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It's fifty degrees in Boston at eleven o'clock good Wednesday morning on Madison Rogers, and we start off this hour with some breaking news. A shooting suspect in Attleborough the police considered armed and dangerous is now in custody. Police say they located Jacob Lecourse at a home in Attleborough yesterday and took him into custody without incident. La Course is wanted on charges or was wanted on charges related
to a shooting in Attleborough this past weekend. He's charged with a sultan battery with a firearm and has been ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing. At the same time, police also arrested another person, Alexandra Elliott, is charged with intimidating a witness. The sky is finally about to open up. Rain will soon break through critical drought conditions across much of the state, and wbz's James Rojas says it is a very welcome change of pace.
The rain forecasted for Thursday and Friday cannot come at a more crucial time, as we are experiencing an unprecedented low amount of precipitation. We're also experiencing longer lasting wildfires, with over three dozen active fires burning across the Commonwealth. This frequent Fowls Reservation visitor is looking forward to the rain.
I actually like the rain. I'm shooting it from macgrass and let's good for everything once in a while.
Yeah, we definitely knew it.
However, even with rain this week, we still run the chance of finishing this season as the driest meteorological autumn on record at the Fowls Reservation. James Rojas WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Today is a day of vigils for the local LGBTQ community, the Transgender Day of Remembrance that serves as a moment to more and trans people lost to violence. It was founded in honor of a trans woman murdered in Boston in nineteen ninety eight, Rita Hester. Among the local events, there is a vigil tonight at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Quincy Center and name reading un Dartmouth. More than three hundred names were read at a vigil in Boston
over the weekend. The Speaker of the House moves to keep the first transgender member of US Congress from using women's restrooms on Capitol Hill. CBS is Alison Keys.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, citing as Christian faith, says, we're not going to have men in women's bathrooms, but ads.
I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity, and so what we can do and believe all those things.
At the same time, House Minority Leader HACKEM. Jeffrey says, the Republicans want to bully a member of Congress. Are you really focused on housing prices? Apparently not, Alison Keys, CBS News Washington.
Incoming Representative Sarah McBride is calling the resolution a blatant attempt to distract from the issues Americans actually face. This just into our newsroom. President elect Donald Trump has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whittaker as the country's next NATO ambassador. Meantime, the bipartisan how the House Ethics Committee could decide to day whether to release findings from its
investigation into former Rep. Matt Gates. It comes as more controversy swirls around Gates, who President elect Trump has picked to be the next Attorney General.
One woman told the committee she allegedly saw Gates having sex with her seventeen year old friend. Sources now say a hacker obtained documents from a civil case involving a friend of Gates and that seventeen year old girl. Senators are conflicted over whether the ethics reports should be made public before Gates' nomination hearing. The Justice Department separately investigated sex trafficking allegations against Gates without bringing charges.
Gates has denied all wrongdoing.
Meantime, the former president has tapped longtime ally Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department and doctor mehmet Oz to oversee Medicare and Medicaid. Looking at the four to a wbz ACU weather forecast will top out in the mid upper fifties this afternoon with times of sun and clouds.
More clouds move in tonight with a breeze picking up late forty one to forty eight degrees for the low, and then tomorrow it is some long awaited rain, arriving mostly in the late morning hours and then through the rest of the day. It's also increasingly windy as the day goes on, and we'll see a hinh near fifty low fifties, mostly cloudy and breezy, with a couple more showers around for Friday, and we can't rule out a shower for Saturday as well. Otherwise, that's another mostly cloudy
day in the low fifties. Right now in Boston, it's fifty degrees and mostly sunny at eleven oh six. Schools on the North Shore still look like ghost towns. We get an update on the teacher strikes from wbz's Jay will Lette.
While Glosster teachers say they're narrowing down on a deal with its school committee for better paying working conditions. It's been over a week of no school there. The district is holding a vigil tonight in gratitude for those who are withstanding the picket lines. Marble Head and Beverly remain a whizz off from a handshake for every day students aren't sitting in desks. Teacher unions are being fined ten
thousand dollars. School committee says they're finding common ground on personal days and missed prep period demands, not so much on wage proposals. Teachers have been calling on Governor Heally to stand out for them, and while she empathizes, her focus is getting kids back to class, urging both sides to reach a deal asap. J Willlett WBZ Boston's News Radio.
A class in the which city is coaching the Stephen Kings of Tomorrow. The BBC's Hyle Shaffle explains.
Horror isn't often thought of as a kid friendly genre, but these kids at Collins Middle School and Salem are trying to master it.
They're trying to write the scariest story. Like they're almost like competing against each other to write the scariest story.
That's their teacher, Mike. This horror writing class is a volunteer after school lesson taught the semester to help the kids own their skills. Madison says one of her stories was so scary she was able to spook her horror Officionado sister Satira, and the fact that I.
Was able to scare her in four sentences, I was so.
Crad Shatira says she's excited for the final class project.
I'm really excited to have it done because I really want to see how like all the perspectives, because me and me, Mary and Maddie were all doing different perspectives on one story.
The class is hosted by Leap for Education and north Shore nonprofit that runs after school programs. The kids I talked to so they might try to make writing into a career. Kyle Shaffele to be busy, Boston's News Radio.
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