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Twenty six degrees.
We've got clear skies in Boston, but man, we're feeling like the teens at the moment on a frigid Friday morning at six o'clock.
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Here's what's happening.
Well, certainly, it is very chilly as we get out the front door this morning. You're definitely gonna want to bundle up because it's going to be cold over the next few hours.
Twenty of sunshine today with highs not far from forty. A rainy weekend is on the way, and that is wbz ACU weather meteorologist Joe Loundberg. Eventually we will get that sunshine and things will feel a bit more comfortable. The air is changing late tonight into tomorrow, and again we're in the forties and fifties outside of a few
rain drops. It's a pretty warm weekend driving around to England right now for a holiday return home conditions aren't too bad, except from a little ice out there, because it's certainly freezing elsewhere across the country, leaving town highly problematic and could have an impact for those heading to the skies.
In this most wonderful time of the year. Sometimes all you need to pack is a good attitude.
Delays make great adventures.
It's a little bit crowdy, but I'll.
Get through it. Nationwide, the TSA expects to screen nearly forty million passengers from December nineteenth through January two, a six percent increase from a year ago. Complicating things Thursday, punishing weather in certain parts of the country. Airports in Dallas and Houston are seeing delays and cancelations as the rain comes down. Bradley Blackburn, CBS News, New York.
And so far only just a few delays going on over at Logan and there's no cancelations.
At six oh one.
There's a move underway at this Statehouse to crack down on drivers who stop, park or operate a motor vehicle and design to bus lanes.
Bus only lanes have sprouted up across Boston to speed up travel time for commuters who ride t buses, but passenger vehicles frustrate that goal when drivers operate cars and SUVs in the bus only lanes, slowing the buses down. Now, state lawmakers are considering legislations to install cameras on buses to monitor traffic in the bus lanes and record the registration numbers of offending vehicles. Police could then follow up it issued tickets, finding drivers twenty five to one hundred
and twenty five dollars for bus lane violations. The bill to install the cameras and impose the fines has passed the Senate, and, with just days left in the legislative year, could get a House vote at the State House. Mike Maclin WBZ, Boston's news.
Radio ads six out two From the Roads to the Rails, Some service changes are coming next month for riders on the MBTA weekend schedule. Shifts are planned on the Orange, Red, and Silver lines in January, with additional changes posted for the newberry Port, Rockport Inhaviral commuter rail lines. It's all part of construction plans for the TEA and the new year of More details can be found on the MBTA website.
And also new reports.
This morning, some aviation experts saying Russian air defense fire was likely responsible for the crash of an Iserbaijani Airlines flight that killed thirty eight people.
I spoke with Andrew Nicholson, who runs Osprey, a company that advises carriers flying in the region. He pointed to images of the plane's wreckage that appear to show what he says is damage consistent with surface to air fire.
There are no stuffs or bumps or dents that would also indicate you know, aft or birds hitting the aircraft fuselage, and also the direction of the shrapnel which looks like it's coming from below and towards the front.
Kremlin saying it would be wrong to speculate before the investigation is complete.
ABC's and as de la Katerra reporting, Yeah, it is certainly frozen and out there, very cold morning. As we're getting started. We are mid twenties in Boston, but feeling like the teens and single digits in and around town and north and west of Boston. Especially for later on this afternoon, we'll have highs climbing up into the mid to upper thirties with a good deal of sunshine, and
then we're off into the forties and fifties. This weekend, where it should be really just a warm trend here all the way into the new year in the middle of next week. It starts tomorrow, and we could see some scattered showers both Saturday and Sunday. Some of that in central and western mass by the way, could be in the form of some scattered snow showers as well, and may complicate things that are already frozen in the
western part of the state. Outside of that, though, we're at a warming trend here for Greater Boston all the way through the middle of next week. At the moment right now in Boston twenty six degrees and we're certainly feeling colder than that at six oh six. A new report from the World Weather Attribution and Climate Central saying human cause climate change added an average of forty one days of dangerous heat this year.
Twenty twenty four is expected to be the warmest on record, which is why it should be no surprise that the world experienced an average of forty one extra days of dangerous heat last year, made worse due to human cause climate change. Scientists say that climate change intensified twenty six major global weather events that killed more than thirty seven
hundred people and displaced millions around the globe. They warned that unless people speed up the transition away from fossil fuels and provide finance to help adapt to climate change, the dangers will only increase. Tracy Wolf CBS News New York.
And at six oh seven, a scene that is becoming disturbingly familiar on south shore beaches. Another whale washes ashore this week. This time it was at Wrexham Beach in Marshfield, as maritime officials were receiving calls from people walking the beach when they discovered the small whale carcass. It was just a few weeks ago two other whales had washed ashore, one on a beach in Plymouth and the other on
the cape in Brewster. At six oh seven on WBZ News Radio, oh a Christmas Miracle and Maine the Radio, a businessman and former radio host in Bangor stepping up to save a legendary radio station owned by Stephen King, who sold off the stations recently and put them up for auction, Classic rocker wk It was set to go off the air before the holidays, but now it will continue to rock thanks to generous fan to other stations owned by King are set to shut down just before
the end of the year, and the annual debate is heating up in living rooms across the Commonwealth.
The presidents have been opened, the meal has been devoured, but there's still a seven foot tree in my living room? How long can I wait before taking it down? Once we get close to New Year's everything comes down.
Christmas is over, I feel like into the new year, it's fine. A week at the most, a week at the most a week in the moment. What about the Twelve Days of Christmas? What about them?
I'm Jewish, but for some people there is a religious reason to leave it up, because the Twelve Days of Christmas only starts on the twenty fifth, lasting all the way until the Feast of Epiphany, which is well into January.
That being said, other people leave the tree up just to keep the good times rolling.
I mean, Christmas is a special season, and like, you know, just having that up there till like into the new year, let's like continue the good vibes.
So yeah, Jeremy Russ, WBZ Boston's News Radio.
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