This is WBZ, Boston's news radio. We defining local news. Good morning, six o'clock. Mainly clear skies on this Friday morning. It's very windy still here in Boston, thirty four degrees. As we walk out the door, it feels colder than that. The news It's six brought to us by your New England Toyota Dealer, your hybrid all wheel drive headquarters. Thanks for being with us this Friday morning. I'm Jeff Brown.
You ready for this more sun than clouds today. It will be blustering and cold with a high thirty nine, but acual the real field temperatures little to mid twenty. Is WBZ ackiweather meteorologist Joe Lundberg. We are about to enter the coldest stretch Greater Boston has seen in seven years. For five hundred and thirty five elected officials. The pinnacle of power begins with the swearing in ceremony for the
one hundred nineteenth Congress in the nation's capital. Today, for the first time in six years, Republicans will control both the House and the Senate. It's perhaps an even bigger day for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who fights for his political life. It is no sure bet that Johnson will hang on to the speaker's gavel. He's got the full support of President elect Donald Trump, but many in the GOP field Johnson has given too much of the store to Democrats with the recent bill to avoid
a government shutdown. A vote on Johnson's future takes place at noontime today, almost four years to the day of the January sixth attack on the US Capitol. One of the continuing mysteries of who planted pipe bombs throughout Washington the night before picks up renewed interest. The FBI is out with new video surveillance showing a face masked and hooded, sweatshirt wearing suspect prowling the streets of DC, presumably planting
those devices. Official say the suspect was also wearing distinctive Nike Air Max sneakers. Despite a manhunt and prior videos released, the trail has gone cold. Neither of the devices, by the way, ever detonated. The funeral procession or former President
Jimmy Carter begins tomorrow in Georgia. Current and former US Secret Service agents will accompany the hearst carrying the body of the thirty ninth president from the Medical Center in Americas through his hometown of Planes, where representatives of the National Park Service will ring the bell at the Carter
family Farm thirty nine times. The procession will continue to the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta and the Carter Center, where mister Carter will lie in repose following an afternoon ceremony. The journey continues to the nation's capital next week before Memorial Services one week from today. Salem is already making more security upgrades that this year's Haunted happenings.
Officials say they will speed up the installation of security barriers and ballards this year and warn people that this year's celebration may feel more crowded due to the additional measures. Police say it would be shortsighted not to expect an attack similar to the likes of what just happened in New Orleans. Matt Phipps WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Celtics begin the toughest road trip of their SEAC with a win over the Wolves, leaving Minnesota players to wonder what they can do to stop Boston Bruins stall from pock drop, and they lose to the Rangers in Madison Square, Garden Notre Dame Upstates Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. The college football playoffs continue next week as the teams advance to the semi finals and new props forign Olympic icons.
Sports Illustrated has named Simone Biles the most decorated gymnast of all time. It's twenty twenty four Sportsperson of the Year, but her athletic journey could end before the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The eleven time champ tells SI she's humble enough to know when to retire. The twenty seven year old says there are consequences for being greedy. She says she'd rather look back at her accomplishments and say, quote, damn, she was good. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
For many of us, our grueling two day work week is about to come to a close, and we're going to finish in cold fashion. Today. It's still windy in Boston and it's just a tick above freezing right now. Under mainly clear skies. We will see more sun than clouds today. The winds will be howling into the thirty mile per hour range. That's slightly less than yesterday, and they'll start to die down late this afternoon as we head into the evening hours, but temperatures do not get
out of the thirties today. It's even colder still overnight tonight, as we drop back into the twenties. We'll be right around the freezing mark both tomorrow, Sunday and into the new work week on Monday. We're watching the activities of a storm system that's going to hit the mid Atlantic on Sunday into Monday, quite possibly dumping between six and
twelve inches of snow along the Eastern Seaboard. But it looks like that storm system is going to stay well to our south and the cold is going to continue for several more days. Right now in Boston's thirty four very windy, mainly clear skies at six oh six on this Friday morning, In fact, tens of millions of Americans are about to go into a deep freeze.
If you've got a new winter hat or gloves for the holidays, now's the time to write a fank you note for the person who gave them to you, because you're going to need them. We're going to see some pretty cold temperatures with highs under forty for the next two weeks. It's the first time we've had a stretch like that since twenty eighteen, and with real fuels. Many of these days are going to feel like it's the teens outside, and while we have to bundle up, there's
a good chance we won't need to dig out. While there is a big storm heading to the northeast Sunday night into Monday, it's expected to miss us to the south and hit New York and southern New England instead. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's News Radio.
Big changes they're coming to this year's Boston Calling Music Festival. Many who were there last year vent over packed and unsafe crowd conditions, and organizers say they hear you. Officials say they've invested in a state of the art rotating stage that will provide better views, more space, and a better overall listening experience. More water stations will also be scattered among the crowd too, and some ticket prices might actually be cheaper. This year, Boston Calling comes to the
Harvard Athletic Complex Memorial Day weekend. The MBTA continues to take its victory lap with subway slow zones illimited, but a lonely commuter rail stop in Plymouth is badly in need of a makeover.
At one point here at Cornage Park and Plymouth, this commuter rail station was bustling with riders from Plymouth to Boston. Now that this world commuter rail station is no more, it's turned into an eyesore more than anything. But people in a town want to change that.
If we can make our town more suitable for walking and biking, I think it'd be a lot better.
There's chatter about turning this waterfront property into walking and biking trails. Plymouth is turning into a very walkable town along Court Street only makes sense.
And many of the downtown employees that often rely on walking or biking to get to.
Work only discussions being had at the moment. But this out of service station is another painful reminder of the pandemics lasting impact in North Plymouth. Jim McKay WBZ Boston's News Radio.
It appears Americans are making the most of their time at work. Wbz's Drew m'holland, what exactly does this mean?
Here?
We go don't work harder, Jeffrey, work smarter, that's it. It's worker productivity is on the rise, the Labor Department says, so it's been more than a year of sustained increases to productivity.
Keep in mind this is.
While many of us continue to work from home. Many of our bosses want us back in the office. Though artificial intelligence given some of the credit for the advance here, some tasks only take minutes now that used to take a whole lot longer.
It is the world we live in, Jeffrey.
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