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News cloud Easky's thirty degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock alone. Thanks for being with us on this Tuesday Christmas Eve. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening. A little more snow arriving ahead of Christmas Day this.
Morning, with some snow that will accumulate a coding to an engine cause some slippery travel clouds will begin to break later this afternoon.
And that's accu Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg will have the full accu weather forecast coming up in three. Back on track is the hope of the day at South Station. We get that from wbcj Will let.
A planthora of Amtrak delays earlier this week spells a wave of cautious optimism in Boston. They're a number thirty minute, thirty leaves. Okay, cool official say the signal problems that the root of the delays yesterday, are fixed. Thank God. No, no, nothing about that. Oh we got the help worm I like it, come with it. But it's still a shaky situation. Amtrak's's some regular service had to be canceled to beef up the other lines and residual delays can pop up
around the Northeast Corridor. Here's hoping for the best and on time trains this holiday season. Jawill at WBZ, Boston's news radio.
The City of Boston sticking with a controversial plan to rebuild an aging stadium in Franklin Park and make it the new home of a woman's pro soccer team. Who's wbz's Hyle Shaffle With the latest sign sealed and not yet delivered, I.
Am thrilled to share the City of Boston has signed a lease with Boston Unity Soccer Partners.
The city has taken the next step in the White Stadium renovation saga. It's officially leased the space to Boston's future pro women's soccer team for at least a decade. BPS kids will still get to play at the rebuilt stadium, but they'll need to make room for the soccer team. Based on how the contract is written, the city seems to be leery of the job not getting finished.
Prior to demolition. Boston Unity will fund a twenty five million dollar construction escrow account restricted exclusively to fund direct construction costs on the site.
City councilor ed Flynn and a coalition of city groups have come out against the plan, even filing a lawsuit. They think it costs too much and makes a public resource private, But Mayor Wu wants this done quick.
The least commits us to have the full facility on the city side finished by December of twenty twenty six.
Kyle Schaffele to BBZ Boston's news.
Radio, it is showtime for a NASA probe looking to unveil the secrets of the Sun more.
Than sixty years after it left Florida. With NASA's Parker Solar Probe, Parker will be just three point eight million miles away from the Sun. It doesn't sound that close, but NASA Heliophysics Deputy Director Nikki Rail says, if you see the universe as a football field.
We are within four yards of touchdown at the Sun right now.
Parker is also the fastest moving human made object in history, at about four hundred and thirty thousand miles per hour. At that rate, you could go from New York to Tokyo in about a minute. Siders hope to learn moreo solar storms that can disrupt communications here and could be dangerous to astronauts. And deep space, adding that the data already sent back Rail says after traveling hundreds of millions of.
Miles, Parker's ready for primetime.
Yes, Peter Kings, CBS News at the Kennedy Space Center.
We are looking at the Norrad Santa tracker showing Santa over Thailand right now, and he's delivered one point seven billion gifts so far. Let's check our weather now snow ending from the northwest to southeast across the area. By midday today, we'll see accumulations of a coding to an inch that is just enough to make it slow and slippery out there for travel. Not so cold this afternoon.
High's thirty six a low forties though on the Cape in the Islands, clear and cold tonight, cooling off to twenty seven in the city, teens in most of the inland suburbs, near thirty on the Capean Islands. All right, Tomorrow, Christmas Day, we're going to see high's thirty two to thirty six degrees, even partly sunny. Sky's Thursday partly to mostly sunny, high thirty five, lows low forties, I should say on the Cape and the Islands, mostly sunny on Friday,
with a high near forty in the city. Right now it's cloudy. We're seeing thirty degrees thirty one in Brockton, thirty in loll thirty four in New Bedford, thirty one degrees in Medford, and we're seeing some snow flurries, very light snow over parts of southeast Massachusetts. Right now it's eleven oh five. Back to the New City, officials are asking residents to do their part to shovel Boston sidewalks.
Boston's Public Works Department says they're all over the case, monitoring calls and posts around the clock, but it's a partnership between homeowners and the city to keep sidewalks clear. A spokesperson for the Public Works Department says, quote, property and business owners are responsible for clearing snow, slush, and ice from sidewalks and pedestrian ramps that about their property within three hours of snowfall ending or three hours after
sunrise if it snows overnight. Kirsten just wants to see her streets in safer condition for all of the walkers.
I think I'm you know, I wish my neighbors would do really a better job of shoveling or at least putt e sal their sand down.
Until then she's slipping and sliding her way through walking her pop.
And the CBS News Boston's Logan Hall reporting there the Department of Public Works is responsible for clearing roads, bridges, hills, and bus routes. First responders rescue a teenager after he fell through the ice on Arlington Reservoir. This happened yesterday. Emergency crews were able to save the teen after the boy's father was unsuccessful. The teen appeared to be okay, but had to be evaluated on the scene. The town is reminding people to not walk out on the ice,
even if it looks thick enough to be safe. Massachusetts woman seriously injured after a snowmobile crash in bartlet, New Hampshire. This after she went off the trail with her ten year old son. The Globe reports a woman was writing a rented snowmobile in a group tour. She failed to make a downhill left hand turn and crashed into a tree inside of a ditch. The woman from Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, was taken to a local hospital with head injuries. Her son,
though was not injured in that accident. Former President Bill Clinton spends the night in a hospital.
A spokesperson says the former president had a fever and is now undergoing some testing at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is said to be in good spirits. The former president does have a history of heart issues, having had a quadruple bypass after leaving office. The spokesperson said Clinton deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receding.
The former President's condition not believed to be urgent. And that was CBS's Shanil Call reporting its bowl season in college football. We have one game on tap for today, the Hawaii Bowl. South Florida and San Jose State will play each other in that one. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeart Radio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ Boston's news radio