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A couple clouds but mostly sunny in Boston, twenty seven degrees at eleven o'clock on this Christmas Day. Thanks for being with us. I'm Sherry Small. Here's what's happening, a sunny Christmas Day ahead.
We will dry Christmas Day with sunshine at so clouds and high's and little to mid thirties.
It'll stay dry through Friday and that hack you.
Weather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. The full forecast is coming up in three all right, Christmas and Hanukkah falling on the same day for just the fifth time in the last one hundred and fourteen years.
The dates for Honocut change every year because Judaism is following a Luna's so large calendar, that is following both the passage of the sun and the passage of the moon.
Whereas Christians are following the Gregory calendar. It just follows the sun.
University of Birmingham theology professor Canada Moss says both holidays are interested in light and in God's presence in dark times, and she says the holiday's falling on the same day.
Of course, this creates a huge opportunity for interfaith families to celebrate both traditions alongside one another.
The two holidays won't converge again until twenty thirty five, Jennifer Kuiper, CBS News.
And Hanukkah begins at sundown tonight. Kwanza starts tomorrow and runs through January. First, Well, we do have snow on the ground in many areas here in Massachusetts, so are we officially labeling today as a white Christmas? According to the National Weather Service, they say there must be at least one inch of snow on the ground at exactly seven am Christmas morning to qualify as a white Christmas, which is indeed the case here prior to today. Twenty nineteen
was Boston's last white Christmas. But in twenty seventeen we had snow Christmas Day, but it was after seven am. The snow purists would add that day to the white Christmas mix. Boston Mayor Michelle Wou reflecting back on twenty twenty four and look ahead to the new year.
I love this job. It's just the greatest gift in the whole world to be able to be part of this community and to see how much we can accomplish when Boston comes together and.
Mary Michelle wou voicing her enthusiasm for the job Boston voters offered her three years ago for the city's first woman mayor the next year offers the promise of welcoming a third child to her family in January. The expected mayor also expected to soon announce that she's a candidate for a second term. Although an official announcement has not yet been made, all indications are she's ready to run.
Especially as we enter into the next four years. There is a lot of work to do, and we know that people all across the country are going to be looking to Boston for what that leading light looks like and how our communities can continue to inspire others all around the country.
With the final year of her first term just around the corner, still no word on whether anyone will challenge Wu so far just idle speculation. Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news.
Radio Celtics hosting the seventy six Ers at the Garden, tip off at five pm. This is the ninth consecutive year that the Celtics are playing on Christmas, and the fifth time they're playing at home. On the holiday. Ruins and Patriots have Christmas Day off to NFL games later today Kansas City at Pittsburgh, at won Baltimore at Houston. That's at four thirty. Now, let's check the ACU weather
forecast Sun and Patchie Klaus today. Highs thirty two to thirty six tonight, partly to mostly cloudy, cooling down to twenty five in the city and surrounding areas teens in most of those western suburbs, near thirty on the Cape and the Islands. Tomorrow, we're going to see some clouds to start off the day. Then it'll become mostly sunny, but still chili. High's only reaching thirty seven degrees, low
forties on the Cape. In the Islands, highs not far from forty on Friday, with mostly sunny sky Saturday, once again that high sticking around forty degrees, but it'll be mostly cloudy on the Saturday, toward the mid forties on the Cape and the Islands. Right now, checking the tempts we're seeing, Let's see Pittsfield twenty three degrees, Northampton twenty seven.
We have twenty eight in Springfield, twenty seven in Worcester twenty seven as well in Framingham up on the north shore twenty eight degrees, in Ipswich twenty seven, in Denvers along the south SouthShore twenty nine, in Quincy twenty nine as well in Plymouth. We have thirty one degrees in New Bedford and Taunton. In the city right now mostly Sunnay twenty seven degrees at eleven oh five. Back to newsdown. Many businesses are closed on this Christmas Day, but not
a Christmas store in downtown Crossing. We get that from WBC's Carl Stevens.
The Old Corner Christmas Store here in Downtown Crossing is open today. It's opened every day. In fact, manager Vanessa Silva says their busiest time of year is in Christmas time. It's summertime because of all the tourists, so.
You can't answer here on the summer and still feel like Christmas time.
Some of their most popular items are Boston themed ornaments.
We have on Dafeniel Hall ornament, we have the States House, we have Preday show, so it's very unique.
And of course the Old Corner Christmas Store gets a lot of visitors this time of year, like this woman.
It's so cute.
There's got a lot of different stuff, a lot of stuff you can't see other places.
And it says Christmas.
Yeah, it does. It absolutely says Christmas.
From Downtown Crossing Carl Stevens WBC Boston's News radio.
Dozens of residents in the Broadway Glenn Building on Broadway and Chelsea have been without heat and hot water in this cold snap since the weekend. The buildings owners say that the issues have been addressed, with two boilers now repaired one more boiler to go. They also say that fifty electric space heaters have been provided to residents, but tennants say the cold water is making shower very showering very difficult, especially for the elderly and the complex since
some of the residents are also on oxygen. The bald eagle is officially designated the national bird of the United States.
It had gone unnoticed for decades that the majestic bird, with its white head, yellow beak, and brown body, a symbol of the power and strength of the United States for more than two hundred and forty years, had never been officially designated as our national bird. That oversight was rectified when President Biden signed into law legislation sent to him by Congress that amends the United States Code to make the bald eagle our national bird.
Now that was CBS News reporter Christopher Cruz there. The bald Eagle has appeared on the Great Seal of the United States, which is used in official documents since seventeen eighty two, when the design was finalized, a seal made up of the eagle and olive branch and arrows. Not the King of Rock and Roll, but police in Stoton searching for Elvis Elvis Andrate of Broughton, suspected of breaking
into several vehicles. Police obtaining an arrest warrant on charges including eight counts of breaking and entering in five counts of larceny. Back on December fourth, a stolen debit card was used out of CBS investigators obtaining video footage of the suspect, who was wearing Grinch pajamas at the time. 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