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A beautiful sunny sky and fifty three degrees in the city at eleven o'clock. It's Tuesday, November nineteenth. I'm Sherry Small. Thanks for being with us. Here's what's happening. Striking teachers are taking their fight from the North Shore to the State House. In just about fifteen minutes, Marblehead, Beverly, and Gloucester will hold a rally on the State House steps.
Their strike now in its second week. Negotiations with school committees in each districts are stalled on several sticking points. Some include paid parental leave and also paraprofessionals salaries. Now, the Beverly School Committee says if the strike there doesn't end soon, they may have to cancel spring vacation. The Gloucester School committee says mis days will be added to the end of their school year to Revere, where teachers
and the school committee strike a deal. After a marathon bargaining session held last night, lasting more than seven hours, a tentative deal was struck just after midnight. The new deal offers wage increases, paid parental and family leave, school safety reforms, and agreements on other issues Revere educators they have been working one hundred and twenty days without a contract.
Firefighter is battling a brush blaze in the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, and WBC S James Rojas says this comes as much of the state as dealing with red flag warnings.
A dozen counties in the Commonwealth are at high risk of wildfires, including Norfolk County. That is evident here at Blue Hills Reservation, where conditions are very dry and firefighters are busy keeping a forty plus acre brush fire under control.
Pretty crazy again, I've been here for twenty four years, never seen anything like it.
We need rain, We need rain badly.
The brushfire erupted yesterday afternoon and has since led to road closures, including here at Hillside Street and Blue Hill River Road, affecting many people's commute. So what's the d plan like that to go the long way or what's the.
Moving I just have to go to the highway.
There doesn't add much more time to your community.
Probably fifteen minutes.
Fifteen minutes. Nothing was season yeah. Meanwhile, additional fire task forces have been dispatched to how Milton and Canton firefighters at Blue Hills Reservation. James Rojas w b Z Boston Snooth Radio.
President elect Trump says he elected on a controversial campaign promise. As soon as he takes off on the.
Campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged to carry out the largest deportation program in American history, and in a social media post, he confirmed yesterday that he's planning to declare a state of national emergency and use military assets to do it.
Now.
By declaring national emergency, that would allow Trump to tap into national additional resources and funding needed to carry out a program of this scale.
And the CBS is Huey Burns reporting there. Now, let's check the weather. It's going to be mostly sunny today, a high fifty seven, breezy as well, so we do have a red flag warning in effect until six pm tonight for a high fire threat. That's due to the gusty breeze, the low humidity, the dry brush, the drought
conditions that we've been seeing. Clear to partly cloudy tonight, cooling down to about thirty nine in the city in many of those inland suburbs, it'll be closer to thirty tomorrow midweek, more sun than cloud's highs rolled back a bit in the low to mid fifties. It'll become cloudy at night and then rain arriving toward dawn, so factor that into your morning commute. Thursday, rain much of the time, increasingly windy, a high near just fifty degrees. Even cooler
come Friday. Highs in the high forties to low fifties, mostly cloudy, breezy again with a couple of showers around. Right now, it's sunny and fifty three in Boston at eleven oh five. Dozens of police officers here in Massachusetts are accused of not completing mandatory training. WBZTV's Luisa Muller has to tail Ever.
The sworn police officer in Massachusetts is required to do forty hours of training a year, much of it online through a portal called acatus. But WBZ obtained this letter sent to every police chief in the state. It says the Municipal Police Training Committee, or MPTC, found officers skirting
the system. The letter states, quote, we have discovered instances where trainings that should take hours to complete are finish in a matter of minutes using techniques that override controls meant to prevent fast forwarding through the training sources tel WBZ. As of last week, EMPTC identified seventy officers in eleven departments who had bypassed a CAADUS training. EMPTC is now shut down the ACATUS portal while it investigates requiring all training to be in person.
And the updated trainings for the police officers. They can contain anything from new laws and guidelines to CPR training. Abington Police chief meanwhile wants a former police officer with his department meant desertified amid fallout from the Sandra Birchmore case. This according to the Broughton Enterprise. Ex police officer Joshua Heel resigned from Abington Police back in twenty twenty three. Desertification would mean that he would be prohibited from working
in law enforcement. Three Stoton police officers are accused of grooming Sandra Birchmore for sex when she was a minor. One is accused of staging her alleged twenty twenty one murder to look like a suicide. Heel's attorney claims that his client was initially wrongfully implicated. Heel was dropped from the case. President elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk
take their a fledgling partnership to new heights. Today, ABC's Jim Ryan says, mister Trump will be on hand when SpaceX launches a new rocket.
Donald Trump has made no secret of his admiration for Elon Musk, is, the.
Characters, especially Guy as a super genius. We have to protect geniuses. We don't have that many of them.
The weather and technology permitting, Trump plans to be in Boca Chica, Texas for today's test launch of SpaceX Super Heavy Booster from Elon Musk's starbase.
The President LEC has selected Musk to co lead a new Department of Government Efficiency, along with businessmen Vivek Ramaswami. You are now in the loop for news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Sherry Small, WBZ, Boston's news radio