Forty two degrees with some showers in Boston at six o'clock. Good morning, I'm Charlie Burger on. Here's what's happening, and if you're traveling today, you may want to allow for a little extra time to get to your destination. Rain for much of Thanksgiving Day, it dries out with sunshine returning tomorrow. Yeah, it looks like it's going to be pretty nasty this afternoon. Some heavy rain coming through. Joe Lundberg and the Acua of the forecast on the way.
A pair of high school football rivalries settle the score at Fenway Park. It's wbez's Jared Brosman.
On Wednesday night, Central Catholic took on Lawrence on the makeshift football field in the middle of Fenway Park. Ahead of the game, Lawrence head coach Emilio Cologne said, it was a special moment for everyone involved.
It's amazing. It's an amazing event for the kids. It's something that they lovely going to forget I was. I had the privilege of being here a couple of years ago as an official. I refereed the end of the north end of a game, so it was an experience I never forget. And I'm sure the kids will not forget.
Unfortunately for Lawrence, Central Catholic got the win thirty four to twelve. Afterwards, it was a north Shore showdown between Swapskit and Marblehead, the magicians making some magic under the Fenway lights, beating swaps Get forty two to six, and marble head Head coach Jim Rudloff was able to return to the sidelines after the teacher strikes Intown ended on Tuesday night. Jar Brosnan WBZ, Boston's news radio.
No rain up on the International Space Station the twenty fifth Thanksgiving for Americans living there, including Needham native Sunny Williams.
Greetings from the International Space Station. Our crew up here just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family who are down on Earth and everyone who is supporting us and william.
Sosh plans on watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade before sharing a feast with fellow astronauts. Whether it's having far away families or a tight wallet, sitting around the Thanksgiving dinner table isn't always an option for Bostonians, and One Cafe aims to mend the holiday blues at least a little here's wbz's Jay Willlette.
If you can't tell by the name, Tried and Booksellers and Cafe is a hybrid bookshop, restaurant and now Thanksgiving dinner table. This week for our friends give events.
We want to do something for people who didn't have anywhere to go for Thanksgiving or just aren't gonna be able to be with their families.
Organizer Jordan Saley encourages those who can't reunite with family to meet others, play board games, and take a bite out of a gobbler sandwich slathered in cranberry mayo.
Stuff like this is like the best thing, I mean, the close thing to Oh, I guess it's something different.
Also like it as well. I like the selection games they got.
Hopefully we'll meet some people as well.
Also, we were hoping to run into Sundaya here.
It's an environment catered to make new pals, even welcoming a stranger like me who's clutching a microphone like it owes me money social anxiety From Newberry Street Jawill at WBZ, Boston's news radio.
And it is six oh three and coming up, hitting the road a little bit cheaper on this holiday. Let's check the four day wdbz ACUA the forecast, and Joe Lindberg tells us today we'll have some rain this morning. It will mix with wet snow north and west of four ninety five. Rain will be heavy at times this afternoon and tonight. Now a high today will be about
forty eight in Boston. South Coast Cape in the Islands will be in the mid fifties, but only about forty north and west of four ninety five, and that's where the concern is about travel with those colder temperatures. It's breezy, it's clearing out overnight. Tonight we'll drop back to about freezing and then tomorrow sunshine, clouds, breezy, high forty five. Same deal for Saturday and then Sunday, sun clouds and little cool are only about forty for a high on Sunday.
Thirty five degrees this morning and dry for now in Easton getting some showers right now around the Lowell area where it is thirty six, and then a little bit further north at least for the moment, dry round the Salisbury area, but rain is coming thirty five there and in Boston forty two degrees at six oh five South Station among the hubs of pre holiday madnesses. People rush for trains to get home in time for the big meal and the family fun. Here's wbz's Carl Stevens.
I like seeing my family Because I work in Boston and the l Rhode Islands, I don't see them often, so it's nice to see them again.
For so many it's a time to step away from the normal routine of going to work and instead spend the day hanging out with family and eating a lot of food. Easily.
During the day it's filled with cooking. Then the menus like turkey, collie greens, baked mac and cheese, yams, mashed potatoes, and like things like that.
Sounds pretty good from South Station Carl Stevens, WBC Boston's news radio and early holiday season gift if you are hitting the road for this holiday.
If you're among the millions traveling this Thanksgiving, especially in a vehicle, gas buddies. Patrick de' han says.
Gas but he's tracking now thirty states with average gas prices below the three dollars gallon mark.
That number could rise to forty by the time Christmas rolls around.
Triple A says the national average for a gallon of regular and leaded gas is three dollars and seven cents, nineteen cents cheaper than last Thanksgiving. Jennifer Kuiper CBS.
A contractor stringing holiday lights in a Wellesley neighborhood wound up shocked and needing a defibrillator to revive him. This was said about ten o'clock yesterday morning outside a home on Falmath Circle, as the man was installing lights on a large tree. Police figure the pole he was using either got too close or came in contact with an electrical line. He was initially rushed to Newton Wesley Hospital,
then transferred to Mass General. OSHA and local authorities are investigating a driver crashes through a popular diner on the Cape at CBS Boston's Tiffany Chan.
The frightening sound of an suv barreling through this Chatham diner Wednesday morning, leaving a restaurant employee and a patron badly hurt. That patron had to be freed after being pinned by that vehicle.
One was a cup more serious entry than the others.
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The suv came into a halt inside of Larry's PX, a popular breakfast spot, especially on the day before Thanksgiving.
Yes, it is.
It is a very busy spot.
This woman was working a couple down when she saw the car flying through the Shopahoy Plaza parking lot. I A Olberdett here you saw the car moving very fast. Chattam police and fire crews responded quickly towing away the suv. Now the business is cleaning up. This is a pretty busy shopping plaza on Cape Cod and many people who work here are rattled because they knew that restaurant worker who was injured here right now, we're told the driver was not injured and we were waiting on an update
on the condition of the employee and the patron. Police are investigating this crash.
She bring businesses in the Shopahoy Plaza that we're not damaged will be able to remain open. You are now in the loop or news updates throughout the day. Listen to WBZ News Radio on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Charlie Birger're on WDBZ, Boston's news radio.