gusts, so that's problematic. It is extraordinarily dry. We do need the rain, and this is a lovely forecast for those of us who
don't have to fight fires for a living. Mostly sunny, breezy, high seventy four to day, clear and cool tonight inland areas in the thirties, so frost out there. Are your pumpkins still there? Or they tossed? Did the squirrels eat them? But nonetheless we could see a little frost on those leftover pumpkins. Lots of sun for Friday. It's been a long week. Breezy sixty three. You have a nice weekend
all in all, cooler but nice. Suspect is about to plead guilty to his alleged involvement in a high end brothel ring prostitution in and outside of Greater Boston all the way to the nation's capital. Wbz's Jim McKay with the update.
Sixty nine year old James Lee of California to now has maintained his innocence, but a change of plea hearing is now set for next month. This hearing follows two others in which his alleged co conspirators, Han Lee and Young Minglee both admitted to charges. None of the Lees are related. Twenty eight Johns currently face state charges connected to this federal case. While none of those names are being released, it's said to be a who's who of politicians, doctors,
even military officers. James Lee is expected in court on December eighteenth. Jim YKAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
A new test could let patients predict what's in store during their bounce with COVID nineteen. Here's CBS's Michael George.
A new nasal swab test could predict how severe COVID will be for a person. A study by Emory University found that by using nasal swabs, researchers could see which people developed COVID antibodies and which people didn't. With this test, doctors may be able to develop more effective treatments for people at risk for severe COVID.
And the study is published. You can read it in the journal's Science Translational Medicine. All Right, we were talking about those drought conditions. There are a couple of fires out there right now, including a large fire in Youar homes and businesses along root one in Saugus, and our drought conditions have more than doubled, extending now into the central part of the Commonwealth. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News
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