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Forty five degrees in Boston, messy weather and a messy ride. Stay tuned for traffic and weather together. It's eleven o'clock right now, and good Tuesday morning. I'm Madison Rogers. Boston's holiday centerpiece is set to arrive any moment. A forty five foot tall white spruce is getting a police escort to Boston Common, where it'll be hoisted up and strung with lights. The Christmas tree comes as a gift from
Nova Scotia. That's been the tradition for decades, a thank you for the emergency help Boston sent Halifax after the city was devastated by explosions in nineteen seventeen. There is a tree lighting celebration set for next Thursday. It's crunch time. Holiday travelers are rushing to wrap up the last of this week's work before taking a few days off for Thanksgiving. More from Logan Airport with wbz's James Rojas.
You know the best time for a business trip right before Thanksgiving, this reporter said sarcastically.
No, The National Council for Teachers of English is always right before Thanksgiving and then bleeds into the young adult literature conference is always the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I don't know why we do that.
Lisa from Utah is expecting to get back home in time to prep for Turkey Day. The same goes for Josh.
I'm used to it, so kind of learned how to navigate the holiday traffic over the years.
I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Yeah, I was here for business. Oh you're always going to have one air trip to make in Washington, DC and then on to Raleigh this evening.
Oh so you just your like coming than Diego. You're just going to get right exactly exactly, Hella Logan. James Rojas w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Still no word of any cancelations at Logan today. There are now close to seventy flights that have been delayed and are out of Boston. And keep in mind that could take a turn when the weather starts to ramp up. Let's go to Capitol Hill now, the Trump transition team is looking into corruption allegations around a top eid. ABC's Terry Moran has more from Washington.
Sources say the President at Trump has launched his own internal investigation into one of his legal advisors, Boris Epstein, after Epstein allegedly asked for money to secure cabinet positions. Sources also say the investigation found quote concerning behavior. Epstein denies these allegations.
Among the people Epstein allegedly sought payments from. Is Scott Bissent mister Orbescent rather mister Trump's pick to lead the Treasury. But controversy over the transition process isn't stopping mister Trump from getting to work on plans for his second administration. His latest promise is to impose broad tariffs on Mexico and Canada if they don't crack down on their border with the US. ABC Selena Wang has more.
If enacted, these tariffs could violate the terms of the trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada, which Trump signed into law during his first term. Trump also a q who's China of sending drugs pouring into our country, threatening an additional ten percent tariff on all Chinese products. To Trump's comments, drawing responses from trade partners, the Chinese embassy saying economic and trade cooperation is essentially mutually beneficial.
No one will win in a trade war or a tariff war.
Also firing back the President of Mexico suggesting they could retaliate with tariffs of their own. The steadiest band of rain right now is stretching from parts of the Metro west around Framingham, then north to Nashua and up into southern New Hampshire as well, those areas possibly seeing some icy rain. We will continue to see periods of rain
for the rest of today. It ends late forty eight to fifty two for the high, and then it's clearing tonight, thirty seven for the low in Boston, closer to the freezing mark for some inland suburbs. We get a break from the weather action tomorrow with times of sun and clouds,
breezy and chili high forty eight. I'm guessing a lot of people are going to be traveling that day though, so Thanksgiving itself, we have some stormy action, starting with rain and continuing through the afternoon into early Thursday night. It will likely stay rain for most of us around Boston, but if you're heading north or west of town, watch for some wet snow, possibly several inches piling up in southern New Hampshire. Friday, we have clouds and some sun.
It's brisk and chili with temps in the forties. Right now in Boston we have rain coming down. It's forty five degrees at eleven oh six. A generational tobacco band could soon sweep the state. Wbz's Jim McKay has more on a new bill under the Golden Dome.
The goal here is to stomp out the potential of nicotine addiction for future generations. I'm hearing more positive vibes than negative when I'm talking to people at Quincy Center.
I think it's a good idea.
I love the idea.
There are towns who have passed laws. This would go statewide and eventually would phase out nicotine and tobacco sales over several decades.
Really don't see cigarette habits as often as you used to.
Leslie from Braintree thinks it's a great way to prevent the habit before you got to kick it.
I think that some of the changes that they're making is actually working.
This will likely get immense backlash from convenience store owners and smoke shops. The bill was just proposed, and it's got a long way to go before becoming anything close to alaw on the books in Quincy Jim McKay WVZ Boston's News Radio.
A hearing is underway right now regarding evidence in the upcoming Karen Reid retrial. The DA's office and the defense team are sparring over the prosecution's request to look at phone records from Reed's father and mother. Prosecutors are arguing that they need those records to see if Reid called her parents the night she's accused of hitting Boston Police
officer John O'Keefe with her car. Prosecutors say an unusual phone call to a parent or to her parents at one thirty in the morning could establish knowledge of a crime. Defense attorneys are arguing that all of that information would be present in miss Reid's own call records, which prosecutors already have. The retrial, as it stands, will begin in late January. However, both sides have asked the judge to push that date back to April. You're now in the loop.
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