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Thirty two degrees. We've gone partly cloudy skies in Boston. It has six o'clock and we have made it to Friday morning. It is December sixth, twenty twenty four. Thank you so much for joining us. And this portion of the news is brought to you by your new England Toyota dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Jim McKay. Here's what's happening.
We are waving goodbye to the snow and rain for now, but all that Arctic air we've been feeling is not heading anywhere as we get ready for the weekend.
Old and blusteret today with more sun than cloud than highs only in the mid thirties, but real feels never higher than the team, and.
That is WBZ akiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. Some relief in store for the weekend in terms of losing that bite to the air. Will feel like freezing tomorrow with sunshine see astray rain or snowshower on Sunday morning. Otherwise we are freezing once again. Well at six oh one, the judge presiding over the Karen Reid case giving the green light on a motion from prosecutors to obtain full audio recordings that Karen Reid and her family conducted. Those interviews
included with Boston Magazine and another Boston television station. Judge Beverly Canoni said in her decision that Reid and her attorneys should have known that all statements in her interviews, whether on the record or off, were potentially discoverable. Reid's retrial and the death of John O'Keefe is still scheduled for January, although the defense and prosecution have sought to have that start date move back to April. For a
couple of weeks. Beginning today, the TEA has halted some downtown trains in the name of a better tomorrow.
Big Yellow bosses floods Boston. The Yankee Line shuttles are here. Actually, it was pretty quick. We got there, like right around when I was there this time. The Green Line trends aren't running between Park Street and the two branches north of Boston, but the shuttles are from North Stay to Medford Toffs. For the Union Square branch, buses will have to cover that stretch on the way end.
It was very quick.
This is the last closure of the MBTA's track improvement program, which aims to eliminate all speed restrictions before the new year.
It's nice to see that they're actually improving it.
It is what it is now, the TEA says.
However, if there are potential slow zones in the future, there'll be more short term and not stick around for years like in the past. From North Station, Jay Willette WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Well, the Celtics hosting the Bucks tonight at the Garden. Three college football championship games tonight. It is conference championship weekend. You've got the Bruins taken on the Flyers for some Saturday matinee hockey tomorrow, and the Lions, by the way, beat the Packers at a close one on Thursday Night football, thirty four to thirty one, last second field goal from Detroit. Right now, we've got thirty two degrees here, partly cloudy skies in Boston coming up here in just a few moments.
A local astronauts stuck at the International Space Station still can communicating with students from local elementary schools. Now we take a look at the four day wb Z ACI weather forecast. We are starting off with partly cloudy skies here as we're just getting started, it is awfully cold out the front door. Once again. The Arctic air is sticking around with us this morning, and it's sticking around with us all day today into the afternoon. Don't have
any winter precipitation to speak of. We've got real feels in the teens this afternoon, with highs right around the freezing mark. As we head into the afternoon hours for your Friday and head off towards the weekend, we will feel a little bit of that bite to the air subside. Tomorrow we're going to be feeling more like freezing, a little bit more tolerable. As today it's going to be downright just oppressive out there with that wind whipping around.
And then by Sunday we could have a stray passing rain or snowshower, but outside of that, just a winteresque day highs into the upper thirties. It's actually almost going to feel like a little bit of a relief as we close out things for the weekend on Sunday. At the moment, we are looking at thirty two degrees here in Boston, partly cloudy skies, but again those real feels feeling a lot colder than that. It's six oh five
on WBZ News Radio. The abandoned Carla's Shoes building is one of the lesser loan landmarks on Root one in Saugus, but it remains haunted by an urban legend. Wbz's match here separating fact from fiction.
For us, the sign out front says Prada, but it's really an abandoned building. It's like it's warso of the mannequin that was in the window for the past month or two, it's Jason Rogers. He's one of the street artists responsible. We were admiring it from Kyll Looons. After we finished, we were like, yeah, that'll do. But that got the rumor mill swirling again about the building's backstores. Sounded like a little bit of a dark history, except
not really. The comments are usually about Valerie Forenzo, who is found dead in her police officer boyfriend's home back in nineteen ninety three. They claim that her parents owned this building and are letting it decay on the side of Root one as payback. The problem is that's not true. Valerie owned a consignment store in Reading. This one in Saugus has been known since nineteen eighty five by an
Isabelle Smith, who did not return my messages. So while we continue to want to or why she won't sell it, at least we can laugh at the protuest sign. Again, it's a little subpersive right now. She wro at WVZ, Boston's news radio.
And Matt, of course, has ton of great videos out there on social media. Check us out, whether it's TikTok, Instagram, everything in between at WBZ News Radio. Well, still stuck at the International Space Station, but Needum native astronauts Sonny Williams, it's not letting that stop her conversations local elementary students back here on planet Earth to Nada Williams Elementary School. This is Michion Control, Houston.
It's been six months since Needum's own Sunny Williams and fellow NASA test pilot, which Wilmore, rocketed into orbit for the International Space Station, becoming stuck following issues with their Boeing Starliner capsule. While in space, Sonny has spent time doing science experiments, working out to keep her muscles from becoming week and answering questions from students at her namesake, the Sunita Williams Elementary School in Needham.
This is Naomi and what happens to astronauts when they returned from space. That's a good question, and you'll probably see it because I'll be probably come visit you. But it will take probably a month or so before I get to come up to Massachusetts and visit everybody. But when we initially come back, it's pretty big jolt to the system.
Sunny and Butcher are expected to come home with a SpaceX crew in February, turning their eight day mission into eight months. Brooke McCarthy WBZ Boston's News Radio, You.
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