Clouds in Boston thirty five degrees at six o'clock. Good morning, I'm Charlie Burger On. Here's what's happening. The sunny days of the past few days now hidden by a cloud cover. Watch for some rain and drizzal at times today. Then the rain can freeze on some surfaces for Good morning, especially to the north and west of Boston, so watch out for icy spots with a late day high near forty Thank you Weather's Latroit Thornton. We'll get the four day four cast coming up in just a few minutes now.
The Celtics got their act back together last night and in a two games skid beat the Pacers beat them up at the Garden final one two to one oh five forty four for Jalen Brown. Two teams play again tomorrow night at the Garden at six. Bruins lose big on the road to the Jackets in Columbus final score of six to two. Same two teams tonight at the Garden at seven o'clock. The three and twelve Patriots host the nine and six Charges today at Julett. They'll kick
at one o'clock. College football back at Fenway Park today, North Carolina facing Yukon and the wast Sabbie Ball. The tar Heels focused on the big game while all the buzz is about their new head coach.
He's not expected to be on the sidelines in Fedway Park when UNC plays Yukon, but the specter of Bill Belichick was undeniably in the air at Fedway Park on the eve of the WSABI Bowl.
I talked to coach every day, but not during the game and stuff like that.
He understands what we have a job to do here. UNC interom coach Freddie Kitchens will lead the tar Heels in Saturday's ball game, his focus keeping his players focused on the game against Yukon. UNC wide receiver JJ Jones.
Obviously coming with a great coach like coach Balachick itself, there's gonna be buzz, there's gonna be high, But as a team, I feel like as a unit, coach, kidses were all focused on this game and winning this game. So that's kind of outside of noise.
At Fedway Park. Mike Macklin WB's a Boston's news radio.
Early start for the Sabbi Bull at Fenway today kicks at eleven and in the Big Apple, it's Boston College in Nebraska. They'll kick at noon the Pinstripe Bowl being played at Yankees Stadium. A threat to the bird population in Vermont and perhaps to other parts of New England. State officials say bird flu detected in a backyard flock of birds in Franklin County, Vermont, a week before Christmas. It's the fourth time this flu has been detected in a flock of birds in Vermont since the spring of
twenty twenty two. Health officials say it poses only a minor threat to humans. Federal health officials keeping a close watch on a Louisiana patient and the potential threat of human to human infection from bird flu.
The Centers for Disease Control finding potentially concerning new mutations in the bird flu from a patient recently hospitalized with a serious case of the virus, but the agency making it clear that the risk to the general public has
not changed and remains low. The CDC has confirmed at least sixty five cases of bird flu in people in the US this year, and officials in California have actually issued a state of emergency over the bird flu at dairy farms and are asking people to avoid raw dairy products.
ABC's filled Lopoff reporting. Let's check the four day wbz ACU weather forecast. There is a winter weather Advisory in effect until one o'clock this afternoon for the metro Boston area and points north and west. So we're going to have some rain, some drizzle at times, and again that concern is north and west. As mentioned, we could see the rain freeze on surfaces and we could really have some icy conditions on the roads and also under foot.
Now we'll get to about forty degrees for a high and if you are further south down around the Cape and the islands, we could get to the mid forties. Some rain, some drizzle overnights tonight with some areas of fog, temperature stays about forty and then for tomorrow cloudy, milder, more rain and drizzle at times, get to about fifty tomorrow.
That becomes steadier and heavier tomorrow night. So on Monday will be breezy and mild and some rain to start the day, but as a day moves on on Monday could see some sunshine and get to fifty seven degrees Tuesday. For New Year's Eve, not as mild with increasing clouds, but still temperatures in the mid and upper forties thirty five degrees right now with clouds in Boston at six oh five. Boston City officials say the city has never
been safer following a decrease in violent crimes. Here's wbz's Brooke McCarthy.
Ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations, Boston officials are touting strategies that they say have made Boston the safest major city in the country.
I'm proud and grateful for all the work that has gone into making us the national leader with numbers that are really lower comparable to no other major city.
Mayor Michelle wou Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, and other city officialcy overall instances of gunfire in the city have declined fourteen percent this year. Twenty twenty four was also the third consecutive year of declines in shooting incidents in the city. So far this year, Commissioner Cox says there's been twenty four homicides, which is much lower than years past.
In the entire time that I've been a police officer, going back since when I came on, the city has never been safer.
City officials are encouraging people to have a safe and happy New Years in Boston, Brooke McCarthy WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Organizers of the two hundred and fifty re enactments of the Battles of Lexington and Conquered next spring are having a tough time raising funds for the event. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to show up Eprom nineteenth to watch the rebels the Redcoats. The Massachusetts House approved about three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for transportation and other costs for Lexington and Conquered Lincoln and Arlington, but the Globe reporting the funds failed to pass out
of year end budget negotiations with the Senate. The Biden administration expected to an on Monday that it is sending another one and a quarter billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine, part of an effort to send as much aid to Kiev before President Biden leaves office on January twentieth. Officials say the aid package includes a range of munitions from Stinger missiles, artillery round, surface to air missile systems,
and the Hawk air defense system. Survivors of this week's crash of the Azerbaijan passenger jet speaking out as questions linger about what brought the plane down in Kazakhstan. Here's ABC Zarinshaw.
This passenger says he heard a loud sound as the plane descended toward Grasney. He says, I already realized that it was all over. I decided I should fill my last minutes now. And the investigation into how it happened still lingering, including if Russia's anti aircraft systems could have accidentally shot the plane from the sky. White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby says there are early indications the plane could have been brought down by Russian air defense system.
The head of Russia State Aviation Agency does say the plane might have been hit during a separate operation as it attempted to land in the Russian city of Grosby. You are now in the loop or news updates throughout the day. Listen to DOUBLEBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Charlie Berger ONBDBZ, Boston's news radio