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Grace guys. That's a lot of fog and miss out there some dampness as well. Right now freezing in Boston, but our winter weather advisory has expired. Get ready for round two more severe late tonight, wind and rain and flooding. I'll get to that eleven o'clock. Good morning on Laurie Kirby and its voting day despite the weather. In the city of Massouan, a special election is underway to choose a new mayor after the recent death of Mayor Neil Perry.
On the ballot acting Mayor DJ Beauregard, former city councilor in Mathsouan, along with James Sarcioni, lifelong Mtsoon resident who now runs an insurance company. Polls close at seven PM and the suspect charge and the death of the United Healthcare CEO is still in a Pennsylvania jail this morning, awaiting extradition to New York to face the charge of murder. CBS's Naomi Ruckham with the very latest this morning.
Luigi Mangioni is behind bars. The twenty six year old was arraigned and later charged with second degree murder yesterday in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Justice will be delivered in this case.
Pennsylvania police were called to the scene after the Maryland native was spotted at a McDonald's in Altoona around nine to fifteen am yesterday. Investigators say they approached him and asked if he had recently been to New York.
The Mangioni family says they are shocked by the news. They are praying for the family of Brian Thompson. But who exactly is Luigi Mangioni. CBS's Lilia Luciano tells us what we know so far.
Manjoni comes from a prominent Maryland family, which owns multiple country clubs in the state. He graduated from Gilman, an elite all boys private school, one of the highest ranked in the country.
We all knew each other.
I wasn't took a close with him, but I knew of him.
I knew him somewhat well.
He's a nice kid.
He then attended the Ivy Leagues University of Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor and master's degree in computer science.
Authority Saint Menchioni was carrying a passport and ten thousand dollars in cash at the time of the arrest Sashore drivers. The four River Bridge is going up this afternoon at three pm for an inbound vessel. Maybe you saw the blinking sign. I'm just your friendly reminder here because we know what that means. That means Ruth three A will come to a standstill for roughly twenty miss in the
Quincy Weymouth area. And of course this barge coming in has to go, and it's leaving tomorrow morning at around nine am, and again the bridge will be up. I have a little more information about tomorrow's storm, but let me just do today's weather very quickly. Here in the forties, touch of drizzle, what you see is what you get. And then tonight too little rain, little drizzle. Here comes some rain around midnight. That's set a pretty good clip. But the wind is going to come in and we
might even hear some thunder and lightning overnight. But the timeline here looks like three to four o'clock in the afternoon tomorrow for our heaviest stuff. That could lead to some flooding in the area, some power outages. I am seeing wind watches that's probably going to become a warning as we get closer to that timeline. And then again, I'm seeing some flood watches in particular for Western mass Thursday looks beautiful, mostly sunny, windy's still high forty four.
New Year's Eve is fast upon us, and Boston's biggest party of the year is now shaping up. With our list of performers.
The lineup for First Night Boston twenty twenty five is looking incredible, filled with some of the Bay States best performers, including those with the Boston Music Project. Hill House, the band made up of recent graduates of Worcester Polytechnic, is also bringing the beats. Her terms are really short, so we all get burnt out really really quickly, and so we wrote a song about it.
Enjoy.
Over two dozen performers have been announced for the day long celebration, with eleven different venues across the city, including Boston Common, the Public Market, the City Hall, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway. James Rojas WVZ Boston's News Radio.
Wow, those musicians sounded great. It's going to be a lot of fun. I hope the weather's nice for that. Fading gone apparently Boston merwu's tax plan to protect homeowners dies on the political vine at the State House. After several punts in the state Senate, President Karen Spilker released his statement last night saying not enough support. She's not
going to take it to the floor for any further debate. Now, this should be a interesting The final Boston City Council meeting of the year is tomorrow, and at that point the council will have to really set that twenty twenty five property tax rate in the eleventh hour. Here time is running out. Looks like city property owners residential owners
are looking at a ten percent hike next year. New research suggests the world's climate could still cross a critical red line even if emissions are slashed in the coming years. And here's CBS is Tracy Woolf.
With twenty twenty four expected to be the hottest year on record, a new study from Stanford University estimates there is a fifty percent chance that global warming will breach two degrees celsius even if the world rapidly cuts greenhouse gas emissions by twenty fifty. Utilizing AI, researchers say there is a nine to ten chance that the hottest year of this century will be at least a half a degree celsius hotter, even under rapid decarbonization. Tracy Wolf, CBS News New York.
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