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Sunny and cold, blustery again in Boston. It's twenty eight degrees at eleven o'clock, but we start in need Up. Needham Town leaders have been meeting this morning discussing next steps after residents of special town meeting yesterday voted down a plan to comply with a new MBTA Communities Act and Board Shair Kevin Keene says the pressure may be off here now now that the governor has filed new
REGs buying non compliant communities more time. Because of the new state REGs, we may have until June or July to get our base plan sort of in front of town meeting again. That base plan called for less density building and need them than the one they voted down. So instead of thousands of multifamily units built up along the t for stories and the like, it would call for more than six hundred units, which would still meet the state mandate. President Biden prepares to deliver his farewell
address from the Oval Office tonight. ABC's Nicole D'Antonio tells us what we can expect.
President Biden is expected to address the nation for the final time tonight from the Oval Office, where he will tell what he says are his top achievements while in office.
It's clear my administration is leaving the next administration with a very strong hand to play, and we're leaving them in America with more friends than strong alliances.
The last time Biden addressed the nation from behind the Resolute Desk was when he announced his decision to withdraw from the twenty twenty four campaign. Nicolde Antonio ABC News Washington WBZ News Radio will carry the address live at a PM tonight, both here and in streaming on the new iHeartRadio app. Disgraced and suspended State Police Trooper Michael Proctor's career is on the line. Today could be the
end of the line. The Trial Board is holding an in person hearing in Framingham on Proctor's conduct as lead investigator in the Karen Reid murder case. Of course, he also investigated the murder case involving suspect Brian Wall. She will not be called to testify when that trial gets underway. Mass DA Police say this hearing is closed to the public and the media, but as soon as we learn more,
you will hear more. The labor Department is out with a new look, a revised look at the economy and inflation. ABC's Jim Ryan with that.
The December CPI came in slightly higher than analysts had expected, at four tenths of one percent. The annual inflation rate rose from two point seven percent in November to two point nine percent last month, still well above the Federal Reserves two percent inflation target. It all points to a pause from the Fed in its interest rate cuts in the coming months.
And the report comes days before President elect Donald Trump takes office. Mister Trump has promised to impose new teris on foreign countries, and the Fed has said these tariffs could lead to a slight increase in inflation next year. Fluid in the windshields, do you have enough? You know, we've been using a lot recently. We haven't even had a big snow storm. We had that little mini one. It's snowing on the cape and sometimes they have snow envy where we'll get a little bit of snow they
get nothing. But right now they're getting a little bit of snow all the way from Harwich to well Fleet. So it's awfully pretty blustery today. Those are unforgiving winds out of the northwest. It's only twenty four in Wooster right now, for example, and some of you are in the teens. Imagine tonight even colder, seventeen in Boston, more sun than blustery weather. Tomorrow, high thirty one. We don't warm up to the weekend, and then some rain is
going to fall. Looks like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. Sunday looks dry. Let's go to that manhunt which is now underway to try to find whoever shot a teenage girl in Easton yesterday, leaving her with serious injuries. Brandon Truet was CBS News.
Boston chaotic moments Tuesday afternoon after Eastern Police say a teenage girl was shot near her home. It happened outside the Avalon apartment complex around two point thirty. Police were on scene within moments, but when they got here, the suspect or suspects were gone. We don't believe this was a random act.
We believe this was targeted.
With injuries to her face, the girl was taken to a hospital in Brockton before a met flight took her to Boston. Investigators say they have video from surveillance and doorbell cameras. It was just cops. People who live in the complex are stunned. Someone was shot here, much less a teenage girl in the middle of the day growing up. And he said, it's always so safe and so nice, and everyone here is just so caring that I would never expect this to happen.
Police have investigated some vehicles in nearby Mansfield in Brocken, but so far no arrest. The duck Sbury mother and Boston nurse, who is facing murder charges for the death of her three children, is now ordered to undergo in psych exam, but this one will be chosen by the prosecution the experts to do it all right. The defense is planning an insanity defense when the case goes to
trial against Lindsey Clancy. Clancy is pleaded not guilty to murdering her three children, ages five, three and eight months old, and of course she's been receiving treatment mental health treatment over at Tewksbury Hospital. There is another hearing in this case set for February seventh. Both sides face of January twenty fourth deadline of file motions Israel and a malser on the brink of a temporary Gazza ceasefire deal, but the talks are not without their sticking points.
Obviously, the finish line for a Gaza ceasefire is within sight, but Israel and Hamas still struggling to cross it. Just a day after an announcement seemed imminent, the sides back to hurling accusations of new demands and bad faiths. But the negotiations have made so much progress in recent days
no one here believes they are in jeopardy. The first phase of this ceasefire would bring a six week pause in the fighting in Gaza, a massive boost and humanitarian aid, and the release of thirty three hostages, including two Americans. Jordana Miller, ABC News Jerusalem.
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