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Sonny Cole Breezy thirty four in downtown Boston is eleven o'clock on this Tuesday morning. Good morning on Laurie Kirby, Thanks for being with us. Today marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the deadly Wooster Cold Storage warehouse fire. Six firefighters battled that blaze and lost their lives that day. They went back inside looking for a couple of homeless
people believed to be inside the burning warehouse. Will tonight, the Worcester Fire Department and city officials and loved ones will gather at this site, which is now the Franklin Street Fire Station. They will place a reeth for each man, Lieutenant Thomas Spencer, Lieutenant Timothy Jackson, Lieutenant James Lyons, Paul Brotherton, Jeremiah Lucy, and Joseph McGirk. A twenty one gun salute will honor each of them as we salute you and your memory. And exhibit is also open today and tomorrow
for the public inside of the Wooster Union Station. It is a day to give. It's Giving Tuesday, a day when we are encouraged to give our time, our money, our kindness to local charities and nonprofits as well. In wbz's James Rojas is and Ken Moore Square.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday offer us some real deals, but Giving Tuesday offers us the chance to focus on what matters most, and that's community. That's why Danny from Boston looks to give back to the younger generation. For me, it's things I have a connection to. So the students are student employees with me, and then they have causes that they have a reportant of them, So I just want to make sure that I help them out. They is hoping people will keep a youth sports in mind.
There's like kids that want to play sports that can because they don't have the equipment that they need or their families like don't have the money to get the stuff that they need.
Now, many will donate money to local nonprofits and charities, but time is also a precious commodity to give and Ken Moore Square James Rojas WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Many shoppers are walking around with lighter wallets. Today ABC's Chuck sieverts and says consumers shelled out more than thirteen billion dollars on cyber Monday.
Cyber Monday remains the biggest online shopping day of all time. In the peak hours of eight pm to ten pm, consumers spent fifteen point eight million dollars every minute, says the research firm Adobe Analytics. Shoppers took advantage of bigger than expected discounts and categories such as electronics, toys, clothing, TVs, and computers. Discounts were roughly between twenty and thirty percent.
And if you love to shop at Market Basket, here's a news store coming to the area. The supermarket is moving into Seconk, where the old Showcase sits off Route six. The Sun Chronicle says the de Mulises bought the sixteen acre property back in July and they plan to redevelop it with several retail buildings. The largest will be the Market Basket supermarket. As for the Showcase Cinema, the curtain closes Sunday, January fifth, and no word yet on what
the final film will be at the end. So our holiday is forty two forty two degrees, and I think that's going to be along the coast right now. I'm seeing a lot of you in the thirties. Lauren Sunny thirty five. The Cape is warmer. I mentioned Shatham that's up to thirty seven degrees and Beverly North Shore just his thirty four degrees. Now tonight, starlit very chilly if you're going out for a walk. We still have that cold wind. It's not a gusty breeze, but it's got
a bite. Twenty seven are low in Boston and cooler elsewhere. So tomorrow no snow yet. It's tomorrow night into Thursday. Hey, what are we talking about? Wet snow? Primarily if you're north and west of Boston, you might have an inch of snow two inches max, and the rest of us might be seeing really some slushy stuff that could be messy but will likely wash away. It's eleven oh five
and oversees an alarming change on the peninsula. Police officers clashing with demonstrators in the streets of South Korea, Chaos is broken out as the country's leader accuses the opposition party in control of parliament of insurgency.
South Korean President Yusuk Yiel has just a clare of martial law, pledging to eliminate what he's calling anti state forces. Un has struggled to implement his agenda with parliament controlled by the liberal opposition, whom he accuses of sympathizing with
North Korea. But even the leader of his own conservative party is calling the declaration of martial law wrong, and the opposition leader, who narrowly lost to Yun in the twenty twenty two presidential election, is calling UN's annnouncement illegal and unconstitutional. Vicky Barker, CBS News London.
Back in this country, the president elect's pick to lead the Pentagon is in the hot seat. ABC's Rachel Scott reports that Pete Hegseith is now facing fresh allegations of both financial mismanagement and sexual misconduct.
According to The New Yorker, hegsth was forced to step down from leading two conservative veteran groups in part because of accusations of mismanaging funds and abusing alcohol while on the job, allegedly using official funds to party, sexually pursuing female staffers, and repeatedly being so drunken public employees had to care for him, including once when he tried quote joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana's strip
club where he had brought his team. According to a whistleblower report obtained by the magazine.
Heg Scith denies the allegations. First she gave up her restaurants, now she's foregoing her personal possessions. Award winning chef Barbara is planning in estate sale at her home in Gloucester, weeks after she suddenly closed all of her eateries around Boston. Lanners expect to packed house when doors open Saturday morning. And it comes as Miss Lynch battles a lawsuit in
the City of Boston over unpaid property taxes. And this was the latest tumble in the famous chef's fall from grace after allegations that she fostered a toxic work environment last year. Surveillance video captures the moment when a woman decides to throw rocks onto park cars near Hancock Park in Everett. Jim Riley in town says the woman was dumping rocks for about a minute at least. Will she be arrested? We all want to know 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